Why oh why?

There’s nothing like integrity-driven leadership.
And this is nothing like…

Part A: Probably
Part B; Probably

Just beautiful.

It literally was neither one man nor a spam campaign

Always great not to have any details on the margin of error, participant selection, questions asked, actual age groups questioned, media used, countries studied, or anything else that might distract from the comms strategy of whoever paid for the survey.
As you might say…jeetje 🤦‍♂️

X (formerly better)

Vorübergehend 😒

Parliamentary question | Employees can get their holidays back if sick on paid leave – an aberration of European case-law imposed on our companies | P-003879/2025 | European Parliament Priority question for written answer P-003879/2025/rev.1 to the Commission Rule 144 Sarah Knafo (ESN)

An extreme right ***anti-EU*** Member of the European Parliament calling on the ***European Commission*** to overturn the decisions of the ***French*** courts, thereby removing rights from ***French***voters
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

It seems objectively bananas

I was curious to know if there was any sort of argument on the other side, even a weak one.
I consider myself below average in such matters and it seems unequivocal and obvious to me.

How on earth could that not be the case?
Does anyone argue that this is n the case? Using what logic?

Meta, without cracking up at the gag, complained that having to obey the law in some countries, but not yet in others, undermina the borderless EU single market.

“…sparked fresh criticism of Fox’s credibility…”

The UK Conservative Party has a cunning plan to win back voters-
- by threatening to remove their human rights safeguards
- by threatening to removed their social security safety net
- by threatening to destroy their environment by overturning their own environmental policies.
🤦‍♀️

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

indeed, although that should be implicit in following Russia and Belarus

Do you (have to) use LinkedIn? Want out of their AI model-training bollocksology?

Opt out here, h/t to @lizcarolan.com:

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

#spéirghorm #ireland #linkedin #notoai

Is there any indication of any kind that the data in question was actually deleted? It seems unlikely to me, but l could be wrong

Dutch court rejects X’s bid to silence data privacy claimant A Dutch appeals court has rejected X’s request for a gag order against a Dutch legal scholar — in a case challenging 'shadowbanning' under EU privacy and Digital Services Act rules.

“Yesterday, a Dutch appeals court threw out Elon Musk’s X request for a gag order against local tech expert and legal scholar Danny Mekić. Mekić sued X in 2023 after the platform briefly made his account invisible, a so-called shadow ban“ euobserver.com/digital/ar90...

Dear journalists,
Please provide some context when reporting on politicians threatening to leave the ECHR - instead of “Badenoch threatened to leave the ECHR“ say “Badenoch threatened to join Russia and Belarus in leaving the ECHR“

Trump wants lies and hate to be protected? I’m shocked. Shocked!
Unlike the US, where free speech is only a constitutional right, freedom of expression is already protected as a *fundamental* right in the EU and, separately, the CoE region.

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

There are no “opposition lawmakers“ in the European Parliament

I can offer my dictionary in case the definition of consent is baffling anybody

This is an ostensibly left wing government in 2025

Trump warns ‘all hell’ will break loose if Hamas doesn’t agree to peace plan deadline The US president warned Hamas will be ‘quickly extinguished’ if it rejects his proposed deal

He doesn’t appear to know, or to want to know, that all hell broke loose long ago
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Czechs begin voting in election that could return populist to power Billionaire Andrej Babiš hands out doughnuts on first day of voting as polls predict his ANO party will win

Reading the press coverage today, it is difficult to tell if there are other candidates
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wow. This guy looks really like a semi deflated Mark Rutte balloon

<Keir Starmer Voice>
"We risk becoming... an island of morons."