Rob Hyde

Thanks for sharing, once it gets going that is amazing. I'd probably attend a festival of that kind of stuff!

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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Just moments ago the parkway was TAKEN OVER by winter cyclists. At first I thought hundreds, but they just kept coming. Thousands and thousands! I almost cried. I’m so dang proud of MN right now.

It’s giving Go Compare

In Minneapolis and other U.S. cities, Bellingcat supplements local news by “zooming in with a forensic lens” Partnerships with local news outlets help "bring our stories to the audiences who need to see them most."

Where we explain our investigation process and why we don't post on X anyone - In Minneapolis and other U.S. cities, Bellingcat supplements local news by “zooming in with a forensic lens”
www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/in-m...

"we might make less money if you don't start using our unwanted and less-than-useless product"

Oh, BBC. Jenrick urging British people to 'join the Reform movement' is not news. It's propaganda. Also 'writing in the Telegraph' behind a paywall is not a public announcement. Is it, BBC? Lead story on R3 at half-six.

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

Britain’s world: The strategy of security in twelve geopolitical maps – Council on Geostrategy James Rogers and Andrew Young offer this collection of visualisations that outline the United Kingdom’s global position and interests

Do you like maps? These are good maps.

www.geostrategy.org.uk/research/bri...

US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington.

History often rhymes as the year turns. Romanian dictator Ceaușescu was executed on Christmas Day 1989 just as Panamian dictator Noriega fled following the US invasion. The intervention in Venezuela may shift Washington’s attention from Ukraine but shld also remind 🇺🇸 that Russia is Maduro’s enabler

Think one of the next big fronts in the culture wars will be between dog owners and people who really dislike dogs

Really good video here about these upper class neighborhoods that fill themselves with cameras. The thing it is most likely to produce is scared paranoid people who want to buy more cameras. youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4...

Mine too - I never got the OG, and basically only had a cassette copy of it until it got reissued on vinyl a few years back. Well worth the wait - why sample James Brown when you can just have the *actual* JBs on the record?

I wished! Not even a rap-metal goatee :(

First CD I ever owned which came with the first CD player I ever owned, Christmas 1993!

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.

Really recommend reading this piece by @kissane.myatproto.social if you are about the future of social media and decentralized networks. This piece is not just about Trump's arrival on Bluesky; it's about the state of play for the open networking sector, and the political risks it faces.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

I assume it had some music stuff in there, but I don't really remember it. The angle would be a bit more 'We asked Menswear which film stars they'd shag'

I bought loads of these! It was nearly always the 'sex issue' or the 'drugs issue', or there was a reader survey on either of those topics. But I lapped these things up as an impressionable 18yo in the East Midlands

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Your correspondent says 'we should listen' when it comes to Oxford's perennial transport issues. I've been listening. I've listened to people say that children's safety doesn't matter, because drivers can't be expected to slow down. I've listened to people say that bus passengers don't matter, because drivers have more money. I've listened to people say that traffic jams don't matter, because cities will always be congested. I've listened to people say that collisions don't matter, because 'accidents will happen'. I've listened to people say that vehicle emissions don't matter, because climate science isn't real. And I've listened to people say that we mustn't reduce traffic, because that might inconvenience drivers. I've listened, and I'm still waiting to hear a single effective alternative to low traffic. Owen McKnight Oxford

I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic.

My letter in the Oxford Times today

Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.

Already got them! A Saturday to boot - they know their audience

As a middle aged tired man with kids, the words 'Tortoise' and 'Matinee show'would trump one of my own children's birthdays if it came to it.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Social media has ruined politics The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderates off the platforms. This can’t go on

“MPs are struggling to find anywhere on the internet that isn’t hostile territory. The online right monopolises X and are dominant on YouTube. On TikTok, neither the online left nor online right has much need for or interest in members of parliament.”

The amount of young Manics fans from school I remember carrying around the Bell Jar and whatever other other authors Richey mentioned in the lyrics to 'Faster' to impress girls is definitely more than three

🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.

Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.

Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.

But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it