George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.</p>
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Corey S Powell<p>I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character. </p><p>What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy whose image was bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy visible at the center. </p><p>Warped space, right before your eyes!</p><p><a href="https://esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nasa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nasa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/esa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>esa</span></a></p>
evacide<p>Weird how the jobs that AI-boosters say AI is going to replace never seems to include the management or executive class.</p>
Mastodon Engineering<p>We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our frontend and mobile devs.</p><p>Ideally:</p><p>1. You’re highly skilled in UX design, having led product strategy & design process<br />2. Proficient in Figma/Penpot, with interaction & usability design skills<br />3. Experienced in accessibility & privacy-conscious design</p><p>This remote fulltime position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.</p><p>For more info/to apply:<br /><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/d9e4d6d0-d360-4c86-9f04-5c14fbcab8ef" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/d9e4</span><span class="invisible">d6d0-d360-4c86-9f04-5c14fbcab8ef</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediHire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FediHire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GetFediHired" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GetFediHired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hiring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/product" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>product</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/designer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>designer</span></a></p>
uncapybarable<p>Lovely fucking neighborhood walk. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/somervillema" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>somervillema</span></a></p>
Janeishly<p>I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like</p><p>"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."</p>
Jo-stands on guard, elbows up.<p>They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion. <br />People aren’t flying to US. <br />Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does. <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>boycott</span></a></p>
Meanwhile in Canada
Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:<p>They are taking away the right to protest. </p><p>They are taking away the right to express political opinions.</p><p>They are taking away the right to protect your health.</p><p>These are all fundamental human rights.</p><p>Do not be silent about losing them.</p>
War and Peas 🧿<p>X Tree</p>
Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志<p>Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.</p><p>How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?</p><p>The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.</p>
Organic Maps<p>GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@forgejo" class="u-url mention">@<span>forgejo</span></a></span>). </p><p>Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:</p><p>- 54k commits<br />- 9.5k issues<br />- 4.3k pull requests<br />- 100k comments</p><p>Everything moved. Nothing left behind.</p><p><a href="https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/orga</span><span class="invisible">nicmaps</span></a></p>
Augie Ray<p>Can someone explain to me how destroying education, medical research, military intelligence, Social Security, the postal service and the weather service will make America great again? Because, it all seems designed to make Russia great again, from where I'm sitting.</p>
Electronic Frontier Foundation<p>A mythical spike in organized retail theft led states to OK a taxpayer-funded police shopping spree for electronic surveillance technology - mission creep at its worst, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told The Appeal. <a href="https://theappeal.org/shoplifting-panic-police-military-gear-license-plate-readers-facial-recognition/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theappeal.org/shoplifting-pani</span><span class="invisible">c-police-military-gear-license-plate-readers-facial-recognition/</span></a></p>
God :verified:<p>I must be getting old, y’all. The White House uses Signal to keep classified material secure, but it seems like just yesterday they were using the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago.</p>
JA Westenberg<p>My favorite conservative pastime is when they accidentally describe utopia while trying to scare people about socialism</p>
ProPublica<p>RFK Jr. announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services would cut 10,000 employees.</p><p>If you have been impacted by the layoffs, our reporters want to hear from you. You can reach out to us on Signal at 917-512-0201 or by going to <a href="https://www.propublica.org/tips/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">propublica.org/tips/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p>
Abandoned America<p>The abandoned Church of the Transfiguration - one of my favorite places, now long gone. Check out the gallery and find out the odd story of its demise which, oddly enough, involved Anne Hathaway's (now ex) boyfriend: <a href="https://www.abandonedamerica.us/church-of-transfiguration" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abandonedamerica.us/church-of-</span><span class="invisible">transfiguration</span></a></p>
charis<p>As feral rescue, Genie spent months running and hiding if I so much as looked at her. Now she cuddles up and accepts belly rubs. I feel so privileged that she trusts me<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a></p>
CryptPad<p>Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: <a href="https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unite.un.org/news/sixteen-orga</span><span class="invisible">nizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles</span></a></p><p>CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.</p><p>Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Forms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Studies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Studies</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
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