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Took this photo last year in December. Today it is just as cold and there is a little snow. So it fits well with today's #ThickTrunkTuesday
Have a nice and peaceful day.

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This is a formal portrait of the surviving Apollo astronauts. That's Buzz Aldrin in the silver tux. I have to imagine the conversation went like this:

ALDRIN: Ok, let's get started
PHOTOGRAPH: Mr. Aldrin, you are aware that this is a formal portrait?
BA: I'm not an idiot son.
PG: Well your suit-
BA: Son, have you been to the moon?
PG: No sir.
BA: Well I have. The moon. The motherlovin' moon. In a tin can run by a calculator and powered by a can of sterno. (1/)

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Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003, and replaced it with a restored stream and 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it transform the city’s public life and economic success, but the vehicle traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

#cars #cities #urbanism #Seoul #traffic #car

The post box outside my daughter’s London flat is looking splendid, sporting a new coat of paint. This means the view from her 1st floor (2nd floor in USA terminology) kitchen is improved; from this window she looks down onto the post box, & before its repaint the top was covered in bird-poo as there is a beautiful tree right next to it. Last time I visited, I bought a wire brush, donned a mask & scrubbed the top removing all the droppings to improve her aerial view. I was a bit scared, I admit, that I’d be arrested for “defacing His Majesty’s post box” so I did it after dusk! Anyway, Royal Mail have now completed the make-over - hurrah!

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I was quietly minding my own business taking photos of Bullfinches (small/far away) in a tree when this Robin came and perched right in front of my camera and demanded to have his picture taken. How could I refuse?

#AngryBirds 🤣

#Birds #BirdWatching #Twitching #Nature #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Photo #Photography #Robin

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This is important — A global study reveals that Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, getting 12.8 hours of exercise each week. The key—designing activity into daily life. The average #Dutch person cycles about 1,098 kilometers per year.

ipsos.com/en/global-views-to-s

#Dutch #Netherlands #Holland #cities #cars #HealthyCities #exercise #cityplanning #bikes

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This government appears to be heading towards a U.K. Universal Basic Income through sheer incompetence.

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@freemo thanks again for providing this server for me to lurk from. You and the other admins have been doing a good job for my experience on the Fediversr

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Twitter's down.

And here we all are .

Looking sheepish and thinking up excuses as to why we've not been here for ages.

LOVE YOU ALL!

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That feeling when you put your best smile on for a photo and still come away looking like an idiot.
#DogsOfMastodon

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I’ve just started reading “The Brompton - Engineering for Change” (brompton.com/shop/bike-accesso ) which is a history of the company rather than the bikes (although they obviously feature quite heavily!) and hopefully will contain some good business insights.

I’d had it on my Kindle’s to-buy list for a little while but came across a YouTube video this evening which prompted me to finally buy it: youtu.be/MBXYZ7vHmXw

#business #brompton #RaspberryPi #books

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@brklynsurfer every good yacht needs a tender. when I need to haul a big load, I bring it out. Otherwise the annual maintenance cost of that thing in the winter is not cheap. I'd rather have a little bike that I can wash in my tub and that can fairy me back-and-forth to my yacht.

Also, who doesn't want a brompton? #BikeTooter

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Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
#StarTrek #BlackHistoryMonth

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