Alex Beatty
@alexbeatty.bsky.social
Communications Advisor at Spotlight on Corruption: @spotlightcorruption.org
Other interests: #History #Communications #Speechwriting #Strategy. Views own. Likes are sometimes bookmarks, sometimes not.
Other interests: #History #Communications #Speechwriting #Strategy. Views own. Likes are sometimes bookmarks, sometimes not.
Great piece as usual from @samfr.bsky.social. I was particularly struck by this bit. 👇
Does anyone have an answer as to why the government haven't started doing this already? Official accounts are still posting a lot on X and cross-posting here surely wouldn't be much additional effort?
Does anyone have an answer as to why the government haven't started doing this already? Official accounts are still posting a lot on X and cross-posting here surely wouldn't be much additional effort?
July 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Great piece as usual from @samfr.bsky.social. I was particularly struck by this bit. 👇
Does anyone have an answer as to why the government haven't started doing this already? Official accounts are still posting a lot on X and cross-posting here surely wouldn't be much additional effort?
Does anyone have an answer as to why the government haven't started doing this already? Official accounts are still posting a lot on X and cross-posting here surely wouldn't be much additional effort?
For the first time in a very long time, I enjoyed sitting down with a Sunday paper and ☕️. Joined by the 🐶 and sunshine ☀️.
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
For the first time in a very long time, I enjoyed sitting down with a Sunday paper and ☕️. Joined by the 🐶 and sunshine ☀️.
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
So, doesn't look good, does it? But everything is going to be Ok, right @financialtimes.com ? Guys? guys?
April 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So, doesn't look good, does it? But everything is going to be Ok, right @financialtimes.com ? Guys? guys?
👇 @law360.bsky.social isn't my usual go-to publication for puntastic headlines (that would be the @economist.com obviously) but I have to admit this caused me to chuckle childishly when doing the morning media roundup.
February 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
👇 @law360.bsky.social isn't my usual go-to publication for puntastic headlines (that would be the @economist.com obviously) but I have to admit this caused me to chuckle childishly when doing the morning media roundup.
The world may be about to burst into flames but in other news, we bought the dog a jumper yesterday. I think it’s fair to say she was unimpressed 😂
February 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The world may be about to burst into flames but in other news, we bought the dog a jumper yesterday. I think it’s fair to say she was unimpressed 😂
Nice morning for a walk with the 🐶
January 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Nice morning for a walk with the 🐶
👇 As exquisitely polite as you might expect from a grandee like Sir Laurie Magnus. But the plain text reading of his letter to the PM is: "given her family background, she should never have been in this job and you were a fool to appoint her".
January 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
👇 As exquisitely polite as you might expect from a grandee like Sir Laurie Magnus. But the plain text reading of his letter to the PM is: "given her family background, she should never have been in this job and you were a fool to appoint her".
Had a wry smile to myself reading this 👇 paragraph from @samfr.bsky.social’s excellent audit of his work this year: open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Sadly I suspect the issue is not that Sam is insufficiently cheerful, but that things are actually pretty awful right now. 🤞 for a better 2025.
Sadly I suspect the issue is not that Sam is insufficiently cheerful, but that things are actually pretty awful right now. 🤞 for a better 2025.
December 21, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Had a wry smile to myself reading this 👇 paragraph from @samfr.bsky.social’s excellent audit of his work this year: open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Sadly I suspect the issue is not that Sam is insufficiently cheerful, but that things are actually pretty awful right now. 🤞 for a better 2025.
Sadly I suspect the issue is not that Sam is insufficiently cheerful, but that things are actually pretty awful right now. 🤞 for a better 2025.
So yesterday we put up essentially identical posts on Twitter/X and Bluesky and the difference in engagement was... stark.
🤔 Perhaps someone could kindly share this with the #FCDO Comms team? I would have loved to have been able to tag them in our Bluesky post.
🤔 Perhaps someone could kindly share this with the #FCDO Comms team? I would have loved to have been able to tag them in our Bluesky post.
November 22, 2024 at 11:50 AM
So yesterday we put up essentially identical posts on Twitter/X and Bluesky and the difference in engagement was... stark.
🤔 Perhaps someone could kindly share this with the #FCDO Comms team? I would have loved to have been able to tag them in our Bluesky post.
🤔 Perhaps someone could kindly share this with the #FCDO Comms team? I would have loved to have been able to tag them in our Bluesky post.
So about this time last week I was excitedly emailing the @spotlightcorruption.org team to say that we had just exceeded 500 followers on Bluesky.
And now... 👇
And now... 👇
November 15, 2024 at 1:53 PM
So about this time last week I was excitedly emailing the @spotlightcorruption.org team to say that we had just exceeded 500 followers on Bluesky.
And now... 👇
And now... 👇
A really lovely piece. But I am baffled by the NS web editor’s decision not to illustrate it with at least a dozen pictures of Henry Scampi. And for the record here’s the picture that convinced us we made the right decision too:
October 26, 2024 at 11:32 AM
A really lovely piece. But I am baffled by the NS web editor’s decision not to illustrate it with at least a dozen pictures of Henry Scampi. And for the record here’s the picture that convinced us we made the right decision too:
Nice to be in the top, er, one million I guess?
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #702,655!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #702,655!
September 17, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Nice to be in the top, er, one million I guess?
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #702,655!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #702,655!
