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
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Alom Shaha
@alomshaha.bsky.social
· Oct 12
I’ve spent 25+ years teaching and “ communicating” science. As well as being a schoolteacher, I’ve worked with scientists and science institutions to help them explain their work to the public. This book is the culmination of all that work. Out in paperback Nov. 7th www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1529...
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‘Good Tradition’ was the first song I recorded with @tanitatikaram.bsky.social back in 1988. It was joy to play then and still is - now with a coda! 🎻☀️😊🧡
🙏 🎥 Cathy Jones from the concert at The Royal Festival Hall last Saturday
🙏 🎥 Cathy Jones from the concert at The Royal Festival Hall last Saturday
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
‘Good Tradition’ was the first song I recorded with @tanitatikaram.bsky.social back in 1988. It was joy to play then and still is - now with a coda! 🎻☀️😊🧡
🙏 🎥 Cathy Jones from the concert at The Royal Festival Hall last Saturday
🙏 🎥 Cathy Jones from the concert at The Royal Festival Hall last Saturday
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Everything for money!
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Everything for money!
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Absolutely delighted by this – I can't think of a better home for Zombies, Run! than with Naomi!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Absolutely delighted by this – I can't think of a better home for Zombies, Run! than with Naomi!
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Going forward, I'm looking for a new home for When The Giants Passed Through.
Despite it all, I'd like to work with another indie press. If that's you, drop me a line 😅 Shy bairns get nowt, as they say.
Thank you all for your understanding.
Much love.
Fran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=grVg...
Despite it all, I'd like to work with another indie press. If that's you, drop me a line 😅 Shy bairns get nowt, as they say.
Thank you all for your understanding.
Much love.
Fran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=grVg...
Kelpies Prize for Writing 2022: Fran Moldaschl's winning entry, read by Janis Mackay
YouTube video by FlorisBooks
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November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Going forward, I'm looking for a new home for When The Giants Passed Through.
Despite it all, I'd like to work with another indie press. If that's you, drop me a line 😅 Shy bairns get nowt, as they say.
Thank you all for your understanding.
Much love.
Fran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=grVg...
Despite it all, I'd like to work with another indie press. If that's you, drop me a line 😅 Shy bairns get nowt, as they say.
Thank you all for your understanding.
Much love.
Fran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=grVg...
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Plenty of evidence that these guys are doing real, measurable harm to the rest of us and yet we seem incapable of standing up to them. I hope I live long enough to see this change.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Plenty of evidence that these guys are doing real, measurable harm to the rest of us and yet we seem incapable of standing up to them. I hope I live long enough to see this change.
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This is what is so frustrating - COP actually worked in 2015, so why is it such a failure now? Have just filed a leader on exactly this topic...
It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position
A lil thread 🧵
A lil thread 🧵
a man is talking about being entirely successful .
Alt: a robot is is talking about not being entirely successful .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is what is so frustrating - COP actually worked in 2015, so why is it such a failure now? Have just filed a leader on exactly this topic...
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"I am pulling up the ladder because I'm personally in a pretty cushy position and it was easier for me to get there & then maintain that by blaming people like me for existing, than it is to demand this racist country sorts itself out." - Patel, Braverman, Sunak, Lammy, Cleverly, Mahmoud etc etc
'I am the daughter of immigrants' is this year's 'my father was a tool maker'.....🙄
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"I am pulling up the ladder because I'm personally in a pretty cushy position and it was easier for me to get there & then maintain that by blaming people like me for existing, than it is to demand this racist country sorts itself out." - Patel, Braverman, Sunak, Lammy, Cleverly, Mahmoud etc etc
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Obviously the newspapers go hard on inheritance tax as half of senior journalists went to private school so you can bet they have nice properties to inherit
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Obviously the newspapers go hard on inheritance tax as half of senior journalists went to private school so you can bet they have nice properties to inherit
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The house was worth £1.2 million excluding other assets. British entitlement to unearned wealth tax free is astonishing
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The house was worth £1.2 million excluding other assets. British entitlement to unearned wealth tax free is astonishing
Plenty of evidence that these guys are doing real, measurable harm to the rest of us and yet we seem incapable of standing up to them. I hope I live long enough to see this change.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Plenty of evidence that these guys are doing real, measurable harm to the rest of us and yet we seem incapable of standing up to them. I hope I live long enough to see this change.
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A bajillion years ago (around 2016), I was desperate for work and a client asked me to write an ad-lib listicle generator for a defunct news site he still owned and hoped to juice some last ad dollars out of. "11 times Jennifer Aniston was on fleek" ...just inane shit like that. Well...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A bajillion years ago (around 2016), I was desperate for work and a client asked me to write an ad-lib listicle generator for a defunct news site he still owned and hoped to juice some last ad dollars out of. "11 times Jennifer Aniston was on fleek" ...just inane shit like that. Well...
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
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Thank you for the inspiration. We had this tonight to accompany slow cooked mutton keema. Blooming delicious 🤤!
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thank you for the inspiration. We had this tonight to accompany slow cooked mutton keema. Blooming delicious 🤤!
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“People in the past be fucking”
the more you read about this stuff, the more that Foucault's point about the exaggeration of Victorian repression rings true. We want to imagine the past as being more prudish than it really is because it makes us feel more free than we really are
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“People in the past be fucking”
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Homage is also only used as a pejorative when it comes to Chinese brands. When a mainstream brand like Christopher Ward or Citizen references a Blancpain or Submariner, reviewers say "inspired by," if they mention it at all.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Homage is also only used as a pejorative when it comes to Chinese brands. When a mainstream brand like Christopher Ward or Citizen references a Blancpain or Submariner, reviewers say "inspired by," if they mention it at all.
His real name is Jean Valjean.
If you can’t trust someone named 9824715486259, who can you trust?
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
His real name is Jean Valjean.
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You throw around the term 'conservative' despite the brutal murder Colonel Mustard committed with the candlestick in the conservatory?
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You throw around the term 'conservative' despite the brutal murder Colonel Mustard committed with the candlestick in the conservatory?
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now THAT should've been the John Lewis advert
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
now THAT should've been the John Lewis advert
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When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
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It's classic literature on TGT on Monday as we remember Emily Brontë on the anniversary of the publication of Wuthering Heights, her first and only novel in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's classic literature on TGT on Monday as we remember Emily Brontë on the anniversary of the publication of Wuthering Heights, her first and only novel in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
Reminded of this dish (“Kissoori” in Sylheti) by Martha, so made some for my dinner tonight
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reminded of this dish (“Kissoori” in Sylheti) by Martha, so made some for my dinner tonight
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Brilliant. It gives me chills.
Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Brilliant. It gives me chills.