Why do rainy Saturday house cleans turn into intense existential crises? Why can't I just throw things away? Am I really emotionally attached to an old pile of magazines? Do possessions define me? GROW UP
Katie Mather
@katiematherkm.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Pellicle magazine • Writer!! • Cycling fan • Odd accent www.katiematherwrites.com
Wout is absolutely having the best time at this Vuelta, isn't he?
Stacey possibly is the hardest working person in beer. Even he struggles with the huge mountain of graft required to make a bar in a new-build work
The Greenwich Wire@greenwichwire.bsky.social · yesterday"We’re in the middle of nowhere – so we’re trying to make this a community space where people feel proud to invite their friends." The founder of the Bouldr Bar in Thamesmead speaks to @davidjesudason.bsky.social about creating that community. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/09/11/b...
After this I went back to look at why I didn't enter the JR competition, and it's because Pink is the head judge. Yes, acrobatic singer Pink, who thinks saying "Free Palestine" is offensive. (And the piece needs to be unpublished—the prize is to be published. I like, need to be paid.)
Katie Mather@katiematherkm.bsky.social · yesterdayThanks @hernehillandy.bsky.social for your honest opinion 😂 I'll keep writing low-quality wine blah though if it's all the same to you.
I second Matthew's recommendation, this is a great (and now award-winning) read from Katie Mather in @pelliclemag.com
Matthew Curtis@totalcurtis.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you haven't read Katie's award-winning piece before now I highly encourage you to do so: pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/24/con-altura-making-wine-and-preserving-culture-in-tenerife
One of my favourite hobbies is watching numetal and skate videos on a Friday night and drinking the beers in my fridge and then giving Tom my speech on how 2000s slacker/prank culture was the last true generational identifier
Hey, guess what? I'm almost finished the design work for Pellicle's first print issue! I AM EXCITED
Thanks @hernehillandy.bsky.social for your honest opinion 😂 I'll keep writing low-quality wine blah though if it's all the same to you.
He's doing so good and I'm so emotional about it 🥲
Domestique@domestiquecycling.com · yesterday🇧🇪 Van Aert on 🇳🇱 Visma’s remaining 🇪🇸 Vuelta ambitions “Nice to be able to focus on I think mainly Sepp [Kuss] and Jørgen [Nordhagen] who have maybe a chance for another stage win in the coming days. I have my eyes on Sunday.” 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/i-kn... 📸 Cor Vos
A blog post about winning, and editors www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/win...
Winning//Editing — Katie Mather Writes
I’m not accustomed to winning. I’m more comfortable with grafting, or whatever the writers’ equivalent to hard work is, thinking and thinking and writing and thinking. Getting headaches from it all. W...
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A blog post about winning, and editors www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/win...
Winning//Editing — Katie Mather Writes
I’m not accustomed to winning. I’m more comfortable with grafting, or whatever the writers’ equivalent to hard work is, thinking and thinking and writing and thinking. Getting headaches from it all. W...
katiematherwrites.com
If you haven't read Katie's award-winning piece before now I highly encourage you to do so: pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/24/con-altura-making-wine-and-preserving-culture-in-tenerife
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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I won the Long-Form Writing award at the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator awards!
I won the Long-Form Writing award at the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator awards!
Best of luck to our KM tonight 🤞🤞🤞
Katie Mather@katiematherkm.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm a finalist in the 67 Pall Mall global wine communicator awards, which take place in 10 days. The story I've been shortlisted for is this one, on Tenerife, overtourism and the protests, the Orotava DO, and the island's low intervention winemakers. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/...
Nottingham.The city of Robin Hood. Home of DH Lawrence who stood against control over language and expression. Where the Luddites smashed automated machinery, and Brian Clough delivered miracles. There’s something in the water here and, whatever that is, it’s in the beer too ❤️ via @pelliclemag.com
We've Got To Live — Nottingham's Thriving, Defiant Beer Scene — Pellicle
Just a few decades ago, Nottingham’s skyline was punctuated by iconic brewery buildings producing beers that were part of the city’s DNA. The famous Shipstone’s star, and the Robin Hood silhouette of ...
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PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,
A cat was out screaming all night and now I'm going to be ill all day from not getting enough sleep. I absolutely hate everything right now.
I can't stop listening to Radiohead at the moment. I'm sure that's not a portent for anything.
Still waiting for the UCI to do something about cars on the parcours. There has been a death, RECENTLY. Why is this still happening? cyclingflash.com/news/life-th...
Life-Threatening Situations in German Cycling Race Caused by Cars on Time Trial Course
Watch how unauthorized cars endangered riders during the Sauerlandrundfahrt 2026 time trial. Learn about the risks and safety issues. Stay informed and safe!
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I'm not really announcing this where family read it yet, but we are moving to Edinburgh. I'm looking for part-time wine or beer work in the city or thereabouts (happy to travel a little bit for the right thing), so please keep me in mind if you see anything come up!
BE SO BRILLIANT NONE OF YOUR ENEMIES WOULD DARE LOOK AT YOU.
Then we also need a reckoning where readers who don't understand nuance, fiction or context stop taking what they read in bad faith and then making Tiktok videos where they slam the side of their hand into their opposite palm for emphasis
jonny@misterbloat.bsky.social · last wk.It’s about time we had a reckoning with the need so many writers feel to over-explain everything aspect of their stories, even in non Weird genres. Readers don’t need to be babied. Let us figure things out. Leave room for interpretation. Over-explanation makes writing worse.
I've been frozen with anxiety far too often this week, so I've bought some remedies to bring me back to life (black soap that could degrease a ferris wheel and smells like a thousand scrubbed-up grandads on their way to a wedding, rosemary hair gunk, exfoliators that will sand my skin clean off)
Dark evening. Chilli on the hob. Rain on the roof. Jumper on. All you autumn people prayed for this, I hope you're happy.
Free newsletter: We have entered an era of technological hypernormalization, where the tech industry does everything it can to twist our sense of reality to make us ignore the very simple economic problems they're unable to solve. www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-n...
“Unsalted butter is not really interesting,” Julie says with a laugh. “Salt enhances flavour just as much as butter does, which is why the two work so well together. Salt makes butter more complex, more appetising and, frankly, much harder to stop eating.” The Bretons are CORRECT in this matter.
Lisa Riemers@lisariemers.bsky.social · last wk.Enjoyed today's buttery @pelliclemag.com article www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/8/...
Not people texting into Radio 6 to talk about how good my playlist is 💅🏻