Posts by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
 (DIR) Post #AXMF4fm5Snu5NPcPBo by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-07-04T17:34:12Z
       
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       @ianbetteridge @stephenwhq I will always have a place in my heart for Facebook as the very first social media platform I boycotted 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #AXPgn0aOjExIttOcAi by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-07-06T09:26:16Z
       
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       Leaving aside the whole ethical and privacy angle for a second (I know, I know), can someone explain how #Threads integrates with the #fediverse? Can I follow someone with a Threads account using my Mastodon account? (Assuming my instance hasn't blocked it...) In which case, what would be the point of a person on Mastodon migrating to Threads, or creating another account there? #nostupidquestions
       
 (DIR) Post #AXPipc3WaUzbbAOCmm by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-07-06T09:36:55Z
       
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       With thanks to those in my replies who posted the link, this blog post by @Gargron is an excellent explainer and answers my questions. #Threads #Mastodon #fediverseedit - god bless you Mastodon for the edit button 😂 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
       
 (DIR) Post #AXaTPYgTiOtQgruXsO by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-07-11T13:28:37Z
       
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       It pleases the Central European in me that the Thames and the Seine were both once tributaries of the Rhine.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXaTPal9zxpJ7y7JS4 by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-07-11T14:19:35Z
       
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       @bouriquet They’re all actually tributaries of the Neckar. #Schwaben
       
 (DIR) Post #AYcic7GkDZua6q5Zjs by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-08-11T12:08:21Z
       
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       “Stop illegal cross-Channel migrants and their enablers”
       
 (DIR) Post #AZHzKLcOUzQfF4nmLI by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-08-31T11:33:11Z
       
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       Why am I reading news about UK cabinet appointments in the Guardian’s live feed on Ukraine? 🙄
       
 (DIR) Post #AZajy22svea2e2XpZY by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-09-09T08:13:07Z
       
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       “The bed I shat in has shit in it”
       
 (DIR) Post #AZnmJSYzXAJHSbgEEa by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-09-15T19:38:14Z
       
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       I spent a happy quarter of an hour collecting conkers with my 5yo son. Brought a bucket full of them home and he’s so excited to play with them. So I strung one on a string to show him how to play. And he flipped. out. DADDY YOU RUINED MY CONKER YOU RUINED IT
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa7YUkI6I1aEi6xJ8y by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-09-24T23:08:04Z
       
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       How it started… how it’s going…‘won’t get fooled again’
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa8BlJDW6EbdsShUdk by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-09-25T15:20:57Z
       
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       To be fair it’s as politically articulate and seriously researched as most UK government policies since 2015
       
 (DIR) Post #AaIHj2LUOlhQHJKRH6 by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-09-30T10:29:20Z
       
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       Lord grant me the incredible sense of entitlement to ask a democratically elected foreign government whether they’ve checked their humanitarian policies with their voters
       
 (DIR) Post #AaIHj4E7P8zY71ta40 by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-09-30T11:16:14Z
       
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       Musk is a serious fucking global problem and it can get a lot worse before it gets better. Not sure how to rein him in now. But for damn sure don’t be giving him your patronage or money. Get the hell off Twitter, sell your Tesla, stop enabling him.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaRJTfYEoVexZOjNg0 by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-10-04T06:22:22Z
       
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       Hilarious WSJ article wondering how it can be that American tourists lose weight on their holidays to Europe https://apple.news/A7I8ZJIFHRHyLWSECsxusTw
       
 (DIR) Post #AavZWGO5awrsHeHhhI by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-10-19T10:59:01Z
       
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       When you’re a tech journo writing an article on alternatives to Twitter in an international news publication and you fail to mention one of the big three, that’s an editorial choice. The author @joshtaylor.bsky.social disagreed and blocked me on Bluesky for engaging, which is weak af. Calling this shit out. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/17/threads-and-bluesky-need-to-figure-out-what-they-want-to-be?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
       
 (DIR) Post #AavZWIavOCK782Iyyu by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-10-19T11:11:24Z
       
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       This was the post that got the block. People, internet communities gonna internet community
       
 (DIR) Post #AcQwc2bcfWuzplBiaW by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-12-03T12:10:26Z
       
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       For fucking fuck’s sake, whose genius idea was it to put the wolf in charge of the sheep’s emergency anti-predator conference?? Our civilisation is completely doomed. Sorry kids.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVrUC3s6KayrYdiCW by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-12-05T19:13:00Z
       
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       I suppose someone would have had to tell Johnson that launching a Special Boat Service raid on a Dutch vaccine lab would give the Netherlands every reason to trigger NATO Article 5 and the EU’s solidarity mechanism leading to potential nuclear strikes on Downing Street by both the US *and* France. 🙄https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-prime-minister?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVrUE5iYRGD9rWDM8 by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2023-12-05T19:31:47Z
       
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       Given who followed, it’s sometimes tempting to suppress the memory of just how unspeakably dreadful Johnson was and is. Truly nothing compares to him.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdPJeohX4R3nCTXSV6 by ottocrat@eupolicy.social
       2024-01-01T15:03:45Z
       
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       @Geoff I’ve run a scientific experiment on this precise question by breeding test subjects and exposing them to various cartoon characters sequentially and I can confirm that the definitive order of preference is as follows:1= Tom1= Jerry3 Bugs Bunny4 Daffy Duck5 Sylvester6 Tweety Pie7 Foghorn Leghorn8 Pepe Le Pew9 Speedy Gonzales10 Donald Duck11 Spongebob 12 Superted13 Lion-O14 Goofy15= Chip15= Dale17 Pluto18 Daisy19 Minnie20 Popeye21 Mickey