Dave Howcroft 🦔 is participating in action short of a strike ✊️

@davehowcroft.com

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Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them Languages: en, de, fr, sv Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh

two drinking fountains / water fountains, one of which has a bottle filling station built in
dinosandcomics 3 panel comic. A dapper dino says "teamwork is very important", a group of dinos stand before them holding up a sign saying "union", the dapper dino says "not like that."
Screenshot from the performance art piece "Shia LaBeouf" with an image of Jesus' face pasted over the Shias and the caption altered to say "Wait! He isn't dead! Jesus surprise!"
An orange cat sits on a forklift, the caption says "this cat does not comply with osha regulation..." bc he has no reflective clothing, he's not wearing a hard hat, and is sleeping during forklift operation
A very spiky graph showing that I listened to audiobooks every day this month
Bluesky trending showing: BTS, Reform Party, Tory Dynamics, Kemi Badenoch, Bandido, AEW Wrestling
Picture of St Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi, partly obscured by green hedges in the plaza
View of a karst landscape from the top of one of the peaks. A body of water is in the foreground with peaks filling the rest of the left and right side of the frame, as well as the background. A late afternoon sky fills the upper third of the image.
A bunch of airport books on display at the Sydney airport. Along them is "The Let Them Theory", which has been covered on the podcast "If Books Could Kill"
Performers in Vietnamese traditional clothing are seated on a stage, some with instruments, performing a song. In the background we see the name of the restaurant Dong Son Drum and a screen announcing this is the conference gala dinner for INLG 2025
A white enby with hair pulled back smiles at the camera with their eyes, rocking their denim jacket and an FFP2 mask. A backpack strap is visible.
Dave stands in front of a red Royal Mail postbox holding their ballot envelope in the vote for strike action. In front of the envelope, they hold the insert explaining why you should vote Yes to strike action and Yes to action short of a strike!
Cover of a light Grey book with red text indicating that it's the proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics
Website overview from DDG. The title is "Red-Pilles Movie Reviews" for worth it or woke dot com. It says "BASED reviews" and the summary says "honest Christian conservative reviews of movies, TV shows, and games. Explore content aligning with your family values at worth it or woke".
A Dave wearing glasses with long blond hair smiles and toasts you with their Bruch bier
a blond haired person in a blue shirt and orange trousers poses next to their academic research poster
Wearing my colorful dungarees and a purple shirt holding up my big B with the T placard posing with a queer affirming reverend and others at St Augustine Church during Pride
Seven researchers from University of Aberdeen pose from the balcony of the Glasgow University Union's debate chamber. The balcony and its seats are warm wood colored and the stage behind them gives a similar theatre vibe. The welcome slide for the conference is displayed on a projector above the stage.
Texts in the colors of the UCU reading "Stop the cuts: fund higher education now!" with stylized scissors and bits of background cut away. A pound sign lurks in the D of fund.
Dave poses in front of a pink poster for the show "Seagully Blonde" wearing their denim jacket and holding a beer
Picture of a laptop screen, showing the poster for my paper "Exploring the impact of data representation on neural data-to-text generation" and my face as I joined the INLG 2024 poster session remotely this morning.
four chairs sit empty on a stage as a crowd with blurred faces eagerly waits for the show to start
A round faced white guy with goateeand stubble smiles at the camera and raises a half pint glass, wearing a cool red jacket in a warmly lit pub
A white guy with a goatee wearing femme framed glasses chills out by the lake. His hair is dyed blond but his roots are showing.
Fediverse statistics in July 2023. 11 million total users, up 5.7m since last month. 24.5k servers, up 11.2k from last month. 2 million monthly active users, up 617k since last month.
A person with dyed hair and wild eyes sticks out their tongue at you ferociously
A person with a goatee and dyed blond hair on top of a brunette head holds up a mug where the number 25 is stylised to be an owl logo
Feet in grey sandals with straps around the ankles. The feet are on a bus and their nails are painted, different colors for each foot
A Dave with floof brown hair and nice glasses frames chills in a Starbucks
A leg wearing short shorts seen from above POV with a purple and orange running shoe at the end
A vibrant blue sky, with some very green sunny leaves in frame as well
Brown haired guy wearing circular rimmed glasses watches TV on a dark colored sofa
A fluffy black cat is visible between two spread legs clothed in gray trousers. A light pink fleece forms a ceiling warming the cat
Plaque honoring claire hopkin for reaching what's hot
A circular blue plaque for welsh heritage declared that Claire Hopkins, an extraordinary skeeter, reached what's hot on 19 may 2023
A voidcat sitting in a catbed looking up at the camera somewhat annoyed at being disturbed from grooming
Screenshot of a post by @_dmh@tech.lgbt on Mastodon with a picture of a black cat sitting near a radiator. The text reads: The #Caturday game on BS is pretty good, but I know we can fill the #fedi with a #megathread of #cats if we want to. I'll start! Let's see if we can beat their so-called hellthreads with more than 65536 cat posts in a single thread. Please help if you're in the mood for silly nonsense and feel free to ignore if you are not 💛 #PleaseBoost
A grey sky dominates the portrait image but some underexposed cherry blossoms brighten up the bottom right corner
Alan Rickman exposes a genetalia-less crotch as an angel in the movie Dogma
A human with name wearing a cloth mask with flowers and cats on it smiles for the camera behind a pin they are holding up which says "alas, the straights"