Hugo (@Tontonis) profile picture

Build a better something. Be the ankylosaur your heart desires. He/him.

Floating down the Thames
Joined July 2008
Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)Photo by Hugo (@Tontonis)
I know ads will target you by demographic slices but I'd rather being middle-aged and a bloke didn't result in a couple of days of Matt Walsh before every youtube video. Maybe don't feed prejudice to demographics likely to never experience it.
2
61
Northern Irish transphobe
121
3,207
323
20,865
Can confirm. Of course the 1990s child safety videos with 100-percent-not-gay-people did wonders for not-straight kids. Shits the same.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
79
Broadly this applies to everyone. You're local conditions aren't global.
Dear US academics, if you're writing about something in the US context, please say that explicitly in your key sentences. How things work in US society is not necessarily universal, in fact it's frequently pretty weird compared to big swathes of the rest of the world.
56
The folks @makersasylum in India were on this from the beginning but got basically no support and no press because tech media wanted to focus on a white savior narrative and tech bros making useless 3D-printed masks and Arduino bag stomper ventilators. teapawt.org/makersasylum/status/13…
A key treatment for pneumonia has long been inaccessible to many people in the global South. But the pandemic is quietly starting to change that, @sandyong_yx and @EmmaSAanne report for @undarkmag: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
5
34
1
196
Where are me Twitter adjacents migrating?
Love is planing scaffold boards smooth and square. And making pacman noises with the vice
1
The Ukrainian counteroffensive has been slowed down by a stubborn hedgehog.
482
5,736
786
41,451
So #SciComm twitter, outreach in the context of working for a company. Asides from leaning hard into transparency, what should I be conscious of?
Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems.
203
4,750
873
25,296
Building better bollards, a case study
1
Niche references time, haven't been here since Random Twip Cwub days. It's a lot warmer this time.
1
Frophecies - the word you didn't know you needed for Call of Cthulhu
Exclusive inclusivity.
1
6
If the phrase RABIES means anything to you it's happening again this year in 4 weeks or so! Please let me know if you'd like to take part.
1
1
Megan Rapinoe comes out forcefully for trans inclusion in sports and health care. "We’re putting everything through God forbid a trans person be successful in sports. Get a grip on reality and take a step back." She's a national treasure. This is how you ally.
262
5,583
409
30,134
So help my biscuits - why don't you write ally or whatever tag in your profile? Because I don't get to decide that, so help me if I find another circle of white blokes discussing -ism without just bulk quoting other authors I'll go eat my weight in sausages.
1
2
I'll 100% admit this is an extension of my "being loud on the internet isn't changing your echo chamber" (unless you have a big follower count, in which case rave on), but the comical lack of google-fu of your average hominid is sometimes concerning.
1
C'est quoi c'est bordel?! Actually no, come, host a big thing outside London! Great Yarmouth feels appropriate.
Wow!🤯 @NASA have just released this spectacular comparison between an image captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the same region of space seen by Webb's Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) 👇 Exciting times ahead for Infrared Astronomy! 🤩
Replying to @NASAWebb
Webb’s image, taken by its MIRI instrument, features light from “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons." These molecules of carbon & hydrogen help us better understand the gas that exists between stars. Get ready for Webb to #UnfoldTheUniverse in unprecedented detail this summer!
1
8
15