Anthony Gladman

In a moment of brilliance - or weakness, I can't decide which - I bought some 'pistachio crème' for pancake day this year.

Gonna get so fat.

a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

You don’t even need the microphone tbh. Just read it aloud. It’s like magic.

I don’t cope will with inexplicable electrical failure.

How can a thing be working fine in the evening and then be broken in the morning?

Feels like such a betrayal.

Looks like it’s going to be one of those days. Not a single thing since I woke up, no matter how small, has gone without a hiccup.

Bloody hob won’t turn on now!

Think perhaps the best thing would be to retreat to a safe corner and just wait it out.

Des de Moor obituary Other lives: Cabaret club entrepreneur, singer and performer who also wrote extensively about real ale

Obituary for Des de Moor now online at the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

They’re playing the Paralympic anthem on glasses, a theremin and alpenhorns - and I am totally here for it

#paralympics

Paralympics time again!

I’ll just leave this feed here:

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Admirable effort - best I’ve managed so far is sausage baps.

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Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.

• Yes to a job.
• Yes to love.
• Yes to a new life in another country.

When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.

It was probably actually from radical atheist priest Jean Meslier, renouncing his faith in a posthumous memoir — edited and popularised by Voltaire.

Recent events have me thinking about this quote (mis-)attributed 1700s olden-timey French dude Denis Diderot:

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Received a press release claiming halloumi is the UK's most loved cheese as it's the most searched for on Google.

I love brie, but I don't think I've ever googled it - not even once.

I *might* agree halloumi is the cheese that most confuses Britons. But I still wouldn't write an article about it.

I'd class that as a "tsk, you tit" level injury. Entitles you to one (1) restorative cuppa.

GB News LOSES £22 million as debt bill piles up Despite reducing their losses from the previous year, updated accounts show that GB News is still racking-up the debt.

Over the past year, thousands of #StopFundingHate supporters have taken action to urge brands to steer clear of GB News.

Thanks to those efforts, very few high profile brands are still showing up on the channel.

But with Ofcom repeatedly refusing to act, we need to keep up the pressure.

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fish finger sandwich. Onion rings. No booze.

Pasta pestooooooooo

Amerikansk bojkott – lägsta ölförsäljningen på 20 år - Beernews Under 2025 backade den amerikanska ölförsäljningen på Systembolaget med ytterligare 13 procent, samtidigt som sortimentet minskade med över 100 öl. Särskilt tydlig är trenden sista halvåret – som norm...

Swedes are boycotting American beers. The state monopoly off licence Systembolaget reports a drop in sales of American beer of 13% and they've cut 100+ beers from their offering. Lowest sales since the George W Bush / Iraq war era.

www.beernews.se/articles/ame...

One shoe off - he half ded

A simple German woodcutting from 1490 showing a Renaissance dude on the right who is having a lower back spasm so bad his right shoe was blown clean off. On the left is a witch (“eine Hexe") with a bow and arrow who just shot him in the back. (Otherwise, why would his back hurt? Hexenschuss!) The engraving is credited to Johann Zainer as was taken from the book “Tractatus von den bösen weibern, die man hexen nennt,” or “Treatise on evil women, who are called witches,“ by Ulrich Molitor.

The Czech word for lower back pain or lumbago is hexenšus, which is borrowed from a German word, Hexenschuss.
The first time I heard it I was like, “Oh, like a witch just shot you in the back? That’s what you think happened?”
Dear reader, at one point, that’s exactly what they thought.

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

Hey! It's my friend @alcademics.bsky.social ! He's a great guy so check this out!

Jane, don’t even.

Steak. Supermarket - nowt fancy.

Cannot deny

a woman making a funny face in front of a white background with swr3 on it ALT: a woman making a funny face in front of a white background with swr3 on it

More pints than planned. But, on the other hand, a pie keeping warm in the oven.

I’ve never read it so I’ve never been sure, but the shame in “of shame” - that’s for the reader, right? As in “I know I shouldn’t be interested in this, but…”?

An excellent decision