Today, 12 April 1961, the human race took a tiny baby step off the planet of its birth when Yuri A. Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrone aboard Vostok 1.
Duke Riley, the owner of East River Tattoo in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, had always been obsessed with birds in the urban landscape and closely followed the story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl.
He never did get to see Flaco in person but had still been saddened when the owl died in February, he said.
Now, more than a dozen people have new tattoos of Flaco — whose escape from the Central Park Zoo and life on the loose enthralled New Yorkers — after Riley’s tattoo parlor offered original designs of the owl at a discounted rate on Thursday.
“I just wanted to give people an opportunity to sort of commemorate his life,” Riley said.
The tattoos are just one example of Flaco’s legacy. Fans have created T-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. Legislation that had been introduced in Albany that would require bird-friendly material to be used in more buildings in New York State was renamed the FLACO Act — “Feathered Lives Also Count.” The New York City Council introduced a bill that would deploy contraceptives to rodents in place of rat poison, in the hopes of shrinking the rat population and protecting wildlife, like Flaco, from being poisoned...
1831: The Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, collapses while troops are marching over it. Oops.
1861: The US Civil War begins as traitors open fire on Fort Sumter.
1864: Traitor forces in the US Civil War commit a war crime by massacring Black Union soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1900: Puerto Rico is granted limited self-rule by US Pres. McKinley.
1927: Chinese warlord Chian Kai-shek orders the Communist leaders in Shanghai murdered.
1937: Sir Frank Whittle ground tests the first jet engine designed to propel an airplane.
1945: US Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dies; he is succeeded by VP Harry Truman. In a hole in the ground inside Berlin, Hitler is cheered up – but not for long.
1955: The Salk polio vaccine is declared safe and effective.
1961: With a shout of “Let’s go!” Yuri A. Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1, becomes the first human to reach Earth orbit.
1981: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, is launched.
1983: Harold Washington becomes the first Black Mayor of Chicago.
1999: US Pres. Bill Clinton is cited for contempt in a civil suit. He is later fined and disbarred.
2009: Zimbabwe officially abandons its own currency.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Edward de Vere, Henry Clay, Ann Miller, Jane Withers, Herbert Khaury, Ed O’Neill, David Letterman, David Cassidy, Andy Garcia.
Obituaries: Charles Messier, William Tweed, Clara Barton, Franklin Roosevelt, Josephine Baker, Joe Louis, Abbie Hoffman, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lecil Travis Martin, Gilbert Gottfried.
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a man with an oil slick for a face making the oddest gestures with his weird little hands..
DJTDT
To know them is to loath them.
Oof.
I don't mean to get maudlin, but, I am thinking of our old friend Big Bad Bald Bastard.
I miss that guy. And his friend Ginger.
<pouring one out>
Re: OJ
He had a few good runs of it!
;^}
_White Son of the Desert_ is the film Yuri watched before his first flight to space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auj_u7wEyw8
Love this
https://spoutible.com/thread/30242483
Today, 12 April 1961, the human race took a tiny baby step off the planet of its birth when Yuri A. Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrone aboard Vostok 1.
Music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ee6p4z29Q
Uh ... didn't every country in the world sign that space treaty like 40 years ago?
𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘀 '𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲' 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗼𝘀
China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/11/space_force_us_industry/
𝗙𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗼 𝗜𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸.
Duke Riley, the owner of East River Tattoo in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, had always been obsessed with birds in the urban landscape and closely followed the story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl.
He never did get to see Flaco in person but had still been saddened when the owl died in February, he said.
Now, more than a dozen people have new tattoos of Flaco — whose escape from the Central Park Zoo and life on the loose enthralled New Yorkers — after Riley’s tattoo parlor offered original designs of the owl at a discounted rate on Thursday.
“I just wanted to give people an opportunity to sort of commemorate his life,” Riley said.
The tattoos are just one example of Flaco’s legacy. Fans have created T-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. Legislation that had been introduced in Albany that would require bird-friendly material to be used in more buildings in New York State was renamed the FLACO Act — “Feathered Lives Also Count.” The New York City Council introduced a bill that would deploy contraceptives to rodents in place of rat poison, in the hopes of shrinking the rat population and protecting wildlife, like Flaco, from being poisoned...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/nyregion/flaco-tattoos-brooklyn.html
𝘓𝘰𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰…. 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘟 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 @𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘬, 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐'𝘮 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣 𝘸𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦. 𝘱𝘪𝘤.𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳.𝘤𝘰𝘮/9𝘷𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘧𝘖𝘺𝘚𝘝
— 𝘏𝘢𝘫𝘦 (@𝘏𝘢𝘫𝘦) 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 11, 2024
𝗫 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/x-is-removing-ability-to-hide-checkmarks-for-premium-users/
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Get your DJT shares now! Before it's too late!
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱
Founding CEO says former assistant plotted "coup d'état," hacked his accounts.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/more-legal-acrimony-for-truth-social-as-executive-says-he-was-hacked/
Wanna see an image of an electron crystal?
https://gizmodo.com/electrons-wigner-crystal-image-physics-1851402898
Today . . . in HISTORY!
1831: The Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, collapses while troops are marching over it. Oops.
1861: The US Civil War begins as traitors open fire on Fort Sumter.
1864: Traitor forces in the US Civil War commit a war crime by massacring Black Union soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1900: Puerto Rico is granted limited self-rule by US Pres. McKinley.
1927: Chinese warlord Chian Kai-shek orders the Communist leaders in Shanghai murdered.
1937: Sir Frank Whittle ground tests the first jet engine designed to propel an airplane.
1945: US Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dies; he is succeeded by VP Harry Truman. In a hole in the ground inside Berlin, Hitler is cheered up – but not for long.
1955: The Salk polio vaccine is declared safe and effective.
1961: With a shout of “Let’s go!” Yuri A. Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1, becomes the first human to reach Earth orbit.
1981: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, is launched.
1983: Harold Washington becomes the first Black Mayor of Chicago.
1999: US Pres. Bill Clinton is cited for contempt in a civil suit. He is later fined and disbarred.
2009: Zimbabwe officially abandons its own currency.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Edward de Vere, Henry Clay, Ann Miller, Jane Withers, Herbert Khaury, Ed O’Neill, David Letterman, David Cassidy, Andy Garcia.
Obituaries: Charles Messier, William Tweed, Clara Barton, Franklin Roosevelt, Josephine Baker, Joe Louis, Abbie Hoffman, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lecil Travis Martin, Gilbert Gottfried.
Stock of the Day - Schadenfreude, Inc.
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