In Europe, we really should call them data centres, not data centers #TheCorrectSpelling 😂

Yesterday was our son’s birthday. He’s already 13 😱
We took him and four of his friends out to play VR.
Five goofballs 🤣

So, while the US was blaming Ukraine for the rise in petrol prices, it was making an oil deal with Russia.
Money to Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians. The US and Russian regimes in an authoritarian alliance, with Europe caught in the middle.

And I keep wondering whether the Americans have realised that they no longer live in a liberal democracy, and what their plan is to overthrow the regime

To be honest, I think it’s highly unlikely that the US will be able to return to being a liberal democracy in less than a generation https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o

I like to imagine that all the anger I don’t actually have is there after all, but it flows out of me and goes to fuel Lewis Black ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Ps1-ssOIU

Obviously the Trump regime manages to get even more disgusting every day https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-opens-direct-talks-with-myanmars-generals-reversing-years-isolation-2026-10-08/

Castle in the Clouds (Sasso Corbaro, Bellinzona)

If the US were ever to rid themselves of the Trump regime (I’m sceptical, but let’s suppose they manage it), it will be an absolute priority to implement a radical de-Trumpisation immediately. I’m also very sceptical that the Democrats have the capacity to carry this out

Just as many of the ‘last Japanese’ in the forests of South-East Asia were in fact indigenous Taiwanese, so Andō Momofuku, the celebrated inventor of instant noodles, was also Taiwanese: Wu Baifu, born in southern Taiwan in 1910, during the Japanese period.
#Taiwan #Japan
https://www.formosafiles.com/ando-momofuku/

This weekend I’ll be joining the club of people who aren’t exactly young and who wear progressive lenses.

“Welcome to Taiwan This Week. Our guests today are Angelica Ou...”*IMMEDIATE EXIT FROM THE EPISODE*

Hi, I’m the sort of person who, at McDonald’s, goes for the veggie burger, a small salad and water – but sparkling water, because today we’re feeling a bit crazy

Here in Switzerland the glaciers are disappearing, but people don’t seem to care that much.

“They warn that such rapid melting is no longer a surprise given the pace of climate change, but it could threaten water supplies for farming, hydropower and transport in the decades ahead.
The loss of glacier ice can also destabilise mountain slopes and increase the risk of landslides in some places - which can lead to flash flooding in extreme cases, as seen in Nepal in August.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6n9w0ypjwl9o

“Europe’s regional exposure to #China increased from 2013 to 2020, but it has shrunk since, amid the EU recasting China as a systemic rival in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which sharpened EU awareness of strategic dependence, and Brussels officially adopting a ​‘de-risking’ approach to China. […] But Europe’s retreat is modest: it remains significantly more exposed today than it was in 2013.”
https://gppi.net/2026/09/23/cei

They sent me a link to download the photos the photographers took of me during the race.

A constant expression that says: “Jesus, why did I decide to put myself through this torture?” https://shih.ch/@pisheng/117343195784858588

Not all heroes wear capes

My wife took this epic photo 😅

Half marathon ✅

Stop trading with your neighbour to the north – a liberal democracy – so that you can trade with the Russian regime’s puppet state. What a triumph!