Ok folks I’m back at work so let’s talk shop a while. After a bit of a wobbly summer at @pelliclemag.com we’re back on track, with a new sponsor, @geterbrewed.bsky.social and we’ve immediately reinvested that support by recruiting @clairembullen.bsky.social as associate editor.

The news is out! Could not possibly be more thrilled to join the good ship @pelliclemag.com (and party with @totalcurtis.bsky.social, @katiematherkm.bsky.social, and @lilywaite.bsky.social)

If you tolerate or ignore these actions you are complicit If you dismiss or make light of these behaviours you are complicit If you don’t understand why these actions are problematic, educate yourself Making a space where everyone is safe, welcome & unthreatened isn’t censorship, it’s decency

Katie is COOKING with this one (unlike the chefs using fucking ChatGPT to come up with their menus, jfc)

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

AI shaming | patreon.com/lubchansky

A month ago, I said this verbatim—"generative AI is a fascist project"—to an artist friend of a friend. He scoffed at me, and for a second I wondered if I was being hyperbolic. Turns out nope, lol.

Oh yeah, because this won't in any way shape or form lead to people attacking delivery persons, Uber drivers etc. FFS, the image alone is meant to instil fear. That is guaranteed to lead to attacks. Labour's new pledge "actively inciting violence to gain votes"

Very fun story from @anahlcq.bsky.social that makes me feel better about my all-consuming Brets obsession. (IMO the butter and chèvre & piment d'espelette flavors are the best.)

The AI companies are so profoundly hostile to creators, so ideologically committed to theft, that they were unwilling to pay for one (1) copy of the works they were stealing to train their AI models.

For the love of humanity, stop asking this scam machine questions! Stop asking it for advice! I get it, it was an entertaining novelty for a hot second. But it's bad. Stop stop stop.

This is my favorite piece yet on the state of AI & journalism. “The only journalism business strategy that works […] is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.” www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Lovely piece, this, from @totalcurtis.bsky.social on the compelling @whitepeak.bsky.social and their efforts to push English whisky forward. (Especially good timing, too, as I'm visiting @totalcurtis.bsky.social and will be trying some tonight!)

Did you read my latest wine story yet? It's about winemaking smallholders in Tenerife using sustainable farming methods to reclaim their island. Con Altura — Making Wine and Preserving Culture in Tenerife’s Vineyard Heartland — Pellicle share.google/0e6B8bDFiL72...

Here it is, the story I've been burying myself in for months. The Canary islands are special to me but in Tenerife I found La Orotava, and local wine, and I fell in love all over again. But can I go back knowing tourism is destroying, has destroyed, so much? www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/...

It was such a treat to edit this beautiful piece by @katiematherkm.bsky.social! We've seen many stories about overtourism this summer, and this Tenerife narrative engages with those tensions in a way that's so thoughtful and nuanced (and really honors the place besides).

This is perhaps some of Katie’s best writing yet, and we brought in the talents of @clairembullen.bsky.social to edit so it really snaps, crackles and pops. Dream team, honestly. Do not skip this.

Chat GPT impoverishes us — intellectually, experientially, linguistically, spiritually, metaphysically, ecologically, morally, and, yes, financially.

Oh no, not the AI industry, an eleventybillion-dollar sector that employs fives of people

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

"The nature of forgeries, a subject on which I may boast of some small expertise, is to fool the least discerning, not the most; it is to convince the general public that true greatness never existed, that imitation is reality, that shoddiness is quality. It is an assault on pleasure itself."

It’s a labor issue.

I reckon if you've been a writer for 15 years and you can comfortably replace part of your process with ChatGPT, it speaks volumes about your writing

I've just lost another contract - marketing is the first thing to go when costs need to be cut. If you are looking for a talented writer, wine and beer somm, or some social media planning and batch content help, or know somebody who is, PLEASE send them my way!

I'd really like you to read this landmark investigation for @vittles.bsky.social on curry awards. "I haven't been so entertained editing something in a long time" @jonathandnunn.bsky.social said www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-curry-...

The contempt these tech broligarchs have for…*checks notes*…the people whose work they’ve stolen to train their stupid LLMs is gobsmacking. We should be suing them for trillions

Have you booked your spot for our online panel discussing alternative revenue streams? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.beerguild.co.uk/news/guild-e...

Paid three illustrators for original artwork today and I run what must be one of the smallest businesses trading in the UK. Use AI and cheapen everything you do. Honestly, I am embarrassed for you if you are selling stuff that uses it.

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

Mahomes supports Trump & annoying commercials. Hurts supports public schools, equal rights for women, properly cooked crawfish, & old school R&B. He’s also vastly better looking. This is an easy choice, America.

Just pre-ordered my copy and you should too!

On Monday 27 January I’m launching the pre-orders for my zine “A Place To Be”. Written and designed by me. Illustrated by Hannah Robinson. Published by @pelliclemag.com 👀

"how can we use this technology ethically" me, chewing on a piece of straw: you cant "but how do we use it in a prosocial and democratic way" me, whittling a piece of wood: you dont "youre not being very constructive"

So lovely to see so many new faces here this morning. Welcome! Today is publication Wednesday, and we have @rachelhendry.bsky.social casting a critical eye on celebrity wine, dissecting what trash really is, and Dolly Parton 💅🏻🍾 www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/1/...

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

I do not respect you if you use ChatGPT or whatever other demon A.I. thing to “write” essays or “make” art or whatever bullshit garbage reason the tech creeps keep pushing on us

stop putting that shit in everything!!! leave us alone!

fuck A.I. all my homies hate A.I.

Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft. thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1

wrote a fun & flirty j’adore le plonk on trying & failing to sell a book last year 💅 eepurl.com/i7Wrro

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

Slow on the draw, here, but thanks to @boakandbailey.bsky.social for including my @pelliclemag.com profile of Wild Creatures in last week's roundup!