CyborgBee

@ClaesRafael @HKWrighty @daniellloyd1 @jorgepontedeira He did win the World Championship in '93. Although I think he shows the that the GC/classics split isn't voluntary better than almost anyone: he was an excellent classics rider but not a top GC rider, and then the reverse. He wasn't able to be both at once

@HKWrighty @daniellloyd1 @jorgepontedeira Armstrong road all classics, except for Roubaix. No victories, and besides two times second at LBL, no results.

Best result in a monument: Alberto Contador: 9th Nairo Quintana: 9th Chris Froome: 36th It's easy to forget that there was a generation or two where classics and Grand Tours were almost two entirely different disciplines. Whether you enjoy watching Tadej Pogačar dominate the one day classics or not, he has set a very good precedent for future pros - winners of Grand Tours can and probably should race monuments (even cobbled ones). That's the thought process that future greats will have as they're growing up, and that's got to be a good thing.

@jack_govier @BenjiNaesen Threatening to sue a member of the media for criticising them?

@BenjiNaesen What's the ethical breach you're concerned about here?

On 2 April 2026, I received the attached letter from a senior member of the UCI, without any prior communication. This morning, I have filed a formal complaint against the sender, with the UCI Ethics Commission, regarding this letter being sent to me.

@VaisTom @AlCostene @NairoInGreen @BenjiNaesen Yes. We have a problem with enslaving people and then working them to death.

@AlCostene @NairoInGreen @BenjiNaesen He's left leaning. They have always problem with something. It's their nature, don't bother with it.

@Staffanito @DaniNovarama @SandyofCthulhu Think about how time zones work. Spain is substantially to the west of those countries, so geographically it shouldn't be in the same time zone. With daylight savings, the zenith of the sun is well after 2pm in most of the country

@DaniNovarama @SandyofCthulhu Whut? Spain is in the central European time zone, along with France, Germany, Sweden etc. Has nothing to do with them eating later dinners. More likely the old habit of taking siesta during the day time.

The biggest culture shock I had in Spain was the dinner time. My wife and I would be walking around, feeling a little hungry at 7 pm say, and walk up to a restaurant. "Oh, no we're not open. Come back in 90 minutes." This didn't happen in Madrid or Barcelona. I assume because they are used to tourists so open "early" for them. But Cordoba and Aviles were flabbergasted we'd eat so soon. Even 8:30 seemed kind of rushed to them, and they preferred we'd come at 9-10pm, then spend like 2 hours eating. I was always taught if I had a big meal just before bed time it would keep me awake. I guess it could be an old wives tale, or maybe the Spanish just deal with it.

@louincolor @thechessnerd Last time was also weak. Every previous candidates in the current format was much stronger than both of them

@thechessnerd People who think this is a weak field are out of their minds. All the players are stronger than Abasov. There won't be a single easy game for anyone.

Your 8 Candidates (Most Likely) 1. Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 (2795) - 2024 FIDE Circuit 2. Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 (2810) - Highest Average Elo Through 40 Games in 2025 3. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳 (2760) - Most Likely 2025 FIDE Circuit 4. Anish Giri 🇳🇱 (2760) - FIDE Grand Swiss (1st Place) 5. Wei Yi 🇨🇳 (2755) - FIDE World Cup (1st or 2nd place) 6. Javokhir Sindarov 🇺🇿 (2725) - FIDE World Cup (1st or Second Place) 7. Matthias Blübaum 🇩🇪 (2678) - FIDE Grand Swiss (2nd Place) 8. Nordirbek Yakubboev 🇺🇿 (2701) OR Andrey Esipenko (2685) (Whoever wins 3rd place World Cup!)

@Mazupilami2 @Thommadawn @julesgambit You can't seriously think "chess is a sport because mouse speed matters in bullet" is a convincing argument. It's the least important kind of chess and even there it's far less important than choosing moves - the best hyperbullet players are GMs, not pro gamers.

@CyborgBee @Thommadawn @julesgambit Not necessarily in a bullet game.

So professional darts players are athletes but chess players aren’t? Huh.

@Thommadawn @julesgambit Darts is stressful mentally, but the skill is physical. Chess is stressful physically, but the skill is mental. Look at it like this: Messi, LeBron, Bolt, etc. could tell me everything about their sport and I'd still be awful. If Magnus tells me the moves to play, I win

@CyborgBee @julesgambit Chess is stressful mentally and physically...look at heart rates, weight loss, etc. Professional chess cannot be compared to playing chess, for example with grandpa, by the fireplace

@taku0x @jj_bull It's more romantic that it's Thommo when you know that he and McLean played together at St Mirren in the early 2010s, when McLean was a youngster and Thompson was a veteran at his last club

@jj_bull It was a bit more romantic when I thought it was Faddy shouting it, someone who knows all about shooting from miles oot. But magic moment all the same!

Steven Thompson shouting SHOOT! SHOOT! exactly as Kenny McLean thinks ‘ah fuck it why not’ is just embedded inside me now. I absolutely love it it’s perfect

@ChrisPoole___ @TheDartsReferee He did (to an extent, he was still great) but also Humphries lost a ton of weight and rapidly ascended from middle of the pack to all-time great. Not clear how much of either was due to the weight change, and impossible to know what effect it would have on another player

@TheDartsReferee Didn't Phil Taylor go to pot after some rapid weight loss and then find his form after getting back on the donuts? Balance maybe ?

always find it mad when people criticise dart players for losing weight, same thing happened to Arron Monk back in the day. If anyone in darts knows what they are doing with their physique, it's probably Price

@crotty32 @Tom_Gann You pay the tax on your net worth. Which in that case would presumably mean selling the house or a reverse mortgage (although that's a pretty unrealistic example, because generally people with all their money in their house would be below any proposed wealth tax threshold)

@CyborgBee @Tom_Gann But how? If you have a property worth 10 million but a income of just your pension how does that work?

The thing with Gary is he’s a single issue campaigner - and even within that he’s a very narrow one. He advocates wealth taxes not in a social democratic way to fund public services but for left monetarist reasons, to reduce inflation.

@crotty32 @Tom_Gann It's in the name - a tax on wealth. If you have a net worth above a certain value, you pay a certain % of the excess as a tax. Beyond that, debating the details is pointless, because we first have to make it politically feasible

@Tom_Gann What is the "wealth tax "? Everyone is calling for it but no one is giving any details.

@Xinirnix @BenjiNaesen @UCI_media Sylvan Adams openly admits that IPT is sportswashing, and a bunch of other teams are directly owned by nation states for no benefit other than improving their image. And the whole idea of sportswashing is to help the sport so fans will defend them like you're doing!

@BenjiNaesen @UCI_media You see sportswashing, I see more professionalism, more global sport, better equipment, stronger teams, also paving paths for women cycling, etc... People see what they want to see. And nothing is perfect.

UCI statement concerning La Vuelta Ciclista a España 2025 bit.ly/4naAO8y

@sharks37 @tomdanielson Any team where he'd be unquestioned leader will be interested, and that's most teams because he's really strong. It just doesn't matter to a team like Movistar that he's a terrible teammate, because they're never going to ask him to be a domestique

@tomdanielson I'm not sure what team will pick him up, but I question why they would. Surely every other team can see his behaviour. This is a team sport and he clearly can't contribute to a team.

I think he (Ayuso) stays in the Vuelta. They are just explaining the “situation” to the public as it looks a bit ridiculous right now. Basically a case of: guy doesn’t fit in team because he doesn’t want to give up his aspirations to help the riders currently winning. Team keep giving him chances, he keeps riding only for himself. Team gets mad, he gets mad. He finds new team and asks out of his contract. Team says ok but we will “punish” you by having to go to Vuelta and ride with your internal nemesis Almedia (who is riding better than you). Guy mad and returns the “punishment” with purposely sitting up when needed and then showing he could be helping by going and winning a stage he could help on.

@BirdGuySky @Otismotisss @NairoInGreen Phelps' medal count is so large because there are so many athletically similar swimming events, not because he was a better athlete than Bolt. Look at how many other swimmers have piled up medals across events in a way that no sprinter ever could

@Otismotisss @NairoInGreen I feel like if you’re arguing for Bolt then Phelps is a clear next step

Humans by nature are endurance athletes, that has been humanities defining evolutionary athletic advantage. Calling the best endurance athlete alive, Tadej Pogacar, the greatest living athlete isn't an insane thing to do.

@belaqua_shua @MikeMitdit @smilesinmay He called him a prick on Instagram at one point, which is about as close as he's ever got to an actual comment about series 1. The general understanding is that the Boak stuff is what he quit over but he also detests JB, but everything has had to be pieced together from leaks

i think chris having a bad relationship with the production team that let him and other members of the series 1 crew down is okay actually

@MikeMitdit @smilesinmay Defending John Barrowman's repeated exposure of his genitals in the workplace. In 2025. You should be embarrassed. To spell it out: many people were uncomfortable but he was a star and therefore they were afraid of being fired if they objected. The other leads had no such risk.

@ThePatriotUSMC @Please50Hold Graph 1 x-axis: 500,000 years Graph 2 x-axis: 120 years The rate of change is the problem. Faster change makes the climate a more unstable system, meaning more extreme weather events. And we've caused thousands of years worth of normal warming in a century.

@Please50Hold OK good. Yes if you look from there, the earth has warmed. Although we were already on a warming trend before that. But look back further and the story is constant change. Look at these two different graphs.

Conservatives spent decades denying climate change, and when predictions come true they resort to conspiracy theories lol

@amerikkkanboy @MissPavIichenko Like hundreds of tarantulas crawling all over you? Or wasps, or public speaking? Most human fears aren't rational, have a bit of fucking empathy.

@MissPavIichenko have you considered not being afraid of something that isnt threatening

I've been the Merkel in this situation and I can assure you this is just a dog person thing. They all think everyone else loves their dogs as much as they do.