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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
@deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
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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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Looking for a backup frame/forks for my "I ain't dead yet" Specialized Allez cos given 12 months to live in 2017, buying it 18 months later *in 2018*, it's something I treasure.
But the AI description on eBay just annoys me - lazy, shite listing fact rehash, no "I used it for..." information.
The Specialized Allez Road Bike 56cm is a high-quality aluminium road bike designed for unisex adults. This multicoloured bike features a 56cm frame size, 700C wheel size, drop handlebar, rim brake, derailleur gears, and adjustable seat. Made in Taiwan, this road bike is perfect for avid cyclists looking for a smooth and efficient ride. With its reliable brand reputation and sleek design, the Specialized Allez Road Bike is a top choice for serious cyclists tackling long distances on the road. Specialized Allez Elite 2018 road bike, with Red Hook colouring: purple paint on the frame topped with splashed of multi colour stripes on the front of the forks and the frame that are designed to look like they have been wrong blown onto the bike. The other colour option that year was plain red with black writing. Why would you?
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
Found possibly the most ludicrous complaint against the mansion tax so far on the Chronicle's story about 65 £2m houses sold over the last 5 years:
A reader has commented "What happens if I WIN a multi million pound house on competitors [sic] like Omaze? I haven't got thousands of pounds to pay mansion tax" I'm hoping they're trolling and they aren't actually that stupid, but who knows. Either way, while other commentators did point out they could just sell the house, a particularly cutting response of "you are not going to win a house on Omaze" did make me chuckle.
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Tower, Powis Gates, Old Aberdeen, 2025

#photography #aberdeen #powisgates
A round tower topped with a conical roof on which sits an arrow weathervane and a golden crescent. Below this is a circular crenellated platform supported by curved stove buttresses. This looks very pretty but the walls are barely knee high at the tallest point and an absolute death trap by the look of it. The tower, one of two at the Powis Gates, were funded by reparations to slave owners when slavery was abolished and the slaves were freed. It goes without saying that the slaves were given nothing in recompense.
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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King Death, Scougal Memorial, St Machar's Cathedral, Old Aberdeen, 2025

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #stmacharscathedral #aberdeen
A black and white photo of a carving memorial of a skeletal figure in a crown lifting cells over a man and wife reuniting them in death
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Wall Portrait, Maritime Museum, Aberdeen, 2025

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #art #steetart #graffitiart #graffitiphotography
A large life-like portrait of a man in a cap painted on a wall. Or rather, two walls as the artist has managed the tricky skill of painting the portrait on two walls on a corner of a building and making the viewpoint the diagonal
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Shed, Footdee, Aberdeen, 2025

#photography #footdee #aberdeen
A blue painted shed on which a large white circle had been painted to represent the moon. A large branch has been attached to the shed. Two silhouetted cats have been painted on the moon, one appearing to be prowling along the branch the other day at the bottom. Three bats are painted on the top right. An orange life ring hangs from another branch to the side of the painting
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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No contest
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Why would this be of any interest to me?
Because I was visiting my aunt in Aberdeen and it turns out it was only 2 minutes slower to drive all the way across the country to Carlisle, and then back across in Scotland than taking the A1.
And the A69 isn't all dual carriageway either 🙄
Google navigating from Newcastle in north east England to Aberdeen east Scotland. Five hours eighteen minutes going in a straightish line North to Edinburgh. Driving west to Carlisle first, then North West to Glasgow, before finally heading in the right direction is somehow only 2 minutes slower at five hours twenty minutes...
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The Floof picture is complete - 96x96 #lego portrait of a dafty cat
Completed portrait made of Lego of a Maine Coon cat. It's quite big. It's taken a while. But it's also awesome. And my son, who helped build it, and who's cat this is, loves it. So, you know, worth it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Radiator, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2025

#photography #blackandwhitephotography
A black and white photograph of a radiator. Essentially it's a series of vertical lines in degrees of grey with a black triangular slash covering the bottom left hand corner of the frame
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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On the glove front these are excellent - though much above zero and they can be too warm. As someone with Reynard's they are a great addition for winter.
Planet X lobster style gloves - insulated and with the fingers in pairs to stop one getting cold individually
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Now just waiting for the yellow random Lego from eBay to see where that gets us to...

Light grey, dark grey, black and white all complete.
Nearly complete Lego portrait of a Maine Coon floofle cat.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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"Who would buy a kilo of random white Lego pieces from eBay?"

White complete.
Lego portrait of a cat. There's a lot of white on her chest/floofy neck.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"Copilot Chat in Outlook will expand from reasoning over a single email thread to reasoning over a user’s entire inbox, calendar, meetings, and other enterprise data."
1) WTF are infosec going to say about that?
2) entire inbox? 18 years I've worked here, that's a lot of emails to read...
Introduction We’re introducing new capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users (without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license) to help them better manage their day in Outlook and create and refine Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations. These updates include: · Copilot Chat in Outlook will expand from reasoning over a single email thread to reasoning over a user’s entire inbox, calendar, meetings, and other enterprise data.
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Taking ideas from the notoriously popular American president. Good plan.
Can anybody on the labour party read an opinion poll?
Donald Trump is a terrible president. Yougov opinion poll tracker from 2019 to present for the question "So far, do you think Donald Trump has been..." The selectable answers are: Don't know. A great president. A good president. An average president. A poor president. A terrible president. The results are presented as a line graph against time. 5 of the 6 options sit at the bottom of the graph at around the 10% mark. One answer stands alone sitting significantly and continuously above all others at 50-60% of respondents. That answer is "A terrible president". More than half of UK adults consistently think Donald trump is a terrible president. Net positive/negative (Great/good vs bad/terrible) is currently -53%.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Cloud Inversion, Picos de Europa National Park, Spain, 2011

#photography #cloudinversion #picosdeeuropa #landscape
A photograph across a cloud filled valley in the distance low green flattish mountains rise. On the near side taller, steeper, more rugged peaks are green scrub covered lower down but bare rock cliffs exude from above this and test into the blue sky
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Checking out the exercise vs anticoagulants question. Not sure I'm going to pay much attention to what this website says...
In what way are walking or yoga "high risk"?
Website text regarding use of blood thinners and exercise: "While blood thinners do not make you tired or affect your heart rate during exercise, they do pose a potential side effect of bleeding. High-risk sports like walking, biking, yoga, Pilates, and strength training are suitable for those taking blood thinners. However, those taking anticoagulants should avoid high-impact or injury-prone activities like hockey, soccer, skiing, or football."
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Walkway, Angkor Temple, Cambodia, 2005

Scan from 35mm film

#photography #angkor #cambodia #blackandwhitephotography
A photograph taken from inside an old stone building looking along a stone flagged walkway leading to a Khmer temple tower in the distance. The photo is shot from inside a doorway so the view is framed in darkness. There are a scattering of human figures on the walkway in the distance towards the tower but none nearby
November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Update
Three quarters of a portrait of a cat made of Lego in black white yellow and greys
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
deadmanrunning1.bsky.social
Seriously, is there *any* sense checking or processing logic to the auto-generated adverts from Amazon?

(Rhetorical, because clearly not)
Amazon web advert: SHOP BLOOD CLOTS NOW
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Cosplaying policemen like this "spartan" cosplays a soldier
Mark Francois kneeling in the floor in full military kit holding a gin and looking for all the world like a camouflaged potato.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Lego cat portrait latest...
Large Lego portrait of a Maine Coon cat in black and white with yellow highlights. Half completed, most of the face is now visible. it's about the size of the Victorian fireplace it's resting against.
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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#caturday portrait update
A quarter completed Lego portrait of a cat in monochrome with highlights of yellow
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Drying Fish, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, 2003

35mm scan

#photography #travelphotography #travel #filmphotography #nukuhiva #polynesia #marquesasislands #ilesmarquises
A photograph of an algae covered flat rock outcrop looking across an ocean bay towards green mountains. At the end of the promontory is a small white stone light marker. Stretched across the rocks is a single line of rope held up at the points by a straight stick with a small v at the top, at either end visible, or a bipod of two long straight sticks tired in an inverted V shape in the middle. The string stretches out of the shot. Along the rope are slivers of fish being air dried
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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How that's going to go...
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM