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Badibulgator
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Sur Cielbleu personne ne sait que je suis un chien. Curious about astronomy, computing, and other nerdy things. Recovering flerf herder.
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Hey I’ve seen one of the Pascalines in Musée des Arts et Métiers just last month…
Text on the panel in front of the exposed Pascaline, in three languages French version: FLOP OU PAS FLOP? • 1642: la machine arithmétique de Pascal Pascal prouve qu'il est possible de mécaniser le calcul. C'est révolutionnaire. Mais à l'époque, la fabrication manuelle des pièces rend la Pascaline peu fiable. Elle n'aura qu'un petit succès de curiosité. English version: FLOP OR NO FLOP? • 1642: Pascal's arithmetic machine Pascal proved that it was possible to mechanize calculation. It's revolutionary. But, at the time, the manual manufacture of the parts made the Pascaline unreliable. It went down to a small success of curiosity. Spanish version: ¿FLOP O NO FLOP? • 1642: la máquina aritmética de Pascal Pascal demostró que era posible mecanizar el cálculo. Es revolucionario. Pero, en ese momento, la fabricación manual de las piezas hizo que la Pascalina no fuera confiable. Solo tendrá un pequeño éxito de curiosidad.
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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…or SkySafari, or… a number of others ! 😉
Screenshot of my Astronomy apps folder, with SkySafari Pro, Stellarium, Redshift, Luminos, GoSkyWatch, Cosmic Watch, Exoplanet… Second page of my Astronomy apps folder with NASA, iStellar, SkyView, Star Walk, ISS Locator, Sputnik!, Night Sky, old versions of SkySafari…
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Aww this is super cute! 🥰

And it reminds me a bit of this comic strip I’ve come across, which I find cute too although in a different way - perhaps a "as perceived by socially awkward people" way…
A comic from Nathan Pyle’s "Strange Planet" series. See https://screenrant.com/best-strange-planet-comics-by-nathan-w-pyle/ The blue being on the right is crying. Being on the left: "Why does your face malfunction?" "Request mutual limbs enclosure" Being on the right: "permission granted" They hug. Right: "you are absorbing my face fluids" Left: "let me absorb let me absorb"
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Je ne vois pas trop comment la capture ferait ça (mais c’est peut-être juste un effet de mon ignorance) donc je penche pour un effet du traitement / changement de résolution.

J’ai pensé à une photo d’écran parce que j’en ai vu un bel exemple récemment :
Effet de moiré sur un écran installé rue Soufflot pendant la récente panthéonisation de Robert Badinter. Cet effet n’apparaît que sur la photo; visuellement, le fond de l’écran apparaissait uni. Autre photo du même effet de moiré sur un écran. Celle-ci est prise avec une caméra différente ("ultra-wide" de l’iPhone 14 pro, au lieu de la caméra "wide" pour les deux précédentes) et ne présente pas d’effet de moiré.
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max too, and yes it can capture stars, but in the image above the bright "stars" form the same patterns as the lights below, just inverted. As if each "star" is the reflected image of a light, symmetrical relative to the center of the image.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🤷‍♂️
"Is he dead yet?" asked Piglet. "No" said Pooh. "Fuck" said Piglet.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow

#Venus… Venus burning #bright
In the machinery of night…

#NightSky #SkyScape #photography
Bright Venus near the top of the picture, and, lower, a thin waxing crescent moon with earthshine, in a deep blue twilight sky above Parisian rooftops. Taken on March 1st 2025, 19:24 local time.
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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'Verloren im Dunst' #FotoVorschlag

Perdue dans la brume…

Believe it or not, cathedral Notre-Dame de #Paris is right here in the center of this picture, beside and just behind the brightly lit scaffolding, lost in the haze…

#photography
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
Ici, sûrement ce tweet classique de Katie Mack s’impose.
Screenshot d’un tweet de Katie Mack daté du 05/10/2014 à 11:40 🌓🌎🌞 <— lunar eclipse 🌎🌓🌞 <— solar eclipse 🌎🌞🌗 <— apocalypse
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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'Schaufenster' #FotoVorschlag

Vitrine de librairie à #Paris. Photo prise au crépuscule. Les livres sont dans la pénombre mais un globe terrestre éclairé de l’intérieur illumine la scène.

#photography
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Yay! 👍
Screenshot of the Helios app, showing that the bug is fixed.
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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@conradimatic.bsky.social Hi! I’ve noticed that in Helios recent versions (up to 5.0.6) the daylight and night durations seem to be always the same, which can’t be right!

More precisely, daylight duration seems to be ok (sunset time minus sunrise time), and night duration is wrongly the same.
Screenshot of Helios app showing the wrong nigh duration
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
"we’Re a rePubLiC nOt a dEmOCracY!" (heard many times in the other place back in the days)
To paraphrase Churchill, the most discouraging thing about democracy is a five minute conversation with someone who says "we're a Republic not a Democracy"
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow

#Evening on île Saint-Louis, #Paris

#photography
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
badibulgator.bsky.social
Totally! Become a Flat Earther!
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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🤪🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#UrbanGaze #Paris
#photography #streetphotography

What can I say? I like taking pictures of people taking pictures. 🤗
On a bridge at sunset, a model is posing for photos while another guy holds a spotlight high above his head. The model is a man who sits on a high stool. He’s shirtless and has lots of tattoos on his torso and his arms. A wider view of the same scene including the photographer in the bottom left of the image, crouching and holding a big camera pointing toward the model.
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
#UrbanGaze #Paris
#photography #streetphotography
Paris buildings across the river, a lamppost, the moon, and in the foreground, seen from behind, a person holding a smartphone whose screen is showing that same scene.
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
Does a shadow count as a silhouette ?
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
Ses résultats ont fuité!
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
On the other hand, I guess even people who live in a city and never visit the countryside will keep knowing about ducks, thanks to… autocorrect.
A picture of a smol yellow duckling, with the caption: Dear autocorrect. It’s never duck.
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
badibulgator.bsky.social
Yup, just now.
Before After
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Ça y est, je suis vacciné !
"Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent." Image is the corner of a room that looks like a murder scene with blood on the walls and a chest with a lamp and a small TV.
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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If can I believe these memes, this caterpillar must win every argument ever!
A scene from Star Trek, presumably. The woman who’s speaking wears a hat that looks a lot like the Sydney Opera House. "My hat’s hat has a hat. I believe that renders your argument invalid, Commander. " "My hat is two sharks. Your argument is invalid."
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Captain Neutron à la rescousse !
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM