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Carlton Reid

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Journalist: WIRED.com and Forbes.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 @carltonreid.com · 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.

Lone cyclist riding through rays of sunlight in green woods and dirt trail.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 8h

“Don’t look now, Mr. President, but there’s a photographer taking a photograph of your saggy neck.”

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 9h

Barefoot on any beach I still remember the foot-over-the-jagged-glass-bottle film.

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 9h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

It looks like every media company in American that covers the Pentagon except OAN is refusing to sign Hegseth’s ultimatum.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

Your free version of America has expired.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 14h

“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”

Jane Austen

Trump wrote: “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Time cover features accurate photo of vain, orange blob shot from below.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 1d

Kemi Badenoch wants this for the UK.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

This is rather remarkable.

pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 1d

One minute video of the cargobike use our Josh filmed in Rwanda recently: www.youtube.com/shorts/ciRW2...

Cargo Bikes Rwanda – Quaxing Africa

YouTube video by Josh Reid

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 1d

Cool. Thanks.

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 1d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 2d

Probably Lumley Brick Co of Fencehouses, reckons @neheritagelib.bsky.social

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 2d

Maybe like this: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb... PS thanks for your expertise!

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 2d

19th Century then? I was hoping could be earlier and maybe even part of the steam pumping engine house down beside Benton Bridge in the Dene.

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 2d

Rue de Rivoli: 1983 vs now

In recent years, Paris has made leaps towards becoming a greener city. A big factor is the transformation of streets. By creating people-first environments, choosing the bike, walking or public transport is made easier and safer.

📸 via Ingwar Perowanowitsch

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 2d

There’s a brick history group on Facebook but I’m loathe to log back on to FB so anybody know anything about this old brick found in our garden today? Co. Durham in origin. Odd markings and shape.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 4d

Sweet. Thanks.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 4d

Yes, had a lot of time for Rob Brock. He also worked with Mike Burrows.

Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 4d

And it’s for “keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness.” A growing, orange-tinged darkness.

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