Finnish CSOs receive government grants for development cooperation and humanitarian work - Ministry for Foreign Affairs
The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs has awarded approximately EUR 311
million to Finnish civil society...
The Finnish government cuts development cooperation funds but excludes CSOs from the scope of these cuts - except the one linked to trade unions, @sask.fi, that is subjected to drastic cuts.
This is unprecedented in Finnish development policy. A political revenge.
um.fi/current-affa... @sak.fi
05.12.2025 09:05 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
04.12.2025 16:18 — 👍 1371 🔁 741 💬 4 📌 55
🚨 BREAKING: Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and top diplomat Stefano Sannino are in custody after Belgian police launched raids as part of a fraud probe.
Read the story: politi.co/4pORFPb
02.12.2025 13:22 — 👍 55 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 6
That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
01.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 181 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 1
Sanna Marin ajaa Ukrainan asiaa – Suomessa kukaan ei tunnu tietävän, mitä hän tekee
Sanna Marin edistää työkseen Ukrainan EU-jäsenyyttä, mutta Suomessa kukaan ei tunnu tietävän, mitä hän tekee. Yle selvitti Marinin toimenkuvaa.
Näin lobbauksen ja ulkopolitiikan parissa pitkään työskennelleenä, tämä Marin -artikkeli on ihan hyvä, mutta kaipaa hieman kontekstia Tony Blair Instituutin (TBI) kaltaisten organisaatioiden toimintamallista.
Pari lisäystä, jotka eivät oikeastaan liity Sanna Mariniin:
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yle.fi/a/74-20196245
01.12.2025 10:11 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
D&D disappointment. This hobbit-vampire encounter really wasn't very challenging. Low stakes.
30.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 268 🔁 19 💬 17 📌 0
2/2 link:
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
29.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 1029 🔁 344 💬 19 📌 6
Hey.
Wanna see what it looks like to fly past your home planet?
THEN LOOK AT THIS
This is the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft's view as it swung by Earth on Tuesday, 23 September 2025 from an altitude of 3,500 km.
Look how beautiful that big blue marble is ❤️
25.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 226 🔁 47 💬 7 📌 7
S-ryhmä on ollut kohun keskellä lopetettuaan muutaman Israelista tulevan tuotteen myynnin. Valikoimaa koskevia ihmisoikeuspäätöksiä tehdään yrityksissä joka päivä, ja päätöksiä ohjaavat YK:ssa sovitut yritysvastuun säännöt, kirjoittaa @sonjafiner.bsky.social www.finnwatch.org/fi/blogi/kee...
25.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 106 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 2
Landmark win at the EU’s top court! ⚖️🇪🇺 The CJEU has ruled that Member States must recognise same-sex marriages concluded in another EU country when couples exercise free movement. A crucial step for equality and for all families denied recognition.
25.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders
The Luxembourg-based court said a decision by Polish authorities infringed on a same-sex couple’s freedom of movement.
The EU’s top court ruled today that when a same-sex couple is legally married in one member country, any other member country where they move or reside must recognize that marriage.
25.11.2025 11:17 — 👍 333 🔁 122 💬 5 📌 7
Kokoomuksen kansanedustaja Tere Sammallahti sanoi eilen Facebookissa, että "Gaza sai sitä mitä tilasi".
Gazassa on tapettu kymmeniä tuhansia siviilejä, joista vähintään 20 000 on lapsia. Keskosia jätettiin kuolemaan sairaaloihin, lapsia on ammuttu tarkkuuskivääreillä päähän, vauvoja on näännytetty nälkään.
Tere Sammallahden mukaan tämä on oikeudenmukaista, Gaza sai mitä se tilasi.
Onkohan kukaan suomalaispoliitikko vielä tähän mennessä antanut näin avointa tukeaan palestiinalaisten massamurhaamiselle?
Suomen poliittinen todellisuus on nykyään sitä, että hallituspuolueen edustaja voi peukuttaa kansanmurhaa ilman, että siitä tulee hänelle minkäänlaisia ongelmia.
21.11.2025 10:51 — 👍 159 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 0
Tässä on Trumpin rauhansuunnitelma Ukrainalle – lue sanasta sanaan
Ukrainalle lupaillaan turvatakuita Yhdysvalloilta mutta ei jäsenyyttä Natoon.
Trumpin ns. rauhansuunnitelma on Tuomas Forsbergin sanoin katastrofi.
Mutta miksi se tarkalleen ottaen on niin kammottavan huono?
Tässä suunnitelma purettuna kohta kohdalta 🧵
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21.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 176 🔁 36 💬 8 📌 5
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
18.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 1664 🔁 749 💬 10 📌 48
I was reading this apple-based TTRPG and found it pretty indigestible, but then I realised it was the core set.
19.11.2025 08:07 — 👍 182 🔁 24 💬 22 📌 1
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESAC site in Spain.
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESRIN site in Frascati, Italy.
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESEC site in Belgium.
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESOC site in Darmstadt, Germany.
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
18.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 901 🔁 196 💬 8 📌 23
"The options presented in this note are stark, both in their design and in their implications. Clearly, there are no easy options," von der Leyen warns. "Europe cannot afford paralysis, either by hesitation or by the search for perfect or simple solutions which do not exist."
17.11.2025 11:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
At the same time, this means that I will be available for new projects.
So if you have an exciting idea that requires the expertise of someone specialising in supranational democracy, EU institutional reform, and the why and wherefore of European integration in general: please get in touch!
17.11.2025 07:08 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
A key difference between Trek and Wars that can get lost easily. One is submarines, the other is fighter jets.
16.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 114 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
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Eduskuntatalo alhaalta päin ja yllä teksti "20 järjestön vaatimukset tulevalle hallitukselle: Suomi sitoutuu ihmisoikeussopimuksiin, vahvistaa oikeusvaltiota ja edistää ihmisoikeuksia ja yhdenvertaisuutta."
Yhteensä 20 ihmisoikeusjärjestöä on julkaissut ehdotuksensa hallitusohjelmakirjauksiksi vuodelle 2027. Järjestöt vaativat, että ihmisoikeudet ja oikeusvaltio ovat tulevan hallitusohjelman ytimessä konkreettisina toimina.
Lue järjestöjen ehdotukset kokonaisuudessaan 👇
www.amnesty.fi/ihmisoikeusj...
13.11.2025 12:44 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
🔥 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social latest report exposes how billionaires are fuelling the climate crisis — hoarding profits, polluting at extreme levels, and blocking progress. As #COP30 begins, we need bold action to stop this climate plunder & put people before profit.
🔗 Report: buff.ly/BrKIiCS
13.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Omnibus I: EU sustainability and Due diligence legislation
The Greens/EFA Group did not support the omnibus I package which completely dilutes the EU's sustainability and due diligence legislation.
The Christian Democrat EPP just collaborated with the far right to dismantle child labour prevention and nature protection.
This is a bad day for Europe and the values that we all stand for.
First reaction by our co-presidents @terryreintke.bsky.social and @baseickhout.bsky.social 👇
13.11.2025 11:07 — 👍 32 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 2
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
12.11.2025 10:17 — 👍 196 🔁 118 💬 6 📌 11
postgothic music for the beginnings and endings of worlds
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