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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · Nov 18

In case any recent arrivals are wondering what happened to my long-standing Twitter avatar, here’s why I changed it.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 6h

I see it’s still not possible to pay for a photo book made in Apple Photos with Apple Pay 🙄

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10h

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 19h

Look at his profile. We’ve fallen for a pop up troll. Listed and blocked.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 19h

Listening to a radio story about a Belgian trade mission to the US which is buying US defence materiel and securing a big investment by Amazon in Belgium “which will support Belgian small business” - genuinely not sure which is the more strategically short-sighted.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

The thing that’s absurd is trying to pretend that nation states are any less of a political fiction than the European Union.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

are you really eusplaining to a eurocrat of 30 years Steve? 😇

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

erm 🇩🇪

a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans

ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

It’s crazy and so unfair. Wishing you all the best Glenn.

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Firstly, best wishes for a full recovery Glenn. Secondly, thanks for contributing to so many things I personally enthuse over, for years; your work deserves support regardless of circumstance. Thirdly, when someone of Glenn’s standing feels the need to post this, my God America you are so broken.

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 1d

I’ll be unable to work at all for a few weeks, then at reduced capability for several weeks. I would never ask for charity when so many people are desperately in need of aid in the world. But I do write and publish books that make great birthday and holiday gifts—for yourself and others.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

It’s probably the funniest thing I’ve ever written, it deserved so much more

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

so I probably don’t need to put out my chair just yet

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Surprisingly little Alan

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Surprisingly little Alan

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

got my foldable camp chair out on Quayside to reserve my spot 😎 🏖️

David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly 110 years until a Total Solar Eclipse over Newcastle upon Tyne. 🔭 🧪

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Yes because the idiot refuses to recognise that the EU’s internal political and governance arrangements are for us to determine not for exceptionalist British expats. For residence purposes, we are a single political entity, just like the UK.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

that was my concern but it’s looking pretty good to me, perhaps it’s human checked?

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Having grown up in Beaconsfield and still based there the demographics have changed radically since I was a kid, it is very popular with professionals moving out of said Wembley, Harrow, etc who are seeking to move upmarket.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

er maybe not Beaconsfield

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Ternfortheworse @ternfortheworse.bsky.social · 1d

Ah. I’m a bit of an internet expert and I can see what’s happened here. Let me break it down so we can all calm down a bit:

The American has noisily shat himself in front of everyone else and is now complaining about the smell.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

This chump is very cross that anyone on bluesky might want to discuss anything other than his country’s slide into fascism

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Incredible. I must have missed Jenrick moaning about wandering through rural Lincolnshire and complaining that he barely saw a brown face.

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