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Peter Bunzl
@peterbunzl.bsky.social
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Bestselling UK Children’s author writing about clockwork, hope and magic. #COGHEART etc. New book #GLASSBORN out now! 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)
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mariamotunrayo.bsky.social
Morning awesome people!

I have spots open for 📚World Book Day events at your school on March 4th, 5th and 6th!

💥I offer SUPER interactive glow in the dark events where I introduce kids to African Mythology and give kids the inside scoop on being a published writer.

Please DM me for details 🙏🏾
February 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
I poured my heart out about Marty Supreme, Jewish identity, why the Old Testament isn’t the same book as the Torah and what it takes to survive trauma

open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
look at me. I’m here. I’m the ultimate product of Hitler’s defeat
Marty Supreme is the most intensely Jewish movie I’ve ever seen in my life, and I ended up writing 5,000 words about it. buckle up.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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christhebarker.bsky.social
I have been printing these out and leaving them lying around on desks in the office. Nobody throws receipts away in offices just in case they are important.
One of Robert Popper’s silly shopping lists as a till receipt
January 26, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Storyboard art for The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions

Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!)
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
a spread for a comics page, black background, with white panel borders and most the drawings white on black. upper left of the spread, a swirl of the start of a star - emanating out from it in radiating arms, a number of different paths in brick-like interconnected panel border shapes. First radiating down and to the left the life of a brown dwarf - which never quite becomes a start. the next branch goes mostly down - a red dwarf which burns longer than the current life of the universe, but the path forks near the bottom, because some of these alternately flare up during their life. the next path is a dwarf star - much like our own - which is stable until it puffs up late in its life, then burst off much of its material to become a white dwarf. Here the path forks - in one branch it lives on as a white dwarf and nebula, in the other, when it has a partner star, it steals material from it and eventually becomes a type 1A supernova. Overlaid a bit on this set of paths and the red dwarf is an example of a binary star system and a six star system. Emanating from the middle of these paths from upper left and going across the spine of the book to the lower right, is a path filled with galaxies - the path loses its border in the middle showing a collection of galaxies. Upper right path is a blue super giant as we move right it goes nova becoming in one forking path a black hole, in another a spinning neutron star - and that forks to either continue or if paired, collide to go supernova and create heavy elements. Middle of right side, molecules formed by chemistry with these atoms forged in stars. new swirls form, and then we see another generation of stars in a grid set of panels and the Planets! formed around them. This is a generational cycle and the text reflects that
September 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I don't like AI.

Also I'm grateful to 404 for being one of the only technologically literate media companies covering tech without the breathless, uncritical (despite so much evidence!) excitement. You know. Like a journalist.

Give em $ if you can so they can keep reporting.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Dec 2
At 404 Media, we also talk to experts and those impacted by policies like book bans while the US government continues to push through safeguards on AI with tech giants.

Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
peterbunzl.bsky.social
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Oh Dear.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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earmstronglib.bsky.social
Quentin Blake illustration centre plans opening www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quentin Blake illustration centre to open in spring
An 18th Century Clerkenwell waterworks is being transformed into the illustration centre.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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culturecrave.co
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
i love that people have always been weird
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Oct 26
'A peanut vendor wearing a suit made of peanuts, circa 1890'
man is a suit with peanusts attached all over it like scale armor
October 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
peterbunzl.bsky.social
Thank you Mark :)
markgoodrich.bsky.social Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · Oct 24
Now that made by think of Cogheart by @peterbunzl.bsky.social! Also, just a wonderful novel incorporating adventure and deeper questions. It seems I need steampunk to get me out of reading slumps…
Cover of Cogheart by Peter Bunzle including a lot of detail but most prominently a mechanical fox! 🦊
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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A hopeful and thoughtful post by Katherine Rundell on the joy and magic of reading… #ukkidlit #Kidlituk
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Oct 26
It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
There is a silver bullet for childhood happiness: a love of reading
Bestselling children’s author Katherine Rundell says to reverse the reading crisis we must let young people rediscover the enjoyment of books — whatever they may be
www.thetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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wocco.bsky.social
Also.
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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September 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
let’s fucking gooooooo
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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ianbrownlie.bsky.social
without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
Red Riding Hood being eaten by the wolf (artwork: Bon Appetit by Doron Sohari)
August 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
August 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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August 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Aug 14
There’s a Tamil phrase, adopted from a comedy movie, that can be said to someone who minimises your pain but makes a big deal out of their own. The phrase is unaku vandha ratham enaku vandha thakali chutneya and it means “if you bleed, it’s blood; if I do, it’s tomato sauce.”
August 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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patricknessbooks.bsky.social
That this is happening is not in the least surprising (we all predicted it), but what’s most disgusting is GC/TERF women denying the direct lived experiences of other women as “scaremongering”. Truly, transphobia breaks your brain.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after UK’s supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
UK book people! @susancahill.bsky.social is posting her auction offer in aid of medical aid in Palestine in the uk as well as Ireland! Please pledge generously! All the money goes to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social #FreePalestine #Fundraiser
A screenshot of a website in aid of MAP: medical Aid for Palestinians, showing author Susan Cahill's entry to an auction. The offer is as follows: Signed The World Between The Rain and Painted Postcard (€15) Marina’s dad had always said that she was someone who couldn’t help seeing doorways to other worlds where other people saw nothing at all. She’d never quite believed him but now that he's died she's not so sure. Marina's mother has strangely fallen asleep and no-one can wake her. Marina's family need her and her special powers to survive. Donated by Susan Cahill. Delivery UK and Ireland only.
August 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM