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Chris Kendall

@ottocr.at
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Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | personal capacity

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 7h
God yeah, imagine a party captured by its most extreme wing.
Does anybody think it’d be a good idea for a government to be propped up by one of those parties who have single issue policies that really would be potentially very damaging to the UK itself and to our foreign relationships?
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 12h
Very stupid. But the rest of the world is moving on without him. Read the speeches made at last weeks UN General Assembly high level week. The international community wants international rules to rein in AI. It will happen.
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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 12h
"How could there have been 57 people in that group chat" Almost every world of warcraft content creator and partner I admire has an X presence. Your presence condone the sites' goals and sends a message, one Blizzard has heard
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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 12h
The World of Warcraft community remains mostly on Twitter. Very few came over to bsky or threads, wowtwit remains so much where it's at I'm still forced to go there to get screenshots sometimes. So Blizzard do have reason to believe if Forever turns into a Nazi bar most people will still stay anyway
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026
Schuman redevelopment finally done (for now!) so we can all hang out on a lovely vast expanse of paving, just be careful to dodge the bikes and the protesters 🇪🇺
Wide angle view of the newly opened and paved Rond Point Schuman in Brussels, with the Justus Lipsius, Europa, and Berlaymont buildings in the background selfie on RP Schuman with Berlaymont behind me and an expanse of paving strewn with grit and a few animal rights protestors hanging around after their noisy protest earlier
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026
Inspiring stories behind today’s MapTap, people are amazing. www.maptap.gg September 29 100🎯 100🎯 96🔥 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 992
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026
It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)
Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible 
2. Upset the local city council with your existence
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Laura Shields @mediawhizz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol
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Claudia Salowski @claudiasalowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Frühstücksdöner, anyone?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pope Leo, "Today relations between people between and states are becoming increasingly barbaric" "Lies and deceit are boasted about" "Europe can overcome this by coming together"
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Sara Wilcox @sawilcox28.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My definition of "dogging" is not putting maximum effort into something. Absolutely no idea about "fly tipping," though, and I doubt my gut instinct of "inadvertently letting your opponents know what fishing fly you're using in competition" is accurate. 😁
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026
like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026
Any #watch geeks following me on here? Won’t be for everyone but any interest if I share my latest acquisition?
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026
So sick of the way mainstream progressive German opinion conflates criticism of Israeli policy with antisemitism. It’s so lazy and ignorant. I say this as a German with Jewish ancestry.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday
The Official Captain Sir Tom Moore Luxury Spa
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now you’ve got the song in your head too.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 27/09/2026
Tour footage in the Led Zeppelin documentary featuring the very rock & roll junction 4 of the M40 🤘
Frame from the Led Zeppelin rockumentary, footage of the M40 at Junction 4 with cars & lorries dating from the late 60s with a moody Jimmy Page overlay
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 27/09/2026
Better the certainty of decline than the possibility of prosperity? 🤔
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic' for ancient peoples. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.
The bear was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach and /or other contextual information.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 27/09/2026
I’ve literally only just noticed that we’ve still got some Christmas decorations up, and also last year’s halloween decoration.
A fireplace. On the mantelpiece is a christmas tree decoration, a Santa gnome thing, and two angel candle thingies. On the hearth is a Rudolf model. Also on the mantelpiece is a halloween thing with ghosts and pumpkins. This photo was taken by me on 27 September.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 27/09/2026
A frame from the Zenith strip in 2000AD
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Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rachel Dracht as Debbie Downer on SNL saying “That’s AI”
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 27/09/2026
When are we going to accept that all sorts of people knit, it’s not just for grannies
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Frode #Fella @frodehommedal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
– And yet here we are: Ukraine's Holodomor Museum, dedicated to preserving the memory of millions of Ukrainians starved to death by Joseph Stalin from 1932-1933, is sounding the alarm about another man-made famine, this one taking place in 2026. And yet, here we are…
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Editorial: The world must force Russia to end mass starvation in occupied Oleshky
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The town of Oleshky and its surrounding district in t...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Given the levels of sabotage across Europe, and the Delta alert here over US bases, the MOD’s refusal to respond to our queries on this look more concerning Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/08/k...
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Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire
The Ministry of Defence has refused to clarify whether the catastrophic mid-air failure of the Trident relay system was a weather accident or sabotage
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Visiting my racist aunt in her sheltered housing, met a geezer in the foyer with a load of Reform leaflets. I pretended to be a Reform man and offered to help deliver them, so he gave me almost 200. I threw them all into a skip
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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boothrat @boothrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After WW2 Ezra Jurmann (1930-2014) worked as a conference interpreter in London. He never lost his interest in watch repairing. Imperial War Museum interview. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Interview with Ezra Jurmann
German Jewish schoolchild in Pirna and Dresden, Germany, 1933-1942; inmate in Riga Ghetto, Latvia, 1/1942-10/1943; inmate in Strasdenhof Subcamp, Kaiserwald Concentration Camp, Riga, Latvia, 10/1943-9...
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
We have a pigeon problem. And I’m reseeding my lawn with a clover mix. So I bought and installed a bird scarer. With predictable results. 🙄
A kite that looks like a bird of prey. In the distance, a single pigeon perches on the ridge of a house roof. Lurking. With intent.A scarified, raked, and reseeded lawn. A bird scarer. And, on the fence next to it, three fucking pigeons.The scary bird of prey kite. Ooh, menacing. Behind it, three pigeons who dgaf.Two pigeons blithely eating my freshly sown lawn seed.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
I’ve fallen down a Youtube rabbit hole watching repairs and restorations of damaged mechanical watches, it’s like crack. It’s the Repair Shop without the emotional manipulation.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
Market Harboroughication
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's no hypocrisy quite like its "christian" variant
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
8yo: “You know that German dude? His theories were wrong.” Hegel? Planck? Heidegger? Kant? Habermas? Leibniz? Humboldt? No, Hitler, but we’re on track.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
“so long as it reforms”
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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@support.blizzard.com Asmongold tagging you while he boasts about breaking your TOS. You cannot pretend not to see this. Take action.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔
walnut
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
We would all be exclusively on Mastodon if they had just let us quote post.
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The safeguarding lead at Ellis' nursery once came out at pickup to talk to me. "Ellis has been talking about Colin. He says he shouts loudly, threatens to kill people, and he and Ellis play with guns in the garden." I explained Colin was a Dalek. There was a pause. "Is he a real Dalek?" #DoctorWho
Ellis and Colin the Dalek in the garden playing with Nerf guns.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
I was one of a dozen students on a vacation internship at a Magic Circle law firm during the 80s, we were treated to lunch in the partners’ dining room on our last day, only those who refused a sauce for our steaks were subsequently offered articles.
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, we mostly added each other to starter packs, which was the style at the time.
Grandpa simpson from the i tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time skit
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026
8yo got in trouble with school for googling something he oughtn’t during comp sci (don’t worry it was very mild) and when I asked him about it he claimed with an absolutely straight face that he’d been hacked, so I predict a bright future for him in politics
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/09/2026
we chased jack off his own damn website
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Eat This Podcast @etp.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I just listened to Avery Trufelman’s podcast Lace and Labor.[1] What a banger. An absolutely thrilling episode for all sorts of reasons. Naturally, I had thoughts.[2] [1] overcast.fm/+AARIdT6k-yg [2] jeremycherfas.net/blog/knitting-cro… #crochet #podcasts #history
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Lace and Labor — Articles of Interest — Overcast
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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#84: Chard
A screengrab of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads "I'm an avid fan of chard - but you can have too much of a good thing"

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We had been four weeks in the Downlands, myself and Brom. Four weeks on foot through valleys and dales, cross meandering streams and fast-running rivers; four weeks living off the few small creatures that Brom managed to catch - barely enough to keep a dog alive, let alone a dog and man. Thankfully, we had encountered no further Remnants, but we had seen no other Living either and I had begun to think that we two might be the last left alive in this region.
Finally, at the point where hunger had begun to feel like an ever-present companion for us both, we came across a small cottage by a wood. Deserted, near derelict inside, it held little prospect as a camp until I pushed aside the cracked back door and found myself looking at a wondrously overgrown vegetable garden. Chard leaves, almost reaching to my own height, filled the wide beds, and I, desperate for something other than toasted squirrel meat - and simultaneously heedless of the suspicious twitchings of Brom’s wet nose - grabbed handfuls of the stuff and began eating.
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The taste was glorious - earthy, full, with a tinge of bitterness - everything my deprived body had craved. And the supply appeared boundless. Despite Brom’s clear reservations, I decided to make the cottage our temporary home.
The years of wandering through The Scorched Country and The Flesheries - all that Brom and I had seen, and fled from and fought - should have given me more pause, I know that now, especially considering what horrors we had encountered, all spawned from The Great Blast. But the taste - ah, the taste of those leaves was so beguiling, so moreish…
Over the course of a week, during which I ate only the leaves - with poor Brom left to scavenge for whatever small prey he could find in our vicinity - I found myself becoming increasingly torpid and indolent. My skin took on a glistening appearance, as though sticky wet. At the same time I found my limbs growing weak, almost seeming to recede back into my body. I began to wonder who had made this garden, and where they were now?
Then one night the answer came. Crawling out into the garden almost on my belly, desperate for another leaf or two, I spied through the thick stems, a pair of stalked eyes staring back at me. Parting the stems with my wizened hand I saw him - what once had been a man, now something other; a creature resembling some kind of slug-human hybrid. His lipless, wet mouth opened in soundless greeting. I went to reply and found my own voice vanished.
Then teeth grabbed my trousers and I felt myself getting pulled away, back through the house, out through the front door, back through fields away from the cottage - away to safety.
With a weak hand I scritched Brom’s head. My saviour. My friend.
“Good boy,” I said, my voice now returning, “Good, good boy.”
Brom’s eyes spoke of love. And not a little reproach.
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