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David Emmett @motomatters.com · Jul 17

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 23m

Yeah, I think true blue or dyed in the wool is a better translation, though "born and bred" is arguably a subset of that.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 47m

Congrats! Well deserved I am sure.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 3h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

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Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 3h

Sorry for your loss. Wishing you the best.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 4h

If RFK Jr really believed that we shouldn't trust experts, he should fly around in a plane built by people who did their own research

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 13h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Dutch Gov & European Commission News @dutchgovnews.bsky.social · 6h

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, it is clear that the Earth is still warming.

Source: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Ten Years After the Paris Agreement: Warming Does Not Stop

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, it is clear that the Earth is still warming.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 5d

Between 2019 and 2024 in real terms EU exports grew by 11%.

UK exports also grew. By 0.89%.

That's the total. Goods exports were lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2014.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 6d

@antonspisak.bsky.social of the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, a think-tank, observes that, after Brexit took effect at the end of 2020, Britain’s goods exports have grown less than those of any other economy in the G7 club of rich countries.

A dangerous post-Brexit world

Britain risks being an unwitting victim of EU-US trade wars

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 6h

I recently saw a series of posts for a book (first of a series?) where the main character is a thief who is part of a family that does jobs to entertain the rich. It's set in a cyberpunk-like dystopia. The cover shows a masked woman who has jumped out of a window. I can't remember the title. Help!

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 16h

We have been expecting Pedro Acosta to win a #MotoGP race by now. But the Red Bull KTM rider keeps coming up short.

We should look past that, however, as Val Khorounzhiy writes

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By The Numbers: The Pedro Acosta Stat That Matters More Than Any Of His Faults | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 5h

Tragically true

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Simon Patterson @denkmit.bsky.social · 12h

Marco Bezzecchi has been issued a double long lap penalty for his next race, most likely on Sunday, for his crash with Marc Marquez.

Hearing was delayed until today as he was taken to hospital following the crash in Lombok.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 12h

People who follow hugely successful teams are a lot less interesting. Someone else I know is a Real Madrid fan, and he is an absolute fucking bellend

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 12h

A good friend of mine is a QPR fan, and as I spend a lot of my Saturdays sitting next to him, it is intriguing as someone with no interest in football to follow the exquisite torture he puts himself through. I get the same vibe from your Leeds posting. It's fascinating. Please keep it up.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 13h

Free Press but it's run by LinkedIn

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 12h

If you wanted an argument for abolishing the monarchy, the sentence "Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright" is it.

Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 17h

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

Lambrini Girls, Panic Shack.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

Hopefully. I think I did manage to fix that

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 14h

Yes, it's been his saving grace. But the bike hasn't helped him this year, and he's looked lost. Really needs to up his qualifying game

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 15h

He is

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 15h

It's genuinely amazing. I was in awe at the scale of it

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 16h

By The Numbers: The Pedro Acosta Stat That Matters More Than Any Of His Faults | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 23h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 18h

I wrote a short story about what will happen when these people get to their bunkers...

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 19h

Same. Neal Stephenson is one of those for me. Loved the Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Reamde. Gave up on Anathem. Just didn't work for me. Was a bit meh on Termination Shock.

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