@alexlomas ACAB “pride”?

@panda We have 700(!) 😬

At HOADS (#Horsham amdram) to see their production of #TerryPratchett’s #WyrdSisters, and especially my friend Tris playing the Demon 😈

@panda Yeah, as RD at our parkrun I’m set-up, pre-event check, briefing, milestones, emergencies/reporting, close-down, and results processing - plus extra funnel manager if it gets busy. It’s a 3-4 hour job, and quite hard when lots of people also want to chat with you when you kinda need to focus. 😵‍💫

logging on to bluesky after being offline for months to see if they have already started pride month discourse 😗

I'd never noticed this before, but - yeah - it is kinda weird. https://xkcd.com/3095/ #archaea

A new potato crisp VAT judgment just landed.

https://on.ft.com/4myxG6o

Walkers’ Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: the Chip of Theseus

“To rapidly summarise a complicated courtroom clash, Walkers tried the following arguments to get Sensations Poppadoms off the VAT hook:

They are not ready for human consumption

They are not a potato product

They don’t *taste* like a potato product

They’re not like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they’re part of a meal

They’re not like crisps because they aren’t packaged like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they are called poppadoms

They’re not like crisps because they don’t look like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they don’t work like crisps

They’re not like crisps because they don’t do the same things in your mouth that crisps do

They’re not like crisps because the public doesn’t think of them like crisps

Taxing Sensations Poppadoms but not conventional poppadoms will distort UK markets”

I asked my MP to sign this #trans and #nonbinary Early Day Motion (#EDM but not that sort of EDM) and they did!

Please email yours with some background on how recent events have impacted you, if you can, and ask them to sign it as well.

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/63628

@transactualuk

Memoru! Vi ne povas elekti vian propran landon!

A lot of people I know don’t seem to have heard this, but the #MenB vaccine shows ~40% efficacy against #gonorrhoea and is well worth a shot (ba-dum-tish) if you are gay/bi/msm man on #PrEP ± #doxyPEP. JCVI recommended it back in 2023 but Tories and now Shit-wipe Streeting of the Red Fascists have sat on their hands as with doxyPEP. In UK, Boots offer MenB for ~£100

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/meningococcal-b-vaccination-for-the-prevention-of-gonorrhoea-jcvi-advice-10-november/jcvi-advice-on-the-use-of-meningococcal-b-vaccination-for-the-prevention-of-gonorrhoea

https://www.queerhealth.info/projects/menb

The FT meta reviews its “Lunch With” Sam Altman in his kitchen and it is *chefs kiss*

https://on.ft.com/3H2aWLC

Kudos to me, I guess 🥴

The sinking realisation that #Strava is probably my third most active social media these days after this place and [redacted].

And I like, really like like plants, and like you know - plants - like, you know, they're like great? Always an ocean of cringe seeing myself on camera. But: Gatsby Plant Science Summer School #gpsss ftw! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTu0WoATlF8

First ever double-funnel at #Horsham #parkrun to cope with a(nother) record 727 finishers today. I was the lucky volunteer doing the funnel-swapping and batch-card handing-out. And it all worked! 🥳

Thank you to everyone that turned out to protest across the UK today.

Seeing this, signing a bunch of parliament petitions, and donating to legal fighting funds has helped lift me out of a hugely morose mood.

#trans #transrights #nonbinary

@hattom I was a bit lazy and got a cab there because I didn’t want to be up any earlier than I had to be, but Hermannplatz U7/8 is close by. It was all very friendly and as it was their 300th, they had cake too :) Only issue is there are no toilets anywhere nearby that I could find/see.

@hattom This morning there were more tourists than locals - the Berliners have done an exodus for Easter - so the RD asked if there was anyone who _didn’t_ speak English (basically noone!) and gave the whole briefing in English 😳

Course is nice - run from middle of park to edge, two loops of the perimeter, and back to the middle to finish, _but_ to make up the 5km there’s a weird extra loop up a pretty steep hill on the second lap. 1st timer volunteer was really good describing this though.

Managed to do my first overseas #parkrun this morning at #Hasenheide (Berlin), despite only getting 3 hours’ sleep after being out at #Quälgeist last night.

@ryanc Initially thought I’d misread this as “Evil has your parcel” but then I realised I hadn’t really misread it at all.