Steve Hammett @bitflips@qoto.org

I was woken up today by a phone call letting me know that due purely to budgeting changes I’ve been let go from my full-time contracting position I just started in January after being laid off in September.

I am a former #Apple #engineer with 15 years of experience making apps for #iOS and #macOS. I also have experience with #Ruby. Available immediately for full time or contract work.

Please boost. #Swift #RubyOnRails

OK, so the Alt-Right regime at the BBC has cancelled a 96 year old national treasure. THE national treasure. Lifelong naturalist and broadcaster, who introduced most of the country to a love for the natural world in their childhoods. For the capital crime of a nature program covering damage to ecosystems. In the final series of his lifetime of service

Remind me, which side of the political spectrum does cancel culture? 🤬

#IStandWithDavidAttenborough

Alan Shearer: "I have informed the BBC that I won’t be appearing on MOTD tomorrow night."

The revolution begins!

#ToriesOut #BBC #Lineker #MatchOfTheDay #MOTD

#GaryLineker

If you are a #matchoftheday fan #MOTD

Please complain to the #BBC about their treatment of #GaryLineker we can inundate them with complaints - make their behaviour not his the issue

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint#/Complaint

Here’s an idea.
If you don’t want to be called a fascist or a Nazi…
- don’t vilify and criminalise asylum-seekers
- don’t plan to detain and deport them
- don’t defend far-right violent protests against them
- don’t breach their human rights
- don’t defy the Refugee Convention.

I think the BBC maybe just needs to have a word with itself instead. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64883655

Good luck to university strikers everywhere. #UCURising #UCU

Amazing #ValentinesDay card my colleague received from her students! #UCU #UCURising #Strikes

10 years ago Steam released for Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/10-years-ago-steam-released-for-linux/ #Steam #Linux #SteamDeck

New #blog post on why I think #Slackware #Linux is awesome, and why I use it.

https://www.iotib.net/blog.php?id=9

(I promise, this is the last Slackware post for a while =P)

I have just REJECTED UCEA's latest pay offer - check your email and do the same.

I am on strike today.

And I will vote YES in the reballot.

University bosses can and must do better. #UCURising #UCU #ENOUGHISENOUGH #NationalDayofAction

Well done that student on C4 news just now (Esmee McGann?) for steadfastly supporting striking university staff, and turning the blame instead ro a decade of austerity and the increasing commercialisation of higher education.
#UCUStrike #UCURising #Academics #Universities #HigherEducation

Just a wee reminder following the first of many @ucu strike days to come:

Back your union - reject UCEA's pay offer ✊🏽

#UCUrising #ucu

We are ASML

By the way, today I opened a new position in one of my IT teams in Veldhoven, The Netherlands (ASML's HQ):
I am looking for a Senior MATLAB Support Engineer to help support the roughly 8000 MATLAB and SimuLink users in our Research, Development & Engineering departments.

https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/we-are-asml/

#Identity #Me #asml #lithography #mathworks #matlab #vacancy

Here we go again... #ucuRISING

Sunak knew about Zahawi's tax affairs - still appointed him. He knew Suella Braverman had already broken Ministerial Code over leaks - still appointed her. He knew about Dominic Raab's bullying - still appointed him. How on earth can anyone trust Sunak's judgement? #PMQs

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1620755591009554433

Striking university staff have met up with striking teachers in the city centre. The teachers have better musicians and banners than us! #ucurising

Huge numbers. Teachers children lecturers archivists curators…. From Oxford Circus to Euston road. Packed. #ucuRISING

It's picketing time! #ucurising

„They own the factory but we’re on strike.“ #ucuRISING #glasgowuni