Every time someone posts a meme about people in this day and age being inexplicably famous, I remember that one of the during my childhood a guy attained global celebrity for being a spoonbender.
Alom Shaha
@alomshaha.bsky.social
Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
Book lovers! I think some of you would love to support this in any way you can - Aine is trying to raise a relatively modest amount of money to get new books for a school library. She’s about half way to her target and it would be amazing to meet it with your help
AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d agoHi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca
Fellow authors and book lovers! Please help Aine with this either by donating or simply sharing the link below!
AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d agoHi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca
Fellow authors and book lovers! Please help Aine with this either by donating or simply sharing the link below!
AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d agoHi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca
She doesn’t know why she’s doing it herself IMO. She’s trying to Win An Argument On The Internet but against the national news media. Her ‘I hate the kind of videos he makes’ was v revealing of how little she understands the context or consequences of the things she says, whilst she’s saying them.
This is genuinely the single most needless self-inflicted political clusterfuck I've seen in some time. It was a council selection: all Badenoch had to do was get him dropped as a candidate. Instead she's turned it into a multi-day saga she now personally owns.
Having said it was okay for Bonehill-Paine to be a councillor because it was just bins, instead of dropping him, Badenoch has given him an advisory role – *after* Jewish groups refused to meet with him? Does she just never want this story to end, or....what.
As a local cllr, I felt quite insulted by the suggestion that all we do is ‘deal with parking & sorting out the bins’, suggesting that because we’re so trivial it’s OK to put up a convicted anti-Semite as a prospective cllr.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 16h agoHere are the stupidest things Kemi Badenoch has said so far today inews.co.uk/opinion/kemi...
The fact that Badenoch has torched any arguments about how far to the right Conservatives have gone in defence of this bloke for him to then withdraw is pretty funny. Defending someone who has been jailed for neo-Nazi activities was such a strange hill to die on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.
bbc.co.uk
This means that environmental factors led unrelated species to evolve towards a similar shape, as has happened in carcinisation, or with dolphins, sharks and ichthyosaurs, or with seahorses and regular horses.
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · yesterdayLooks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...
Really strong work here by @originalsp.in, edited by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social.
RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · 2d ago"Nolan’s film is not a misbegotten attempt to modernize a classic—it is a deft and purposeful reflection of America in this moment, seen through the glass of mythological metaphor." Jeff Yang writes about THE ODYSSEY and the “people from the sea.”
We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
theguardian.com
I'm planning a cold fusion-powered time machine
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Good and important messaging, but it is striking how Muslim candidates are repeatedly defamed as “terrorists” and then have to turn around and issue such statements when there is no similar expectation that Christian or Jewish candidates need to do the same for their Muslim-American constituents.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agoEl-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
anyway, if anyone has a lead on jobs for a science journalist/writer who has been a planetarium director (meaning I can talk to the public), please let me know. I am *awfully* broke.
And I plan to write a 20 novel sequence in the manner of the Rougon Macquart that will sell more than Harry Potter and be universally acknowledged as the definitive statement of the twenty first century human condition $HMNK
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Friends! This is an incredibly worthy cause - Aine is seeking to raise a relatively small amount of money to buy “one new reading book for every child at St. Brigid's National School, Glenmakee, Carndonagh, Co. Donegal”. Already about 1/3 of the way there, please help her get all the way.
AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d agoHi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca
But by all means, let’s play footsie with the fossil fuel industry.
George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 22h agoBritish farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
While I'm on publishing and AI, the recent crisis around AI authored stories feels a little self-inflicted to me. If publishers spent more time developing the careers of the human authors they work with, they wouldn't have created an environment where AI authored stories could thrive
If you throw everything at debuts, over and over, and then keep moving on, you've created an environment where actual authors are discarded in favour of the shiny new thing, often before they've acheived even a tenth of what they could with time to develop their craft. It's a self-inflicted wound
They’ve NEVER truly changed. It’s like Farage and the Hitler youth songs shit - if you actually were embarrassed by any of that, the real world response would never be ‘I’m going to represent exactly the same kind of politics but with the inconvenient words edited out.’
It’s disgusting for the Conservatives to ask Jewish groups to meet their ex-neo-Nazi candidate, presumably in the hope he will charm them and they’ll offer their blessing. They should not expect Jewish people to sanitise this appalling choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
Also I feel like if he had truly changed and reformed, he would *get out of the way* rather than demand Jewish people centre his political ambitions
We're changing rail card rules so 18-year-olds can get half price train tickets. With £2 fares and kids going free on buses this summer, this Government is providing families with the little bit of breathing space that we know is needed. 🚆
You are born 100% human but die 50% alien That's because 50% of your cells are foreign microorganisms hitching a ride They come from your mother & surroundings 5 million bacteria on every square centimetre of your skin etc... AVAILABLE ON KINDLE FOR 99p IN AUGUST www.amazon.co.uk/Infinity-Pal...
Privately educated. Would perhaps have benefitted from going to a diverse comprehensive.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d agoJoshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
Book lovers! I think some of you would love to support this in any way you can - Aine is trying to raise a relatively modest amount of money to get new books for a school library. She’s about half way to her target and it would be amazing to meet it with your help
AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d agoHi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca
Music lessons taught in strict silence… It shows that you have no idea about music, music education, or education in general . Subjecting children to this nonsens proofs that a healthy pedagogy is absent.
Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
theguardian.com