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Peter Bunzl

@peterbunzl.bsky.social

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 · 7mo ago

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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Nick Sousanis@nsousanis.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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
Maggie Tokuda-Hall@maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.

404 Media@404media.co · 9mo ago

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.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 11mo ago

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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Nick Sousanis@nsousanis.bsky.social · last yr.

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.
Patrick Ness@patricknessbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · last yr.

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.
Ruth Ennis@rurooie.bsky.social · last yr.

There are still SO many bookish goodies you can get on the website. Keep sharing, keep talking about Palestine 🇵🇸 @sineadohart.bsky.social www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · last yr.

“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.”

sianushka.bsky.social@sianushka.bsky.social · last yr.

This is great by Johanna Thomas-Corr on what The Salt Path story tells us about publishing - How the Salt Path fiasco happened — insiders on the crisis in publishing www.thetimes.com/article/850a...