Steve Hammett @bitflips@qoto.org
I do research in visual/computational neuroscience, spend too long doing Linux admin and not long enough demonstrating against the shitshow that is the UK government....
Joined Nov 2022
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Neanderthals, the earliest kiss proven is between us and Neanderthals.
Hot, interspecies sex, like Star Trek!
(h/t to Cerys Matthews Sunday show on the 6 Music)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/humanitys-first-kiss-was-earlier-than-we-thought-180982206/
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Hi - Twitter is a garbage fire. I am going to try to use this platform more. Love,-Bing.
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Cientos de manifestantes ocupan actualmente la estación de Liverpool Street en Londres pidiendo un alto el fuego inmediato en Gaza.
Fuente https://t.me/PalestinaHoy
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(Had to wait for a news outlet not as egregious as the Daily Mail or Daily Express to report this)
I'm sure The Met will deal with this in their usual tact and grace.🤡
Watch the Home secretary denounce them all as 'extremists' 🤦♂️
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#UCU members: if you haven't voted, go and catch the post now!
Last chance to get your ballot in on time… #UCUrising
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He argued with his brother for days for the biggest pumpkin just to produce this.
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🇵🇸 PARIS : POUR GAZA, DES MILLIERS DE PERSONNES BRAVENT LA DICTATURE
Un policier qui tire une grenade sur une foule criant "cessez-le-feu", tout un symbole.
Ce samedi 28 octobre, il y avait des millions de personnes dans les grandes villes de tous les pays du monde contre les bombardements sur Gaza. Toutes ? Non, la France de Macron est le seul État prétendument démocratique à les interdire...
Notre article ici :
https://contre-attaque.net/2023/10/29/paris-pour-gaza-des-milliers-de-personnes-bravent-la-dictature/
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I thoughts #Friends was very meh, but Perry was always the best about it. But his evisceration of Peter Hitchens on the topic of addiction on Newsnight was his crowning glory.
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We have asked our medical colleagues in Gaza what they need most urgently.
#CeasefireNOW #NotATarget #emergency #paramedics #MedTwitter
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Very important message from a member of the Radical Anthropology Group on the march today:
Placard reads: This son of a Holocaust survivor says: Stop the genocide in Gaza.
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Best of all: occupation of #Waterloo station by #BlackJewishAlliance and comrades to match yesterday in New York at Grand Central.
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On the Jewish block
Placard reads: It's not a war if only 1side has an army.
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#UK: NOW: Mass sit-in at Waterloo Station, #London calling for a #CeasefireNOW on #Gaza. #Israel #Palestinians
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZYIBsZWSpjwcQK15HghpAv71ABmycYDb3X
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A doctor spells out the devastating consequences of a health system that has been completely overwhelmed by the ongoing Israeli bombardment.
#CeasefireNOW #MedTwitter #NurseTwitter #emergencymedicine #ICU
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KDE: February 2024 MegaRelease
Just a heads-up to you people who wondered when Alien BOB would pick up on the KDE Plasma bleeding edge again.
Simply put: Patrick did a hell of a job pushing every new KDE Plasma update into the slackware-current package tree (even before the 15.0 release) in no time. There was nothing for me to do (or to improve on) since Plasma5
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-february-2024-megarelease/
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New report - A snapshot of the academic research culture in 2023 & how it might be improved
@octopus_ac platform founder @alex_freeman said: "It's heartbreaking to read how researchers currently feel. The current system incentivises the wrong things."
I do research in visual/computational neuroscience, spend too long doing Linux admin and not long enough demonstrating against the shitshow that is the UK government....
Joined Nov 2022
