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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 1h

Always worth reading Ian Penman in the LRB.

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DocDeezWhat @docdeezwhat.bsky.social · 9h

To Valhalla

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When flagship Radio4 news show (Today) runs an excited report on a previous night's BBC TV programme, that's the point that: a) You know the BBC is editorially fucked b) The point anyone with no interest in that programme switches off in despair/disgust. tldr: I couldn't care less about 'Traitors'

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So when Mark Zuckerberg giddily insisted that 'we'd all have AI agents handling our diaries and tasks in five years' this is what he had in mind? This tsunami of enshittification? Ooooh, I can't hardly wait. Thanks Zuck!

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hahahaha. Remember this? Another Trump lie. Who could have guessed? Oh aye, that's right -- anybody with a brain.

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How to stop rogue companies such as OpenAI blowing up the world? Force them to take out liability insurance - if they can find anyone to take on their catastrophic risks. My latest on whether OpenAI will ever IPO - and what will become of the boom if it doesn't... nixons.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We saw a great, über-emotional scene between new world champion Brandon McNulty and his USA team mate Matteo Jorgensen and then the joy was sucked out of the TV screen when, enter stage left, Mauro Gianetti gatecrashed the party. Meh.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BBC tv cycling world road race commentary team can't bring themselves to say the name 'Lance Armstrong' in case he suddenly appears in the comms booth, like some evil spirit. They can only say, 'The USA last won the men's road race in 1993.' Come on guys...it's OK.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why in the name of god are there Mexican riders on the front of the men's bunch riding tempo behind the early morning suicide break? There's 245km to go and they're wasting energy that their man Del Toro will certainly need when the race reaches the Montreal city circuit. Seems...daft.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's not an argument against 'billionaire wealth tax,' I'd say it was an argument against billionaires, full stop. A billion? A billionaire? Someone with *one* thousand million dollars. There is no comparison between a millionaire and billionaire, they're not even close.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hard to imagine we'll get a better finale in the men's race tomorrow than the one the women just served up in Montreal. When a rainbow jersey is on the line, the intensity and commitment of the attacks is unmatched in cycling - you wear the arc-en-ciel for a year. Demi Vollering a worthy champion.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Whoever dies having accumulated the most stuff does not win. Just buy less, it'll be fine, you'll be OK.' Said the guy who won the right for Americans to fix their own phones and laptops. On 'Buy now! The Shopping conspiracy' documentary on Netflix.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Poor Cuba. Having had its fleet pushed back by the threat of Iranian missiles then refused to offer Saudi allies missile cover and abandoned its bombed out bases in the Emirates, the USA is going to give Cuba a kicking because Trump's ego is bruised.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm pretty sure there are very strict rules in Japan about the street parking of cars. Basically, you can't do it. We couldn't ever enforce that kind of regulation in Scotland though, right? I mean, where would all the cars go? (If say, parking was suspended for roadworks). LOL.

Cars banned from Glasgow street parking prior to roadworks.

Cars pavement parked on narrow Glasgow suburban street, 2026.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Always worth reading Andrew Cockburn, though I don't know if he's on this platform. He's got a Substack though. spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/nuclear-wa...

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Nuclear War could be Just Another Hallucination

Military discusses how to use AI to launch

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026

🤔🤔🤔

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How do you really help Putin without saying you are really helping Putin?

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Matthieu van der Poel, so clearly sandbagging ahead of the World road champs with that, uh, 175km solo stage win in Luxembourg. On a stage with 2,800m of climbing. Heel sterke!

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another post from the vaults. This is the story of one of Glasgow's shortest and once most disreputable streets, featuring civic improvement schemes, a poet for hire, a railway tunnel, dirty waxworks, and the city's only ordained milliner. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-warst-pl...

An arch, protected by a metal grille, in a stone wall into which a wider metal arch is built.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The most insightful thing I heard about business was an academic saying that the corporate dream is that their customers should cheerfully hand over 10% of their disposable income for the rest of their lives.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Really terrific, if you're a Simpsons fan. Even if you're not, there are still jokes.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd be much more interested in what a professor of philosophy or international affairs or exotic vet medicine had to say about 'Britain-in-the-world' than a guy who qualification is that he has an obscene amount of money.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

LOL. Imagine that, a 'taxi driver' who's a bit of a twat.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Posting on social media about NYC opening 18 public toilets and now filling in potholes. Strikes me as good politics, since this is precisely the stuff that everyone experiences every day. It's cheap, but I bet it works -- small improvements in the quality of life for people in ways they notice.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What? An un-budgeted $38 Billion dollar war? It's going to cost $3 Billion dollars a month?! Oh no, where will the money come from? If it wasn't costed won't this bankrupt the US? Where *will* the Federal Bank find the money? Oh, right, it'll just 'print' it. Always money for wars, amirite?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/09/2026

‘The current prime minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, accepts that the army has total control. Although he isn’t president or prime minister, Field Marshal Asim Munir reigns supreme in all areas of policy.’ Owen Bennett-Jones on power struggles in Pakistan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Owen Bennett-Jones · Munir’s Victory

The military exercises its power in all areas of Pakistani society. The question that faces Pakistan today is no...

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watched Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal on l'Equipe TV and the French commentators were beyond excited when Paul Sexais was up for the win. Their disbelief when he fell asleep with 300m to go was palpable. Anyway, everyone knows EF's Ben Healy was the 'real' winner, not that Del Toro fella! Haha.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's a happy sign of the times that when not one but two Scots show at the pointy end of a Grand Tour and we just nod our approval. Oscar Onley's white jersey as best young rider in the Vuelta and his former Fife Spokes CC team mate Callum Thornley two seconds short of winning a Vuelta TT. No bad...

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ah, the plucky outsiders, in the trenches and fighting for the common man. Mad grifters.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm sure the Donald and Pete Hegseth have got everything under control.... FFS.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Met up with Aussie ex-pro Stephen Hodge in Glasgow. Hadn't seen him in the flesh for 30 years. He hasn't changed! Now lobbying the Aussie government in Canberra to promote cycling. One of the good guys. Happy to report he and his wife Adrienne had a blast on their Scottish tour.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 08/09/2026

Nike shareholders have rejected a proposal urging more transparency on its climate goals, including disclosing details on how the sportswear maker intends to reach emissions-reduction targets, the company said on Tuesday.

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Nike shareholders reject climate proposal backed by Norway wealth fund

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why would you brazenly lie about something that is so easy to disprove? Worse, why would you lie about a key moment in modern US history? Why did nobody shout 'Bullshit!' at him? Is he like a loopy relative who Americans just make allowances for now?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/09/2026

‘Pakistani politicians are so corrupt that, in the top echelon, their reported wealth is measured in billions. For decades they have shown little interest in addressing difficult issues, ceding such tasks to the military.’ Owen Bennett-Jones on Pakistan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Owen Bennett-Jones · Munir’s Victory

The military exercises its power in all areas of Pakistani society. The question that faces Pakistan today is no...

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Sam Stafford @samuelstafford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good stuff.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Politics and diplomacy have surely moved beyond 'vibes' when you read that France and the Netherlands have both moved billions of Euros of their gold ingots from US banks to London. Presumably because they can't really trust President Trump not to lay claim to it at some point. Wild.

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Confirmed: Hegseth was talking bollocks.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Channel 4 investigation into secret foreign funding of polling for Reform is explosive. JL Partners are cooked IMO. The Times and Telegraph will be livid with Reform over it. And Farage will almost certainly face police, Standards and/or EC investigations over it. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No end in sight My chat with @frankfukuyama.bsky.social -- as he looks back over his life & career, and forward into a wildly uncertain future www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7458...

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Francis Fukuyama takes stock

We speak to the man who was unfairly caricatured after declaring ‘the end of history’—and today sees no end in sight

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The ability of the African elephant to blend into the scenery is something I never appreciated, until Brooklyn Beckham took this remarkable photo and -- better yet -- published it in his book. (Rather than deleting it from his memory card immediately)

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Kenny Pryde @kennypryde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An interview with Italian coach Paolo Slongo, looking back at his time with Giro-Tour-Vuelta winner Vincenzo Nibali.

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

TRANSFER WINDOW LATEST! Priti Patel➡️Reform Chris Mason➡️GB News Donald Trump➡️Greenland Rupert Lowe➡️Third Reich Berlin FC Nigel Farage➡️Anywhere But Clacton Ben Stokes➡️‘Shags’Nightclub Basildon Andrew Windsor➡️San Quentin Penitentiary BBC➡️Sky TV Carol Kirkwood➡️El Niño.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 31/08/2026

And the biggest howler: Reform’s geniuses in Kent were apparently able to repaint a fence, trim the verge, plant grass seed (and get it to grow instantly), redo the pavement and repave the road all so quickly that the car in the top-right corner didn’t move an inch! Amazing!

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