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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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Yes, forcing users to upload documents for age verification is going to end very badly.

Collecting sensitive documents, like ID is an especially bad idea.

Do not collect shit that you do not need to collect, ever.

If it's not collected it can't be leaked.

That is all.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 13h

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

In 60 minutes I saw 172 cyclists run these lights – it’s a matter of time before they kill someone

The offenders included Lime bike riders, school children and a woman in high-heeled boots

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

Thank you!

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

Yes. I set up the DeadManRunning1 tag on the other place in 2019.
I had inadvertently signed up for the Great North Run, my first ½ marathon in 30 years, to raise money for @sbrfoundation.bsky.social where I was on my first clinical trial for stage 4 bowel cancer.

George Caulkin, Liz Luff and I in the Sir Bobby Robson tent at the finish of the 2019 Great North Run.

The 2023 Sir Bobby Robson Team at the start of the Great North Run with Sir Brendan Foster

The 2025 sir Bobby Robson Team at the start of the Great North Run 2025 with Sir Brendan Foster

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 19h

Quite. And it's not as though storage is going to break the government coffers.

deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 20h

"Too much data to back up" apparently.

Well, that's not a problem anymore.

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

Compared to the route Newcastle-Carlisle they're luxury

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

It has been my honour since then to run twice more for the Sir Bobby Robson Team, in 2023 and 2025.
Now on my second clinical trial, still not dead, still not managed under 2 hours.
Yet.

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

That chat became a part of this wonderful piece.
I finally met George face to face at the end of the run after just over two hours of running and not dying.

Running. Crying. Aching. Striving. Dying. From Carrick to Sir Bobby’s children – the Great North Run bares its soul

Football is at the centre of so many incredible stories at the worlds biggest half marathon...

www.nytimes.com

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

My pinned post kind of summed up my approach to this. This caught the attention of @georgecaulkin.bsky.social who was writing a piece about the Run for the Athletic/NYT and phoned me up for a chat

Tweet:
"Goals when signing up for the Great North Run 9 months ago:
Don't die before the start line.
Don't die before the finish line.
Run the whole 13 miles.
Make it in 2 hours

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

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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

The bike hanger cupboards on TPE/East Coast trains aren't too bad if you're using a "normal" bike, and the hangers are ticketed so you can be sure of space.

That said anything heavy, laden, fat tyred or wide barred is a pain either to get onto the train or to fit in the storage.

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

Yep. It looks like someone just stretched a BMX.

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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 1d

De-restricted e-bikes (i.e. electric motorcycles) are already banned from bike paths and MUPs. The legislation is mostly fine. It's the media practices (polarising the public against e-bikes for clicks) and enforcement that is lacking.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

These images are separated by one day

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britstar.bsky.social @britstar.bsky.social · 1d

Street photography Newcastle, UK.
#Photography
#streetphotography
#Newcastle

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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 1d

Real person here! 👋🏽 Portland is not bombed out or burning. This person is lying or living in an alternate reality. 🤔 Yesterday's bike commute:

#Portland #PDX #PortlandOregon

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

Cambois...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 2d

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

If a multibillion industry can't afford to pay artists then perhaps it's either overvalued or deserves to be destroyed.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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

Oops, 85/?¿?

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

WRNI Cancer Trial
Cycle 11 Day 8
Cannibal Run:
1974 Triple Crown part 84/???*
1974 Giro d'Italia 84/???*

With the imminent retirement of Bkool after the Rouvy takeover this is going to get a lot shorter...

#CannibalRun #TripleCrown #Merckx #cycling