@Jeremiah @osi and please feel free to drop me a message here or by email if you have any questions! 🫡 Jordan.maris(at)opensource.org

#Israel have faced challenges both on-stage and off-stage, with several tv stations defying prohibition on “political” content to condemn the horrific actions of the Israeli military in #Gaza.

#Eurovision

@ingrid_m @djembro Estonia is among the countries with the highest HDI in Eastern Europe. Looks like you've drank a bit too much Kremlin cool aid

As an additional note: people will say a lot about the #EuropeanUnion: it gets called neoliberal, or right wing, or over-regulatory, by a great many people, but what I see is the only honest attempt at limiting the excesses of capitalism in line with the needs of it's citizens and the planet. It's an imperfect Union, but I think the world is better for it, and it is close to my heart 🇪🇺❤️

During my time in the European Parliament, I attended a crucial final negotiation between Portuguese, Danish, German, Romanian and French MEPs, only to discover there had been a mixup and we would have no interpretation (translators) for the meeting.

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Happy Europe Day from Brussels! Today marks 75 years since Europe's Nations chose peaceful cooperation over war. On Europe Day I wanted to share a personal anecdote about that cooperation.

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In spite of all the challenges, we actually managed to agree a common position by the end of the meeting (much to my relief as we didn't really have time for another meeting).

Under a century ago, we were fighting each other in trenches, now we can work together and even laugh around a table together: that is Europe's greatest success.

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What followed was absolute comedy gold, as MEPs used broken English, harnessing quotes from films as part of their negotiating tactics, and political opponents translated for each other: ,⬇️

a Danish Liberal translated for the French far-right, a Spanish leftist whispered missing words to a Portuguese social democrat, the Romanian spoke German to the German who then got into an argument with another German because he understood the others proposal of the number "nine" in English as "nein" (No) in German, much to the amusement of everybody present.

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The European project has lifted millions out of poverty, and brought us closer together, it has balanced economic growth and citizens wellbeing and prosperity. We have the world's best life expectancy, outstanding education, beautiful cities and nature, 24 languages and 27 incredible counties and cultures to discover. There is much to celebrate, and we should.

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But Europe is also under threat: we must stand steadfast against attacks we face, no matter where from. We must stand with Ukraine and all those who fight for the values our Union represents around the world. We must protect the peaceful model and way of life we have built for ourselves and keep moving forwards. Most importantly, we must stay United and keep working, occasionally with laughter, on building the European project together. 🇪🇺

Just saw the first instance of what is likely a Russian bot on the fediverse, spamming anti-Ukrainian disinformation on completely unrelated threads.

Report sent to all relevant servers, let's hope the fediverse can resist this sort of thing.

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

@thechildofroth @kde I personally have never understood the hate for systemd. I think people are upset about feature creep, but honestly, I personally can't get excited or angry about a service manager.

The #German far-right #AFD party has just been designated as a far-right extremist organisation by German domestic Intelligence.

Regardless of where a party is in the polls, if it is a threat to the democratic order, efforts must be made to contain it.

Tolerance of intolerance is what has led the US down its current pathway. Europe must not follow.

#EUpol #USpol #DEpol

@funbaker @wonka @migbox @EUCommission "giving Ukraine weapons to defend against a fascist imperialist regime is bad" - Fake leftists

@EdwinG yes, that too 🇪🇺🎉 (Hungary needs some work, bur we'll get there)

@StillIRise1963 I actually had yo have meds containing large amounts of vitamin A as a kid

They will get to enjoy:
- extreme skin dryness
- depression
- suicidal thoughts

@jessew optimistic of you to believe there will ever be free and fair elections in the US again

The US may have plastic straws, but we have good transit, walkable neighbourhoods, and a variety of different post-work drinks.