"Yes, Galaxy Pest Control, how can I help you?"

"Hi! I wonder if you could send out some exterminators. My Planet has been infested by some kind of creature, I don't know what to do..."

"Can you describe them?"

"Well, they are burrowing into the planet, and finding all kinds of nasty toxic and poisonous stuff, and then they build little homes with those toxins, and wrap themselves in it. Plus, I think they're fouling the whole Planet now by burning off those toxins, too"

"Ohh.,... I see... Yes, yes, I think you've been infested with Humankindus Horriblus! It's a tough job... We'll send over some Flying Space Exterminator Saucers right away!"

A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering now and we don't actually know what that's going to do to the atmosphere... ugh.

mastodon.social/@carlysagan/11…

#GetFediHired

Carly Sagan

2025-09-16 21:53:29

Are people really being hired through Mastodon posts? I feel embarrassed to put my CV on here but I see a lot of people doing it and my workplaces and funds are illegally removing the only women and would appreciate any help finding remote work in STEM
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#fedihire #getfedihired

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#Randomthoughts...

Even if #tRumps peace plan for #Gaza works, #Netanyahu and his cronies must still be held accountable at the #Hague ...

#JusticeMatters...

Nature abhors a vacuum. But sometimes She fills it with flowers. Honesty, I could not have done this on purpose if I tried.

#BloomScrolling

Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
theguardian.com/technology/202…

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."

But he adds:

"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."

#PublicDomain #OpenInfrastructure #Solid #Web

Why I gave the world wide web away for free

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

^{Tim Berners-Lee (The Guardian)}

The BBC fact-checked the key elements of Trumps speech and found them wanting.

This is what US media could — and should — have been doing all along but didn't.

Perhaps we could look forward to the BBC treating Farage in a similar manner.

#USPolitics
#Trump
#USMedia
#UKMedia

thepoke.com/2025/09/24/the-bbc…

The BBC's epic fact check of Donald Trump's UN speech just went wildly viral and all these Americans said the same thing

Donald Trump’s extraordinary speech to the United Nations was something to behold – even for Trump – although it was a measure of just how much people took notice of it that the thing everyone was talking about was that most unfortunate escalator inc…

^{John Plunkett (The Poke)}

This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.

Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."