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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 14h

This afternoon we took our bikes to the park and practiced big astronaut steps on our bikes. Then we went on the seesaw and the roundabout, and then on our bikes again. Our gliding is coming along nicely when we remember to keep our bottom on the saddle.

A two year old toddler wearing a pale blue helmet and sitting on a pink balance bike with black wheels. Next to her is an adult sitting on an orange Brompton bike (a folding bike with small wheels). Both have their backs to the camera, and are on a tarmac path in a park.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next up on the playlist for this train journey is this very enjoyable episode of Travelling Folk with Tide Lines. I'm enjoying hearing about their backgrounds, influences and how they came together as a band. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Travelling Folk - Tide Lines Takeover - BBC Sounds

Robert Robertson and Ross Wilson reflect on ten years of Tide Lines.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've never seen Casablanca (yes, really!), but as a friend of mine is one of the guests on this programme I had a listen. Who knew that Hollywood had a grammar/code that filled in the ... moments that were too risqué for the censors? Definitely worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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In Our Time - Casablanca - BBC Sounds

The classic 1942 movie that convinced Americans the Second World War was worth fighting.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why is it that the drivers who shout out of their car windows to comment on my position in the road are always WRONG? (Here: passing the parking bays for the Children's Hospital A&E department maps.app.goo.gl/sKnkD4aGZZCh... )

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gravel bike for sale! Bombtrack Beyond 1 (2022) small (rider height 1.60m to 1.72m) As per original manufacturer spec, plus: Stamp pedals and SKS mudguards added. Tyres swapped to Terravail Washburns: can swap back to the original unused WTB Ranger TCS Light Fast tyres if you prefer. 1/n

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The sentencing guidelines (see thread) include a presumption against lifetime driving bans, which is bonkers. But occasionally they do happen. (This driver also got jail time).

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It starts with a sinking ship, and ends with Julie Andrews singing. What more do you want in a thread?

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2yo niece had her first trip to A&E yesterday after tumbling off the back of the sofa and splitting her chin. Fixed with glue & steri-strips. Last night she wanted to remove the strips because there wasn't a bruise. 1/n

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Four Physiotherapists and a Speech and Language Therapist from the Cardiff Community Resource Team, have swapped their cars for electric bikes as part of a pilot study, testing whether cycling could be a viable alternative to driving.

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Therapists swap cars for e-bikes to visit patients across Cardiff

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"it would begin to accelerate if a certain pedal was pressed whilst it was stationary". It's known as an accelerator pedal. Not knowing how your car works is NOT a defence, but an admission of guilt. Just a 2 year ban, but no extended retest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Grandmother drove into nursery trapping boy, 2, under wheels

Jayne James has been given a suspended jail sentence over the incident in Ellesmere Port.

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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Active Travel England’s new Women and Girls’ Safety Hub brings together guidance, case studies & practical resources to help put women’s experiences at the heart of street design. It’s a step in the right direction for #MyRideOurRight Because safer streets for women = safer streets for everyone 👇

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Women and girls' safety hub | Active Travel England

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Astonishing achievement by volunteers who swung into action to clear up after the Tyne nurdle spill, whilst official bodies and those responsible faffed around doing nothing. It's painstaking work, sifting washed up nurdles out of the sand. Unfortunately still lots to clear up.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pedestrian islands are not refuges. They don't slow down drivers, & they leave pedestrians in a hazard or place. If there's space for a pedestrian island, there's space to widen the pavements, narrow the carriageway, and install a raised crossing.

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We're at the point where the average age of a UK "terrorist" is 80, and a Jewish man says Israeli authorities are worse than the Nazis.

Actor Wallace Shawn holding a placard saying "Jews Say Ceasefire Now".
Quote underneath reads: "The Israelis are doing evil that is just as great as what the Nazis did. And in some ways it's worse, because they kind of boast about it".

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Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can confirm drivers still haven’t figured out that repeatedly overtaking a cyclist averaging 15mph in an urban environment is fruitless as they will catch you up at the next set of traffic lights every time.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I arrived back in Sheffield, the right wing protest and counter-protest had finished and most people had left. I saw this lad and his mum, and asked if I could take a photo of their excellent placard. His mum told me that he'd wanted to go today. Good lad!

A boy (10?) holding up a large placard which says
IN A WORLD
WHERE YOU
CAN BE
ANYTHING
BE KIND

The boy is covering his face, but you can just see a big proud smile.

His t-shirt says CHOOSE LOVE

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 10 miles from Starbeck to Weeton: 1 breach of Keep Left whilst overtaking me. 1 close pass & then immediately braking for a right turn (anchors on for me). 1 mobile phone in front of face whilst overtaking me at a junction. I'll be reporting them all to the police.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New bike day! Isn't she pretty! The dark blue paint is sparkly! First 10 miles ridden from Starbeck to Weeton (for train to Leeds). Feels much more comfortable than the Bombtrack: less twitchy. Might need to swap the stem for something with more rise, but other than that she's good.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks for all the shares of this. It's now sold (complete with sparkly unicorns).

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm selling my hybrid bike. It's a 2020 Trek FX 3 women's size medium It's had a few modifications: a bit more of a riser bar; a shorter stem (although I still have the longer one if you want to swap it back); Ergon cork grips with bar ends; Stamp pedals; rear rack; Selle Diva gel saddle; 1/n

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A tale from the set of one of my perennially favourite films.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Guess what this queuing driver was doing?

View from a helmet-mounted camera. A black Land Rover Defender with a big gap in front of it until the next vehicle in the queue of traffic.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧵 Written about London, but relevant to every single place/conversation where cycle lanes are blamed for slowing down buses.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A cyclist has been killed just a few miles from my parents' home, on a road I'm familiar with. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/c... Dreadful reporting terminology by @yorkshirepost.co.uk who really need to familiarise themselves with the Road Collision Reporting Guidelines.

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Cyclist in his 60s dies after crash with van on A59 near Skipton

A cyclist in his 60s has died following a crash involving a van on the A59 near Skipton.

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While long-term funding is key to the National Cycle Network's success, £104m over four years is £26m a year... the equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction. CWIS3, the government's four-year strategy mentioned '7,000 additional or improved [NCN] miles by 2030'...so £14,857 per mile?

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's an opportunity to tell RNLI volunteers how much we appreciate them. Donations to the charity have increased recently, but not everyone can afford to donate. Signing this open letter costs nothing. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The RNLI will go and save *anyone* who's in danger at sea. Unfortunately, some people have taken to putting the RNLI volunteers in danger at sea (not just on land) because they don't like the fact that the RNLI will save *anyone*.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't use this language lightly, but what an absolute fuckwit he is. I believe there's a law about endangering emergency workers? He absolutely needs the book throwing at him for putting anyone at risk like this.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anecdotally, I think there are more people cycling in Sheffield, including more people (particularly families) using cargo bikes. A quick snap from this morning: just 4 of the many people on bikes that I saw.

Four people on bikes (2 e-bikes, 1 e-cargo bike, 1 analogue bike) stopped at traffic lights on a sunny day.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

100 years ago today: A cyclist replies to a motorist's complaint that cyclists don't pay road tax and cycle two or more abreast, holding up drivers. How things have changed.

MOTORISTS AND ROADS
MAY I humbly point out to your correspon-dent, Colin M. G. Ross, that were in existence before motoring commenced, and if only cyclists had used them they would probably have lasted for ever? It was the ad-

vent of motor-cars that made a tax neces-sary owing to their destructiveness.
With regard to cyclists riding three and four abreast, this is the exception, not the rule; and the practice is usually confined to irresponsible local youths.
Cyclists as a rule never ride more than two abreast and are quite willing to ride single file where the road is narrow, but they cannot fade away for every motor-horn.
С. Т. С.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bikes bikes bikes! (and some scooters) This isn't even all of them. 50 people used the organised bike bus to travel to this community event, and more came separately. But apparently nobody cycles in Sheffield because it's too hilly.

A LOT of bicycles of all shapes and sizes parked on the grass under a tree. It includes tiny kids' bikes, teenagers' bikes, adult bikes, and some cargo bikes. A very long chain is laid out in the ground for people to lock their bikes to.

A blue gazebo a man under it working on a bike. Several more bikes are hanging from a stand, waiting for work.

More bikes: two cargo bikes in the foreground, and in the distance some more bikes locked to a signpost in the park.

Three cute little kids' scooters (red, purple and blue) lined up in a row in amongst the bikes, with helmets hanging from their handlebars.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mum and I are planning our cycling trip in France next year. Doing trains and ferries by bike is all new to her. Given how sh!te UK trains are for taking bikes, we've regretfully decided to drive to Portsmouth instead of taking the train. It'll be cheaper and less stressful.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As I was near-ish, I made a small diversion to Lembas to stock up on laundry liquid and a few other bits. 5 litres of laundry liquid in 1 pannier, and all the rest in the other. E-bike to help get it up the hill home. I wouldn't have done it in the car (too much faffing through queuing traffic).

Contents of a shopping trolley: a 5 litre bulk container of laundry liquid, a large box of dishwasher tablets, a box of bio washing powder, two boxes of laundry bleach, a retail outer of Nakd bars, a 1kg bag of nice muesli, a 1kg bag of raisins, and a tin of Cafedirect instant coffee.

The contents of the shopping trolley now distributed between the pannier bags on the back of a bicycle.

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glad to see this move forward and proud that our work in Westminster Council was heavily cited in the committee report. Go @benmiskell.bsky.social & co

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NHS + Microsoft IT rant. This is on a computer that I use every single day. But every Microsoft application regularly requires me to log in AGAIN, and for some reason I always have to do MFA twice each time, and then it complains that I've had too many verification calls!!!

Computer screen displaying:

NHS
Sign in

Computer screen displaying:
NHS
Verify your identity
Text [number]
Call [number]

Computer screen displaying:

NHS
Come back again later
You've hit our limit on verification calls. Try to sign in again shortly.
Having trouble? Sign in another way.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My 2 year old niece has got her first proper balance bike!

A toddler sitting on a pink Frog balance bike. She is wearing a pale blue helmet, and an expression of intense concentration on her face (although you can't see that because I've blanked out her face for privacy).

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What I find striking is her linking this with previous racist movements and not pretending it’s something that’s just spawned from the ether. It’s the same ideas, often the same people, but in racing to legitimise the movement it’s a link that many - e.g. the government, the BBC - cannot make.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The justice system is being massively underfunded, and the consequence is that justice is not happening.

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are no longer in the middle of a heatwave, but we should all still be doing regular pelvic floor exercises. Here's a very helpful thread.

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Gwen Shamblin’s stylist (she/her) @vultureenthusiast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My partner tried my e-bike and within a few minutes, said, “this is a very civilized bike.” Two days later we were in a bike shop and he was saying “I’m not buying a bike today”. A week after that he did his first bike commute. Saturday we sold the car. He’s had a bike for less than a month.

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