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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Amelie and Emily suggests the possibility of Imeleigh, Omely and Umilie #names

mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Isn't culture brilliant. Up until recently i think I'd been missing my fill, but the island's Can You Hear Us programme has definitely been a recharge

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Raineer :blobrdm: 🦆 🇨🇦 @raineer.frontrange.co.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

As a literal inkjet printer engineer, I am forced to agree

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keert.bsky.social @keert.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hi #IsleOfWight folks, anyone else going along to this? #CriticalMass

Poster in black and white: critical mass social bike ride.
Newport isle of wight
Last Friday of the month
Next ride 30th October
Meet St James' square (outside Wadhams) 18:00 for 18:15

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@iowsocial can we switch off new account applications for a little while? I think we've had ~3000 spam requests in the last week

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⏰ 𝟷 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘! ...until @cargobikefest! 📅 Mon 12th and Tue 13th Oct 📍 Jaarbeurs, Utrecht Visiting the show? Register for free tickets 🤝 You'll then be invited to Conversation Starter, our networking platform that lets you connect with other attendees and plan meetings. 👇

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Matthew Chatfield @virtualranger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pearly dewdrops this morning. So many tiny rainbows.

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm not the first, i won't be the last, but I hear "TGV inoui" as "TGV ennui" every time i hear or read it (and am currently feeling it too)

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

So erm... It seems as though Barcelona Critical Mass is held on the first Friday of the month. We're in Barcelona and it's the first Friday of the month...

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It should be the law that any screen on a train can be switched to show the view out of the front

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I was told the other day that the Madrid metro runs on the wrong side of the tracks to all other European metro systems - because the original construction was supported by British engineers who drove on the wrong side

a Madrid metro car coming into a brightly lit station

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

My hotel has a pillow menu. I heard that was code for something else

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@iowct train manager says we can change at the next stop Narbonne for Carcassonne. But no time today

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Opposition to better cycling infrastructure by (usually right wing) city councils is mind-blowing because: - it's a rare climate mitigation that many citizens are happy about; - compared to car infrastructure, it is VERY cheap and saves so much money; - it is a very effective way to reduce road […]

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

At the risk of sounding like a fast show character, isn't the Chunnel and Eurostar brilliant?

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

For car free day I'm heading off on holiday with an interrail ticket #CarFreeDay

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Roasted melon sounds like it would be a delicacy

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Dom Whiting threatening to bring DnB on the bike to the island as I'm about to leave it is deeply upsetting

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s a family of four on this cargo bike. You don’t need an SUV, let alone a car.

Two adults and two children on a cargo bike

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Drivel Sieve @drivelsieve.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The computer is thinking

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I finally watched Premium Rush tonight. It is a very silly film and forgivable for it, still very watchable as entertainment Key points with very low-stakes spoiler in the reply

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

When is a pedestrianised high street not? Every time I head down Cowes pedestrianised high street I see someone in a motor vehicle. How does this happen every day?

a historic narrow high street with bunting. looking down the street we see plenty of people and one dog, with a large grey hightop van taking up 80% of the street

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

⏳ 𝟺 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘... ...until ICBF 2026! 📅 Mon 12th and Tue 13th Oct 📍 Jaarbeurs, Utrecht Visiting the show? Register for free tickets ➔ cargobikefestival.com/your-visit/#... See you there! 👇

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keert.bsky.social @keert.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Last year Matt went to the Disaster Relief Trials in Bristol and wrote this blog post keert.uk/blog/survivi... They're happening again tomorrow (last minute spots available through cancellations) - and we're taking a team this time (well Matt & Ross are going)

A selfie of a couple of cargo bike riders at the highest point in Bristol.

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The second Bristol Disaster Relief Trials is tomorrow - I'm going along and am feeling scared, under prepared and also looking forward to it drtbristol.co.uk Here's a pic of me feeling scared, under prepared and loving it last year

selfie of me in a green hi-vis t-shirt, helmet and sunglasses at the top of a hill in Bristol

in the background there are cargo bikes, sand bags and volunteers including one with a React Disaster Relief t-shirt

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

There is a meme that regularly pops up where someone claims that in China, doctors are paid when you are healthy, but if you get sick they are not paid, and the story is supposed to be an argument that paying doctors when you are sick and need to be healed is a misaligned incentive. 🧵

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Did you know: the best green tea is grown in the Azores

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Drivel Sieve @drivelsieve.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Smells like teen spirit

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Why does the person that complains about spamming the group chat send multiple messages when one would do?

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Just finished the festival i was volunteering at. Was a bit weird/sad hearing the stages close down one by one, like an organism dying off

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's a textbook example of how cargo bikes (or in this case, trikes) can facilitate community events and activate public spaces without needing heavy motor vehicles. Would this work in your city? ℹ️ ➔ www.spelenopdebrink.nl#wat-wij-doen #DecadeoftheCargoBike 📸 @pomtarr.bsky.social

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Volunteers bring children's bikes, trikes, games and wooden toys directly onto the city's historic Brink market square – all hauled by a fleet of vintage cargo trikes. Once unloaded, children take over the square as the space is transformed into a safe, car-free play sanctuary.

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🧒🚲🤸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 (𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚕) 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 Every Sunday, this Dutch city turns its historic market square into a zone for play. For over 30 years, Stichting Spelen op de Brink in Deventer has been running a brilliant cargo bike-powered initiative.

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I've been seeing these again this month, looks like its a thing #IsleOfWight #CriticalMass

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Drivel Sieve @drivelsieve.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Supermarket checkout scan

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Sophia :AAAAAA: @via.myf.one.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

For the past almost a year, I’ve been building a fully working, 1:1 scale Tune Thumper Bike from Mario Kart World! :sadok: video: youtu.be/vbM31wagyRg The bike is fully functional. The cassette tape door is also a Nintendo switch 2 dock, so when you put the […] [Original post on myf.one]

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I received some remarkable customer service today from www.whalleyoutdoor.co.uk ... And then went literally across the road and got some more remarkable service from Gilmartins Ironmongers who don't seem to have a website

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

When training a new member of the Keert team in how to ride our cargo bikes safely, there is a point where explaining the controls I get a Kurtis Blow #earworm

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Jo Hawkins @djh1997.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@mattdawhit currently in Wales I’d describe it a moldy beige

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mattdawhit @mattdawhit.mastodon.iow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Temporarily relocated to the North West (of England) and the grass is this weird green colour

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