🧵 THREAD: DIVESTMENT IS NOT ABSTRACT 🧵

🚨 Baillie Gifford, sponsor of 8 literary festivals in the UK, holds $524M in shares of fossil fuel giant, Shell. This isn’t abstract—this impacts the lives of millions of people in the Niger Delta today. (1/9)

🍉 WRITERS FOR PALESTINE 🍉

We're proud to be partnering with our friends Tilted Axis Fitzcarraldo Editions Palestine Festival of Literature esea.sisters to bring an evening of readings and political teaching to SET on June 13

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I’ve come across a big. box of National Geographics, should I take them for the library? Would you read them?

“It’s not censorship, it’s selection.” 💚📚

The Scottish Maritime Museum on Irvine Harbourside has collaborated with The Nature Library to create a permanent home for Christina Riley's innovative and, until now, touring pop-up collection of land and environment writings caughtbytheriver.net/2024/05/a-perm…

Yesterday I said the library was open 10-5 all weekend but I meant 10-4, except it was open til 5 yesterday, but today it’s 4, and next weekend it’ll also be 4.

Lost Mary Anning book back in UK after chance find bbc.in/3VbLnwy

Tonight! 🪸🪸🪸

All set up at St Magnus Cathedral, the most spectacular place to read about submerged forests and ocean exploitation and oysters as a metaphor for growth in love and life.

And the harbourside is in its element today. Couldn’t ask for a better home for the library, I promise to get the hang of the buzzer soon.

Borrow a book and sit in the sun. Open til 4pm today, and again tomorrow and Sunday from 10am.

The Nature Library finds a permanent home in Irvine's Maritime Museum dlvr.it/T6bl8b 👇 Full story