Under pressure from the federal censor, the Russian social network VK has quietly shut down a grassroots “I’ll Give Away Insulin” section where 32,000 diabetics shared spare test strips, needles, and even insulin. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank will move their IT operations to a European Schwarz Digits. All major (financial) institutions should move their ops to sovereign European infrastructure.
Also it would be cool & neat for ICC judge (and other people sanxzioned by the lunatic empire) to be able to pay for groceries digitally . Just saying
@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
Cash before Sparkassenpay by Amazon. Sorry
Why we need a ECB operated sovereign Digital €, exhibit No 78938 (and not another SuperWallet300 from banks)
Doesn't help that EPP rapporteur Navarrete, formerly a second fiddle economist with Banco de España (!), sabotages the project constantly in a way that looks very personally motivated.
And don't forget to setup and verify Alipay/Wechat with your Passport before you enter China.
You often need a local number for certain services and apps like Amap/Gaode etc. A Hong Kong nr from an operator like 3 works too.
If it's a Hong Kong/ international sim, then yes.
Reddit r/chinatravel is usually a good source for up-to-date info on VPN's.
If you're noticing parallels with a certain slice of German society here, you're not wrong. These people have disadvantage on Will saves against "oh, you're criticising the Israeli government, well that's antisemitism".
Reddit aeronautical forces are on it
Start your "Analysis from Jiu Valley" blog already. I'd subscribe.
Have a couple of grams left but not enough for a full hit? Time for a zombie-blend. Yes I used my prodigal beans for that.
Every specialty roaster does a house blend, classic ones like 50-50 Brazil/Ethiopia are common I believe.
Rare species made extinct in rural Bavaria 3 centuries ago?
Shoot it immediately and put the stuffed carcass in our heritage museum!
what do you expect from WEAK ON WILDLIFE BERLINERS? hardcore tattooed top to bottom but soft as butter when it comes to dealing with "dangerous" 🐷!
Deploy armed Bad Tölz rednecks drunk on Enzian in Prenzlberg eh I mean the esteemed Gebirgsschützen of 1705.
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...
The great replaćement: "Foreign species invading Polish streets and hunting native citizens" (channeling my inner TV Republika editor here) #robotkurwa
www.instagram.com/reel/DXPAMq1...
Time to use the bayonet @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
@fbermingham.bsky.social
Looks at the the fixed bayonets:
"Sure buddy, you're totally give the orders from now on"
Congrats from a Tauglichkeitsgrad T5 nicht wehrdienstfähig.
Light technical vehicles used widely by the RSF in battle, about 120 seen here before being delivered to the RSF. December 29th 2025.
About 200 light technical vehicles seen on February 18th.
RSF fighter aboard a technical
Short thread containing satellite imagery of Emirati weapons smuggled to the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan, with accompanying file photos. Snapped at a secret RSF logistics base in western Ethiopia (10°05'55.5"N 34°34'50.9"E).
Wednesday marked 3 years since the start of Sudan's brutal civil war.
Cross-border-rail, 1872 Edition
@jonworth.eu
Major Bundestag hearing next Monday regarding construction of NBS Hamburg-Hannover HSL. Notably absent from the supporter coalition of 6 states is Niedersachsen, home of railway-nimby in chief Lars Klingbeil.
www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...
I'm at #BerlinVerbindetEuropa to present my new #CrossBorderRail map and data that has been researched with help of Europäische Akademie Berlin
Fixing cross border transport infra is surely a solid way to make the European Union *mean* something...
My essay on that jonworth.eu/my-railway-w...
The Transylvanian has returned! How did the subjects take the fall of the Magyar king?
Aus aktuellem Anlass die Erinnerung, dass Werner Patzelt, einst Deutschlands prominentester Politikwissenschaftler und Politikberater der CDU Sachsen, Forschungsdirektor des Mathias Corvinus Collegiums (Brüssel) ist, Orbáns rechtsradikaler Kaderschmiede, wo letzte Woche auch JD Vance zu Gast war.
"Insert Bruno Ganz Führerbunker meltdown meme"
SCMP: Péter has thoughts on the the Budapest-Belgrade line
"an example of something not in 🇭🇺 interests, saying it was built with 🇨🇳 money, technology and workers, primarily for 🇨🇳 benefit, and funded by “an enormous sum of money that is sorely missing from 🇭🇺 own railway development”
@jonworth.eu
Coincidentally New Lines has an article out today on Chinese ev investments in Hungary
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...
Really interesting peace. Seems like 🇨🇳 auto & energy investments into Spain are paying off politically. Wonder whether we will see more there and less projects in Hungary now.
Merz, like other leaders, also appears keen to tamp down trade tensions with Beijing to avoid fighting several trade wars at once, given the parlous state of EU-US ties. Perhaps too the concentrated time spent with German execs on a plane to China had an effect...
