Carlton Reid
@carltonreid.com
Freelance journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67 Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Carlton Reid
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· Jan 26
I was a finalist in the Travel Photographer of the Year competition 2024. I can now reveal the image I entered. It is an iPhone selfie taken in Cromford, Derbyshire.
Northumberland largely free of cars today, gloriously. Rode to Morpeth to ride back to Newcastle with our Josh who started in Berwick. Very short ride for him.
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Northumberland largely free of cars today, gloriously. Rode to Morpeth to ride back to Newcastle with our Josh who started in Berwick. Very short ride for him.
Strange toy? What do mean strange toy?
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Strange toy? What do mean strange toy?
"The Muppet Christmas Carol" is a classic, of course, but if you want something darker try the 4K newly-restored version of "A Christmas Carol" by animator Richard Williams, a 1971 made-for-TV cartoon that went on to win a movie Oscar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1eE...
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1971) by Richard Williams (35mm - 4K Restored) | OSCAR Winner
YouTube video by Borsu Highson Film Productions
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December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"The Muppet Christmas Carol" is a classic, of course, but if you want something darker try the 4K newly-restored version of "A Christmas Carol" by animator Richard Williams, a 1971 made-for-TV cartoon that went on to win a movie Oscar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1eE...
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Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
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Christmas good news story. 10-year-old-ish boy popped into our local refill shop today while I was getting milk and asked to take down this poster. Police raided a house and recovered the stolen dog! Shop owner gave boy a candy cane.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Christmas good news story. 10-year-old-ish boy popped into our local refill shop today while I was getting milk and asked to take down this poster. Police raided a house and recovered the stolen dog! Shop owner gave boy a candy cane.
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Every time my grandmother (92) goes upstairs she leaves her slippers at the bottom, and every time, my grandfather (100) bends down to turn them around so they are facing the right way when she returns. May we all find a love like this.
December 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Every time my grandmother (92) goes upstairs she leaves her slippers at the bottom, and every time, my grandfather (100) bends down to turn them around so they are facing the right way when she returns. May we all find a love like this.
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Finally got a chance to listen to this really great interview. This is really fantastic. Give it a listen, and if you don’t already follow Brent. The stuff is fantastic. This is the voice of leadership.
NEW/LISTEN! Been REALLY looking forward to this one — my interview with Jason from #NotJustBikes IS LIVE on many podcast platforms plus YouTube! We cover a LOT of really important ground on how to ACTUALLY ACHIEVE BETTER CITIES IN REAL PRACTICE! I’m looking forward to your thoughts and comments!
How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian)
YouTube video by The Urbanist Agenda Podcast
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December 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Finally got a chance to listen to this really great interview. This is really fantastic. Give it a listen, and if you don’t already follow Brent. The stuff is fantastic. This is the voice of leadership.
“We should take America back for our native population.”
Get rid of everybody who arrived in the Americas after 1492, then? Dumb as well as evil.
Get rid of everybody who arrived in the Americas after 1492, then? Dumb as well as evil.
This is really worrying. Also - how anyone could read Mein Kampf and "understand where he was coming from" is just plain nuts.
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“We should take America back for our native population.”
Get rid of everybody who arrived in the Americas after 1492, then? Dumb as well as evil.
Get rid of everybody who arrived in the Americas after 1492, then? Dumb as well as evil.
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If only we already had a planet green with life. Wouldn't that be something!
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If only we already had a planet green with life. Wouldn't that be something!
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
In my @wired.com piece on touchscreen fever I featured a YouTube tutorial on “how to open a Tesla’s glovebox.” If you’re having to explain, you’re losing. www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In my @wired.com piece on touchscreen fever I featured a YouTube tutorial on “how to open a Tesla’s glovebox.” If you’re having to explain, you’re losing. www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
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"There’s no way they’re going to fire the only Black writer on staff, I have reasoned on too many occasions to count," writes @wired.com's Jason Parham in a wake-up piece on the death of DEI.
“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...
DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To
I’m a Black staffer at WIRED. My position feels more precarious than ever. There’s a reason for that.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"There’s no way they’re going to fire the only Black writer on staff, I have reasoned on too many occasions to count," writes @wired.com's Jason Parham in a wake-up piece on the death of DEI.
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
I've been asked to locate this sculpure. Reverse image search says it's from www.wheremywheelsgo.uk/routes/natio... and is between Redcar and Tynemouth. South Bank of the Tees? Sculpture doesn't appear on the list for Tees Sculpture Trail.
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I've been asked to locate this sculpure. Reverse image search says it's from www.wheremywheelsgo.uk/routes/natio... and is between Redcar and Tynemouth. South Bank of the Tees? Sculpture doesn't appear on the list for Tees Sculpture Trail.
“Tell me Ma, me Ma! We won't be home for tea. We're going to [an Anglo-Saxon’s called] Wemba Lee.”
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Tell me Ma, me Ma! We won't be home for tea. We're going to [an Anglo-Saxon’s called] Wemba Lee.”
Another normal posting from FIFA’s first, and likely only, Peace Prize recipient.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Another normal posting from FIFA’s first, and likely only, Peace Prize recipient.
And, according to Wiles, Trump flew on Epstein’s jet. Oopsy.
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
And, according to Wiles, Trump flew on Epstein’s jet. Oopsy.
Thing is, the Trump troupe had their pix taken by the Vanity Fair photographer so piece could hardly have come as a surprise. (And Leavitt will have hated the close-up pic the mag used of her.)
Leavitt dismisses the Vanity Fair feature as a hit piece on "the greatest president in our nation's history"
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thing is, the Trump troupe had their pix taken by the Vanity Fair photographer so piece could hardly have come as a surprise. (And Leavitt will have hated the close-up pic the mag used of her.)
If AI took CEO jobs first then CEOs wouldn't adopt the tech.
A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them
archive.ph/r0u2r
archive.ph/r0u2r
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If AI took CEO jobs first then CEOs wouldn't adopt the tech.