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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I kind of like this “battle of the books” concept so I made my own template (msg me if you want it!) & am rating the books I've read in 2026. Stay tuned for the Dec 2026 winner. I’d like to see yours too! #books #battleofthebooks #bookreviews maxpuffins.substack.com/p/favourite-...

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here’s one I saw with babies!

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Enjoy this superb parrot I saw, strutting its stuff. (That’s what it’s officially called, a superb parrot. Appropriate). And a reminder to writers, artists, and everyone really to also strut your stuff. Go on, strut it! #birds #writingcommunity

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Pro tip: If you are “a writer” it’s ok to eat a chocolate brownie for breakfast then read/write on the beach because, um, it’s research for a book character (in this case a gluttonous, hedonistic wannabe writer). #writing

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Pretty excited that I have an advance copy of @garthnix.bsky.social’s first adult sci-fi book, Massif. I’ll write a review of it here soon. It’s out in September. #scifi #booksky #bookreview #books

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Looking at your SO when it’s past bedtime but there’s only one episode left to stream in the series

William Defoe looking a bit mischievous and crazy

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy Return of the Living Dead Day (my own personal horror depicted here) #booksky #film

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” speech is a great reminder for writers and for anyone who’s putting themselves out there, striving, bravely trying, even in the face of critics. (*Just update the language to be gender neutral and remember he said it in 1910). #booksky #writingcommunity

It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, becausethere is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Starmer is just one in a long line of British leaders from whom the public demanded a lot. Like when Winifred here got asked what she wanted King Charles to do. #UKpol #GBpol

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

China Mieville’s new book is coming out in September. Called “The Rouse”, 1300 pages (If I get a few more followers I may be able to review an advance reader copy 🤔) #booksky #weirdlit #writingcommunity

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Just another little bird treat for you. Check out this rainbow bee eater I saw at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland 😍 #Birds

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Most of the way through this collection of cyberpunk stories by @trnapper.bsky.social and it’s a ripper. Shows us the dark, desperate, oligarchical future we need to fight to avoid. Looking forward to reviewing the full book shortly. #currentlyreading #booksky #cyberpunk

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Alright, a special treat. Check out this bird I saw (a red backed fairy wren, endemic to Australia). That is all. #birds

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Watched it for five minutes and it did NOTHING.

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“Menu” was an insipid and derivative read - 1 star. Would be cool if airlines followed through on their “literature” promise and included books in these plane seatbacks. Airplane “little sky libraries”? These are good ideas. #booksky #books

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy Hubble’s view of Wolf-Rayet 124

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Whoah, Amazon, I ordered this classic cyberpunk book I’d been meaning to read, new (apparently) and what arrived was a photocopy of the cover with a few tattered pages of footnotes sticky-taped inside! I got cyberpunk’d! #booksky #currentlyreading #books #cyberpunk #fiction #writingcommunity

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I regularly daydream about this classic comic panel (but violence is never the answer)

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Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m inspired to think about this panel almost daily

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