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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 56m

Let me tell you about a small incident that happened in this Rhodes hotel last night, that should have been nothing but literally kept me awake because of our rape culture and all the things in this story.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 20h

Like others in the quote skeets, I stopped going to BM exhibitions a couple of years ago after some unpleasantly overcrowded ones. Looks like they're not only still on that bullshit but have managed to turbocharge it.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's been ~30 years since I was on holiday in a 'tourist resort' and among the many ways the locals have thought about how to make northern Europeans feel at home, the people of Rhodes clearly looked at each other and said, as one, "Coldplay".

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So THAT'S what those 5 guys were doing at Fairford

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Behold, the world's smallest cow

A silly photo messing with perspective. A hilly grassy field with 4 cows, three quite far away, one a little closer. The person who took the photo is next to the fence, and the closest cow appears to be standing on top of a fence post.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Guardian article is headlined 'Fairford bomb plot', no quote marks. But the penultimate paragraph says "After the suspects’ release it emerged that no explosive material had been found.". Someone have a word with the subs?

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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot

The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I work with a lot of Americans and am very grateful to be on holiday this week.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got a chocolate koulhouri and vanilla/chocolate milkshake in a cafe. Owner just brought out a glass of iced water ("so you can have a break from the chocolate") and damn, she was right, it was all getting a bit much.

Two plastic cups, one with iced water and another with the remnants of milkshake.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think Rhodes is going to break my heart. This little man was so happy with head scritches he dribbled, and he meeped every time I stopped.

A ginger cat with a tipped ear on a wall higher than the photographer

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Greece is still ignoring EES isn't it? All the machines at Rhodes are turned off and immigration is being done manually. I've been queuing for 30 minutes and look to be only halfway through. This is apparently... the better option.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stolpersteine are fantastic - difficult to miss, always make me stop and wonder about those named. And that's the problem for these far-right fuckers isn't it? Don't want constant reminders that the Nazi's victims were people.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It acts like it can keep to a strict character count but it can't. (And yes, I know why it can't.)

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hahaha, absolutely the fuck not Instagram

Screenshot of Instagram T&Cs with a section called "Allow your reels and posts to be featured with products" toggled ON

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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All this Danny Thommo stuff makes me think of a family tradition we do every Boxing Day, and no its not all going stabbing lifeboats and intimidating lifeguards! Sorry longish thread as its a great story of actual heroes that should make us all feel patriotic.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is such a deliciously cynical take on 'why AI companies have suddenly decided to tell us all they're dangerous' and I bloody love it

offkilter.substack.com

Off Kilter 235: Danger Will Robinson, Danger.

tl;dr: Why tell everyone your product is dangerous? Framing. That’s why.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People are talking about The Muppets again. Please read this thread. Then get someone at Disney to commission me to write this. I promise it will be incredible.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OK, this situation again except with 3 women in the four-seats. This time asked the person on the aisle if she could get up instead of making me clamber over her. She moved her knees to the side. I should have accidentally hit her in the face with my laptop bag.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There's surely a circle of hell reserved for men who sit on the outer seat of a group of four train seats, leaving just one window seat free, because idk they don't want to touch the knees of another man?

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Saturday 30 August 1997 I worked the late shift at our local cinema. Clocked out at 1am, got home, ate a sandwich in front of the TV which, in 1997, basically meant Sky News. Saw the breaking news of the car crash.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I take great delight in asking these people (including those sitting on the aisle, trying to claim the double seat), with all the innocence I can muster, if I can sit there. MWHAHAHA motherfuckers.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 30/08/2026

Trying to make local journalism works as a business is hard. That's why I'm proud to announce that London Centric is diversifying into the capital's ice cream trade. www.londoncentric.media/p/ice-cream-...

londoncentric.media

Intimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream wars

London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm in the UK so Google Maps has 'Lake America' as just a suggestion (get to fuck)

Screenshot of Lake Ontario in Google Maps. The lake is properly labelled but the info panel says 'Lake Ontario (Lake America)'

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the view from my childhood bedroom!!

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today's LinkedIn suggestions for people I might know included the CEO and CFO of my current company and a male Year 13 pupil at a school possibly in Kent. I think LinkedIn is trying to get me jailed.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What follows are extremely visceral videos from what is assumed to be a border crossing in Nepal. Everyone shown in them is probably now dead. The DEC will likely launch an appeal soon: www.dec.org.uk

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The convicted Bosnian Serb genocidaire Ratko Mladic has died in a prison cell. He has died in a prison cell, while despite all of his murderous efforts little Bosniak girls and little Bosniak boys are again being born all across Bosnia and Herzegovina. You lost, Ratko.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is a guy on the train chewing gum with his mouth open. It's noisy and wet. I can kill him, right?

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We're speedrunning the early 2000s, when the top of Google was filled by spam and scams, again.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Have decided on a new wheeze for where to go on European (ie non-Japan) holidays. I feel like I've been everywhere I had a hankering to see, so I needed a scheme: the six microstates. By happenstance I went to Luxembourg last year and went to the Vatican in spring. So.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.

Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

ALSO the RAH has reworked its ground floors toilets so the men had to queue. Everyone waiting for the ladies' was quietly fist pumping. (It looked like they've taken space from the gents and built more women's stalls.)

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Went to the Proms this morning. It's on BBC4 already (started 8pm) and this wasn't called out in the programme but the horn soloist, Felix Klieser, was born without arms. He plays the horn with his feet. Go to iPlayer immediately and watch this incredible man play in a beautiful concerto.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have some Goats.😍

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've thought about it but it's too soon after Parkin, I just can't. Anyone else got a cat-shaped hole in their lives?

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This might be a topic for a blog post because I'm struggling to articulate a few things briefly, but the goal of efficiency should be to make time for inefficiency—for creativity, for thought, for activities that recharge you—and not efficiency for the sake of efficiency.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On the last bus was a woman playing free jazz from her phone. On this bus is a GEEZER talking so fast (am guessing coke, as a little Friday treat) that I can't tell what he's saying. Burn society to the ground.

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How the hell is 'wealthy private family moves country' the top story on the 1pm news

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London is fine @londonisfine.co.uk · 08/08/2026

Hi! Do you live in London? Or have you spent time there? Would you like to help with some research on how we can counter the daft lies that circulate about our city online? I’d be really interested in your answers to two questions at www.londonisfine.co.uk

londonisfine.co.uk

London is fine – …meaning just okay or sunny or refined or FINE

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So nice that people are explaining the concept of clickbait to me but my point here is that fewer and fewer people are actually clicking. That model is failing and there's more money in subs (quality) than ads (quantity). www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This could only be said by someone who doesn't have to work for a living.

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