After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.
“I do think there is that element of it which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’
No Shabana Mahmood, it's more like "How dare you, a Labour MP, spout far-right white nationalist talking points and remove rights from refugees"
Democracy is under attack in the USA. You can bet Farage and Reform - huh - are taking notes
How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them
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📣 New @etsc.eu report says cycling not being made safe enough, fast enough across EU 🚴♂️
🤔 What's needed? Report says more urban 20mph, more protected cycle lanes & safe junctions etc. Full report: www.etsc.eu/pinflash50
Surprised?
Anyone?
You can’t understand the Iran War or end it unless you realize that, for Trump, it’s NOT ABOUT IRAN.
He started the war expecting a “wartime president” boost in popularity, before the midterms.
He chose Iran because he expected that attacking Muslims would play well with his bigoted supporters.
Frankly, Shabana Mahmood can “fick right off” and take her horrible oppressive immigration policies with her
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"A separate group of government cronies, implicated in a large-scale corruption case, are alleged by one source with knowledge of their plans to be eyeing a move to Australia."
"One well-known regime stooge is alleged by sources to have sent or invested hundreds of billions of forints in Saudi Arabia. Other destinations include the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states, as well as — for an older generation of oligarchs — Singapore and Hong Kong.
"key oligarchs and regime stooges are scrambling to move their wealth out of Hungary before Magyar's government can freeze, seize or nationalize it. Private jets are reportedly being used to carry cash and other valuables to destinations across the Middle East.
From Vsquare.org
"The scale of Fidesz's defeat—and the supermajority won by Magyar's Tisza party—has sent shockwaves through the Orbán regime's economic empire. Those with the most to lose, including their personal freedom, are not waiting to find out what the incoming government intends to do.
A giant 8kg Ferrero Rocher
This is the real ambassadorial scandal they are trying to hide!!
How the Strokes ended their second Coachella set!
#TheStrokes #Coachella
Yes, we should impose extra charges on large SUVs, especially because of the danger they pose to other road users, the damage they do, and the space they take up.
I wish Labour had done this with all the dodgy Tory appointments
How the Kremlin Turned a MAGA Influencer Trip Into an Influence Operation - yep, no surprises there again
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This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.
And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.
SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists | Transport | The Guardian
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New: Big Tech secures secrecy in EU data centre law, keeping critical environmental information out of reach.
Microsoft and DigitalEurope – a lobby representing Amazon, Google and Meta – successfully pushed for an amendment classifying information on individual facilities as confidential.
Of course it hasn't paid
The state of solar: Despite partisan rhetoric, the industry is still booming grist.org/energy/solar...
Reclaim (the sides of) the Streets!
Ahem...
“We welcome migrants; we don’t scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of people who come here: they’re political failure. So we have to make the case for the benefits of migration; for the benefits of free movement.”
- Keir Starmer (2020)
Pavement parking is outrightly dangerous to wheelchair users, visually impaired people & children walking to school.
Write to your MP today, telling them to vote on a crucial Government amendment to reclaim pavements for people @livingstreets.bsky.social
act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/189938/...
Call for action.
We all hate pavement parkers don't we as they're selfish morons.
Well here is a chance to influence action. There's a vote on Tuesday by MPs.
Please use this link to email you mp and ask them to vote for the amendment.
Shy bairns get nowt!
act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/189938/...
This is exactly how this street should be. It is not a street designed for motor vehicles, which are guests.
Already, people are demanding in these videos that the tech becomes more assertive against pedestrians and cyclists.
This is the beginning of a slippery slope for human-scale cities.
Clownishly evil sociopaths like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Larry Ellison and Benjamin Netanyahu should be *nowhere near* the levers of global power—and increasingly both the left *and* the right see it. So what do we do now?
We let the worst people on Earth become the most powerful people on Earth, at a time when the most powerful people on Earth had ready access to the tools to destroy Earth.
Those words will be on humanity's gravestone—should any of a dozen rolling disasters cause global collapse.
Bugger, just after we got Hungary back, we go and lose Bulgaria 😳
