Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
Dr Keith Walker
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Howard Beckett: There are EU nations refusing to partner with Israel’s genocide and vow to continue funding UNRWA:
Ireland 🇮🇪
Scotland 🏴
Belgium 🇧🇪
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Norway 🇳🇴
Slovenia 🇸🇮 doubled funding
Portugal 🇵🇹 donating an extra €1ml
Spain 🇪🇸 trebled funding to €50ml.
Celebrate them
@palestine
@sciencebase Maybe nobody nose what it is.
@sciencebase@mastodon.sociaAnd not one of them looked like Jodie Foster nor answered to Clarice..........
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"To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire – and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger," Abraham told the Guardian. “I don’t know what Germany is trying to do with us,” he added. “If this is Germany’s way of dealing with its guilt over the Holocaust, they are emptying it of all meaning.”
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VOILA
"We do not need tech billionaires to write open letters about the existential threat of AI. Rather, ordinary people need the ability to exert control over their own public spaces, homes, and workplaces, and this includes having a say in technological “upgrades.”
@sciencebase Benjamin Britten hung out there. Prog Classical!
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Much of this is clearly also in the Con playback for the UK, such as demonising lawyers and judges. Well worth a listen
Opening Arguments | Project 2025 Is Terrifying on Podbean https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-prevk-1d72a6b7
@sciencebase@mastodon.sociaOne of the good things about being ill is that no one cares if you don't get up till 11.00!
@calimari Some lovely photos of you apart from anything else.
@QOTO Love the last line. I could have done with it when doing trials at the melting shop.
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German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (1943) Otto Stern was born #OTD in 1888.
His contributions to physics included the Stern-Gerlach experiment , the measurement of atomic magnetic moments, the development of the molecular-beam technique, the discovery of the anomalous magnetic moment of the proton, and the demonstration of the wave nature of atoms and molecules. He was the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations in the years 1925–1945.
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We’ve started laying a cone down when the #cat is under the rug so we don’t step on him 😂 🚧🐈
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How the ‘will of the people’ is warping our politics
The phrase is used by ministers to evade proper scrutiny. Just look at their rhetoric on Rwanda.
By me, at Prospect
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Donald Trump Will Be the First Former President to Face a Criminal Trial, Judge Rules
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-new-york-trial/
@freemo Makes flames with free gases. Water's funny stuff though, might be about the phase change allowing easier dissociation.
@freemo Yes, it is curious how steam seems to work better than water. I suspect it's more about heat transfer than anything else.
@freemo There are not many that you could get to that temp without melting, including steel. It's when we use steam it happens most.
@freemo Usually needs to be a little more yellow than red, but you do see in when working steel.
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"Will you free my Palestine"
Sticker spotted in Brunswick, Victoria
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Scottish physicist C.T.R. Wilson was born #OTD in 1869. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. The inspiration for his prize-winning work came in the mountains of Scotland, where he served as a meteorological observer. He decided to try to reproduce cloud formation in the laboratory. In 1895 he produced his 1st cloud chamber, which supersaturates the air by expanding and cooling it. He realized that the device’s potential went far beyond understanding weather.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
