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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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Maria Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi @mariamotunrayo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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 🙏🏾
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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...
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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.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Storyboard art for The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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.
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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.
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two men in suits and ties running down a street
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Eileen Armstrong @earmstronglib.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Quentin Blake illustration centre plans opening www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Quentin Blake illustration centre to open in spring
An 18th Century Clerkenwell waterworks is being transformed into the illustration centre.
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 30/10/2025
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
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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
i love that people have always been weird
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thank you Mark :)
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A hopeful and thoughtful post by Katherine Rundell on the joy and magic of reading… #ukkidlit #Kidlituk
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Wocco @wocco.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Also.
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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a woman stands in a field with her arms outstretched in front of mountains
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
let’s fucking gooooooo
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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
Red Riding Hood being eaten by the wolf (artwork: Bon Appetit by Doron Sohari)
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
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Gareth @garethw1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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...
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‘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
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Tracey Tawhiao,artist writer, poet, filmmaker, lawyer who conveys her experience as a Māori woman #WomensArt
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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A 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...
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No, generative AI does not count as fair use, EU report finds
A potentially significant report by the European Parliament concludes that AI training on copyrighted work does not count as fair use.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I was just reminded of this wonderful story that they should tell every Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbea...
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Grandma accidentally prays to Elrond from Lord of the Rings
A grandmother in Brazil has accidentally prayed to a Lord of the Rings figurine for years.
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Alom 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.”
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Baloo 🇵🇸 ⏚ @baloo.eurosky.social · 24/06/2025
Planche de la BD Imbattable (Dupuis editions)
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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Honestly, I’d just send copies of Mister Invincible out to every school.
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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Private Eye hits the nail on the head
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:
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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A German cavalryman watching a plane 1910
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Trans 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.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.
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Safely Endangered @safelyendangered.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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vintage.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
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
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Authors Aloud UK @authorsalouduk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happy #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...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Fucking 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.
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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @NYCC L21 @amychu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Basically 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/...
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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
oh yes!
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Working out my book sales from statements this week. Finally pipped over half-a-milion copies of UK sales on all my books!
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A 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."
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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 10/04/2025
I 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!
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The 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
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Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Off 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
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A round up from Bologna about the Kidlit graphic novel market www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #KidLitUK #KidsGNs #Comics #Graphicnovels #Publishing
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Going Graphic
The global graphic novel market is getting more attention in Bologna this year, with an expanded number of exhibitors and panels dedicated to the topic.
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