Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.

Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.

SpaceX is truly awful.

Inside the amazing Unst Boat Haven on Unst in the Shetland Islands: one of the most attractive and interesting museums in Scotland and well worth the trip from Shetland's Mainland to see, along with Unst's other attractions. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/unst/boathaven/index.html

#Scotland #Shetland #Unst

If over the weekend you have not watched Zack Polanski's new Party Political Broadcast for the Green Party of England & Wales.... take a couple of minutes to watch it now (on the party's front page).

When people voted Labour in the last election, many wanted them to say exactly this.... but now its Polanski saying it!

While its too early to be sure, for now I'm cautiously optimistic that the Green's may be about the benefit from Mark Carney's 'rupture'!

#Greens
https://greenparty.org.uk

Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.

I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.

I’m located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.

Boosts are appreciated. 🙏

#FediHire #webdev #typescript #backenddevelopment #fullstackdevelopment

A challenge for bookworms of the Fedi:

I remember reading a book, about thirty years ago, which was as far as I recall a sword-&-sorcery type fantasy novel in which the main character was a man who had as companion and familiar, a raven. Now, this would have passed uncommented on, except that at about the time I was reading the book, I met a raven at a bird sanctuary, and it was enormous!

I've a vague desire to read the book again, and I can't remember the title, the author, or even the character's name. Not even the raven's name.

Does it ring any bells?

Boosts welcome, if you are happy to do so!

#AmReading (I wish!) #FantasyReads

This is insane. I just got a warning that ICE is coming to my area in the next week to two weeks. I'm a Green Card holder, but they could still put me in a detention camp or deport me without warning — e.g. because I make social media posts critical of the government.

So until ICE have gone I'm going to have to hide indoors and avoid driving in case I encounter road blocks or get stopped on the street. 1/2