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Ali Bowman

@alibowman.bsky.social
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Early retired primary teacher of 34 years. Now privately tutoring maths to Y4-7. Cancer survivor. Plant based eater. Avid reader. Learner gardener!

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Stunning
Sunset at the beach.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Chippy tea on the beach.
Chippy tea on the beach.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Brrr
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Manchester.
View of Manchester from the Peak District.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Sitting in the garden with hubby in the last of the day’s sun. Glass of red in hand and listening to ABBA (don’t judge!). It really is the simple things.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Photos can never truly do justice to a field of Bluebells.
Field of Bluebells.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Recent studies have hammered home a simple truth: eating a healthy, plant-based diet can drastically reduce your risk of dying from conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and even dangerous blood clots. herbivore.club/blog/...
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Eat Like Your Life Depends on It
Recent studies have hammered home a simple truth: eating a healthy, plant-based diet can drastically reduce your risk of dying from conditions like obesity
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Lovely spot to sit and have a coffee this afternoon.
Roman bridge over a river surrounded by trees under a blue sky.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Divine food and epic portions @BeckHallMalham. #vegan #plantbased
Vegan fluffy pancakes. Vegan ‘fish’ and chips. Vegan lemon cheesecake.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Glorious Malham Cove
Malham Cove limestone
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SouthGlosHead @southgloshead.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
NEW BLOG: What Covid taught us. southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/w...
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What Covid taught us – five years on
22nd March 2020. The younger children skipped out to their parents as usual, blissfully unaware of the water rising up the school drive. First mentioned on distant shores. Then on Italian slopes. A…
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🧰 #Ofsted inspection toolkits ‘lack coherence’ on SEND and may not work outside of mainstream, leaders warn
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Ofsted toolkits ‘lack coherence’ on SEND
There is a risk of SEND becoming a ‘low-risk failure’ under Ofsted plans, leader warns
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Screenshot of polling data from Jan 2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/03/2025
TV tonight: Siobhan Finneran’s new kick-ass thriller for Happy Valley fans
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TV tonight: Siobhan Finneran’s new kick-ass thriller for Happy Valley fans
Protection is the twisty drama about a family shot dead while under witness protection. Plus: meet the new Celebrity Bake Off judge. Here’s what to watch this evening
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Malaga you were most excellent.
Malagueta beach, Malaga. Beach, palm trees and blue sky.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When you’ve been away for a week there is nothing better than beans on toast and a cup of tea.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is why my feet are currently tingling!
Step count of 28,666.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trying a Dragon Fruit for the first time.
Dragon fruit Dragon fruit cut in half.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I think the world is going to look very different after 4 years of Trump. And it won’t be for the better.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
11 weeks apart. They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House. Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Helping the eldest move into his first house today. Will help me take my mind off all that is wrong in the world.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’ve been to America 10 times. It’s a great country. I refused to go when Trump was in office the first time around. There’s not a cat in hell’s chance I’d go this time. Time to boycott.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear President Zelensky, As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here. I come to you humbly as an American citizen who is thoroughly and completely embarrassed of our leaders. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
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To President Zelensky, From an Embarrassed American
Dear President Zelensky,
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.
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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Donald Trump is a repugnant, obnoxious, vile person. I felt sick watching tonight’s news. What a hideous, hateful excuse of a human being.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten. A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders. A historic disgrace.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In decades to come, statues, parks and streets will stand to the example of President Zelensky. Trump will stand only as a reminder of the worst excesses of entitlement, stupidity, evil, and privilege and how collectively they brought about the Downfall of America.
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Eldest has just got the keys to his first house. I’m taking the double rainbow 🌈 as a sign of good luck.
Double rainbow over houses.
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
😂😂😂
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Four weeks this morning, GM will have achieved its long-held ambition of integrated public transport by uniting bus and tram in a single payment system. People will be able to make journeys using a combination of both and never pay more than the daily cap. Rail added from 2026. #ChangeDay
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The tiny white dot at the top right of the trig point is Jodrell Bank.
Trig point and views over Manchester and the surrounding area.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 19/02/2025
Trump calls Zelensky “a dictator without elections” having lauded Putin, a man who hasn’t had a free or fair election in years and who has prevented elections in Ukraine because he invaded.
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As well as the blatant lies told by Trump, it is galling that a bone-spur draft-dodger lectures a man who has set himself against a powerful invader and not flinched.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 18/02/2025
✍️ It’s time for the much vaunted ‘grown-up’ debate on immigration The UK’s immigration debate fails to address its complexities, with politicians relying on opinions over facts, leaving voters ill-informed and angry By Martin Brooks @out-liar.bsky.social
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It’s time for the much vaunted ‘grown-up’ debate on immigration
The UK’s immigration debate fails to address its complexities, with politicians relying on opinions over facts, leaving voters ill-informed and angry
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Alan Hemingway @alanacct.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
At last, an article highlighting that countries need immigration to continue to grow with an ageing population and a declining birth rate www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Thor’s Cave.
Thor’s Cave
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Emergency phone call from daughter this morning-the bedroom door handle had broken off and they were trapped inside! This is why I have a set of spare keys!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It gives me no pleasure to say she was right.
A tweet from Isaiah Martin (
@isialahrmartin
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Ali Bowman @alibowman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Dad likes his birthday bouquet!
Bouquet made of Maltesers.
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