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In London hireable Lime scooters top out at 12.5 mph. That means that if you rode one round the London marathon course at top speed, never braking or backing off, by the time Sawe had finished you'd be more than a mile behind him. Absolute madness - as someone pointed out!

@DavidCWOwens @ExInspectorBDS @NicoReznick

@ExInspectorBDS @NicoReznick There are no sex categories in parkrun - do keep up

Keep former Olympians out of fun runs. Their aggressively competitive nature and physical advantages make it unfair on other runners.

@itsafrogslife @margocgillies @cranky_and Maybe not YOUR real life. But it’s the real life for thousands of women I’m afraid. And it’s just wrong

@Jones66K @margocgillies @cranky_and It bears no relation to real life

Your daily reminder that Park Run is a serious race if you're a male, an important, life-saving human right if you're a male wanting to compete in the female category, but "just a fun run" if you're a female. This is what sexism (and male entitlement) looks like.

@itsafrogslife @margocgillies @cranky_and I wish you were right. Sadly you’re not

@margocgillies @cranky_and This is a load of rubbish.

This is quite lovely

@MercerCait Well enjoy your day 😊

@Jones66K No, I’m not a great birthday celebrator tbh.

And so it rolls round again .. cartwheeling in Skye OTD 10 years ago. I’d probably break my wrist if I tried that now 🙁

@MercerCait You doing anything special?

@Jones66K Thank you!

“I won’t do it. Send me to the gas chamber if you want.” Auschwitz, 1943. A French doctor stands before a group of terrified Jewish women. A Nazi officer has just issued an order. “You will assist with the sterilization experiments.” Adélaïde Hautval looks at the women. They already understand what’s coming. Medical torture disguised as science. She turns back to the Nazi doctor. “No.” Silence. No one refuses orders at Auschwitz. No one survives refusal. “You’ll be executed,” the Nazi says. Adelaide doesn’t hesitate. “Then execute me. I still won’t help you harm these women.” The officer backs down. Sends her away. Doesn’t kill her. How did she get there? One year earlier. April 1942. Adelaide is traveling through occupied France. She sees German soldiers humiliating an elderly Jewish woman, forcing her to wear the yellow star. Adelaide steps in. “Leave her alone.” Big mistake. The soldiers arrest her immediately. “You defend Jews? You’ll share their fate.” They pin a yellow star to her coat. Write across it: “Friend of Jews.” Adelaide wears it without resistance. Never removes it. They send her to prison. Then to concentration camps. Eventually to Auschwitz. Adelaide is a doctor. The Nazis need doctors. So they assign her to the camp infirmary. But they keep testing her. Keep giving impossible orders. “Assist in experiments or die.” Adelaide refuses. Again and again. For two years. She dares them to kill her. They never do. They need her skills too much. So she uses that to fight back. She treats prisoners in secret. Steals medicine. Hides sick women from selection lines. When Nazi doctors request subjects for experiments, Adelaide lies: “She’s too ill. You’ll get nothing useful.” The women weren’t ill. Adelaide was protecting them. It works. For two years, she blocks experiments. Protects hundreds. Survives by refusing to cooperate. May 1945. The war ends. Adelaide walks out of Ravensbrück concentration camp alive. She returns to France. Goes back to medicine. Tries to rebuild a normal life. But prosecutors soon find her. They need her testimony against Nazi doctors. Adelaide agrees. She testifies at the Nuremberg Trials, in Frankfurt, and in other war crimes cases. Defense lawyers challenge her. “You’re lying. German doctors wouldn’t do this.” Adelaide stands firm. “I was there. I saw it. I refused to take part. These are facts.” Her testimony helps convict multiple Nazi physicians. In 1965, Yad Vashem honors her as Righteous Among the Nations—for protecting Jewish prisoners and risking her life to resist. Adelaide rejects the spotlight. “I only did my duty as a doctor. As a human being.” She continues practicing medicine, later specializing in psychiatry. Many of her patients are Holocaust survivors. Dr. Adélaïde Hautval dies in 1988 at 81. Thousands attend her funeral. Former prisoners. Their children. Their grandchildren. One woman says: “Dr. Hautval saved my mother at Auschwitz. Hid her during selection. I exist because she said no.” Think about that. Adelaide had every reason to comply. She was already imprisoned. Already marked. Already condemned. Helping the Nazis wouldn’t have saved her. But refusing could have killed her. She refused anyway. Not once. Dozens of times. For two years. She used the one thing they needed—her medical expertise—and turned it into resistance. Protection. Survival. Most who resisted in camps died. Adelaide lived. Testified. Helped deliver justice. Then lived decades more—healing others. Never seeking recognition. Today, few people know her name. A memorial in France. A plaque in Israel. A few lines in history books. But mostly forgotten. The woman who faced evil and said no. Who dared them to kill her. Who lived—and made them answer for it. Dr. Adélaïde Hautval. Proof that refusing evil can save lives. Proof that one person saying “no” can protect hundreds. Proof that courage isn’t the absence of fear

@FidelCuntstruck Bonjour Fidel - have a good week 👋🏻😊

Morning infidels 😊 It's Monday, and it's a glorious one 🌄

@LyndyMountain Pmsl no thanks I have more than one brain cell

Thursday 7th May 2026 Vote Labour

@MarcherReborn Down here ours are already being picked. Nearly a month early 😱

We have cherries !! A couple of weeks early this year

Imagine being a family where both parents work full time, pay tax, pay their own full council tax bill, and still can’t afford a trip to the Tower of London or a day at the zoo. Next door, a family on benefits can take the kids to the same attractions for £1 or a few pounds a ticket – the Easter “treats” that are a major financial stretch for working households become “remarkably affordable” if you happen to be on Universal Credit. Ticketing platforms now openly advertise “Universal Credit days out” with massive discounts and special offers, while websites compile lists of the “top outings” for benefit recipients – the welfare state has mutated from basic support into a lifestyle loyalty scheme with its own privileges, perks and VIP access. Politicians claim this is compassion, but there’s nothing compassionate about telling low‑paid workers they must pay full price while funding other people’s beach huts, bargain spa days and cut‑price leisure memberships. That’s not social justice. That’s a state‑sanctioned insult to the people who keep the system running.

@CamDonDuncan There is never any awareness of the outside world. The last time TO were in Superleague BOTH French derbies were on Thursday evenings! You just couldn’t make it up 🙄🤷🏼‍♀️

Been getting great crowds this year but going head to head with Bradford City was brain dead.

@SwannBorsellino Incroyable !

Putain 19 ans, les frissons. Tenir Pogacar sur la Redoute, quel crack 👑

@BigTunaTim @HoodedClaw1974 No no. Football

@HoodedClaw1974 You mean soccer to rugby:🤫

Martin Bayfield compares football to rugby. Extremely funny. 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve seen this dozens of times. So funny. So true. And STILL it cracks me up