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Peter Bunzl Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · 14d

What about people who don't have a smartphone?

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Peter Bunzl Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also gardens as a get rich quick scheme = big bucks

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · Aug 26

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 Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · Aug 26

Love this red riding hood!

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Peter Bunzl Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · Aug 26

without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

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Peter Bunzl Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · Aug 26

It IS a monchichi. I was obsessed with monchichis as a kid, and thought exactly the same.

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Gareth @garethw1.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Peter Bunzl Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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.”

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 12

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 · Aug 12

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

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Aug 6

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 · Jul 22

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 · Jul 19

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

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Peter Bunzl Author @peterbunzl.bsky.social · Jul 11

Same with The Hoax about the fake Howard Hughes memoir, the J T Leroy story, and Made You Look the NYC art forgery case, or Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos… You wonder why people don’t ask questions, but they want it to be true. Checking is waved when there’s money to be made.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · Jul 11

“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...