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Eileen Armstrong

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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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Culture Crave 🍿

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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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Laura Elliott

@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social

i love that people have always been weird

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15d

'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

Peter Bunzl Author

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Thank you Mark :)

Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 17d

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

Peter Bunzl Author

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A hopeful and thoughtful post by Katherine Rundell on the joy and magic of reading… #ukkidlit #Kidlituk

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15d

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

@wocco.bsky.social

Also.

October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM

Peter Bunzl Author

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September 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Chuck Wendig

@chuckwendig.bsky.social

let’s fucking gooooooo

Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anthropic threatening us with a good time.

“If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry”

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

August 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Ian Brownlie

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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

Peter Bunzl Author

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without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

August 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM

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Gareth

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August 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM

Peter Bunzl Author

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🍅🥫

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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Nick Sousanis

@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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Patrick Ness

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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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Louie Stowell

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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

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Tracey Tawhiao,artist writer, poet, filmmaker, lawyer who conveys her experience as a Māori woman #WomensArt

July 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM

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Film Stories

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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...

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.

filmstories.co.uk

July 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM

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Louie Stowell

@louiestowell.bsky.social

I was just reminded of this wonderful story that they should tell every Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbea...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

July 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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Alom Shaha

@alomshaha.bsky.social

“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 · Jul 11

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...