Events

I'm getting ready to travel, so all you're getting this morning is a photo of Butters from Sunday:

As promised, Cassie got lots of walks yesterday: 10.4 km in three walks over two hours. Plus she got lots of outdoor time between the walks. The weather stayed comfortable all day and into this morning. After lunch today she'll get another 4-5 km. It's also a perfect day for Ravinia, so a bunch of us will be sitting on the lawn listening to Mahler's 6th this evening.

A cold front pushed through yesterday around 7pm:

Time for a link round-up:

This is definitely an improvement over last week:

I just released a new Daily Parker build with new editing features and some really helpful performance improvements.

Everyone who isn't a highly-paid executive at a health-insurance company believes that health care costs way too much in the US in part because health insurance companies take about 30 cents of every dollar we spend on it. Even people who support Republican politicians know this is true. We have to change how it works here.

Sir Keir Starmer MP (Lab.-Holborn & St Pancras) met with King Charles at 11:30 BST this morning and formally tendered his resignation as Prime Minister. A few minutes later, the King asked Andy Burnham (Lab.-Makerfield) to form a new government in his name.

The smoke that went away yesterday has returned:

She doesn't look like a middle-aged lady, does she?