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Had good exchanges on the phone this weekend with Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. We discussed our unflinching support to Ukraine, financially and militarily. We shared updates on our contacts with US partners and discussed plans for the defence and security of our continent.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Only slightly amazed at how many people on this site keep telling me the answer to our current situation is to *give more power to the federal government to silence "disinformation."* Look at who you'd be empowering. Look at what they call disinfo and "fake news."

This sweet pup took off with a camera, and I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂

Must we wait until 2028? March 15 is in exactly 3 weeks, so bring on those ides.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values. Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

will the next be the last fair election in australia? another ad from the australien gov’t that’s surprisingly honest… @thejuicemedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYI...

community digital gardens thoughts in familiar chats put together as loose threads and shared in articles @roomy.chat 🏕️

"normalising far-right narratives undermines conservative positions and can, over time, destroy right-of-centre parties...[and] parts of the centrist conservative CDU have embraced AfD positions".

knock knock who's there? Reactions and Replies 😱✨ try it out: roomy.chat 🏕️

My friends, I have terrible news. I’ve written an academic paper about Bluesky and why it’s great for scientists Reviewers liked it and it got minor revisions But a peer reviewer requested that I remove my brief aside about ALF’s alien boy bits (as an example of the quirky culture here)

Morning message from America: Sieg Heil. JFC, I'm going back to bed. Let me know when it's over.

lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

This is wild: Microsoft says its new quantum chip uses the “Majorana particle,” named after the Italian theoretical physicist who proposed it in 1937. It has no electrical charge because it is its own anti-particle www.theverge.com/news/6142…

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Morning message from America. You don't need a rogue sentient AI to destroy your records of reality after all, it just takes a few well-placed grifters. Also, Tom Cruise will not save you.

"I know, let's let Elon take care of the future of information. What could go wrong?" #epistemicrisis

I guess it's only a matter of time before that happens to EUROPA.eu, website of the EU Institutions. It wouldn't surprise me if that didn't stop them posting there, tbh.

In the same vein, from @davekeating.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/davekeat...

Stop wondering, Europe. He: "Safeguarding European security must be an imperative for European members of NATO. ... We're here to unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the USA from being primarily focused on the security of Europe." I can't imagine it being any clearer.

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index