Interesting website that rates the effect of a potential increase in rateable value on individual pubs in England and Wales. Strange that The Hillgrove in Bristol gets a Somehow Fine rating while its neighbour The Hare on The Hill gets an Absolutely Fucked rating.

Someone was killed in Bristol at the weekend. On a busy street at lunchtime on Sunday. It was a 'cyclist' killed by a 'motorist'. So we do that thing where we accept that we're prepared to sacrifice the lives of a few 'cyclists' every year so long as we can keep driving our cars wherever we want.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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Is this the first ever WCAG based joke on a beer can? The colour contrast on this can of Arbor AAA Pass looks like a surefire fail under WCAG color contrast rules.

Expressions like this are a great way for the simple to out themselves. Mimicking the big boys.

Everton's Charlie Alcaraz makes it into The Ringer's Favourite 52 sporting moments of 2025. Well, into the graphic anyway. 😁 #Everton #UTFT www.theringer.com/2025/12/23/s...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bit of news from me. Hugely honoured to be able to announce that I've been awarded The Checkatrade Trophy Peace Prize. 🙌 🕊️ If anyone wants to buy me a pint, I'll be up The Drapers later. 🍻 🕊️

Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Enough to make a pair of sailor's trousers. A small sailor. The grim weather on the M6 is clearing. Glad I'm not driving.

Singing the blues...

Well that was an interesting evening. #UTFT #bristoltoffees #Everton #bristol

Big fan of the new electric buses in Bristol. Especially when the sun goes down and they glow in the dark.

Really interesting read if design, graphics and music are up your street! ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I find this Nazi era ID card horribly fascinating. The card would have been designed by an ordinary civil servant, just doing their job, as best they could. To facilitate the transportation of undesirables. Like Maria. Made me think about Hannah Arendt's work on the banality of evil.

"According to a recent survey commissioned by the brewer Greene King, 70% of people regularly take part in a pub quiz and almost one in 10 goes every single week." If this was a multiple choice quiz question, I wouldn't have chosen 70%. I suspect the sample was people in the pub on quiz night.

That's how to do an opening speech as a newly elected mayor of NYC. No pandering, no punches held back, no messing.

The SUV of bikes. Just taking up the 5 spaces in the bike rack. Are bikes and their owners going the same way as cars? Bigger and more selfish.

Gloucester Road rainbow #bristol #palestine

BLACK BOX

A good evening at The Drapers Arms for Garvan's birthday. Molly, ex Drapers, had brewed a special birthday beer for him with Bruhaha Brewery. It was a late night.

A lucky horse outside the pub before the Everton - Palace game. #UTFT #bristol

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Bang! GUEYE-M ON! #UTFT

Good to see @thebristolcable.bsky.social namechecked in this article.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

"The police said in a statement four adults were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications" How is posting a picture of a couple of old pals 'malicious communications'?

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

Here are some truth bombs for all anti-immigrant bigots out there, not just in Britain. Imagine if all the immigrants did go home. Be careful what you wish for. Video credit www.instagram.com/delwboy/

Draft-dodging coward posts A.I. image of himself in Vietnam.

It's a truism among football fans that the records will only show the result, not the fact that your team was robbed! These records of Everton's early matches put that right. From a game in 1885... "Result disputed by Bootle citing dubious refereeing decisions- result stood."

Potential lineup for punk all dayer at @exchangebristol.bsky.social?

Visit to Liverpool to see my mum. Went to The Augustus John pub which I've not been to before. My mum remembers going there not long after it opened in 1968. Don't think the pub has changed much since. Very well preserved inside and out.

A pro-Iranian pomeranian.

"One Merlin Röhl, pretty sure there's only Merlin Röhl, One Merlin Rööööhl, Pretty sure there's only one Merlin Röhl!"

"Yes, it is."

I hope you find my new book helpful for understanding the time we’re in, how we combat the bullies, and why I believe so passionately that we will succeed. Here's a bit more on why I wrote it.

This Everton side - The Dogs Of Phwoar!

1. Out of curiosity, I went through the feeds of some habitual tuna tormentors. I found they’re big on: - fox hunting - Reform UK - antagonism to asylum seekers. In other words, the same few antisocial (psychopathic?) men, turning up in all the bad places. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 🧵

More left footers in the grimsby team than the Vatican.

Giraffes scrapping at Bristol Zoo.

Went to see Pretty Woman in Queen's Square tonight. I assumed I'd seen it but it turned out I hadn't. An enjoyable evening but the film was rubbish. Came third in the quiz before the film. Bristol To = Bristol Toffees.

Juventus, nickname The Old Lady (La Vecchia Signora) to play at Goodison Park, nickname The Old Lady. The women's teams of course.

'Never trust a man with a flagpole in his garden' Sound advice from Waterloo's finest, @theshipbuilders.bsky.social

This text on the Fantasy Footy website makes me laugh every year. "mere placeholders" to be enunciated in the voice of your favourite screen villain.