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Stage IV bowel cancer 2025: Phase 1 WRN trial at ECMT Christie 2018-25: Immuno trial at Sir Bobby Robson Centre Running the 2025 Great North Run for Sir Bobby's Team https://www.justgiving.com/page/sir-bobbys-team-2025

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · Jun 21

Well, it's getting to that time again: 6 years on, another #cancer trial underway and back on the start line of Great North Run.
Targets remain the same... Sponsorship in bio and below, running for the people who kept me alive for 7 years, @sbrfoundation.bsky.social

A post by me on twitter in August of 2019 which says:
Goals when signing up for the Great North Run 9 months ago:
1) Don't die before the start line
2) Don't die before the finish line
3) Run the whole 13 miles
4) Make it in 2 hours

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 8h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 10h

What is your point?

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 12h

You said we're stuck with it - pollution - and Paris proves that we don't have to be

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, we're not. Certain politicians stoke division on LTNs for clicks, but Paris shows what can be done.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · Aug 17

A sign beside a ramp into a body of water

A closeup showing canoes keep left, if you want to walk into the sea, keep right.

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

So vaccines work for animals in the US, but not people?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

USDA plans to airdrop rabies vaccines across southeast US to combat outbreaks among wild animals

USDA to airdrop rabies vaccines to combat outbreaks among wild animals

www.independent.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

I almost dialled my parents number on reading this.
No idea if it's valid, given how few people use landlines, number reuse is probably less of a thing.

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

And numbers kept getting longer
Dialling code
0763 became 01763
Number
4XXXX became 24XXXX
Then London:
01
071/081
0207/0208

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

Answering the phone with "Dialling code name" "Numbers"

"Hello, Cambridge 52693”

Because on rotary dials it was still surprisingly easy to misdial.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 1d

Labour’s Dan Jarvis wiped the floor with Badenoch. #ukpolitics

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

Here you go @thelouvreof.bsky.social

Screenshot of a camera app taking a photo of a £20 note

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

I tend to stick to following feed for that reason - I don't need to see people with a propensity for todgers-out posts.

Better that twitter where by then end nearly every follow was AI pron bot.

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 1d

Such a stupid and easily disprovable argument about takeaway food when literally every single food delivery app has people on bikes.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 1d

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 4d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch!

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

And yeah, the first time I did the descent myself I could smell the brake blocks at the bottom.
If you've got carbon rim brake wheels I suspect it's the best test to see if delamination is going to happen.
For a given value of 'best'.

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

My brother and mates did it one year. First lad got to the bottom of the hill at the T junction and stopped.
Auld guy there working on the fence, so he strikes up conversation:
"Bet you get a few people coming down the hill and hitting that, ha ha ha"
Auld guy:
"Fuck off!"
That'll be a 'yes'...

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

True. Nearly got taken out by a squirrel on the descent into Nenthead from Garrigill, a road that requires brake block shredding levels of speed scrubbing at the best of times.

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

At least he did it on *checks notes* rocks, so if he comes off in his protective outfit of *checks notes* unpadded skintight rubber, he'll probably be fine.

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

It's a mindset thing.

Riding with a friend of mine, road cyclist when young as opposed to me messing around on BMX.

Crest of a hill, wooded, bendy. We start descending. I sit up, rest fingers onto brakes, light pressure.

He goes onto the drops, into a tuck and vanished.

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 2d

Several 70kmh-ish descents round weardale - all quiet roads, moorland, good visibility as they generally wind along valley sides. Felt quite safe at the time. Never really had to account for driver doing something stupid.

Yet.

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