The Hater’s Guide to Pro Cycling

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A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Digital illustration done in a graphite style on a toned paper background. A classic style mermaid seen sort of in profile with her body in an S-shape. Her hair is very long and flowing around in the expected way. She’s examining a human cranium with a hatchet embedded in it. She’s set against a swooshy shape filled with hatched shading. Under the bottom curve of her tail some small lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Seems pretty fucking simple to me.

Is it really too much to ask that I can ride my bike, read some books, watch some football and hockey, and quietly work my days away, content in the knowledge that nobody is going to be kidnapped by government agents, or die in a nuclear fireball?

Ive muted enough words that I’m now oblivious to about 75% of the horrors.

Is that good or bad?

I’m in the US military and I’m about to make a fortune betting against me surviving a drone strike. The other gamblers don’t know how slow I run

"The things that will DESTROY US are:

POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES;

PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE;

WEALTH WITHOUT WORK;

knowledge without character;

BUSINESS WITHOUT MORALITY;

SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY;

and worship without sacrifice."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Don't think of them as people .... think of them as .... podcasters"

Here lies Mark Cuban, ghormless and plagued with L’s

you’re laughing? iran is lobbing missiles at linkedin mutants, techbros and ufc fighters and you’re laughing?

Farewell then, special relationship. And good riddance

Anyone going to the Glasgowcross should get a fish dinner from the Ox and Finch and sink 1-3 Tennent's for me

This great news. No doubt the Belgians will moan, but even if it gets only 1 scottish kid on a CX bike, then it’s still a huge success.

Paging @thehatersguide.bsky.social

Amazing news.
Yet another world class cycling event in Glasgow, we've really been spoilt in recent years

I hope it gets a great turnout so the UCI have to bring it back every year. No doubt the Belgians will piss and moan that it’s not fair them having to travel outside of West Flanders for a race, though.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

One downside, being next door to a Wholefoods would mean only bad things for my bank account.

Good job, though. State pension, more money, similar work, choice of in office or WFH, and the office is in a good part of town that’s bike accessible.

Bollocks!

Looks like I might have myself a new job, just when I was thinking this unemployment stuff was kinda fun.

Did Wout make it around in one piece?

My feed was unwatchable due to delays.

"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language."

He’s the antidote to Hatch doing FEEEE-LEEEP-OH- GAN-NAAAAAAH.

Brian Smith making no attempt to pronounce names with an accent is my favorite ongoing bit. He makes everything sound Glaswegian.

Evnay-Pole

Vandy-Pole

If a road or a climb is a ‘rue-de’, then Smithy speak makes is Rudy.

Is anyone having trouble with the Samyn feed?

Trying to work out if this is at the production end, my end, or Flo sucking.

At 9.3 kilometres (5.8 miles) my cycle trip to work this morning was longer than most UK car trips. It took me 26 minutes.

(It would have been 23 minutes if I hadn't spent so long waiting at a crossing because people driving within the city are given priority over people who aren't driving)

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Ok but what came out last time Bill said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"?