Dylan Reid
@dylanreid.bsky.social
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
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Fascinating
1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry
2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude
3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding
1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry
2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude
3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding
a lot of interesting revelations between the lines of this story www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Fascinating
1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry
2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude
3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding
1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry
2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude
3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding
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Who did this 😂
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Who did this 😂
Trump is going to revive what had been largely collapsed Venezuelan support for the regime, isn't he.
VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now.
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
January 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Trump is going to revive what had been largely collapsed Venezuelan support for the regime, isn't he.
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January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400
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Earlier today, I checked out the Scarborough Junction Community's temporary art installation in support of the West Scarborough Rail Trail, as well as walked along a short part of the trail route. You can read about it on my blog. #BikeTO #ScarbTO #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2026/01/lets...
Let’s Support the West Scarborough Rail Trail!
A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)
www.twowheeledpolitics.ca
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Earlier today, I checked out the Scarborough Junction Community's temporary art installation in support of the West Scarborough Rail Trail, as well as walked along a short part of the trail route. You can read about it on my blog. #BikeTO #ScarbTO #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2026/01/lets...
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In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
I still love it, but it's hard to find. Murchie's Russian Caravan is a delicious blend that uses it.
The once popular tea is now fading into obsolescence in the West. But what has become of lapsang souchong in the country that created it? We went on a quest to find out
The rise and fall and rebirth of lapsang souchong
A smoky tea is fading in the West; in China, a better version survives
econ.st
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I still love it, but it's hard to find. Murchie's Russian Caravan is a delicious blend that uses it.
As someone who has been riding buses for almost half a century, this is very true. Especially the knowing that the bus is coming, and when. In high school I wrote a short story about freezing to death waiting for the bus at an Ottawa bus stop in a winter blizzard.
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 AM
As someone who has been riding buses for almost half a century, this is very true. Especially the knowing that the bus is coming, and when. In high school I wrote a short story about freezing to death waiting for the bus at an Ottawa bus stop in a winter blizzard.
A delightful thread
Picture of the staff who operate my account:
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 AM
A delightful thread
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Going to post "the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth" in my syllabi statements on AI. And probably on my office door. 😏 What I wouldn't give to be able to write a phrase like that!
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 3, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Going to post "the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth" in my syllabi statements on AI. And probably on my office door. 😏 What I wouldn't give to be able to write a phrase like that!
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they put 3 reporters on this story and there’s just a throwaway line about private equity buying it….
After 20 years of shaping American dessert culture, Sprinkles has officially closed all of its stores nationwide, marking the end of a brand that not only helped spark but also outlasted the U.S. cupcake craze.
Sprinkles, known for celeb fans and cupcake ATMs, shuts down abruptly
Sprinkles, a pioneer in the U.S. cupcake craze, has closed all its stores nationwide after 20 years.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 AM
they put 3 reporters on this story and there’s just a throwaway line about private equity buying it….
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Not obvious here, but the city’s urban bones are all wrong—cars run almost up to the Falls, pedestrians wait at “beg buttons,” and transit is an afterthought. #NiagaraFalls (2/3)
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Not obvious here, but the city’s urban bones are all wrong—cars run almost up to the Falls, pedestrians wait at “beg buttons,” and transit is an afterthought. #NiagaraFalls (2/3)
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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
This is brilliant
The Philippine Airlines preflight video is a whole telenovela. 🤣
January 2, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This is brilliant
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A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
The painfully funny thing is that the new regime and CBS, in its support for that regime, are directly undermining liberty, the rule of law, and equality.
January 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The painfully funny thing is that the new regime and CBS, in its support for that regime, are directly undermining liberty, the rule of law, and equality.
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New speed camera replacement just dropped in Ford’s Ontario
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
New speed camera replacement just dropped in Ford’s Ontario
Toronto has tried something like this, but on a much more modest scale.
My piece on the gorgeous #Naples metro stops, which make those of #Toronto and other cities look bleak
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Naples set out to make subway stations ‘catacombs of beauty.’ The results will stop you in your tracks
Latest addition to ‘Stazioni Dell’Arte’ wins praise for a project that’s transformed this Italian city
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Toronto has tried something like this, but on a much more modest scale.
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The same mistake is happening in Windsor and elsewhere. Mississauga is the only place the province hasn’t botched this. Ontario is ignoring its own planning rules, moving hospitals to greenfield sites far from transit and urban cores. nextmetro.substack.com/p/an-urgent-... #ONpoli
An Urgent and Avoidable Transit Mistake in Waterloo Region.
A Transit-Forward Town Takes A Step Back.
nextmetro.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The same mistake is happening in Windsor and elsewhere. Mississauga is the only place the province hasn’t botched this. Ontario is ignoring its own planning rules, moving hospitals to greenfield sites far from transit and urban cores. nextmetro.substack.com/p/an-urgent-... #ONpoli
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At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
Very happy to discover the washrooms in the old fire station at Biidaasige Park are open in the winter!
January 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Very happy to discover the washrooms in the old fire station at Biidaasige Park are open in the winter!
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Confirmation finally came in November 2025. The government agreed to a fee of $9.1 million for a company to study if the tunnel was possible. Work that civil servants had at least partially looked at. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1151529...
globalnews.ca/news/1151529...
Ontario awards $9.1M contract to study Hwy. 401 tunnel concept | Globalnews.ca
Internal studies into the concept at the Ministry of Transportation were paused in 2021 and found there was a 'potential for roadway collapse.'
globalnews.ca
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Confirmation finally came in November 2025. The government agreed to a fee of $9.1 million for a company to study if the tunnel was possible. Work that civil servants had at least partially looked at. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1151529...
globalnews.ca/news/1151529...
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Ok but this one was basically right
There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move
January 2, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Ok but this one was basically right