This got me. Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
Someone was saying "can we just not with April fools" this year because everything is so grim and dire in the world... but I think this is such a perfect level we need. I could go for more whimsy like this.
I read the title and thought CERN + Mario Kart and am giggling.
Man I fell for it until I saw your post. In fact, I was just about to post what the man's name means in Italian.
I was even going to point out how ironic it is that the mans first name and last name fit together so well.
In my defense I only got as far as idraulico and missed the "Mamma mia, they're super!"
ah! got me too!
For me it was easier. While I forgot it was first april, the image was too outrageous. Looked like AI-generated slop.
They may have had more success with another image. AI slop made us lazy.
Small clue here too, maybe more subtle:
> explained school director, Rosalina Pfirsich, looking up from her storybook
Pfirsich in German means Peach, as in Princess Peach :D