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David Emmett

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Owner-operator of MotoMatters.com. Motorcyclist. Reader. Writer. #MotoGP and #motorcycle racing at motomatters.com Part of @paddockpasspodcast.bsky.social Personal writing at emmett.nl Chip in: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/motomatters

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · Jul 17

FYI: if you want to help keep me going, and able to keep writing about #MotoGP, the greatest sport on earth, then you can chip in here:

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 4m

From Ducati:

Marc Marquez has had surgery on the shoulder he injured at Mandalika, because the bone he fractured wasn't stabilising with immobilisation.

$📣 Updates about @marcmarquez93 After a checkup for his right shoulder blade injury, Marc Márquez has undergone a successful operation at the Ruber Internacional Hospital in Madrid, Spain. The same medical team who had examined him seven days earlier found that the coracoid fracture and ligament damage were not showing sufficient signs of stabilization after a week of being immobilized. Therefore, given the risk of residual instability, it was decided to go ahead with surgical stabilization and repair the acromioclavicular ligaments. Marc Márquez, who is already at home, will continue his recovery process, and his progress will determine the timing of his return to racing competition. We wish you all the best, Champ! 💪❤️$

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 10m

As promised, how will testing for the 2027 #MotoGP season will work? Who will test the 850cc MotoGP machines? Will factories wildcard their 2027 bikes in 2026? And how will testing work with the switch from Michelin to Pirelli tires? All this and more

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Pirelli, Michelin, And 850cc MotoGP Bikes: How Will Testing For The 2027 Season Actually Work? | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 9h

Tired: dark web
Wired: chiaroscuro web

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 9h

Coming tomorrow: an explanation of how testing for the 2027 #MotoGP season will work. Who will test the 850cc MotoGP machines? Will factories wildcard their 2027 bikes in 2026? And how will testing work with the switch from Michelin to Pirelli tires? All this and more

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 10h

I believe the Following feed is strict chronological (as far as the servers can managed the load), but Discover is algorithmic based on likes, interests, etc. So a post gets punted into someone's Discover feed and that triggers their lizard brain or something

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How Does Bluesky Algorithm Work? Pro Growth Tips for 2025

How does Bluesky Work? This is your crash course to starting scratch on Bluesky with tips and resources the pros use.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 10h

Given that the Discover feed is the only (I think?) one controlled by an algorithm, I can only think that someone at Bluesky HQ is turning the big dial marked "annoying reply guy" up and looking at the user base

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 10h

Wondering if the number of annoying replies from the Discover feed correlates to the growth/decline of Bluesky users?

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 11h

A real Englishman would have chips for breakfast

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 11h

Always a bad choice to bet against wingnut welfare recipients, given that the far right billionaires backing them have very deep pockets.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 12h

Good question. Then again, the magic of the tail mass damper isn't in the hardware, it's in the software controlling it.

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David Michels @davidmichels.bsky.social · 12h

Honderden aanwezig, 29 aangehouden.

250 duizend aanwezig bij de demonstratie tegen genocide, geen incidenten.

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 21h

Honderden bij anti-immigratieprotest A'dam, ook tegendemonstranten op de been

De politie is massaal aanwezig, ook bij CS. Er zijn al meerdere aanhoudingen verricht.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 12h

En ik kan ook niet overal een verkleinwoord van maken, hoe verlokkelijk ook...

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 12h

Mijn vrouw (vertaalster Nederlands) corrigeert/helpt mij ook altijd. Maar het blijft moeilijk. Zeker als Engelstalige, omdat het Engels helemaal geen geslachten kent in zelfstandige naamwoorden..

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 14h

Someone firing up Dovi's Ducati GP19 #MotoGP bike. Can get an interesting look at all the bits usually hidden behind the fairing

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Used Ducati GP19: Dovizioso’s Legendary Machine Returns #shortvideo

YouTube video by Bocor Halus GP

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 14h

Some kinks actively require the involvement of other people, it would appear

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 16h

Het is nog steeds niet zo moeilijk als weten of ik voor een woord "de" of "het" moet gebruiken. Volstrekt onlogisch!

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 16h

Some of those compound verbs are absolute bastards to get right

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 16h

As a fellow English speaker, "benadeeld".

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing , fast-moving aurora

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neco🐾suke @necosuke.bsky.social · 17h

This video was made using my artwork without permission through an AI generator.
I’m sharing this as an example to help prevent similar incidents from happening.
Please respect artists and their creations. #NoAIUse

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 19h

McDonalds: Every burger exactly as disappointing as the last one.

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