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Andy

@andydrummond.bsky.social

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Between Knotty Ash and North Cave. Posts about bikes, Lib Dems 🔶 and occasionally intensive care medicine. All views own and probably not that interesting.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 16d

Today marks the start of #OrganDonationWeek 2025. This week, it’s really important that you consider your wishes about organ donation, register a decision on the ODR and tell your loved ones - #LeaveThemCertain #YesIDoNate

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If you needed an organ transplant would you have one? If so please help those in need of a transplant by opting to donate organs and tissue.

www.organdonation.nhs.uk

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 9h

Is it worth a complaint?

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 10h

I thought it was better than S2, which needed a longer run for the story arc to unfold properly #BlueLights

Also keeps reminding me I need to have a go at making fifteens with the kids.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 10h

They’re on here you know @apiln.bsky.social

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 12h

I think John Curtice told them that, at their conference. Whether they were listening is another issue entirely.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 12h

We just don’t do it. Even with a confirmed and recent opt-in decision on the organ donor register, if there no-one to confirm it with, donation won’t proceed.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 12h

Much as though I whinge about our ME system, we don’t have to contend with that….

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. If we want e-bikes to scale, we have to deal with hyper fast two-wheelers, which are a scourge.

These things are turning people against e-bikes. Is that fair? No, but it’s reality.

ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 16h

Agree they are a menace, we have to make sure we emphasize the difference between these and normal e-bikes, as they are often treated as the same thing in media and politics.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 14h

That’s interesting, because over here that would be a hard bar, even with opt-out legislation in force.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds like there's a BJA publication in that.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 18h

Clegg has failed to explain what the downside here is.

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.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 18h

It's going to transform the planet because it's environmentally disastrous?

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, it's not as bad as pethidine, but it's still pretty hopeless. And it's massive delirogenic.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 20h

It's probably not great news for the grey squirrel population in the release areas (which is of course good news for reds)

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 21h

Nick Clegg says asking petrol companies to charge for petrol would kill the car industry

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.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

This is the official return of a native species lost for over a century.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 23h

Yep.

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 23h

Could have finished the question after ‘tramadol’ TBF.

The one that really baffles me is tapentadol which I’ve never seen in the wild, though there was also that preparation that combined tramadol with 325 of paracetamol #YTho

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

If thats via Anaconda/MIRUS then they should supply the correct filler for sevo?

Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

There used to be a chap who drew sevo into a special syringe and injected it into the circuit using a syringe driver, instead of using a vaporiser.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

We used to have STV for the university seats before they were abolished, I think.

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

I’d imagine apart from the refunds there’s a decent amount of #DelayRepay to be had there.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 1d

not the Onion

Owen Massey @bookllyfr.bsky.social · 1d

A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...

#motonormativity

@apiln.bsky.social

Proposed 'eyesore' bench causes outrage among community

Plans for a new artistic bench that have been two years in the making have caused outrage among residents in Botley near an Oxford Brookes campus.

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk

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Andy @andydrummond.bsky.social · 1d

The Raz next?

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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 1d

“The simple slap on the wrist of the Highway Traffic Act ticket and penalty is not even administered. How crushing is that to somebody who remains off work after being injured by someone?,” Shellnutt said at the news conference.

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Huge number of dropped charges at Ontario courts amounts to ‘lawlessness’: NDP

Hundreds of thousands of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) charges that were dropped last year are a sign Ontario’s justice system is failing to live up to its basic functions and puts Ontario on the road to ...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE.

“The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”

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