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📅 September 29, 1829 — The Founding of London's Metropolitan Police A man named Sir Robert Peel said, "London's crime wave must finally be felled!" He launched the police, To bring order and peace, And "Bobbies" became what they're called on the beat! #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

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Cheaper than therapy for you, slightly worse for them. $3 postcards, mailed anonymously. docatcdi.com/go/postcards?s=bsky

Postcard front. Joke reads: Jokes about unemployed people aren't funny. They've never worked for me.

The underground badger community's third attempt at installing a sunroof without reading the instructions.

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🌌 Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely. What is sure is that Sh2-188 is one of the larger planetary nebulas on the night sky, by angular size, spanning about half the diameter of the Moon. Moreover, the white-dwarf core -- leftover from…

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some days after the algorythm.... #DocAfterDark

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Even the clock has adopted the "I'll get there when I get there" philosophy of every house cat ever.

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Smoke some weed save the bees plant more trees clean the seas titties

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ok but just because we can.... <> we should!

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When your favorite pizza joint hits you with the "it's not goodbye, it's just a geographic expansion of our emotional availability" speech.

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The rabbit's alibi completely unraveled the moment the chickens started comparing signatures on the shells. #DocAfterDark

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🌌 Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer, depicted here,…

Nothing says "collaborative workspace" like a surprise cranial adjustment during the morning standup.

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He didn't just retire his cane—he sent it into early retirement while his hat achieved escape velocity.

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📅 September 27, 1905 — Einstein Publishes E=mc² A clerk in a Swiss patent place, Wrote equations that altered our space. He showed mass equals E, Divided by c²—you see, And forever transformed the whole race! #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

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You pick the victim. I pick the stamp. $3 per card, no return address, no explanation. docatcdi.com/go/postcards?s=bsky

Postcard front. Joke reads: How do you think the unthinkable?

With an itheberg...

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Meet Gerald, who is having a profound identity crisis between being a bear and being a very anxious blueberry.

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🌌 Andromeda before Photoshop What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces normal imperfections. The…

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Welcome to the original gated community where occupancy rates have held steady for centuries and nobody ever complains about the noise levels.

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📅 September 26, 1960 — The First Televised Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate A senator with charm and a tan, Faced Nixon—a pale, sweaty man, The TV revealed What radio concealed: That looks shape who wins in a plan. #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

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Turns out whales have the second largest penis in the ocean when I'm swimming

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These eggs are having an identity crisis somewhere between being breakfast and being modern art.

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The rats are currently in a heated debate about whether this plaza counts as gentrification or just really aggressive zoning.

📅 September 25, 1513: Balboa Sights the Pacific Ocean A Spaniard named Balboa, so keen, Hacked through jungle, the thickest he'd seen. From a peak in Darién, He gazed out and then— Claimed the *whole* Pacific for his queen! #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

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$1 to find out what this is. Code FIRSTMISTAKE. One joke, one mailbox, no explanation. docatcdi.com/go/postcards?s=bsky

Postcard front. Joke reads: Which celebrity chef would you most like to fix you a meal?
Gordon Ramsay, because he could make even my cooking look good!

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When you tell a sea urchin it can be anything so it chooses "athleisure accessory."

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The quarterly HOA meeting is in session and everyone already hates the proposed bylaw changes.

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Nobody told him the iceberg would have separation anxiety and a fully visible nervous system.

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📅 September 24, 1957 A crisis in Little Rock came, When nine students challenged the shame. Ike sent troops to the school, Said, "The law's not for fools!" And integration would never be the same. #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

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so.... I got kicked out of the hospital... apparently that sign that read "Stroke patients here" did not mean what I thought it did...

Postcard front. Joke reads: so.... I got kicked out of the hospital...

apparently

that sign that read "Stroke patients here"

did not mean what I thought it did...

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Fourteen local pigeons have gathered to debate whether this open house represents a meaningful upgrade in perching infrastructure or just another human building with deeply suboptimal ledges.

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🌌 The Ghosts of Five Supernovas The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled together,…

In the wild, the majestic Bridgeport Mill stands motionless for 23 hours a day contemplating why it was assembled with feet but no legs.

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📅 September 23, 1846 — Discovery of the Planet Neptune A mathematician worked late through the night, Said "A planet should be *right there* in sight!" Le Verrier did the math, Galle followed his path, And Neptune emerged in the telescopic light! #TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

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I will mail this to someone you know. Real card, real stamp, no return address. $3. “I don't mean to brag, but I just completed my daughter's jigsaw in under 1 hour.” docatcdi.com/go/postcards?s=bsky

Postcard front. Joke reads: I don't mean to brag, but I just completed my daughter's jigsaw in under 1 hour.

It said 5-6 years on the box.

When you and your brother both independently decide that today's official mission is strictly horizontal.

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🌌 A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its…

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