It would be so great if every podcast, every Internet video, every audio stream was converted to a text-based feed that people can just read.

#ReadingIsFundamental

HEY, SLEAZEVANGELICALS... 🙄🙏🤯
WEREN'T YOUR BIBLE FAVES JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH REFUGEES...
EVEN (GASP) UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS??? 📖🤔💡
#FakeMagaChristians
#Sleazevangelicals
#JesusMaryJoseph
#Immigrants
#Refugees
#ReadYourBible
#RIF
#ReadingIsFundamental
#TRYit
#Maga
#Dim
💡s

For as much reading as internet urchins do, you think they’d be better at it. Yes, my post said “hosting after 8pm.” It wasn’t a typo.

#slut #ReadingIsFundamental

@wendynather Oh if only the suggestion translated to reality. What a different world we would inhabit! I’d really like to live in that world.

#AMindIsATerribleThingToWaste #ReadingIsFun #ReadingIsFundamental

When I was a kid, RIF—Reading Is FUNdamental—taught us that books were for everyone.

Now people justify pirating ebooks and shame those of us who read in public.

So I wrote about it. About love, literacy, and the quiet act of joy they’ll never shame out of me.

📚 From RIF to Ridicule: What Happened to Celebrating Reading? https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/from-rif-to-ridicule-what-happened-to-celebrating-reading/

#ReadingIsFundamental #EbookEthics #WritersOfMastodon #BookLove #books

From RIF to Ridicule: What Happened to Celebrating Reading?

When I was a kid, there was a program called RIF—Reading Is FUNdamental. And yes, they emphasized the “fun” just like that. There were posters in the library and little paper bookmarks. The message…

Sharon E. Cathcart

It appears those of us who read have become the exception in the 21st century rather than the rule we used to be.
#ReadingIsFUNdamental

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/reading-crisis-solution-literature-personal-passion/685461/

Reading Is a Vice

Being a reader means cultivating a relationship with the world that, by most standards, can seem pointless and counterproductive.

The Atlantic
Getting some book recommendations from Precious Daughter, who read 50 books this year. Fifty! And I struggle to read a whopping one per month. 🤦‍♂️ This new year I publicly pledge to read more. 📖
#history #CivilEningeering #ReadingIsFundamental