Watch season two of This Way Up!

Keep calm and carry on is not the best policy to have atm, to be honest.

We're genuinely curious (and we promise to be SUPER kind about this): Is there anything we, a bookshop, could do to encourage you, a currently unvaccinated person, to get a vaccine? How can we help? *Can* we help? (We're pretty friendly! Chum you to EICC?) 📚❤️💉😊

This is my second favourite historical event. It must be said that the second defenestration of Prague takes the lead because they were like “remember that time we threw people off windows… let’s do that again.”

I find it hard to describe the nostalgia I feel when reading excited tweets by kids about to enter University.

Finally finished this thing!

There is now a humanitarian emergency in Afghanistan. We must urgently meet our obligations to Afghan refugees, while learning the lessons of two decades of devastating war and failure.

240,000 Afghans 70,000 Pakistanis. These numbers were too insignificant to make Ana's list. But im adding them here to keep the accounting accurate.

#OtD 19 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was executed a month after the Spanish civil war commenced. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39…

What a summary! Although, they seem to be winning the war on truth…

Comrade capybara ✊ theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…

Mark the anniversary of Mary #Wollstonecraft’s death by saving the date for a celebration of her life on 30 April 2022. ‘Wollstonecraft & Dissent’ will explore her radical legacy with a fabulous line-up of speakers, free walking tours and birthday cake Arts on the Green

“We’re not treated badly because there’s something wrong with us that can be fixed with a personal branding worksheet or career coaching...we’re overworked & under-appreciated because work is set up that way” I wrote about why young women belong in unions stylist.co.uk/life/careers/j…

It’s been over two years and it’s still a month away. It’s cruel! youtu.be/kevqiiYNFrc

Luckily, with climate change eventually ppl won’t need to heat their homes. Only a few winters where ppl can’t afford heat til the December wildfires (or some other mad shit) make it unnecessary… or are winters getting worse? theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

What a legend…

'tutors have been back at work for two weeks and many of us have yet to receive contracts or be paid at all' Guaranteed hours tutor @racheljmchung on casualisation as gender inequality and their reasons for voting YES to strike action UCU UCU Anti-Casualisation Committee UCU Scotland #FourFights

There’s a lot of rubbish on Twitter saying scientists are ‘panicking’ about Omicron. They’re not panicking. Scientists and doctors exercise caution; they observe and formulate opinions based on evidence when the evidence becomes available.

An entrepreneur, creating value: "hey workers can you go ahead and create some value for me?"

Today we’ve sent a letter to The University of Edinburgh condemning the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism without staff consultation, co-signed by UoE EREN, Staff BAME Network & UncoverED. Here’s why. 1/6🧵 Read the full letter here: tinyurl.com/2p84d5em thenational.scot/news/19860297.…