CalumOnWheels
@calumonwheels.com
Cycle mechanic and educator, cycle tour guide, delivery worker. Read my blog if you like www.calumonwheels.com
I see gen ai content, I block
🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🚩🏴
I see gen ai content, I block
🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🚩🏴
And in another big plus, tomorrow the sun is out. Its cold but at least it isnt the dreaded 'wintry mix'
January 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
And in another big plus, tomorrow the sun is out. Its cold but at least it isnt the dreaded 'wintry mix'
how do these people knowingly do this sort of thing given the foundational rules of the cyberpunk RPG. bananas
January 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
how do these people knowingly do this sort of thing given the foundational rules of the cyberpunk RPG. bananas
strongly related to this tbh
January 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
strongly related to this tbh
I think about this metronome whizzing away very often.
If you're not disabled, poor, a minoritised ethnicity or in some other way not in the top part of the heap like how I am, it's been easy to ignore how things have been for ages.
spent this morning trying to plan pensions. Feels like unreality.
If you're not disabled, poor, a minoritised ethnicity or in some other way not in the top part of the heap like how I am, it's been easy to ignore how things have been for ages.
spent this morning trying to plan pensions. Feels like unreality.
January 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I think about this metronome whizzing away very often.
If you're not disabled, poor, a minoritised ethnicity or in some other way not in the top part of the heap like how I am, it's been easy to ignore how things have been for ages.
spent this morning trying to plan pensions. Feels like unreality.
If you're not disabled, poor, a minoritised ethnicity or in some other way not in the top part of the heap like how I am, it's been easy to ignore how things have been for ages.
spent this morning trying to plan pensions. Feels like unreality.
So cold in this house that cooking potato steam is actually coming out the microwave.
Crazy work.
Crazy work.
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
So cold in this house that cooking potato steam is actually coming out the microwave.
Crazy work.
Crazy work.
2026 is here
Lock in 🔒
Lock in 🔒
January 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM
2026 is here
Lock in 🔒
Lock in 🔒
why do I cycle? There are many good reasons but a big one is to avoid Sadiq Khan from creeping up on me at 0200 and conducting a no knock £610 raid on my bank account. This would impoverish me.
Original video vm.tiktok.com/ZNR6NAbbH/
Original video vm.tiktok.com/ZNR6NAbbH/
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
why do I cycle? There are many good reasons but a big one is to avoid Sadiq Khan from creeping up on me at 0200 and conducting a no knock £610 raid on my bank account. This would impoverish me.
Original video vm.tiktok.com/ZNR6NAbbH/
Original video vm.tiktok.com/ZNR6NAbbH/
generative plagiarism ('ai') use I wasn't expecting; John Lewis's events listing. It's so ugly. 7 people sat around one laptop looks ridiculous.
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
generative plagiarism ('ai') use I wasn't expecting; John Lewis's events listing. It's so ugly. 7 people sat around one laptop looks ridiculous.
going through my tabs as I get ready to go to bed, and I notice that in Esther Freud's wiki article stub, it lists her father as a distinguished individual but not her mother. weird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_...
December 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
going through my tabs as I get ready to go to bed, and I notice that in Esther Freud's wiki article stub, it lists her father as a distinguished individual but not her mother. weird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_...
haven't seen one of these 'i have been to an airport' boxes for ages, lowkey quite miss them. bet heaps of zoomers dont know they even existed.
Wonder if the shops on the Belgian border near Dunkirk where all the truck drivers mysteriously seem to pull over still have them
Wonder if the shops on the Belgian border near Dunkirk where all the truck drivers mysteriously seem to pull over still have them
December 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
haven't seen one of these 'i have been to an airport' boxes for ages, lowkey quite miss them. bet heaps of zoomers dont know they even existed.
Wonder if the shops on the Belgian border near Dunkirk where all the truck drivers mysteriously seem to pull over still have them
Wonder if the shops on the Belgian border near Dunkirk where all the truck drivers mysteriously seem to pull over still have them
@chas.bsky.social you were absolutely right this book is incredible.
Imagine going to work and your boss have given you PPE but it ends up drowning you head first in the ocean while all your colleagues look on.
What a book.
Imagine going to work and your boss have given you PPE but it ends up drowning you head first in the ocean while all your colleagues look on.
What a book.
December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@chas.bsky.social you were absolutely right this book is incredible.
Imagine going to work and your boss have given you PPE but it ends up drowning you head first in the ocean while all your colleagues look on.
What a book.
Imagine going to work and your boss have given you PPE but it ends up drowning you head first in the ocean while all your colleagues look on.
What a book.
Plug it in to my veins.
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Plug it in to my veins.
These tulips aren't going away asshole, better get used to them!!
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
These tulips aren't going away asshole, better get used to them!!
I am so glad the winter solstice has been and gone. this time of year is so hard and so miserable for me. I'm so thrilled the days will now start getting longer again.
I took this photo at EIGHT FORTY PM on June 12th!
I took this photo at EIGHT FORTY PM on June 12th!
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I am so glad the winter solstice has been and gone. this time of year is so hard and so miserable for me. I'm so thrilled the days will now start getting longer again.
I took this photo at EIGHT FORTY PM on June 12th!
I took this photo at EIGHT FORTY PM on June 12th!
monarchy views aside, when is someone going to give him the talk?
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
monarchy views aside, when is someone going to give him the talk?
Cracked my 23rd parkrun today. If I manage a 25th using Xmas day and another Saturday that'll be a real result 👟
December 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Cracked my 23rd parkrun today. If I manage a 25th using Xmas day and another Saturday that'll be a real result 👟
Weird how it seems like practically no one cares that driver safety improvement has stalled in c. 2010 and is indeed now seemingly getting worse.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Weird how it seems like practically no one cares that driver safety improvement has stalled in c. 2010 and is indeed now seemingly getting worse.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
anyone from the met crowing about accountability of others can get in the bin
www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metro...
www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metro...
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
anyone from the met crowing about accountability of others can get in the bin
www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metro...
www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metro...
Wow that was way cheaper than I expected. I thought all the copies would be over the sea.
I'm more of a book borrower than a book buyer but I can always give this to someone once im finished. Thanks for the nudge, should be with me soon!
I'm more of a book borrower than a book buyer but I can always give this to someone once im finished. Thanks for the nudge, should be with me soon!
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Wow that was way cheaper than I expected. I thought all the copies would be over the sea.
I'm more of a book borrower than a book buyer but I can always give this to someone once im finished. Thanks for the nudge, should be with me soon!
I'm more of a book borrower than a book buyer but I can always give this to someone once im finished. Thanks for the nudge, should be with me soon!
Historical medicine was gnarly as hell, albeit also just outright bananas.
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Historical medicine was gnarly as hell, albeit also just outright bananas.
First aid organisations always have the most elite quizzes, very glad I got to get one in even if work kept me late
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
First aid organisations always have the most elite quizzes, very glad I got to get one in even if work kept me late
"The challenge for this government — and for politics generally — is to convince voters the system works for them"
surely the challenge should be to deliver a system that does this because it flies in the face of the data. One can't tell people that the trickling down their necks is rain forever.
surely the challenge should be to deliver a system that does this because it flies in the face of the data. One can't tell people that the trickling down their necks is rain forever.
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The challenge for this government — and for politics generally — is to convince voters the system works for them"
surely the challenge should be to deliver a system that does this because it flies in the face of the data. One can't tell people that the trickling down their necks is rain forever.
surely the challenge should be to deliver a system that does this because it flies in the face of the data. One can't tell people that the trickling down their necks is rain forever.
There's a lot of deficiencies with Our World in Data but the accessibility of the data is very good and I leaned a lot on it during my last degree.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
There's a lot of deficiencies with Our World in Data but the accessibility of the data is very good and I leaned a lot on it during my last degree.
Good news: created a bookmark using collage today.
Bad news: finished my book so can't use it.
Good news: I can go to the library tomorrow and get another
Bad news: finished my book so can't use it.
Good news: I can go to the library tomorrow and get another
November 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Good news: created a bookmark using collage today.
Bad news: finished my book so can't use it.
Good news: I can go to the library tomorrow and get another
Bad news: finished my book so can't use it.
Good news: I can go to the library tomorrow and get another
Very niche item of interest for me is email newsletters in languages you don't speak you don't mind getting anyway.
Mine is emails from the Belgian randonneuring association which is about their upcoming long distance bike riding things. It has two halves: one in flemish, one in french.
Mine is emails from the Belgian randonneuring association which is about their upcoming long distance bike riding things. It has two halves: one in flemish, one in french.
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Very niche item of interest for me is email newsletters in languages you don't speak you don't mind getting anyway.
Mine is emails from the Belgian randonneuring association which is about their upcoming long distance bike riding things. It has two halves: one in flemish, one in french.
Mine is emails from the Belgian randonneuring association which is about their upcoming long distance bike riding things. It has two halves: one in flemish, one in french.