Luke Corbin

Man in Thailand dies after drinking only beer for a month, hundreds of empty bottles found in room A man in Thailand has passed away after reportedly refusing to eat anything except beer for more than a month.

Following with another Thai story: beer is no substitute for a balanced diet.

Drunk Chinese man swallows spoon, thinks it was a dream, learns 5 months later Medical experts say spoon was precariously lodged, with even minor movements posing a risk of intestinal perforation or severe bleeding.

Be careful out there

You're not wrong, it's pretty weird 🤷‍♂️

Melbourne Sake Melbourne Sake. 281 likes. Melbourne Sake is Australia’s first craft sake brewery. Our mission is simple, to craft distinctly Australian sake, with Australian ingredients, for Australia. First...

I'd never heard of them. www.facebook.com/melbournesake/ Doesn't seem active

MELBOURNE - Sake Festival

Great initiative, well-organised, and guaranteed to be heaps of fun. Morning and afternoon sessions available, with cultural demonstrations, music, food pairing, and plenty of knowledgeable sake masters in attendance. I'll be bringing a big backpack for all those namazakes! #sake #sakefestival

Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Frid...

Store crown seal caps separately if possible and always clean and rinse them before capping glass bottles; crown caps put far more microplastics into beer than if you packaged with plastic-lined cans or PET, due to the sharp undersides cutting the soft topsides in mass storage @craftypint.com

Albo with a beer.

Good advocacy in this, happy to have RR in Melbourne. Albo with beer and red tape masker for prosperity, the East is Red, to Reach the East is Red Tape

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

ရခိုင်ကိုလွန်၍ - မျှော်လင့်ချက်နဲ့ စိုးထိတ်မှုတွေကို သယ်ဆောင်လာတဲ့ အေအေရဲ့ ထိုးစစ် အေအေ၏ထိုးစစ်ကြောင့် ရခိုင်နှင့်နယ်ချင်းထိ ဒေသများသို့ စစ်မီးပျံ့နှံ့လာပြီး ၎င်းတို့သည် အဓိကကျသည့် စစ်လက်နက်စက်ရုံများအနီးသို့ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်သည်။

အေအေ၏ထိုးစစ်ကြောင့် ရခိုင်နှင့်နယ်ချင်းထိ ဒေသများသို့ စစ်မီးပျံ့နှံ့လာပြီး ၎င်းတို့သည် အဓိကကျသည့် စစ်လက်နက်စက်ရုံများအနီးသို့ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်သည်။

China’s booze business looks smashed First terrified officials went off the lash; now young people are going dry

Hard to see coming when I lived in Shanghai in 2010. The factors identified seem spot on. But I wonder if this and other takes are missing a trick about the universality of Gen Z drinking less. The common factor intuitively seems to be changing technology habits... But deeper than that... ?

7 United rice beer

Exciting new product from Northeast India, the brainchild of an anthropologist and musician

www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/...

Swig super drink ‘Neera’ with gusto to beat the summer heat This traditional drink is seeing a modern revival with govt support, improved harvesting methods and urban availability

"Tappers are now equipped with special insulated containers that maintain sub-zero temperatures, preserving the sap in its fresh form during transportation to urban centres."

And of course, urbanites drink it at 0°C, nobody would even think of taking it home to let it warm up a little... 😂🌴

Thailand drops royal insult case against American academic A royal insult prosecution against an American scholar in Thailand that raised concerns in the U.S. government has been dropped, his lawyer said on Thursday, as authorities confirmed the academic had left the country.

Not an ideal outcome but the best hoped for.

How to compete with proprietary yeast... It would be ace if more Melbourne breweries went to these lengths with their lagers. craftypint.com/news/3784/fr...

YouTube video by Seven Sisters Music Imphal Talkies - I Want to Go to Moscow

A Zomia HIT, but self-censored live. Whyyy?! 🙊

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𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴⁣
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘺⁣
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭⁣
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
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YouTube video by pooninaki Dr. Octagon - Ants

People are ants

On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you sque...

Shame and sadness

Amritsar Hooch Tragedy: The Poison That Makes Fake Liquor So Deadly | Explained - News18 The term "country liquor", also known as Indian Made Indian Liquor (IMIL) or Desi Daru, often carries a cloud of suspicion, but there is a crucial distinction.

Amid much misleading reporting on India's latest methanol poisoning, this gem notes that "spurious liquor" is not the same as regulated country liquor, nor traditional village drinks—methanol poisonings are usually caused by adulterants: urea, oxytocin, ammonium chloride, and industrial solvents

Not only is this true, there are 33 whole-ass mentions of this in the script and each one is freaking hilarious

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This is an AI post thread tree and I am the only human in it

or ... am I?

A "Burma Ale" wins 2nd place at the 2025 World Beer Cup in Cat. #7: Herb & Spice Beer. From a Cali brewery I'm unfamiliar with. Used pagoda & peacock iconography too.

Two glasses of champagne chinking

Wedding season is coming to a close in Victoria but there was time for one more

Getting major Love Lies Bleeding vibes from that poster

A salient reminder for those currently in Tasmania.

Fractured Authority and Resource Politics in Myanmar: New Report on Rare Earth Mining | Heinrich Böll Foundation | Southeast Asia The mining of rare earths is not just about international raw materials policy, as a new study from Myanmar shows. It is also about environmental justice, local governance and the future of the civil ...

The mining of rare earths is not just about international raw materials policy, as a new study from Myanmar shows. It is also about environmental justice, local governance and the future of the civil war-torn country. #criticalminerals #naturalresources #ecology #humanrights

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Interesting findings from a Swedish study: "Beer has around a third of the carbon footprint of wine and spirits per litre ... (and) alcohol consumption among men generates 90% higher GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions than among women. " doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Meanwhile in military-ruled Myanmar, Gen Z still drink plenty, and crony companies are trying to co-opt the term away from the civil disobedience and armed resistance movements opposing the 2021 coup, and towards the supposed martial prowess of the Bama monarchy of old. Gen Z—same wine, new bottles?

Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits Bowland and colleagues document intake of naturally fermented breadfruit containing alcohol by wild chimpanzees.

"Do the origins of (human) feasting behaviour derive from a shared common ancestor? Our data provide the first evidence for ethanolic food sharing and feeding by wild nonhuman great apes"—I always try to trot out the Drunken Monkey hypothesis in my talks, this is rad research, valuable video too 🙊🍻🍑

Antipodean Mon mohinga, strong in the ways of the banana stem

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Sweden to allow microbreweries to sell beer to visitors after a 'lecture' Sweden will allow its microbreweries, vineyards and distilleries to sell their drinks on-site to visitors, in a relaxation of strict rules on alcohol sales that aim to protect public health and which have been in place since 1955.

Great! I love lectures!