Notices by juliette (juliette@mastodon.green)

835,000 signatures so far.
165,000 to go.

We might actually do this!!!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Two days to go, 400,000 signatures to find. The Citizens’ Initiative to ban conversion practices now passed the threshold in 7 countries, so we need just any EU citizens at this point.
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

450,000! Amazing progress on the Citizens’ Initiative to ban conversion therapy.
We’re just a few hundred names away from the 6th country threshold out of 7 required. Do you know a Dutch person you could convince to sign this? Are you a Dutch person who hasn’t signed yet? Go here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

They did it! The Netherlands just passed the threshold. Can we get another country tomorrow? Slovenia is next in line!

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not banning conversion therapy.
We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different to reach the million.
Aside from that, we are nearing the threshold in the following countries:
Belgium
Slovenia
The Netherlands
Denmark
Germany
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

BELGIUM REACHED THE THRESHOLD! We now have 5 out of 7 necessary country thresholds passed. Who will be next? Slovenia (69%), The Netherlands (68%), Sweden (44%), Germany (41%) or Denmark (40%)?
National pride is probably one the least effective arguments to the target group of this initiative, but also, France is currently at 250%, and you're not going to let a bunch of baguette-eating frogs show you up, are you?
Sign now to help ban conversion therapy: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
#lgbtq #europe

English-language fedi, could you do French-language fedi a solid and go vote “non” in this poll? https://www.cnews.fr/questions-du-jour/etes-vous-choque-par-la-peine-dineligibilite-de-marine-le-pen French right-wing media wants to know if you find it shocking that Marine Le Pen isn’t allowed to run for election after blatantly violating laws that make democracy and elections fair, as well as stealing European taxpayer money.

@evan isn’t most of Canada’s economic activity well
within 300km of the border? You can evacuate all these people without blowing up Canada’s entire economy.

The greatest tragedy of modern democracy is that the skills and knowledge needed to win an election and the skills and knowledge needed to govern are two completely different things. Sometimes diametrically opposed actually.

This absolutely clown is now claiming he wasn't referring to the UK and France, all the while not mentioning which countries he *was* referring to.

He has not apologised.

JD Vance dismissed France and the UK as "some random countries that haven't fought wars for 30-40 years." That will be news to the families of the 89 French soldiers and 457 British soldiers who died in Afghanistan after responding to the only time NATO Article 5 was ever invoked - by the United States.

I got a haircut today. Usually the chatter with the hairdresser is about the school or the construction work nearby etc. Today, it was about how she went through every shampoo and hairbrush and comb she buys and removed anything coming from the US.
People outside Denmark often don’t realise how much the country considers itself a US ally. They are ride or die. They joined the Iraq war even though that was a dumb idea. They had an entire reality TV show about the US ambassador a few years ago.

And yet. The last month, that has completely changed. The Greenland thing baffled the country and worried the government. But it’s really the about face on Ukraine that is angering people. They thought that because they had the US’s back, it was be reciprocated. They thought they shared values.
The sentiment of betrayal is growing.

It’s a small country. It doesn’t weigh much. But when you lose an ally like this, you should be very, very worried. Because there’s probably no one left who truly cares for you. Only sycophants looking for qui pro quos.

Supermarket chains are now highlighting which products come from Europe, to help people avoid American goods: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/vil-du-boykotte-amerikanske-varer-nu-saetter-dagligvarekaempe-sort-stjerne-ved (with apologies to the other continents who are caught in the cross-fire).

Seriously, this is an unbelievable change for Denmark.

Seriously.

Fashion articles in newspapers will have a headline like "the new trend everyone is jumping on to this season! Don't miss it!" and the trend will be "beige".

Next month is #FreezerFebruary: when you eat (or compost, if best-before date is too far in the past) everything left in your freezer, no matter what.
On March 1st, you turn it off and defrost it, and start spring with a clean freezer.
Frost in the freezer takes up space and wastes energy. This is good for you AND for the planet.
Who is with me?

@aral “the call frightened Danish authorities and moved both parties farther from a deal.” What weird framing. This is Trump-speak. There is no “deal” to be had. There is nothing on the table that Trump is entitled to. He’s not entitled to Greenland, not a bit of it. Greenland belongs to itself. Making a “deal” about Greenland is a non-starter.

If you want to know how #feminism is going in #France, this week a woman had to go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights to have it affirmed that not having sex with her husband wasn’t a fault. A French Court had declared that marriage created an obligation to deliver sex.