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@BenjiNaesen honestly one of the more shocking parts of a very chaotic race

What the fuck. Why is Vlasov not getting a concussion test?! #TDF2024

Stage 1: #TDFF2024 photo of the day

Why are the northern Apennines in 🇮🇹 an earthquake hotspot? Presenter @vanHinsbergen explains in our first clip of this year's #Tour2024, @LeTour! Enjoy! @UUEarthSciences @UniUtrecht @knag @TNO_nieuws @AnaNov4k

Incredibly disappointed that @NBCSports and @peacock are not offering the world feed for the #tourdefrance this year. Can’t stand nbc commentators and commercials so jumped on FloBikes Canada to get the Ant/Nico commentary #tdfproblems

I used to think the @mspairport was well designed except just found out at G11-13 gates instead of seating they built a snack shop so people have to stand amongst stands of chips and waters instead of seats before boarding the plane. Incredibly #hostilearchitecture ugh

@joshritter there seems to be a side face that widens to the top, do you think that changes the perspective that makes it look like it's leaning? ramsa.com/projects/proje…

Hey NYC folks! I was coming into Manhattan yesterday on the 59th St. Bridge and saw what appears to me to be a crazily listing building. I’m told it’s 520 Park Ave. I watched it while in slow traffic, and I’m almost sure it’s not my perspective. Has anyone else noticed this?

It's getting better! As mentioned in a previous post, the clouds should tend to scatter out and diminish overnight. The aurora will likely last several hours, so the best viewing conditions here may not be experienced until overnight or toward dawn (3-5 AM).

hullloooo

What it’s like living with a black cat

The best portrait

The gravel stage 7 of the #GirodItalia is so dusty because the peloton rides through the young sedimentary rocks of the Volterra Basin. This is a former shallow sea that lies in the heart of Tuscany, and that rose up a couple of hundred meters in the last few million years. The Volterra Basin formed in Miocene and Pliocene time, say, the last 10 million years or so. It was filled with sands and marls (clay-limestone mixtures) and these make for really dusty cliffs and hills! Where sandstones are present, they often form hilltops. Sandstones are hard and durable and difficult to erode, so they protect clays below them from erosion. A good example we'll see in Volterra, whose castle is built on such a hilltop. But once the sandstones eroded away, the underlying clays erode easily and steep cliffs form. (Remember this story from the Tour of Flanders? geo-sports.org/2024/geology-o…) But where only unprotected clay is present, you'll see a lunar landscape with rugged topography made by a plethora of small gullies that eat their way into the rocks. Such a landscape is known as 'badlands' and today's gravel roads lie within them. They're known as the 'Crete Senesi' or the 'Clays of Sienna'. The stage ends at the edge of the basin: a big fault that goes straight through Rapolano Terme. The thermal hotsprings that this town is named after come up along this big fault. And they make their own unique rock: travertine. Those are limestones that crystallize from the springs, and they're often used as tiles. So today's stage is heavily influenced by the local geology. Enjoy the scenery, as the riders find their way through the badlands! (with thanks to @MeerDouwe) @UniUtrecht @UUGeo @UUEarthSciences

happy giro d'iltalia eve to those who celebrate! #giroditalia

@nychus bebes😍

I have to share this cute kitty pic. Look at these two. 💙 Iggy does get annoyed with little brother, but it’s clear Harley has a place in his heart 🧡

Saw an early showing of the ministry of ungentlemenly warfare and I really really enjoyed. Guy Ritchie delivers again. Fave movie so far this year, might see it again

Saturdays are for laying in bed so long that when you finally get up, there’s a power outage so all there’s left to do is get a bowl of cereal and get back in bed

What?? This is a fake cobble! This is not a Henegouwen porphyry granite, this looks like some dirty marble! Isn’t there a race geologist who checks these kind of things? #fakecobble

DON'T FEED THE PLANTS

i had my 2017 eclipse glasses on my little geico lizard for the last 5 years and of course I waited for tonight to look for them... oh well

Notable quake, preliminary info: M 4.8 - 7 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…