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CNU '20 All tweets are my own & don’t reflect the opinions of those around me.

[Austin Urch ن @austinurch]

Aahhh finals week, CNU's largest and most loathsome pajama party.

[Tour de France™ @LeTour]

🔄 RT if you think 🇺🇸 @QuinnSimmons9 is the Super-combative of the #TDF2026!

🔄 RT si vous pensez que 🇺🇸 Quinn Simmons est le Super-combatif du #TDF2026 !

👋 @century21fr l @LidlTrek

[Tour de France™ @LeTour]

🔄 RT if you think 🇪🇨@RichardCarapazM is the Super-combative of the #TDF2026!

🔄 RT si vous pensez que 🇪🇨 Richard Carapaz est le Super-combatif du #TDF2026 !

👋 @century21fr l @EFprocycling

[Bence Czigelmajer @cycloben2]

Everyone is rightfully talking about Tadej Pogačar after today's epic performance, but it would be a sin not to commemorate this trio, because what Richard Carapaz, Lenny Martinez and Sepp Kuss did for 10 kilometres on Alpe d’Huez among 300,000 spectators was one of the best half-hour segments of cycling in the current decade racing-wise. They brought out my 12-year-old self who marvelled at the world when he started watching cycling, and after a very long time they managed to make me step out of my analyst role and simply enjoy the entire climb to Alpe d'Huez. For me, and for many others, they won fans for themselves (not that I didn’t already like them before… :))

#TDF2026

[EF Pro Cycling @EFprocycling]

🚂🔴⚪️ KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, KING OF THE QUEEN STAGE.

Richard Carapaz wins on Alpe d’Huez on Stage 20 of @LeTour 💥

📸: @GettyImages

[Roadman Podcast @Roadman_Podcast]

Your Sunday group ride is probably doing more for men’s mental health than most corporate wellness programmes & therapy combined.

Nobody calls it therapy.
That is why it works.

A group of men meet in a car park at 8am.
They insult & abuse each other’s equipment.
Argue about tyre pressure.
Pretend not to be cold.

Ride side by side for three hours.
And somewhere between the first climb and the coffee stop, actual life gets discussed.

The business that is struggling.
The parent who is sick.
The relationship that is falling apart.
The anxiety nobody mentioned in the office.
The fear of getting older.

There is no circle of chairs.
Nobody is asked to “share.”
No wellness consultant is taking notes.

They are just moving forward together.

A lot of men communicate better shoulder to shoulder than face to face.

Give them a difficult road, a shared destination and enough time, and the conversation eventually becomes honest.

Modern life has removed many of the places where this used to happen.

The factory floor.
The local club.
The pub where everyone knew your name.
The community organisation.
The football team you stopped playing for at 32.

Work replaced most of it.
Then remote work replaced the people at work.

Now a man can spend five days moving between a laptop, a car and a television without having one meaningful conversation.
We call this efficient.

It is also incredibly lonely!

Cycling accidentally solves part of the problem.

It creates routine.
Shared suffering.
Responsibility.
Belonging.

A reason to show up when you would rather stay in bed.

The group notices when you disappear.
They notice when you are unusually quiet.
They notice when you are riding badly.

They may not ask if you are okay in those exact words.
They might ask why “you’re glued to the road today”?

But the question is still there.

This is why local cycling clubs matter.

Not because the world needs more people chasing Strava segments.
Because adults need somewhere they are expected to appear.

Community is not a WhatsApp group.
It is someone noticing you were not there.

Protect your group ride.
Invite the rider who is drifting away.

Wait at the top of the climb.

The coffee stop might be doing more good than anyone realises.

[EF Pro Cycling @EFprocycling]

NEILSON POWLESS IS SO BACK 🔥

The American takes the dub on stage 3 at the Tour of Austria

"It's really nice to be winning bike races again" - @NPowless

[Siobhan Nolan @SGNolan]

I forget that most of the world wasn’t fully aware of the absolute cuckoo bananas circus that is CONCACAF, and I am so, so happy that they’re getting such an on-brand introduction to the madness with this World Cup.

[Kalshi FC @KalshiFC]

🚨 Vozinha has completed more dribbles at the Knockout round of the 2026 World Cup than Cristiano Ronaldo.

[Juan @socraticjuan]

Plays like shit, scores a penalty, gets bailed out by his teammates, collects the individual accolades, repeat.

Story of this guy’s career.

[Dan @CfcDan_01]

🚨Zlatan Ibrahimovic on VAR after Croatia’s last-minute equaliser vs Portugal was ruled out:*

This referees are doing everything possible for Ronaldo to win the world cup but they will say Messi is the FIFA boy , This ball was never an Offside because the ball didn't touch the Croatia player , This is pure daylight robbery.

"The referee and VAR have just erased what should have been one of the greatest moments of this World Cup.”

"Let’s be clear: if you’re going to cancel a goal in the 90th minute, the evidence has to be beyond doubt. I’ve watched the incident multiple times, from every angle, and I still don’t see anything conclusive enough to overturn it.”

"If you’re in that VAR room for minutes, pausing, zooming, drawing lines to a shoulder, a boot, a heel… it’s not clear and obvious. And if it’s not clear, the goal must stand. That’s the whole point of VAR.”

"The referee has allowed technology to become the main character. But fans don’t fill stadiums or stay up late to watch a screen. They come for football — for drama, for emotion, for moments you remember forever.”

"Croatia showed real fight. They dug in, they scored late, they thought they’d earned a dramatic equaliser to keep their dream alive. Then one decision ripped it away, and that decision will be argued about for years.”

"This is why confidence in VAR is collapsing. It’s no longer fixing obvious mistakes. It’s hunting millimeters that nobody in the stadium can see with their own eyes. That’s not what football is supposed to be.”

"I feel for those Croatian players more than anything. You celebrate, you believe your World Cup is back on, and then it’s gone in seconds. For me, the referee on the pitch and VAR in the booth both got it wrong.

[Madrid Xtra @MadridXtra]

🚨🗣️ Luka Modrić on VAR and the penalty: “We deserved much more. Some things didn't go our way. If the situation had been reversed, VAR would NEVER have intervened.

I said from the beginning, when VAR was introduced, that I didn't like it. It's useful for some things, but it's being used incorrectly or selectively. VAR should only intervene if it's a 200% clear mistake.

Today's incident was NEVER a penalty. They were both holding each other and both fell. You can't decide a match like this with a penalty like that.

These things frustrate me because they decide people's fate. They affect your emotions after everything you sacrifice and fight for.

We have young players coming through, and then something like this happens. It hurts, especially because it always seems to go against us. Still, we won't use it as an excuse.”

[Bill Walsh @wwalsh]

Balogun was in on goal. He beat the defender and was about to score.
No red card. No penalty. No yellow card. No foul. No review.
The bizarre thing is that Fox Sports showed a replay that began just AFTER the defender let go of the arm. So weird. How could the officials miss this? And how could the TV crew miss it as well? @USMNT

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

BALL. DON’T. LIE.

[Sean Agnew @seanagnew]

The road in 1776 wasn’t easy either

[Austin Urch ن @austinurch]

who from WHERE?!?!

[Ulises @UlisesDavid__]

Hitler desde el cielo viendo que Austria tiene jugadores negros:

[Austin Urch ن @austinurch]

@jessbutawesome Should be a holiday but that’s just my opinion i guess

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Sinneswandel 🌓 @Sinneswandel3]

The Buc-ee's Beavers made it to Japan.

This is the greatest night in the history of our sport!

#tjpw

[Jordan Patu @Jordan_Patu]

Greatest babyface performer Japan has seen since Tanahashi retired