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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

STARTER PACKS from credible sources are still a key way to find great accounts to follow, and also to BUILD GREAT COMMUNITIES here on Bluesky. They’ve been key for the Urbanist community here. This one supported global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America. I hope you’ll follow them, and SHARE IT.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 09/10/2026

It’s a Cycling History Educational Trust committee meeting in mid-Wales tomorrow (National Cycle Museum is in town) so, naturally, I'm adding a day to do a little bit of touring.

Pink Vielo gravel bike with Tailfin bags with front wheel lodged in train carriage board.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 08/10/2026

“Artificial intelligence research" was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. Trump will be a lame duck president next month. Amazing that the tech billionaires are so weak they caved early. Money can’t buy everything, then.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 06/10/2026

@nicolaking.bsky.social Saw your name and work in a Lawrence doc the other day. Small world etc.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Rita Ora has the Lidl Plus App" "Stacey Solomon gives Joe a sticker for helping with the dishes" "Alesha Dixon made bairns cry at the Hoppings" "Jessie J doesn't donate 10p to charity at the checkout" "Lorraine Kelly is barred from Wetherspoons for stealing cutlery"

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Community urged to report bizarre celeb-obsessed graffiti artist to police

Bizarre graffiti about a range of celebrities has been daubed across the Newcastle suburb

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pro cyclist here who grew up in abject poverty as an only child. When I started cycling seriously in my teens I needed extra calories mom couldn't afford. I used to go to the local food bank and pretend I had three siblings. They knew and never said a word. They were true saints.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 30/09/2026

MAGA cultists wore fake white bandages on their right ears to support Trump after a bullet grazed him during a campaign rally couple of years ago. So, when they gonna stand like this?

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 29/09/2026

Actually, it tracks that the US has got high level intel on tinpot British fuel thieves — thanks to Trump’s Iran war, America needs all the gasoline it can get!

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 29/09/2026

Trump said “if this [tech thing designed by others and which, of course, I don’t understand in the slightest] is good I’ve done a shitty job as president.” Website will be hacked soon enough and, yes, he’s the shittiest US president ever.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I am ten weeks into this job, and not all of my recent predecessors have been able to say that." Obligatory Liz Truss joke near the start of Andy Burnham's Labour conference speech.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 28/09/2026

“I have here in my hand an order for heavy bombers from my friend Herr Hitler.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Chamberlain waving paper in famous photo.

Headline: “Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says”

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 27/09/2026

It’s an excellent piece, chockful of history and how elitist cults warning about apocalypse are pretty common; and always go plop.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Graeme 🦋 @fatherhilarious.blog · 25/09/2026

“Let them drown! Let them drown! Let them drown! Let them drown!”, a small girl was encouraged to chant through a megaphone in an anti-migrant protest in Gosport this week. It will be a nice thing for her to look back on at her 18th birthday... www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

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Stewart Lee: Why don’t we stage public drownings of migrants, to address people’s legitimate concerns?

The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s...

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 24/09/2026

Here’s our Josh’s Bikepacking Greenland film, all 75-mins worth. youtu.be/GSTlgcd0BFU?...

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Bikepacking Greenland - Coast to Ice to Coast

YouTube video by Josh Reid

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 22/09/2026

Racist thug livestreams knifing an inflatable containing an RNLI rescuer out at sea. Jesus wept. (Especially as the racist thug cosplays as a Christian.)

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 19/09/2026

Our Josh is just back from Greenland. He and some American adventurers did an eight-day bike expedition from the coast to an ice-cap and back. Josh has edited a qtr of the vid so far. Looks amazing. Full film likely posted mid-week. Here’s his channel. youtube.com/@josh-reid?s...

youtube.com

Josh Reid

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 19/09/2026

If one of the restraints on SUV saturation was cost then that restraint may soon collapse. £23k for top-of-the-range luxe SUV by Xiaomi, China’s Apple.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026

At the 2025 Munich Security Conference JD Vance “accused European politicians of censoring free speech.” Meanwhile, today in the US Trump is banning media. Again.

Pic of JD Vance nearing a lecturn. Text: “In Munich, Vance accuses European politicians of censoring free speech • FRANCE 24 English”

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026

In 2012, Addison Lee boss John Griffin was all over the news when he ranted that cyclists should “pay road tax.” Yesterday, HMRC won its case saying that, since 2013, the taxi man has been avoiding paying income tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Telegraph headline from 2012:

Cyclists should pay road tax, says taxi boss Careless cyclists are on a
'voyage into the abyss'
The head of London's largest minicab company says cyclists should think more about their own safety before "throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world".

Guardian headline today:

Addison Lee founder owes
£20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin's claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood. With pic of old man in office.

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 17/09/2026

It’ll be 15-minute cities next.

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dear Piddington, The mere mention of you seeking Musk's and Trump's help means you can go f*** yourself. [Piddington is a village with a prison full of male criminals. It also has an old MOD site which is proposed to house asylum seekers.]

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In their wildest dreams Hamas couldn't do as much damage to Israel as Netanyahu and his government has.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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