Make Art That Sells @makeartthatsells.bsky.social Outstanding online art + illustration courses from top art agent + illustrator Lilla Rogers. 30k+ students in over 100 countries. #MakeArtThatSells
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Stephanie Buosi @stephaniebuosi.com Canadian #freelance illustrator. Earth advocate, tree-hugger, turtle protector, mother of cat, mother of little human.
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Andrew MacLean @andrewmaclean.bsky.social Cartoonist. Head Lopper, ApocalyptiGirl, Snarlagon, Godzilla: War for Humanity.
Scott Rothman @scottrothmanwriter.bsky.social Writer of Underwear Dragon kid's books (Random House), the football movie DRAFT DAY and other stuff. My newest books are KITTYBUNKPORT (Viking) and WARM AND FUZZY (Tundra).
www.scottrothmanwriter.com
Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Illustrator, author (The Pink Pajamas, S&S 2025) | Rep: Tracy Marchini | Co-host @kidlitart.bsky.social chat | 🚫AI/NFT
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michelle @thewanderingren.bsky.social bg design | visdev | illustration | イラストレーター
Seeking representation!
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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social Writer, editor, reader, neglectful gardener, cat-wrangler. Children’s/YA lit. PhD student: Australian children’s fantasy. New RGPer. She/her. Politics tragic. Lives on unceded First Nations land, lutruwita (Tasmania). https://linktr.ee/msmisrule
Kellie Beggs @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social Teacher⭐️Librarian⭐️Author
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Jennifer Chambliss Bertman @jennbertman.bsky.social NYT bestselling author: Book Scavenger series, SISTERHOOD OF SLEUTHS, and A GOOD DEED CAN GROW, illustrated by Holly Hatam. More info: www.jenniferchamblissbertman.com
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Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
James Allen @tljamesa.com School Libraries https://www.tljamesa.com/ #KyLChat #stressdoodle #KyGoPlay School Libraries, also School Libraries.
Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com #EduSky #TLSky #TLSkyChat #KidLit #Skybrarians #ISTCert
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Elissa Malespina @elissamalespina.bsky.social Views are my own!
Brian Gene Olson @bgowriter.bsky.social #Kidlit #poet from the PNW. Words in LADYBUG, BABYBUG, THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE, HIGHLIGHTS HELLO. #SCBWI. #80s kid. Member of The Poets' Garage.
http://briangeneolson.weebly.com
https://willowcroft.blog/2021/04/09/five-things-friday-mini-interview-with-author
Alby C. Williams @albyceewilliams.bsky.social They/them. Kidlit author, drawer of things, general menace. My second MG novel WHERE THERE BE SPIES is out May 5, 2026!
The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @autisticbooks.bsky.social Books about autism, written by Autistic people. Community resource website cataloguing as many of these as possible (2300+ so far).
Autistic curator (@lillyjade.bsky.social she/her).
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*Taking a social media break*
Rebecca E.F. Barone @rebeccaefbarone.bsky.social MG/YA author
📖 Race To the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica
📖 Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code
📖 Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens
📖 Double Crossed - 4.28.2026
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Laura Lavoie @llavoieauthor.bsky.social Author of picture books & middle grade novels. Newest PB: COUSINS! Spooky MG mystery: 13 DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE out now! Rep: James McGowan Website: linktr.ee/lauralavoie
Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social Enviro scientist. Kidlit author. linktr.ee/kelliedubaygillis Out now: IF YOU FIND A FAWN art by Wazza Pink from Disney’s Planet Possible & BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE art by Jacob Souva from HarperCollins. Great Lakes lover living near Cleveland. Go Blue!
12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social 12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership. 
Diana Sousa @dianasousaart.bsky.social 🎨 Eisner Award nominated colorist
• Critical Role, Legend of Korra, Stranger Things, Star Wars
• Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Hyperion
Writer • Graphic Designer • Chronically Fatigued Bard Sorcerer • She/Her
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Cathy Potter @cppotter.bsky.social Middle School Librarian & Tech Integrator, NBCT, co-chair of Lighthouse Award for Nonfiction, Sibert 25th Anniversary Task Force, #TLSky #EduSky
Asian Author Alliance @asianauthors.bsky.social Author-run group to celebrate Asian Kidlit & the diversity of stories that originate from the Asian Continent and books by Asian authors! #AsianAuthors
Sue Scott @sdscottwriter.bsky.social Reader, children's writer, kid-lit tragic/activist, tutor, tea drinker, chocoholic.
2nd place CYA Picture Book Preschool 2024
Mum to 3 wonderful 20-something women, and a Havanese called Wally.
Sydneysider.
M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social “hope is not a choice or an emotion […] it’s a necessity” @_binshi_ on 🐦 | 📖 MG/YA/NA | #RevPit ‘25 winner | 🍉 | 🏳️🌈 | excitable | https://linktr.ee/notonlyicarus |📍gmt
John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
Citlali Martínez-Tolia @citlali.bsky.social 🇲🇽🇵🇷 Mexi-Rican (she/her/ella). Writer of picture books. Explorer of long-form. Unrepentant book nerd. 2024 Las Musas Mentee, 2023 PB Rising Stars HM. Rep'd by @karisutherland.bsky.social.
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com Artist Author Illustrator
Magical tales in wool and words from the Shed in Wales. Seasonal joyful felted animals and picture books for all ages published by Graffeg.
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: @agenthawk.bsky.social
My PB debut: BINNA’S DALGONA (2025)
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Bec Tonks @bectonks-authillo.bsky.social Author / Illustrator *seeking representation* #PB #MG #YA #NewAdult #amquerying @SCBWI_BI member
Caroline Butler @carolineonline.bsky.social Audience Insights Consultancy // ex-PRH Head of Marketing
Social Intelligence Insider 50 Winner 2024 // Futurebook: Startup of The Year Shortlist 2024
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BookBrunch @bookbrunch.bsky.social Your daily serving of news and views, promising unrivalled publishing perspective and knowledge. BookBrunch is the essential tool for the book industry.
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Writing courses online and in London.
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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social Academic, fourth class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him
Spark! School Book Award @sparkbookaward.bsky.social Sparking the imaginations of young readers! Now in our 6th year, we are excited to welcome schools across the country to join our awards & vote for the winners. www.sparkbookawards.co.uk
Jade Kavanagh @jadekavagent.bsky.social Literary Agent at Darley Anderson & Associates
Florianne Humphrey @floriannewrites.bsky.social Author represented by Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency | 1 out of 4 of WriteMentor | 🏳️🌈 
Alice Harman @aliceharman.bsky.social Author of 50 children's non-fiction books and counting! 📕💕 Rep’d by Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency. Website: aliceharman.com Not really active here – find me on Substack: aliceharman.substack.com 👋 She/her
Kate Abernethy @writerkate.bsky.social Children’s book writer, naval gazer, occasional jogger, full time chocolate lover, film nerd.
Made in Scotland, growing old in the New Forest.
Represented by Clare Wallace, Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency
Laura Noakes @lauranoakes.bsky.social Author of the COSIMA UNFORTUNATE series. writer + disabled person. represented by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson Children's Agency. (she/her)
Chanté Timothy @heychante.bsky.social She/Her Award Winning Author Illustrator
Debut Comic Book SUPANOVA out NOW 👩🏾🔬🧪
Featured in: Hey You!, Happy Here, Daddy Do My Hair: Beth's Twists, Rep'd by Darley Anderson
Linktr.ee/heya.chante
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Kirsten McGonigal @kirstenmcgonigal.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator, kid lit author, nature lover, reader, music maker, dreamer, SCBWI, #pbparty 2024 finalist, She/her
Rep’d by Becca Langton at Darley Anderson Illustration
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Leia Ham @leiaham.bsky.social Visdev Artist & Writer
Inquiries: leiahamart@gmail.com
Represented by Becca Langton at Darley Anderson Children's Books
Svani Parekh @svaniparekh.bsky.social Writer: TV, books, gaming & audio
Words in/on: Netflix, BBC, Sesame Street, Cartoon Network, Disney, Ghee Happy (Emmy Nominee) | Oxford Children’s Books | Ubisoft
Rep: Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency, UK
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Jess Bradley @jessbradley.bsky.social Illustrator, comic artist and writer!
Rep'd by Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency.
Hannah Moffatt @missdeplume.bsky.social Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. SMALL! & SMALL BITES BACK out now.
HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD out 28 May
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
Book Clubs in Schools @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social Our charity helps young people discover a love of reading and book chat. Teachers say our book clubs increase students' well-being and grow their confidence and communication skills.
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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social #kidlit illustrator, author, designer in London, UK | She/her | Rep'd by Clare Wallace @ DarleyAnderson Illustration Agency
Books with Tiger Tales, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Giunti.
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Rashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
https://linktr.ee/rashmiwriting
Hannah Sheppard @hannahlitagent.bsky.social Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social
#WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms
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Joanna Moult @joannamoult.bsky.social Literary Agent at Skylark Literary, a specialist children's and YA literary agency. Always on the look-out for something great to read. 📚
Trying not to drink too much tea.
https://www.skylark-literary.com/
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Tom Bonnick @tombonnick.bsky.social Fiction Editorial Director, HarperCollins Children’s Books
Stuart White @stuartwhitewm.bsky.social I'm just a boy, standing in front of a story, asking it to write itself…
Founder @writementor | award-winning author | Teacher | An auld Jedi trying to teach his kids the ways of the Force!
Zöe Griffiths @zoegriffiths.bsky.social Editorial Director for fiction @ Nosy Crow. All opinions my own. Thinking about books… Thinking about food… Thinking about good colours for jumpers…
Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social Author
Hon FRSL
RLF Fellow
Sunday Times Children's Books
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
Blog, biog, gallery, books: on www.nicolettejones.com
Events: phil@showmetherabbit.com.
Art by John Jones: www.johnedwardjones.co.uk
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
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Nosy Crow | Children's Books @nosycrow.bsky.social Award-winning children's books
📚 Stories for kids, also in ebook and audiobook
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Elaina Ryan @elainaryan.bsky.social CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
Kathy Webb @kathyjwebb.bsky.social Freelance children's books editor and editorial manager at David Fickling Books.
kathywebbeditorial.com
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
David Fickling Books @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social ✨Where good stories begin...
📚We're an independent publisher of superb books for readers of all ages. Join the adventure here!
Tiny Tree Books 📕 @tinytreebooks.bsky.social Tiny Northern children's book publisher 📚
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Fox & Ink Books (formerly UCLan Publishing) @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
Maleeha Mir @mmir08.bsky.social 🚨Creative Freelancer | 📝 Creative | ✍🏽 Book Reviewer | 😉Nerd |✨ Works in Publishing | 📖 2023 Shorlist Judge The Diverse Book Awards | 🌎 2020 Deputy Chair of SYP London
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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social Children’s comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
DA Children's Book Agency @da-childrens.bsky.social Your words, our passion! ✨ We are Clare Wallace, Becca Langton, Kristina Egan, Lorna Hemingway, Lucy Irvine, Chloe Davis, Kat Lenahan and Maleeha Mir
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The Art of Reading | Book Blog @theartofreading.bsky.social Avid Reader 📖 | Book Blogger 📚 | High/Epic Fantasy | Dark Fantasy | all formats | #GoodreadsLibrarian
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I pledge to read the written word.
Blog: https://theartofreading.de/
Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social Bookseller. Blogger. All about the books.
TBR pile that can be seen from space.
#BookSky💙📚
Petrona Award 2026
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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social Canadian Librarian, basket of feelings, east coast ennui. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🫐
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert Waterstones bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 88/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
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Liza Grimm @thelizagrimm.bsky.social Fantasy-Autorin. Pen & Paper-süchtig. Streamt zu viel auf Twitch.
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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de Gute Bücher und Impressum auf https://www.suhrkamp.de
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
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Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
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Jay Kristoff @misterkristoff.bsky.social #1 International, NYT, USAToday and Sunday Times bestselling liar.
EMPIRE OF THE DAWN - Out Now
Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social Birmingham UK based book lover, former blogger, fan of 20th century women writers. Rheumatoid arthritis warrior. TV binger, jigsaw addict. Here mainly for the book talk. 📚📚
Kaffeehaussitzer @kaffeehaussitzer.bsky.social Als Kaffeehaussitzer bloggt Uwe Kalkowski über Bücher, Texte und Leseerlebnisse. Photos gibt es auch. https://kaffeehaussitzer.de
Emerald Scribe Book Editing @theshaggyshepherd.bsky.social Freelance copyeditor and proofreader.
Fantasy, Scifi, LitRPG, horror.
🚫 No AI
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Fantasy Book Nerd @fantasybooknerd.bsky.social From out of the depths of the blogosphere came a mighty whimper, a being of total incompetence. With his mighty powers of making it up as he goes along comes Fantasy Book Nerd. A being of less than average qualities who reads books and talks shite!
dtv Verlag @dtv-verlag.bsky.social Ein Verlag, viele Facetten: Belletristik & Sachbuch, Kinderbuch & Jugendroman. Hier schreibt das Presseteam der dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, München. dtv.de/impressum
Luke’s Blog 📚 Book Blogger @lukesblog1.bsky.social 💻 Book blogger who tweets almost exclusively about banging (and not so banging) books!
Ich mach was mit Büchern @wasmitbuechern.de Infos und Vernetzung für Menschen, die »was mit Büchern« machen. Unabhängige Plattform von @leanderwattig.com seit 2009. | http://wasmitbuechern.de
Chris Monceaux 🌈📚 | Biblio Nerd Reflections @biblionerdrflxn.bsky.social Book Blogger | Writer | NET Survivor | Cat Dad |
Bi | he/him | Lover of Sci Fi & Fantasy |
2026 Book Goal: 72/100 | Review Requests are CLOSED!
Sophie Keetch @sophiekeetchauthor.bsky.social 🏴 Welsh 🏴 Writer, reader, lover of anti-heroines & Arthuriana • Bestselling author of MORGAN IS MY NAME and LE FAY • STORM OVER CAMELOT (Book 3) out April 2026 • Agent: Marina de Pass @ The Soho Agency
Shazzie @readeratwork.bsky.social Book blogger and reviewer at Fantasy Book Critic and Ginger Nuts of Horror!
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Fischer Tor @fischertor.bsky.social Science Fiction. Fantasy. Und der ganze Rest. 
Anna (Ink of Books) @annaink.bsky.social twitter refugee. book lover. master computer science. ramen > men. 💜 (k)pop. bed is my sanctuary.
Celeste | A Literary Escape @alitescape.bsky.social book blogger | 30s | she/her | 🐈 💍 🌱 🩰 | SFINCS panelist | SFF reader | IG: @alitescape | 📖: 112/52 | REVIEW REQUESTS CLOSED. | ❌ AI art ❌
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Kerstin (black cats era) @woerterkatze.bsky.social 🇪🇺📖🖤💛🐈⬛🐝🦉🏳️🌈📎
Bloggerin #KrimiTante #Literatur, intersektionale Feministin, 🐈⬛🐈⬛mom, 🌊liebe, 🍫holic, ⚽️ BVB-Mitglied 🖤💛, 🎶, born in 331ppm
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Kal @ Reader Voracious @kalventure.bsky.social poe hoe & queer bookish content creator • INTJ • nihilist • cat lover • over-educated & under-loved millennial (she/her)
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Seriesbooklover @seriesbooklover.bsky.social Book blogger, enjoys running, tv and cake. seriesbooklover.wordpress.com
Anett liest @anettsbuecherwelt.bsky.social 📚 Lesende 2fach Mama 👨👩👧👧, die gerne wandert 👣 und reist🗺️! Sehnsucht nach Meer 🌊. Niners Chemnitz Fangirl 🏀⛹️. Kann Spuren von #Büchern 📚 & #Musik enthalten 🎵 . #buchblogger #Chemnitz 🏙️. #noafd ⛔
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