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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
@deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
Run a bit, cycle a bit.
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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Well, Rouvy buying Bkool and shutting the app has put pay to that challenge. 18 Stages of the 1974 Giro before the plug pulled.
Total Distance: 3,056 km/1,899 miles
Total Elevation: 34,116 m/111,929 ft
Total Time: 7 days 02 Hours 01 Minutes
Total Calories: 75,284
www.justgiving.com/page/keith-f...
"You might well be 'one of Christianity's greatest theologians and a Saint' but I am still not going to, as it was so delightfully phrased, 'just fucking floor it'"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Fibers found on an ancient ocean voyaging canoe in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands roughly align with the first archaeological traces of human settlement on Rēkohu. https://scim.ag/3MvPKAp
‘Incredible’ carved canoe dates back to first settlement of islands near New Zealand
Fibers found on waka in Chatham Islands roughly align in age with earliest known human arrival
scim.ag
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Minimum wage should not go higher, suggests UK multi-millionaire Tory leader Badenoch on a salary of £93,904+expenses.

Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.

Can't build economy on poverty.
Minimum wage should not go any higher, suggests Badenoch
Badenoch claimed Labour had tipped the balance too far against workers and in favour of welfare.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Fifteen minute city.

(Just kidding, but we know that for some people it's true...)
December 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Nazis were not fascist. Fascism was used by Mussolini not hitler
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Drive slower.
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

Honestly I think you'd be surprised how every so often an odd skill resurfaces (possibly/hopefully with the exception of @williamnb.bsky.social's shaped charges)

Least likely - stripping a 2 stroke outboard carburettor.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

In my case, using plastic explosives to make shaped charges, to direct a blast in a certain direction.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

Cable lacing for me. We would stitch hundreds of metres of cables into telephone exchanges using waxed string. We all had callouses on our fingers from pulling them tight.

They use zip ties nowadays!

ZIP TIES!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Removing a cataract is a pretty routine operation but for me, with only one functioning eye, it felt like the stakes were high
The Miracle of Sight
How I lost it and got it back again
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”

A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.

It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Do the steps sound familiar?
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@wombat37.bsky.social
A photo for you.
December 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel

Actually, easy mode - off the top of my head: Hot Shots (+PD), Airplane, Princess Bride, but my preference, always is this...
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”

- Oscar Wilde
The Arsenal players’ reactions as their 17 game unbeaten streak came to an end at Villa Park with the very last kick of the game.

Heartbreaking. 💔
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.

1. The Aesthetics

Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Sho nuff?"
December 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Riveting, Tyne Bridge Support, Bridge Tavern, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2025

#photography #architecture #bridge #tynebridge #newcastleupontyne #newcastle #tyne #bridges #engineering #rivet #riveting
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I’m guessing they were taken into ‘custardy’.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...
Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is
His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Fresnel Lighthouse Lens, Maritime Museum, Aberdeen, 2025

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #lens
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
16th Century Heraldic Ceiling, St. Machar's Cathedral, Old Aberdeen, 2025

#photography #architecture #aberdeen #stmacharscathedral
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
FIFA: We need a peace prize for Donald Trump
Artist: No problem
Also Artist: Fuck that guy, I'm gonna make the globe look like a ball of flesh and the hands like they're from decaying, rotting corpses.
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM