Reposted by Peter BunzlMaria Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi @mariamotunrayo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Morning 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 🙏🏾 047
Reposted by Peter BunzlNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I 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...open.substack.comlook at me. I’m here. I’m the ultimate product of Hitler’s defeatMarty 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. 138718
Reposted by Peter Bunzlchristhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I 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. 28510138
Reposted by Peter BunzlAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Storyboard art for The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists 91520470
Reposted by Peter BunzlNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Finished 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 927580
Reposted by Peter BunzlMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I 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. 017443
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025You’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.media.tenor.comtwo men in suits and ties running down a streetALT: two men in suits and ties running down a street 060
Reposted by Peter BunzlEileen Armstrong @earmstronglib.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Quentin Blake illustration centre plans opening www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comQuentin Blake illustration centre to open in springAn 18th Century Clerkenwell waterworks is being transformed into the illustration centre. 173
Reposted by Peter BunzlCulture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 30/10/2025Judge 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 13687212262
Reposted by Peter BunzlLaura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 26/10/2025i love that people have always been weird 2221
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 26/10/2025A hopeful and thoughtful post by Katherine Rundell on the joy and magic of reading… #ukkidlit #Kidlituk 061
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 13/09/2025media.tenor.coma woman stands in a field with her arms outstretched in front of mountainsALT: a woman stands in a field with her arms outstretched in front of mountains 040
Reposted by Peter BunzlChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/08/2025let’s fucking gooooooo 626936
Reposted by Peter BunzlIan Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025without downloading any new images, where are you mentally? 111
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 26/08/2025without downloading any new images, where are you mentally? 040
Reposted by Peter BunzlNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 12/08/2025my 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... 29748307
Reposted by Peter BunzlPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025That 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...theguardian.com‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after UK’s supreme court rulingSupport groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering 322989
Reposted by Peter BunzlLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025UK 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 31814
Reposted by Peter Bunzlwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Tracey Tawhiao,artist writer, poet, filmmaker, lawyer who conveys her experience as a Māori woman #WomensArt 054076
Reposted by Peter BunzlFilm Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A potentially significant report by the European Parliament concludes that #AI training on copyrighted work does not count as fair use. filmstories.co.uk/news/no-gene...filmstories.co.ukNo, generative AI does not count as fair use, EU report findsA potentially significant report by the European Parliament concludes that AI training on copyrighted work does not count as fair use. 6583234
Reposted by Peter BunzlLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I was just reminded of this wonderful story that they should tell every Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbea...bbc.co.ukGrandma accidentally prays to Elrond from Lord of the RingsA grandmother in Brazil has accidentally prayed to a Lord of the Rings figurine for years. 4416
Reposted by Peter BunzlAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11/07/2025“Now we’re fetishising these survival narratives — propagating the terrible idea that you can cure cancer, transcend poverty etc if you just have the right mindset and dream hard enough — or walk far enough…It gives the reader permission to ignore systematic issues or pain or injustice.” 23411
Reposted by Peter BunzlMark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Honestly, I’d just send copies of Mister Invincible out to every school. 12793234
Reposted by Peter BunzlDoc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Private Eye hits the nail on the head 232127629
Reposted by Peter BunzlSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention: 15368731670
Reposted by Peter Bunzlvintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025A German cavalryman watching a plane 1910 0426
Reposted by Peter BunzlMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Trans is not an ideology unless you think your right to be who you are is an ideology rather than a basic human right. Let people be who they want to be. Let people do what we all do throughout our lives, just trying to work out how and who to be in a world of challenges. 1712100
Reposted by Peter BunzlTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/06/2025"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing. 4851541559
Reposted by Peter Bunzlvintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 03/06/2025"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity." - William S. Burroughs 382895843
Reposted by Peter BunzlAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois 2139561009
Reposted by Peter BunzlAuthors Aloud UK @authorsalouduk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Happy #SherlockHolmesDay! We know @peterbunzl.bsky.social listened to a lot of Holmes audiobooks as a kid, think that had an influence on his wonderful Cogheart series? Elementary!! You can find out more about Peter's writing & book him here: authorsalouduk.co.uk/speaker/pete... 022
Reposted by Peter BunzlJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers. 241322482
Reposted by Peter Bunzl☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @NYCC L21 @amychu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comAI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txtAttackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon. 14088633138
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Working out my book sales from statements this week. Finally pipped over half-a-milion copies of UK sales on all my books! 2100
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A man walks into a dentist's office one evening, and says "Doctor, you have to help me! I think I'm a moth!" The dentist replies, "I think you want the psychiatrist, next door." The man replies, "Yeah, but I saw the light." 041
Reposted by Peter BunzlMelinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 10/04/2025I wish more people were aware of Barrington Stoke's books, which seem to answer a lot of the problems people are having in finding books their kids will read! Shorter books and chapters! Accessible for all readers! Variety of genres! Fast-paced plots! Stories written for people aged between 12-15! 5519
Reposted by Peter BunzlThe Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 03/04/2025@pierstorday.bsky.social at today’s protest, on the importance of protecting copyright law in light of the Meta’s scraping of unlicensed works to train their AI systems. #MetaBookTheives #DoTheWriteThing 26735
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Off to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social protest to tell meta it’s illegal stealing my books to train their Ai. Meta #DoTheWriteThing and compensate authors for the work they stole. #MakeItFair #MetaBookThieves 000
Reposted by Peter BunzlLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025A round up from Bologna about the Kidlit graphic novel market www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #KidLitUK #KidsGNs #Comics #Graphicnovels #Publishingpublishersweekly.comBologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Going GraphicThe global graphic novel market is getting more attention in Bologna this year, with an expanded number of exhibitors and panels dedicated to the topic. 62711