godddddd I am glad I have a new pub but I am so fucking exhausted and constantly upset in a wholly new way where I just... can't leave. I'm in tantalising zone 2 and I can't leave. I have to fix 39349 things a day and I can't leave. I have to be on the bar 60 hours a week and I can't leave I-

I love that there are people still trying to catch Donald Trump out as a bad person. like yes, this is known. why would his reaction to someone passing out in his crass hotel room Oval Office matter more than killing people lmao

the only thing that makes me wish I still wrote F1 stuff is I wish I'd got to write about this championship; how the acheing fairness of it has exposed a sport that simply isn't (and can't be, mechanical parts don't care about morals) but which has been so, so fascinating and thrilling to watch

real Schopenhauer view here

been trying to save the novel I bought from The Works today where a lady (single, runs an antique shop) has romantic liaisons with the Dickensian ghost of Christmas Past for December but realistically I'll be even more tired by then so I couldn't resist and oh my god oh my GOD

If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:

anyway my other main complaint from today aside from being so tired and overwhelmed with tasks idk what is up or down anymore is that it took me six fucking goes to get HSBC to let me pay my council tax so y'know. off to bed with you, grandma

teenage lack of volume control really has to be researched. there's a bunch waiting to go to a club round the corner from my pub so they're congregating outside and genuinely acted shocked when I was like could you shut the fuck up and stop screaming like "oh my god were we loud????"

me in bed at like 7:30am this morning: I wonder where the baby is under the duvet:

if women ruined the workplace who were men sexually harassing before then

something I have been very, very bad at for a long time is having any semblance of work-life balance and I think one of the lasting effects is that I don't actually have anything to put on the 'life' side of the scales now. this is probably making me quite upset if I'm honest

just academically who's the Qarabaq player with the amazing rose thigh tattoo?

just had a hot flush kick in so violently I felt like someone had set me on fucking fire. perimenopause can seriously fuck off

The head of journalism at Cardiff has published a blog entry on BBC Radio 4's coverage of Mamdani.

BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".

Music is everything. Here's the John Lewis advert but his son gives him Barbie Girl. Offf, right in the nostalgia.

I am learning many eastern european countries have a sauce that they for some reason call adjika but is actually just mildly spiced tomato paste and I know the Hague has a lot on but could they look into this

My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.

this is exactly it isn't it

ohhhh shit this dude has a hot wife ohhhhh fuck we've got him here

It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc. A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

I need to go to sleep so badly only 4 episodes of something much too interesting to go to sleep to will fix me

I didn't know about this tax change and on the one hand I think it is interesting for the beer world but on the other hand, absolutely hooting and hollering at the number of 'selfies with drivers' ✨creators ✨who will now have to declare monstrously expensive VIP packages lmaoooo

Amazing stuff here from @millmedia.bsky.social, doing the gods' work as ever, and shaming infinitely bigger titles into the bargain. Interesting tangent: "pop up bars" are now seen as the home of liberalism in England. @stephenkb.bsky.social relates to what I was saying about your "Go Outside!".

West Ham playing a very dangerous game here (appearance of being a competent football team)

you end up forming really strong opinions about various sports fans, behind a bar and one of mine is Liverpool fans are the most impatient mfs on the planet yes your game will be on calm down and wait the five seconds it takes to change a channel

a small treat once a week. A SMALL TREAT ONCE A WEEK

Pouring today. Open from 1pm.

genuinely don't know a single person my age (imminently 40) who's had botox but everyone I know in their 20s has. what gives.

Something lovely for the weekend! Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago. Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨ 📷 me #Archaeology

All that's wrong with the EHRC "guidance" in one paragraph “There was no consultation with stakeholders – or even their own staff. It included legal inaccuracies and has since been withdrawn. And while it was big on how to exclude, it had nothing to say on how to include trans people in public life”

The editorial decision to forefront the opinions of a niche set of white Brits, the same niche set of Brits that express numerous other insane beliefs with no link to reality, is deliberate

googled "Kristen Stewart Love Lies Bleeding" in the hope it would tell me how to fix my mullet but it just confirmed I have the same mullet but am simply not as hot as Kristen Stewart. which I objectively knew but like. you don't need to say it like this. I know I got confusion-horny about it all

it's ok man al dente is something they pretend to make other places eat undercooked pasta (no but seriously I cannot imagine the leap it took for him to go into comfortably the most racist-looking team apart from the obvious)

this post is actually so much funnier than I summarised especially the tags

in some senses I am always thinking about that Tumblr post that's like "come on MIKA, you didn't only try a LITTLE Freddie"

this post makes a great point - it says Ask anyone and they'd almost always disagree with buying tickets and reselling them for more. Or buying all the PS5s and speculating. But if you talk about houses suddenly it's "you can do whatever you want with your money." An upside down world.

i want to support writers so much in this hellscape, but paying 5 buck per month for each writer i appreciate really doesn't scale compared to a 20 dollar per year sub to a magazine that employes and edits and supports like 10 staff writers and a bunch of carefully selected freelancers.

Man goes to doctor. Says his ego is out of control. Doctor says "Look on works of Ozymandias and despair". Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor, my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings".

But expecting the NYT to actually do research and get into the weeds of the coming science is like expecting my neighbor's dog to do differential equations and write sonnets. They'd much rather listen to The worm driving Bobby's grifter friends.

dunno why but I've just been hit with one of the buried memories from 2021 where people went fucking bonkers at me because Sebastian Vettel wore a t-shirt criticising the environmentally disastrous oil sands in Canada that particularly destroy indigenous land and resources lmao what a weekend

The headlines on this story are so infuriating: maximum clickbait. So many ppl I follow have been blithely tweeting ‘Bill Gates doesn’t care about climate change’, which isn’t remotely the case. Instead, Bill Gates is saying his priority is reducing human suffering. Oooh how wicked. Condemn him!

staying very current in 2025 by finally watching a Dan & Phil video (yes it's the ghost hunting one)

I don't even know what they're doing now

Reform very unhappy with the coverage they got from Welsh media. The message is clear: the far-right can only succeed when they enjoy the fawning treatment that English media provide.

would've loved this one, big move and all, if we hadn't just taken on a different pub - but if you're the right person then this is a great opportunity

Lia Block on the Quadcast is such a delight, what a wonderful yapper and so lovely to have a woman so technically engaged with so many types of car - she's the mustard, what a great driver to stan

that ranking of the best to worst London boroughs by the Torygraph is obvious ragebait but I want to be clear: piss off, Brent. no one even knows where you are, we in Newham can take the worst crown from you. also there is no way ever ever ever Lewisham could ever be worse than fucking Bexley