Let The Bells Ring Out For Chris
@ottocr.at
Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | currently clean on OPSEC
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In case any recent arrivals are wondering what happened to my long-standing Twitter avatar, here’s why I changed it.
I’ve been really moved by stories that people have shared today on Bluesky. I’m convinced this is the right way: kindness is both the antidote to and the opposite of everything Trump and Farage and Putin represent so let’s weaponise it against them. It’s so powerful. And they can’t understand it.
December 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I’ve been really moved by stories that people have shared today on Bluesky. I’m convinced this is the right way: kindness is both the antidote to and the opposite of everything Trump and Farage and Putin represent so let’s weaponise it against them. It’s so powerful. And they can’t understand it.
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Oh my goodness, this is such a lovely story www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Oh my goodness, this is such a lovely story www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fash populists: how dare you disrespect our King??
Also fash populists: how dare our King disrespect you??
Also fash populists: how dare our King disrespect you??
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Fash populists: how dare you disrespect our King??
Also fash populists: how dare our King disrespect you??
Also fash populists: how dare our King disrespect you??
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December 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s a joke, really. The Express is talking to a group of people who were never going to vote Green and who have already made up their minds about Zack; and Zack is talking to a group of people who really do not give a shit if the King is on the other channel. Like the man says, take a day off ffs.
The Express will keep doing this.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It’s a joke, really. The Express is talking to a group of people who were never going to vote Green and who have already made up their minds about Zack; and Zack is talking to a group of people who really do not give a shit if the King is on the other channel. Like the man says, take a day off ffs.
Amaury and another one of his chocolate youtube sensations
North Korea released new images of what it claims is its first nuclear-powered submarine, a massive vessel equal in size to some of the United States Navy's attack subs. https://cnn.it/4pN1Xj0
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Amaury and another one of his chocolate youtube sensations
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Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world!
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world!
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
Busy introverting
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Busy introverting
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
Merry Christmas, friends.
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Merry Christmas, friends.
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EU citizen dies while being detained by US federal paramilitaries
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
EU citizen dies while being detained by US federal paramilitaries
This is so so wrong
December 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is so so wrong
German Christmas carols are the best, this is not open for debate, but they do love recordings of kids’ choirs singing them. Technically they’re excellent but it does end up sounding like Pinky & Perky’s Christmas album.
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
German Christmas carols are the best, this is not open for debate, but they do love recordings of kids’ choirs singing them. Technically they’re excellent but it does end up sounding like Pinky & Perky’s Christmas album.
Reciprocity is a core principle of EU visa policy, so…
EU 'strongly condemns' US sanctions against five Europeans over digital regulation
EU 'strongly condemns' US sanctions against five Europeans over digital regulation
After the Trump administration sanctioned five European figures over the EU's digital regulations, which it dubbed 'censorship,' the EU, France and Germany have reacted by denouncing the move.
www.lemonde.fr
December 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reciprocity is a core principle of EU visa policy, so…
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Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
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Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie.
How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes.
Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself.
Merry Christmas everyone!
How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes.
Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself.
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie.
How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes.
Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself.
Merry Christmas everyone!
How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes.
Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself.
Merry Christmas everyone!
The vicarage Christmas decoration is… missing an L
Merry Christmas and chapeau, vicar 🫡
Merry Christmas and chapeau, vicar 🫡
December 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The vicarage Christmas decoration is… missing an L
Merry Christmas and chapeau, vicar 🫡
Merry Christmas and chapeau, vicar 🫡
Anyone else watching the #darts? A month’s sub to Sky Sports over Christmas and New Year for the #PDC #WDC is my annual indulgence. Enjoyment this year is even greater as my 7yo has really taken to it too. He loves maths and it has clicked for him. #DartsWM
a man in a black shirt with the word pp on the screen
ALT: a man in a black shirt with the word pp on the screen
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The future Trump class warships.
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The future Trump class warships.
Errr what is up with his ears??? 🖖🧝♂️
During a press conference, Marco Rubio was unusually energized, restless, with rapid speech, visible agitation, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, jaw tension, frequent sniffing, and an intense emotional presentation reflected in rigid posture and exaggerated gestures. ❄️⛷️☃️
December 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Errr what is up with his ears??? 🖖🧝♂️
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December 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The thing is, there is nothing, NOTHING here that we didn’t already know, from his own mouth no less, so I fail to see how this is any kind of gotcha. We thought these revelations would sink him forever the first time in 2016 and they did bugger all.
(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: We have the text of the note referenced by Rolling Stone, and in it Epstein makes among the last words he committed to paper the revelation that Trump was obsessed with "young, nubile girls" and regularly sexually assaulted them.
Jeffrey Epstein Wrote Fellow Pedophile Larry Nassar a Letter Before His Death
Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact fellow pedophile and admitted sexual abuser Larry Nassar via mail in the days before his death by suicide.
www.rollingstone.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The thing is, there is nothing, NOTHING here that we didn’t already know, from his own mouth no less, so I fail to see how this is any kind of gotcha. We thought these revelations would sink him forever the first time in 2016 and they did bugger all.