You know who throws a good wedding? @clairembullen.bsky.social and her most lovely husband, that’s who.* Mahoosive congrats to them both ❤️🥂 * Not on here afaik

How soon is now? @thornbridge.bsky.social City of London pub alert. Much anticipated Wild Swan 99 Fetter Lane - replacing once loved White Swan - to open imminently this month. Beer already gone down the hatch, Wine & Drinks Menu posted. "Heavy cask beer offer" promised #BskyBeer

Much consternation at Gladman Towers as this one did not come home last night. She's still young and 95% eejit. My bet: shut in somewhere, possibly for the long weekend.

Once again Labour destroying vulnerable people's lives based on cruelty and hostility. Labour wonders why they are so unpopular, it's largely because they spend so much time focused on making life worse for already marginalised groups instead of better for all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

A cracker from Steve Curtis on the rise and fall of brewdog in the CIBD magazine!

1,770 words today. About 23k in total now.

Pint of Harvey’s and a double G&T - £22. Faaaackin’ ‘ell.

1,500 words today - and now I'm off into town for some fun.

It isn’t a tough job. It’s an easy job they refuse to do.

You'll be astonished to learn that GB News - which likes to market itself as a free speech champion - has sent a legal letter to @thenewworldmag.bsky.social following @arusbridger.bsky.social's forensic exposé of Ofcom's systematic failure to investigate the channel's toxic content

This is pretty cool - but a quick heads up for UK users: there is no option to compare with "an area the size of Wales".

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

🌳🍺 Wild yeast, tamed for low-ABV beer! Researchers at NC State University isolate two Torulaspora delvrueckii strains from a White Oak tree — and they naturally cap out at 1 - 2 % ABV, while producing a tasty, aromatic beer. Oak-asionally nature just brews it right 😉🍺 doi.org/10.1080/0361...

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

I know I’m late to the party with this - but very much enjoying Cult of the Lamb. That music’s going to play in my head non-stop for days… store.steampowered.com/app/1313140/...

1,800 words today. Is it time for pizza yet?

Planted a handful of heuchera in the bed to sit in the shade under the bananas. Spread a bit of mulch about. 20 mins of light gardening, tops. I am hot, my back aches, and I'm still out of breath. This is not good. Does sitting around typing all day not count as exercise?

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349

3,000+ words today

c. 800 words today - not bad considering the morning as taken up at the dentist's.

Just cannot overstate how much love I have for the ALCS for paying my rent this month with change to spare. If you’re not signed up already, it is imo the easiest great thing you can do for yourself as a writer

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

In the latest Guardian Blind Date: OH MEIN GOTT! My review:

Drinking negroni and listening to Horace Andy - I can recommend it.

Cute eejit #catsofbluesky

Snuck in a quick 550 words this morning.

Breakfast. Trying to keep veg and protein up, carbs down. Magic ingredient is the smear of really-rather-hot Hungarian pepper paste.

808 words today.

Good news for the English whisky book today from the Guild of Food Writers, who have agreed to chuck some Futures Fund cash my way to help me write it. I am extremely grateful - not just for the funds (though, yes, obvs) - but also for the vote of confidence they represent. Big up the GFW 😎

For those of you interested in helping bankrupt Reform UK, this is the actual address of their London HQ. The Victoria Street one is out of date.

1,000+ words this morning.

Accountability update: judging Great Taste Awards on the morning but 1,200 words in the afternoon.

This is beautiful. Don't think I'm wearing my "smart" watch to bed tonight.

the audible, acidic despair in this quote made me laugh out loud

Feeling a bit wiped out today - incipient lurgy perhaps - so no writing. Plenty of planning though.

One for the Spud Love Club: Have to say I find his delivery quite annoying BUT - I have to give him props for the spud creations he delivers 🥔 www.youtube.com/shorts/J0wS2...

From the Point of View of a Cat ~ Karel Capek (translated by Dora Round - originally published in Intimate Things, 1935)

1,750 words today.

Trying to borrow an ebook from my local library. Turns out the whole experience is a shit-encrusted rabbit hole of various vaguely incompatible platforms and apps and DRM and signing in to Adobe again (ugh) and finally discovering that I am somehow not allowed to read it on my Kindle.

All special days involve pancakes at Gladman Towers. HMD all, and big love to all who’ve lost their mum 💔

Sometimes you just have to

Freelancers, small businesses and so on have a statutory right under uk law to charge interest on unpaid bills. But the calculation can be complex. So my old friend the brill actress and podcaster Laura Shavin, built a calculator. It’s clever. fvo1.com/late-payment...

2,000 words written today. Time for beer and pizza.

“GB News has become a home for the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory – a narrative that has inspired real-world violence. Ofcom’s repeated failure to act over this channel’s toxic output is more than just a regulatory failure – it’s a policy choice.” bylinetimes.com/2026/03/12/g...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...