Kenny Pryde
@kennypryde.bsky.social
Journo, author,* Scot. Glasgow Wheeler. Big fan of the Accipiters. Cycling, moto, politics, music. And burrrrrds, obviously.
(*The Medal Factory [2019], The Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish cycling history, [2023] EPO, the drug that saved cycling [2020-?])
(*The Medal Factory [2019], The Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish cycling history, [2023] EPO, the drug that saved cycling [2020-?])
Asking AI software what to buy your close friends or 'significant other' for a Christmas present?
That feels like a major fail.
That feels like a major fail.
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Asking AI software what to buy your close friends or 'significant other' for a Christmas present?
That feels like a major fail.
That feels like a major fail.
Huh, who knew? AWS does the Mossad's and Shin Bet IT support. Have you tried switching it off and just not switching it on again?
🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Huh, who knew? AWS does the Mossad's and Shin Bet IT support. Have you tried switching it off and just not switching it on again?
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I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.
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Welfare spending is currently 1.2% of GDP *lower* than in 2012-13.
Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.
Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
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Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Welfare spending is currently 1.2% of GDP *lower* than in 2012-13.
Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.
Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.
I dunno, I reckon you could defend that in court. No jury would convict.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I dunno, I reckon you could defend that in court. No jury would convict.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage - apparently a serious contender to be Britain's next Prime Minister - is a fraud, a huckster who has done nothing to improve anything in the UK. Ever.
Farage is speaking at Venue Cymru tonight.
Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash.
Original development also received significant EU funding.
Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.
Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash.
Original development also received significant EU funding.
Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage - apparently a serious contender to be Britain's next Prime Minister - is a fraud, a huckster who has done nothing to improve anything in the UK. Ever.
Great grass-roots research on the costs and traps of using old methods to calculate poverty and the real costs of living today. I know, it sounds dull as a wet November day in Glasgow, but it's really good. Honest!
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Great grass-roots research on the costs and traps of using old methods to calculate poverty and the real costs of living today. I know, it sounds dull as a wet November day in Glasgow, but it's really good. Honest!
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
How many billions (really) of dollars have been spent on A.I. for it to pump out garbage like this? One of the biggest tech companies in the world and *this* is the sort of shite that slips through its quality control? LOL.
Google should be formally stripped of its status as a verb now anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
How many billions (really) of dollars have been spent on A.I. for it to pump out garbage like this? One of the biggest tech companies in the world and *this* is the sort of shite that slips through its quality control? LOL.
Do any of us really need more evidence that important branches of the US government have lost their mind?
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Do any of us really need more evidence that important branches of the US government have lost their mind?
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Curaçao, the smallest nation by population, has qualified for the World Cup. I can see Scotland being in their group in the first stage and it being a 'must-win' for us. Well, I remember Costa Rica in 1990. And Peru in 1978. Hell, I can remember Zaire in 1974 for that matter.
'No easy games,' etc.
'No easy games,' etc.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Curaçao, the smallest nation by population, has qualified for the World Cup. I can see Scotland being in their group in the first stage and it being a 'must-win' for us. Well, I remember Costa Rica in 1990. And Peru in 1978. Hell, I can remember Zaire in 1974 for that matter.
'No easy games,' etc.
'No easy games,' etc.
All those tech reviews of a Panasonic OLED Z90 television raving about the picture and sound somehow failed to mention you needed an Amazon account to get full access almost every platform - even those with sod-all to do with Amazon - like Netflix, YouTube.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
All those tech reviews of a Panasonic OLED Z90 television raving about the picture and sound somehow failed to mention you needed an Amazon account to get full access almost every platform - even those with sod-all to do with Amazon - like Netflix, YouTube.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
Trump's White House: you stay classy....
FFS.
FFS.
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Trump's White House: you stay classy....
FFS.
FFS.
I've just been served an ad on YouTube for a 'tactical hoody' which has 'military grade' fleece. JFC.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I've just been served an ad on YouTube for a 'tactical hoody' which has 'military grade' fleece. JFC.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
Cory Doctorow, talking about his new book 'Enshittification: a monopoly story' on 'Start the week' on Radio 4 is, as they say, 'knocking it out the park.' Outrage tempered by humour and very clear examples about why so much online has turned out so...shitty.
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Cory Doctorow, talking about his new book 'Enshittification: a monopoly story' on 'Start the week' on Radio 4 is, as they say, 'knocking it out the park.' Outrage tempered by humour and very clear examples about why so much online has turned out so...shitty.
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Top 5 movie genres:
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- mystery on a train
- I've committed the perfect murder, "oh for fucks sake"
- European road movie
- ennui in Hong Kong
- I've tried nothing to improve my life and crime is the only thing left
- mystery on a train
- I've committed the perfect murder, "oh for fucks sake"
- European road movie
- ennui in Hong Kong
- I've tried nothing to improve my life and crime is the only thing left
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
Existential Soviet Cinema
French hipsters play at acting and movies
Screwball cynicism meets Capraesque heart
British flamboyance and theatrics that are resolutely antithetical to the British moral majority
Arnie being Arnie
Existential Soviet Cinema
French hipsters play at acting and movies
Screwball cynicism meets Capraesque heart
British flamboyance and theatrics that are resolutely antithetical to the British moral majority
Arnie being Arnie
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
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Yay science!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Yay science!
Spotify (et al) can do one. A 15-year-old Logitech Squeezebox Touch, a scavenged hard drive from a busted laptop, 13,134 songs ripped from my CDs in lossless files, a 20-year-old Cambridge Audio A4 amp and Tannoy speakers that are so old I can't remember when I bought them. Sounds terrific, honest.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Spotify (et al) can do one. A 15-year-old Logitech Squeezebox Touch, a scavenged hard drive from a busted laptop, 13,134 songs ripped from my CDs in lossless files, a 20-year-old Cambridge Audio A4 amp and Tannoy speakers that are so old I can't remember when I bought them. Sounds terrific, honest.
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Hank Green has made a living riding the algorithmic waves of the social web. He joins @cwarzel.bsky.social to discuss the early promise of the internet—and what went wrong.
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine
Hank Green on outrage, creativity, and what, exactly, went wrong with the internet.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hank Green has made a living riding the algorithmic waves of the social web. He joins @cwarzel.bsky.social to discuss the early promise of the internet—and what went wrong.
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
The 'new' Pope, some guy eh? You just know Martin Scorsese is working up the outline for a biopic...
"Entering a cinema is like crossing a threshold. In the darkness and silence, vision becomes sharper, the heart opens up, and the mind becomes receptive to things not yet imagined."
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The 'new' Pope, some guy eh? You just know Martin Scorsese is working up the outline for a biopic...
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Another wonderful illustration of the difference between correlation and causation...
We might have FINALLY met our match…
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Another wonderful illustration of the difference between correlation and causation...
The look on goalkeeper Craig Gordon's face as he sat on his arse looking at his hapless defence is pretty much how every Scottish football fan feels. A gift for the Greeks -- like they needed one. Ah well.
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The look on goalkeeper Craig Gordon's face as he sat on his arse looking at his hapless defence is pretty much how every Scottish football fan feels. A gift for the Greeks -- like they needed one. Ah well.
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We saw a colour-ringed Oystercatcher on West Sands, St Andrews, yesterday. @jengill.bsky.social
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We saw a colour-ringed Oystercatcher on West Sands, St Andrews, yesterday. @jengill.bsky.social
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
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Code red
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Code red