#SilentSunday

Awesome little 3-D printed gift that my son got in a party bag at a birthday party.

Continuing the ‘drinks I have drunk’ theme, here’s our garden reflected in a bottle of Radler. #summer #reflection #beer

The nice thing about my evening walk at the moment is the beautiful sun-kissed vineyards I walk through. #eveningwalk #fitnesshabits

Two Prosecco based #cocktails. The one on the left is with Limoncello and the one on the right with elderflower syrup. #summer #survivingtheheat https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cocktails?src=hash

Discovered a cocktail bar nearby. One thing led to another… amazing alcohol free mojito! #relax #mocktail

“For the Torment Nexus to get built it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to build the Torment Nexus”

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“If your prompt is about something that’s common and the majority of online-text is right, you’ll most likely get a right answer out of the LLM. But if you’re asking something that not a lot of real people had interactions on… it might be complete nonsense.“

Superman was excellent! Everything I wanted it to be: hopeful, joyous, thoughtful, entertaining, heartfelt, and expressing a set of values I wholeheartedly subscribe to; just an absolutely wonderful interpretation of this character. I’m so excited for what’s to come from DC and James Gunn over the next years. The whole cast are amazing; David Corenswet is magnificent as Superman; and I absolutely love Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner!

Going to see Superman tonight. It’s the first film in a long time I’ve been genuinely excited about. I really enjoyed Zack Snyder’s take on the characters, but the films didn’t feel very hopeful tonally. Going in, this film feels more like it’s going to feel like the Superman of my youth.

Today’s dog walk keeping ahead of the rain.

Beautiful hike today from Möhren up to Möhrenberg and back.

Geology and formation

Stone runs form when a layer of clay in the soil prevents lime-rich groundwater from seeping downward. If this spring water then flows very slowly over a gentle slope, the lime dissolved in the water reacts with the oxygen in the air and is deposited as solid limestone. This mostly happens along the edges of the stream, so that over time a raised channel forms, with a central groove where the water continues to flow.

Stone runs are a unique feature of lime-rich regions such as the Rohrbach Valley. In Germany, they mainly occur in the karst landscapes of the Franconian Jura and the northern edge of the Alps. They are especially found in deciduous forests with nutrient-poor soils.

Only six such stone runs are registered in Bavaria as geological natural monuments, four of them in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen.

The Stone Run at Rohrbach is about 80 meters long and 1–2 meters high.

Growth Rate: A few millimeters to two centimeters per year.

Vulnerability: Their growth can be interrupted by falling leaves, so most stone runs rely on human maintenance to survive.

Adaptable and Full of Life

Such special habitats are home to rare species like: Bechstein’s Bat Roosts in humid places and hunts insects in richly structured forests. Purple Emperor Butterfly Strongly dependent on specific plants like aspen and goat willow. Broomrape A parasitic plant that taps into the roots of others to feed. Bistort A moisture-loving plant with prominent flower spikes. Lesser Stag Beetle A beetle whose larvae develop in dead wood; prefers old broadleaf forests. Alpine Dock Found in moist meadows and forest clearings; rare in Central Europe. Black Woodpecker The largest native woodpecker; carves large nesting cavities in old trees.

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I don’t understand why #Apple doesn’t do a translucent coloured version of the icons. That would be the best of both worlds on #iOS26. I mostly like Liquid Glass, but it’s taken me a number of days to get used to it - it wasn’t love at first sight.

We’re holidaying in France at the moment. Today we went on two lovely walks to waterfalls.

Cascades D’Augerolles

The hike to Cascades D’Augerolles is a very nice walk going down one side of the valley and up the other. I recommend the walk for its scenery and interesting terrain. I will say though that the waterfall is not the highlight of this walk. The fall you can get to is really rather small and the big fall has such an overgrown path that you can’t get near. It does look nice from a distance. Overall, it is a lovely little walk. It took us about an hour to go from the car park down and then back up the other side. Google Maps Link

Cascade des Jarrauds

The hike to the Cascade des Jarrauds is a much easier walk, though still with some steps to climb up and down. And the waterfall itself is a little more impressive, though again you can’t get close to it. Google Maps Link

Damselfly on our walk through a labyrinth today.

Damselfly on our walk through a labyrinth today.

Dean Cain (who I loved as Superman in Superman and Lois, and who was born Dean George Tanaka, which gives you a sense of his own immigrant roots) managing to set up a straw man argument about immigrants and seem kinda racist in a single quote. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dean-cain-superman-woke-maga-backlash-immigrant-1236451732/

And now for my 30 minutes of evening exercise! Up the hill we go 😫

And now for my 30 minutes of evening exercise! Up the hill we go 😫

This article is persuasive and powerful about the failure of centrist politicians to counter the far right. Historically, I’m guilty of the same thinking as Starmer and have mostly thought of myself as a centrist, and have mostly focused on trying to identify policy compromises to bring people into the fold. In the last couple of years, though, it has become clear to me that I am really quite far to the left of centre, and especially at the level of core values

Seems like the amazing folks at The Onion have been reading the same reports I read on SUVs: Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident.

Hat tip to Jason Kottke for bringing to my notice.

Spent the week in Geneva. Lovely city.

My son’s ‘first’ artwork, framed and on our wall. Of course there have been many, many drawings over the years, but he was super proud of this one. Feels fantastic to frame it for him and for us.

Little jumping spider on the table. Poor thing got fed up with me and started attacking the camera!