Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@sciencebase It was seen eating the remains of a cheese roll! (Yes, I'm sure it isn't a Sandwich Tern ;-))
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Hugh Grant has been priced out of his ‘phone hacking’ lawsuit against The Sun, after learning it would cost him more money to win than it would cost Rupert Murdoch.
"At the right moment and at the right amount, a skilled litigator can bring a civil claim to a speedy halt": https://davidallengreen.com/2024/04/how-the-civil-justice-system-forced-hugh-grant-to-settle-and-why-an-alternative-to-that-system-is-difficult-to-conceive/ writes @davidallengreen
#Part36 #civilJustice #settling #litigation #HughGrant #UK #England #liability #accountability #press #impunity #RupertMurdoch #Murdoch #damages
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New from @STAT's Casey Ross and me:
#Microsoft has helped organize at least 4 efforts to set standards in #healthcare #AI. Is that problematic?
also: did I sneak a history of the EPA's TSCA into a story about AI? ✨click to find out✨
#health #healthcare #healthtech #medicine #healthpolicy #regulatorycapture
@sciencebase There's a Black one at Far Ings. Looks just the same except it's black.
@Catlynn The female rejects a portion of what he brings, I understand.😅
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News media yet again full of threats by governing party politicians to leave the ECHR.
And yet again nothing at all about how this would breach the Good Friday Agreement.
@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?
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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.
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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.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
