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Eastern European living in Portugal. From a big city that nobody knows where it is, to New York, to London, to a tiny village named Flor da Rosa where all women outlived men.
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An US escapee in Portugal said “sorry for my country”. I say “I don’t care”, for the Europeans it’s time for find radical true self. If people of peace won’t organise now, soon we’ll end up in trenches loosing friends in a conflict between two kings. This needs to be collective resistance against..

I’m reading history of propaganda and came across these posters. I guess it took the Nazists a while. But they’re in the White House. Time to get involved.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke.

British Ministry of Defense would undergo its “biggest defense shake up in 50 years” to ensure it was ready for war. www.politico.eu/article/uk-n... What language is that ?A War ? It’s 21’century:politicians, general population isn’t interested in going to the front.Do something! But not more war!

Meanwhile on the streets of Coimbra, Portugal

“Amazon has used its earnings call to announce it’ll invest another ~$100B this year, mostly in AI-related projects. In total, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet have flagged over $300B in capital investments this year.” (Source : International Intrigue)

One of our members, ajazz, created a whole interactive guide to escaping the corporate social media machine: Unplatform. This is a great way to get introduced to the indieweb & the small web, if you've ever heard of it but not sure where to go from here. It's a fantastic read and full of resources.

@404media.co is any organisation similar to yours that focuses on Europe ? 🫶 your work

When I was learning in school about the rise of the nazism in the pre IIWW Germany, I had a question in my head : “how is it possible that the whole society could become so united in hatred. There had to be good people, hateful, and probably most somewhere in the middle.” Now I have an answer. 👇

There is no limit how many books I can read without finishing previous. Feels wrong but I can’t remember who taught me that. Reading in parallel feels like cheating the time.

Today I took Monday off. Drove 60km to take a cold dip in a mountain stream. It was 12.5C. Adventure.