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Wednesday 23 September 2026

Today

  • 11:00 · Alexis — Letka (Europe/Prague)

Deliveries

  • Zásilkovna — ready for pickup. Cukrfree Shop, tracking Z 103 0924 456. Z-BOX Praha 3, Žižkov, Fibichova 1586/11 (Mahlerovy sady). Pickup code 387074. Hold until Fri 25 Sep 2026 23:59.
  • Stitch Luxembourg — order #ST-86789 on the way (Classic Retro-X Fleece Jacket Seabird Grey, L). Post Luxembourg tracking CP107494515LU. In transit, not a same-day Prague window.

Prague weather

about 9 °Cclearfeels about 9
  • about 9 km/h WSW–WNW
  • about 80%
  • about 5–6 °C
high about 18 °C / low about 8 °Cmostly dry (rain chance stays low, about 1–15%)

Hourly (rest of today)

  • 08:009 °C9 km/h WSW≈85%≈6 °C
  • 09:0011 °C · 7 km/h WSW
  • 10:0014 °C · 8 km/h W
  • 11:0015 °C · 10 km/h NW
  • 12:0016 °C · 12 km/h NNW
  • 13:0017 °C · 12 km/h NNW
  • 14:0017 °C · 12 km/h NNW
  • 15:0018 °C · 12 km/h NNW
  • 16:0017 °C · 11 km/h N
  • 17:0017 °C · 10 km/h N
  • 18:0016 °C · 7 km/h NNE
  • 19:0014 °C · 5 km/h NE
  • 20:0013 °C · 4 km/h E
  • 21:0013 °C · 3 km/h S

Air & pollen

  • Tree pollens (alder, birch, olive) near zero. Grass negligible (about 0.1–0.3 grains/m³). Mugwort is the one to watch: about 2–3 grains/m³ this morning, climbing to about 5 by 19:00 and about 10–12 from 20:00–23:00. Air quality fair (European AQI about 33)

Markets

  • Asia Wed morning: MSCI Asia-Pacific ex-Japan up about 0.7% (sixth up day); Kospi about +1.2% with Samsung / SK Hynix above +2%; Taiwan about +0.9%. Japan markets closed (holiday); Nikkei futures around 66,745.
  • Oil softer: Brent about $99.18 (−0.1%), US crude about $90.14 (−0.4%) after reports the Saudi East–West Pipeline restarted. US 10-year yields still below 5%; EUR/USD near $1.144.
  • Tue backdrop: Nasdaq +0.45% to a record close; S&P flat; Dow −0.36%; STOXX 600 +0.13%; FTSE 100 −0.3% to 10,708.33.

Conflicts

  • Ukraine: Zelenskiy said intel shows Russia preparing a new mass attack and pressed allies for air defence; after about 40 minutes with Trump he said Kyiv is open to a bilateral energy ceasefire if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian energy (not a unilateral pause on Ukrainian strikes). Same day: Ukrainian officials reported at least 8 killed in strikes across industrial/front areas, with further energy hits.
  • Iran / region: A senior Iranian official told Reuters Iran can reopen the Strait of Hormuz within about 7 days if the US eases military pressure and lifts the port blockade. Mediated US–Iran contacts continued at UNGA while Trump mixed deal talk with hard threats. Houthi advances keep drawing Saudi attention; US still not clearly rejoining strikes.

Garlasco / Chiara Poggi

  • Process clock, not a new forensic ruling: with the 28 Sep 2026 deadline approaching, Procura di Pavia must choose among rinvio a giudizio, proroga, or archiviazione for Andrea Sempio (DNA under nails, footprint “33”, scene reconstruction still in focus). Sempio remains presumed innocent; Stasi’s final conviction sits on a separate track. No verified new YouTube/X smoking-gun drop in the last couple of days.

Tools & tech

  • Bitwig & Traktor: No new Bitwig or Traktor releases in the last day or two (Bitwig Studio 6.1 from 26 Aug still the latest major). No checkable YouTube tutorials on Bitwig Studio or NI Traktor dated to the last 1–2 days.
  • Linux: Before you purge a package that looks useless, run apt-cache rdepends --installed PACKAGE so you see what still depends on it. Handy package: zoxide (sudo apt install zoxide) — learns your frequent dirs so z foo jumps smarter than plain cd; add eval "$(zoxide init bash)" to ~/.bashrc.

Grok Bot tip

  • Tip: Want a quieter (or louder) ping when something needs you? Open Notification sound under Settings → General (sidebar account button or Cmd+,). Pair it with the enable toggle at Notification sound enabled if alerts went silent after an update.

Good News

  • LLNL’s 3D-printed solid-state bioreactor turns waste methane into succinate, more than 10× conventional liquid systems and on lower power (coverage 22 Sep 2026).
  • CarbonOcean + GEOMAR Kiel showed a demonstrator (21 Sep) capturing ambient CO₂ into solid calcium carbonate.
  • University of Michigan chemists published a plant-inspired iron catalyst that reduces nitrate to ammonia under heat/light (Nature Chemistry; lab-scale).

Wonder

  • A “fire amoeba,” Incendiamoeba cascadensis from Lassen Volcanic National Park, grows and divides at up to 63 °C — the hottest known for complex (eukaryotic) cell replication — with brief survival toward 70 °C (Cell / Live Science, 22 Sep 2026).

Painting of the day

La Primavera — Botticelli

  • Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera (c. 1480), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze — Venus, the Graces, Mercury, Zephyr and Chloris in a Medici-era allegorical garden.
  • Philippe Daverio (LA7, 13 Aug 2018): «La Primavera di Botticelli. Contemporaneamente chic e misteriosa, sexy e severa. L'equivoco è la chiave dell'italianità. L'Italia raffinata è sempre equivoca, non è mai banale e palese.»

Word of the day (EN)

  • ineluctable — impossible to avoid or escape; inevitable.
    • After three failed ceasefires, an ineluctable winter of energy blackouts loomed over the front-line cities.
    • She treated the deadline as ineluctable, clearing the desk rather than bargaining with the calendar.

Čeština (2 words)

  • ráno — morning — RAH-no · Dobré ráno! (Good morning!) · Vstanu brzy ráno. (I get up early in the morning.)
  • večer — evening — VEH-cher · Dobrý večer. (Good evening.) · Večer čteme doma. (In the evening we read at home.)

Marco Aurelio

  • Pensieri, Libro V, 16: «Quali saranno le tue rappresentazioni ricorrenti, tale sarà la tua mente: le rappresentazioni, infatti, impregnano l'anima con il proprio colore. Pertanto impregnala continuamente con rappresentazioni quali, per esempio: «dove si può vivere, si può anche vivere bene; a corte si può vivere; quindi a corte si può anche vivere bene». E, ancora: «ogni singolo essere muove verso ciò per cui è stato prodotto; il suo fine sta in ciò verso cui muove; dove sta il fine, là sta anche l'utile e il bene di ciascun essere; il bene dell'essere razionale, quindi, è vivere in società». Infatti è da tempo dimostrato che siamo nati per la vita in società.»