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
Part 11: Raul Fernandez To Stay With Trackhouse Racing For Two More Season https://motomatters.com/news/2026/08/05/part_11_raul_fernandez_to_stay_with.html Part 11: Raul Fernandez To Stay With Trackhouse Racing For Two More Season The summer break is over, and that means contract …
Paddock Pass Podcast Episode 572: It's The Brits! Talking Silverstone With Jake Dixon https://motomatters.com/podcast/2026/08/04/paddock_pass_podcast_episode_572_it_s.html Paddock Pass Podcast Episode 572: It's The Brits! Talking Silverstone With Jake Dixon MotoGP is back this …
New MotoGP Paddock Pass Podcast: talking Silverstone, & what’s it like to win your home Grand Prix?! The guys interrupt Jake Dixon’s physio session to chat British Grand Prix matters: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Episode 572: Talking Silverstone with a British Grand Prix winner
Podcast Episode · Paddock Pass Podcast · 4 August · 1hr
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KTM Press Release: Maverick Viñales To Miss Silverstone, Pol Espargaro In https://motomatters.com/press_release/2026/08/04/ktm_press_release_maverick_vi_ales_to.html KTM Press Release: Maverick Viñales To Miss Silverstone, Pol Espargaro In KTM and the Tech3 KTM team issued the …
OPINION: MotoGP Is Not About Motorcycles https://motomatters.com/opinion/2026/08/04/opinion_motogp_is_not_about_motorcycles.html OPINION: MotoGP Is Not About Motorcycles Why is MotoGP less popular than F1? The explanation most fans and pundits will give you is because far fewer …
Is the reason that more people watch F1 than MotoGP down to more people driving cars? Of course it isn't. Here's why MotoGP isn't about motorcycles. MotoGP is about sport. motomatters.com/opinion/2026...
OPINION: MotoGP Is Not About Motorcycles | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks
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"She made music jump into 3D": Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n...
I have two questions, which I shall post in separate posts. The first for any researchers of the far right who may follow me, has anyone heard of an Italian called Manuel Ros? Associated with an Italian fascist party called Identita Italiana?
"NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found" news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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Surely I'm not the only person to think Sam Altman looks like the company guy in Alien3.
Over the weekend, reports stated that KTM are looking at dropping Maverick Viñales for the rest of the 2026 #MotoGP season. Where did the decision come from? Why now? A deep dive into the long history of a problematic factory and an enigmatic rider motomatters.com/analysis/202...
KTM vs Maverick Viñales: The End Of An Enigma? | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks
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The only reason Bluesky is a liberal bubble is because it’s not algorithm driven & reality has a liberal bias. This is super simple.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
The transition is already happening at speed. Mental to be acting like net zero is a problem in this context.
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 2d agoJuly marks the first consecutive twelve month period where wind generated more electricity than gas in the UK...in every single month. In the last decade, wind generation in the UK has more than doubled, pushing first coal and now gas out of the mix.
A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
Maaaaaan I forgot about the "rev the nuts off it" meltdown
David Emmett@motomatters.com · 2d agoOver the weekend, reports stated that KTM are looking at dropping Maverick Viñales for the rest of the 2026 #MotoGP season. Where did the decision come from? Why now? A deep dive into the long history of a problematic factory and an enigmatic rider motomatters.com/analysis/202...
KTM vs Maverick Viñales: The End Of An Enigma? https://motomatters.com/analysis/2026/08/03/ktm_vs_maverick_vi_ales_the_end_of_an.html KTM vs Maverick Viñales: The End Of An Enigma? That the honeymoon is over between Maverick Viñales and KTM has been clear for some time now. Ever …
Over the weekend, reports stated that KTM are looking at dropping Maverick Viñales for the rest of the 2026 #MotoGP season. Where did the decision come from? Why now? A deep dive into the long history of a problematic factory and an enigmatic rider motomatters.com/analysis/202...
KTM vs Maverick Viñales: The End Of An Enigma? | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks
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plus, anti-trans bathroom policies harm everyone because they embolden the gender police
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after UK’s supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
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Le tombeau des lutteurs / The tomb of the wrestlers - 1960 #artbots #magritte
Again, a fundamental issue with trying to cover the anti-trans movement is that explaining that they are habitually insincere and so routinely chose transphobia over women's rights does make you sound conspiratiorial, and yet...
@andmcc.bsky.social · 2d agoI don't know about topping, but there is a a very good followup
Apart from the fact that this, by Rod Liddle, makes Rod Liddle a sexual predator, it also entirely bypasses consent. Because I will tell you one thing that would have stopped Rod Liddle shagging the kids if he'd been a teacher. The kids would not have wanted to shag him unless he forced them.
Sam@samomar.bsky.social · 2d agoHere's some of his work
As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan
Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Remember, Rod Liddle can't read what you're writing, but other odium-wallowing stains on humanity who look like a Novichokked baboon might.
Rod Liddle was vile human excrement and the world is a better place now that he is dead. May he be swiftly forgotten, except as a warning of how not to live.
Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · 2d agoRod liddle had a police caution for domestic violence against his then pregnant girlfriend. He once wrote in one of his columns that he could never be a teacher because his urge to rape children was too strong. He is now dead. Obviously no kipper for him.
Wow terrific website that outlines the brands that have undergone enshittification (quality erosion in order to maximize profits) and those that have embraced quality This is a super helpful website ledger.worseonpurpose.com
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Earth too receives a rain of interplanetary materials! An estimated 54 tons of stuff from meteoroids, asteroids and comets falls every day (including lots of interplanetary dust). Its just that we don't notice it because atmosphere. 🔭 🧪
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