Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
Dr Keith Walker
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Well it had to happen eventually. #Scripps is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The #ship to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for #oceanography research. Launched in 1962.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years
@freemo And the impatient "Come on, ffs" that went with it every time.
@Frances_Coppola The Venn diagram of rude/aggressive and MMTs is different from what I thought!
@Frances_Coppola Wasn't M Thatcher one of those, amongst other things?
Dr Keith Walker
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"There’s no immediate danger of the U.S. losing its 'exorbitant privilege', but if it continues to dance with default, eventually the world will lose patience and start seriously seeking alternatives to the dollar and the UST. Indeed, that process may already have begun"
Dr Keith Walker
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽
In the red states of Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Ohio, where the people have had a chance to vote statewide, abortion rights have won out. This is a loser issue for the GOP and a galvanizing one for Democrats everywhere.
Dr Keith Walker
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Once again.
It is an express part of the Good Friday Agreement that the ECHR is enforceable in Northern Ireland
The UK cannot quit the ECHR without either breaching or renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement. And Ireland will never agree to removing the Convention rights of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland.
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Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass die 1,5⁰C Erwärmungsschwelle überschritten wird. Während eines starken El Niño im Jahr 2015 lag die globale Durchschnittstemperatur einige Tage lang um mehr als 1,5⁰C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau, wahrscheinlich zum ersten Mal im Industriezeitalter, laut Copernicus-Daten.
Dr Keith Walker
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Boost please British folk. Woods here are FULL of death caps. Amanita phalloides. In decades of picking I have never seen as many as here on Cambridge today. It not even usually common here. It's brutally poisonous, please share a warning to avoid it #mushtodon #fungi #mushrooms
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My look to the week ahead is out! Have a great rest of your weekend. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-7e6?sd=pf
Dr Keith Walker
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Greta Thunberg pulls out of Edinburgh Book Festival over 'greenwashing'
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of a much-anticipated event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She cited a sponsor's "heavy" investments in fossil fuel and accusing them of "greenwashing".
"As a climate activist I cannot attend an event which receives sponsorship from Baillie Gifford, who invest heavily in the fossil fuel industry", said the 20-year-old Swedish activist in a statement on the festival website.
Thunberg was due to speak at the event entitled "It's Not Too Late To Change The World" on August 13.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/04/greta-thunberg-pulls-out-of-edinburgh-book-festival-over-greenwashing
@freemo I have found it tough to decide on the wages point. There have been some good debates between good politicians about it in the past, but there are few of them now of the same calibre, I'm afraid.
@freemo In the UK, Unions have much wider role than that. They may do elsewhere, I don't know. There is a long history with matters such as safety, welfare and discrimination that they played a big role in, most of it now accepted by most people as reasonable and normal. I think such things need to be treated as a different from your point.
@sciencebase I'd rather have the moths anyway. Trees are big enough.
@sciencebase I've got evidence if it on my apple an cherry trees but I've not seen it. Never known it affect fruiting though - seems harmless.
@sciencebase Always use free cutting brass for your keys. They are much easier to bust off in the lock, but cheaper to make.
Dr Keith Walker
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Billionaires and oil barons can build up tolerance to guillotines. Here’s how.
Dr Keith Walker
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"I have two young girls, 9 and 11. The one thing they do ask me about is: What are you doing about the environment, Daddy?"
Rishi Sunak to Andrew Marr on LBC, July 2022
“My view is we should max out the opportunities that we have here in the North Sea, because that’s good for our energy security."
Rishi Sunak, press call in Scotland, July 2023
#UKPolitics #ClimateCatastrophe #KeepItinTheGround #FuckTheTories
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
