Ryan Opaz 🍸

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Author, wine travel expert, photographer, artist, natural wine shop owner, and food & wine guide based in Porto, Portugal.

I've called myself a liquid agnostic, or rather one who loves to explore flavor in its many liquid forms. Vermouth and Hot Sauce creator and weird wine and beer evangelist.

Recovering wine judge.

My Travel Companyhttps://catavinotours.com
My Bookhttps://foot-trodden.com
My Web Pagehttps://ryanopaz.com
Home BasePorto, Portugal
Show threadRyan Opaz 🍸Feb 24, 2025

@BBCNews @world-BBCNews

Wouldn't the Pope not need "prayers" considering he has the direct line to the all "mighty"? What are people praying for? For God to start paying attention to the Pope? This is quite comical: "Hey God, your rep on earth, the Pope, the one who has a direct line to you, needs me to ask you to listen to him?"
Like a bad game of telephone! Maybe when the Pope gets sick the wifi to God gets sketchy?

Show threadRyan Opaz 🍸Jan 17, 2025
@thirstforwine not sure if we need ... it's nice to have, but. Maybe these platforms are part of the issue. Having been off them for awhile now, and not posting regularly if at all, I don't see myself lacking anything.
Show threadRyan Opaz 🍸Jan 15, 2025
@simonjwoolf well, we can always dream! :) I really hate Instagram, but theLAB needs it too...for now. Honestly I wish there was a better way to do events in person ... meetup is dead(ish) and nothing else seems to work.
Ryan Opaz 🍸Jan 15, 2025
Mastedon, Pixelfed, Bluesky - Feels like 2008 when we were all trying to find the micro blog that would take over from all the others...we fought and fought to gain traction and when we finally got it the corporations became corrupt and criminal...what platforms might win? Or is the lesson that maybe we don't need these platforms?
Ryan Opaz 🍸Jan 17, 2024
Looks like crickets here... :(
Show threadRyan Opaz 🍸Jul 18, 2023
@simonjwoolf Did you try the moral machine? https://www.moralmachine.net/ really a weird feeling to answer the questions.
Moral Machine

A platform for public participation in and discussion of the human perspective on machine-made moral decisions

Moral Machine
Show threadRyan Opaz 🍸Jul 18, 2023
@simonjwoolf AI wine selection, should some cultures be recommended mousier wines? Others more brett? 🤣
Ryan Opaz 🍸Jul 17, 2023
Twitters crumbling, reddits cut it's own head off, FB(errr...well...yeah), Mastodon seems slow and sparse, Lemmy is empty(ish), instagram is for doom scrolling...feels so strange going back to talking to people face to face and asking them how things are going.
Ryan Opaz 🍸Jul 13, 2023

Movie idea: A person finds that all the offers in their spam folder are legit and delivering on their promises.

#movieidea this is why we need writers #WGAStrong

Ryan Opaz 🍸Jul 13, 2023

If you care about saving wine traditions and helping regions to be sustainable, then this letter is worth signing onto: https://odouromerecemelhor.pt/

The Douro needs some serious change if it is to maintain it's viability in terms off Vinho do Porto.

#portwine #wine #douro #dourovalley

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