Nostr notes by Ruth Mottram

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2026-10-29T21:19:11Z

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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2016/apr/25/patrick-stewart-sketch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video

rigtig godt spørgsmål - ingen anelse, men jeg følger gerne... ...

2026-10-28T05:43:31Z

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rigtig godt spørgsmål - ingen anelse, men jeg følger gerne... (Hvis det skulle være på engelsk, anbefaler jeg ark books på Nørrebro, eller på fransk, den fransk bogcafe i indre byen, men på danske, ved ikke...)

Thirty years of hurt (and eleven years of writing about it) … ...

2026-10-27T15:37:11Z

Thirty years of hurt (and eleven years of writing about it) …

Every September, as the melt season on the Greenland ice sheet fizzles out, I and my colleague Martin Stendel do the same thing: we sit down with a year's worth of daily surface mass balance maps and weather charts from the Polar Portal, work out how the ice sheet fared, and write it up as a guest post for Carbon Brief. Our latest one, the 11th in the series covers September 2025 to August 2026 and this…

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/10/27/thirty-years-of-hurt-and-eleven-years-of-writing-about-it/

The afternoon session at the Danish climate symposium is on the ...

2026-10-27T12:53:27Z

The afternoon session at the Danish climate symposium is on the very relevant subject of Arctic security and climate change, including launch of this report on the Greenland perspective of climate and security

#ClimateChange #Arctic #ArcticSecurity

https://pavlinakolouskova.paperturn-view.com/klimaforandringer-og-sikkerhed-i-arktis

Kicking off the 2-day Danish climate symposium this morning with ...

2026-10-27T08:35:49Z

Kicking off the 2-day Danish climate symposium this morning with IPCC vice chair Ladislaus Chang'a, who is also director of Tanzania's meteorology agency.

The Danish climate status report is to be launched here too.

https://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/2026/dmi-tager-temperaturen-paa-klimaet

#NCKF #IPCC #DKklima

This was clear already 5 years ago, simply from conversations ...

2026-10-25T10:17:08Z

This was clear already 5 years ago, simply from conversations with my own kids. I believe its also a factor in the extraordinary move of especygirls to private schools in Denmark. The folkeskole alas does not seem to be able to get to grips with the effects.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117490218529175287
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green - Virtually every Danish boy or young man on TikTok is exposed to content from the manosphere. It is beginning to show up in schools.

https://politiken.dk/edition/news/art11032786/Danish-teenage-boys-are-being-bombarded-Now-misogyny-is-moving-into-classrooms

Every boy everywhere is relentlessy exposed every moment of every day to hatred of women by Big Tech.

Throwback Saturday memory: there's something about Paris. ...

2026-10-24T06:38:18Z

Throwback Saturday memory: there's something about Paris.

(This was taken from the high tower on the university campus).

To those who complain about Deutsche Bahn*, wait till you try the ...

2026-10-17T08:33:31Z

To those who complain about Deutsche Bahn*,
wait till you try the Deutsche Autobahn..

We decided to try a new transport mode to cross Germany this week, having left ticket booking too late to be reasonably priced and given recent disruptions on the line.
Our rental EV, a VW ID.4 was perfect, long range, lots of space, good acceleration and a very large network of super fast chargers everywhere.

But I wonder if there is more than a 50km stretch of autobahn between Denmark and the Belgian border that is not currently undergoing some kind of work?

Back to letting the train take the strain next time.

*I admit I am occasionally one of those too.

I feel like the old science twitter would have a good answer to ...

2026-10-14T21:05:59Z

I feel like the old science twitter would have a good answer to this question, but let's try here. I understand Eutel Oneweb can/will make a European equivalent to #starlink.
Perhaps even with higher orbits to avoid the satellite orbit pollution.

Is this true? When will it be ready? How do we switch to it?

Yes this is also a question about how we can help #Ukraine.
#AskFedi

Sometimes, you accidentally find something you once wrote and ...

2026-10-10T10:05:00Z

Sometimes, you accidentally find something you once wrote and think "actually, that was pretty good advice, I should follow my own principles more".

So here's an old one from the blog about surviving and (maybe) thriving in #science and #research more generally
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/01/25/just-one-thing/
#AcademicChatter

Ok fedizens, I will shortly be driving a rental EV around rural ...

2026-10-07T18:22:53Z

Ok fedizens, I will shortly be driving a rental EV around rural northern and Western Germany, (+ possibly SE Belgium) - what apps should I download and prepare for charging? Any suggestions on good plans to sign up for?

#EV #AskFedi #AlwaysBeCharging

Antarctic snows For most of this century, the Antarctic Ice Sheet ...

2026-10-06T06:18:21Z

Antarctic snows

For most of this century, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass at a pretty steady rate of around 100 Gigatonnes a year, pushing up global sea levels a small amount (about one third of a millimetre per year in fact, a little less than half the Greenland contribution for example). Antarctica is by far the biggest potential contributor to future sea level rise, so this is the number we all watch rather closely, as we also discussed the other week…

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/10/06/antarctic-snows/

TFW your #Ukraine based colleague apologises for missing a ...

2026-10-02T12:04:08Z

TFW your #Ukraine based colleague apologises for missing a meeting because of transport collapse triggered by Russian attack. But not to worry "because the paper is coming along fine." 😢

F them all to hell. 😡

Want to hear about our wonderful ESA Earth Observation Data Users ...

2026-09-24T14:20:07Z

Want to hear about our wonderful ESA Earth Observation Data Users PISCO* project?

Together with my ace collaborators: Tabea Rettelbach from DTU Space, Priscilla Mooney of NORCE Research + Norwegian Meteorological Institute's Oskar Landgren - we'll be exploring how bringing together Earth Observation data with climate models can lead to real progress in understanding changing ice sheets in a changing climate..

Join us on Monday (and in the back catalogue forever?) to hear more

*Processes for ice sheets in climate models and earth observation

#ClimateChange #EarthObservation #PISCO #NCKF

https://climate.esa.int/en/climate-change-initiative-training/webinars/

This, from the European Correspondent, is a very good way of ...

2026-09-22T06:20:54Z

This, from the European Correspondent, is a very good way of showing that even though they fill a lot of the media time, the far right are very far from the majority in any country (possible exceptions are Poland Hungary), the main question then is how to ensure the majority views are better represented.
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/going-far-right

Good morning all, for those of you who missed it last week, ...

2026-09-21T05:46:43Z

Good morning all, for those of you who missed it last week, here's the last call on what wordpress informs me is my 💯 th post...

We've been measuring the loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets for half a century now, read on for what we have discovered
..

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/17/half-a-century-of-ice-loss-the-new-imbie-dataset/

bamboo towels often lose their absorbency quite fast, especially ...

2026-09-21T05:38:12Z

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bamboo towels often lose their absorbency quite fast, especially if they're not highest quality but you might be able to revive it.

This worked for us: try soaking in some warm water and bicarbonate of soda for half an hour (don't squeeze or stir just soak), then soak in cold water to which you've added half a cup of white vinegar ,(you don't need to rinse just exchange the water). Then wash on a cold gentle cycle with a neutral washing liquid/powder (not bio) with a bit of bicarb of soda added to the drum. Dry it in the air vertically or on a low heat in tumble dryer until still damp but nearly dry and you should be able to fluff it up with your hands at this stage and then dry the remainder in the free air.

Don't use fabric softener!

If it works you'll probably need to wash it on a cooler gentler cycle in future but periodically add a bit of white vinegar to make it smell fresher.

Here's a question #AskFedi may be able to make some ...

2026-09-18T16:31:29Z

Here's a question #AskFedi may be able to make some suggestions for. I'm looking for an open source security + privacy conscious nutrient tracker - for sporty vegan family member in middle of training for competitive sports. So shouldn't just be calories but also macro (and maybe micro?) nutrition.
There's a tonne on F-droid but hard to know which to choose. Any recommendations welcome

#FOSS #FLOSS #nutrition

Vi fik vores egen Vindy! — Danmarks vejr. Levende. Baseret ...

2026-09-18T13:00:36Z

Vi fik vores egen Vindy! — Danmarks vejr. Levende. Baseret også på DMI (npub1a0d…6hwu) 's modelkørslinger...
https://www.vindy.dk/

Bravo Niklas Jordan 🌍 🛰🔥🌊 (npub1uyc…5yna) 👏👏

Love the Irish. Imagine they were inspired by Celtic cousins in ...

2026-09-13T17:49:32Z

Love the Irish.

Imagine they were inspired by Celtic cousins in Scotland?

https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117264797974236358
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt - Protesters at the Irish Open 🇮🇪 😂 ⛳

(it's at the Orange one's international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland)

Yes! Please make this film.someone. i would watch it! Casting ...

2026-09-13T12:01:51Z

Yes! Please make this film.someone. i would watch it! Casting should include Mads Mikkelsen as Deutsche Bahn boss trying to work how to get the crossing through Hamburg to work on time ..
https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/117263597189188108
Pepijn@mastodon.online - I would seriously enjoy watching this movie btw. It can become a proper feel good story about two young people on a shared (connected digitally, then physically) adventure. And by traveling by train it can also be a very #european story.

Traveling by train also makes for an excellent opportunity to show lots of relatable human interaction on the way, both on trains and in the places along the way.

Anyway. I'd watch it.

#film #europe #train

I'm on board with basically all of this but I miss the focus ...

2026-09-13T07:43:30Z

I'm on board with basically all of this but I miss the focus on climate, green transition and biodiversity...
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117262489741948435
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu - What can we expect for the year ahead? 🇪🇺

This week, President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the State of the Union address, laying out the concrete steps that will shape Europe’s future. As we move from promise to progress, our 5 core priorities are:

🛡️ Security & Defence
🤝 Support for Ukraine
🚀 Competitiveness & AI innovation
📱 Social Media & child safety online

More info: https://link.europa.eu/v9vtvh

Today! See you later? ...

2026-09-11T06:43:53Z

Today! See you later?
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117245920950114136
Ruth_Mottram - In Brussels and at a loose end tomorrow (Friday 11th September) evening?

Come and join us and our Ukrainian colleagues from National Antarctic Scientific Center of #Ukraine to talk Penguins, Floats and Balloons and learn more about our OCEAN ICE work on the #Antarctic peninsula

5pm to 6.30pm at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. There will also be refreshments on offer and activities for children so bring the whole family.

Reserve a spot: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/a-story-of-penguins-floats-and-balloons-in-antarctica-tickets-1990394996013

In Brussels and at a loose end tomorrow (Friday 11th September) ...

2026-09-10T08:59:36Z

In Brussels and at a loose end tomorrow (Friday 11th September) evening?

Come and join us and our Ukrainian colleagues from National Antarctic Scientific Center of #Ukraine to talk Penguins, Floats and Balloons and learn more about our OCEAN ICE work on the #Antarctic peninsula

5pm to 6.30pm at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. There will also be refreshments on offer and activities for children so bring the whole family.

Reserve a spot: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/a-story-of-penguins-floats-and-balloons-in-antarctica-tickets-1990394996013

Publication day! Our finalised paper on melange processes at ...

2026-09-09T09:54:07Z

Publication day! Our finalised paper on melange processes at Greenland glacier fronts and what it means for calving glacier stability is finally out...

If you want to know what I've been doing in #Greenland the last few years, why it is so important and what conclusions we have drawn, I've written a hopefully easy to follow summary here:

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/09/a-jumble-of-broken-ice-and-what-it-means-for-greenlands-calving-glaciers/

This👇 https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/117222990990397690 ...

2026-09-06T18:28:19Z

This👇

https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/117222990990397690
From Sune Auken (npub1qhe…emuj) - If your first reaction to a positive development is to start listing why it's not enough, I'll block you.

The development probably came about through the concerted, intelligent efforts of a lot of people.

You're telling them their efforts do not matter.

More work needs doing. We all know that. Keep you allies standing to do the work. Appreciate what they have done and what they are doing.

jeg oplever det også some redaktør til Cryosphere journalen. Vi ...

2026-08-29T14:37:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…n43z
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jeg oplever det også some redaktør til Cryosphere journalen. Vi får sindssygt mange fra Kina i øjeblikket - dog ville jeg ikke sige de er særligt høj impakt, mange af dem er virkelig inkrementelle i forskningsmæssige terminologi og de er stort set bygget på åbent europæiske og Amerikanske datasets (ERA, NASA osv)..

Meet the EU borders plan for biometric data and the opaque and ...

2026-08-20T05:09:27Z

Meet the EU borders plan for biometric data and the opaque and often #UStech dominant companies that are going to be implementing it..

🗞️ Borders Inc.
https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/0cs3kj8tcubbz16qw6hvdbp9jh1axp66qwao00cwo705/2866

The absolutely essential @npub1qk5…wj88 #ENSO #ElNino ...

2026-08-18T13:54:57Z

The absolutely essential Carbon Brief (npub1qk5…wj88) #ENSO #ElNino visualisation you didn't know you needed..

https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/el-nino-explainer/index.html

The Oslo not so express. A 20 minute journey that has now taken ...

2026-08-17T07:10:36Z

The Oslo not so express.

A 20 minute journey that has now taken 40 and still not moving...

What on earth has happened to the railways in Europe this year?

Oslo doesn't even have a heatwave and wildfire to blame...

It doesn't sound like it from the headline, but this article ...

2026-08-16T18:56:13Z

It doesn't sound like it from the headline, but this article on the FT is about building #ClinateResilience.
The FT makes this sound highly novel, but Copenhagen, Amsterda, Seville and many other cities have been doing it for decades... Nice to see London catching on.
(Also is the Duke of Westminster, Britain's richest man really just a "landlord")

How the West End’s landlords are preparing London for Saudi summers - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/12aaa0aa-3422-4951-8516-b094f1c8fad8 via @FT

Currently planning a holiday in the Eifel this October, not quite ...

2026-08-15T13:56:49Z

Currently planning a holiday in the Eifel this October, not quite what I was expecting to read about here...
https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/117097064884848091
carstenfranke@mastodon.social - So in my home state in Germany there is a forest on fire, the largest wildfire in the history of North Rhine-Westfalia.
Size wise nothing compared to what we see here in the US, but there is a little quirk: firefighters have to be extra cautious and can't access all areas, because of WWII ammunition, mines and grenades that still are in the soil.
I remember hiking that general area with my parents in the 1980s and occasionally finding rifle rounds.
Wars have long lasting consequences.

The staggering moment the pinhole box actually worked... ...

2026-08-12T18:44:40Z

The staggering moment the pinhole box actually worked... #eclipse2026

Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about ...

2026-08-11T20:25:47Z

Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.

But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.

And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!

Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.

And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get

#AcademicChatter

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)

An interesting aspect is that for the first 2 weeks, the young ...

2026-08-09T10:22:26Z

An interesting aspect is that for the first 2 weeks, the young people at efterskole have all their screens taken away. And apparently this is a popular choice among the teenagers themselves
https://www.efterskolerne.dk/om-efterskoleforeningen/nyheder/skaerm/unge-oensker-en-pause-fra-skaermen-paa-efterskolen/

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117064929859511737
Ruth_Mottram - Dropping one of the teenagers off at efterskole today, every 4th car on the motorway has a bike on the back, presumably also with teens efterskole-bound.
It's a rite of passage and also a kind of reverse migration to the countryside away from the city.

*Efterskole is an optional year, usually at a boarding school between basic school and 6th form/further education (in British terms). Around 40% of Danish kids do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efterskole

This is so cool - if you're in Denmark, find out how much of ...

2026-08-08T07:33:44Z

This is so cool - if you're in Denmark, find out how much of the partial solar eclipse you'll be able to see on Wednesday...

https://en.osm.town/@brodersen/117055085242996364

The kind of bizarre Fediverse bot we have come to know and love: ...

2026-08-08T07:15:54Z

The kind of bizarre Fediverse bot we have come to know and love: this account appears to be a screenshot of every kind of expert appearing on German TV.

Hilariously including some odd categories like expert on parking tickets. Not so hilariously they all appear to be interchangeable middle-aged (and older) white men.

I suspect pretty much every European country would have the same pattern, but it is very striking when seeing them all in a long list. Perhaps time for a little more diversity and inclusiveness to be introduced..
EDIT: apparently this is a satirical account! Which just shows what trouble you can get into with a little German, but not a lot... 🫣🤪😂

https://mas.to/@derexperte

In desperate search for some good news I turned to theNaked ...

2026-08-04T05:53:56Z

In desperate search for some good news I turned to theNaked Scientists Podcast and I was not disappointed ...

Alzheimer's drug breakthrough, and sugar in space

Episode webpage: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/alzheimers-drug-breakthrough-and-sugar-space

Media file: https://flex.acast.com/downloads.nakeddiscovery.com/downloads/active/Naked_Scientists_Show.26.07.17.mp3

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117020271325165593 An ...

2026-08-01T12:39:40Z

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117020271325165593

An additional bonus is young female family member saying "I didn't know it was that easy (I used mistral to help with some of it). Some of the boys in my class have occasionally written apps. But for different stuff". I wonder why in 2026 with all the access we have to coding help, programming and writing apps is *still* seen as boys stuff...

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note1z9f…86tg

Loving your family in 2026 is discovering your female family members using insecure 3rd party apps to track their menstrual cycles and sitting down to write a private and secure one for them to use instead...

Loving your family in 2026 is discovering your female family ...

2026-08-01T12:33:56Z

Loving your family in 2026 is discovering your female family members using insecure 3rd party apps to track their menstrual cycles and sitting down to write a private and secure one for them to use instead...

Essential thread 👇 ...

2026-07-27T06:34:59Z

Essential thread 👇
https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/116989729029443214
weatherwest@mastodon.social - In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]

I no longer remember who it was but thanks for the electroverse ...

2026-07-22T06:39:33Z

I no longer remember who it was but thanks for the electroverse recommendations for #EV driving in Scotland - may be the easiest app I've ever used to charge rental EV cars (and I've tried a lot!)
It's also remarkable how many chargers there are now in Scotland - even at remote Ardnamurchan Point
#TheTimesTheyAreAChanging

🚨new publication alert🚨 Some types of El Niño lead to more ...

2026-07-17T10:52:45Z

🚨new publication alert🚨
Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica.
In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the current #ElNino building..
#ClimateDiary https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD045932

Never thought I'd say this, but it's actually too hot to ...

2026-07-15T12:45:46Z

Never thought I'd say this, but it's actually too hot to hike in Scotland just now. We are suffering from the heat. Not complaining but genuinely surprised. #ClimateDiary

I have probably done more than my Fair share of moaning about ...

2026-07-07T16:00:51Z

I have probably done more than my Fair share of moaning about German trains and Deutsche Bahn in particular - but there is still something magic about the ICE network...

😂 AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency ...

2026-07-07T06:54:57Z

😂
AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo ...

2026-07-05T06:49:55Z

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.

This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.

However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.

It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.

Full story behind this behaviour here and it's even more ...

2026-07-03T14:07:51Z

Full story behind this behaviour here and it's even more disturbing than I thought..

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/a-us-ambassador-turned-police-on-an-activist-then-on-me

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116833905664910790
Ruth_Mottram - Wow. This is bizarrely not good. And what terrible style from the US Ambassador (consciously mimicking the political boss apparently.)

https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/ke13kj8tcubr40vq9qd84lufzqttn6rj00vksswk877i/2866

And we've done it! The all time Danish heat record of 36.4C ...

2026-06-27T17:13:30Z

And we've done it! The all time Danish heat record of 36.4C broken with 37C, the previous June record (from1947) beaten by a full 1.5C. Also warmest tropical night on record and earliest crossing of 30C (well before midday) also set.

The previous all time heat record was set in August 1975* in Holbæk.

So, Yay us, I guess?

*Not a typo for UK readers, 1976 was record there, 1975 was warmer in Denmark.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/37-0-grader-gav-ny-dansk-varmerekord

On flow, familiarity, culture and zombie flow. I think I'd ...

2026-06-26T06:33:17Z

On flow, familiarity, culture and zombie flow.

I think I'd argue the Fediverse does not encourage zombie flow, and is maybe "the right kind of hard" as Derek Thompson puts it here. Fascinating stuff.

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-zombie-flow-took-over-culture

The Copenhell Metal Festival is on this week, just in time for ...

2026-06-24T05:25:10Z

The Copenhell Metal Festival is on this week, just in time for the heat wave and whoever thought of this is genius.

#Copenhagen #Copenhell #Heatwave #Wx

The US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and ...

2026-06-22T06:13:45Z

The US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state.

I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-landry-maaske-kan-groenland-blive-usa-s-51-stat-allerede-naeste-aar

A question for my #FediScot friends: if you were to shortly be ...

2026-06-21T20:45:32Z

A question for my #FediScot friends: if you were to shortly be driving around Scotland (specifically western Highlands) in an #EV - what apps and maps would you use to find and load up at public chargers?

#AskFedi #Scotland

I have no intention of signing up for W currently, but I might ...

2026-06-19T08:03:48Z

I have no intention of signing up for W currently, but I might consider it if we can get it to replace LinkedIn.

Either way I am planning to stay here..
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108
aral@mastodon.ar.al - Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

And here is an indigenous viewpoint from the Arctic: ...

2026-06-18T05:40:01Z

And here is an indigenous viewpoint from the Arctic:
https://policylabs.frontiersin.org/content/policy-outlook-geoengineering-inuit-homelands

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116769466126905589
Ruth_Mottram - Flurry of articles, including in the Guardian on the very well funded but seriously misguided efforts to geoengineer the Arctic by growing sea ice, reminds me that it is probably time to report our critical article on the subject..

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full

And then there is the meteorology conundrum. You have two of ...

2026-06-17T21:04:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…npne
_________________________

And then there is the meteorology conundrum. You have two of those in Sweden (Stockholm and Uppsala), we have none in Denmark and DMI now has to train our own forecasters...

Five good things instead of three today: 1. Passed mid term ...

2026-06-17T21:00:29Z

Five good things instead of three today:

1. Passed mid term project review with flying colours, technical officer proclaimed himself "impressed" (phew).
2. Visited super cool facility at DTU and learned a lot about measuring sunlight. Hopefully the start of some interesting new collaborations
3. Took my 2 wonderful teens out for vegan hotpot dinner in Vesterbro to celebrate end of their exams.
4. Lay out in garden listening to the blackbirds and identified 5 separate bee species within 10 mins
5. Tea and TV on the sofa with aforementioned teens just relaxing.

Perfect day really.
#threegoodthings

On the ghosts, and lessons, of Versailles. Ukraine’s war is now ...

2026-06-15T04:47:56Z

On the ghosts, and lessons, of Versailles.

Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/06/11/ukraines-war-is-now-longer-than-the-first-world-war?giftId=YzE5ZmMzZTUtMjYyMS00NmU5LThiMjQtZGQ5NTQ3MDRiODQx&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Every year I am stupidly late booking family holiday as the ...

2026-06-13T09:44:45Z

Every year I am stupidly late booking family holiday as the experience of booking train tickets was toooo depressing.
This year (I'm still late), a reply to my post the other day about travel sickness on swedish trains reminded me of the railfinder.eu site and honestly - it's a revelation. Doesn't cover everywhere yet, but definitely going to be using it a lot more for international rail travel in Europe.

https://www.railfinder.eu

This was really excellent overview of what hybrid warfare is, how ...

2026-06-10T07:03:12Z

This was really excellent overview of what hybrid warfare is, how it is evolving and what we can do about #Russia's hybrid tactics.

Mildly Alarmed: Russia’s Hybrid Warfare in Europe

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mildly-alarmed/episodes/Russias-Hybrid-Warfare-in-Europe-e3kcmeu

Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/111aff124/podcast/play/121051038/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-5%2F425571617-44100-2-86a394f96ae91.mp3

Narwahls are critically dependent on the marginal ice zone in ...

2026-06-01T15:56:56Z

Narwahls are critically dependent on the marginal ice zone in Northern Greenland.

"it provides both feeding opportunities and refuge from predators. Continued loss of seasonal sea ice is therefore expected to alter narwhal movement patterns, potentially increasing fjord residency and reducing inter-fjord movements. Such behavioural shifts could have cascading ecological effects, altering prey dynamics and reducing genetic exchange among regional narwhal groups."

My colleagues do *such* cool research.. .

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53787-8

If you're in Denmark and would like to hear me talk about ...

2026-05-30T07:00:03Z

If you're in Denmark and would like to hear me talk about Antarctic climate on long and short timescales as well as the latest research insights and our recent fieldwork in Dronning Maud Land with the Swedish #iQ2300 project, then come past Niels Bohr Institute this Thursday at 5pm where DAMS are hosting an evening of talks on Antarctica
Register and even become a member here:
https://www.dams.dk/

Pssst - interested in some of the coolest #Arctic climate data ...

2026-05-27T10:55:20Z

Pssst - interested in some of the coolest #Arctic climate data you can get your hands on?

The Copernicus EU (npub1vxj…3nas) Arctic regional reanalysis is now out: 40 years of super high resolution data including weather, sea ice, icesheet and glacier fields.

#Climate #ArcticClimate #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary

https://climate.copernicus.eu/full-historical-carra2-data-release-offers-new-insights-arctic-extremes

"Many of 1988’s droughts and floods, heat waves and ...

2026-05-19T19:30:39Z

"Many of 1988’s droughts and floods, heat waves and hurricanes were random events, the roll of the dice. But the dice are being weighted. In coming years they will fall hot and stormy-side uppermost more often"

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the ...

2026-05-16T07:28:38Z

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'

The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...

https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

And this is where the tech I use at work comes from. 😕 OS ...

2026-05-16T06:16:55Z

And this is where the tech I use at work comes from. 😕

OS PC/Laptop: 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸
Browser: 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Messaging: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
E-Mail: 🇺🇸
Microblogging: 🇺🇸
Office Software: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Cloud: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Payment Service: 🇪🇺
AI: 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇨🇭

Percentage of 🇺🇸: 75%

Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116582772481836845
Ruth_Mottram - This is so cool! Not bad, strong swiss showing thanks to proton, but android is definitely the elephant in the room, and of course, the backend and lack of eurostack needs to go in there somewhere.

OS PC/Laptop: 🇬🇧
OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸
Browser: 🇳🇴 🇺🇸
Messaging: 🇺🇸
E-Mail: 🇨🇭
Microblogging: 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🌍
Office Software: 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇭
Cloud: 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇺🇸
Payment Service: 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
Streaming: 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇸🇪
AI: 🇫🇷 🇨🇭

Percentage of 🇺🇸: 26%

Created @fingolas.eu/MyTech

https://social.heise.de/@mho/116568965307406861
mho@social.heise.de - Ever since reading "Getting off US tech: a guide" by @parismarx last year, I wanted to build a little website where you could check the #software you're using and get some shareable text, showing how much is from the US. Now it's finally done 👇🏼🥳

https://fingolas.eu/MyTech

What do you think? Will somebody use this? What did I miss, what is wrong? Any ideas?

Please head to https://codeberg.org/Fingolas/WhereIsMyTechFrom for suggested changes.

#UnplugTrump #BigTech #DigitalSovereignity
1/3

Everything you want to know about AMOC changes but were afraid to ...

2026-05-13T17:36:26Z

Everything you want to know about AMOC changes but were afraid to ask?
The Nordic council report on the impact of #AMOC slowdown has some very powerful but immensely illustrative stories.

https://pub.norden.org/temanord2026-504/storylines.html

I have been slowly moving away from US controlled tech, the ...

2026-05-11T06:00:26Z

I have been slowly moving away from US controlled tech, the remaining bits are ones I can't control really: banking + payments, DK state ITs love affair with microsoft, apps needed to access state services.
And if someone can come up with a way to persuade teenagers this is cool. That would be nice.
Of course what the piece misses is the huge commercial reliance on the back end stack.

We desperately need #Eurostack.

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116554305782688437
Ruth_Mottram - Life without US tech - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e6d8cec7-b20c-4707-b963-88348726215a

It's Europe Day and perhaps fittingly I'm sitting in a ...

2026-05-09T08:58:26Z

It's Europe Day and perhaps fittingly I'm sitting in a sunny garden enjoying the bird song and re-reading this magisterial work by Neil MacGregor. It's about Germany, but it's also about the heart of Europe.

Huge recommend.

Dear British people, following your local elections, I regret to ...

2026-05-08T16:17:55Z

Dear British people, following your local elections, I regret to inform you that you are going to need to spend more time in the pub..

https://www.ippr.org/media-office/closure-of-community-spaces-fuelled-tinderbox-for-far-right-to-spark-southport-riots-says-report

4 models, 5+ years, 8 institutes, 20 coauthors under the ...

2026-05-07T11:57:45Z

4 models, 5+ years, 8 institutes, 20 coauthors under the brilliant leadership of @drgilbz.bsky.social @hofsteengemarte.bsky.social + DMI (npub1a0d…6hwu) Abraham Torres Alavez: The
evaluation of the #polarRES Antarctic climate model ensemble is finally published Great working with you all team!
And now for the Arctic...

https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/2629/2026/

"diagnoser hjælper ikke. Hjælp hjælper” An increasing ...

2026-05-07T05:29:46Z

"diagnoser hjælper ikke. Hjælp hjælper”

An increasing number of people with ADHD and autism diagnoses would like to have them removed.

Fascinating piece from @zetland.dk

https://www.zetland.dk/historie/sxFMY1kf-moGnNy6v-d6fab

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in ...

2026-05-06T09:42:33Z

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?

Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:

https://sternaparadisaea.net/thesis-projects/

But I'm particularly at thsi stage interested in finding candidates to work on field data, satellite data, machine learning and parameterisation development and evaluation.
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling

Wow, I'd vote for this man as President of Europe. Touching ...

2026-05-04T18:21:43Z

Wow, I'd vote for this man as President of Europe. Touching all the important subjects from clean energy, climate, sovereignty and the future of the EU..

Fantastic episode of Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change: Europe Needs Clean Tech More Than Ever | Ep 255: Thomas Pellerin-Carlin

Episode webpage: https://cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/europe-needs-clean-tech-more-than-ever-thomas-pellerin-carlin-wRuC7BTZ

Media file: https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/1796ff5d-0d22-4966-9fd8-da0df0f428ed/eb655335-db6e-4db4-a129-f0caea91093d/episodes/audio/group/d14bfb1a-ca7f-4d6e-a42c-4d65f2c8ee54/group-item/aacee0b0-135e-4002-ab59-dfa5923c7832/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=j3au6_cC

A Ministry of the future reboot where instead of an attack on a ...

2026-05-02T21:40:28Z

A Ministry of the future reboot where instead of an attack on a UN agency that changes the world, an attack strangling global oil and gas supplies leads to a massive acceleration in adoption of renewable energy sources...

https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116507120772615928
CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social - "“Renewables already nearly match fossil fuels in global installed power capacity,” said Mr. Guterres in July last year adding that “there are no price spikes for sunlight… no embargoes on wind.”

Renewables are now “the foundation of energy security and sovereignty,” he said."

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167366

DON’T ASK US ABOUT: rocks troll’s with sticks All sorts of ...

2026-04-29T20:10:30Z

DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
rocks
troll’s with sticks
All sorts of dragons
Mrs. Cake
Huje green things with teeth
Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
Rains of spaniel’s.
fog.
Mrs. Cake

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116489789450590783
carnage4life@mas.to - The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI includes instructions never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless asked by the user.

Some say this is because GPT-5.5 has been known to ramble on about creatures unprompted. 😬

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/

This might be why the Fediverse is such a nice place, but also ...

2026-04-29T05:33:56Z

This might be why the Fediverse is such a nice place, but also why it doesn't seem to be as engaging (for some people) as the big tech alternatives. People are just so interesting here. I definitely don't see the rage posting that is present on other platforms..
Rage in the age of X - 🎁 from Tim Harford :verified: (npub1rqw…spp9)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/389cac17-bf6f-40eb-8c5e-da2a4a5512d4

I've spoken before about the Danish climate atlas and how we ...

2026-04-28T09:55:58Z

I've spoken before about the Danish climate atlas and how we use it to help stakeholders prepare for impacts of a warmer climate, my colleagues have been working very hard with our partners to develop on relevant for Ghana 🇬🇭🇩🇰

This is still the initial phase, but it's already impressively easy to understand.

#ClimateDiary

https://www.meteo.gov.gh/climate-atlas/climate-change/

Imagine the money we're saving now too... ...

2026-04-26T17:06:07Z

Imagine the money we're saving now too...
https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116472081419733834
Ada Palmer (npub1v85…mqcs) - All of Copenhagen’s buses are now electric.
"It’s a huge milestone that Copenhagen is now a city where public transport is green and neither pollutes nor emits CO2. It makes a big difference to the climate and the air we breathe every day."
Sisse Marie Welling, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/03/100-of-copenhagens-city-buses-are-now-electric/ #ShareGoodNewsToo

"What makes this remarkable is that the ice sheet isn't ...

2026-04-25T19:13:16Z

"What makes this remarkable is that the ice sheet isn't losing less ice – it's actually losing more. Ice discharge by iceberg calving has increased by nearly 100 gigatonnes per year compared to the previous two decades. The snowfall surge has simply outpaced it – for now,”
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116466911831710285
- Why is #Antarctica temporarily gaining mass... And why it isn't necessarily good news..

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Space_for_our_climate/Why_is_Antarctica_s_mass_increasing

It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple ...

2026-04-23T20:29:25Z

It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take.

I had a nearly finished manuscript. I just needed to tidy a few things in it and then upload for review

Two hours tops I told my family.

5.5 hours later...

#AcademicChatter

Not every day you wake up to a piece in the ...

2026-04-22T05:40:01Z

Not every day you wake up to a piece in the @eurcorrespond.bsky.social that is both about your project OCEAN ICE EU (npub124s…27ps) and cites one of your papers (on #Greenlandification), can only recommend you give it a read!
(and subscribe)

https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/ak53kj8tcubfm2k18fblmjksu8cjojh9qmbk044w06fc/2866#chk_qrec6OJBgM9WvLzlYQ_3 .

It is amazing how often I have to relearn that the best ...

2026-04-21T18:08:37Z

It is amazing how often I have to relearn that the best treatment* for stress, overwork and burnout is going for a paddle in my kayak down at the beach.

It's probably the only thing that can keep me going sometimes. The wonderful sunset this evening helps too.

Love #AmagerStrandpark #LivableCities.

*Treatment, probably not cure.

Trying to narrow down summer holiday options. Family travel by ...

2026-04-18T16:39:26Z

Trying to narrow down summer holiday options. Family travel by train to a self catering holiday destination where swimming, cycling hiking and climbing is possible (as is sitting by the water with a pile of books) lots of fresh air and nature a must. Cities less important. What would you choose (feel free to comment why and be more specific on destination!):

Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the ...

2026-04-16T15:05:44Z

Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences. I'm sure mine is scattered all over the place.

The key seems to be to keep your ORCID up to date. - and as a model, there are many similarities between ORCID and the fediverse,

"keep your ORCID profile up to date... it is controlled by the researcher, portable across institutions and designed to connect to publishers, funders and organizational systems... makes your ORCID page a stable reference point.."
#AcademicChatter

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04132-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202604

An excellent video as usual on why #Europe really needs #Ukraine ...

2026-04-15T17:22:17Z

An excellent video as usual on why #Europe really needs #Ukraine for defence from Anders Puck Nielsen (npub12sw…l96x) - and if you want to hear what Ukrainian #PolarScience can do for and with us in #Antarctica, we are organising a showcase in Brussels at the natural history museum on 11th September.

Details via OCEAN ICE EU (npub124s…27ps) to follow!

https://youtu.be/i4g8rp6aOgc?si=bMwQz4V4WBawi02s

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116403496936316605 I credit ...

2026-04-14T14:25:46Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116403496936316605

I credit the Private Eye subscription gifted to my father with single handedly unwinding the damage done by a spectatot subscription in previous years...
nostr:note167klty4eqqehsulra2pphpktg6xqmq0hlfvk4pxzpzjepc52cvps43dlkj

Also, it sounds like a huge party is going on in Hungary right ...

2026-04-12T20:44:38Z

Also, it sounds like a huge party is going on in Hungary right now..

I hope they go for it, cleaning up Orban's mess is going to take *years*...

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/live-ungarn-gaar-til-valg

Gosh, the replies to this one... 🤣😂🤣 The Fediverse is ...

2026-04-12T08:38:25Z

Gosh, the replies to this one...

🤣😂🤣

The Fediverse is awesome...

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116387503607084903
Ruth_Mottram - I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).

Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"

Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."

I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very ...

2026-04-11T18:32:47Z

I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).

Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"

Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."

On a recent trip to Italy, my @npub1t2q…n4vh app provedt to be ...

2026-04-11T13:14:03Z

On a recent trip to Italy, my Organic Maps (npub1t2q…n4vh) app provedt to be far superior to the Google maps app, especially in ancient medieval cities like Venice where the streets are narrow and mobile reception patchy.
https://functional.cafe/@arianvp/116295171993320229
arianvp@functional.cafe - Google Maps also stopped showing connections that involve walks longer than 500 meters. It'll just be like "no its impossible to reach the other end of Berlin in half an hour by public transport. You need to change 6 times". Because it refuses to let me cross a bridge to another busstation because US brained people dont believe in legs.

Really like this initiative from @npub19kd…t56d The teenage ...

2026-04-11T07:08:43Z

Really like this initiative from Proton (npub19kd…t56d)
The teenage fear of being different from the crowd and not having gmail or iCloud needs to be tackled next.

https://account.proton.me/born-private

Anyone have any clue where I can get a measuring tape for sea ice ...

2026-04-10T14:19:19Z

Anyone have any clue where I can get a measuring tape for sea ice in Europe? The only supplier I have found is the very lovely and friendly Kovacs, but they are US based and the cost and time for delivery are crazy.
I mean one like this:

#glaciology #seaice #Hivemind #academicChatter

This whole thread. It's a love letter to the Fediverse.. ...

2026-04-08T19:02:37Z

This whole thread.
It's a love letter to the Fediverse..
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
_elena@mastodon.social - Dear Fedi friends,

Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).

I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).

I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.

Merci beaucoup ❤️

Discussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time ...

2026-04-08T17:06:31Z

Discussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time and other topics, quite clear that most parents (including me).have no clue what our kids are actually doing on their devices..
Also clear how clueless so many parents are about data privacy, security and online safety.

The black boxification of tech will be our downfall.

The dutch version of #danmarkskifter is called doeidag (goodbye ...

2026-04-05T08:39:58Z

The dutch version of #danmarkskifter is called doeidag (goodbye day)..
Enjoy and good luck Dutch friends!
🌸💐🌞

https://mastodon.nl/@mboelen/116351066857273255
mboelen@mastodon.nl - Het is vandaag @doeidag, een initiatief door @elmine @BjornW en Rolf (die ik niet kan linken?). Dit is de eerste editie, toevallig tussen de paaseieren door 🐣.

Wat het is? Je afhankelijkheid van #BigTech verkleinen, jezelf digitaal weerbaarder maken, meer leren over privacy. Kortom, wie mij al een tijdje volgt, zal begrijpen door de overlap dat ik enthousiast ben over #doeidag. Een vriend of vroege fan 🥰

https://doeidag.nl/

The much looked for blue marble photos from #Artemis are of ...

2026-04-05T03:02:51Z

The much looked for blue marble photos from #Artemis are of course impressive + beautiful but on the other hand I've always loved this feed from Europe's other space agency.
https://fediscience.org/@eumbot/116349863186217396
eumbot - 🌍 at 05/04/2026 - 02:40 (UTC)

Source: #EUMETSAT

Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det ...

2026-04-03T19:53:41Z

Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det giver stort indtryk om lige præcis hvor imponerende EU er efter tusinde år af mere eller mindre konstant krig i Europa.
Jeg får også lyst til at starte en ny europæisk bogklub til at lære om vores fælles europæisk naboer samt læse nogle gode bøger jeg ellers ville aldrig har kommer til. Nogen der har lyst til at komme og læse med i hovedstaden?

Eng:

I’ve almost finished a short history of Italy, and it really brings home just how impressive the EU is after a thousand years of more or less constant war in Europe.
I’m now also keen to join/start a European book club to learn about our fellow European neighbours and read some good books I’d otherwise never get round to. Anyone fancy joining me in or around Copenhagen?

#bookstodon #bogstodon #dkæs

I mean this is to he surprise of absolutely nobody, surely? ...

2026-03-23T19:16:39Z

I mean this is to he surprise of absolutely nobody, surely? It's been obvious for years and the EU should long ago have worked out how to eject members.

https://mstdn.social/@VoltEuropa/116279815175012177
Volt Europa (npub1uw5…aftn) - Viktor Orbán has turned Hungary into a Trojan horse inside the European Union. And the problem is - our current rules allow this to keep happening 🤯

Orbán’s foreign minister was calling Moscow during breaks in EU meetings to give his Russian counterpart “live updates” on what we were discussing.

Think about that for a second.

(1/3)

#Orban #Hungary #Uktraine #Russia #Putin #EUpol #Volt

"The European Union covers a largely urbanised continent, but ...

2026-03-22T08:42:47Z

"The European Union covers a largely urbanised continent, but it sometimes feels like a farming-subsidy club with a flag and a parliament. Around a third of the bloc’s budget goes to farmers".

https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/01/15/europes-farmers-no-longer-rule-the-roost-unchallenged?giftId=ODY0MmMxODAtMDg2My00YzUyLThkZDgtM2Q2NWRjMDY3OTA2&utm_campaign=gifted_article