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velobetty

@velobetty@toot.bike

Northumbrian in London. Ex-racer. Now cargo-biker. Loves both kinds of music: heavy and metal.

#BlackLivesMatter #ProtectTransLives #CriticalMass

Also tooting about metal over at https://metalhead.club/@haustsdottir.

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Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.

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Just a reminder that if your is only on then it's not a podcast. It's an audio recording.

A podcast distributes audio via an RSS feed that anybody can subscribe to without needing to sign up for a provider.

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The word "unnouncements" could be used to describe the regular, pointless PA messages at public transport stations which repeatedly play recorded messages nobody needs to hear.

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I'm not sure that means what you think it does...

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Awake at 5am worrying about stuff again. It's been a few stressful years and I can start to see the end of it. But since 2019 it's been full-on with one thing after another. But I like to think that I'm spending all of the stress and saving all of the calmness which I'll spend afterwards.

Only another few months of real stress and then I should be able to start taking it a bit easier.

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It's an impressive feat of cognitive dissonance being able to not only think that 15 minute cities is a global conspiracy but also wanting to easily drive to a shopping mall with everything under one roof.

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I know people like it but I absolutely hate being called "you guys".

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Recently a neighbour looked at one of my bikes and said "you must have lots of money".

He owns a soft-top Audi and a new city van which he's just bought.

It's amazing how people can erase/ignore the cost of motor vehicles from their minds. It's a really impressive trick. You hear the same when people comment about cargo bikes which could actually replace a car!

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It was only recently I stopped calling Nutella "noo-tella".

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It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than ; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence.

A timelapse aerial shot of Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo showing vast numbers of pedestrians crossing and then being held up by a small number of motor vehicles.

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Today me and the dog were up in a really remote spot in Northumberland for a walk in some woods up there. Storm Arwen had knocked down loads of trees in this woodland so currently only a little bit in the middle is open so it's a much shorter walk than it would usually be and a little bit at the end is back along the road to the carpark. It's really in the middle of nowhere though. When we walked out of the woods we saw a concerned looking woman with an e-bike on its stand...

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The confused girl meme.

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Hey , what's in your that you carry with you all the time?

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Has to be AVV for today's stage up the Aspin and the Tourmalet!

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The spectators for the left a real mess behind after them.

Not very patriotic, is it.

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There's been stories in the media about companies seeing less growth etc but I think in part that's because there are many more meat replacements nowadays.

But, as a vegan, I'm not really into those meat replacements and I'm often frustrated that the vegan options in pubs is generally always a plant based burger and chips when there are so many other vegan options which don't need meat analogues.

Don't get me wrong, seitan "chicken" strips are amazing though! 😉

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What Else Musk is doing by stepping away as CEO and employing a women is likely a sign that Twitter is in real trouble and he needs, well, a fall...girl.

This has been seen before and is termed the where companies who are in crisis employ a woman to blame when she eventually can't fix all the issues and the company inevitably fails.

If so, Twitter will likely be filing for bankruptcy within a couple of years.

There's no way Musk will be doing this because it's a positive thing.

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Blimey. My head got it right. My heart wished it was different.

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Cycled to the shops, about 10 minutes away, along a winding 20mph road. Within a minute a van blasted past me at about 50mph and then a guy tried to overtake me around a bend into the path of an oncoming car and when he couldn't he blasted his horn, tailgated me, and then shouted at me.

On the way back a black hatchback driver flew past and drove on the wrong side of a keep left and when I shouted "Hey!" out of surprise he gave me the finger and drove off.

All because I'm on a bike.

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You can't say coronation without corona!

Coincidence? I think not!!

(this is a joke. I know corona means crown).

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Me too, Tadej, me too.

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I would like a system which could determine exactly what type and how much food my body actually needs for a meal and then it orders that to be delivered to me. Like a Black Mirror type of thing.

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Give me your top 5 Christmas movies!

Mine are:

  1. Home Alone
  2. Edward Scissorhands
  3. Labyrinth (not classically a Xmas film but any excuse to watch it 😉)
  4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  5. Groundhog Day
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I'd like to vote for Zoë Garbett for London Mayor because she's the best candidate but Susan Hall would be really bad for London so I think I might need to vote for Khan.

Because it's now first past the post and the supplementary vote has been scrapped it's a really poor choice. The electoral system in the UK is broken.

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Latvia's performance looks like it's coming from a mains water pipe.

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