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David Emmett @motomatters.com · Jul 17

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Simon Patterson @denkmit.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

Free Press but it's run by LinkedIn

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 7h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 3h

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 · 7h

"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 · 4h

Lambrini Girls, Panic Shack.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 4h

Hopefully. I think I did manage to fix that

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 5h

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 · 6h

He is

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 6h

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

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 6h

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

motomatters.com/analysis/202...

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 · 14h

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 · 9h

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

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 9h

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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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 10h

Yes, this has been mentioned previously. Could cause some traffic issues.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 10h

The programme of the nationalist conservative right is radical conformism. They reject anyone who falls outside the social norms they have constructed. And those norms are drawn along ethnic, religious, gender, and political lines

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 11h

The other thing is that power outputs of those twins and triples are now not far off what the superbikes of 20 years ago were. The new Panigale is 218 hp in road-going trim. That's pretty much double what the 916 made!

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13h

Oh dear @theguardian.com

Hugo Boss did not design any Nazi uniforms, he did manufacture them, was a war profiteering Nazi scumbag who used forced labour, but he did not design the uniforms.
The truth makes Boss even worse.
More information here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/n...

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

You can still buy a GSX-R 750 in the US.

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Lance Oliver @theridesofar.com · 13h

Sales of sport bikes are up 71% over the past five years in the U.S. as younger riders embrace the new, more accessible and affordable models, most with twin-cylinder engines. The Suzuki GSX-8R is a great example. Zack explains today at Common Tread. #motorcycle news www.revzilla.com/common-tread...

The Suzuki GSX-8R and the new age of sport bikes - RevZilla

Sales of sport motorcycle have grown dramatically in recent years and we have more accessible and affordable bikes like this one to credit for that.

www.revzilla.com

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

This is the future of WorldSBK, not the idiocy of racing adventure bikes.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

Thanks, great piece.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

Ease yourself into it with a solid couple of hours of doomscrolling. Maybe you can get a couple of reply guys (hi!) to join the fun.

David Emmett @motomatters.com · 13h

This is another sign of this trend. People want sports bikes. But they want usable sports bikes!

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Lance Oliver @theridesofar.com · 13h

The Suzuki GSX-8R and the new age of sport bikes - RevZilla

Sales of sport motorcycle have grown dramatically in recent years and we have more accessible and affordable bikes like this one to credit for that.

www.revzilla.com

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