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· Jul 17
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So a piece came out recently claiming that Ducati faces its most complicated #MotoGP contract negotiation with Marc Marquez for the 2027 season. It was a great piece. But the negotiation won't be complicated at all. Marquez will stay with Ducati. Here's why:
motomatters.com/opinion/2025...
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OPINION: Why Marc Márquez Will Stay With Ducati For 2027 And Beyond (Probably) | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks
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December 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So a piece came out recently claiming that Ducati faces its most complicated #MotoGP contract negotiation with Marc Marquez for the 2027 season. It was a great piece. But the negotiation won't be complicated at all. Marquez will stay with Ducati. Here's why:
motomatters.com/opinion/2025...
motomatters.com/opinion/2025...
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The dirty secret much of the software industry doesn't want you to know is that if you build a healthy team with a healthy culture, they learn, grow, train new members, and you don't need to buy ten new tools to "supercharge development".
But they can't sell you that, so…
But they can't sell you that, so…
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The dirty secret much of the software industry doesn't want you to know is that if you build a healthy team with a healthy culture, they learn, grow, train new members, and you don't need to buy ten new tools to "supercharge development".
But they can't sell you that, so…
But they can't sell you that, so…
Why is she tarting up the shitter? Doesn't she know she can just light a match and then set fire to the hand towel?*
* Very old @vizcomic.bsky.social Top Tip
* Very old @vizcomic.bsky.social Top Tip
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Why is she tarting up the shitter? Doesn't she know she can just light a match and then set fire to the hand towel?*
* Very old @vizcomic.bsky.social Top Tip
* Very old @vizcomic.bsky.social Top Tip
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It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!
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Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Visit the post for more.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
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More people should have a fire extinguisher at home. Especially if they have hobbies that might increase the risk of a fire. They start at about £20, and if you need one of the more expensive ones, they're only £70ish. Buy a bloody fire extinguisher.
December 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
More people should have a fire extinguisher at home. Especially if they have hobbies that might increase the risk of a fire. They start at about £20, and if you need one of the more expensive ones, they're only £70ish. Buy a bloody fire extinguisher.
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L'esprit de l'escalier
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
L'esprit de l'escalier
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December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Article 5 is now not just dead, but three times cremated and then buried at sea
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺"Now Putin has started making incursions into the NATO borders. The one thing I can tell you is the US is not going to get involved with troops or any of that. We will sell the Europeans weapons."
- Scott Bessent
United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Scott Bessent
United States Secretary of the Treasury
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Article 5 is now not just dead, but three times cremated and then buried at sea
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Next time you're watching a video of someone talking to the camera in selfie mode, watch their eyes and see if they're really looking at the camera or looking at themselves on the screen the whole time checking out if they look good. Adjust your judgement of them on this basis.
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Next time you're watching a video of someone talking to the camera in selfie mode, watch their eyes and see if they're really looking at the camera or looking at themselves on the screen the whole time checking out if they look good. Adjust your judgement of them on this basis.
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GPU farms are such a fascinating type of data center cause they have a lot of things they're really useful for in little bursts at a time, but solving computationally demanding science problems isn't exciting enough for techbros so they keep trying to find an infinite money algorithm to run instead
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
GPU farms are such a fascinating type of data center cause they have a lot of things they're really useful for in little bursts at a time, but solving computationally demanding science problems isn't exciting enough for techbros so they keep trying to find an infinite money algorithm to run instead
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Stadia II, by Julie Mehretu, 2004, 📸 by @ReinerJacob
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Stadia II, by Julie Mehretu, 2004, 📸 by @ReinerJacob
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Putin declares victory.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Putin declares victory.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is why it is important to call Farage and Reform what they are: racists. Force people to make an explicit choice for what they know is a shameful ideology.
Reform source: "And if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Nigel Farage seems to think that everybody his age - or who supports Reform - behaved very similarly to how he did at school
Nigel Farage seems to think that everybody his age - or who supports Reform - behaved very similarly to how he did at school
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is why it is important to call Farage and Reform what they are: racists. Force people to make an explicit choice for what they know is a shameful ideology.
As a Top Tier Hater, I am just glad Blando ruined Monaco Max's year.
December 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As a Top Tier Hater, I am just glad Blando ruined Monaco Max's year.
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Seagulls don't do themselves any favours with the screeching. Imagine how different our opinion of them would be if they all warbled like wrens or robins while they tried to steal chips off each other.
December 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Seagulls don't do themselves any favours with the screeching. Imagine how different our opinion of them would be if they all warbled like wrens or robins while they tried to steal chips off each other.
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there's a lot of people saying "are those home office posts real, surely they're a hoax" and i mean have you *met* the home office
December 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
there's a lot of people saying "are those home office posts real, surely they're a hoax" and i mean have you *met* the home office
The best book on this concept is @naomikritzer.bsky.social's Liberty's Daughter about seasteading. Brilliantly exposes the gap in all these projects, the people who do the actual work of keeping the place running: cooking, cleaning, sewage, repairs. The libertarian techbros don't see them as people.
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The best book on this concept is @naomikritzer.bsky.social's Liberty's Daughter about seasteading. Brilliantly exposes the gap in all these projects, the people who do the actual work of keeping the place running: cooking, cleaning, sewage, repairs. The libertarian techbros don't see them as people.
Mark Steel's In Town is such a funny and warm show, but this episode is particularly good. I have a fondness for the Shetland accent since the first time I heard it, when Marjolein Robertson was on Breaking The News
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | Mark Steel's in Town | Series 14 | 5. Lerwick (Shetland part 1)
Mark discovers how life in Lerwick is shaped by sea, storms and Shetland spirit.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Mark Steel's In Town is such a funny and warm show, but this episode is particularly good. I have a fondness for the Shetland accent since the first time I heard it, when Marjolein Robertson was on Breaking The News
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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My MM93 biography is now available in French 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷
Marc Marquez, Légende du MotoGP
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Marc Marquez, Légende du MotoGP
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December 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My MM93 biography is now available in French 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷
Marc Marquez, Légende du MotoGP
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Marc Marquez, Légende du MotoGP
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