R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵
@rl_dane@polymaths.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Dear #EuropeanUnion,

Why the Trump are you still sending SO MUCH MONEY to #Microsoft every year?!?

Not only are their products intrinsically worthless, not only are they a horribly consumer-hostile company, but everything they do is in agreement and collusion with not only the homicidal ins?anity of the current #American regime, but also the utter genocidal delusion of an Middle-Eastern regime that I won't deign to name, for they aren't worthy of the name.

Stop it, already!

Cultivate #OpenSource, ya dorks! Take that money you use to buy bloody* proprietary products and use it to make FOSS better within your own borders. Hire your own dadgum CompSci people and make the world better.

Signed,

A very teed-off American who really wishes you'd stop sending so much money to his incredibly stupid country.

* in the sense of "blood money," not in the sense of the British slang, "bloody."
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵
@rl_dane@polymaths.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Dear #EuropeanUnion,

Why the Trump are you still sending SO MUCH MONEY to #Microsoft every year?!?

Not only are their products intrinsically worthless, not only are they a horribly consumer-hostile company, but everything they do is in agreement and collusion with not only the homicidal ins?anity of the current #American regime, but also the utter genocidal delusion of an Middle-Eastern regime that I won't deign to name, for they aren't worthy of the name.

Stop it, already!

Cultivate #OpenSource, ya dorks! Take that money you use to buy bloody* proprietary products and use it to make FOSS better within your own borders. Hire your own dadgum CompSci people and make the world better.

Signed,

A very teed-off American who really wishes you'd stop sending so much money to his incredibly stupid country.

* in the sense of "blood money," not in the sense of the British slang, "bloody."
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@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

CIA confirms: Russia helped Trump win the election

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has officially confirmed in a detailed review that the Kremlin actively interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections to support Donald Trump’s victory — and that Vladimir Putin personally

edit: add link
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-review-intelligence-report-2016-election-russian-interference-rcna216634

#Ukraine#EuropeanUnion#Europe #uk #eu#Baltics #nato#usa #news

CIA NOTE 26 June 2025 (U) Memo To: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (U) From: Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis (U) Subject: Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference (U) Reference: Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, 30 December 2016 (U) In May 2025, Director of the Central role in the US presidential election created Intelligence Agency (DCIA) John Ratcliffe tasked confusion about the IC's actual assessment. These CIA's Directorate of Analysis (DA) to conduct a contradictory messages prompted President lessons-learned review of the procedures and Obama on 6 December to direct then-Director of analytic tradecraft employed in the highest National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to classified version of the Intelligence Community ~ conduct a comprehensive review of all available Assessment (ICA) Russia’s Influence Campaign intelligence and provide the IC's best assessment Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, dated of Russian activities related to the election. 30 December 2016. The review focused particular attention on the ICA's most debated judgment— » (U) However, before work on the assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin "aspired” to even began, media leaks suggesting that the IC help then-candidate Donald Trump win the had already reached definitive conclusions election. Drawing on CIA materials provided
CIA NOTE 26 June 2025 (U) Memo To: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (U) From: Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis (U) Subject: Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference (U) Reference: Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, 30 December 2016 (U) In May 2025, Director of the Central role in the US presidential election created Intelligence Agency (DCIA) John Ratcliffe tasked confusion about the IC's actual assessment. These CIA's Directorate of Analysis (DA) to conduct a contradictory messages prompted President lessons-learned review of the procedures and Obama on 6 December to direct then-Director of analytic tradecraft employed in the highest National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to classified version of the Intelligence Community ~ conduct a comprehensive review of all available Assessment (ICA) Russia’s Influence Campaign intelligence and provide the IC's best assessment Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, dated of Russian activities related to the election. 30 December 2016. The review focused particular attention on the ICA's most debated judgment— » (U) However, before work on the assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin "aspired” to even began, media leaks suggesting that the IC help then-candidate Donald Trump win the had already reached definitive conclusions election. Drawing on CIA materials provided
CIA NOTE 26 June 2025 (U) Memo To: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (U) From: Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis (U) Subject: Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference (U) Reference: Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, 30 December 2016 (U) In May 2025, Director of the Central role in the US presidential election created Intelligence Agency (DCIA) John Ratcliffe tasked confusion about the IC's actual assessment. These CIA's Directorate of Analysis (DA) to conduct a contradictory messages prompted President lessons-learned review of the procedures and Obama on 6 December to direct then-Director of analytic tradecraft employed in the highest National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to classified version of the Intelligence Community ~ conduct a comprehensive review of all available Assessment (ICA) Russia’s Influence Campaign intelligence and provide the IC's best assessment Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, dated of Russian activities related to the election. 30 December 2016. The review focused particular attention on the ICA's most debated judgment— » (U) However, before work on the assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin "aspired” to even began, media leaks suggesting that the IC help then-candidate Donald Trump win the had already reached definitive conclusions election. Drawing on CIA materials provided
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@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Since August 13, Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol have been accepting applications for “compensatory housing.”

The program redistributes apartments taken from those killed during the city’s capture or who fled occupation, labeling them “ownerless property.”

#Ukraine #eu#Uk#EuropeanUnion#usa
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@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Since August 13, Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol have been accepting applications for “compensatory housing.”

The program redistributes apartments taken from those killed during the city’s capture or who fled occupation, labeling them “ownerless property.”

#Ukraine #eu#Uk#EuropeanUnion#usa
European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Cycling boosts health, the planet, and the economy! 🚲

✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10M bikes made in the EU yearly
✔️ 1.35M cycling-related jobs

With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting cycling across the EU, including through:

🦺 Safe cycling networks in cities
🚌 Better links with public transport
🔋 Deployment of charging points for e-bikes
🚴 Bike highways connecting cities with rural areas

Find out more: https://europa.eu/!p97hdK
Open Risk
@openrisk@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@EUCommission

cars and airplanes are amazing mobility devices, they have their place in a sustainable future for Europe, but structuring the entire society and economy around them has been a profound mistake that needs serious effort to reverse.

Bikes and trains (and their powerful combination!) should rise much higher in people's preferences but that can only happen if the convenience and price become irresistible.

#sustainability
#europeanunion
European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

🚆 Your rights should travel with you.

We’re working to make rail journeys across the EU fairer, proposing stronger passenger rights when combining tickets from different railway operators, including rights to:

✅ Reimbursement
🔁 Re-routing
🆘 Assistance
💶 Compensation

Currently, these rights don’t fully apply here, and we are seeking a fix.

Got any ideas or views to share?

Have your say 👉 https://europa.eu/!WNbQTd

An abstract, painted-style image shows a blue and silver train speeding from left to right. Above the train, a loose, brushstroke-style European Union flag, represented by a swath of blue with yellow stars, trails behind it. Below the train, the text "Next stop: stronger passenger rights" is written in bold, black letters. In the bottom right corner, a small logo for the European Commission is visible.
An abstract, painted-style image shows a blue and silver train speeding from left to right. Above the train, a loose, brushstroke-style European Union flag, represented by a swath of blue with yellow stars, trails behind it. Below the train, the text "Next stop: stronger passenger rights" is written in bold, black letters. In the bottom right corner, a small logo for the European Commission is visible.
An abstract, painted-style image shows a blue and silver train speeding from left to right. Above the train, a loose, brushstroke-style European Union flag, represented by a swath of blue with yellow stars, trails behind it. Below the train, the text "Next stop: stronger passenger rights" is written in bold, black letters. In the bottom right corner, a small logo for the European Commission is visible.
ə-Li 🐝💨💨🧖🏼🧖🏽‍♂️
@isthatmeorwhat@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@EUCommission that sounds great, we all like rights.
You know what else would be great? Not giving up our PRIVACY HUMAN RIGHTS and democratic fundamentals on *Oct 14th 2025*.

Please fellow EU's folks, join the @chatcontrol campaign:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

#fightchatcontrol#ChatControl #privacyrightsarehumanrights #privacyright #privacyrights #privacy#GDPR #europeanunion #europe #humanrights #democracy #democracynow#Surveillancesystem #masssurveillance #massurveillance #MassSurveilance

activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@EUCommission

I feel and consider myself an #EU citizen, and I want to love and embrace the EU democratic system. See it mature further and improve. But with all these shenanigans going on all of the time, it gets no further than a love/hate relationship.

These continuous #ChatControl 🖕up-yours to EU residents, and a whole range of other similar issues - the dystopic and murky side of the EU regulators, the ugly side - are tremendously detrimental to what the #EuropeanUnion wants to achieve.
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Ah, its @EUCommission making a mockery of #democracy again by pushing #ChatControl for the Nth time. The misguided deceitful #Orwellian overreach regulation no one wants. Good way to erode some more of that much needed #trust of civilians in #politics.

And of course:

> #EU politicians exempt themselves from this #surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules. They get #privacy. You and your family do not. Demand fairness.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@EUCommission

I feel and consider myself an #EU citizen, and I want to love and embrace the EU democratic system. See it mature further and improve. But with all these shenanigans going on all of the time, it gets no further than a love/hate relationship.

These continuous #ChatControl 🖕up-yours to EU residents, and a whole range of other similar issues - the dystopic and murky side of the EU regulators, the ugly side - are tremendously detrimental to what the #EuropeanUnion wants to achieve.
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@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

So Trump is allowing a war criminal terrorist with an arrest warrant on U.S. soil.

The convicted criminal is giving mass child kidnapper mass murderer war criminal Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

#Ukraine #europeanunion #eu #nato#usa
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@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

So Trump is allowing a war criminal terrorist with an arrest warrant on U.S. soil.

The convicted criminal is giving mass child kidnapper mass murderer war criminal Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

#Ukraine #europeanunion #eu #nato#usa
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@skykiss@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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
skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms
@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

So Trump is allowing a war criminal terrorist with an arrest warrant on U.S. soil.

The convicted criminal is giving mass child kidnapper mass murderer war criminal Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

#Ukraine #europeanunion #eu #nato#usa