Since I turned forty I’ve started feeling like maybe I’m getting old. Every time I hear about a new policy or review that is clearly designed to appease right wing oldies, it reminds me that I am, in fact, still relatively young.

Off to Belfast next week - any food and drink recommendations greatly appreciated! We were hoping to find someone kid-friendly with live music if possible…

About time I brought back the hero we all deserve, but the hero we didn’t need back then

Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

One of the challenges we have as a publisher is balancing the narrative of supporting small independents with larger cultural impact stories that just feel ripe to be told. I think @rjm.bsky.social does a wonderful job with this long read on Tennent's Lager: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

Honoured to be asked to revamp Tipple’s brand identity, and excited to use custom lettering, something that’s become a bigger part of my repertoire over the last few months.

Bloody @northernmonk.bsky.social scooping up the best possible script font for their brand…

Here’s a story for Bluesky and thanks to @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social please attend her pride in solidarity tonight! Or RT

This is an amazing read from The Oatmeal. Well worth a look. theoatmeal.com/comics/plane...

Fresh batch of Butteries are online noo. Sizes Medium to XXXL. Link. In. Bio. ✊

It’s nearly the four-year anniversary of this article some say changed the narrative of the IPA. (Although breweries still shy away from the truth) Sir Geoff Palmer died recently and he really inspired the article. RIP Sir Geoff www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2021/8/...

when i joined bluesky two years ago people joked that it was a posting retirement home for 38 year olds but this place has undergone such massive change since then, like the average age is now 40

Enjoying the little individual right wing unofficial efficiency departments springing up. Super efficient.

Add a letter, ruin a movie. Emission Impossible

This tool is worth an estimated £30m and speaks on behalf of a company with assets of $223 billion. The average income of an author is £7000. But if he isn't allowed to steal our work, he won’t make enough money. Why can’t people like @teamlabouruk.bsky.social see how profoundly fucked up this is?

Bollocks that the ship has sailed on refusing to use AI. The metaverse wasn’t inevitable. 3D films weren’t inevitable. People have agency in this www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Who made this? (It was me, I made this.)

This has been bothering me for a while but I’m so used to it now that the idea of actually calling the anniversary of a brewery opening an “anniversary” sounds completely weird…

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Here for your brewery design needs! 🖊️🎨🍻

There’s something we’ve been missing for a while: branding and graphic design. So we’re over the moon to announce that Rob MacKay has joined us on a freelance ad hoc basis to allow us to offer our clients even more!

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

The pope is such a suck-up, imagine dying at Easter just so he can show off when he sees his boss

Coming soon - beer designer action figures! Features the grumpy face of a man who’s already seen too much genAI bullshit! Plus bad posture!

With all SM apps full of AI slop, it’s worth reading this from @rjm.bsky.social at @pelliclemag.com www.pelliclemag.com/home/2024/5/...

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.

At some point around 8am we hit 2,000 signatures on our petition to get cask ale recognised as living heritage by the UK government. 8,000 to go to get an official response, 98,000 to get a debate in Parliament! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

It’s #TransDayOfVisibility today, and we’re sending love and strength to our trans siblings everywhere. It feels like we’re in a time of a continual increase in transphobia, anti-trans rhetoric and legislation, and violence against trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people worldwide. /1

An overreaction on my part, having read the piece too fast. I would amend to, the purpose of the exercise appears to be creating a problem to justify AI as a solution.

The purpose of the exercise appears to be, “can AI design a beer that will please everyone”, to which of course the answer is “no”.

Star Wars did a phenomenal job of feeling like an inhabited, used universe full of interesting background characters. It all went wrong the second they allowed anyone to build on that universe outside of the movies.

Do I need to listen to INay on the Hombre all the way through to VIIINay on the Hombre, or can I just start with the ninth one?

Nominated ‘best managed pub company’ despite this open letter in April 2024 www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

Free log-ins today at the Sunday Times! Which means you can read my piece on beers in Waitrose. (Pubs and independent bottle shops are also available.) If you like beer being in the broadsheets, please click, dwell and comments! Ta. www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

This is a really important point, but one that almost everyone who criticised poor Imane Khelif will undoubtedly ignore www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

I imagine it's easier to come to this rather generous conclusion if you have already built a glittering and secure literary career www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

AI could write a fucking Beckett play *and I still wouldn't want to engage with it by reading or seeing it performed* precisely because it's ultimately hollow. There's no connection. Words are a conduit, not a means to themselves. If there is no mind at the other end, it's just a toxic simulacrum.

When you’re trying to drive sales though your online shop but also focus on landing a really important national listing

Sharing for the Monday crowd. I wrote some thoughts on AI and how some breweries could be setting better intentions when it comes to their branding and design.

On my blog today I’ve written a short piece about why GenAI is a crisis point for writers, artists and photographers and why the artwork of the beer brands who use it looks like shit. You can read it here: www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/3/...

“You could fill a stadium with everyone that’s been affected. I see articles about factory closures when 100 people lose their jobs, and it makes national news. It’s 40 times worse for the film and TV industry right now and nobody seems to notice.”

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.