Research consistently shows that reading for pleasure supports not just literacy, but wellbeing, empathy and long-term educational outcomes. But pleasure cannot be forced. It has to feel voluntary. It has to feel safe✍️ Llinos Dafydd
28.02.2026 10:41 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0🫂
27.02.2026 05:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
”Hope floats, as a fated ship is dragged to its demise on the seabed. Hope rises when everything else is sinking. Hope flies when there are no wings and hope, without an engine. Hope does not need light, or oxygen to survive. It grows best in the dark, truth be told. Hope is the 1% which rallies against statistics. The one they cannot explain. Hope is against-the-odds, in spite of fact and solely made of will. Hope is the space between faith and spirit. Hope is the belief that things can get better, that the sun will warm again, that the end not need be that. Hope lives in the mud, in the mire, in the barren wasteland of emptiness. It is like magic, this hope. And the best thing of all? It’s free, you just have to call it near. Hope floats my friends, cling onto it, when you are just too tired to swim.” Hope Floats by Donna Ashworth Poem text is on a field of daffodils
HOPE
27.02.2026 03:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Come on Britain, I believe in you ❤️
27.02.2026 02:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text reads ‘Mongolian saiga antelope numbers up by 24%’. Image behind of two saiga antelope grazing in the snow, the sunlight shines across from the left with a warm glow.
A remarkable recovery for the Mongolia's saiga. 🙌
Numbers of this critically endangered species have increased by around 24% in the last year.
Thanks to conservation efforts from WWF-Mongolia & partners, the national population is now estimated at 28,857.
Let's hope the numbers continue to rise!
To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them
01.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 2704 🔁 1482 💬 16 📌 66
Tuxedo cat with a sock
13.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I don’t know how many people join Bluesky each day, but my sense is that more & more people are discovering the outstanding community/conversation here (best on social media) about better cities. I still think STARTER PACKS are a superpower. I’ve made many, but here’s my first again. Please share.
11.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 223 🔁 74 💬 6 📌 13RIP, James Van Der Beek. And fuck cancer.
11.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 1033 🔁 160 💬 8 📌 13Ps: okay I do understand, but that doesn’t make it right and there will come a time when you are ashamed of it and wish you hadn’t stayed
10.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
I really, REALLY, don’t understand why anyone is still on ‘X’
Being there signals that they haven’t crossed the line yet for you. That the benefits of the service they provide outweigh the utter moral bankruptcy. That you are willing to support their business and make them money for your own gain.
A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Oh no! Sad news. I agree
30.01.2026 18:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunrising behind Caerffili castle. A soft, peachy purple one.
Sun setting at Cardiff Bay. Millenium Centre in the left. Bay in the distance
Dawn to dusk in beautiful South Wales 🏴
28.01.2026 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?
A thousand?
Fifty thousand?
A million?
How many people does it take, admiral?"
- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Insurrection
If you're going to do it, do it right.
25.01.2026 10:36 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
More MPs are coming off X and I assume that means they will be posting more on here
@politicshome.bsky.social has a handy list of all the MPs on Bluesky
Please point out anyone who is missing!
A tiger sprinting across a snowy landscape.
Striding into 2026 with hope for nature. 🧡
#HappyNewYear from everyone at WWF-UK!
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at the moments YOU loved most this year!
1. Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. #small #owls #adorable
A Eurasian robin perches on a slim branch
A robin on Christmas Eve
#birds #photography
Nadolig Llawen i pawb 🎄❤️
25.12.2025 14:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's out, it's live, listen to our podcast!
Search for Green, Fair and Caring on your pod provider, listen and enjoy!
Please like, review and share!
Links to main platforms below
This clip from Ep 2 of Green, Fair and Caring sees Prof Sara McBride-Stewart reflecting on and recognising the value of care in Wales
Search Green, Fair, and Caring on your podcast provider of choice and listen, like, share + review! 👂
Links to main platforms below 👇
1/
buff.ly/r6XVKrE
Like, Share, Review! 😘
On Apple Podcasts buff.ly/TVzxB9k
Like, Share, Review! 😘
On Spotify buff.ly/z3cSYgM
"I learned so much about how the (this) will impact the lives of everyday people, especially women. The podcast provides accessible but comprehensive insight into the findings of the report and why we should all be thinking about the future through a green lens” 🗣️ Mel Owens
wp.me/p8Mk4U-1axq
"The Bylines Network is tremendously inspiring…it's crucial that journalism speaks truth to power, but the great majority of it unfortunately speaks with the voice of power…it’s really inspiring to see networks like yours filling that huge gap and doing what journalism ought to do.”
George Monbiot
Hey @bylinesnetwork.co.uk is anyone covering the flats being evacuated in Stratford (London) I can’t find anything anywhere?
10.12.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My brother and his young family have been caught up in this nightmare. He’s been told February at the earliest (!!) Hundreds more evacuated from the estate today. What an absolute scandal. @newhamgreens.bsky.social @londongreenparty.bsky.social
www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/2568840...
