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Chris Ward
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Left Britain for Berlin after the EU referendum, learnt German, stood in two elections, now a whisker from citizenship. ADHDer. Homo. Androider. Engineering Manager. Speaker. Schöneberger. Crow Queen Posts in 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Views my own. he/him #thfbleibt #fckafd
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 56m
Oh god. I once accidentally wished a cashier "guten Lutsch" instead of "guten Rutsch". I feel your pain.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3h
Ha. I would have used das Babysitter in German, but I guess there's very much a difference in meaning for the two things. Babysitter is normally very temporary (i.e. whilst you go out) whilst childminder (Tagesmutter) is a little more regular I guess!
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3h
(There's also a privilege element involved with Bürste btw. Were I still doing my stockroom job as a teenager I suspect this is a word I'd have learnt on the first day.)
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3h
Please take note of this if you haven't learnt a language because you see other people speaking and think "damn they're fluent, I could never get to that level":

Those people probably just checked Duden for "windscreen wiper".
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3h
One thing still weird to me is I have citizenship level German but still get surprised at the basic words I've not learnt yet.

The most recent one: brush (Bürste).

My reasoning I think is that a brush is obviously and visibly a brush in the store (i.e. I don't need to check labels to see that).
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 18h
Nicht nach meinem Change.org petition bitch...
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*Ü19
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 19h
Vorschlag: Wehrpflicht nur für alle deutschen Ü60. 👍
Screengrab eines Artikels vom stern.de: "Die stärksten Befürworter einer Wehrpflicht finden sich mit 61 Prozent in der älteren Generation (60 Jahre und darüber)"
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 19h
The S Bahn was fucked this morning. It's fucked this evening. And the tram I had to walk a distance to catch was cancelled after 2 stops.

I'm so delighted though that the CDU wants to spend €400m on ticket barriers. That's definitely the transport priority. 👍🤡
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 2d
In which case my apologies. I only gleaned what I could from the article. That's a real shame. :(
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d
"I think we can all find respect" she says, whilst signing on to fuel the profit machine that is poured straight into the ongoing campaign to hound trans people out of public life

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks
Actor, who voices Dolores Umbridge in the new full-cast recordings, says she hopes ‘we can all find respect’ amid renewed controversy over Rowling’s views on trans rights
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
And yes you're right about the ghosting. MPs offices are inundated but this shouldn't have slipped through the net.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
Only if the doctor appointments exist. And the office has zero authority - it carries the implicit pressure of "they could raise this in parliament publicly" but that's about it.

However, on reflection, the MP should have made expectations clearer. And a shame it was a Lib Dem. :(
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
No I know exactly what it means. :P
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
Ok ok hear me out ...

Locktoberfest.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3d
This is simply the EU enforcing its existing border controls by means of a new system, not a "threat to throw out second home owners". Again Brexiters believe that the UK should have border controls as regards the EU, but not the other way around.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 6d
Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
(Ofc if it's a Tory MP then they've got plenty to answer for on trans issues, but the article doesn't go any further on it)
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
I'm not entirely sure the MP has done wrong? If it's a Surrey MP, they are all opposition MPs with no influence on the puberty blockers stuff from Streeting, nor on mental health provisions. I know a lot try to help in these cases, but what can they feasibly do?
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
I see the guy who railed against flexible working for everyone else has taken up a further job with US tech companies whilst he's supposed to be a Member of Parliament.

That's before we get to the advice he is selling and how utterly dodgy it all looks.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/f...
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to advise Microsoft and Anthropic  | TechCrunch
Former Conservative PM Rishi Sunak served from 2022 to 2024. Britain's Acoba flagged concerns of granting "unfair access" to Anthropic and Microsoft.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
Thank you to the lovely #UITS crowd today. Was lovely chatting to you. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
Photo of me giving my talk at the Unicorns in Tech Summit 25: How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 5d
Hello and good morning to all of you lovely people going to the Unicorns in Tech Summit 25 today.

I'm giving a talk at 3:30pm: How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager.

Especially aimed at those of you who have ruled it out. Please let me convince you otherwise. :)
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 6d
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6d
If I were the Nobel Prize Committee I'd give it to Biden.

He doesn't deserve it of course, and I can't stand the man. But it would also be really really really funny.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6d
This is the Microsoft Office paperclip now. Feel old yet?
Gen AI sparkle-star trio icon
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7d
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
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