Oh dear God!!! This is exactly what happens when dogs and cats lay down together. 😳 #Caturday

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

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the BBC has agreed I can post some of the full interviews from my program, Human Intelligence. These interviews are so rich & fascinating, & we only get to use maybe 5 minutes out of an hour. Here is a brilliant one about Simone Weil and the power of attention. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Simone Weil's philosophy of attention is what we all need now

attention isn't supposed to feel good all the time. but a tiny amount of true attention, wholeheartedly given, can change who you are

open.substack.com

Had a week off from the 9 to 5. Threw a ball with my kids. Walked with them. Went on Twitter once to post a photo of a fox. I feel so much better for it. Reality again tomorrow but I wonder sometimes - is it by design we spend so much time feeling smooshed and overwhelmed?

Chatsworth’s House of Stories has rare books on display. I’m a sucker for a spredge so these marbled edge 1850s editions of Shakespeare & Milton caught my eye.

If you have a book out this year and would like to be a guest on #ukteenchat please do reach out and let me know 🙂

a woman is smiling with the words let 's talk about books behind her

ALT: a woman is smiling with the words let 's talk about books behind her

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Dear #booksky and #kidlituk #authors #illustrators this is a petition started by Paul of Excelsior comic awards to make school libraries statutory in secondary schools. It needs 10k signatures. Please sign 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Make school libraries statutory in all secondary schools

We think all secondary schools should have a school library with a dedicated full-time librarian, and that this needs to be compulsory for all secondary schools and not simply an optional "bolt-on" de...

petition.parliament.uk

www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si... Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life? Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places. I would love to see you there!

The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal - Gladstone's Library

Join Kit de Waal for a six-month journey into the art and discipline of storytelling, with two visits to the UK’s finest residential library.

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So completely chuffed to have a brilliant review in the @scotnational.bsky.social for #MurderatChristmas I can't link to it but delighted to say that they think it's a "Young Adult Murder mystery that serves as a perfect introduction to the genre." I'll take that!

Share Michael Rosen's Manifesto for Reading with pupils, parents and colleagues - expert tips to spark a love of reading in young people 📚 www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...

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Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster

🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...

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We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.

a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .

ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .

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The book I’m querying starts on 10th November - the date I decided to follow the idea. Whatever does or doesn’t happen with the queries, I’ve absolutely loved my year with this book ✨

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere). naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...

November is for reading

or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure

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We’re all poorer because of the pandemic and wars and immigration* and there are far fewer billionaires now for the same reason. Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*? www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... *hmmm

🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻@laylabelle3.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The clocks changed for winter and I woke to a new hankering for slipper wearing, eating roast dinners and drinking mulled wine. Hbu?

Wait a second, so Frankenstein: • Is immortal • Sneaks into houses at night • Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people • Lives in the North Pole 🤔

Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣

Should be fast asleep for work tomorrow but I’m buzzing with excitement from Wells Literature Festival. Stunning readings and a drive home past Diwali fireworks… so grateful to @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social for 2nd place & thrilled to meet Fleur, @drkshingler.bsky.social and other wonderful writers 🎉

New blog post - Passwords brian-moses.blogspot.com @piecorbett.bsky.social

Ellie is 3 today 🥳 she’s celebrated with long walks and by inhaling peanut butter and carrot ‘pupcakes’.

Found out Bring Me The Horizon and Arctic Monkeys went to the same high school, in the same year group, and now feel I owe it to my kids to move them there.

Movement to BAN losing an hour’s sleep on Mother’s Day. SLEEP IS WHAT MUMS WANT MOST.

This, 100% ⤵️ All the arguments of new and inflamed Twitter making me feel like a bonobo who’s strayed to the chimpanzee side of the river 🙈

Pine Cellar@pinecellar.bsky.social · last yr.

Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need

Anyone else looking out at blue skies, the lighter evening - daisies and daffodils - and breathing great lungfuls of sweeter air for it? I bloody love spring 💚

Day 36 of #365DaysOfSmiles Break on through to the otter slide!