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ManBikesDog

@manbikesdog.bsky.social
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Active travel, utility biking, mountain biking, gravel, cargo biker. High Peak. Once owner of a beige SAAB. Has a toxic agenda apparently. youtube.com/@ManBikesDog

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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 3h
I hadn’t. Well that’s depressing. If I’m reading it right, it was stopped because of too many challenges increasing workload and that would increase further if they extended it.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 5h
Hope all is well and you’re enjoying your time off grid! Cheers!
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 5h
Thanks Mark. They are looking into it, and have the presentation so we will see. I’ll mention this to our sustainable transport chair though. They have done some targeted enforcement alongside council enforcement officers to cover both bases on the day, so it’s moving in the right direction.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 17h
Just a quick reminder that we're spending a huge amount on housing; we're just not investing enough in building new housing. In 2024-25 we spent £36 billion on Housing Benefit and the housing element of Universal Credit and £2.84 billion on providing temporary accommodation for homeless families.
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 20h
If you're near Utrecht Oct 12/13 (Mon-Tues)come see the future of transportation! Jaarbeurs Utrecht Centraal 10-5 both days CargoBikes transform cities. Test-ride new bikes. Hear talks by global mobility experts. Say hi! I'm at the merch table selling cargo bike art (when not outside test-riding)
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Where are the rear wheel covers??? This is far too sporty looking. The best reboot I’ve seen is the Renault 5. Shame about the new Renault 4 being an SUV.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A war on walking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. The #UrbanTruth is that #CarDependency is still the norm in far too many cities, and the #RoadLobby will do everything they can to keep it going. Don’t buy the lie. #WarOnWalking
Picture of a luxury car parked mostly on the sidewalk with an elderly couple with mobility aids forced to walk around the car on the street into traffic. The text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. 
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well I’m afraid the party shot itself in the foot by passing a completely unjustifiable and divisive policy on a very nuanced and emotive subject. You can’t blame the media for that. It’s lost one member here.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The one thing I miss about X was the WHS Carpets account, sharing carpet stains, tatty carpet tape and other signs of decline of the chain.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bicycle commuter in Tivoli underpass Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016 📷Petar Milošević
Photo featuring a shot through a circular window of a woman riding a bicycle in an underpass. She's touching her hair.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Have you ever grown rhubarb? We went through a spell of having lots of rhubarb crumble due to the previous owners of the house having planted some.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It would round it off nicely
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Suet pudding?
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Came across a YouTube video yesterday of a campsite that has Prince Philip’s caravan from the 1990s that he donated to their museum. All I could think of was: Queenie - “Philip, PHILIIIIIIIP! One has left the jockey wheel down once again”.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Oooh, how like us she is”
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
*** New blog post *** Join me for a spin along Argentinierstraße, Vienna's Dutch inspired cycle street. therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2026/10/arge...
A red surfaced road with a massive white cycle logo on it. There are people cycling towards us and planting both sides.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you're looking for me at alistaircoleman.bsky.social, I have been suspended for reasons not fully explained. Bear with.
alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Bluesky
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you want to know why there will probably never be another British motorway, there’s a More Jam Tomorrow for that morejamtomorrow.com/episode/moto...
morejamtomorrow.com
Motorways
Dynamic, dreary – Britain has 2,300 miles of motorways, and the country would grind to a halt without these tarmac arteries. But they were part of a fast,...
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BicycleDutch @bicycledutch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rotterdam in 1973. A report about the city's first speed bumps. The traffic looks so different from today! Turn on translation of the automatic captions to get an idea of what is said. youtu.be/qXgw6EvkFwE?...
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Verkeers-drempels, 1973.
YouTube video by Ed’s filmarchief
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 It's all gone BONKERS.. 🦠 Pneumonic plague in Russia. 
🪖 Hegseth's rules for the armed forces: “no fatties, no beardos, no weirdos”… 
🤦 Trump’s DELULU Time interview transcript …but hey, at least the polls look good! 🎧 NEW Trawl episode - out now 👇🏽 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Trump, Hegseth & the Apocalypse: It's All Gone Bonkers
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 8 October · 43min
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"accidentally" *sniff* what's that smell?
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sick bastards. This is vile. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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Macc Sustainable Travel @fhvjhvgvb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
14th October a motion about 20mph limits in Cheshire East. Please write to your local Councillor if you want them to support this.
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
THE GHOST HUNTERS (1975): Seminal BBC doc about 'people who look for ghosts - and some of the people who have seen them'. Here, ghost hunter Benson Herbert explains the benefits of his Negative Ion Pistol...
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Nic Laporte @nicthedoor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Next time you hear someone say "This isn't (insert great cycling city)" Just hit em with "You're right! Better get started so we can catch up!"
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah. Though personally if I were the householder trying to deter vehicles cutting the corner, and moving the fence wasn’t possible/too much hassle, I’d be rolling that boulder to where the plantpot is.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No pressure but if this gets to a million views, I'll be able to pay the mortgage this month. Thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUv...
youtube.com
Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whilst having to drive on tiny unsuitable lanes to get from Buxton to Congleton the other day (complicated by the Cat and Fiddle closure) it occurred to me on one junction with very poor visibility that even a mini-roundabout might at least encourage drivers to slow a little and observe.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is if you’re on a mobility scooter, wheelchair or pushing a pram.
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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 07/10/2026
The latest episode of Words Unravelled takes us around the globe once again to explore the origins of global cities, from Granada and Medina to Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro. Take a world tour with @robwords.com and me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQR...
two people on a background that looks like the australian flag and the words city name origin and words unravelled
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But it’s OK, there’s tactile paving just before it dumps you there. /s Do you think someone has put that planter there to deter people walking the safer desire line?
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They even tried to use Donald Shoup’s work to say we needed more parking…
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We're not objecting to the development of the car park - it is this specific scheme -literally because we see it as overdevelopment and not taking into account the issues that the local community will experience," We’re getting the same claims of “overdevelopment” here… bsky.app/profile/manb...
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lynnotago.bsky.social @lynnotago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’d rather shave my head with a cheese grater than listen to her, she’s fucking nuts …
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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Correct headline should be “End of parking subsidy in Liverpool saves council tax payers over £1m”
bbc.co.uk
Liverpool parking charges bring in more than £1m council says
The figure has been revealed following a Freedom of Information request from a group of businesses.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What cheese do you use to hide a small horse? … mascarpone…
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Transition Buxton CIC @transitionbuxton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Textile production rose 6% in 2025, double the level of 1975. Polyester dominates at just under 60% of output producing 1-2% of global emissions. Only about 12% of textile output came from recycled polyester. Full textile to textile recycling is still a tiny fraction at 0.75% tinyurl.com/4rbczrez
textileexchange.org
Materials Market Report 2026  - Textile Exchange
Textile Exchange’s Materials Market Report has been the leading source for global fiber and materials production volumes for the last decade.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Father Ted Explains Small vs. Far Away Cows
Alt: Father Ted Explains Small vs. Far Away Cows: Holding a toy cow “These are small” Turning his head towards the window “but the ones out there are far away”
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
20mph save lives and reduce casualties. If you are against 20mph limits then you want more people to be seriously injured and die. The evidence is right here.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great to meet so many cool people at our Life After Cars event at Temple Bar London tonight. 👋 @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social @t1mg1ll.bsky.social and more. And what a spectacular venue! Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1669 and 1672!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.
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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PEN says that one of the 12,000 books banned in many US public schools is Anne Frank’s diary nos.nl/artikel/2633...
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Scholen VS verbieden recordaantal van 12.000 boeken - en AI hielp daarbij
In verschillende Amerikaanse staten zijn strenge regels over wat er in de klas gezegd en onderwezen mag worden, en daarom zijn boeken over thema's als ras en lhbti verboden in schoolbibliotheken.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s making me rethink my membership. It seems a pointlessly provocative policy title. I’m with Ian Dunt on this one. bsky.app/profile/iand...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 05/10/2026
Most Europeans would support a UK return to the EU • French and Italian voters are least enthusiastic, but they still broadly approve of potential UK return • Potential UK referendum could complicate talks; EU officials would be wary of investing time in talks for nothing www.ft.com/content/3d43...
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tories: Making pollution real. Kemi and co want to make Britain the dirty man of everywhere. This act would would be ruinous. It's bad enough now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I thought the same recently whilst mulling the issue over. One of our enlightened European neighbours commonly has a way of managing waste in high density streets via subterranean communal bins. We won’t get to that here, but there are pragmatic solutions as you suggest.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My parents used to have a similar issue. Only one side of the street parked off pavement so they preferred to do that. Lady across the street would come out every time and berate us. Private housing their side and council out side. She used to say council tenants shouldn’t have cars.
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ManBikesDog @manbikesdog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m sure they used a stock image, BUT it illustrates something else obstructing the footway. Have they included footway parking in their PSPO? They don’t mention it, yet I guarantee it will cause more of a problem most of the time in the city - as it does elsewhere. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Derby residents to face fines for leaving bins out
A citywide order is being proposed alongside new powers to tackle dog fouling and begging.
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