Anyone need cheering up? Have a kitten

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What's up? I mean, everything! So let's have some kittens

Off to the bookshop for the 10 year old to spend birthday book tokens. What are your best recommendations?

🔹🔷🟦 #FridayQuiz 🟦🔷🔹 🔹 Like, share and repost 🔹 Have a go and good luck! 🔹 Share your score below with a gif 🔹 Share the quiz with whoever you want! Happy #Friday! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Size helps but the mechanism is relationships. We know this. Let's not pretend the answer is always the curriculum and the pedagogy.

What happens when you shrink salary differences between districts, increase beginning teacher pay by over $10,000, and compress salary schedules? @gzamarro.bsky.social, @jbmcgee.bsky.social, @taylornwilson.bsky.social, Miranda Vernon, and I find out in our new CALDER working paper: bit.ly/4l4b5hO

Kitten procrastination will now ensue accompanied by copious kitten spam...

It’s the last day to join as a reader for the 2026 awards. Books are distributed tomorrow! #SSBA #SSBA2026

It's my birthday today, so I'm giving away one MASTER membership to the most excellent @worldanvil.bsky.social (World Anvil)! All you need to do is share this post to enter :) I'll pick a winner on MONDAY Feb 2nd. If you'd like to check out my book too, it's here: mybook.to/magicmapsand...

It's almost a though fines don't work... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is awful news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards competition @tonyanuci.bsky.social, @mythicroads.bsky.social, Mad Axe Media, and Polymath Press! #SSBA #SSBA2026

A great way to get free books to feed your reading habit!

We’re still looking for volunteers! Help support small and independent press authors writing speculative fiction. Come join us, and please tell others! 💙

Shout out to the kind person who found my child's phone on the train and handed it in to a station ticket office and the lovely lady there who answered when I called and looked after it until I picked it up! Now delivering to child at school. Not the Monday morning I had planned... #Parenting

I've signed up again - come and join me!

Librarians and booksellers, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… The Small Spec Book Awards Library and Bookstore Guide just dropped. ✨ What does this mean for you? Follow us into the land of exceptional small and indie press books. 🧵👇 #SSBA #SSBA2025

There's a cat shaped hole in my home. How long to wait before I fill it...

I was a reader this year and have volunteered for next. It's a wonderful experience for anyone who reads or wants to write.

I really enjoyed being a reader for 2025 and have already signed up for 2026. Free books to read. What's not to love! Sign up!

Christmas done, boxing day birthday for eldest done. Feet up now with wine and a chocolate orange.

I'm treading a very fine line between December me winding down and January me getting very cross.

Great to see the finalists. I thoroughly enjoyed being a reader and am pleased these ones made it to the final!

Ooh Phoenix here please. We have and love the others so this would complete the set.

To all my running friends - please stay visible out there #HelloDarkness #running

I don't mind giving my children pocket money when they spend most of it on books!

Is there a logic I'm missing for why VAT should be applied to private education but not to private health care?

Ohh! 🤗 @romanroads.bsky.social have just landed on BlueSky! Bung them a follow. We can't vouch for the quality of their content, but we can guarantee one thing...

Happiness is an etymology thread...

For once the popular culture questions were in my era

THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in the UK in 3 months today, so I'm giving away one paperback ARC! To enter: follow me and reskeet this. Bonus: add TWAHK on GR/Storygraph & drop a screenshot in the comments. Extra bonus: tell me your favourite medieval story. UK only (sorry). Closes midday 29/08.

I just saw the best 'thank you' wish phrase: may your pillow always be cool. I shall be adopting this.

I'd forgotten how stressful it was relying on buses.

Whale watching. Thanks #Bluey

It's Tuesday. You're dragging yourself through the world, one cup of coffee at a time. Can nothing liven up this day? How 'bout a thread of eel ships on maps? These maps are what got me into eels in the first place! "Cool!" you say. "But wait...what's an eel ship?" Well... 1/14

No comment on the rights or wrongs being investigated but £5000 pm for 8 hours work?!! What the actual... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Need reading suggestions for a 13 year old. Has enjoyed hunger games and maze runner type things. Suggestions welcome.

I saw this and thought of you @doctorpreece.bsky.social

What is your favourite medieval weapon and why is it a...

What is your favourite medieval weapon and why is it a...

For anyone looking for material for a lesson on resilience just head to the eurovision public vote

My 9 year old discovered it was international family day and wanted to celebrate. So here's to families of all types and in all places!

Please send me your best hay-fever eye spray or drop recommendations!

If only for #CuratorRob

My children absolutely love the phoenix and it has led them to graphic novels and writing their own stories and strips.

Amazing views are worth appreciating, especially when they speed past on the train. #Grateful to have my morning include a moment of #awe.

💚“We believe that when communities lead, better health follows.” - Ruby Frankland, strategic partnerships manager Based on learnings from #BigLocal, we are launching a programme of action research with @nhsconfed.org‬ to build more community-led approaches to health. [1/2]

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...