Christopher Michael

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing:
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

whole lotta nothin’

JD!

Precisely why I’m in the dark on Phil Russel’s status. Do we know if he’s playing tomorrow?

DOGE terminates lease on FDA quality lab in St. Louis and 29 other sites DOGE says that it has terminated the leases of 30 FDA offices and buildings, including a 52,000 square-foot St. Louis-based lab that operates under the FDA's Office of Pharmaceutical Quality.

The St. Louis lab is a crucial part of the FDA's Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, employing 70 scientists and 10 researchers. It's an ISO-certified testing and research facility serving multiple FDA offices

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Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

Did em dirty. Top scorer going 2-11 FG ; 13-14 FT. You love to see it.

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

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This is as good a time as any to revisit the history of the creation of the NSF. It was inspired by a request from FDR after World War II to Vannevar Bush (Matthew Modine in "Oppenheimer"), who responded in a classic letter now known as "Science: The Endless Frontier". It is very inspiring.

It’s a big one. Tons of tickets available, too. I got resale tix six rows behind the bench for under $15.

@matsheltoneide.bsky.social VCU -10?!?! What did Vegas know and when did they know it?

The 30-Year Mortgage Wasn’t Designed for Climate Chaos As house-demolishing weather becomes increasingly common, more Americans will find themselves without a safety net.

Read this prescient feature from @pollymosendz.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social on the pressure climate change puts on insurance and mortgages in turn, published a few weeks ago. www.bloomberg.com/features/202... 🎁

For 1st time in history, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together • Alabama Reflector It's a milestone in a state that is 27% Black and where Black Alabamians have fought against voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

Not the biggest news today, but still worth noting: in the 119th Congress, Alabama will have two Black U.S. representatives serving together for the first time in history.

This didn't happen during Reconstruction. It took nearly 60 years after the Voting Rights Act, and lengthy litigation.

This is the correct summary. You could likely envision them fumbling the #4 seed on the last game of the year, too. But it’s all very mid.

When that moratorium passes, can we then work on the Zeb Jackson step back three?

It is a bummer and you probably couldn’t pick two harder road games to start the A10 this year.

Forget offensive game. These two dudes got 3 boards total tonight. WILD.

I don’t want to see Fermin all season.

You can be courtside for VCU @ Loyola Chicago for under $40 (prior to the sellout).

tell drake. i want him to know it was me. i played that shit 837283 times

Robbie Avila will LOVE watching this tape.

Incredibly frustrating to watch.

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When the one volunteer shift at the youth concession stand emails to say your shift got cancelled.