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Claire Bullen

@clairembullen.bsky.social
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Writer and editor focused on food, beer, wine, and the sensory world. Cookbook author. London walker. Karaoke fiend.

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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If you haven't got my zine A Place To Be, get yourself a little treat for Christmas! It is also good for doing dramatic readings from when family charades gets boring. www.pelliclemag.com/shop/a-place...
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A Place To Be — A Zine About Drinking In Liminal Spaces by Katie Mather — Pellicle
A Place To Be is a brand new zine and the first work published in print by Pellicle Magazine. Written and designed by Pellicle’s deputy editor Katie Mather, A Place To Be is a collection of found s...
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Anaïs has the best ideas for stories and a thoroughness in her research I admire, and editing this piece was a dream. French wine, gastronationalism, the French far-right, colonialism, and food as a cultural weapon. Go read it. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12...
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Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle
The wine that French presidents choose to serve during official visits is far more than a drink. It’s a way of expressing their political beliefs, and their taste has long been scrutinised and documen...
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 19/09/2024
it’s called AI because when i look at it i say “ey i don’t think that looks so good”
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If there's a photo booth, @clairembullen.bsky.social and I will be there
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The storytelling, the photos—everything here is just stunning. Kudos to @seanislegend.com for this inaugural long read!
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It’s really devastating to see the devaluation of so many things (reading, writing, critical thinking) that I have always thought were paramount. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This is a reminder to read one of the best pieces of writing we’ve ever published this weekend.
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Such a pleasure working with @rachelhendry.bsky.social on this tour de force. Do yourself a favor and put it on your weekend reading list!
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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.
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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)
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Amethyst Heels / Ruvani de Silva @amethystheels.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Katie is COOKING with this one (unlike the chefs using fucking ChatGPT to come up with their menus, jfc)
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/08/2025
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
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 31/07/2025
My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/07/2025
AI shaming | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: MATTIE is talking to a MAN as they walk on the street. The MAN is typing on his phone.
MATTIE: What do you wanna do tonight?
MAN: Hmm…!
MAN: What…do…I…want…to…do…tonight?

PANEL 2: MATTIE rolls her eyes. The phone pipes up as well.
MATTIE: Are you asking a chatbot? Come on.
PHONE: SEEING FRIENDS IS ALWAYS A GREAT WAY TO SEE YOUR FRIENDS.
MAN: Oh, are you A.I. SHAMING ME? Wow. I didn't think you were a bigot.

PANEL 3: MATTIE, arms spread wide. The MAN strokes his chin.
MATTIE: What? Nobody was doing this a year ago. It's completely unnecessary!
MAN: Huh, that's true. I wonder why that happened.

PANEL 4: The MAN types on his phone, brow furrowed.
MAN: Why…am…I…doing…this
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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"
Screenshot of an official Prime Minister post deliberately stoking fear and hate against migrants with a shadowy figure, reminiscent of old far right campaigns, and saying:
@10DowningStreet

We're taking action to stop migrants working illegally as food delivery drivers.

DELIVERED BY WHO?

Our new agreement means the government will share asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats.

So they'll know if riders are staying there and can take action.

PLAN FOR CHANGE

ALT

Home Office
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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.)
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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.
Lawsuits have revealed that some AI companies had used legally dubious “torrent” sites to download millions of digitized books without having to pay for them.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...
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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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!)
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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...
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Con Altura — Making Wine and Preserving Culture in Tenerife’s Vineyard Heartland — Pellicle
By the edge of Puerto de la Cruz’s tiny harbour in northern Tenerife, a seafood grill operates out of a converted shipping container. Boys fish from the harbour walls, and girls jump into the choppy w...
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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/...
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Con Altura — Making Wine and Preserving Culture in Tenerife’s Vineyard Heartland — Pellicle
By the edge of Puerto de la Cruz’s tiny harbour in northern Tenerife, a seafood grill operates out of a converted shipping container. Boys fish from the harbour walls, and girls jump into the choppy w...
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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).
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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.
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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Chat GPT impoverishes us — intellectually, experientially, linguistically, spiritually, metaphysically, ecologically, morally, and, yes, financially.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 26/05/2025
Oh no, not the AI industry, an eleventybillion-dollar sector that employs fives of people
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"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."
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It’s a labor issue.
The timing of this latest LLM debacle is telling, coming after recent layoffs at both the Chicago Sun Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Al is such a pressing labor issue in creative fields because so many of us know that generative Al is bad at doing our jobs.
You can't replace people with machines and expect to get facts right, let alone nuances. Now just tell that to the so-called business titans at the top who actually make the decisions about how to spend (or not spend) corporate money.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/05/2025
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

Nah. 

I’ve been a professional writer for 15 years and AI has allowed me to amplify my productivity and leverage my creativity to create something better than I or AI could have on our own. 

The thing is you can’t just outsource your brain to it. There’s an effective way to use AI and a lazy way to use it. The thing is, that genie isn’t going back in the bottle, so adapt or die.
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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!
A photo of me in a bathroom mirror. Around me there are superimposed words in beige and brown gothic script that read: 

Hire me, baby
writing
social media
design odds and ends
tasting events
talks
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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-...
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The Curry Awards Omertà
How deciding who serves the best curry became big business, by David Jesudason.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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
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British Guild of Beer Writers @britbeerwriters.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Have you booked your spot for our online panel discussing alternative revenue streams? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.beerguild.co.uk/news/guild-e...
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
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DFAntastic @phillytradesman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
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Claire Bullen @clairembullen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Just pre-ordered my copy and you should too!
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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 👀
Text cream on blue reads:
a place to be
a zine about drinking in liminal spaces
by katie matherIllustration of a person in a white bathrobe stood on a balcony with a glass of wine. Illustration is small within a large white space.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"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"
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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 22/01/2025
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/...
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The Infinity of Desire — Dolly Parton's Wine, the Peak of the Trash Pile — Pellicle
For an exhibit on trash, what would I display? Would I collect all the items I dispose of throughout my week? Would I try to replicate the feelings of inferiority and stupidity I work through when a t...
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
leah friedman @televisionarie
I love that David Lynch's origin story
is just that he lived in Philadelphia for
a little while
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