Happy Pride Month to everyone who brings a little more color to our world 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍⚧️

An interesting exchange in the Mandelson documents where Mandelson essentially admits he is the source of a story but Number 10 agree to deny it anyway. Just remember, when Number 10 says it "doesn't recognise" something, this is what it means....

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Gangs all here. All of the Chu hai flavours are back and we have tons of the peach as last time it sold out first and we haven’t seen it in stock for months.

Summer of sour has begun. Iron brew sour is back with the firey ginger, ice cream float and blue (watch out for the caffeine in that one) and the blood orange limonata from Vault City.

That frog is really happy with his melon. New limited edition melon soju going in the fridge right now.

It’s milson day today. Sureshots annual celebration of everyone’s favourite core oaty pale ale. This year we have milson sauvin, passionfruit milson and super milson in the lineup.

It’s here, it’s red and it’s not going to last long. Lochlea red wine cask 2026, Sangiovese this time. We have a case, just a case.

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." - Sam Altman Just in case you still haven’t realised that handing over your problem solving or critical thinking to a machine is very bad. #restrictai #aiistheft #taxbillionaires

Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s on.

BRING IT ON YOU SKY COWARD!!

Who are you kidding. You can tell how cold this beer is just by looking at it. Open till 6, see you later.

Bank Holiday indulgence continues with this delicious dirty martini from @indiespiritbath.bsky.social Forgot the olives 🙄🤦‍♀️🫒🍸

Yummy new gin from @indiespiritbath.bsky.social Perfect for this hot bank holiday weekend 😋

Just rewatching Star Trek.

Toddler update: my husband let her taste his ice cream and she took the ice cream and ran. My husband has tried to bribe her to give it back my replacing it with a biscuit. Anyway now the toddler has an ice cream and a biscuit

‘There’s just no money left’: Exeter craft beer shop to close after 11 years #Devon

The bank holiday beers are here.

Major works in Bath city centre are set to start on 26 May. Manvers Street will be closed between its junctions with Henry Street and Dorchester Street as the works take place, though drivers can still use Manvers Street Car Park. Buses and traffic will be diverted. https://ow.ly/mCMN50Z07Yn

First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth has confirmed: From September, secondary school pupils from families receiving Universal Credit will be eligible for free school meals. Supporting families. Tackling child poverty. Investing in Wales’ future 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

VAT on private schools was Reeves and Phillipson. Ban on north sea licences was Miliband. Just listing things that have happened and claiming it's Starmer's "vision" ignores the way this govt actually works.

Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say

"A German court in December 1926 awarded...the military leader of the Kapp putsch, back payment of his pension to cover the period when he was a rebel against the government and also the five years that he was a fugitive from justice." - William Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 109

It’s here!! From 28 unpeated bourbon barrels originally filled in 2018 and finished in Hungarian Tokaji wine casks. This is a first for @ardnamurchanwhisky.bsky.social. Just landed, good thing as it’s on tonight’s whisky tasting at Castle tap Reading. Let me tell you, I wasn’t worried for a second.

It’s world bee day! You know what that means, the need for mead. Hive mind have a brand new braggot out. This "honey ale" was a staple for special occasions, with roots in 12th-century Wales and Ireland and for the history buffs its mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Honey, malt, barrel aging.

Can any kind and suitably qualified individual help me to draft my defence to an eviction notice? Citizens Advice tricky to reach, both physically (recovering from stroke) and by phone.

Coming down for the rugby today? Well we have the wonderful Ross from Witchmark in sampling their gins between 1-3 seeing as they are the official spirit supplier.

I’d like to see you split the G on this one…

It’s not my birthday till Jan but ok then.

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

Weird that so many people resist a technology that promises to ruin the environment, steal your data, ruin art and make you unemployed. Buncha luddites.

Trapdoor Abducted by clowns Strapped to a rocket John Wick

What happened to that Away Team that went undercover at the School Uniform shop?

Friday 19th June, on Fathers day weekend at 7PM we are holding a little Bourbon and Chicken wings event over at Harper's in Swindon. BBQ and Bourbon, it was meant to be. Tickets £35 and you can get them by emailing [email protected]

Oh by the way while I was in Bath I visited a lovely bookstore called Topping & Co. and signed a copy of my book, in case anyone local would like to pick up a signed copy!

A Poland exclusive, plum brandy finished, high abv Bushmills was a wild thing to get to try at a recent @indiespiritbath.bsky.social tasting! alcoholandaphorisms.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/t...

Be your inner Zelenskyy.

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

Tonight’s highlight. Single cask 18yr Ledaig. Roll on 6.30pm

3 tickets up for grabs for the Ridiculous tasting in August on the website. However there are 4 tickets left for this Fridays tasting with The Single Malts Of Scotland and it’s promising to be a doozy. shop.independentspiritofbath.co.uk/collections/...

Phone isn’t working atm. Emails are, do one of those. Or pop in.

They are out of ideas so they distract with wars, demonize the most vulnerable, and blame everyone but themselves. It's so transparent.

I’ve never known so much tactical voting in Wales. Every family WhatsApp group is full of strategy. All turbocharged by the new voting system. It is going to be a fascinating election.

“AI is going to take your job” Craig:............when?

Well…. 5 tickets left for Friday. 5 tickets left for the ridiculous tasting 9 for the west coast one 7 for the grain one Reading and Swindon events are live if you check your email. Might need to sort a few more tastings 👀 shop.independentspiritofbath.co.uk/collections/...

It seems that #SPD, Greens and the Left in Germany have collectively left X today.

🎶What’s that coming over the hill… Is it a monster, is it a monster….🎶 Of a tasting, yes it is. Last 5 tickets for Fridays whisky tasting with Dean from The Single Malts of Scotland. shop.independentspiritofbath.co.uk/collections/...