Kenny Pryde
@kennypryde.bsky.social
Journo, author,* Scot. Glasgow Wheeler. Big fan of the Accipiters. Cycling, moto, politics, music. And burrrrrds, obviously.
(*The Medal Factory [2019], The Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish cycling history, [2023] EPO, the drug that saved cycling [2020-?])
(*The Medal Factory [2019], The Glasgow Wheelers: a Scottish cycling history, [2023] EPO, the drug that saved cycling [2020-?])
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Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
How many billions (really) of dollars have been spent on A.I. for it to pump out garbage like this? One of the biggest tech companies in the world and *this* is the sort of shite that slips through its quality control? LOL.
Google should be formally stripped of its status as a verb now anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
How many billions (really) of dollars have been spent on A.I. for it to pump out garbage like this? One of the biggest tech companies in the world and *this* is the sort of shite that slips through its quality control? LOL.
Do any of us really need more evidence that important branches of the US government have lost their mind?
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Do any of us really need more evidence that important branches of the US government have lost their mind?
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
How about opening up the 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism then?
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Curaçao, the smallest nation by population, has qualified for the World Cup. I can see Scotland being in their group in the first stage and it being a 'must-win' for us. Well, I remember Costa Rica in 1990. And Peru in 1978. Hell, I can remember Zaire in 1974 for that matter.
'No easy games,' etc.
'No easy games,' etc.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Curaçao, the smallest nation by population, has qualified for the World Cup. I can see Scotland being in their group in the first stage and it being a 'must-win' for us. Well, I remember Costa Rica in 1990. And Peru in 1978. Hell, I can remember Zaire in 1974 for that matter.
'No easy games,' etc.
'No easy games,' etc.
All those tech reviews of a Panasonic OLED Z90 television raving about the picture and sound somehow failed to mention you needed an Amazon account to get full access almost every platform - even those with sod-all to do with Amazon - like Netflix, YouTube.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
All those tech reviews of a Panasonic OLED Z90 television raving about the picture and sound somehow failed to mention you needed an Amazon account to get full access almost every platform - even those with sod-all to do with Amazon - like Netflix, YouTube.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
Buyer's remorse and then some. Grrrrr.
Trump's White House: you stay classy....
FFS.
FFS.
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Trump's White House: you stay classy....
FFS.
FFS.
I've just been served an ad on YouTube for a 'tactical hoody' which has 'military grade' fleece. JFC.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I've just been served an ad on YouTube for a 'tactical hoody' which has 'military grade' fleece. JFC.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
A tactical, military grade piece of polyester?! All it needed was Mayor Wild West doing the voiceover with the hokey C&W backing track and I'd have cracked...
Save me Jebus.
Cory Doctorow, talking about his new book 'Enshittification: a monopoly story' on 'Start the week' on Radio 4 is, as they say, 'knocking it out the park.' Outrage tempered by humour and very clear examples about why so much online has turned out so...shitty.
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Cory Doctorow, talking about his new book 'Enshittification: a monopoly story' on 'Start the week' on Radio 4 is, as they say, 'knocking it out the park.' Outrage tempered by humour and very clear examples about why so much online has turned out so...shitty.
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Top 5 movie genres:
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- mystery on a train
- I've committed the perfect murder, "oh for fucks sake"
- European road movie
- ennui in Hong Kong
- I've tried nothing to improve my life and crime is the only thing left
- mystery on a train
- I've committed the perfect murder, "oh for fucks sake"
- European road movie
- ennui in Hong Kong
- I've tried nothing to improve my life and crime is the only thing left
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
Existential Soviet Cinema
French hipsters play at acting and movies
Screwball cynicism meets Capraesque heart
British flamboyance and theatrics that are resolutely antithetical to the British moral majority
Arnie being Arnie
Existential Soviet Cinema
French hipsters play at acting and movies
Screwball cynicism meets Capraesque heart
British flamboyance and theatrics that are resolutely antithetical to the British moral majority
Arnie being Arnie
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
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Yay science!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Yay science!
Spotify (et al) can do one. A 15-year-old Logitech Squeezebox Touch, a scavenged hard drive from a busted laptop, 13,134 songs ripped from my CDs in lossless files, a 20-year-old Cambridge Audio A4 amp and Tannoy speakers that are so old I can't remember when I bought them. Sounds terrific, honest.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Spotify (et al) can do one. A 15-year-old Logitech Squeezebox Touch, a scavenged hard drive from a busted laptop, 13,134 songs ripped from my CDs in lossless files, a 20-year-old Cambridge Audio A4 amp and Tannoy speakers that are so old I can't remember when I bought them. Sounds terrific, honest.
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Hank Green has made a living riding the algorithmic waves of the social web. He joins @cwarzel.bsky.social to discuss the early promise of the internet—and what went wrong.
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine
Hank Green on outrage, creativity, and what, exactly, went wrong with the internet.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hank Green has made a living riding the algorithmic waves of the social web. He joins @cwarzel.bsky.social to discuss the early promise of the internet—and what went wrong.
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
The 'new' Pope, some guy eh? You just know Martin Scorsese is working up the outline for a biopic...
"Entering a cinema is like crossing a threshold. In the darkness and silence, vision becomes sharper, the heart opens up, and the mind becomes receptive to things not yet imagined."
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The 'new' Pope, some guy eh? You just know Martin Scorsese is working up the outline for a biopic...
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Another wonderful illustration of the difference between correlation and causation...
We might have FINALLY met our match…
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Another wonderful illustration of the difference between correlation and causation...
The look on goalkeeper Craig Gordon's face as he sat on his arse looking at his hapless defence is pretty much how every Scottish football fan feels. A gift for the Greeks -- like they needed one. Ah well.
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The look on goalkeeper Craig Gordon's face as he sat on his arse looking at his hapless defence is pretty much how every Scottish football fan feels. A gift for the Greeks -- like they needed one. Ah well.
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We saw a colour-ringed Oystercatcher on West Sands, St Andrews, yesterday. @jengill.bsky.social
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We saw a colour-ringed Oystercatcher on West Sands, St Andrews, yesterday. @jengill.bsky.social
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
She nests on the 9th green at Selfoss Golf Club (Iceland).
St Andrews seems an appropriate winter home!
A blog abou c.r. project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o...
#BirdingScotland
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Code red
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Code red
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That face you make when you get busted for murdering a vole and the evidence is splattered all over your bill but you’re so drunk with blood lust you don’t even care
(Northern Saw-whet Owl)
(Northern Saw-whet Owl)
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
That face you make when you get busted for murdering a vole and the evidence is splattered all over your bill but you’re so drunk with blood lust you don’t even care
(Northern Saw-whet Owl)
(Northern Saw-whet Owl)
Brexit means Brexit.
Taking back control.
Getting Brexit done.
Boris Johnson's 'Oven ready deal.'
Fuck them all, every single one of those charlatans, none of whom have been impacted by their decisions.
Taking back control.
Getting Brexit done.
Boris Johnson's 'Oven ready deal.'
Fuck them all, every single one of those charlatans, none of whom have been impacted by their decisions.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Brexit means Brexit.
Taking back control.
Getting Brexit done.
Boris Johnson's 'Oven ready deal.'
Fuck them all, every single one of those charlatans, none of whom have been impacted by their decisions.
Taking back control.
Getting Brexit done.
Boris Johnson's 'Oven ready deal.'
Fuck them all, every single one of those charlatans, none of whom have been impacted by their decisions.
November rush hour in West George lane, Glasgow. A bit dreich you say? Aye.
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
November rush hour in West George lane, Glasgow. A bit dreich you say? Aye.
Dinosaurs walk and fly among us. Terrific episode of 'In our time' with three paleontologists explaining the origins of birds, feathers, flying and the Chinese fossil revolution. Marvelous!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Feathered Dinosaurs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Dinosaurs walk and fly among us. Terrific episode of 'In our time' with three paleontologists explaining the origins of birds, feathers, flying and the Chinese fossil revolution. Marvelous!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Has Dirty Donald been on social media to claim those emails are all fake yet?
Surely he could use his Presidential executive decree to instruct the DOJ to immediately release the Epstein files and clear his name? Use his big mad Sharpie magic marker and make it so!
Surely he could use his Presidential executive decree to instruct the DOJ to immediately release the Epstein files and clear his name? Use his big mad Sharpie magic marker and make it so!
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Has Dirty Donald been on social media to claim those emails are all fake yet?
Surely he could use his Presidential executive decree to instruct the DOJ to immediately release the Epstein files and clear his name? Use his big mad Sharpie magic marker and make it so!
Surely he could use his Presidential executive decree to instruct the DOJ to immediately release the Epstein files and clear his name? Use his big mad Sharpie magic marker and make it so!
Well, this is awkward.
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Well, this is awkward.
Using a VPN to watch free-to-air French, Italian, Spanish, Belgian - etc - television coverage of bike races? I won't be able to do that anymore? To the barricades, mes amis!
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Using a VPN to watch free-to-air French, Italian, Spanish, Belgian - etc - television coverage of bike races? I won't be able to do that anymore? To the barricades, mes amis!
Clearly modelled on Boris Yeltsin and, you have to hand it to them, it's a bang-up job.
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Clearly modelled on Boris Yeltsin and, you have to hand it to them, it's a bang-up job.