iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Yeah. Crazy stuff, this is the VW dealership across Belgium, obviously had too much money to know what to do with and decided to diversify! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moleskine

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Moleskine - Wikipedia

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 4h

Ugh. Rhodia/Clairefontaine all the way

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 4h

I learned recently that this absurdly overpriced and overrated brand is owned by my Belgian car dealership

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 5h

I’m going to update this, now I’ve watched more from him Joe is without a doubt my favourite

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 12h

Well, yeah. Counterpoint: if you try to intercept a projectile at the moment it’s thrown to throw it back, you’ll get hurt. Better to wait for its kinetic energy to be spent before yoinking it back.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 14h

It’s hard to see how they can recapture the spirit of vanilla WoW without also recreating the support environment we had in vanilla WoW, where a support ticket would lead to actual in game interactions with a GM.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 14h

Watch for example the speech given by Singapore’s Foreign Minister who is by the way a big user and advocate of AI gadebate.un.org/en/81/singap...

gadebate.un.org

Singapore | 81st session

His Excellency Vivian Balakrishnan spoke at the General Debate of the 81st session

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 14h

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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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 14h

Sadly you’re right. And we’ll once again have to decide whether we can hold our noses and keep subscribing. The list of products I can no longer support is so long I can’t keep track of them any more.

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 15h

"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 · 15h

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

You said O level wrong

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

fair point on the Y NO TREE comments

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Yeah it’s true a lot of people haven’t been paying attention though it’s hard to blame them

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

But here is one of @goodclimate.bsky.social’s many excellent posts about the whole snafu mu.social/profile/good...

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

and this mu.social/profile/otto...

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

I’ll dig out a thread there was about it before the summer (I think it was @goodclimate.bsky.social who made it), in the meantime have this from 2023 mu.social/profile/otto...

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

I hadn’t noticed any surprise or lack of awareness but no doubt that exists - mostly it’s eye rolling resignation- I used to get excited about this stuff when I first arrived - anyone remember the Delors skyscraper and the plan to pedestrianise Belliard?? But stopped paying attention years ago

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Ordered mine as soon as I saw your link!

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Oh believe me we’ve been watching the catastrophe unfold from our office windows for literally decades.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Oh man, the Brussels bubble has been ranting about Brussels urbanism failures since well before I arrived here in 1995.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

There is some minimal planting in planters, they can’t put in trees because of all the underground infrastructure however some urban furniture would have been nice and indeed was planned but they ran out of money

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

it’s 30° today - ask me again at 40°!

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

It is a bit Tiananmen Squarey, but I wouldn’t drive a tank over it, it would probably end up on top of the metro to Herman Debroux

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

No trees because underground infrastructure, and they ran out of money for the gazebo thing

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

No trees because of underground infrastructure, there was to have been a structure with a roof but they ran out of money.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

That’s still there, just shifted temporarily a few metres along

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Well they missed their chance to be first on the spot, the animal rights activists were there on day 1, well done guys, about 40 of them yelling SHAME ON YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO at the Berlaymont, bless them

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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

Round 4: I don’t know, but I know it’s a fairly big city and I know it’s in the north of the country. So I look for a big urban settlement north of the green area. Boom. Round 5: dunno, but I know the state is north of a place I do know, & I know the city is big, so. Boom.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Rounds 1 & 2: I knew Round 3: no idea, but I know the capital. I also know the country extends south and east of the capital, and if you don’t know you’re generally safest guessing somewhere near the capital as most of the population is going to be near the capital. Got it wrong, but not too wrong.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

Firstly, I love this game so I pay for it, and that gives me access to high def maps with much more zoom. This is essential if you want to score 100s. Also, activate long taps to reduce risk of accidental tappage.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/09/2026

I’ve noticed that I tend to score quite high, so I’m going to share my methods because today is a great case study, given that three of these were guesswork.

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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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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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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

Omg that’s such a great idea 💡

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

As I settle into it I suspect I will find a rhythm where sometimes I’ll wear one device, sometimes the other, sometimes neither. Interested to hear from anyone else who has made the same change.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

I stopped wearing a watch in my late teens and only started again when I got an Apple Watch a few years ago. Switching to a simple watch has been interesting, I definitely miss a few things: Apple Pay on my wrist; quickly checking the weather; seeing notifications without having to look at my phone.

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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

I’ve gone for the lower end of the market, and this will not be the first of many (no, really), it’s going to be a one watch collection. I really fell for the designs of a new(ish) company that has set up shop in Germany’s watch-making capital, Glashütte. dug-glashuette.com

dug-glashuette.com

DUG Deutsche Uhrenmanufaktur Glashütte

Entdecken Sie exklusive, mechanische Uhren aus Glashütte. Premium-Qualität, direkt vom Hersteller. Zeitlose Eleganz, Made in Germany. Jetzt mehr erfahren!

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

Actually it’s US big tech to blame as I started watching watch repairers on Youtube and found myself irresistibly drawn to procuring my own tiny incredibly engineered machine powered by my own movements. bsky.app/profile/otto...

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 28/09/2026

I have justified this as an investment in analogue European technology, an act of resistance against big tech, and a bit of canny prepping against the end of the world, but let’s face it this is the predictably self-serving act of a middle aged man with a bit too much disposable income.

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