Jon Fielden retweeted
Pope Leo XIV to Del Toro: "You should have pulled on Finestre."
#GirodItalia
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Mer de Glace
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut
Jon Fielden retweeted
All of humanity’s problems,” Blaise Pascal said in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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Mittelberg Glacier
2011 | 2024
Only 13 years... 😱
Demise of the tongue of the 2nd largest Tirolean glacier (after Gepatsch), lying on the north side of Wildspitze (3768m), Tirol highest peak 🏔
📷 @glacionaut
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“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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The (former) Mer du Glace above Chamonix. When I first came here this valley was filled with ice. We are all responsible for this & yet I can hear helicopters carrying building supplies & ski infrastructure building work going on non-stop. We don’t learn (& I include myself)
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Last week Red Bull built a gigantic ski jump on a ski slope in Akureyri, Iceland. Ryōyū Kobayashi flew 291 meters and was in the air for over 10 seconds.
The video is magnificent.
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El fans club también tiene los deberes hechos para la navidad #frikicrossera
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Let's rejoice in the paltry benefits of ransacking everything (just) before there's nothing left! 🔥
This is the new Montenvers lower station, as close as possible to the remaining ice.
Cost: 53 M euros
Ice gone: 10 years from now at best
Pic: @ledauphine
Jon Fielden retweeted
Top 5 most seconds per km gained by 1st over 2nd in a Grand Tour time trial ever:
5.33 - Anquetil vs Bouvet - Tour 1961
4.38 - Vinge vs Pog - Tour 2023
4.2 - Poulidor vs Gabica - Vuelta 1965
3.77 - Maes vs Visers - Tour 1939
3.43 - Moser vs Fignon - Giro 1984
#TourDeFrance2023
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My students were always a bit gobsmacked when I showed them this in the Film Industry and Synergy classes.
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EN_Three of the six central towers are complete.
Today, a comparison of 2017 and 2022
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The trouble is that all the rest of them are just as loathsome as he is, just less noisy.
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I love how working as a lawyer is saying “this week is busy, but it will eventually slow down again” to yourself until you die.
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For years I’ve been struggling with a paradox that seems fundamental to our age. We live under a system that celebrates freedom and choice. Yet almost everyone in a position of power or influence subscribes to the same set of preposterous beliefs.
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Demonstrating the severity of the cobbles in terms we can understand. #ParisRoubaix #ParisRoubaixFemmes
cc. @yuccobicycle
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“It is not a disappointment that I will not be able to finish the Temple. I will grow old, but others will come after me. What must be always preserved is the spirit of the work; its life will depend on the generations that transmit this spirit and bring it to life.” A. Gaudí































