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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 9h

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 7h

He was also an actual Nazi and an actual opportunist

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 15h

Hello darkness my old friend

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 16h

Applying the usual conversion rates*, that equates to 11,85 Belgians (Flemmings, they are a bit taller) *assuming the flamingo is a tall, male phoenicopterus roseus

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 17h

I think I understand. There were a lot of aspects of Australian life we enjoyed, same is true about ZA Jo'burg, but we didn't want to permanently live in either place.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 17h

One caveat: it's been 10 years since we left Sydney. My views were a) only based on a few months of exposure and b) are 10 years old!

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 18h

Yep, understand. Had a similar feeling in Melbourne, very samey. Sydney felt different, more variety and more non-white Aussies, we were happier there.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 18h

Why did you hate it? We didn't want to cope with the massive & open levels of racism (half Chinese family).

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are also desperate for rain here, have had significantly less rain than in a "normal" year in west-central Europe. Our major rivers (especially the Rhine) are way too low. Read news about Lake Constance yesterday, also unseasonably low.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You have a beautiful sky over London/Essex! I never had opportunity to complain about too little rain when I lived in LDN a lifetime ago ;-)

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Normal morning in Durham: you look up from breakfast, see a mostly sunny sky, dress accordingly. Leave the house 5 minutes later walking into a torrential downpour of cold rain. (also available the other way round)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

CRANE, a UK cybersecurity research network, used AI to desk-reject 50% of proposals before human review, including one on the risks of trusting AI models in voice analysis from Lancaster University forensic linguist Claire Hardaker. This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃

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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Welp…

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 05/10/2026

a short but satisfying read on this enormous own goal

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Jan Philipp Albrecht @janalbrecht.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is important that the German Greens directly reject the UK Green Party’s resolution titled "Zionism is Racism" and welcome the suspension of its voting rights within the European Green Party. It‘s urgently necessary for the @europeangreens.eu to distance itself from the UK Green Party’s position.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026

You can easily oppose the barbaric war crimes of the current Israeli government without backing this racist motion, which also takes away agency and the right of self-determination from everyone in the region, regardless of faith and background.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still slightly ironic that the Pope of all people might rally the troops for the Butlerian Jihad.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the funny side effects: a large percentage of Germans are in the Netherlands or Belgium today, since shops are open!

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's a very convenient location, easy access to D'dorf if you are brave enough for the A52 in the morning. Maastricht is nice! I'm hoping my son will attend the uni one day.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My area is called grensland / Grenzland: NL, Germany and Belgium all coming together

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or simply come and shop in Venlo or Roermond ;-)

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Richtig, Excel hatte ich verdrängt. Was auch bei keinem Kunden fehlen darf: ein freier Mitarbeiter, männlich >50, meist bärtig seit 30 Jahren da betreut eine undokumentierte Access DB die Access DB ist lebenswichtig blackmailed den Kunden, weil ohne seine DB ein wichtiger Prozess kaputt geht...

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ich kann Deinen Schmerz nachempfinden, mein Kunde gerade ist öffentlicher Dienst in NRW. Deren "Anforderungsdokumentation" löst bei mir regelmässig Blutdruck Krisen aus ;-)

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Der größte Heuler war für mich eine deutsche Versicherung. Ich hatte mein Boot für eine Weile über eine deutsche Firma versichert. Man musste online ein PDF ausfüllen (falsch formatiert, z.B. das IBAN Feld hatte die falsche Länge). Dann musst man das ausdrucken und als Snail Mail schicken!

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ALT: Bartlett West

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mein PTSD kommt hoch, Flashback zu einer Bank Kunde in Frankfurt.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ich bin seit 2003 in der Beratung zu Daten / Data Analytics. Anfangs in UK und ZA, später in NL, Belgie und viel in Deutschland. UK, NL, Belgie und ZA sind oft Cowboys, tendenziell gerne zu clever und ambitioniert. Deutschland ist bestenfalls Entwicklungsland mit einer fatalen Liebe zu SAP.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Testosterone testing on top" sounds like an alliteration from a particularly gay Gilbert & Sullivan aria. Which would be nice, in circumstances other than these

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is only the one nearly almighty Lord we should all bow to: Stockfish 19

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can someone who didn't grow up with vegemite like the stuff?

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's Olympic gold medal level idioting.

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately the book had to be pulped because of tye typo

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Jan van de Rieth @jvdrieth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can be either yeast or sourdough, often very crusty. A lot of the "farmer's breads" (Bauernbrot) in this region will be Graubrot / grijs brood

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