Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@sciencebase I think it must have been a tiny curled-up hair on my screen that's blown off now, but I'll call it an artefact cos it sounds better.
@sciencebase It is indeed. I went to enlarge and crop it and can't see it either now.
@sciencebase It's there only when I embiggen the pic, looks like another body in orbit around the Moon. I'm pretty sure it's not Earth! That would be some shot you got.
@sciencebase Is that the Moon's moon top right? You would think that the Apollo folk might have mentioned it being there.
Dr Keith Walker
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Mining for lithium "is harming biodiversity and aggravating the climate crisis," say the indigenous people from the Andes who march for themselves and Nature.
"No, no, you don't understand," say the supporters of the Green Transition. "We must mine to save Nature. We must mine your mountains and the deep seas to save the environment. You people have no education. You don't see the big picture, like we do."
@sciencebase Nice pic! The Thrush makes a great silhouette. ;-)
Dr Keith Walker
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A win for reason & the Earth!
A California lawsuit brought by the anti-nuclear group Friends of the Earth, to prevent the extension of Diablo Canyon #nuclear power plant, has been roundly rejected 'w/o leave to amend'.
Next, we must make it legal again to build more safe nuclear power plants California. Otherwise we'll be using more #gas & possibly even #coal into the future.
Dr Keith Walker
boosted
A couple more next generation Covid vaccines are heading into clinical trials. That's some of the news in my monthly update (No 10) @PLOS https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/25/more-next-generation-covid-vaccines-are-heading-into-clinical-trials-update-10/
Both those new vaxes are supported by national health research agencies - a mucosal vax by NIH in the US, & a pancoronavirus vax by INSERM in France.
Other news includes US Project NextGen's first $1b for vax development, & the first clinical trial results for a pancoronavirus vax are around the corner (from Canada).
Dr Keith Walker
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Stochastic terrorism is "the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted." Donald Trump has been using social media to blast prosecutors, judges, and witnesses, and his followers have answered with calls for violence. If the ex-president is a stochastic terrorist, what should we do in response? https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/donald-trump-stochastic-terrorist-threats
Dr Keith Walker
boosted
Who would have thought 🙄
A study (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-2562.html) shows that women are more likely to win awards that are not named after men.
@ahmedbutt "Ruth" is by Elizabeth Gaskill. My mistake. I was thinking of "Pretty Lady" by AB.
@ahmedbutt I'm a steel maker, described as "not that odd" on Radio 4 for liking older novels with a big dollop of misery and moralising. I bet you are familiar with some of my favourites. "Old Wives Tale" and "Ruth" by Arnold Bennet, "Gone To Earth" by Mary Webb, but the best has to be "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton.
Dr Keith Walker
boosted
@davidallengreen There is no way to compel a monster or contrarian to be the performatively cowed repentant that some crave. Having the guilty laugh in the faces of victims is the inevitable outcome.
Justice is not a personal service.
Dr Keith Walker
boosted
@Frances_Coppola I've got some of those somewhere. They don't work. I bet it's cos they have a big A on them and my initial is K.
Dr Keith Walker
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Banking the #unbanked: focusing on commercial banks misses an opportunity. #Banks won't provide financial incentives such as lottery schemes for the poor to use banks. But another sector could - and should.
My new Coppola Comment post (paywall/free trial)
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/banking-the-unbanked-focusing-on
Dr Keith Walker
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"I think so many people just think it’s this place that has penguins and it doesn’t impact anyone,” says Bransome. “But it’s often referred to as the ‘beating heart of the planet,’ because the currents send nutrients to the global ocean feeding fisheries and biodiversity throughout the ocean. It stores the majority of heat and carbon that’s created. It really impacts us all.”
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@sciencebase My piano music is written as alternate 4/4 and 3/4 bars with a time signature on every one. The bass riff sounds silly on keys but everyone recognises it with a grin if you play it in a pub and sings 'moneeeey'.
@sciencebase It's not, though ;-)
Dr Keith Walker
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When people say they don’t want Biden to run again, the biggest reason is that he’s too old. When they say they don’t want Trump to run again, the biggest reason is that he is a criminal who will destroy our democracy. Do people honestly think there is any equivalence here?
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
