Spain reached the quarterfinals of Women's Euro 2025 on Monday after the world champion hammered Belgium 6-2, while Italy was held to a 1-1 draw with Portugal at the death. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/07/08/soccer/spain-belgium-euro/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #women039seuro2025 #spain #belgium #italy #portugal
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｢ Specifically, organized crime members in Catalonia use GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused operating system that keeps your data out of Google’s reach. Criminals and gang members in Spain prefer using GrapheneOS on Pixel phones, and there’s a good reason for it. GrapheneOS implements full disk and metadata encryption, a security feature exploited by miscreants. But it works best on Pixels ｣
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crime-preferred-phone-3573578/
I don't want to sound grim, but I'm watching a gradually deteriorating situation in everyone I know who is #queer. And I'm talking #Spain, not the US. It's the "small" things: issues renewing their rent, treatment at the workplace, and the general feeling that allies aren't as allied as they might have been two years before. Of course I don't forget the attacks that queer people suffered last #Pride in Logroño, Barcelona, Valencia, Burgos, and other cities (which we learned about even two days after the facts).
Today on the metro I exchanged cautious looks with a guy who wore neonazi and Spanish falangist symbols. He performed "strength" with a paramilitary gesture and attire. Nothing happened, fortunately.
I'm worried.
> Young #Europeans losing faith in #democracy, #poll finds
> Support is lowest in #France, #Spain and #Poland, while 21% back authoritarian rule under certain circumstances
🤯 😱
@EUCommission and member states governments must finally heed the calls of the progressives and urgently DARE TO INNOVATE their democratic institutions to make #people feel their voice still matters.
Stop the navel-gazing, the infighting, silly political power plays.. tend to #DemocracyNow!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/04/young-europeans-losing-faith-in-democracy-poll-finds
More than a thousand schools were closed in France and the top floor of the Eiffel Tower was shut to tourists as a severe heatwave continued to grip Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/world/france-heat-wave-schools/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #france #spain #europe #schools #heatwaves #climatechange
#bikepacking trip, day #1. We took an early morning flight to Bilbao and visited the city a bit. Got reacquainted with cycling in 30°C. 12 km.
Narrow cobblestone walkway descending towards the city center of Bilbao.
View of Bilbao from a rooftop, the evening sun shining on the city and the hills visible in the distance.
Colorful buildings on a narrow street.
Two bicycles next to the river with the Guggenheim museum on the other side.
I got to spend two days in Madrid last week. The weather was not very conductive to walking around with highs of 37°C, but I got some shots that I liked.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ 1826 Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Madrid #Spain
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@netopwibby OFC #FirefoxOS would've been a success if people exited about it (like me) and #developers (like @fuchsiii) were ever abke to legally obtain any device with FirefoxOS on it.
- AFAIK the only Firefox OS #phone offered in the #EU was a #SimLock'd / #NetLock'd #Prepaid device sold in #Spain, where they demanded #KYC for the #SIM, making it impossible to legally obtain it back then without having to fly down to #Spain, ID at a store, fly back and then be overcharged for #DataRoaming!
One of the things I try to do with BLAG is embrace the many and varied international manifestations of the sign painting craft.
There isn't a lot written on its history in Spain, and Nico Barrios has been filling the void through his Masters research.
He'll be sharing some of this on Saturday via his presentation on the three eras of Spanish sign painting history.
Join us for BLAG Meet; it's free and online: https://bl.ag/meet.
