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Tracey Williams Allred

@traceya.bsky.social
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Public sector digital/strategy consultant. UK based, though frequent visitor to Ankh Morpork. Mother of two small humans, servant to one large cat.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Pearl With The Girl Earring
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The bride just came round with spare wedding flowers to apologise for the noise! Obviously she had no need to apologise given we opened the windows to hear it more clearly 😁
Photo of a huge vase of white wedding flowers
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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think this is the best shot of a Mourning Warbler that I've ever managed, taken in May during spring migration. #birds #birding
A closeup photo of a mourning warbler  perched on a bare branch, with blurred out green as the backdrop. He is in profile view, but has turned his head to look over his shoulder to the left. He has pink legs and feet, a lemon yellow belly, olive greenish-gray back, black bib, and gray hood. A gorgeous bird striking a beautiful pose!
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As an urban geographer and map enthusiast I love this one. The origins of the word "city" in European languages. Source: buff.ly/3gWpVVT
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Currently visiting Portugal and our apartment is opposite a wedding venue. I'm pleased to report that wedding bands are the same everywhere - just finished a Michael Jackson medley and launched straight into Jamiroquai. Now onto Play That Funky Music. Surely it's time for Dexy's Midnight Runners?
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Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Music Video
Alt: Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Music Video
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Had to pay my car insurance provider to cancel my policy after I sold my car 🙄 I was due a refund of £20 for the month of unused coverage, but their cancellation fee is £50 so I had to pay them £30 for the privilege of not being insured. How is this allowed? Shouldn't it taper / cancel out?
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 01/09/2026
The long lost lyrics to the Ski Sunday theme
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An incredible recipe for all the wrong reasons. I feel like I have to try it, even though it would surely be terrible?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NO. Not Tim Curry. Not the Grand Wizard. What a terrible week.
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Tim Curry Worst Witch
Alt: Tim Curry as The Grand Wizard singing his Halloween song in The Worst Witch. State of the art green screen graphics behind him. White cape. Bat bow tie. He looks tremendous.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s really important that independent organisations can hold Government to account. I’m on the Board of @nao.org.uk which does this and we are looking for two new Board members. Could you help spread the word so we can get the best possible field of candidates roles.saxbam.com/advert-detai...
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National Audit Office
National Audit
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tompoy.bsky.social @tompoy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Abbey Road reference made me recall a time when someone, I think it was you, tried to work out how many people had gone to the DLR station when they meant to go to the recording studio and used an FOI to find out how many journeys there had been from Abbey Road to Maida Vale tube.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sorry, I am probably more interested in this than is strictly normal, but seeing as though we *have* gov.uk it seems weird it's not used more routinely for information security - that there's not a verifiable chain from the SMS or app alert back to a single authority page on the government Web site
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Does it include all the RDJ episodes of Ally McBeal? I hope so
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Who at Radio 1 was quick enough to load this song up right now?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Cripes it made me jump
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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The polio vaccine, once given on a sugar cube in the UK, has helped protect millions from a life changing disease. Thanks to the NHS vaccination programme, polio is now extremely rare in the UK. Vaccination works. ✅
Black-and-white graphic featuring a historic photograph of a child watching the polio vaccine being added to a sugar cube on a spoon. Large white text over the image reads, “Do you remember polio?”
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you’re one of the thousands who did sneak a peek at the eclipse without any safety measures and you’re now experiencing changes in your vision, please go get your eyes checked with an optometrist (optician).
A screenshot of Google's most searched terms relating to eye health after the eclipse.
"Top queries, United Kingdom, past month.
1.  Solar eclipse hurt eyes.
2. Solar eclipse eyes hurt.
3. Solar eclipse.
4. Eyes hurt solar eclipse."
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🤞🏼Please be real please please please🤞🏼
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Went to view the eclipse at a quiet spot in the Peak District, but half of Derbyshire had the same plan 😬 Took this photo of the roads jammed with cars. Nice atmosphere though - mostly families with pinhole projectors/eclipse glasses but a few ambitious people hiked up with telescopes!
Photo looking out over the Peak District national park showing a road lined with multiple cars on either side
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 10/08/2026
I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand.
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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My daughter has finished her first year of her PhD at Cambridge. Her end of year report (not public) is fascinating. She's a health data science researcher. What I'm seeing, as someone who knows data at government level is that the NHS data she needs doesn't exist. And it's weird.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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Nathan needs to put down the phone @feralharp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
At last, an excuse to post this.
A daddy (labeled PEOPLE WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT WHICH OBJECTS ARE INCLUDED AS PLANETS) playing in the pool with his little girl (labeled PLUTO), ignoring a little boy barely keeping his head above water (labeled ERIS). In the depths below, a forgotten skeleton sits in a chair (labeled CERES)
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 30/07/2026
I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I ordered a tub of falafels in the online shop and this was all I received. A tantalising glimpse of what could have been mine. To whoever has ended up with my falafels: they go off on 27th x
Clear plastic lid of a falafel container, minus falafels
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Who keeps buying these lights? And WHY? Why must I sit in your living room and be subjected to a blinding spotlight shining directly at me? And so many of them pointing in every direction, I can't escape! The Big Light in any room is bad enough without feeling like I'm being interrogated
A ceiling light consisting of a horizontal pole attached to which is a series of blindingly bright spotlights shining in every direction
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Cats truly are the physical manifestation of Pathological Demand Avoidance
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 20/07/2026
David and Ed Miliband: the first brothers to have held the post of foreign secretary since the Wellesleys Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was foreign secretary from 1809 to 1812 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was foreign secretary from 1834 to 1835
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'm staying in a hotel with the kids tonight which means I've introduced them to the concept of terrestrial TV where you just have to watch whatever someone else has scheduled. For the past 4 hours it's been wall-to-wall quiz shows, since when has TV been like this?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I guess it does
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So if Healey is Chancellor does that mean Mahmood stays as Home Sec and Ed Miliband is Foreign Sec?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congratulations Spain, an extremely well-deserved win. And Mbappe is the first player to win the golden boot twice. These are the right results.
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
¡VAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two minutes Spain. Two minutes to do what you've done for the entire tournament, smother the game
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Imagine if you'd been one of the rich celebrities who had the choice of which game to go to this weekend, and you picked the dull one that didn't feature ten goals?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Is there somewhere I can livestream Count Von Count and Miss Piggy's commentary on the second half?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm just switching on the game, how many yellow cards have they not given so far? #ESPARG
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'm trying to improve my language skills by watching social media videos in French and Spanish. What I have learnt so far is that the entire world *despises* the Argentina football team.
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New Studio Ghibli character revealed:
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Resources and help for anyone, and it will be mostly women, affected by the increased risk of domestic abuse associated with football www.nhs.uk/live-well/ge...
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Getting help for domestic violence and abuse
Find out about the signs of domestic violence and abuse, and where to get help. Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, and anyone can be an abuser.
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nigella is right
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My optimistic eldest child: "Hey we might still come third" No, kiddo. No we won't.
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Viva España
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Maybe we should try and attack a little bit?
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Disaster
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mick Jagger is not happy
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Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yep
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 15/07/2026
QUEEN OF ALL OUR HEARTS ANTHONY GORDON
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