jimdowning
@jimdowning
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https://linktr.ee/jimdowning 19-02-2008 12:07:04
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We are settling in at NWSC Nottinghamshire. The lake looks rather long! 😅🫣🤞 Nearly time for the epic Outlaw Triathlon.
Did my first iron-distance tri on Sunday Outlaw Triathlon . Great experience and finished with a smile! Was running in support of the DEC Ukraine Appeal justgiving.com/fundraising/fe… Thank you to everyone who's donated already! Full race report: jimdowning.org/blog/2022-07-2… #triathlon
My partner has pulled out of the 50 mile event. I leave tomorrow morning for the Lakes, going solo. Wish me luck!! It will be very different without her. Please sponsor me if you can - this is a big motivator in continuing without her! Thank you!💕🏃♀️💪🏔 candlelighters.enthuse.com/pf/charlie-rob…
Going to be exciting to see the Lloyds Tour of Britain stage 5 cover some of the same roads I've raced on Outlaw Triathlon Nottingham and X! tourofbritain.co.uk/stages/stage-f…
So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun. It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.
via Azeem Azhar pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… "Veil of ignorance" mechanism helped people recruit fairness-based reasoning, also concluded that ppl tend not to apply moral reasoning to data until explanatory textual labels are added.
I love Rowan Atkinson the comedian and I believe he learned electrical engineering once, but I feel this erroneous article on EVs dupes the readers of the The Guardian and that's starting to become a pattern. Electric vehicles really emit 3x less CO2. 🧵 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…