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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 30/09/2026

Nailed it: “The reason founders like Zuckerberg set up a dual-class structure is that they want all the benefits of being publicly traded with none of the drawbacks for them personally.”

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.

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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect

‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 29/09/2026

TF is this seed oil panic about anyway. How do you psyop yourself into believing beef tallow is healthier than canola oil?

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 29/09/2026

Not much to say, pedaled hard, turned right n left, had a good day!

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 29/09/2026

Ok only gonna post about this the one time but holy fucking shit I won a cyclocross race this weekend! 🏆

A man on an orange bicycle with his arms in the air like a WINNER because he’s WINNING, holy cow.

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 24/09/2026

The beautiful thing about America is that a child of any race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, political party or astrological sign has the freedom to grow up to be a complete dipshit adult. 🇺🇸🥹

Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 24/09/2026

Oh wow, if you reinstall the bladder/gasket thingie improperly when replacing a SRAM HydroR hose and then bleed the brake, you are definitely going to learn that you fucked up.

Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 23/09/2026

ELL EMM AY OH It’s been a long time but would you believe me if I told you the Greenfield Grange contra community had DRAMA?

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 23/09/2026

I know it’s just a thing that happens in culture, nothing we can do, but bike racing, and bike racing in the USA specifically, has its own history, culture and lingo. These things have value. There’s no shame in being distinct. We don’t need to be part of a homogenous sports mush.

Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 23/09/2026

Maybe it’s petty but I genuinely hate the thing lately where some people will use F1 jargon to decribe their placing in bike races. No, you weren’t “P5.” You were 5th.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 22/09/2026

I went through this process a year ago and came up with a different solution, I don’t feel any smarter now than I did then.

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 22/09/2026

Does Trek provide any literature with their bicycle frameset or on the internet that explains how to properly install this little doodad? Ha! Don’t be ridiculous. Why would they do that?

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 22/09/2026

Trying to deduce from first principles the proper assembly of Trek’s bizarre little spiral galaxy bottom bracket cable guide. Made more difficult by the fact that it doesn’t seem to actually secure the cables that well.

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 21/09/2026

It’s the weakest of the original trilogy by a fairly long way; and very noticeably discontinuous with them. (This is also why it is many people’s favorite).

Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 20/09/2026

Yeah 450 mi/month thing is wild. My car sits in the driveway 3 or 4 days out of the work week and I still average close to 700 per month.

Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 20/09/2026

This is hilarious, because yes, it’s objectively true that gas is a very marginal component of the total cost to own a car, but people nonetheless care a lot about it and all the sweaty arguments from Republicans that actually it’s not a big deal aren’t going to work at all.

Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 20/09/2026

Child: Daddy, what’s the scariest kind of tree? Me (wondering if I heard correctly): ???? Uuhhh…. ???? I don’t any trees are scary, so I guess- Child: A BOO-ternut!

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 18/09/2026

The Biodome is cool despite the small size imo but getting there is a bit of a pain in the ass. Parc Olympique is kind of fascinating in its own right as a sort of quasi-ruin, derelict in the urban landscape. It’s like alien ruins. But also functional-ish and in-use? Very odd.

Smith Field! We used to do Wednesday Night Super-Prestige there, before the renovations happened and it moved to Moakley. Cool to see someone picking it back up!

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Oh that’s awesome! Well here’s a rec: Get a bike share and ride it up the Mont Royal climb on the route if you can find time before the road is closed. Will put these athletes in context, cause that climb is brutal. Also, have poutine, obviously. Just… anywhere.

Cripes if you’re there next week you’ll be in town during the Road Cycling World Championships. Look up course and schedule. Seeing a world class bike race go by is An Experience.

It’s a tension between writers that want to build a crapsack world where life is cheap and the rational implications of ~everything else in the setting. Battletech has the same problem built into its lore with “kill the meat, save the metal.”

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh yeah, I ride through here on the Dudley path every commute and it’s insane, especially because the bike/ped cycle is extremely short.

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Please join me in thanking the named plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd & @jddaw.bsky.social These brave scientists are taking on risk to protect science, scientists & beneficiaries of science (all of us). www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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It seems like it’s mostly a Reddit delusion that hopefully hasn’t spread to other places.

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National championships are the exception, for alignment with UCI requirements for such. Elite, Junior and Masters national championships do have tire restrictions, though in most cases they’re less restrictive than the UCI (38 instead of 33).

Yes, and I’m pretty sure a promoter can’t actually make add-on rules for USAC category races. Which this whole theory basically depends on them doing.

It’s possible. I’m not sure where this idea got started. I just know that, after seeing it for years and even repeating it myself, I realized I’d never seen anyone name a specific event. And that made me very suspicious!

Yeah, and it’s making me crazy that you have well-meaning people potentially making those folks worry that they have to double-check or email a stranger to avoid the imaginary risk of being kicked out of a Cat 4/Novice CX race.

tl;dr in the USA there are tire width restrictions of one degree or another enforced in UCI races, Elite, Master and Junior National Championships, and - I’m pretty sure about this - zero other cyclocross races.

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People don’t know who the race promoter is, they don’t know they can just email them and ask questions*, the end result here is people just won’t show up. *parents of juniors excepted, of course.

I’ve become very annoyed about this in the last year because I’m seeing it more than ever and you can see newcomers interested in trying CX actually becoming confused in real time in comments. This is bad, now more than ever we need people to come off the street as it were and just try CX.

I’m actually pretty sure - and again, I guess I could be wrong - that promoters or refs of a USAC-sanctioned race have no right to refuse you a start on the basis of a having a bike that is rulebook legal. You can’t just make up arbitrary rules for your local race. That’s kind of the point of USAC.

I guess I could be wrong, which is why I would like anyone saying “check with your local promoter” to name ANY local race enforcing a tire width restriction for ANY field. I’ve never seen a race or local association ID’d by name in over 10 years of hearing this. Never.

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There’s a persistent urban legend going around on the Internet of Cyclocross, mostly r/cyclocross, that “some events/regions” enforce a 33mm max tire size outside of UCI races. I’ve started asking for receipts on this because I’m pretty confident this is misinformation and it’s time to push back.

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I think buildings can have character in the specific sense that they are built by particular people at a particular time. Buildings are an embodiment of cultural history. That’s often beautiful. Today’s people and culture should be able to make their mark as well (and have places to live).