Gym

I went for a trial session at Nuffield (formally Greens) gym. It's £60/month, but is reasonably convenient for work, seems quite nice, has a swimming pool, seems to have a reasonable mix of members, not all muscle-obsessives or avoiding-improvement-obsessives.

It felt really good to jog somewhere comfortable and exert myself without worrying about needing to get home and shower immediately afterwards.

I probably need to go twice a week to make it worthwhile, but that's probably what I need to do to make any sort of exercise worthwhile.

Shall I go ahead and sign up?

Edit - Hint: I assume the answer is yes, but after all of the political and philosophical questions, I wanted to lob my audience an easy question :)

Police Intimidation of disabled activist

Link: http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/police-move-on-campaigners-for-criminal-acts-against-dwp/

Quote from one of the targets:

I've just had the police forcing their way into my flat near midnight and harrassing me about my "criminal" posts on Facebook about the DWP, accusing me of being "obstructive" when I didn't know what in fuck's name they were on about. They kept going on and on at me, it was horrifically stressful, and they only left after I started crying uncontrollably.

I've not heard anything from the police, so I don't know if there may be some reason this isn't as gratuitous as it sounds. I don't know anything about the police officers involved.

But it sounds like the ridiculous expansion of criminalisation of all sorts of critical online speech leads to police action to shut down free speech pointing out obvious problems in government, exactly like everyone thought it would.

One of my friends was friends with the targets, which is the only reason I know anything about it. And I don't know any more of the details or if there's anything else I should know, but I assume the basic account of what happened is accurate.

Edit: Link from friend who knows people personally: http://miriammoules.livejournal.com/261015.html