David Emmett

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Important message for anyone who doesn't want to spend all their time online being annoyed. That's not a life. No one wants that.

People keep asking me how I could afford to have kids as an artist. https://www.patreon.com/AliceFraser

🎧 The one in which renowned ⚽️ fan @motomatters.com 😜 trolls @adamwheeler99.bsky.social with an England World Cup reference, and it gets left in after the edit 😂 Rock on, lads 🤘😆🤘 🏁 #Motorsport #MotoGP #AustralianGP 🇦🇺 #Podcasts 📻

It is, today, not the 13th anniversary of the publication of Steven Morrissey’s autobiography (it had been out for ten days) but something much better: the 13th anniversary of the Sunday Times publishing A. A. Gill’s merciless mauling of it—a review which went on to win Hatchet Job of the Year

Finally, a newsletter I want to sign up to!

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas confirms the project to build a MotoGP circuit on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD just received federal clearance. Says for every tree cut down, 100 will be planted.

Now this is a normal-sized constellation.

Joan Mir is to return at Sepang #MotoGP. Needs to be passed medically fit, but he's been riding and hopes he can race.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Love this. One of her best loved and most enduring short stories is The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. A place name which is just Salem, O. (Oregon), backwards.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Yesss it’s happening again

Safe travels, Mr. Chekov. And thank you.

How did the 2026 WorldWCR championship finale unfold? What does the arrival of CFMOTO mean for 2027? Above all, what does Maria Herrera's win mean for the role of the women's championship in the wider racing world. Alice Jukes explores and explains. motomatters.com/analysis/202...

WorldWCR’s Third Season Ends with Familiar Results and New Questions https://motomatters.com/analysis/2026/10/26/worldwcr_s_third_season_ends_with.html WorldWCR’s Third Season Ends with Familiar Results and New Questions For the second consecutive year, Maria Herrera has been …

The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers

It's so funny seeing the press do a whole "But is the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street a good thing?" thing. Pedestriaisation ALWAYS works. Always. Bit of a bump when it switches and then, almost immediately, life/commerce roars into the fill the gaps left by diesel fumes. Love this for London

The golden goose of Mandello del Lario: Riding the two V-twins 👉 Read more on Common Tread: rvz.la/4zL8lM8

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

It would be very funny if Carlos Ezpeleta got stuck in Qatar because the airport closed due to drone attacks www.gpone.com/en/2026/10/2...

Solar panels: they're good, stick 'em on your roof! Make a little shady garden spot out of them! Roll on when the UK plug in solar can combine with a battery, cut the red tape around leaseholders hanging them off balconies, just get on with it. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

You never see James Talarico and Robin in the same room together 🤔

Transphobia just one of a whole collection of phobias, study finds. Terfs are also misogynists shocker. Also often racist and xenophobic. Almost as if there's a link.

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Me, a pedestrian, looking at motorists.

A nation succeeding at developing an industry isn’t stealing anything. But what do I know? I’m not an expert like this pampered, corrupt dementia patient running a money-laundering operation while pretending to be a big, tough builder.

The thing about Donald Trump is that he is an absolute god tier loser snowflake who collapses emotionally whenever some says something nasty about him. He is the epitome of a weak, pathetic, sad sack loser

Hard to put into words the knowledge that the Brazilian elections are globally consequential in a way that equals the importance of the American ones, and the ruling class in the enlightened liberal west all actively root for the laughably comic book ecocidal villains to win.

Russia is stepping up the number of Africans it recruits to counter a personnel shortage in its military and is targeting some of the continent’s most dysfunctional states for manpower. Read more: bloom.bg/4AeYSxd 📷: AFP/Getty Images

High streets are an important part of modern Britain. It's where afternoon drinkers go to get interviewed by news reporters for their views about immigration.

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."