Elliot
@els76uk.bsky.social
🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 Gym. Cycling. Relocation coach. Woke, tofu eating, Guardian reading twitterati. Lover of all things four-legged and furry. Married to @eliotlovell.bsky.social
Berlin power outage hits 45,000 homes after suspected arson attack
It’s well known that Russia uses messenger apps to recruit naive local people for terrorist acts… now I'm wondering if the arson attacks in Berlin, including on the S-Bahn, could be that.
It’s well known that Russia uses messenger apps to recruit naive local people for terrorist acts… now I'm wondering if the arson attacks in Berlin, including on the S-Bahn, could be that.
How Russia recruits its agents in Germany, one click at a time
Russian intelligence services are using Telegram, among other social media platforms, to recruit so-called "low-level agents" in Germany for small acts of sabotage, surveillance or provocation. Even a...
www.euronews.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Berlin power outage hits 45,000 homes after suspected arson attack
It’s well known that Russia uses messenger apps to recruit naive local people for terrorist acts… now I'm wondering if the arson attacks in Berlin, including on the S-Bahn, could be that.
It’s well known that Russia uses messenger apps to recruit naive local people for terrorist acts… now I'm wondering if the arson attacks in Berlin, including on the S-Bahn, could be that.
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Well that's one way to distract from the Epstein files.
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Well that's one way to distract from the Epstein files.
A cat rescue centre on the Greek island of Syros is offering a month's free accommodation in exchange for helping to look after the kitties
syroscats.com/volunteering...
syroscats.com/volunteering...
Volunteering - Syros Cats
Volunteering - Syros Cats
syroscats.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
A cat rescue centre on the Greek island of Syros is offering a month's free accommodation in exchange for helping to look after the kitties
syroscats.com/volunteering...
syroscats.com/volunteering...
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Epstein latest 🤯
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Epstein latest 🤯
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Alan and Amanda are doing up a house in Corfu on the telly, and they keep showing cutaways of cute cats and kittens, and now I want to go there on holiday!
January 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Alan and Amanda are doing up a house in Corfu on the telly, and they keep showing cutaways of cute cats and kittens, and now I want to go there on holiday!
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Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
VERY misleading photo here, since baby died after badly trained amateur knife wielder did the chop for "non therapeutic reasons" – code for "religious" – outside hospital setting
Plus no infection control or aftercare “including dressing the wound, analgesia and/or worsening care advice”.
Plus no infection control or aftercare “including dressing the wound, analgesia and/or worsening care advice”.
January 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
VERY misleading photo here, since baby died after badly trained amateur knife wielder did the chop for "non therapeutic reasons" – code for "religious" – outside hospital setting
Plus no infection control or aftercare “including dressing the wound, analgesia and/or worsening care advice”.
Plus no infection control or aftercare “including dressing the wound, analgesia and/or worsening care advice”.
Every podcast.
January 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Every podcast.
Berlin bureaucrats frantically checking to see if there might be a marathon in September 2026, and if so, whether they might actually change anything, or just wing it like they did last time.
2026 is set to be 'Superwahljahr' for Germany with five German Länder (federal states) going to the polls 🗳️🇩🇪
📅 8 March: Baden-Württemberg
📅 22 March: Rhineland-Palatinate
📅 6 September Saxony-Anhalt
📅 20 September: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania
📅 20 September: Berlin
📅 8 March: Baden-Württemberg
📅 22 March: Rhineland-Palatinate
📅 6 September Saxony-Anhalt
📅 20 September: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania
📅 20 September: Berlin
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Berlin bureaucrats frantically checking to see if there might be a marathon in September 2026, and if so, whether they might actually change anything, or just wing it like they did last time.
Always surprises me how many people spell my name wrong, putting the wrong number of Ls and Ts when beginning an email or when I order online. I always expect it to be automatic, or at least copy-paste.
Even the local tax office spelled my name wrong when they set up my tax file!
Even the local tax office spelled my name wrong when they set up my tax file!
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Always surprises me how many people spell my name wrong, putting the wrong number of Ls and Ts when beginning an email or when I order online. I always expect it to be automatic, or at least copy-paste.
Even the local tax office spelled my name wrong when they set up my tax file!
Even the local tax office spelled my name wrong when they set up my tax file!
May 2026 bring you many, many purrs.
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
May 2026 bring you many, many purrs.
Walking along the street earlier, a group of kids aged maybe 10, playing with fireworks. Lighting them, then dropping them, playing around them as they fire; and then stamping on them. What kind of parent allows this? Crazy!
"People have thrown firecrackers down subway stairs, into streetcars, and just at random people on the street. The smoke makes the air quality terrible. And the resulting trash strains the city resources even more."
www.diealtefrau.com/p/we-need-to...
www.diealtefrau.com/p/we-need-to...
We need to talk about Silvester
How not to have the wrong kind of blast on New Year's Eve
www.diealtefrau.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Walking along the street earlier, a group of kids aged maybe 10, playing with fireworks. Lighting them, then dropping them, playing around them as they fire; and then stamping on them. What kind of parent allows this? Crazy!
This year is the year that Nyusha decided the plastic fibre optic christmas tree is climbable!
#NyushaTheCat
#TurkishVan #Cat #Cats #Katze
#NyushaTheCat
#TurkishVan #Cat #Cats #Katze
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This year is the year that Nyusha decided the plastic fibre optic christmas tree is climbable!
#NyushaTheCat
#TurkishVan #Cat #Cats #Katze
#NyushaTheCat
#TurkishVan #Cat #Cats #Katze
Bluesky is increasingly filled with people screenshotting X and writing about why they're wrong. I wish I could block that nonsense. If I cared about what people had to say on twitter, I'd go there. But I came here to escape it!
December 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Bluesky is increasingly filled with people screenshotting X and writing about why they're wrong. I wish I could block that nonsense. If I cared about what people had to say on twitter, I'd go there. But I came here to escape it!
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Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
December 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @chameauleon.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Every quarter, Rossmann usually posts a little leaflet with 10% off codes into my mailbox. But they didn't deliver anythiing to me for January yet :(.
Anyone have a barcode they can share with me?
Anyone have a barcode they can share with me?
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Every quarter, Rossmann usually posts a little leaflet with 10% off codes into my mailbox. But they didn't deliver anythiing to me for January yet :(.
Anyone have a barcode they can share with me?
Anyone have a barcode they can share with me?
Now reading Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell. About a woman who leaves her abusive husband and her attempts to free herself of him. Powerful, hard reading.
Nesting
WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDT...
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December 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Now reading Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell. About a woman who leaves her abusive husband and her attempts to free herself of him. Powerful, hard reading.
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The real danger of giving Trump access to your social media posts: www.ft.com/content/b8a6...
December 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The real danger of giving Trump access to your social media posts: www.ft.com/content/b8a6...
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US Forces shoot down Santa
Orange Rapist: "He had a big red sack full of drugs"
#Politics #Military #FascistAmeriKKKa #SantaClaus #WheresSanta
Orange Rapist: "He had a big red sack full of drugs"
#Politics #Military #FascistAmeriKKKa #SantaClaus #WheresSanta
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
US Forces shoot down Santa
Orange Rapist: "He had a big red sack full of drugs"
#Politics #Military #FascistAmeriKKKa #SantaClaus #WheresSanta
Orange Rapist: "He had a big red sack full of drugs"
#Politics #Military #FascistAmeriKKKa #SantaClaus #WheresSanta
Someone I don't know just added me as a friend on Goodreads. Is this a new way of flirting? Like poking someone on Facebook? :)
December 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Someone I don't know just added me as a friend on Goodreads. Is this a new way of flirting? Like poking someone on Facebook? :)
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"Could Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem today? Without the checkpoints, illegal settlements and separation wall, the 100km (63-mile) trip could take less than two hours by car today. But under current conditions, the journey would be a very different one." @aljazeera.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Could Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem today? Without the checkpoints, illegal settlements and separation wall, the 100km (63-mile) trip could take less than two hours by car today. But under current conditions, the journey would be a very different one." @aljazeera.com
Christmas lunch cooked by @eliotlovell.bsky.social: a vegan Indian thali. Spiced sprouts, with caramelised onion and coconut tofu curry, jeera aloo potatoes, chana daal with rice and poppadoms. Yum!
December 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Christmas lunch cooked by @eliotlovell.bsky.social: a vegan Indian thali. Spiced sprouts, with caramelised onion and coconut tofu curry, jeera aloo potatoes, chana daal with rice and poppadoms. Yum!