Half a million people went to see yesterday's stage of the Tour de France, in person.
It's amazing to me how popular cycling is in Europe.
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@smellsofbikes@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06electron rancher, bicycle medic. Colorado. Ex-G+ user. Femtoinfluencer. I build stuff and ride bikes. 少し日本語を話します。
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@TheJen@beige.party a friend who may see this is driving cross country with a car filled with roasted hatch chili right now because it's only $1/pound if you buy 50 pounds or more
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@renardboy@mastodon.social when they say "the economy is good" they mean their economy, the billionaires, and when they say "freedom of speech" they mean their speech. None of that applies to anyone who actually has a job.
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@renardboy@mastodon.social "freedom of speech" but only when it's what the king wants you to say
Cute bat house at the college down the street
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social somehow my life has been arranged such that I've seen far more glowing brassiers than glowing braziers. I even own one.
Purple hour
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social They issued special (legal) coins, there was a steam engine all gussied up for the occasion that crossed the US, there was no partisan demagoguery... We had a bicentennial license plate in our state.
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@renardboy @MLE_online Watterson never scrimped in the detail of his machinery, but he was particularly good at bicycles.
I want to hear the New York Philharmonica. Can you imagine 150 of them being played by experts?
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@WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social the overarching theme of the Murderbot scifi series isn't precisely this but it's pretty closely related.
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@cmccullough@polymaths.social I've used online tutors and language apps. If you really stick to a language app it can help but it's not a good way. Tutors are great because they listen and respond intelligently but $$$.
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@0h00000000@ioc.exchange I've really appreciated how easy standard hot glue is to stick bodge wires on. You don't even need a hot glue gun. Clip a snippet off a hot glue stick, put it on the wire, touch it with the soldering iron, then once on each side so it flows out onto the pcb, and it's solid. It's also very easy to remove (fully) if need be, with a hard pull.
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@attoparsec I regret that I can only boost this once.
I'm printing it out and sticking up a copy in my office.
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@KentNavalesi@mstdn.social nonzero chance he's sick and if you live in the western us nonzero chance he has bubonic plague or a hantavirus. I'd put out water for him and stay away and make sure no pets get near it if possible.
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@orci when elephants fight the grass suffers.
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@clive@saturation.social this is awesome.
@reiayanami@aus.social we have someone killed locally by elk somewhat frequently, and it's almost always because they walk right up and take a flash picture and scare the hell out of the elk.
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@aronow@hachyderm.io big eevee vibes here
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@jlamoree @MLE_online this is what I was thinking about, or my exgf that would drink half finished glasses at the bar to save money.
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@wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social @User47@vmst.io @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @superflippy@mastodon.xyz I think "packs" is the right term here, especially since there's some evidence they coordinate hunting.
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@futurebird instead the country gets a golden toilet
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @attoparsec Yeah, in his all too familiar to me guise of cranky cyclist.
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@attoparsec that's okay: it stands on its own.
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@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt this is absolutely the breast solution for this problem.
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@angiebaby my mom once told me that the horror isn't that you become your parents, it's that you no longer mind becoming your parents.
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@rachel type 2a: wasn't fun, isn't fun in hindsight, but you're optimistic that at some point it WILL seem fun in hindsight, maybe after you've recovered from the injuries.
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@concretedog I'd definitely like to see more details on this
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@nando161@partyon.xyz hurkle durkle mornings as well
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@MLE_online UNopened cans isn't dirtbag.
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@SuperSelena64@vmst.io nice scope!
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@SuperSelena64@vmst.io 10/10 would view again
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@woozle@toot.cat tagging @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social for this brilliance. (I've seen it show up off Mastodon already!)
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social That's not taking a break, that's planning entirely new and more heinous hate crimes.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social I wonder how many one person could eat.
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@mdwyer@mastodon.social I didn't realize you had roots in that specific area. I'm going up Wednesday to grab stuff from my mom's and grandmom's houses in case it starts moving east more quickly.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social not just childhood.
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@brianb if this is a basically cheap bike, it will either have a bsa 68 or 73mm wide bottom bracket (you can tell by measuring the width on the frame) or it will have an Ashtabula bb, which has pressed in shells. Most likely bsa 68. You also need the spindle length, end to end, in mm. Often stamped on the spindle, like 68-124.
If you can find an intact bearing ball to measure, you can repack with just them, use grease, skip the retainer ring, add 2 extra balls, available online.
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org zero surprises here
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@akkana I don't know! Mine are on the side of my barn, up high.
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@c_dan4th I'm pretty sure I recognize that lovely spot.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social aye, the mustard factory production line control computer
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social "instead" not "before"