Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
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This is an interesting reflection on Vance's idiotic railing against not having kids
Conspirituality | Brief: JD Vance Taps into Parental Rage
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The Two Matts | Hey Nigel, if you don’t like this… sue us
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Dropping a new track...as the kids say
A spot of self-penned Southern Psychedelic Madchester Rock
"Never Grows Old" completes my Genre Fluid album, which has been a work in progress for about a year.
Lyrics are in the image alt text and on the BandCamp download page
https://davebradley.bandcamp.com/track/never-grows-old
Words, music, vocals, instrumentation, production - yours truly
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Great news!! Pres Biden has signed into law the Advance Act, to accelerate the development/deployment of advanced civilian nuclear reactors. An overwhelming Congressional bi-partisan bicameral majority has agreed!
The message has finally sunk in ... a message that even bitter enemies can agree on.... Nuclear energy is our future!
@sciencebase Without milk or sugar.
@sciencebase Big improvement on the Keats I was forced to eat school.
@sciencebase There must surely be a (Grecian) Urn Moth to write an ode about....
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Back to poor numbers last night but some infrequent visitors were welcome
1) a blousy SCARLET TIGER, flashing a bit of underskirt
2) a handsome BUFF ERMINE
3) a white-peppery SINGLE DOTTED WAVE
#moths #mothing #MothsMatter #lepidoptera #entomology #nature #wildlife #insects #naturalworld #garden #alttext
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Hey! Sunday night will mark 20yrs since Cassini's arrival at Saturn & the start of the most magnificent exploration (outside Voyager) our species has ever undertaken.
I have a *big* post planned for the occasion.
Please subscribe to ...
https://carolynporco.substack.com
... and remember along with me the glory of it all. 🪐
Hope to see you there!
#Cassini #Saturn #explore #news #science #astrodon #astronomy #space
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From Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System, and a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation & Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai:
"We need to be very, very firm with our messaging that there is no such thing as a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. There is no such thing as a SARS-CoV-2 infection that does NOT have prolonged consequences.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/20/long-covid-expert-all-infections-have-prolonged-consequences.html
@davidallengreen Quite disgraceful😉
@theauldsthretch @harriettmb @davidallengreen I guess we expect some minor timing effect because we all use mean time.
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British biochemist Ida Maclean was born #OTD in 1877.
She was the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society. She conducted significant research on fatty acids and sterols, contributing to the understanding of biochemistry's foundational elements. She came to be regarded as an authority on biochemistry, and her 1943 monograph The Metabolism of Fat was the first published of Methuen's series Monographs on Biochemical Subjects.
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It’s neoliberalism that has failed. Now we need an alternative, and Labour does not have it https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/06/10/its-neoliberalism-that-has-failed-now-we-need-an-alternative-and-labour-does-not-have-it/. Labour’s failure is inevitable, because like the Tories is is neoliberal to its core and thinks that government cannot work. It is truly bizarre that our choice in this election is between two parties that do not believe in government.
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#AcademicVenting Anyway, here a nice comment piece by Polly Toynbee
“Tories and their pollsters see as clear as day that the growth in highly educated citizens, above the OECD average, is a social and political revolution not in their favour: the more educated people are, the less likely they are to vote for what John Stuart Mill called “the stupidest party”.”
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Antifa Solidaritätsmarke aus Palästina für arabisch-jüdische Solidarität, 1934.
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How could it be I've never heard of the US State Dept's Bureau of Intelligence & Research?
"INR is the Cassandra of American intelligence, and it earned that reputation the hard way."
They succeeded in some famous examples where the CIA failed.
There are great lessons here in keeping organizations small & individuals responsible, though frankly, having worked on spaceflight missions, I've known this little truth for a long time.
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“I want children. I want a house. I want to plant tomatoes... but the most important thing is to end the war.”
These were the words of Ukrainian medic Iryna Tsybukh.
Yesterday she was killed on the Kharkiv front.
Source: Ukrainian Medical Volunteer Battalion.
@sciencebase Or Hochofen when you're used to BF meaning blast furnace.
@sciencebase Checked with a pal and it seems that the word for butterfly and moth is the same in Russian. мотылек.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
