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Alka
@alka71.bsky.social
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Moved from Twitter for some fresh air. Runner, politics, weather geek in Bournemouth. 😎 🏖️
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#uksnow BH7 5/10 Big snow flakes! ❄️
January 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
December 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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#Christchurchpriorydorset @bournemouthecho.bsky.social @visitbournemouth.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Thank you @stormhour.bsky.social
stormhour.com StormHour @stormhour.com · Dec 6
Christchurch Dorset - frosty morning by ‪Alka‬ @alka71.bsky.social

💎 Photo of The Week Competition 29th Nov 2024 www.stormhour.com/photo-of-the...

#ThePhotoHour
#StormHour
December 6, 2024 at 5:48 AM
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#ChristchurchQuay #Dorset
December 3, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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Frosty morning run #Southbournebeach 🥶
November 28, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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#uksnow BH7 3/10 Snow flakes and rain ❄️
November 21, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam.

Hilarious to watch him squirm.
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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torstenbell.bsky.social
Main BBC website story littered with errors www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inheritance tax: 'Betrayed' farmers take Budget protest to London
Organisers of Tuesday's protest warn some farmers now
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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t0nyyates.bsky.social
I was an economist at the BoE at the same time as she worked there. She was an economist. I walked past her desk a few times a day. I read notes she wrote. Attended the same meetings. The last time I wrote this on Twitter someone replied 'you supported masks and lockdown'.
November 19, 2024 at 8:15 AM
alka71.bsky.social
#uksnow in BH7 0/10 just raining.
uksnowmap.com #uksnow Map @uksnowmap.com · Nov 17
A quick reminder on how to contribute to uksnowmap.com ahead of any possible #uksnow tomorrow 👀

Post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode, and a snow rating x/10 and help draw a real-time map of where it is snowing in the UK.
November 18, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Beautiful #HengistburyHead #Christchurch
November 17, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

welcome and thank you for being here 🥳
November 15, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse. Unfortunately that well is now poisoned. All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system. We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself. And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere. Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process. But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X. And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work. We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Autumn Throop Dorset ❤️
November 16, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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Have just added a load more people to my starter pack of UK political journalists, commentators, politicos and experts, for anyone who's just arrived here, or looking for some more familiar faces

go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
November 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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#ChristchurchQuayDorset early run.
November 14, 2024 at 4:10 PM