Daniel Ostrowski
@froakiebloke.bsky.social
Vive Napoléon! Vivent les saucissons!
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The first person recorded wishing someone "Merry Christmas" was Bishop John Fisher, in a letter to Thomas Cromwell #OnThisDay, 22nd December 1534.
"And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a comfortable, to your heart’s desire."
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"And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a comfortable, to your heart’s desire."
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December 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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I heard there was a mighty fish
With solitude its fervent wish
When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder
They're known to bite their prey in two
They'd even have a go at you
The silver and the salty
Barracuda
With solitude its fervent wish
When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder
They're known to bite their prey in two
They'd even have a go at you
The silver and the salty
Barracuda
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I heard there was a mighty fish
With solitude its fervent wish
When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder
They're known to bite their prey in two
They'd even have a go at you
The silver and the salty
Barracuda
With solitude its fervent wish
When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder
They're known to bite their prey in two
They'd even have a go at you
The silver and the salty
Barracuda
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DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: And, you know, the Game Awards, they gave Best Music to God of War instead of Xenoblade 3, and it was very unfair
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: And, you know, the Game Awards, they gave Best Music to God of War instead of Xenoblade 3, and it was very unfair
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tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
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Timeline clenser
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Timeline clenser
In fairness if you showed that picture to people 300 years ago they wouldn’t have known who those guys were
Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In fairness if you showed that picture to people 300 years ago they wouldn’t have known who those guys were
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
Legends ZA main story completed, official verdict: Mons Good
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Legends ZA main story completed, official verdict: Mons Good
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Can’t help but worry for Malala’s fellow bong users, thinking, ‘shit, I’ve killed Malala!’
October 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Can’t help but worry for Malala’s fellow bong users, thinking, ‘shit, I’ve killed Malala!’
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STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
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Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t.
That’s…not a sustainable position.
That’s…not a sustainable position.
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t.
That’s…not a sustainable position.
That’s…not a sustainable position.
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Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams
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And this was done as part of any coherent geopolitical strategy, legal or illegal: it was done to create a fan-service snuff film for social media.
This is not a thorny issue. This is not fraught. It is extrajudicial killing. It is the killing of civilians under any standard of law. He killed them on the basis of his-say so that they are drug smugglers, mere criminals. It was premeditated. And he's saying he's going to do it again and again.
I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted.
But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.
But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.
September 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
And this was done as part of any coherent geopolitical strategy, legal or illegal: it was done to create a fan-service snuff film for social media.
I was just reading a book which covered the US reaction to the Lusitania sinking, and while of course it was always hypocritical and self-serving at times there was a lot of genuine horror being expressed at this German ‘frightfulness’. And then this
Trump killed some guys out in the ocean with no due process. This is generally referred to as murder. It would be nice if the press would mention this.
September 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I was just reading a book which covered the US reaction to the Lusitania sinking, and while of course it was always hypocritical and self-serving at times there was a lot of genuine horror being expressed at this German ‘frightfulness’. And then this
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What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.
It would be so unbelievably easy to make a patriotic and pride case for Britain while simultaneously putting the racists and bigots firmly back in their box.
I mean the speech writes itself.
So why is nobody writing it?
I mean the speech writes itself.
So why is nobody writing it?
Matt Chorley, "Are flags patriotic or racist?"
Keir Starmer, "I'm a supporter of flags?"
Matt Chorley, "What about painting roundabouts?"
Keir Starmer, "In our flat we have the St George's flag. I think think they're patriotic. A great symbol of our nation"
Keir Starmer, "I'm a supporter of flags?"
Matt Chorley, "What about painting roundabouts?"
Keir Starmer, "In our flat we have the St George's flag. I think think they're patriotic. A great symbol of our nation"
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.
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This is nightmarishly bad. Like this is no longer a joke, someone has to take action. He has to be fired from the premiership.
Starmer isn’t going to criticise Farage’s rhetoric and claims Britain is facing an ‘invasion’ by migrants, The Times reports. “We recognise the strength of feeling,” his spokesman says.
August 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is nightmarishly bad. Like this is no longer a joke, someone has to take action. He has to be fired from the premiership.
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'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media
August 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media
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god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
August 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
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I write a lot about miserable game development stories, so it sure was a pleasure to hear that one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop
August 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I write a lot about miserable game development stories, so it sure was a pleasure to hear that one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Caterpie, Metapod….
…Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos and Pecharunt.
…Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos and Pecharunt.
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
August 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Caterpie, Metapod….
…Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos and Pecharunt.
…Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos and Pecharunt.