Bottle share got silly last night so I have taken myself to look at some paintings and now I have the trio of liquids for recovery (sparkling water, riesling, and a bloody mary). Dozen oysters soon to follow. See, this is how one recovers from a hangover when you totally don't have a problem.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Ever since someone mentioned it as a pet peeve, I cannot unsee the hair grease marks left on train windows 🤢

“The Pope is weak on crime” is one of those things that’s not just too absurd to have been believed if it were fictitious, it’s too absurd for someone to have invented it as fiction.

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Ah well, at least Orbán's free to headline Wireless now.

Really not keen on this laundering of Tucker Carlson's reputation. He's not a 'good guy' just because he's belatedly seen the light on Trump.

Don't. Make. Me. Tap. The. Sign. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2022/8/...

Not to mention that the 7.5%, 60 IBU Ballentine’s IPA of New York was released as recently as, erm, 1890.

Chatting with a regular at the bar about oysters and now I want a gigantic tiered platter of them on ice. Now. In my face hole, pls.

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

American Christians when they talk about the Pope

Bartending humbles the majority of people for sure, not least because you realise how shit you are at throwing bottle caps into a bin from three feet away

In 6 weeks' time we're throwing our favourite party of the year!! 🍺☀️ and we cannot wait. More breweries, DJs and food to be announced, but in the meantime grab your tickets now!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maidenhead... 👈🏻

Very happy to announce that the vada pav van in Maidenhead is excellent, and that masala chai is still the world's best hangover cure

Woke up and chose violence www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/goo...

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

the little “well I dunno actually” grimace after “what the fuck are you talking about” is killing me

30% of UK adults don't drive. The weird idea that if you don't drive your view is illegitimate really needs to die. It's their tax you'll be using to subsidise everyone else!

There is a benefit that smartglasses provide an extremely beneficial service for people who need assistance with reading, packaging existing technology into a useful form. There is no requirement for those glasses to then read out a wikipedia entry about a fucking Ferrari you saw on the street.

The previous “ceasefire” was violated by Israel over 15,000 times in just over a year according to UNIFIL

No—he's lying. It was Pakistan that wrote up the ceasefire agreement, and Pakistan has said unequivocally that Lebanon was included. So this isn't a mistake Iran has made, this is Trump yet again covering for war crimes and vigilantism by Israel by lying to the American people. A Trumpist pathology.

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

BOTTLE SHARE MONDAY 😍✨️ 7pm April 13th in Maidenhead, free entry as per usual - just bring something you'd like to share! Homebrew, something you picked up on holiday, or just a beer you'd been looking for an excuse to crack open. See you then!

Now we watch as half the people who complain that ‘kids have nothing to do’ suddenly come up with reasons why the late-night youth club shouldn’t be in *their* bit of the borough.

i don’t think “relax, the most powerful person in the world is just a reckless liar” is in any way reassuring if i’m being quite honest

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Yeah I mean even if he doesn’t literally start a nuclear war and end civilization idk how you come back from this in terms of being a credible actor in international relations. You’re somehow both an existential threat to humanity and a fundamentally unserious country.

guys I'm quite stressed, about the World

Really hoping we don't get nuked before then, please get tickets to my beer and food parties to distract me from impending doom 🫠

Anyway time to go to my little job at my little desk

Any republicans in congress feel like "A whole civilization will die tonight" might cross your own personal line? No? Hm.

God help us.

I have decided to plow through my New Yorker backlog which goes back to the beginning of the year so I’m experiencing some time travel. Guess what, this cover is about Venezuela not Iran

March has been utterly fucking exhausting and a great many things slipped through the cracks as a result, but I have closed it out with some batshit fun food prep for Thursday's tasting so there's that at least

We cannot be friends, we cannot be allies, we cannot support and we sure as fuck cannot sell arms to a state that only applies the death penalty to one nationality, faith or ethnic group. This isn't hard.

FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

EASTER BEERS IN MAIDENHEAD - in addition to our regular hours we're open late on Easter Sunday as a bonus treat so you can get your fill of pints! 🐣 See you at the bar! 💐

I'm sure everyone has one. The framed picture on the wall of a toilet in the pub you frequent, and sometimes you wake up seeing it behind your eyes and you know that means you probably had fun. This is mine.

I say this gently and with love. The ppl watching the No Kings protests and saying “I have nothing in common with these normies, but I support the wine moms and fleece vest dads” are in denial. You are a middle aged bike commuter with a dog and a mortgage. You are these normies.

Turn your Pellicle pages over to the Funnies, David Bailey is back to share more astute observations in the pub! www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/3/...

Donald Trump murdered this man.

I did not expect to see a regional hospitals group using the Hannah Montana reunion special as a means to spread awareness for cervical screening but IF IT WORKS IT WORKS

right and the secondary part of this which maybe seems frivolous but is still worth mentioning: harry potter is not guernica. it’s a not-very-well-written commercial fantasy franchise for children. there are dozens of better alternatives

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

Also, just like… Why the fuck do we need this? We have a series of movies. We have video games. We have a theme park. We have radio plays. We have audiobooks. We have a fucking West End play. It’s diminishing returns at this point. And it was never fucking Tolstoy.