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Rebel booksellers, UK based social enterprise founded to sell children’s books so our profits can fund children’s libraries. #changebookdeserts #activists 🫶🏾🏳️‍🌈📚 p.s seeking investment https://tobebookfair.org/
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I have good news. #THIRST is now available on @netgalley.bsky.social! If you're game for an early read, head to www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book.... Come on in. The water's nice and cool. 😉💀 @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social

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So to summarise they are removing school librarians to save £100k by restaffing with ‘assistants’. In effect punishing librarians for being commited to their job and appropriately qualified. Qualifications which have been paid for. #cutsthatcostmorethantheysave www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Competitions open in several different categories for women writers. Link below. Please share :)

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This is video with soemone going on the record and proving that digital marketing is broken. They were soending 8k a month on it, stopped and no difference to trade. #business #entrepenuer vm.tiktok.com/ZNdUMTxtP/

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Thanks to a chat on here I was reminded of the most glorious casettes in my childhood collection (apart from the LOTR ones I taped off the radio). These tapes (I think there were two anyway) shaped my understanding of both comedy AND politics in so many ways.

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This is definitely big progress for me! #LGBTQ #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky #KidLit

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Come come come! Loki is waiting! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/louie-stow...

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Geezer and I on our way to the stage 🎸 Photo by Mark Weiss, ca. 1970s

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Morning! I'll be at @barneskidslitfest.bsky.social on Sunday to for doodles, drama and dance! Currently writing book six so Loki is inhabiting me entirely. Add in the current heatwave and I cannot be held responsible for the ensuing chaos. #KidLitUK TICKETS HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/louie-stow...

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PUblic service reminder for authors: the PLR deadline is 30th June. Just got a nudge email from my agent so I am nudging you all. Do NOT leave it to the last minute cos then there's no chance to talk to anyone about any questions cos they're all flat out! #KidLItUK #AuthorSky

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Students in England graduate with average £53,000 debt. Total debt £266bn, up to 7.3% interest. Most European nations don't charge university tuition fees, England does. What was public debt, is now personal debt. People penalised for education, can't start family, business. Abolish uni fees.

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It's friday! That means time for the weekly good news thread. What's your good news from the week? What's made you smile?

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What a fantastic afternoon with the brilliant @tompalmerauthor.bsky.social The children loved him and his conversational style with the children is ‘reight up ‘r street’! Sold loads of books too! Gem of a bloke. Thanks @rabbits21.bsky.social yet again. Good luck with future books, Tom!

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My children's book about the Stone Age is out in 2 weeks... and it's already out of date!! We joke about that in the book, it was bound to happen!!! Very exciting that molecular techniques have finally identified the 'Dragon Man' skull to be that of Homo Denisova www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Of all the priceless and world changing glorious objects and pieces in all the museums in the world, this is still one of the most precious. Well done ‪@poolemuseum.bsky.social

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When the sergeant majors come in swarming like this it almost always means there’s a predator like a scorpionfish that has settled in just below view of the Cam, serving as a community watch alert team. #sergeantmajor #hogfish #fishmob #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Words To Live By Number 219

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Makes you think about what else we take for granted in this country that can be taken away…

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Really good recommendation 🤩#booklover #historyfan #britishpolitics

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? School libraries aren’t mandatory, 1 in 4 schools don’t have one and the figure is probably much higher for secondary schools.

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MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in historic vote

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