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s1m0nd.bsky.social
Enjoys cycling in circles. 2x Irish masters medallist; not finished yet.
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Netflix cutting both its Six Nations and Tour de France series? It didn't help either one that they decided to release it the week before the next real-time edition. I'm a fan of both and I didn't watch either in full.

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The best way to follow the British track cycling national champs today is via PDFs in a Dropbox folder. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The digitally added ad boards on the NHL's TV ice hockey coverage are remarkable. If you didn't know, you wouldn't know.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Love this stat from last night: There were 120 Merseyside derbies at Goodison Park in total in all competitions. The record has seen both sides win exactly 41 games each and share the points on 38 occasions. (Google/NYT)

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I didn't expect to see media coverage of cycling included in Ars Technica's rundown of the continued en💩ification of modern online life; but its place is fully deserved. That's not good company to find yourself in, TNT Sports. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Running out of reasons to keep opening X now.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I tried DeepSeek (running locally) on a coding job today. It explained eloquently how it would do the thing I asked. It did not actually do the thing I asked. Gemma did it almost immediately.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Eurosport / Discovery / WBD / whoever was getting the most money out of me, net, when it was £40 a year for GCN+. Since GCN+ shut I have chosen which months to pay for D+ at £4-7/m, total £30-ish over the past year. I don't see myself paying for more than a single month per year at £31/m.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

FYI: If you're prepared to swallow a 2.3x price rise switching from Discovery+ to TNT Sports Premium - they offered me a 6-month 50% discount as the final step of the D+ online cancellation process. I still cancelled.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I just cancelled my subscription to Discovery+ as a direct result of their announcement of a 4.4x price hike, closing down Eurosport in the UK, and forcing everything into a TNT Sports premium sub. Here's what I'll miss? You know what, I think I'll cope.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I resented having to pay £6.99/m for Discovery+, and funding its flood of reality TV trash, purely to watch (Eurosport) cycling. If they think I'm going to start paying more than 4x more for trash TV I don't want, and a lot of TNT sport I don't want, they are out of their minds.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly it has lifted my heart each morning for the last month or so, turning on Times Radio at 6am-ish and hearing @aasmahmir.bsky.social still with us.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

It's still WordPress. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/t...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Huuuge respect to @southstreetarts.bsky.social in Reading for the hyper-local beer selection at the bar. Double Barrelled, Delphic and Phantom on tap last night, with Renegade and Siren in cans. 🍻

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

New Years Eve in central London is a once in a lifetime experience. We did it once, and vowed never to do it again.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Hang on, you can get RSS feeds off Bluesky profiles? 😍 Just stick /rss on the end of the /profile address.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

@robhatch.bsky.social Very much enjoying the track centric Gruppetto show. Your accent got noticeably more Northern than normal, talking to Jo! 😂

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

... which means I'm up to 18th in the world for the M50 Time Trial! Might nip out later to buy some 🍾 #trackcycling #offseason

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Great to see Palmer Park Velo colours on display at tonight's #ucitcl Track Champions League grand final 😎

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna write a blog post on my hobby / side-hustle website tomorrow, and it's gonna auto-tweet it on here - you know, the way things always used to work, the way we all took for granted. And honestly, I'm giddy with excitement.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

OK, are we doing this? I guess we’re doing this. First impression is that it’s nice for what it is, reassuringly familiar… but Bluesky could have done a lot to make the exit from X easier.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments