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Cycle mechanic and educator, cycle tour guide, courier. Read my blog if you like www.calumonwheels.com I see gen ai content, I block 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🚩🏴

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 2d

Might try to grab more snaps of them around and do some write ups.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 2d

The longer I stare at this one the more I see.

1. The rear wheel doesn't match the front. So the rider probably wore out the original wheel's bearings and got a replacement.

2. The chainring has been swapped out after its been worn.

3. They've zip tied a full length outer cable from end to end.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 2d

London turns on the back of these relatively cheap singlespeed bikes. They're about £299 new from decathlon or less from other places, let alone second hand. They're made of the cheapest steel. But you can lock them up with two D locks practically anywhere and theyre still cheaper than 45 days TFL.

Photo of a black single speed bicycle leaning against a shop. It has a pannier bag on the back.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 8d

anyway first aid knowledge is not too expensive to get hold of in a 1 day course basis such as the emergency first aid at work course. It is really worth getting and retraining in. You will be amazed at what comes flooding back when needed.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 8d

A headscarf style bandage (see pic) can be used to keep a dressing plus pressure applied to a forehead wound. This means the casualty can keep speaking which can be key for keeping them calm and also getting more info out of them. This is something I have to practice.

Graphic showing various kinds of bandaging of the head.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 8d

There is no emergency treatment per se for a stroke. However it is still essential to do the FACT test and inform 999 that symptoms are consistent with a stroke because trained paramedics and A and E can prevent further harm with specialist care. They will respond with urgency.

Info graphic from health direct setting out the instructions for a FACT check, used when someone suspects someone else has had a stroke.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 8d

Learning 1: the AED (defibrillator) pads MUST be applied to the top left and bottom right of the body. And the correct pad must go to the correct place. The body's electrical pulses go in a specific way and the AED needs the pads to be set up correctly to monitor what's happening.

Diagram showing how to fix AED (defibrillator) pads to an adult and to a child under 8.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 8d

I learned some very cool things from the first aid course I did this weekend. Not just from the syllabus, but as secondary info from other trainees and our tutors.
Here are a few:

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 8d

the second Greta started connecting the dots between capitalism, policing, the environment and imperialism every media institution stopped platforming her immediately.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 9d

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 10d

cycled past a labour doorknocking session in stoke newington earlier where they were doing the 'end of session' photo and it was 3 people including the relevant councillor 💀

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 13d

'labour' party to pay wall the only form of judicial redress exploited workers in this country have.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak Workers could be charged a fee to take their bosses to court under plans being explored by Labour as it faces pressure from businesses lobbying to water down its landmark changes to employment rights. In a development described by unions as a “disaster”, sources in Westminster said ministers were looking at reviving a proposal made by the last Conservative government to impose fees on employment tribunal claims. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16d

Spent the last fortnight planning a cycle trip starting from london bridge Station at 0840. It's now cancelled. Next service isnt until 0940. £15.50 well spent 🫠🫠

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16d

No wonder the billionaires are soending a fortune monstering refugees, trans people, POC, homeless people and so on. This is what they have planned for us. Submissive peons under their cameras, commanded by their algorithms, working and scraping our way to the grave like ants while they live it up.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17d

the whole language of the poster, talking about 'splitting our vote' like its something they are entitled to by dint of a plastic red rosette is real worms in the brain kind of thinking.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17d

watching these bozos try to flim flam and appeal to both fascists and people who may vote Green at the same time is going to be crazy.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 17d

Get a load of the "Turning the rising Green tide" panel at Labour conference. It features Thangam Debbonaire, who lost her seat fair and square to a Green candidate, and then received a seat in the Lords from Starmer as compensation. But evidently she's still rattled by her election loss lmao.

LabourList infographic for a "Turning the rising side" panel.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17d

Coming soon to a street near you. Hope you arent figuratively attached to your ankles! Or next to a wall!

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17d

Ive been a tour guide for a few years and am always amazed when the American kids rush to show me their fake IDs that everyone in their town knows how to get. really other worldly

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18d

'history will not forgive us if we dont capitulate to fascism and bow and scrape before it immediately' 🤡

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18d

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18d

It's a hugely emotive subject, and so much more than just a different card system than to using a driving licence. It feels like a new gross Silicon valley powered way of managing us all like little peons, in which we will get nothing but be taxed and billed everything.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18d

Well in my case specifically, i am really having a financially, difficult time at the moment. And this government seems to just announce expensive new ways to microscope me, like some kind of bug, in order to squeeze more money out of me while their billionaire mates laugh all the way to the bank.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 19d

This man cannot possibly believe this scheme is his one neat trick to winning the next general election. I cannot believe it. Not even the most cooked in the head politics freak could conceive of such a thing.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 19d

On a district line train to Wimbledon for the first time in years and years and it is actually pretty nice.

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 19d

imagine trying to get london based labour activists to go in to bat whose constant media line is that london is paved in gold and everyone there has it unfairly good. bananas