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Ever wondered what Ben's four Teesworks JV cronies are up to?
Well right now, three of them - Martin Corney, Ian Waller and Chris Harrison - have started trashing wildlife on the outskirts of Darlington.
Julia Mazza for NE Bylines
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Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky!
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The more this place reminds me of why I liked social media so much the more I realise that I stopped doing so a long time ago. It’s extraordinary what happened. The volume & violence of posts from accounts you had never shown the slightest interest in just exploded. It *must* have been deliberate.
Wild. Twitter, maybe for the first time, kinda feels like a ghost town compared to here.
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Ben reckons that the Darlington station refurb is 'on track' to be completed by the end of the S&DR bicentenary year in 2025.
He wants us to forget that the Hartlepool job over-ran by a year, and Middlesbrough still isn't finished
#Teesside
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Facebook post from Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers: Due to the demise of Twitter. We shall have a new site on the very popular #bluesky very soon. Our new handle will appear soon It has 3 likes
Musk's lost the Morris dancers. It's Over.
Is anyone who isn't a crazed right winger or bot still left on there? Place must be a screaming echo chamber by now...
Yeh, cheers Ben 🍺
#Teesside
Houchen election promises
Only half delivered despite the rhetoric
Anyone unblocked want to remind Houchen he promised Tenerife flights so it's only promise 1/2 delivered. Wheres that hospital too? Anyone seen that?
Extremely welcome. This needs to be a place with broad political participation if it's going to replace Twitter.
I hope more people follow suit. My Twitter (I don't acknowledge it as X) is now dead and buried. Far better on here
Very glad I asked this. A bit surprised to register just how happy the replies have made me. Thank you. It really feels like the tectonic plates are shifting. I’m so in.
Thank God you're on here! Quit X last night and was worried about how I'd keep up with local politics
Well, less than 24 hours in and this is a breath of fresh air (no pun intended)
Only downside is the lack of grassroots/local politics and news for the Teesside/North East area.
Has anyone got any recommendations for accounts to follow?
That LBD video was the final straw for me. Closed my 12 year old Twitter account down last night and joined here.
Only downside so far is the lack of local politics for Teesside, especially given the Houchen problem...
a scene from Midsommar
Bluesky welcoming new arrivals from Twitter
1/ I had foreseen this - the EU Commission’s delay in making a final decision on its investigation of X under Digital Services Act is sus.
Two alternatives to regulatory action:
1 see my thread last night about private enforcement of tech law
2 we can just *leave* his fucking far right platform
After going viral with the phrase "you body, my choice", Nick Fuentes has had all of his personal detail doxxed on Twitter by women. Your house their choice.
You love to see it.
Viz letters page: I'M not one to complain usually but, I mean fucking hell. Come on. - Peter Busby, e-mail
For me, it was too much. Closed my account on there tonight after 12 years and have come here instead. X is too far gone to save now.
Big Ben Affleck and little Ben Affleck
Gary Barlow and his son see what the internet has said about them
The dark money that ties some Donald Trump's biggest donors and think tanks and politicians on the British right
Keir Starmer needs to act to strengthen our political finance laws now
Latest by me in the Democracy for Sale newsletter democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dark-money...
The last straw for me. Deactivated my X account less than an hour ago.
My first post on here with no followers. Feels strange after 12 years of Twitter and 14k followers. Let’s see how things go with a photo from my trip to Yorkshire last week #landscapephotography
