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Having an early Monday beer (4,7% Helles Lager) at Helsinki Bryggeri, because why the hell not. 🍻🤘
And it’s only Monday…
I can wait. Walter Goggins alone is worth the wait.

(Recently binged Vice Principals, The Righteous Gemstones, and The White Lotus season 3 too.)
Almost done with season one. Loving it so far.
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Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
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Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Sunrise was at 03:53, sunset will be at 22:50, and last light at 00:42. That's roughly 19 hours of daylight here in Helsinki, Finland today.

But it's mostly cloudy and rainy, so I'm just going to declare kalsarikännit and call it a day.
It’s definitely a kalsarikännit kind of day here in Helsinki, Finland.
JD Vance is now manually blocked by 126,698 users and 770,831 users via lists, making him by far the top blocked account on Bluesky.
Congrats to @jd-vance-1.bsky.social for gaining 63,402 BLOCKS in the last 24 hours (and climbing)!

That currently puts the Vice President of the United States of America at the #2 most blocked account on Bluesky.

He'll probably reach #1 this weekend.

Source: clearsky.app
Really enjoyed episode #422 of the @techdirt.com podcast w/ @mmasnick.bsky.social + @bencollins.bsky.social discussing the power of mockery, satire, and @theonion.com.

I even enjoyed when Ben sounded like a LinkedIn post:

"Lean into what you're good at...be unapologetic about it... embrace it."
Episode 422: The Political Power Of Mockery | Techdirt
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Update: now blocked by 728,375 users via lists
Touched some grass today. Kid insisted that we find and climb the hidden steps at Kaivopuisto. ❤️🇫🇮
I'd have to do a lot more digging/research to find that information, but the dates they were added to the site seem all over the place. I'm sure reasons are also all over the place too.
Someone just emailed me a list of 550+ recently closed breweries that aren't tagged on BeerAdvocate yet. Just to help. Amazing! But also damn.

UK+IE = 200+, US = 120+, AU = 50+, and then the rest are scattered across Europe and the rest of the world.

Applying updates now...
He's now being automagically blocked by 659,822 users via block lists that user's on Bluesky can subscribe to. And that number is increasing basically every second.

clearsky.app/jd-vance-1.b...
Make that 63,403. 😉
Congrats to @jd-vance-1.bsky.social for gaining 63,402 BLOCKS in the last 24 hours (and climbing)!

That currently puts the Vice President of the United States of America at the #2 most blocked account on Bluesky.

He'll probably reach #1 this weekend.

Source: clearsky.app
Enjoying a Pils at Teerenpeli in Helsinki, Finland.

Kippis! 🍻🤘

(Isänpäivä is on 2nd Sunday in November, so I get two Father’s Days.)
Happy Father's Day to those who celebrate on the 3rd Sunday in June.