<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://norcal.social/@UweHalfHand" class="u-url mention">@<span>UweHalfHand</span></a></span> Fair, fair. Turns out it&#39;s not enough to try to get into the record books!</p>

<p>TIL that PG Wodehouse seems very popular in Italy (or at least was once upon a time)? I have to assume it&#39;s equally funny, or else why would this many books exist. But does the humor *translate*, or is it just a different thing with the same storylines? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Italy25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Italy25</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Well, most importantly, he rode down the Stelvio without all that gear *and lived*! 👀🤪🤯😝</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/@artemist" class="u-url mention">@<span>artemist</span></a></span> idk, I just wiggle the antenna, secure element is handled by a completely different bunch of nerds.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> wtf!!!!!</p>

<p>I did not realize it until now, but it appears there is an equivalent to Reinhold Messner for cycling, and it appears I saw him today. Almost tempted to cancel my plans for the weekend and hang out in that square in the hopes of finding him again. Dang, should have looked him up right away.</p>

<p>Came across this guy in the Prato della Valle in Padova today and wish I&#39;d known who he was at the time. He&#39;s apparently 87 and holds several cycling records. Most of all: he&#39;s ridden down the Stelvio, at night, with no handlebars, lights, or brakes. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Italy25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Italy25</span></a></p>

<p>A novel written in a kind of medieval-y &quot;realistic fantasy&quot; setting with a plot point that a day&#39;s ride from the town, deep in the desert, is a field of one thousand mirrors which a lost ancient civilization built for some unknown reason and laid out in a grid pattern. One character is obsessed with figuring out why. The mirrors face the rising sun— did they worship the sun? Is it devotional? Were they trying to show the sun to itself?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astronomy.city/@hendric" class="u-url mention">@<span>hendric</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/@artemist" class="u-url mention">@<span>artemist</span></a></span> what stops you from just copying the ROM?</p>