Assuming no defectors in the "opposing" camp,

For #Chatcontrol to die (for the time being) we urgently need these countries to turn around:

#Bulgaria#Croatia#Cyprus#Denmark#France#Hungary#Ireland#Italy#Latvia#Lithuania#Malta#Portugal#Slovakia#Spain#Sweden

and these to decide to throw in their weight in favor of fundamental rights:

#Estonia#Germany#Greece#Luxembourg#Romania#Slovenia

Assuming no defectors in the "opposing" camp,

For #Chatcontrol to die (for the time being) we urgently need these countries to turn around:

#Bulgaria#Croatia#Cyprus#Denmark#France#Hungary#Ireland#Italy#Latvia#Lithuania#Malta#Portugal#Slovakia#Spain#Sweden

and these to decide to throw in their weight in favor of fundamental rights:

#Estonia#Germany#Greece#Luxembourg#Romania#Slovenia

Help Shanda and their queer household, who are Ukrainian refugees who fled to Georgia, flee again to Spain to escape georgia's increasingly anti-trans environment and government. They need your help to fund their move and take care of the legal stuff, the transportation and apartment rent. Georgia is slowly being overtaken by russia politically, and the ruling party has adopted the anti-LGBTQ+ narrative and has made transition illegal.

They plan to move out of Georgia around mid autumn, if things go according to plan.

Updated Goal met: 11% out of 10000 USD

Link:

https://ko-fi.com/shanda

More details:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Our-current-situation-written-from-my-sisters-per-M4M81JUOI1

Tags: #GTFOmyState#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Ukraine#Spain#Crowdfunding #crowdfund#TransCrowdFund#TransMutualAid#Fundraiser#Fundraising

Help Shanda and their queer household, who are Ukrainian refugees who fled to Georgia, flee again to Spain to escape georgia's increasingly anti-trans environment and government. They need your help to fund their move and take care of the legal stuff, the transportation and apartment rent. Georgia is slowly being overtaken by russia politically, and the ruling party has adopted the anti-LGBTQ+ narrative and has made transition illegal.

They plan to move out of Georgia around mid autumn, if things go according to plan.

Updated Goal met: 11% out of 10000 USD

Link:

https://ko-fi.com/shanda

More details:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Our-current-situation-written-from-my-sisters-per-M4M81JUOI1

Tags: #GTFOmyState#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Ukraine#Spain#Crowdfunding #crowdfund#TransCrowdFund#TransMutualAid#Fundraiser#Fundraising

Help Shanda and their queer household, who are Ukrainian refugees who fled to Georgia, flee again to Spain to escape georgia's increasingly anti-trans environment and government. They need your help to fund their move and take care of the legal stuff, the transportation and apartment rent. Georgia is slowly being overtaken by russia politically, and the ruling party has adopted the anti-LGBTQ+ narrative and has made transition illegal.

They plan to move out of Georgia around mid autumn, if things go according to plan.

Goal: 8% met out of 10000 USD

Link:

https://ko-fi.com/shanda

More details:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Our-current-situation-written-from-my-sisters-per-M4M81JUOI1

Tags: #GTFOmyState#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Ukraine#Spain#Crowdfunding #crowdfund#TransCrowdFund#TransMutualAid#Fundraiser#Fundraising

A 16-day heat wave in Spain that began on Aug. 3 is "the most intense on record," the country's national meteorological agency says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/25/climate-change/spain-heat-wave-most-intense-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #spain #climatechange #heatwaves #portugal

Help Shanda and their queer household, who are Ukrainian refugees who fled to Georgia, flee again to Spain to escape georgia's increasingly anti-trans environment and government. They need your help to fund their move and take care of the legal stuff, the transportation and apartment rent. Georgia is slowly being overtaken by russia politically, and the ruling party has adopted the anti-LGBTQ+ narrative and has made transition illegal.

They plan to move out of Georgia around mid autumn, if things go according to plan.

Goal: 8% met out of 10000 USD

Link:

https://ko-fi.com/shanda

More details:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Our-current-situation-written-from-my-sisters-per-M4M81JUOI1

Tags: #GTFOmyState#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Ukraine#Spain#Crowdfunding #crowdfund#TransCrowdFund#TransMutualAid#Fundraiser#Fundraising

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Some photos showing the dramatic situation of yesterdays climb on Veleta

#Spain#RockClimbing#Mountaineering#Spain

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Some photos showing the dramatic situation of yesterdays climb on Veleta

#Spain#RockClimbing#Mountaineering#Spain

Cool day on Veleta yesterday!

Took the classic Paco Pepe route (4+) but decided to spice things up. After 1st 4 pitches, traversed R along the narrow & exposed Paso de Lagarto to the Variante Silvia (5) for 2 spectacular & sustained finishing pitches

Needed help from the rope at top of the crux which verges on 5+ for few meters. Thankfully Felipe there to assist. Will come back & try to climb 100% next summer. Training on arm strength is required!

#Spain#RockClimbing#Mountaineering

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Spain is battling over 20 wildfires posing a direct threat to local communities heat waves and drought blamed on climate change fuel forest fires in the country and its neighbor, Portugal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/wildfires-spain-record-area-burnt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #spain #portugal #wildfires #climatechange

Spain has deployed an additional 500 troops from its military emergency unit to support firefighting operations after scorching heat hampered efforts to contain 20 major wildfires across the country on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/world/spain-wildfires-heat-troops/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #spain #wildfires #climatechange #heatwaves

So these governments you elected are voting for chatcontrol. They are actually introdcuding a policeman, watching you, everyday in your own home:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/

#Sweden#Denmark#Latvia#Lithuania#France#Italy#Spain#Slowakia#Hungary#Bulgaria

Are in support.

#Finland, #Germany#Romania#Belgium#Czech are still not sure.

Contact your MP's
and sign:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

#chatcontrol#StopChatControl

So these governments you elected are voting for chatcontrol. They are actually introdcuding a policeman, watching you, everyday in your own home:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/

#Sweden#Denmark#Latvia#Lithuania#France#Italy#Spain#Slowakia#Hungary#Bulgaria

Are in support.

#Finland, #Germany#Romania#Belgium#Czech are still not sure.

Contact your MP's
and sign:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

#chatcontrol#StopChatControl

Okay, I know it’s appalling that I keep forgetting this place exists (tbf I’ve had some really weird as shit interactions with randoms last time I tried) and that it took @LauraLangdon to remind me that THIS is where all the OSS/FOSS people hang out. But here I am now. And maybe it’ll stick this time.

Not much has changed and yet everything has changed. @finnporter and I moved to Galicia in Spain about 4 months or so ago. We’re loving it so far. I think we’ve just been lucky with the weather this year because it’s nowhere near as hot as I feared. The beach is a 7 minute walk from our flat. And because it’s the Atlantic it’s also nice and chilly, which I’m delighted by.

Chronic health stuff has… not been too great, but the Spanish healthcare system seems to actually be one of the few still functional ones, at least here in Galicia. So I’m waiting for referrals to an allergist for MCAS dx and probably to internal medicine for potential hEDS dx. Not thrilled I likely have these conditions but at least I may actually get to access care for them. I’m still too medically traumatised to actually believe it lol but so far everyone in the medical field here has been pretty great. Also, being trans is absolutely zero trouble here which is a delightful change for us.

I’m keen to connect to some covid conscious folks in Northern Spain if there are any around since it’s hard to make friends. Oh and we’re also looking for frontend devs for our volunteer open-source tech team at Distribute Aid. But I’ll just post about that separately so it’s easy to boost 😊

Alright, I guess it’s good to be back. Hopefully I’ll stick around this time.

#Spain#NorthernSpain#Galicia #oss #foss#DeveloperContent #frontend #trans #2SLGBTQIA#LGBTQIA #spoonies#chronicIllness

Today in Labor History August 12, 1936: The First International Brigades arrived in Spain to fight against Franco. Organized by the Communist International, between 40,000 and 60,000 men and women from around the world fought on the Republican side against the fascists. 10,000 of them died. Thousands more international activists joined anti-Stalinist forces, like the socialist POUM, or anarchist groups, like the FAI, CNT and the Durruti Column. Americans defied federal law to participate in the International Brigade, as members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Famous Lincoln participants included Avant Garde composer Conlon Nancarrow, labor organizer Delmer Berg, scifi author Theodore Cogswell, novelist William Herrick. The Tom Mooney Company, named for San Francisco labor organizer, Tom Mooney, who was wrongly imprisoned for the WWI Preparedness Day bombing, was commanded by African American labor organizer Oliver Law, the first African-American to command an integrated American military unit. Many African-Americans joined the anti-franco forces. Langston Hughes, who was writing for the Baltimore Afro-American, said: "Give Franco a hood, and he would be a member of the Ku Klux Klan." There was also a George Washington Battlian, and a John Brown battery. Once the U.S. entered World War II, the FBI recommended that none of the veterans of the Spanish war against fascism be given any promotions within the U.S. military, to prevent the “rise of communists” in their ranks. The House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) blacklisted all American veterans of the Spanish war.

You can read my complete article on Tom Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lincolnbrigades #spain #fascism #antifa #antifascism #anarchism #communism #socialism #stalin#fai #cnt #durruti #tommooney #oliverlaw #union #books #author #writer #composer#Blackmastadon @bookstadon

Today in Labor History August 12, 1936: The First International Brigades arrived in Spain to fight against Franco. Organized by the Communist International, between 40,000 and 60,000 men and women from around the world fought on the Republican side against the fascists. 10,000 of them died. Thousands more international activists joined anti-Stalinist forces, like the socialist POUM, or anarchist groups, like the FAI, CNT and the Durruti Column. Americans defied federal law to participate in the International Brigade, as members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Famous Lincoln participants included Avant Garde composer Conlon Nancarrow, labor organizer Delmer Berg, scifi author Theodore Cogswell, novelist William Herrick. The Tom Mooney Company, named for San Francisco labor organizer, Tom Mooney, who was wrongly imprisoned for the WWI Preparedness Day bombing, was commanded by African American labor organizer Oliver Law, the first African-American to command an integrated American military unit. Many African-Americans joined the anti-franco forces. Langston Hughes, who was writing for the Baltimore Afro-American, said: "Give Franco a hood, and he would be a member of the Ku Klux Klan." There was also a George Washington Battlian, and a John Brown battery. Once the U.S. entered World War II, the FBI recommended that none of the veterans of the Spanish war against fascism be given any promotions within the U.S. military, to prevent the “rise of communists” in their ranks. The House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) blacklisted all American veterans of the Spanish war.

You can read my complete article on Tom Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lincolnbrigades #spain #fascism #antifa #antifascism #anarchism #communism #socialism #stalin#fai #cnt #durruti #tommooney #oliverlaw #union #books #author #writer #composer#Blackmastadon @bookstadon

The mass child kidnapper mass murderer wanted by The International Criminal Court “for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) & that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”*

Putin will be safe; Trump protects child traffickers.

#Ukraine#usa #press #media #news #europeanunion#Uk#France#England#Deutschland#Italy#Spain#Baltics #nato

Yeah, informed people don't truly believe the bullshit you're selling.