Some modest weekend openings tonight. A homebrew and a Letra Pumpkin Weizener. Not bad. Our Blond surely holds its own against commercial. Makes me think to start brewing bigger sooner... But the paperwork.....

You know you've made the right contacts when a brewery owner contacts you that they're opening the new venue somewhat less legally for a few evenings until shit is sorted and they'd love for you to come and check it out 🫠😂🤘 🍻

Kicked my arse out of the door in between the rain. Did the 6km lap with the BIG Hill and managed to run with 5.57min/km! Huge improvement compared to the first time I did it with 6.48min/km! 🤘my metal play list kept me proper going 🤘 #running #RunningPunks

At the point where I'm getting more and more tempted to just upend my entire working life but I have not yet decided how and in a way that helps me pay the bills and save up for some sort of retirement (my work luck/history has got me with a dire retirement plan so far...). Ugh. I hate capitalism.

Meanwhile in Portugal... Storm #Claudia is doing her damage. Luckily we've not had that bad a wind. This was a tornado even, in Falagueira, about 2 hours south of here.

Torrential rain. It's dark. I just want to sit on the sofa and eat rice crackers with Nutella* all day. Choco Nussa obviously from Lidl.

If you have not yet watched Deadloch Season 1, now is the time BECAUSE THERE IS A SEASON 2 COMING! Absolutely brilliant series, combo of drama and comedy, absurdism and great acting all around!

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵 • May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses • OpenAI disagrees & can appeal "The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates" — German Music Rights Society

Tomorrow we'll see more than 60mm of rain here. Code red and all that. Big autumn storm #Claudia rolling in and it's already windy. Hopefully the trees will survive. We already have three from last season to still process 🥹🫠 but at least we finished our next-door wood storage so won't get soaked.

Thinking of taking 4 weeks off from my client. 2 weeks end of December, and then the first 2 weeks of January. We're forced tools down for 2 weeks anyway, might as well double it Just time to reset, work on the land, work on myself a bit, hopefully eek out some things for my future work...

Ordered a beer advent calendar. Well, we actually ordered two so that we would both have one instead of having to share. 100% portuguese beers as well. Really looking forward to sampling even from some breweries I've not yet heard of/tried! Is it December yet?

Names and labeled the two beers today. On the laptop the colours were more distinctive, but hey ho. Looking forward to sampling them in about two months; they're the type that need some more conditioning. #homebrewing #beer

#Pluribus so far is great. Rhea Seehorn is a stellar actress. Feels very much a critique on how the pervasiveness of GenAI is erasing people's identities and uniqueness, with some characters representing various reactions. Interesting to see where it will lead. #Plur1bus

Bottling the fig stout today. Good news: dropped to the exact gravity Medium news: the figs not really tasted as of yet. Who knows more after further conditioning and carbonation. Next up: the grape-infused kveik IPA #beer #Homebrewing

IT IS 13 DEGREES OUTSIDE WHY DO YOU LEAVE THE FRONT DOOR OPEN FOR HALF AN HOUR DEAR PLASTERER!?

Pervasive GenAI in the workplace is stupid, because otherwise we would not get cultural expressions like: "I cannot come into work today because a family member has expired" I mean, bit of a macabre example perhaps, but seriously, this is a global company and I live (ok ok) for these nuances.

Important read. We need to keep finding, forming and maintaining relationships of hope and transform those to action because the current fragmentation of society is by sheer design. Keep connecting, keep trying.

This whole FIFA peace price thing would only rock if they'd give it to Greta....

Gawd this is depressing. "The focus will exclusively be on AI-generated content, as users won’t be able to share any photos or videos from their camera rolls or other apps. ... In other words, it sounds like a deepfake generator on steroids." futurism.com/artificial-i...

At least there was a running break that I truly truly needed. Having a shitty week so far. Fastest attempt at this hell of a hill lap. 6km with 180m ascent at 6.02min/km. Absolutely smashed it. Despite my earbuds giving out halfway for some reason. #RunningPunks

Applied Research Lead - LOVE THAT Job Description - Training LLMs FUCK OFF.

Wondering if there's a viable consulting business model in trying to keep companies out of GenAI...

I am so nervous for this work in the kitchen. There was a reason we wanted to do it ourselves; if you fuck up, at least you have yourself to blame. Now we're reliant on the good graces of someone else... who is better at this than we, but still... ! Lots of swearing coming out regularly too!

Absolutely not a Taylor Swift fan. Don't get the hype. Got some catchy tunes, and that's about it for me _personally_. But just watched the Fate of Ophelia video and have to admit that it is quite the cinematographic feat. The transitions are absolutely flawless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70...

Drew a line at work with AI today where I was HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to not create personal training recordings anymore for our learning platform, but replace myself with an avatar and a script... HELL TO THE FUCKING NO. I will resign if it comes to that point where that is seen as THE WAY.

Looking at grape presses and lagares over my lunch break, and they are weirdly affordable. Probably because so many people use them here. I guess from next year on we'll be scaling up our production, in a bit of an easier way as well than crushing by hand (not foot...)!

One of those days where I'm tempted to reinstall World of Warcraft, take a day off and just game and drink lots of tea, snack on whatever is available, switching to beer at around 4pm, all sat under a blanket.

Seeing UK Labour try to claim Zohran Mamdani’s victory as a win for their political stances etc, is darkly funny, given that if he was British, he would have been hounded out of Labour asap, that not a single thing one his platform they would be onboard with.

I am really done with this week. My work motivation is somewhere in the deep -42, I am tired and I just want to spend a week in bed. Will be really happy once the tradesmen are out of the kitchen and it looks nice and then we can at least move that bit on. I WANT MY OVEN BACK.

Honorary doctorates using Dr on their LinkedIn and other professional profiles. I am not a gatekeeper, and people who know me know that, but I have friggin' opinions about that.

I'm not of the Microsoft Office hate brigade, I really am not. But damn, why do they keep changing those icons for applications every other Monday?!

My walking pad is not just great for getting steps in during a working day, it's also great to stay warm and keep the heating at a minimum. Or off today as the plasterer needs to go in, out, in, out (but hopefully not shake it all about). Really one of the best purchases I've made in my lifetime!

Feeling slightly vindicated now that the plasterer who is here to help with the kitchen also couldn't work with the product that was meant to be the right one that we simply couldn't get to work. So, in better news, there is going to be progress in our kitchen this week, just not by us!

Our first attempt at wine making. Two days between them for the first fermentation, but we know we won't have time to do the other Monday. Quite a gravity drop difference, but both not vinegar, so that's a positive. It tasted rather nice already actually! And now we wait until bottling!

1984, het is een complot! /s

Reminder to not bring politics up at work. 'Netherlands needs a Trump to switch things up. He just acts, you know, and yes, SOME things don't go well, but at least stuff is happening'. .... Back to just making friggin' powerpoints keeping my head down.

Goedemorgen Skycrew. *gebaart weids

Wat ik al verwachtte tien ik naar bed ging....

Zeg politiek duiders.. Timmermans is mede kapot gemaakt door PVV-AI-misdadigers VVD is niet afgerekend op leugens en antisemitisme!-gelul JA21 is goedgekapt extreemrechts En Forum is duidelijk ondersteund door 🇷🇺 trollen Daar eens over hebben? En wat dat allemaal voor onze democratie betekent?

Solo run this afternoon fueled by some proper Metal tunes in my ears. Much needed to kind of find some peace in the mind and just... Run and breathe. Be. Great temperature, first need for a head torch and reflective vest. 6km with 170m+ with 6.09min/km. #RunningPunks

The heat(ing) is on. Not in Saigon, but here at home. Just for a bit to take off the edge. It smells of 'first time heating' now.

Going well with that cease fire I see....

Come on Netherlands, don't vote for the bigots and racists....

Ik voel me wat schuldig. Ik heb mijn stembiljet niet opgestuurd, ik was te laat. Die gaat nu echt niet meer aankomen. Op wie ik had gestemd? Ik weet het niet, ik ben al jaren een soort van politiek dakloos, zo voelt het. Compromissen, strategisch, niets lijkt te helpen. #verkiezingen

I wonder why, with all the alerts, tourists have not yet left and are instead 'hunkering down' in hotels en masse, probably adding to the catastrophe and strain on emergency services, keeping staff from sorting themselves out too. #HurricaneMelissa #Melissa weather.com/storms/hurri...

Mexican Grand Prix @mirandabonkie.bsky.social ! We eten morgen elders, dus dan vanavond maar! Alleen een airfryer op het moment, geen oven, maar nog steeds te nassen!

No better excuse to light the first fire of the season just because I wanted to 💚 Happy Friday everyone ❤️ have a lovely weekend!

Time to retrain, everyone! #webomics #comicsky

as usual they leave it to the tenth paragraph to say she's been living rent free with her parents and borrowed $400k interest free off them