Notices by juliette (juliette@mastodon.green)

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.

#accessibility question: when I share a hashtag with multiple words in it, do screen readers know that different words are marked by capitalization? Or is it a jumble of letters?

@louis @mekkaokereke This is how I feel about climate disasters. I used to think “when the shit really hits the fan, it will be too late, but they will have to admit climate change is real.” And here we are, LA went up in flames, and they are saying the problem is woke firefighters.
They are choosing not to believe their own eyes and ears.
It is, however, very relevant to note down *who* is telling you not to believe your eyes and ears. Many are centrists who should be discredited forever.

What is the name of this stitch/ cable pattern? This is on a handmade garment I bought online for baby, and I just adore it. It’s honeycomb shaped, except honeycomb stitch is something else… I would love to try to make something like this! #knitting @knitting

I feel like I write a version of this every year, but once again: your New Year's resolutions should be joyful, not a punishment.

I have been listing the things that keep me tied to #Facebook and a main one is the strength of the local Facebook groups, even for a small rural community. Are there examples of successful small-town networks existing outside Facebook? And in particular, successful “migrations” from meta-owned platforms to something more independent? #socialmedia

@Pepijn needs a blink tag