📌 ETUI-ETUC joint conference: #ClimateChange and workers’ health
🌍🔥 Climate change is transforming the world of work. From rising temperatures to more frequent extreme weather events, workers across Europe are increasingly exposed to new and intensified occupational risks
🔗 etui.org/4US
The industry museum and public library are great to see! Also getting some bikes and cycling around a bit along the canal to the west (or anywhere tbh) is nice. The Sint Pieterstuin and uni botanical gardens are hidden gems too. Have fun!
Corporate Welfare.
UK Govt to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset.
The Govt isn't taking an equity stake in return, won't receive any dividends. It isn't a loan and isn't repayable.
Political parties demonize human recipients of welfare but hand free money to corporations.
It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters.
The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all.
Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.
The far-left hippy loonies at the... er... European Central Bank *cough* are saying that fossil fuel dependency is a major threat to the EU. It calls for the Bloc to meet its clean energy targets and "Transition now – or pay more later". Lefties, eh 🙄
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
“What’s missing in the rest of the world is courage,” she said. “Mayors could say: ‘This is my opportunity [to leave a] legacy,’ but most will not dare.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Zack in front of a hope is here sign.
🚨 First time in British history that a party to the left of Labour have topped a national poll.
💚 Hope is here. It's all of us.
✊🏼 Reject hateful, divisive politics - and let's make hope normal again.
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Merci pour transformer Paris!
Let's #degrowcars!
Absolutely! Let's be like Paris and many other French towns run by Green and declutter streets and remove advertising. It's amazing once you notice what's absent!
Habe ich das richtig verstanden, dass die gleiche Regierung, die Mio. Menschen vorschreibt für lange Auslandsreisen eine Genehmigung der Bundeswehr einzuholen, gleichzeitg kein Tempolimit durchsetzen kann, weil es sich um eine unzumutbare Freiheitseinschränkung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger handelt?
I hope they get a company who knows what they're doing and doesn't create such nonsense as the Blackbird Leys fiasco... Hopefully some firms with experience abroad as well! @brenttoderian.bsky.social @dutchcycling.nl @cycloxoxford.bsky.social @oxfordpedestrians.bsky.social
Ist wirklich krass wie sehr in Deutschland sowohl die EU als auch die Rechtsstaatlichkeit so einfach angegriffen werden. Undich Frage mich was mit der deutschen Gesellschaft passiert ist, das so etwas einfach hingenommen wird. Wann kommt der Aufschrei? Wann ist es genug?
@spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @die-linke.de @volteuropa.org @freiedemokraten.bsky.social wie ist das so mit den Freiheitsrechten, Europa und der Rechtsstaatlichkeit? Sind die jetzt vorbei? Leute haben genug davon, besonders in den Grenzregionen! @europeanspod.bsky.social @taz.de @jonworth.eu
Police officer checking everyone's ID in ICE
Wann enden endlich die illegalen Grenzkontrollen? When will Germany's illegal border checks end? Quand voit-on la fin des contrôles frontières illégaux en Allemagne ? Such a waste of money & time! #crossborderrail #Schengen @friendsofeurope.bsky.social @freiheitsrechte.org @eurcorrespond.bsky.social
Suicidal tendencies:
"IG Metall fordert weitere Aufweichung des Verbrennerverbots.
Die EU hat ihr Verbrennerverbot im Dezember stark abgeschwächt. Nun fordert die IG-Metall-Chefin auch Ausnahmen für Plug-in-Hybride und Autos mit Reichweitenverstärker."
Und Panzer.
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
The oil price hike *ought* to be a chance for European railways
In 🇩🇪 for example 99% of long distance and 80% of regional rail passenger-km are on ⚡️ railways
No transport mode is better sheltered from price hikes
Can the rail sector seize the opportunity?
jonworth.eu/rising-fuel-...
A huge betrayal.
Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks.
And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...
Infographic with a picture of Tom Walker, aka Jonathan Pie, accompanied by a quote from a YouTube clip dated February 2025: "I do think it’s reasonable to not expect your water bills to rise knowing your daily morning dump will still be floating in the English Channel by teatime.”
The Jonathan Pie rants are satire, but the water companies' shocking treatment of our rivers and seas is deadly serious.
Between 2025-2030, £22 BILLION of billpayers’ money will go straight into the pockets of private investors - double the amount they took between 2020-24.
Privatisation is a con.
Das neue Buch von Isabella M. Weber auf grünem Hintergrund und mit dem Button "Buch des Monats". Daneben der Erscheinungstermin 13.10.2026.
»Können wir jetzt endlich eine ernsthafte Diskussion über eine antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik führen?«
Unser Buch des Monats kommt erst im Oktober – kann aber jetzt schon vorgemerkt werden: »Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik« (shrk.vg/Wirtschaftsp...) von @isabellamweber.bsky.social.
Interesting arguments @ianloader.bsky.social #degrowcars
Israel is an apartheid state.
That apartheid now officially includes the death penalty.
Israel has long engaged in mass extrajudicial executions of Palestinians.
It's now official state policy.
‘Wow, people were so angry at Labour!’ Green MP Hannah Spencer on politics, plumbing, smears and snobbery
Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.
Das stimmt schon. Wie in Paris muss ein Schritt nach dem anderen gegangen werden und das hier ist definitiv eine große Verbesserung!
This will be so much nicer and reduce conflicts and stress for everyone. Looking forward to seeing it completed! #velorution
I hope you find a good alternative. I'm thinking it's a great way to try out the new route by @europeansleeper.eu - always trying to find the upside! I love that Interrail tickets are also valid there! Now if SNCF could do that for all their trains...
Thanks Jon! You sadly never know with SNCF, but it does seem weird that they can't reroute or even have a slower connection on that train even with works. I really hope for some more competence in European #crossborderrail one day!
It's great that @europeansleeper.eu is starting up it's night train route instead, just a bit bizarre that exactly when that starts he ICE disappears from the timetable... Especially over the important Easter holidays! Don't tell me you're "prioritising" national trains? #crossborderrail