'lost and liberated in equal measure', 'makes you reckon quite deeply with your strengths and your flaws'. For some reason this extract made me think of shearing sheep. By about the 5th sheep.

I bought dad a CD of Gregorian chant music off Amazon once, and for about 2 years after Amazon kept sending me emails offering me more Gregorian chant music. No emails related to anything else I'd bought in that time, they were just very insistent that I must need more Gregorian chants

I like how they've made 'Melodic Death Metal' really small, as though that's the most embarrassing genre on there

Yeah, I remember being really shocked by the Ford Rangers/Dodge Rams I saw in DC-they were overhanging *American size* parking spaces, vs the pick-up trucks here. My (farmer) mate's Isuzu DMax would look like Mr Bean's mini next to those

And, in this case, massive organised crime networks operate essentially freely-it's a well-established source of revenue for criminal gangs/mafia-type groups eg www.gardanotes.com/the-ndranghe...

Copenhagen airport to Luton airport was quite the contrast 😂

Same. Except for the specific pair of socks I was going to get for my train-loving 103-year-old Grandad, persistently out of stock 😭
There's still time 🤞🤞🤞

I assume a lot of people are doing Christmas shopping this evening! Isn't tomorrow meant to be 'Cyber Monday' or some other marketing guff too?

I did try going to the 'subscribe today' option right at the bottom of the homepage, it didn't load initially but when I refreshed it it did. I clicked through from a link on their Bluesky feed initially so not sure which browser loaded (think Chrome)

I get this

CeraVe, The Ordinary, Simple and Bioderma (though faintly bewildering array of options) are all worth exploring.
Stay far away from anything labelled 'for men'

Rest! Sit on a stool while stirring, take breaks etc. You can still get long COVID even if you've been fine with prior infections. It is hell. It is absolute hell.