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🇪🇺 Fascinating conversation about everything EU reforming democracy, balancing subsidiarity with central authority, building a more confident EU "If I was in charge I would reform the EU A LOT" — Lambertus @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social interviews @lambertus.wsocial.eu from @eumadesimple.wsocial.eu

Take this with a pinch of salt, since we do not know what actually happened in these meetings: In February 2025, reports revealed private meetings between Alice Weidel and China’s ambassador. Other parties questioned these contacts and her closeness to China’s authoritarian regime. #AfD #Weidel

Always fun to see the actual elite trying to warn us about ”the elite”

The AfD leak could shed new light on a previous #AfD donation scandal. Alice #Weidel may have been more deeply involved in illegal party donations, and at an earlier stage, than she has admitted. #Germany

To save democracy, Europe must disarm Russia's fifth column

🇪🇺🇸🇦🇦🇪🇶🇦🇧🇭🇴🇲🇰🇼 As Washington reduces its Middle East security footprint, European powers are stepping in to safeguard critical infrastructure and trade routes. France, the UK, and Italy are deploying troops, radar, and Typhoons, even as severe Houthi attacks force the postponement of the EU-GCC Summit.

Paris City Tours

President Zelenskyy has become one of the world’s greatest heroes. That’s eating Putin and Trump alive.

🎨 A church transformed into a world of colour and biblical imagery: the richly painted interior in Eschfeld, Germany. Walls, arches and vaults become one continuous work of sacred art. 📷 Victor Kemp #FrescoFriday #WSocialPics #SacredArt #ChurchArt #Eschfeld

"It's Europe that is our main enemy. The Germans, the French, the Poles." Following the diesel deal with the Trump administration, Russian state propaganda is recalibrating its message.

The Indian Army's artillery displays are something else...

"Sie kamen vorbereitet. (...) Sie hatten Adressen jüdischer Ladenbesitzer. In einer Straße in Marseille wurden alle Geschäfte, die Juden gehörten, angezündet. Geschäfte, die von Muslimen geführt wurden, nicht." #17octobre

Trump’s worldview is that it is good for evil to prevail and wrong for the righteous to resist.

The White House has announced the new press secretary.

Imagine if Al Capone were US president in 1940, colluding with Henry Ford to undermine the UK and support Nazi Germany. That is today’s reality

And Musk will weaponize X too, whenever he finds it useful. X is part of the pro Russian #Starlink company SpaceX. @andyburnham.bsky.social @diplo.de @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @jamestalarico.bsky.social

🌊 This is what they found out about the #AMOC so far. Can: AMOC is weakening from melting ice, altering 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 coastal water levels and 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 🇪🇺 weather. Cannot: Predict exact timing or triggers for a full collapse. Confidence: Medium confidence of no complete collapse this century, but high risk.

„Vergebung ist der einzige Weg, um den irreversiblen Fluss der Geschichte umzukehren." Gute Nacht mit Hannah Arendt

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

Forests are more than just wood and are important for the water balance. The groundwater beneath a forest is clean, oxygen-rich and excellent for producing drinking water. That is why forests are particularly often also water protection areas.💚🌱☘️🌿🌲🌳🍀💚

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🇨🇳 Trains running through apartment blocks, streets stacked above streets. DamiLee explores how terrain, wartime history and rapid development shaped this city, and what happens when a place starts building itself around its own image. From one of my favourite channels on #culture and #architecture.

I like that @gandersocial.ca, after raising its post limit to 900 characters, is now introducing open and invite-only communities. If you can share posts with friends, followers or a list only, it could make Facebook obsolete for those who want more than microblogging and want to get rid of Meta.

Repeat after us: Public media CAN be cutting-edge! 😎 Chicago.com, our partnership with @wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com, is part of a new wave, where public media organizations are meeting newer audiences where they’re at (online) and building BETTER digital spaces for them to gather.

🌿 Nature taking over abandoned high-rises in China. Near Shantou, Guangdong, the Nanhu Apartments have been left to the trees and vines, which now cover the buildings and grow through the balconies. Looks like something from a post-apocalyptic film.

Security forces began detaining protesters at a KPRF rally in Moscow attended by around 2,000 people. Arrests reportedly began after protesters chanted, “Down with the Tsar!"👑 ✅️Follow us for the latest updates

ART - AN ANSWER TO DESPAIR Amid war, a pandemic, crisis and decay, Venice gave birth to a new vision of humanity: the #Renaissance. Artists and thinkers forged beauty, meaning and hope from hardship and longing. (You can switch to the English audio track in this video)

🇩🇪 Germany is valuable because almost every major geographical advantage in Europe overlaps in the same place.

Worth bearing in mind for online debates these days: ​“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” — Karl Popper #socialmedia #atmosphere #fediverse

At autumn’s doorstep. 🍂

🇳🇱 The Oudezijds Kolk in Amsterdam in the 1890s: a narrow canal between tall brick houses, barges with barrels, green shutters and a sailmaker's sign. Photochrom by Photoglob Zürich. #Amsterdam #Netherlands #Nederland #Europe #photo #photography #vintage

I don’t want to hate. I don’t want to feel overwhelmed. I don’t want to feel jealous. I just want a place for hope. A place to learn, share ideas and gain insight into others. I hope W can become our virtual Café Procope, A Brasileira or Coffe Baum in Europe. 🇪🇺☕ @anna.wsocial.eu #socialmedia

“It’s increasingly clear the British state is in the early stages of addiction to Palantir and all it represents. We now have a chance to chart a new and better course away from Palantir. We should take it quickly, with both hands.” #NoToPalantir www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-1...

🇪🇺 JUST FOR FUN If the EU were merely the last bastion of civilised regulation, it might as well sound a bit more Byzantine. ​EU: Nea Oikoumenē Brussels: Hieron Palation Parliament: Hiera Synkletos Council: Synedrion ton Archonton Commission: Sekreton ton Logotheton Court of⚖️: Kriterion tou Palatiou

Absolute perfection by @igorpianist.bsky.social

🇹🇷 Switch from American to European Social Media now! From what I understand, EU platforms like Wsocial or Eurosky operate under GDPR, meaning #Turkye has zero jurisdiction. 🇪🇺🔒 However, to achieve full digital freedom inside Turkey, you still need a VPN to bypass local network blocks.

"They aren't really shooting at us."

🇮🇹 Fishermen haul in their nets in a quiet bay on the Amalfi Coast, with houses at the water's edge and a church on the slope above. Oil painting by Carl Morgenstern, 1867. #Amalfi #AmalfiCoast #CostieraAmalfitana #Italy #Italia #Europe #OilPainting #art #vintage

It is somehow striking that the Sad Mac had Xs for eyes, isn’t it?

There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.

🇩🇪 More solar power has already been generated in Germany this year than in the entire previous year.

🇺🇸 The US administration’s current business model, apparently: Nice government you've got here. Would be a shame if something happened to it — That's essentially what US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly told a Greek government minister, according to the @wsj.com

This is RuTube. Why can Russians have their own YouTube, while we can’t get EuTube? They have whole ecosystem. Yandex, VKontakt… Americans have their own, Chinese have their own, only we need their handouts… … and when they decide to sanction us for refusing to bomb random nation for no reason…

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Ukraine flew 4,000 kg of food by drone to starving residents of occupied Oleshky in one of the largest runs yet Russia shoots down supply drones and beats residents who accept food. Thousands are trapped, Prokudin said. 🔗 buff.ly/enTl8yB