Rachel Downes

Also thank you to the Instagram outage for reminding me that there are other social media platforms I can use to bore people with my running talk 🙃

Ran the @LondonMarathon yesterday (my first), having raised money for the @mssocietyuk. Such an incredible experience - I can’t wait to do it all again

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This brutality in response to a peaceful vigil is so completely shocking. It didn’t have to be this way. @pritipatel needs to answer for it in Parliament on Monday #ReclaimTheseStreets #ReclaimTheNight #EnoughIsEnough

Men celebrating a football win vs women peacefully holding a vigil for a woman who has been murdered, where a police officer is the prime suspect.

How was my Valentine’s Day? Well, despite lockdown, I actually managed to line up two dates

Ran my second half marathon of the year yesterday. of ever in fact. Thought I hated running before lockdown, now couldn't be without it. Feeling grateful for that one aspect of the pandemic

@htormey @chrstnerode ^ this, please Christine. then you can walk it the 8 minutes to my place and we can all have a lovely time 🐶

Dec 2019 vs Dec 2020 is the modt depressing thing wow i used to live an active lifestyle??

@chrstnerode My Samsung Frame does that. It feels quite aggressive, like someone's raising their voice at me to make a point to stop talking over them. Forever being told off by my TV for making noise.

feature request: i want my HomePod to automatically detect when i'm running the kettle and temporarily adjust the volume accordingly i'm sick of missing a minute of my podcast every time i make coffee :(

📈 Lookups for 'schadenfreude' have spiked 30,500% merriam-webster.com/news-trend-wat…

@ElSatanico @Adam_Karpiak These are both awesome! 😍

@Adam_Karpiak It’s a lamp I made from an old book and a two-headed taxidermy duck... my definition of treasure isn’t the same as my wife’s 😂

Unpacking storage after four years... it’s like, at least, seven Christmases and three birthdays all at once...

Hey @PritiPatel we think the real crisis is our lack of humanity for people fleeing war, climate change and torture. We pulled together a thread for you..

Rest in power to all the people that lost their lives and #Grenfell three years ago and love to all the bereaved and survivors. 👊🏾

White people please watch. This is trauma that Indigenous, Black & other People of Colour face from our experiences w police. I still fear police from when they burst into my home, pushed me to ground, threatened me. My "crime": entering my own home at night w my child in my arms

Stop saying British racism is invisible. Did you not see Grenfell burn? Don't you know victims still haven't been rehoused? Did you not see families crying on TV about Windrush deportations? Have you not seen the reports about institutional racism in policing, in stop and search?

we still need justice for sandra bland. we still need justice for breonna taylor. we still need justice for deborah danner. we still need justice for pamela turner. we still need justice for korryn gaines.

What’s the need for a UK #BlackLivesMatter movement? There isn’t any racism, institutional bias or oppression in the UK? Just bandwagonning? An excuse to make noise and go outdoors? A thread. #BlackLivesMatterUK