Mark Prior

A starter pack for #CouchPeloton and others interested in professional cycling. go.bsky.app/2SsAiS4

They're making a show about syphilis?!

The PM of the only Middle East country with nuclear weapons is warning that if he doesn’t win a country without a nuclear weapon will drop a nuclear weapon on Tel Aviv - using AI, because of course

The whole world no longer smells like cigarettes.

This is a great episode from @janfran.bsky.social , pulling apart the PM’s “turning the temperature down” bullshit while we are gaslit about who is actually turning the temperature up. Including himself, grinning in selfies with the world’s inflamer-in-chief.

What began as a community protest over giant electricity poles being installed on quiet residential streets has now rocked the nation’s highest-profile data centre developer, as it scrambles to find a new way to supply energy to its flagship facility. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

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Bay of Pigs 2 trailer just dropped

Free noodle bar in Fremantle aims to win over induction cooking sceptics

James Tallerico goes after Elon Musk on Twitter. 👌

Just in case we have forgotten him he pops again to remind everyone that sadly he's not in gaol.

Incredible story

Tesla Cybertruck officially axed for Australia: Deposits refunded seven years after orders opened

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

Seems pretty predictable blog.datadesk.eco/p/does-chevr...

'Fourth place almost feels like a small victory' - Fabio Jakobsen starts to bounce back in Guangxi www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Ah, the Jensen Huang Masterclass of life skills.

What's bonus funny is this in response to Russia targeting Ukrainian DCs. One of the two countries has redundancy that's not in range, and it's not Russia. au.pcmag.com/networking/1...

#CouchPeloton Tonight's #TrollTips #ILombardia winners are lizzie_g , @markrprior.mrp.net and @sylvia.studio

#CouchPeloton Tonight's #ILombardia #TrollTips predictions

#CouchPeloton Last call for #ILombardia #TrollTips

#CouchPeloton Approximately 10 km until tonight's #ILombardia #TrollTips deadline

#CouchPeloton Approximately 20 km until tonight's #ILombardia #TrollTips deadline

#CouchPeloton Approximately 30 km until tonight's #TrollTips deadline

'We cannot keep accepting that riders are dying' - 🇧🇪 Evenepoel leads safety protest ahead of Il Lombardia 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/we-c... 📸 Cor Vos

Riders delaying the Lombardia start in a protest. Evenepoel takes the microphone to call for improved race safety over the PA system

#CouchPeloton A reminder that Il Lombardia is on SBS2 tonight (starting real soon now), and there is a #TrollTips. Deadline 80km to go.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

#CouchPeloton @sophoife.bsky.social has noted on Discord that the European Championships are available (free but you need to sign up) via "Eurovision Sport". Apps available for phones and AppleTV (maybe others too).

Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.

#CouchPeloton One more monument this year (Il Lombardia on the 10th of October). If there is interest I will run #TrollTips for the Tadej-free monument.

#CouchPeloton The best #8NationsWC squad would have been: 🇨🇭 43 REUSSER Marlen 🇮🇹 43 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa 🇺🇸 30 MCNULTY Brandon 🇦🇺 26 MATTHEWS Michael 🇫🇷 24 KERBAOL Cédrine 🇳🇱 23 VOLLERING Demi 🇩🇪 22 KOCH Franziska 🇧🇪 20 EVENEPOEL Remco Total 231 points

#CouchPeloton Congratulations to biggrove who has won #8NationsWC with 185 points, mandy_mcevoy and @sylvia.studio are in joint 2nd with 172 points. Tonight's highest score was 21 by @markrprior.mrp.net .

#CouchPeloton #8NationsWC WE: biggrove is 1st with 185 points, mandy_mcevoy and @sylvia.studio are in joint 2nd with 164 points. Tonight's highest score was 59 by @sylvia.studio .

#CouchPeloton #8NationsWC MIXED-RELAY-TTT: biggrove is 1st with 133 points, jrr and @markrprior.mrp.net are in joint 2nd with 126 points. Tonight's highest score was 67 by biggrove .

@antmccrossan.bsky.social why doesn’t Belgium have a team? Do they hate each other that much 🤪 #CouchPeloton

#CouchPeloton #8NationsWC ITT: mandy_mcevoy is 1st with 88 points, jrr is 2nd with 85 points, and @markrprior.mrp.net is 3rd with 79 points. Tonight's highest score was 55 by @markrprior.mrp.net and @antiall3s.bsky.social‬ .

#CouchPeloton #8NationsWC ITT-WE: mandy_mcevoy is 1st with 49 points, biggrove and @sophoife.bsky.social are in joint 2nd with 46 points. Tonight's highest score was 49 by mandy_mcevoy .

#CouchPeloton Good luck to everyone playing #8NationsWC. Here are the teams:

#CouchPeloton A reminder that the ITTs are tonight and so if you want to play #8NationsWC then you need to submit a team before the women start.

#Couchpeloton if people want to play #8NationsWC then I will run it (I just won't be awake for the races :-) It would cover the two elite ITT, two elite road races and the mixed relay.

Elon Musk is using this video featuring Arthur C. Clarke to advertise Starlink in Australia, as if Clarke endorses him. Clarke, of course, was a famous exponent of GEO satellites. 🧪 🛰️

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

#Couchpeloton if people want to play #8NationsWC then I will run it (I just won't be awake for the races :-) It would cover the two elite ITT, two elite road races and the mixed relay.

The universities should go absolutely nuclear in response to this. “Hey, talented PhD student whom we’re offering a scholarship to come study here, by the way you can’t bring your spouse and children”. Ludicrous.

'The right time to take a different path' – Blanka Vas engineers early exit from SD Worx-Protime www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

Thanks to the #CouchPeloton for playing the various ⁠#TrollTips games during the season. No games for the WC in Canada.