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Fantastic!

10.03.2026 19:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Orval has Brett.

10.03.2026 17:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#OtD 7 Mar 1921 the repression of the Kronstadt Rebellion against the Bolsheviks, demanding worker self-governance and freedom for socialist prisoners began. It was brutally crushed by the Red Army led by Trotsky and hundreds were executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...

07.03.2026 20:40 👍 113 🔁 52 💬 0 📌 5
Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia

The building made it into Wikipedia's lamest edit wars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

07.03.2026 19:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wallow in your stench!

07.03.2026 08:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bask in your glory!

07.03.2026 08:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Respect!

06.03.2026 21:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I worked at a company that went bust the guy that came round making a list didn't speak to us. I don't think they don't care.

06.03.2026 21:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

06.03.2026 19:03 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 7 📌 3
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Peter Mandelson released from bail conditions Police have decided former minister is not a flight risk, but he remains under investigation

A reminder that there are young people in the UK who have been held in prison for up to two years without conviction for allegedly dismantling weapons of genocide.

The government has been proven wrong on all accusations against them so far.

Meanwhile:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

06.03.2026 17:34 👍 181 🔁 122 💬 7 📌 6

Gosh, I missed that too.

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can remember how delighted I was when, totally unexpectly, I spotted an out of print book I'd been after for ages on a small second hand book table in a community centre. I guess I could find it easily online now, which whilst more efficient would have taken the joy out of it.

06.03.2026 09:09 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I hope we have passed peak sheep. I'd like to see more hills with trees on them.

06.03.2026 07:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before

Labour is a far right party

05.03.2026 08:37 👍 660 🔁 362 💬 27 📌 19

You'll have to wait till July for Tom Paine!

05.03.2026 07:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apart from being brown wouldn't London Pride do the job?

04.03.2026 22:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Does this mean I should stop using his business book as my bible???

04.03.2026 12:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the Demise of BrewDog From someone who worked for them, and then spoke out against them

Charlotte's voice is the one I was waiting for on this.

open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

04.03.2026 08:56 👍 46 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 4
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"Equity For Punks" explained #BrewDog

14.02.2026 16:27 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

One for @joebankswriter.bsky.social

03.03.2026 08:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Didn't exactly have to be Nostradamus though. It's been all bad news from brewdog for a long while.

02.03.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Time to put the dog down? The rise and fall of craft beer in Britain has been an interesting, and at times irritating, thing to watch. The same could be said about Br...

I was right that brewdog were circling the drain back in October. edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/10/time...

02.03.2026 20:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can't help but think that this whole lesser evil thing still sounds just plain evil.

28.02.2026 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All keg :-(

28.02.2026 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was one of those fruity sour beers. Maybe the lollipop is needed to make the taste go away?

28.02.2026 10:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A beer with a lollipop clipped to it.

A beer with a lollipop clipped to it.

An abomination unto the lord at Cold Town House last night.

28.02.2026 10:14 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 1

Rumbala, rumbala, rumbala!

26.02.2026 21:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A framed and signed map of Terry Pratchett's discworld

A framed and signed map of Terry Pratchett's discworld

I'm ahead of you on that one (though it was left by a person I was sharing the house with).

25.02.2026 23:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They won't do cask beer there.

25.02.2026 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Only if the contract goes to St Austell!

25.02.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0