Interesting that printed zines are on the rise and it’s not the first mention of a return printed matter I’ve seen lately. Watch this space.

WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life. www.wired.com/story/zines-...

Who reads to their kids every night? 🙋🏻‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘It’s so boring’: Gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids - and educators are worried

Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind

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Heroes and heroines step up!! Here are @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social and @cressidacowell.bsky.social children’s book club reccomends for @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today. #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

BBC Radio 4 - Today - Children's Book Club 2025

Our recommendations for children's reading.

bbc.co.uk

So true @evawiseman.bsky.social the amount of what the TV, film and ad industry call ‘beauty work’ (digital retouching) is not going away anytime soon.

Eva Wiseman@evawiseman.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about what the absence of beauty discourse today, amid all Snow White’s other controversies, says about us… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#ScreenshotOfTheDay Share yours!

You can do this too America! Advertising works. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla

Everyone Hates Elon@everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Join hundreds donating to piss off Elon Musk🚨 We're a small group of volunteers and we don't have tech bros to fund our secret plans, but we've got each other! Chip in to fund new actions in the UK like our viral ads: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everyone-h...

Great initiative from Spread A Smile charity and @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social to put books in hospitals for kids. #WorldBookDay

Michael Rosen@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Sharing a favourite local bookstore for #WorldBookDay 📚 Review in London’s Peckham, is a local fixture, always has an interesting selection including kids books, and is co-owned by the author Evie Wyld. #booksky #bookstore #booksellers #bookshop #IndependentBookstore #ShopLocal #independentshop

⏰ WAKE UP everyone! Says @evawiseman.bsky.social unless women in the UK don’t stand up for their reproductive rights we could be heading in the same direction as the USA. Question is how? #WomensHistoryMonth

Eva Wiseman@evawiseman.bsky.social · 2y ago

A column in which I ask um, should we all be learning how to perform abortions ? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🎙️New research from @literacy-trust.bsky.social says young people increasingly enjoy and are inspired by, listening to audiobooks and podcasts. Could this improve learning, wellbeing in young people? #GrowAGenerationOfReaders #booksky #readingforpleasure literacytrust.org.uk/research-ser...

Children and young people’s listening in 2024 | National Literacy Trust

This report outlines findings on children and young people's attitudes and behaviours around listening to audiobooks and podcasts.

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Great listen 🎧 1000 Artists in the UK have released a silent album in protest to the government’s rediculous plans to change copyright laws - set to benefit AI companies. #ai #artists #music #IsThisWhatWeWant? open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...

Is This What We Want?

1,000 UK Artists · Album · 2025 · 12 songs

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Small actions! action.eko.org/a/ditch-tesl...

It's time to #DitchTesla

Elon Musk is a danger to the world. He’s meddling in politics all across the globe and promoting hateful narratives. He even gave a Nazi salute at a Trump rally! But Elon Musk is not invincible. In fa

action.eko.org

Anything to to make him BUTT OUT! action.eko.org/a/stop-elon-...

Stop Elon Musk’s election meddling

Elon Musk is carrying out a coup in the US and meddling with elections in the UK, Germany, and Canada.Our community is taking on this reckless billionaire by demanding lawmakers investigate his electi

action.eko.org

Forget your blues and dance into Village Coffee & Goods upstate NY for free coffee! ☕️💕 #coffeelovers #coffee #barister

And where would we be without the accidental dog post that makes us feel human? In a world of dull #AI bots! #socialmediamanager

Channel 4@channel4.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you ever think you’re bad at your job, or that you not qualified enough for your job, just remember that we’ve accidentally posted a picture of our dog to the Channel 4 Instagram not once but twice now.

AI is not coming through for me. #AI #chatgpt

Poor Roger Rabit 🐇

Get involved people! @ledbydonkeys.org are fighting the fight.

Led By Donkeys@ledbydonkeys.org · 2y ago

Nearly there on our push for 1,984 new monthly supporters to help us resist the tech barons and the far right. Still need 368 more people. Want to sign up? See link in bio

Interesting time to be reading Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff…apparently the pirates 🏴‍☠️ organically adopted diversity on the ships crews. This gave them the superpower to outsmart the oppressive establishment of the day. #bemorepirate #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 20 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 19 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 18 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 16 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Yet again @ledbydonkeys.org are on the case!

Led By Donkeys@ledbydonkeys.org · 2y ago

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 16 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 15 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 14 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

⚡️Jumpstarted my January by going to see Asian Dub Foundation perform a live soundtrack to 📽️ La Haine at @southbankcentre.bsky.social last night.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 13. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 📖 Day 12 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge