iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/08/2026

That's another rotation over in this goofy job. Thankful to have my health and to still be here. Photos from stolen land.

Photo of someone waiting for a helicopter. They are wearing full soil sampling gear

Photo of someone clambering into a helicopter. They are in fluro safety gear

Photo of a Dutch augur in a hole. A bunch of dirt is beside it on a rucksack.

A toad on a forest floor which is covered in moss

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/07/2026

just another day of the website I use to buy 2nd hand outdoors gear actually promoting Nazis to me, unsolicited. Evil website run by an evil person. Mark Zuckerberg is actually a piece of garbage.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/07/2026

I got evacuated in a helicopter after doing my job. Got to thunder bay ontario and smog made everything dark brown. I had plans to go somewhere else but my boss demanded 'where are you going' and nothing was mature enough to commit to. So I flew back to vancouver. wild scenes. Climate crisis.

Photo of thunder bay airport blanket in brown orange smog from ash.

Photo of a big ash cloud viewed from the end of a pier.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026

back to work. Flying to winnipeg to join my squad and drive a long way to the camp. So the morale moustache is back in full force.

Selfie of me riding a bike with a moustache

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026

I was giving a tour once at the east end of the mall, and there is still a cook statue there. While I was yapping about how vile this person was, a bunch of people posed under it with an Aboriginal flag. It was nice to see.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/06/2026

This is an astonishing place.

Photo of a landscape in vancouver island. A lake is surrounded by trees.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/06/2026

countries come and go bicycles and haunted food choices from the gas store are forever

Photo of a rear rack bag on a bicycle. It is open and a mix of bad junk food is inside.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026

Plus there are mail boxes on it often. Just stick your letters in the red to-go bit.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026

The galloping goose trail is really cool. I think it is worth the boat trip and I'd come do it again for sure You dont even need to own a bike, you can just rent one from Victoria BC like how I did.

A photo of a bike on its kickstand stood up on a rail trail. It has big panniers on the back

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026

hung out here by this lake for 2 hours. It was so great. I did an out and back loop so just pulled over when I wanted and so didnt have any time pressure. really nice. For a heap of time i just watched the sun sparkling on the water with some wind squalls. No artificial noise at all.

Photo of a bicycle with panniers leaned on its side. A big lake is to the right

Photo of lake surface. You can see the sun sparkling on it and some wind patterns.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/06/2026

really funny moment earlier today when I walked onto a ferry with this openly clipped on to a drybag, and a ferry security person politely but firmly told me we are not on ontario and I could just walk around with this stuff on.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/06/2026

anyway here i am on vacation in some stolen land But I am having a great time

Photo of a hybrid bike lying against a log with lakes and a mountain behind it

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/06/2026

everyones reminder that mail is the most goated form of communication ever made and it is at a highly affordable cost. You get to send a whole ass handwritten thing all the away around the world, delivered by hand, for so little. Send some mail.

Photo of a letter held up against a canada post box

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/06/2026

I have done nothing today whatsoever. Ive yapped with one friend on the phone, made some bread, made some scones, walked round a block with another friend with the scones I've made, got my headset sorted and drunk two coffees. Its been tremendous.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 09/06/2026

end of my first working rotation as a dirty dirtbag gatherer. Spent it trying to focus on what is important; guarding my peace, human connection, and not getting lost in the sauce. It worked. Proud of it. Tomorrow with an able body is never guaranteed.

Photo of an Arsenal scarf on top of a beaver dam

Photo of hiking sticks and a Dutch augur planted into the earth. A jbl speaker is hanging from a stick

Photo of me crouched holding my augur at a helicopter landing site.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/05/2026

got messaged by a friend that 'this look really suits me' and ya know what, hell yeah I am dripped out as heck. North london forever, coyg

A person kneeling down in a forest clearing.

They're wearing a red long sleeve top, an Arsenal fc scarf, a grey flat cap and wearing a chest harness with bear spray. They're holding a metal 'dutch augur'

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/05/2026

flying over the kootenay river and noticed how there is a giant split in the clouds that basically follows it Don't think i've seen that before. Neat!

Clouds over the kootenay river. They're split apart like a big chasm. Seen from an airplane

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/05/2026

There's a lot wrong with living in this timeline but look at this wee printer doing its thing. Heartwarming. Reminds me of the game boy camera and printer.

A photo collage printed out and held in my fingers. It has 6 photos.

A bicycle. 2 friends on a hike in the snow. A game of bike polo. A cyclist on the sea wall. An orca. Me holding some sticks.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/05/2026

I even got the seabus. It was a real treat to use public transportation that didnt have adverts all around it telling me I desperately need to buy a product to make me complete as a person.

Photo of a bicycle beside the entrance to the seabus.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/05/2026

Met a cool friend on way back in towing mobiles which i lowkey am already thinking could be a cool off season job. The pay will probably be abysmal but you are being paid to be outside and on a bike and that is priceless.

Photo if someone riding a large cargo trike. They have a heap of mobikes on the back.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/05/2026

Migrating again on Monday. One month in once place, now I am off to another. I am hugely grateful to the people and communities who've made me home since my trip out on April fools day. Emigration is terrifying. Bikes are a constant.

Photo of someone in clothes kneeling beside a bicycle. It is leant up against a lamp post by a bike lane.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/05/2026

End photo of an orca. She was with her kid swimming across the bay.

Photo of an orca at sea in the swell of a moving ship

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/05/2026

pic of the same bike outside a slab of the berlin wall which is lowkey pretty germaine.

photo of a blue fixed gear bike. it is in front of a concrete slab of the old berlin wall. 'Change your life' is graffiti'd on it.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/05/2026

time is pretty crazy but I can go through the photos and see broadly speaking what was up. found this in Nov 2019 and like yeah I do miss some stuff like this bike and some routes around this town. but there is no getting around that there is a whole world outside london.

a photo of a fixed gear bike, with tower bridge in the background

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 14/05/2026

A security worker came by 5 minutes later while I was sat down journalling and read me out some stuff saying there was bike racke and a sign. I said 'ok thanks, now you've done your job.' He looked a bit bemused and walked away, we said good day to each other. here's some pictures of some geese.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 14/05/2026

Came back from hanging out at a polo hangout in vancouver. Big up east van bike polo for having a great time and paying not a thing. Bike polo is so punk rock. You can make your own mallet, you can use the cheapest type of bike there is, you can make spoke guards out of milk jugs. It is the best.

Photo of a game of bike polo being played.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 13/05/2026

like look at this big old artwork holy shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rav...

A wooden engraved sculpture. It has a big raven, on top of a shield with people under it. You'll need to see the wiki article.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 13/05/2026

Bluesky isn't algorithm free at all. It pushes 'suggested content' at you all the time. Robert Evans is right, no bank or vc firm is gonna get behind a product that you should only use for like 15 mins a day. They want you to spend every moment here.

Screencap of bluesky with the 'discover' tab labelled

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 13/05/2026

6 days until new job and I am really, really trying to enjoy unemployment. I just end up staring at my bike all the time. It's great!

Photo of a red road bike in front of a fountain pond

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 12/05/2026

Anyway heres my new headshot. I have decided to get a moustache before my weird new job in the middle of nowhere starts. No smiling was allowed.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 12/05/2026

Went out, sent a letter, and got some headphones done at the post office. The worker there hadn't taken photos in ages or used a printer, just more bullshit they are expected to do without a pay rise, an entire career 'just figure it out'-ed. Upsetting and unfair. Being a worker should be bigged up.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 12/05/2026

someone once pointed out to me how the @redlettermedia.com 'half in the bag' sets are actually really well put together and engineering-wise the game is so on point and I often think about how this show by some film students on a shoestring is genuinely better than 'big name institutions' very often

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/05/2026

Actual photo of me watching keith starmer getting the heave ho from his own party, from the other side of the world on TV

Screenshot of gus fring from breaking bad. He is smiling, as he listens to gunshots from coming down the phone line

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/05/2026

screencap of the original post.

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girls i love you and my heart breaks for you, but if i see one more post about how your husband couldn’t take you out on mother’s day and give you $5 flowers and hershey’s kisses for BIRTHING THEIR CHILDREN i am going to go insane.

STOP LABORING FOR THESE UGLY USELESS LAZY EXCUSES OF MEN. STOP DOING FREE EMOTIONAL DOMESTIC REPRODUCTIVE LABOR FOR THESE UNGRATEFUL CHUDS.

WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!

bean soup with sausage i forgot in the airfryer :)

edit: this post is not a safe space for talking about how great your male is. this is a safe space for complaining about not getting anything for mother’s day though because i’m mad at your husband for being an idiot, not at you for venting

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/05/2026

Funemployed for a few days longer. Really trying to make the most out of it in spite of the siren song of my phone, and the saxophone getting louder by the day

Photo of an open Google doc in a porch with the sun out. There is a dog beside it.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/05/2026

Many wonderful things about living in a bug old house but with housemates is seeing the rooms getting repurposed. Here's a equipment room getting used to grow seedlings. Very cool

Photo of an old garage now with a big bright light and a fan. Seedlings are sprouting in trays

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/05/2026

Just got my ass kicked in online chess against another tree planter and it never gets unfunny when you blunder your own pieces as the other person writes 'sorry', this game is funny as hell Anyway we have a tournament and the winner will get a DIY trophy at the season's end. God bless our organiser

A lichess correspondence box. I say 'sugar.' The other person says 'sorry'

A lichess finished game board showing i got comprehensively stomped

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 10/05/2026

It's never 'British army deploys to give homeless people food' or 'British army deployed to collect litter.' It is always some paid jolly with transferable skills they can use to kill people and take their stuff. Every platoon of trained and geared soldiers is at our dime, it should be a library.

Screenshot of bbc news website claiming the British army has parachuted somewhere to help with hantavirus

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 10/05/2026

I dont know what these companies expected. They'd make money-printing factories so the wealthiest could use more internet services on land stolen through violent conquest, and they'd have nice stories written about them? That we'd see these factories in a climate crisis and go 'cool, neat!' ?

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 10/05/2026

hell why not. done another update. real business.

screenshot from the calumonwheels website. it says:

Another update: it apparently genuinely works.

This is what this website is all about. I like helping people ride their bikes and save money and enjoy their hobby. So long as I can do that one time a year, that’s all I need to know to be happy.

the reddit snap is below it.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 10/05/2026

managed to save someone a bunch of money with their stuck suntour bike fork with a fix I put on my website. so long as I literally help one person a year with it I am gonna keep going. It is a great hobby.

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Commenter:

"Two years later and your blog helped me so much, I was literally about to go crazy. I opted for the qr skewer method and it worked like a charm. THANK YOU AND THAT GUY ON FACEBOOK SO MUCH MAN!!! Saved me from buying a Q-loc axle :D"

Me: "Really glad to hear it and that you saved a couple of quid- that is what its all about! Celebrate with a coffee and ride on!"

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 09/05/2026

really fab bike ride with my pal this morning. I am riding an ''''old'''' rim brake endurance road bike with a triple and external cabling and it is so great. Boy are bikes a hoot. Didn't pay a cent except for the coffees and cakes when we finished, it was all for free. Amazing morning

Screenshot of a komoot screen showing a bike ride

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 09/05/2026

one of my pals is one of the victorious councillors, too. Big up everyone who does work to make a better world. He painted his shoes to show what is important to him 🥲

Screenshot from Mark Kowalski's Instagram showing a laden bicycle and his pride coloured and palestine coloured shoes

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 09/05/2026

This is my favourite cycling sticker because yeah it is nice to be out for a ride, but like, it is also nice to go home too.

Photo of the back of a cycling head unit. It has a sparkling sticker that says 'I just want tonhomecycling club' on ut, and an emoji of an exasperated gasping face.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 09/05/2026

the most rewarding 'career moment ' I have ever had was giving a small child a book about my job, 'busy post van.' Apparently they read it every day.

Front cover of the book 'busy post van.' It shows two postal workers doing their jobs, one with a sack, the other in a van.

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 08/05/2026

New shoes and new insoles because I believe anything that separates you from the ground needs to be legit. The new balance insoles were 19g versus the aftermarket ones 60g but are for the same size shoe. These companies man, they will nickel and dime you like anything. Sorry for the bad photos

Blurry photo of an insole on a scale. It weighs 60g

Photo of a new balance insole. It weighs 19g

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 08/05/2026

how it feels to watch the uk election results from abroad as an immigrant. like I am invested and do care but like. I dont mind admitting it is good to just not be there.

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