Toots for misterscience@mastodon.world account

Written by Tom 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-14 at 00:25

In 2003, Chris Hughes developed "The Facebook." A fellow Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, went on Hughes' computer without permission and stole the program. Days later Hughes went missing, and has never been found. Zuckerberg waited until 2004 to release Facebook to the world, claiming he himself was it's creator. This story was hushed up until now, when Facebook decided to no longer fact-check posts for accuracy.

[#]Truth

[#]NoReally

[#]OkOkItsALie

[#]PleasePostOnFacebookIfYoureStillOnThere

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Written by Tom 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-03 at 18:53

"When I was little I thought you could grow up to be an animal, like as a job. I planned to be an alligator."

[#]StolenFromReddit

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Written by Tom 🇨🇦 on 2024-12-09 at 15:08

This is very revealing. The OP on Instagram (TheTransitGuy) attributes this to a lack of in-house capacity here in North America. I would add that the costly line items shown within soft costs are likely the main causes of the outrageously long timelines for Metrolinx projects.

[#]StolenFromInstagram #TheTransitGuy

[#]toronto #ontario

[#]transit

[#]TransitFail

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Written by Tom 🇨🇦 on 2024-12-01 at 22:48

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

One of Thomas Pynchon's "Proverbs for Paranoids" from Gravity's Rainbow

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Written by Tom 🇨🇦 on 2024-07-18 at 01:28

Papier mache effigy of Doug Ford, seen at the July 14 rally in support of the Ontario Science Centre. Sign around his neck reads "SCIENCE?! EDUCATION?! FUGGETABOUTIT HAVE A BEER!!"

[#]OnPoli

[#]ontario

[#]politics

[#]OntarioScienceCentre

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