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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No doubt this has been talked about before but it's kinda funny that 2 of the top 3 favourites of the Men's Junior World champs today are sons of US Postal riders Everythingisfine.jpg

Favourites by PCS stars for the men's junior world championships, showing Benjamin Noval, son of his namesake, as favourite and Enzo Hincapie, son of George, as 3rd favourite

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seeing José González perform live was on my bucket list, but the actual experience tonight was incredible, and he moved me to tears during several songs.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

UAE's existence perpetuates this financial arms race that just makes our sport less ethical over time. Now Decathlon have got me feeling indignant on behalf of the French public finances

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Declaring a holy war on anyone who even suggests putting an asterisk next to Mas' win

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tearing my front derailleur off is one of those things that I wouldn't have believed could happen, if it hadn't just happened to me 🫠

A front derailleur hangs, still attached to the chain, but 30cm away from where it was previously attached

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Vancouver is locked in for the Sportsball 😎

A temporary billboard in Vancouver advises drivers about the upcoming "FIFI WORLD CUP"

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

There's a non-zero chance that someone floated $1.488 billion first, to numerous childish gaffaws, before they settled on the $1.776 billion

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's wild to me that the US doesn't have a point system for driving infractions. In most other Anglo countries, you'd lose your licence after 2-5 speeding penalties

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I know it has been a long winter because I instinctively wanted to lower the trainer difficulty while on an outdoor ride yesterday

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If a rider wins all 5 monuments in a season, they should be: - given a certificate saying "Good Job! You have completed cycling!" - given 50 million euros (paid for by confiscated assets of UAE gov/officials) - never be allowed to touch a bicycle again There's still time, UCI

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My take on the remco-RVV topic: - lying to the press about a rider's race calendar is not a red flag indicating general dishonesty. Non-Belgians can easily forget how fucking weird the Belgian press are about Remco and Wout especially, and they are not owed the truth about rider plans.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Some men will do techno-fascism just so that they never have to be alone with their own thoughts

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Looking at this image is breaking me a little bit

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Looking forward to when the bodycam footage goes public

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war

Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death.

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”

In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said.

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Gonna found a chip company then predict a $10 trillion market for them becasue that's how capitalism works now

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'd really like to see some actual research into this, because my gut says that at a certain point you're just paying people enough to organically swim in corrupt social circles, rather than boosting them into it. Paying sports people more doesn't inoculate them from match fixing and cheating

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace" —@willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

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One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media

Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Maybe it's just a reflection of my pessimism regarding this current Pogi era, but I feel like this Lazkano situation casts a very dark cloud over the whole sport.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Y I K E S. For obvious reasons, this is a TERRIBLE idea. Facial recognition has high false positive rates for immigrants in particular!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is. diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Honestly, the more individuals that make themselves targets of the trump regime, the better. They've already run out of competent investigators and prosecutors to go after the existing targets, and this will just accelerate the unravelling of DOJ capacity. Make them drown in their own BS

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I think that "people misunderstanding Occam's razor" is my "thinking about the Roman Empire 5 times a day". Occam's razor is quite simply a process for selecting the simplest amongst correct explanations. If multiple hypotheses give differing predictions, the razor doesn't apply.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Minor point, but of course the Winkelvii are on the list. They're like a magnet for anything destructive to society if they think it can enrich them

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Amazing, amazing, amazing interview with Kelvin Pierce, the son of (probably) the most influential neo-nazi in US history. The apple can fall a very long way from the tree in a wonderful way

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Any movement, progressive or otherwise, that grants immense power to its leaders will be vulnerable to Mr L types. People who are drawn to the trappings and displays of power and strength. Lead a protest; "play soldier"; work for Blackwater; get a totenkopf tattoo; run for Senate - it's all cool.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Not many of my takes are right, so I take an oversized amount of smugness for thinking uno-x could overtake cofidis and get promotion in a world where intermarche merge

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

NSPM-7 is already resulting in fed arrests of protesters: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/no-kings-p...

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"No Kings" Protest (and Arrests) Begin

NSPM-7 is already being used to detain protesters

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It's a prerequisite of working for ICE that you must be a broken little man-child. The full video in the second post is a perfect demonstration of this. He's a walking red flag, but it'll never occur to him to stop and look in the mirror, so he causes suffering until someone stops him.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Goes back to the argument I made in the Guardian earlier this year that the world is in danger because the techbros have completely misunderstood a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?

Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pro Cycling US Economy 🤝 Completely ruined by excessive monopolisation

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Government by 12 year old pseudo selfs for 12 year old pseudo selfs

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It can't be overstated enough how load-bearing 'judges with integrity' are to preventing the US descending into full, universal fascism, right now. That won't last forever - Steven Miller et al. will not stop trying to find ways around them for as long as they hold power

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A fundamental weakness of humans is that the overwhelming majority of us never seem to grow out of the "keys jingling in front of face" stage

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.

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Alex Watts 🇨🇦 @alexowah.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Wait, why didn't they chop his sleeves for his Aero Skin™️?? He probably would have caught Küng as well 😮

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