Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@freemo Another nice to know. The English told the French they could still "pluck yew" (draw their bow) and waved two fingers to illustrate it. The French misheard it. Tell it to the Marines, too....
@freemo Just in case you hear "J Arthur", it is indeed J Arthur Rank, but that one means 'tank'.
@freemo A 'Malcolm' is a razor.
(Malcolm Fraser, a stage comic).
But a razor means a 'blazer', usually at school.
@freemo Are they stainless blades?
Dr Keith Walker
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1. We, Ukrainians, want to live.
2. We want to live in our sovereign independent state. Not russia.
3. We want to have our cultural identity and language. Not russian.
4. We want to decide our own future.
And russia has no legal or moral right to deny us any of this.
@freemo My cat did that to strangers but not to me. Ungrateful, she was.
Dr Keith Walker
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Last year, I walked 26 miles in a day to raise money for Alzheimer's Research, in memory of my mother Joy Cooke, who died of dementia in 2017.
On 1st June this year, I'm doing it again. This time, I will be accompanied by my daughter Nadz.
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I raised over £2,000 last year. Let's see if we can do even better this year! Here's our Just Giving page. Please give generously!
@sciencebase We had some Hawthorne ones last year. They are huge compared to the green ones.
@freemo Suggest Charles Kingsley's 'Water Babies'....
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Also! If you've never heard of #PFAS / "forever chemicals" before and want to learn more, I recently revamped the PFAS FAQs on my website
(because I kept getting the same questions over and over!)
There's stuff there for both the public & for academics
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Are there any #scientists studying #extremophiles here avaliable for some short talk?
@sciencebase DYK that they go backwards during a solar eclipse? I saw that in an article by Tommy Rot in Viz.
@sciencebase Love the clothes moth, music too. You could do a looper moth too, maybe Jazz Caterpillar.
@sciencebase Good example of paracetamol or something like that.
@Frances_Coppola Germany made a fuss about being able to get its boats out after WW1, didn' t it. When they did, they just sank everyone else's and caused trading issues.
Dr Keith Walker
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Here's my piece at The Mint magazine on instability economics. Most Western economists think the natural state of an economy is stability. though shocks can temporarily force it out of its normal stable orbit and it evolves over time. But I argue that when you take into account the storms constantly experienced by developing countries, economic history shows the natural state of the global economy is instability, not stability.
https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-illusion-of-stability/
Dr Keith Walker
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In an important development, civil servants of conscience in Germany have finally joined their peers in other countries and published an open letter calling on their government to stop exporting weapons to Israel.
This should terrify the genocide enablers in the German government, because it means there is a pool of whistleblowers available to shred their excuses to bits and confirm that domestic laws and reports of Israeli war crimes were consciously ignored, greatly increasing their individual legal exposure at The Hague.
@freemo Couldn't resist adding "2 by 6".
2 by 6 (inch plank).
"She married a 2 by 6 when they were here during the war".
Yes, you were all yanks to us.😉
@freemo You mean a mini? Mini Moke. That is niche, that one.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
