Doreen

It’s 4pm on this Southern Rail train to Ore and a Monday, but nonetheless, there is a man holding a green bottle of macro lager sitting in the luggage rack.

Stay gold, Ponyboy.

I am pleased to announce that I run with the sort of folks who will pack out a karaoke booth at a bowling alley if I start a WhatsApp group to instigate it.

Tracklist for karaoke sadly does not include The Rat by The Walkmen but I suppose I can’t have everything.

The perfume company I have been buying scents off of for over two decades is releasing a fragrance called Ceaselessly By My Side The Demon Stirs and the name and the scent description is completely my jam right now.

Photo at These Hills of a wooden sign that says “These Hills 2025” that features a sheep with three people with beer glasses hanging with the sheep. There are two ovals cut out for faces of IRL people.

I had such a lovely time at These Hills on the weekend. The folks at Beak are really good at this sort of thing.

Gentle reminder to everyone in London and also anyone commuting on Southern Rail and Thameslink to please consider deodorant and showering.

Thank you.

Working the last beer festival the brewery I work for is taking part in this weekend, and then we are DONE for external festivals for the year.

Cannot wait to get back to some video games I haven't touched in too long, as well as work on some TTRPG nonsense.

I hope those of you GBBFing are having a GBBFing good time. 🍻

HYPE

Oh well, we could always go to the Bermondsey Beer Mile and talk about what we're reading in the LRB and whatever.

I got 5 and the vast majority were in the first reply.

So when should we all go? Euan's back in London now, too.

Oh, perhaps. I never worked for BrewDog so I don't have that sort of insider knowledge.

So wild that the Shoreditch site is closing, considering how it was once BrewDog's busiest bar.

I really shouldn’t be held accountable for anything I say or any decisions I make before I’ve had coffee.

Yeah, I was considering creating an account that gets very occasional updates just for those tagging purposes.

Thanks for that insight!

Yeah I definitely feel like it might be something a bit more for individuals rather than actual businesses.

Folks, if you have a business or brand, how does Bluesky fit into your social media promo, if at all?

I did see @totalcurtis.bsky.social musing about personal usage of Bluesky but what do we think about its use for businesses, particularly in the drinks industry? Is it relevant?

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I am 28.2% Goth, 82.7% Nerd, placing me in the True Nerd category. Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth (Subculture Test)

Omg had to do this.

28.2% Goth, 82.7% Nerd, placing me in the True Nerd category: www.idrlabs.com/jock-nerd-pr...

I was working at a beer festival all day yesterday and had a guy from Northern Ireland ask my if I was Irish.

He did not seem that drunk.

Apart from the rhotic “R”s, I absolutely do not sound Irish.

(I think?????)

Honestly forgot it was US Independence Day until a colleague wished me a Happy 4th of July.

Hooray, we freed ourselves from the yoke of tyranny oh wait.

As you know, I'm mainly just posting nihilist memes, 1990s anime references, and links to songs surrounding my new obsession with Taiwanese shoegaze on Instagram.

I pop in to Bluesky 1-2 times per week, and my feed here is mainly beer folks who I followed on Twitter who aren't on Instagram. 😸

As a person, my Twitter feed became more of a mess; it actually got starkly focused on a few of my more niche interests (even more niche than craft beer, imagine) or it was super irrelevant. My notifications also had nothing to do with me.

The account still exists but I last posted last November.

Yoshitomo Nara | Southbank Centre

All booked to see the Yoshitomo Nara exhibit at the Hayward Gallery next week! So hyped!

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/yos...

Is there anything more infuriating and Catch-22-esque than using the Ryanair website and the fact that it forces you to download their app in order to get your boarding passes?

Thanks!

Sweet! I think my main question is "Which one should I get?"

I have a PS5 as well (or actually, my boyfriend has but I'm planning to get one for myself as well), but sometimes I just want to pick up and play something for a hot minute and not have to play on the big screen.

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. "It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."

The US gov under Trump has made it clear that only *positive* views of concentration camps will be allowed, thank you. The new signs at Manzanar National Historic Site ask visitors to report any depictions that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

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I've been contemplating getting one! I mainly play games on my iPad at the moment (Zenless and Honkai Star Rail), and I really like playing handheld on my sofa. There's a ton of games on Steam I don't have access to because I'm a ride-or-die Mac user.

Hahaha I've been getting these too on Facebook.

I have a friend who is actually looking into this and it's an expensive process. I think she's going to wind up paying at least $5k.

Meanwhile I'm clinging to my citizenship just so I can cancel out one of my parents' votes. 🥲