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Carlton Reid

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Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 9h
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 · 14h
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 · 15h
"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 · 20h
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 · 21h
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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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 21h
Not looking great for Edinburgh Bicycle. citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20164&page=6#post-385972
citycyclingedinburgh.info
Edinburgh Bike Shops « CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum
CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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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...
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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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Holly 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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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 15/09/2026
Just last year U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon repeatedly and mistakenly pronounced AI as "A One”.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 15/09/2026
“I’m trying to get to the bottom of this,” said Senator Kennedy quizzing FBI director Patel over beastiality pardons. Mmmm, ok.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 14/09/2026
AI is better than human doctors at spotting disease. Also AI:
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 14/09/2026
The Mechanical Turk lives!
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 11/09/2026
The pedestrian detectors can "kill humans when focusing on a target,” say sad mad conspiracy theorists. But then, FFS, the journalist writes: “However, the medical and technological claims made by the group have not been independently established and remain allegations made by the Blade Runners.”
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 10/09/2026
Whole bunch of Anthropic-shaped AI-gonna-kill-us-all scare stories spreading just before an Anthropic IPO is such an amazing coincidence.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 10/09/2026
Yeah, just like robbing a bank is “certain to raise legal questions.”
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 09/09/2026
Yes, a sensible article about AI. But this bit is odd because there’s a more exact analogy: Tesla. Many folks *do* allow Musk to change the subject even though his cars too often incinerate the occupants.
The correct reply is to promptly turn the conversation back to the possibilities, harms and viability of the products that actually exist. To extend an analogy I've made before, if Ford automobiles were spontaneously catching on fire, we wouldn't tolerate the chief executive's changing the subject to discuss our general lack of preparedness for a future with flying cars. We'd demand that the company address the acute problem happening right now.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk That disabled guy's face contorted with rage is certainly one for the ages.
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The image that will haunt Farage
Reform UK conference attendees attacking protesters could be a defining moment for the party
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