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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 · 28/09/2026

The branding & marketing makes a great deal of coming from Glashütte and indeed they can’t use the branding unless over 50% of the value is made in Glashütte itself, but really it’s a bit of a con in that regard as they use a stock movement sourced from Swiss company Sellita. (Which is fine.)

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

I mean look at it - it’s gorgeous

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

It feels a terrible indulgence given the state of everything (because let’s face it, it is) but I have treated myself to my first mechanical watch since I was a child and since the invention of the quartz movement and digital watches.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

auch leider typisch für meinen Wohnort / meine Heimat 🙄 #FotoVorschlag

On a mini roundabout someone has spray painted an England flag (a practice pursued by the far right group ‘Raise the Flag’, encouraged by mainstream politicians). In the background, behind a sea of tarmac, two ugly cars are parked in front of a row of shops, including a fish & chip shop and a tanning salon. A pair of bare legs can be seen. A road sign points to neighbouring communities.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

'Typisch für meinen Wohnort / meine Heimat' #FotoVorschlag Chiltern Hills, Thames Valley

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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

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

‘See oder Teich’ #FotoVorschlag Lake Ontario, Canada View of the Toronto skyline from Niagara

Most of the photo is blue sky with a few white clouds. The bottom tenth shows a sea green expanse of water with choppy waves. At the distant horizon is a city skyline with skyscrapers, their base is just behind the curve of the earth.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 26/09/2026

M*therf*ckers just taking the piss now, they’re making out right in front of me 🤬

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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

“so long as it reforms”

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 24/09/2026

As a cross-channel commuter, since Brexit I will often order things for delivery to my EU address to save on exorbitant duties. But I have to say we need to get our shit together in the Single Market on deliveries. On the UK side, fast delivery & info overload. EU side, snail’s pace & silence.

screenshot of my mail app showing messages about a delivery of some seeds I ordered a couple of days ago; I’ve been getting constant updates since I clicked “buy”

screenshot of the DHL tracking website showing one update on Monday night and another on Tuesday morning with nothing since (two days later)

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 23/09/2026

Haha yes I’m a massive snob about cappuccino, won’t touch the filth, although I’ll happily enjoy the atrocity they sometimes call cappuccino in southeast asia ie a pouch of instant coffee with creamer and sugar (the one in this photo is called espresso which it also isn’t)

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 23/09/2026

For some people, the process is the point. For others, the process is just a means to an end. You do you Tom Daley. SMH

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 22/09/2026

European men now so desperately overlooked by the literary establishment

Wikipedia table of nobel laureates in literature by country

Wikipedia table of nobel laureates in literature by gender

Wikipedia table of nobel laureates in literature by language

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 22/09/2026

Care to hazard a guess as to who might be the target of this shade we’re throwing?

The HQ of the EU’s foreign service (the EEAS), on the wall at the entrance are two big banners, one reads “Reliable.” The other reads “And that’s the whole point.”

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 22/09/2026

it’s closer to murder

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 19/09/2026

Sorting through old files, found this, I think this is pretty good

Venn diagram showing Widows, in one circle Veuve Clicquot, in the other circle Widow Twankey, in the intersection Witwe Bolte

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 18/09/2026

The best part of half a century of accumulated dishwasher fu, exploded. How am I going to mansplain this away?? It’s over 😭

Screenshot of a messages thread. A photo of two warped plastic trays. Underneath it, a speech bubble says “You weren't supposed to put these in the dishwasher”

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 17/09/2026

This year’s Christmas jumper has arrived already

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 15/09/2026

Did see one “and yet I see you’re not writing this from the ‘I was hit by a bicycle’ wing of the hospital”

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 12/09/2026

Gosh yes that would be something

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 12/09/2026

I mean it’s hard to miss

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 12/09/2026

btw you can’t see it in the Bluesky app but this was a great example of a post where I made a typo and quickly corrected it with Mu’s edit function

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 10/09/2026

The war between Kosovo and Serbia that ended in 1999? When Bill Clinton was President? 17 years before Trump’s first term? That war?

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 10/09/2026

Have you… have you ever actually met a man??

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 10/09/2026

QP with your home river. Kenneth Grahame grew up on this stretch of the Thames which inspired The Wind in the Willows.

A small sailing boat sails upstream on a wide river, on the further bank are wooded hills, on the near bank is a towpath and reeds, there is a tree casting shade. It all looks bloody lovely really and it is in fact bloody lovely.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 09/09/2026

They do say imitation is the greatest form of flattery

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 09/09/2026

The fictionalised Coniston in the frontispiece of the Cape hardback of Swallows & Amazons also captured my imagination

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 09/09/2026

Wainwright’s hand drawn maps? There is something special about them that make the reader want to walk his routes.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 09/09/2026

Post you from a different era in your life

Standing in the back of a truck driving into the Atlas Mountains

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 08/09/2026

We seriously doing this again?

Bluesky’s 2,872nd most influential poster typing into a Commodore PET in circa 1982

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/09/2026

Going to throw in my €0.02 here and say that there is lots of room for both approaches. As an adult enthusiast I love meticulously following the instructions and building vast £500 sets for which I have no space; but I see my son start on a set and then start riffing and getting v creative.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/09/2026

I would like to thank my mum for creating three accounts

Screenshot of my entry under the ‘most influential bluesky posters’ in which I received three actual votes and rank 2872nd

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 05/09/2026

Our grandparents knew how to deal with fascist thugs on our streets

Red wall plaque reads:

Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS"

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 05/09/2026

Do you think they make Folkestone Services on the M20 extra depressing to make arrivals want to turn right around and go back? Cos it’s working

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 04/09/2026

This response is depressingly predictable and kind of understandable and yet utterly wrong, not only is it not true, it also drives people into the arms of the populist shits who prompted the sentiment in the first place because of their corruption. No. Not all politicians are the same.

Bluesky post, poster hidden: “Fuck the government! At this point they are ALL CROOKS! Not one has declined taking our money and getting rich while most of us suffer! They make us all fight each other leaving sound bites to pretend to care. Down with big brother!!!!”

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 04/09/2026

Congratulations citizens of upstate New York, your use of English is closest to the correct usage.

I took the US dialect quiz as a British person from southern england and this heat map shows which parts of the US I am most and least similar to

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