Elliot
@els76uk
🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 Gym. Cycling. Relocation coach. Woke, tofu eating, Guardian reading twitterati. Lover of all things four-legged and furry. Married to @eliotlovell.bsky.social
Police in Berlin saw a child "hurling a tiny puppy through the air as if it were a doll. The puppy was very young, had barely opened its eyes, could barely walk. "The child’s mother explained that she had wanted a toy for her child" 😡 She's about to be charged with animal welfare offences
@jonnywhitlam.bsky.social Facebook is showing me lots of your reels at the moment...the algorithm is showing me almost one after the other! Curious about this HMV logo on the Nazi record. Is there any interesting history to tell there?
Today is the anniversary of the London bus and tube bombings, which 21 years ago killed more than 50 people. Since then, I've seen no evidence of leading politicians doing anything to bring people together. Instead, they've dialled up the poisonous rhetoric, dividing us more than ever :(
End of an era. Halifax is changing to Lloyds. I feel like corporates don't care about people's feelings towards a brand.
Superb comparison of a domestic relationship to Hamas-Israel helps to understand why things are the way they are. (From You Exist Too Much by Palestinian-American author Zaina Arafat)
That was Albee. Actually astonished any of my bsky friends aren't bored of hearing about my cats :) Here's Nyusha. From the look in her eyes, she's just spotted a moth :)
Window blinds down, fan on. Cats flopped. One cat has realised the walls are a bit cooler, so he spends a lot of time with his paws pressed against the wall.
Seen on the back of a UK street sign: "no scrap value". Sad indictment on society that people will nick a sign for a few pennies of scrap value. Cute icon tho – a man holding a "swag" bag crossed out :)
Better to be safe than sorry! Have fun dealing with all that :) I would bring A1, Leben in Deutschland, Rentenversicherung (pension statement) and pay slips. I got mine after Brexit, they told me to bring all sorts of docs… and didn't even look at them! (Stamped ungültig when I got my DE pass)
The A1 in north London yesterday. Not a car in sight. Time to rip it up, build a cycle lane and space to walk instead? #CarBrain #SpaceForCycling
From the archives: #AlbeeTheCat waiting for something to come out of the printer. This will not end well for the printer, which doesn't like outgoing paper being attacked by kitties with sharp claws!
Being lectured on police behaviour by JD Vance is like being lectured on how to lay your patio by Fred West.
And now when I said it's for a general audience, not ornithologers, it's clear :). Took 3 goes!
It asked for info about the context and I said it was ornithological. It changed the last sentence and it still doesn't say tame, but steady would be more understandable in context. And the description is now accurate-ish
Kagi AI translation gets it apart from the final sentence. At least it's understood it's to do with ornithology
Pinkwashing at its finest… I just saw an advert for Tel Aviv Pride 2026, with the headline "Time for Love"
lolz… the city of Berlin is battling the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg about locking up a park at night, to stop drug dealers. Of course, we all know that just moves the dealers elsewhere, but the senate insisted. Now a judge has said the senate doesn't have the authority to do that!
Wonderful! Nyusha agrees… she's the little one I got from Ukraine, inspired by you :)
Most cats in Berlin aren't allowed out to the street – instead, they might roam the central courtyards that most buildings have. But that doesn't stop them miowing at passers-by from inside the glass front door, in an attempt to make a break for freedom!
That said, networks here seem to be investing more in faster and better connectivity. This is my speedtest result on 5G at home. Rarely see a tenth of that in UK
Google satellite view is clearly using AI to augment the image where the image isn't great. But AI is making it so much worse, such as this street in north London maps.app.goo.gl/949yTH3bMUts...