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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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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

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 · 15h

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 · 6h

Tired: dark web
Wired: chiaroscuro web

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 6h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 8h

A real Englishman would have chips for breakfast

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

Honderden aanwezig, 29 aangehouden.

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

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 18h

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 · 9h

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

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

Some of those compound verbs are absolute bastards to get right

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 13h

As a fellow English speaker, "benadeeld".

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing , fast-moving aurora

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neco🐾suke @necosuke.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 16h

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

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 16h

This misses the point of places like McDonalds. The point is not to serve delicious food. It is to produce food to exactly the same degree of blandness every single time. Every burger as disappointing as the last. It's about being the safe option, for those who fear adventure. The risk averse option

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16h

McDonald's already have the vats of boiling oil. They should offer battered burgers. They'd make so much extra money and people would hate their dire food less.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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