It's World Book Day Eve !!!!!!! Don't forget to go to leave out a bookmark or the bookworm won't visit and leave you new books on the bookshelves* *Not actually a tradition, but hoping we can make it so!

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

How book promotion can go horribly wrong even when the PR firm isn't an out-and-out scammer janefriedman.com/i-hired-a-bo...

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Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️ The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

For #StDavidsDay, author Olivia Wakeford shares some of her favourite contemporary books set in Wales, by some of her favourite Welsh children’s authors! https://bit.ly/46v0zdi

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

Marry someone who waits till you return from the book festival to catch up with @potterythrow.bsky.social

A moment captured. Stunning.

Everyone loving Small Prophets and Detectorists needs to also seek out Mum. I think it's still on iPlayer.

Greetings... I may not have mentioned for a while that I have a book out... "Country Diary Wales" is a compilation of 50 of my Country Diary columns for the @theguardian.com together with over 100 original colour images... Published by the good folk at @graffegbooks.bsky.social and available now!

Nowt to see here. Just me Hanging out on a poster next to Val McDermid. #GraniteNoir

I'm on a night sleeper and ridiculously excited about it. See you in 9 hours, Aberdeen and Granite Noir!!!!

Gorgeous little Logan says hello to everyone but ESPECIALLY to @caroline-venezia.bsky.social

I am BEYOND excited to have Alice's third adventure out in America today. I loved writing this one, set on a glamorous film set at the Palace of Versailles. There are codes and of course there are CAKES! It's taking me right back to when we celebrated this book coming out in the UK.

Well you know what day it is! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9J...

14 years on, I think London should be proud of how its Olympic legacy has lasted with a sustainable site that continues to be used, unlike so many sites that have fallen into disrepair. www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

My old pal @mortenmorland.bsky.social celebrating my 15th anniversary in Downing Street in style

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...

One for @caroline-venezia.bsky.social and @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social Barcarolle. In a chilly Welsh church rather than a Venetian lagoon but still one of my faves to sing.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

PLEASE dont skip the bowel screening. If you live in the UK you should get an at-home test every 2 years after age 50. Takes minutes and could save your life.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Do you like laughing? Read this thread.

It is a NEW BOOK DAY! 'Writing for Young People', by me, is an accessible look at how fiction for children and young adults is crafted. In eight chapters, we take a DEEP DIVE into picturebooks, MG and YA with AUTHOR INTERVIEWS and WRITING EXERCISES #kidlit #ukkidlit uk.bookshop.org/p/books/writ...

Happy #Wheeknesday … a possibly short lived thread on Wednesdays to share a guinea pig photo or two. Here are two of our guinea pigs from a few years ago - Angus (right) and Rory.

MUCH recommended. I used this instead of doomscrolling last year. If you find yourself doomscrolling read a section of this instead. Much better use of time.

Bone Temple was both gloriously barking and wonderfully thoughtful.

A delight of a thread

Catherine O’Hara, award-winning actor of big and small screen, dies aged 71

Deep drag on cigarette "Just when I think I'm out... they pull me back in."

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Well done everybody, great work etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh great, now I have an overwhelming need to cuddle a death kitty.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

IMPORTANT

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

On this day in 1984, the Apple Mac was released. The advert was shown in the prime-time 1984 Superbowl commercial slot. Its message was: 'On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like “1984”’. youtu.be/2zfqw8nhUwA?...

One of the most beautiful documents ever created: the leaflet that everyone received when Britain's NHS was launched (1948) "Everyone—rich or poor, man, woman or child—can use it... There are no charges, except for a few special items...it will relieve your money worries in time of illness”

Wonderful thread, funny and moving in equal measure. If we are to weigh the worth of a society in how it treats its dead, Jay firmly tips the scales in the right direction💙

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Oh this is such a shame

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Not buying our product could cause our product to fail applies to all businesses. Why do AI pushers keep assuming their product deserves special pleading?

Letter in Times today

I LOVE a cut through. Look at this! ❤️❤️❤️❤️