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Kenny Pryde@kennypryde.bsky.social |
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Journo, author,* Scot. Glasgow Wheeler. Big fan of the Accipiters. Can swing a lure too. Cycling, moto, politics, music, jokes. And burrrrrds, obviously. (*The Medal Factory [2019], The Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish cycling history, 2023)
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Kenny Pryde
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Strikes me that a list of States enabling and supporting Russia's war effort (in the same ways as Beijing) would be a fuggin' long list. Are we singling out China because we're back in the 'China = Bad' era of geopolitics again?
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Kenny Pryde
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Didn't that War just fizzle out, when the sides huffily decided they could each do what they liked? Then with the Covid Interlude the public arrived, insisting that if they were going to ride pushbikes they were damn well having gears, brakes and -- sod it -- electric motors too?
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Kenny Pryde
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FWIW I've had vaguely similar reaction listening to radio news in the last few days. It was (almost) all about policy direction. It felt calm, sort of grown-up. Weird, how normal a decade of Tory internecine warfare became, how that became our national 'politics.' What a waste.
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Uncle Duke
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omg how do they know
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Hi, itβs Abby. Yep.
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The first rule of punch club is [punches you]
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Todd 'Papi' Carlos
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If life gives you lemons...sell the lemons. Continue to take the lemons from life and continue to sell the lemons - don't even think of stopping. This is the opportunity you've been waiting for! Hi, I'm Gary Hultz, lemon investment strategist...
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Kenny Pryde
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You might need a re-write...
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Kenny Pryde
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Aaaaaand.....?
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Kenny Pryde
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And Hungary! Don't forget ol' Tricky Vic Orban, the awkward cuckoo in the EU nest.
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Kenny Pryde
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ITV4, short and to the point. Dan Friebe on the mic.
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Kenny Pryde
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Cold-eyed killer post-stage comment on Brit TV too. A rider you want on your team, 100 per cent.
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Kenny Pryde
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Can you elaborate on why?
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Kenny Pryde
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Mate, I wish I could go away, but there are US Army bases all over the UK, so *your* wretched US politics has an impact on my life. And I'm Scottish.
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Kenny Pryde
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Comly? You mean Comey? The guy Barack Obama appointed as head of the FBI? It was him going after Clinton's emails that allowed the most degenerate President ever to get into the White House? Yikes. Either that or it was some kind of 'MSM' conspiracy? Sounds like the sort of thing Trump would say!
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Kenny Pryde
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Again, if you and your party know that 'winning the popular vote' is not how you actually win power, why the hell not do the things that *will* enable you to win? Trump is a catastrophe and you (or me) insisting he's appalling won't stop 70 million US voters supporting him. Again.
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Kenny Pryde
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If campaigning and targeting to "grab the most Electoral votes" is how you win the Presidency, if those are the (electoral) rules, then why not to try to win the White House using them? I'm guessing that's how other candidates won, no? Otherwise, you fail.
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Kenny Pryde
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What they don't tell you is that you remember all the terrible big stuff, but forget the minor, inconventient stuff, like words, names and why the hell you walked into the kitchen. It's cruel.
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Kenny Pryde
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She was many things, but "right about everything" can't be one of them. For me, as a distant Scottish observer, her legacy is as a woman who stood by a creep of a husband and who was such a poor candidate she lost to Donald Trump. How could such a powerful woman *lose* to that P.O.S.?!
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maura quint
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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Kenny Pryde
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Remarkable. FWIW, on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, just south of Tarbert, there was a cuckoo calling all last week. Leaving it a bit late to head south (though the wind was a strong southerly or SW wind).
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Kenny Pryde
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Have you looked the reaction of the 'free world' to Biden's performance? You'd assume that Euro media was a little more detached in its analyses. And UK, French, German and Italian headlines that I saw were alarmed. To frame Biden's problems as purely a US/Democrat issue is rather shortsighted IMHO.
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Kenny Pryde
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Dems and their supporters have been banging on about what a degenerate Trump is for almost a decade. The whole *world* knows Trump is a catastrophe. Yet now Biden's frailties have been revealed, the Dems solution is to shout 'Trump is a creep' even louder?! US politics is a dumpster fire.
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Kenny Pryde
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Hasn't Thomas Picketty (with others) done some number crunching that suggests a left coalition has more votes than the right in every region?
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Kenny Pryde
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I'm amused by the notion that if you ride a bike, then you can't also drive a car or van. Or why in the name of god I'd deliberately go out of my way - literally - to put myself in danger of getting killed by a driver. I do all I can to stay out of their way, for *my* benefit more than theirs.
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Well, well, well. If it isnβt that same mistake Iβve made several times already.
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Kenny Pryde
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I reckon the size of the turnout might serve as a useful illustration of how unenthused most (?) people are by the political choices on offer. And how will the Tories spin the likely Labour ('super') majority if Starmer enters Downing Street on fewer votes than Corbyn? FPTP needs to go.
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Kenny Pryde
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'See this guy? This guy here? He's going to win me a tidy little bundle!' The barrel scrapings that found their way into Downing street in recent Tory governments, it beggars belief.
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Dave Levitan
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English can be tough, but you ought to tough it out and plough through. Cough.
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James Kelleher
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An aircraft sits on the flooded tarmac at Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport, Brazil, May 20, 2024. Photo by Anselmo Cunha
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Kenny Pryde
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Astonishingly, in that tableau, you've also managed to capture the number of people who will go out and enthusiastically cast their votes - six!
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Kenny Pryde
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You know an F1 race is *extra* boring when the drivers get on their radios to say they're bored. Le Grand Prix Ennui Monaco was unwatchable. Like NASCAR, all anyone is hoping for is a crash. #F1 #Monaco.
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Travis, bluesky elder
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Doctor: *making disappointed noises as she records my weight* Me: a lot of that's just microplastics though
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Kenny Pryde
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Directorships, consultancies, a book deal, columnists, business speakers and fronting red-trousered train travelogue series on ITV3.
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Kenny Pryde
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Apparently all anyone needs to to be creative these days is go buy the new iPad. It reminded me of the Sony Vaio laptop ads of (decades ago?) where the strapline was 'Go create' -- though at least then the user still had some inputs to make...
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Kenny Pryde
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I get that and I agree with you. My 'issue' is the extent to which any group can use social media to influence a national electorate, rather than enflame scattered, disparate nutters online. Obama used Facebook back in 2008 too, so it's not like the baddies are the only side using this tech either.
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Kenny Pryde
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Ah, what was it? 'Flooding the field with shit'? Where it would be gleefully recycled and circulated by eager journalists. Obviously I'm not advocating 'radio silence,' though a sense of proportion would be helpful. What percentage of US citizens are active on 'X' and avidly follow politics there?
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Kenny Pryde
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The echo chamber effect and relentless social media churn is ruinous. Journalists of every stripe look to social media for leads, quotes, arguments and then amplify them. It's almost a closed loop. Journalism has been eaten alive by social media, amplifying its worst aspects, distorting its import.
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Kenny Pryde
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Without wishing to downplay online (or anywhere else) racism, isn't it easy to overstate the importance of social media-based ranters? Given the size of global populations and electorates, can social media really have the impacts we fear? Not everyone is online all day, scrolling, clicking, sharing.
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Roger Langridge
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Glasses Good, Contact Lenses Bad
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Kenny Pryde
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Updated something on Windows 11 and now my laptop refuses -- point blank -- to find my external monitor it had been quite happy sharing for years. Tried everything, new drivers, roll back, uninstall, re-install, cable checks. Fucking bah humbug. #Microserf
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Kenny Pryde
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Not even two days in to the UK General election campaign and I'm already switching off.
Journalists moaning about politicians parroting the same sound bites. Well... how about you challenge them more robustly? Just cut them off. Tell them we've *all* heard it. Ask harder questions maybe. #GE2024
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dag
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"I have called a general election by mistake"
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Cold War Steve
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Kevin Rothrock
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idea for a sci-fi horror story: The year is 3579, and when pushed far enough in a political argument, everyone still resorts to WWII analogies.
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Kenny Pryde
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Delivering on: cutting public service funding; being 'relaxed' about the failures of privatisation; successfully ignoring Green energy targets, licencing mining and North sea oil exploration; collapsing the justice system.
Actually, I didn't succeed in finding improvements, did I? #fail
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Kenny Pryde
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100 per cent on the modern nature of those 'rivalries.' What neutral can get behind City, PSG, Newcastle, teams transformed by massive injections of cash?
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Kenny Pryde
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Do you think Blinken was singing through gritted teeth? As in, he *must* know its a lyric critical of modern USA, but all folk hear is the refrain "rockin' in the free world," stripped of all irony.
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Kenny Pryde
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The sort of move that makes you think there was payback involved. Bad blood.
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Travis, bluesky elder
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C'mon man, the horse I rode in on had nothing to do with it
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Kenny Pryde
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The media is never happier, never more smugly content, never more in its comfort zone, when talking about itself and its denizens. And the White House Correspondentsβ Association Dinner is its absolute zenith.
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