FOLKS!!!!

@naomialderman.bsky.social has bought Zombies, Run!

Yes, the old app a bunch of us used to all exercise together to and do our mini events is back in her hands!

Small thing, though. The banks apparently were empty 👀

So there's a couple of things to do to help out (mini thread)

I was listening to a book this weekend that was about not getting caught in the details, and devolve into negative sensitivities. It was science backed until about half way… and then it turned religious and spiritual. Not happy with bait and switch 😔

I hate that task. I am a month overdue cutting mine but… next weekend!

Sending love

Hotels have to give you money back if the noise levels are too loud. Apartment developers don’t so they don’t care! Hotels try to have toilets against non-connected walls. Developers try to squeeze it into the smallest space possible to make more money. So… greed for both answers!

The M3 is the most common route for C25K or long walks… it’s absolutely insane

Genuinely I have been in my head for a while, but am finding that the weights training helped. I’m trying mostly because well, fake hernia won’t go away on its own and lifting is not advised while hernia. So… running it is, while wearing funny shirts!

I love seeing other runners progress.
I do not care about the metrics used.
I just did X for the first time or I've improved by Y.

We get so much in our own heads at times.

And yes I am massively guilty of that. I've been doing resistance training for the last bit and finally going to classes which helps.

First thing about doing something new. Accept you will suck at it at the start.

You are so right! I was very very worried that I would freeze… second time I was assaulted I got viciously angry and left my boot print on him after hitting him in three very sensitive spots!

A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

And it's going to get worse over the next 4 months - my co-lead is going on mat leave. Her replacement is taking her six week sabbatical, and my boss is then going to take her three week sabbatical.

I can't take holiday from April to August :( It's embargoed for coverage reasons.

Anything that I try to do which involves engaging my core is not fecking working.

I'm waiting for HbA1c bloods, diabetic retinopathy appointment, and a second medication review.

I'm overworked, and keep falling asleep as soon as I stop moving. I'm edging overload again. I hate it.

It doesn't actually make sense to me. How does exertion actually make my pain better when it should be worse? If I sit, if I rest, I feel worse. I'm starting to wonder if my body just hates me.

Also, my "fake" hernia is really bothering me. All I see when I look down is boobs and belly.

But you want to know what is really, really weird. I felt better after running on Saturday (4km out of 5km) and yesterday (2km continuous) than I do right now.

I wake up with nothing, and then as my body wakes up, and my nerve endings fire, everything starts to go wrong.

Dumping crap here because it needs to be out of my brain... I f*cking hurt.

I have pain in my back, right hip, head, left knee.
It's sitting somewhere around a 9 outta 10.
My co-worker is ill today so I don't feel like that I can call in sick.
Fairly sure it's a vestibular migraine.

Oh yeah, it's super helpful isn't it? It's either that or "You've had a quiet day", which has me looking at it asking "did we live the same day?!"

I know, right?!

I’m gonna say that it’s absolutely fantastic when my bloody watch tells me that it’s been a stressful day. As if I wasn’t right there!

Advocate: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac.

He led quite a life. (1/53)

You should do the thing! The thing needs to be done and you are the only person who can do it!

Haha, yeah, that's what I'm trying to do.

But it's a bit weird, I'm running at the moment with a brace around my core, and a sacroiliac belt, to counter the bloody body issues. Oh and a knee brace because my knees hate me. But only on the treadmill. I don't need them in the wild.

resurrecting dead actors via ai to make bad ai films is disgusting. period. fuck that and the entire production company it rode in on.

Okay, so I am about 5 weeks into my latest C25K journey, and I hurt! I am having gall bladder pain with no fecking gall bladder, my fake hernia means my core strength has fecked off and I have savage periods every 2 weeks that last 10 days! My body is a mess but not giving up yet!

This, omg this!

I don’t believe in faeries but like feck am I pissing them off!

I literally found this out this week talking to a colleague from the US. It was all I could do not to wince and tell them that it’s a terrible thing to do. Leprechauns are fierce and mean. Don’t fecking set traps for them!

I hate that my brain instantly looks at the trainers to see what brand he uses…

I forgot to turn off the gas ring once, we now have a habit where I announce that I am turning off the ring when I flick the knob, and @arasigyrn.bsky.social confirms!

SA by a doctor
Attempted SA twice more

2 in Dublin, 1 in Maynooth

The doctor one makes me the most angry