derek van vliet

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Get Set Games founder, bike picture taker, tortured poet rescuer, he/him

I run @bike.community on bluesky

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riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1413 #Cycling #BikeTO #Photography

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Life imitates art.

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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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Humans spend millions of dollars to build platforms to do what birds can do in my backyard for free (yell at each other)

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Today is my favorite day to be on NextDoor

The Inside Out characters in my head

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Unmask. Be feral.

good morning wife kissers

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

Subtle. Very subtle.

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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The UCI is unseemly.

new way to go broke by cycling just dropped

riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1412 #Cycling #BikeTO #Photography #Monochrome

good morning sunscreen reappliers

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#Toronto #Coxwell #Photography

we used to be a country. a proper country

#OnThisDay in 1905 (July 5) we look south east at the intersection of King & Bay Streets, Toronto, at 12 AM (More likely PM) - Bustling with open streetcars, bicyclist and a newsie. 📸: City of Toronto Archives, enhanced by me. #OTD #1900s #FlashbackFriday #the6ix #torontohistory #toronto #canada

hell yeah lets go (at a safe speed)

As if I didn’t need more reasons why I wanted to move back to Europe as a cyclist and a pedestrian. Those crazy kids did it. They really did it!

‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NIwww.theguardian.com All new cars must have the devices from 7 July, adding fuel economy as well as safety. Will mpg become the new mph?

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I also think it has to do with who complains. If you drive to a store or restaurant, you might tell the manager, “Ugh, parking sucks around here.” If you walk, bike or take transit, you probably don’t say anything. That leads to business owners believing that all their customers drive.

I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.

riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1411 #Cycling #BikeTO #Photography

good morning plain hotdog enjoyers

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ground beef implies the existence of air beef and sea beef

project 2025:

This is the hat i wear when i’m on bluesky

This is the hat I wear when I’m on Bluesky:

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the dog is john roberts

July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1410 #Cycling #BikeTO #Photography

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Speaking of cyclists from Africa, Rwanda has a really strong cycling culture - I remember seeing a lot of serious cyclists on the roads when I was there. Rwanda also has a well-regarded international UCI race, too. www.uci.org/article/simo...

Major congrats to Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay for becoming the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage.

Eritrea's Biniam Girmay becomes the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stageapnews.com Eritrean rider Biniam Girmay has become the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage in the last leg in Italy.

Simon Hupperetz guiding Rwandan riders towards 2025www.uci.org In two-and-a-half years, Rwanda will become the first African nation to host the UCI Road World Championships, the biggest annual event organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

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WE WANT TRAINS

More trains please.

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i made a starter pack for bike enjoyers: go.bsky.app/EwkMJoT

bike enjoyers starter packbsky.app Join the conversation

good morning #BikesAtPollingStations