Exciting to see the men are coming out to the Maryland Cycling Classic! We'll be cheering from the side of the road! Send the women's team too! UCI points! #marylandcyclingclassic

Happy World Penguin Day to all who celebrate.

Yesterday, we enjoyed hosting a seminar on hydropower innovation and 🇳🇴-🇺🇸 collaboration on technological advancements in hydro. Topics included new tools for improving performance of hydroelectric dams and reducing their environmental impacts. Thanks to all who attended!

Norway increases its support to Ukraine to 7.25 billion euro for 2025, more than doubling its initially planned contribution, and confirming Norway’s firm stance together with European allies in support of Ukraine 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺

VELODROME!

Superb Owl Sunday IX A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating such magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are seen here in photos f...

A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating owls, magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are seen here in photos from recent years.

They're practically an hourly occurrence.

Maybe you aren't, but at least you took second at Strade last year.

You can't even get a new gas powered small pickup in the US anymore.

“Several roads will be closed Monday at 7AM around the Capitol complex for the counting & certification of the electoral votes.” Plus Jimmy Carter Funeral Closures - PoPville photo by Roberta From MPD: "NSSE Event Notice: Counting and Certification of the 2024 Presidential Election and State Funeral of Former President Jimmy Carter Monday, January 6 - Thursday, January 9, ...

Right when we'd have wanted to go sledding.
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I’ve seen a number of great Lemon Pig posts again this year, and some claiming the tradition as starting in the 1970s.

In fact, the earliest reference comes from Ballou’s Monthly magazine in 1882.

Here is the article, which also describes how to make one.

#folklore #lemonpig #NewYear

A lemon pig

Lemon pig! Lemon pig! Bring us good fortune!
#2025 #lemonpig

The New York Times online front page, with a photo of a man truing a bicycle wheel

When #bicycles and #trade policy collide once again...
That's a @parktool.com TS 2.2, right? Congrats on making the front page, Park Tool.

God Jul, Washington! - PoPville Thanks, as always, Norway!! In Union Station Main Hall.

God Jul, Washington!
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Oxyclean: Just a placebo?

The "Zoolights and the Continuing Resolution" email on my neighborhood listserv is the most D.C. thing ever. (It's also a fair point to raise, since a government shutdown would shutter the zoo and the many Smithsonian museums.)

Pan American Cyclocross Championships Awarded to Washington DC 2025-2026 Pan Ams and the return of DCCX

This will be quite a time. #DCCX #cyclocross @cxhairs.bsky.social
Pan American Cyclocross Championships Awarded to Washington DC
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With all the cultural/historical color commentary you've done for Escape, you could just go full Rick Steves. @escapecollective.bsky.social
@ricksteves.bsky.social