Wednesday Midday Open Post

by | May 27, 2026 | Open Post | 80 comments

SugarFree is sick. Not just his normal sickness of the brain, but a physical malady which has sent him to the hospital. Everyone here at Glibs HQ wishes him well, as I’m sure do you all.

We are, as usual, short on irregular (non-serial) content so you get an open post. I’ll be back this afternoon for links, so that Brett gets a break between this morning and tomorrow afternoon.

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkster, writer, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

80 Comments

    • Threedoor

      I’m worried about the mental wellbeing of the nurses now.

  1. Aloysious

    Thanks for filling in, Tonio.

    Feel more better, SF. Don’t let them stick anything up your butt.

    • R.J.

      If they do, please fit the story into Subaru Horror Theater.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Unless you want them to.

    • R C Dean

      If they offer to send a MAID to your room, SAY NO!

  2. Sean

    The picture…I like it.

    • Tonio

      You can thank Old Man for that, it was thoughtful, tasteless, and therefore extremely appropriate.

  3. Rat on a train

    Don’t eat from the buffet during the Feast of Alvis.

    • Gdragon

      The holiest man ever to slap iron! He killed for your sins!

  4. CPRM

    In honor of Sugar Free tonights new cartoon is episode 100! I mean, it was anyway, but it’s the thought that counts, right?

  5. PieInTheSky

    get well SF and tell the nurses some of your best tales.

  6. PieInTheSky

    Cake “Spartak” from Soviet 70s – the chocolate cousin of “Medovik” (with origin story)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSan4RDHl-0

    I used to watch this channel 8 9 years ago but it did not end in my youtube feed in years. Did not know Boris was even still around. Can’t say I find it that entertaining like back in the day…

  7. kinnath

    It is surprising how distressing it was to read SF headed to the hospital.

    I guess I still haven’t come to terms with the loss of St Hayek.

    Take care SF.

    • ron73440

      I know what you mean.

      When I was younger and someone I knew went to the hospital, it was concerning.

      Now, it is scary.

      Get better SF, hope you freak out the nurses.

      • Threedoor

        Ended up having to take my mom to the hospital two days ago. We’ll have my wife come into town and take her as I was on the road.

        Much ado about nothing, Likely some slight dehydration and former nurse hypochondria but it’s likely to accelerate.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Neck deep in productivity

    “Every 30 minutes, someone creates something I have to look at,” a manager recently told us.

    As AI accelerates individual execution, a new bottleneck to progress is emerging: managers. Traditional management was designed for a world where execution took time. You could delegate a task and then comfortably check in the following week.

    But AI has collapsed that timeline. Increasingly, the pace of progress is limited by how quickly managers can offer feedback. “If I discuss a project with a direct report in a 1:1,” a manager shared in an interview we conducted for this article, “It’s already shipped and running the next day.”

    It’s in the Harvard Business Review, so you know it’ true.

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s the obvious choice. What could possibly go wrong?

      • juris imprudent

        Well, only if the AI has completed a Harvard MBA.

    • Brett L

      Oh, managers don’t like when they get put on the spot constantly for answers while they might be in the middle of some other, equally important task? Us non-managers wouldn’t know nuttin about that.

    • Sensei

      “Every 30 minutes, someone creates something I have to look at,” a manager recently told us.

      Just get your AI to look at their AI.

  9. Threedoor

    Ive got one and a half more truckish ones just about ready to go.

    I should sit down and work on those.

  10. DEG

    Not just his normal sickness of the brain, but a physical malady which has sent him to the hospital.

    Oh no. I’m sorry to hear this. Best wishes Sugarfree. I hope you get well soon.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      Get well, buddy.

    • Threedoor

      Cityscape reminds me of Baghdad.

  11. Brett L

    Here’s James Talrico wearing a cloth mask while he announces his campaign is going vegan. I don’t know how Ken Paxton is going to win this one.

    • Sean

      Talk about an own goal.

      LOL.

    • R.J.

      Cornyn was funded out the backside by deluded non-republican normies, so at the moment all the Cornyn supporters are throwing money at Talarico. This may cease once they learn a little more about the guy.
      Paxton completely walked away with this. Not even close. Also realize that a ton of people did not vote in the republican primary. I didn’t, I will wait until November. I have to work! I knew Paxton was going to win so I didn’t bother. November is what matters.

      • Urthona

        I didn’t.

        I don’t care that much as long as it’s not Talarico.

    • ron73440

      Talrico is a lizard person.

      In his own way, he is every bit as empty and creepy as Mamdani.

    • R C Dean

      But the eGOPer RINOs are positive that Talarico will mop the floor with Paxton! He has that fresh-faced Boy Scout/youth minister vibe that will be irresistible, especially since Paxton has the stink of MAGA all over him.

      And of course, without enough toadies in the Senate to block conviction and removal after a dozen or so Repubs cross over to vote against him, Drumpf is toast!

      • Urthona

        Every left of center person on my social media talks about how “moderate” Talarico is, and I can’t think of a single thing about him that’s moderate.

      • R C Dean

        They said the same thing about Spanberger, too.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, “moderate” is just to trick you into voting for them. All the money is coming from radicals like Soros and Singh now and their views quickly change to reflect that.

  12. trshmnstr

    SugarFree is sick. Not just his normal sickness of the brain, but a physical malady which has sent him to the hospital.

    Clearly just one day of authorship isnt enough to purge all of the ill humours.

    In seriousness, I hope you get better quickly!

    • Drake

      So it has spread to other organs?

      Get well!

    • R.J.

      At least it was entertaining. If it said “oil” I was going to ask for my ten seconds of life back.

      • R C Dean

        Well, that’s pretty much DEG’s link says.

        And it is the good kind of entertaining conspiracy theory.

    • CPRM

      Idiot. It was a Star Gate that Saddam found that we wanted. I know because Art Bell said so.

    • The Other Kevin

      His body, if found intact, would be a living relic of Nephilim blood

      Yawn. We already have one of those here, he posts every Friday.

  13. Gdragon

    I am hoping that it was something very temporary and correctable like SF was hypoglycemic alone in public. But whatever it is I am always rooting for you Sugar Free, get healthy and be well.

    • Necron 99

      Hypo alone in public is an automatic ass kicking from the popo. Let’s hope it was something even simpler, like gas.

      • R.J.

        He had to get some wholesome thoughts removed from his head.

  14. Fourscore

    I will skip sugar until SF comes home. It’s the only way I can think of that might help.

    • R.J.

      This is an excellent form of support.

  15. Muzzled Woodchipper

    So I’m in a discord filled with Brits who are all retarded.

    They complain incessantly about the “heat wave” of 82 freedom units, and all state they either can’t get AC because of local regulations, or refuse to because cLiMaTe ChAnGe. They all state British heat is “different” and worse than anywhere else.

    Try going to Macon, GA in August, and fuck off with your complaints, retards.

    The fuck outta here with your stupidity. Don’t want to hear it.

    • Sensei

      And yet Americans are the dimwitted parochial people that never travel. They’ve never gone to anyplace with high humidity and high temperatures?

      Coworker returned from a trip to Singapore and Japan. She said the heat and humidity were so bad in Singapore that she looked forward to Japan.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I travel further by going a couple states away than most of them will ever do in their lives.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      An actual quote….

      Yeeesh, got heat exhaustion yesterday because of this damn UK heatwave! Feeling much better now but that was a really unpleasant 24hrs

      Heat exhaustion because of (*checks conversion*) 86 freedom units.

      That was an avaerage Xmas day growing up in Florida, so please forgive me if I roll my eyes.

    • Gender Traitor

      Ask them what the relative humidity is, and if they say, “I don’t know,” maybe they’ll be flung into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.

    • kinnath

      Hard to say what is the worst heat that I’ve experienced.

      I rode my bike home from work (a mere 5 miles) the day the Phoenix airport set the record of 122 degrees. It’s a dry heat — just like the inside of your oven.

      And I’ve walked half a mile or so through down town Singapore when the dew point is in the 90s.

      I’ve been camping in Missouri when it it was 100 degrees and the dew point was over 80.

      Lot’s of different ways to be miserable.

      And I’ve been in London and stayed in a hotel with no air when the locals were saying the world was going to end because the heat wave was extreme. We get a dozen days a year in Iowa that were worse.

      • kinnath

        I remember the last house I rented during my senior year in college — no air.

        During the worst summer has to offer, we’d wake up in the morning and the bedding would be wet from the dew.

        We’d leave footprints in the dew on the wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room first thing in the morning.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Worst I’ve experienced….

        North Florida (Suwannee County) in August. 101F, with humidity above 80%. I did the only sensible thing that day: go swimming in the springs (staying indoors wasn’t an option).

        The triangle between Macon, Savannah, and Valdosta, GA, also in August. Don’t remember the temperature, but I remember it being just plain old suffocating to breathe.

  16. Sensei

    ChatGPT for the win again!

    The generative artificial intelligence platform told her about the child guidance center where she can anonymously consult experts, although such services are typically intended for those under the age of 18. She then made a call to the center seeking advice. However, the matter was immediately reported to the police without her being asked about how she wanted to proceed.

    Thanks to this being Japan dad is out of work! (Giants being pro-baseball here.)

    Former Giants manager’s daughter consulted ChatGPT before reporting altercation

    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/27/japan/crime-legal/giants-abe-baseball-ai-daughter/

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Honda wants

    Honda Racing Corporation US President David Salters confirmed to The Drive that the automaker’s ability to contribute to discussions about future IndyCar regulatory sets is “critical” to its continued participation in the American open-wheel series.

    In February of this year, Honda and Chevrolet both committed to continue as engine manufacturers in the IndyCar series for “multiple years” as part of a push to secure the sport’s future—particularly after years of rumors that Honda was perhaps looking for an exit strategy (like it recently did in IMSA). Part of the agreement was the requirement that both automakers “be heavily involved in the development of the engine and competition rules to be implemented” in 2028, per IndyCar’s press release at the time.

    Yeah let’s hear your plan for a transverse three cylinder hybrid with a CVT because that’s where production cars are going.

    Something tells me they haven’t learned a goddam t6hing from the current F1 fiasco.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Try going to Macon, GA in August

    I worked in Stewart, Florida for a few weeks one summer. Holy fuck. Atlanta was an improvement.

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