NYPD budget is 5.8 billion dollars

Note this down

A Marge Simpson lookalike bollard.

The Marge Simpson Bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.

To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

19th century soap ad.

Tar and Witch Hazel soap? Lettuce soap?

Some of the many crazy sounding scents in scents in this 1896 soap ad.

#c19th 🗃️

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Venice, Italy 🇮🇹
📸: @NicoloMiana

The Bluesky in Berlin

[SciTechDaily]Unprecedented Image of Black Hole's Powerful Jet and Shadow Captured by Astronomers - SciTechDaily Millimeter-VLBI image of the jet and the black hole shadow in Messier 87, obtained with the GMVA array including ALMA, the Greenland Telescope, and the telescope at Metsähovi. An...

A reminder that bluesky is built on top of an open protocol, called at protocol.

This means that other developers are able to theoretically permissionlessly build apps to compete with bluesky, utilizing the same data and usernames without having to worry about an API being shut down

Bee by Paratect

It's going to be a tough week... let's try anyway 😅🐝

GM Bsky

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They know! 😵‍💫😲😮😧😦😯😐🫤😶🫠🫥

#CHURCH!

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Midjourney mix on a real hidden cottage I found in Cheshire, England #midjourney

Image shows a beautiful stone staircase leading up to the main library, with a Romeo and Juliet like balcony above

The beautiful John Rylands Library in Manchester, England 📚 A real life Hogwarts!

It isn’t all bad news @aoc.bsky.social 🙏

This is the first accurate image of a black hole, made in 1978 by Jean-Pierre Luminet using punch cards on an IBM 7040.

Not only it closely resembles the model used for the movie 'Interstellar' but it's also not that different from the real one captured later by the Event Horizon Telescope.