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Barcelona y London
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“I always picture Reform’s internal affairs department as a toy phone ringing out in an abandoned wendy house.” theguardian.com/commentisfre…
@ffoxpack Re theguardian.com/wellness/202… - a v allergic friend is doing well on a vaccine program for cat allergy. She was extremely allergic and can now be in same room as cats and even pet them without issue
@beteve L'Ajuntament de Barcelona està talant ara mateix arbres madurs i saludables a Horta-Guinardó — en contradicció directa amb el seu propi Pla Director de l'Arbrat 2017-2037, que compromet la ciutat a AUGMENTAR la cobertura arbrada i a preservar els arbres madurs.
@jaumecollboni Eh, per què el teu govern municipal està passant la motoserra a arbres madurs que proporcionen una ombra tan necessària als carrers en plena emergència climàtica i ajuden a protegir els residents contra nivells perillosos de contaminació de l’aire? És indignant 🤦♀️
"Stopping an AI system from generating sexualized imagery is not a matter of ideology. It is a legal obligation and a basic moral responsibility that all of Europe shares." euractiv.com/opinion/grok-mu…
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Wonder what it's like to join X as a highly experienced head of comms for EMEA, and then spend your time ignoring journalists @Victoriawaw?
We've been messaging X every day in the hope of understanding why Grok appears to regularly violate its own acceptable use policy
"Like E coli O157:H7 (which emerged in cattle feedlots) & methicillin-resistant S aureus (aka MRSA, which emerged at industrial hog farms and kills about 9,000 Americans every year), H5N1 is simply the latest unanticipated cost of factory farming." theguardian.com/news/2026/ja…
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Imposing a travel ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton for doing his job as a European Commissioner, and others, is unacceptable.
On behalf of @Europarl_EN, I urge for it to be rescinded quickly.
We strongly condemn the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former Commissioner Thierry Breton.
Link to full statement: link.europa.eu/NtMX4K
"... regulating the information space is not optional: it is a sine qua non for turning the narrow mercantile logic of a few into a genuine contribution towards human progress and the common good." - @ThierryBreton
“Everyone wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, listens to the same podcasts, follows the same fads. It’s a place born of immense sort of herd-like behaviour.”
theguardian.com/politics/202…
@bbcpaddy Hi, why did your interview with Ehud Olmert cut out to non-UK listeners - stating that this part of the programme is unable due to rights restrictions? Hard to imagine a discussion about the disaster in Gaza triggers copyright concerns
@_Movelia how much will you be compensating this double decker bus full of people for ruining their day trip?
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The Chernobyl disaster struck 39 years ago on April 26, 1986. Though it happened in #Ukraine, its devastating impact reached deep into #Belarus, contaminating land and poisoning our population.
A passage from Sviatlana Alexievich captures the haunting loss:
"The sparrows disappeared from our town in the first year after the accident. They were lying around everywhere – in the yards, on the asphalt. They’d be raked up and taken away in the containers with the leaves. They didn’t let people burn the leaves that year, because they were radioactive, so they buried the leaves.
The sparrows came back two years later. We were so happy, we were calling to each other: “I saw a sparrow yesterday! They’re back.”
The May bugs also disappeared, and they haven’t come back. Maybe they’ll come back in a hundred years or a thousand. That’s what our teacher says. I won’t see them."
Delay, distract, dissemble?
Google just quietly killed its 7-year plan to kill third-party cookies. A strategic U-turn of historic proportions—and a blow to web privacy. It’s not just a product change. Let's hope it's not a sign of impending privacy deterioration. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/googl…
🎙️@TanyaOCarroll called this privacy settlement she won from Meta a “bittersweet victory” techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/me… It’s also bittersweet for me as it’s my last story for @TechCrunch - but happily it underscores the value & power of public interest reporting. Support #journalism
Looking fwd to getting my teeth into @lukOlejnik’s book on infowar tactics — which, as cat has clearly recognised, is required reading for these propaganda-troubled times
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In April 1986 my parents learned about the #Chernobyl nuclear disaster via #RadioFreeEurope, while the Polish communist regime continued to hide the fact that a radioactive cloud was passing over Poland. Thanks to a radio funded by the US government, I and many other children behind the Iron Curain were less exposed to radiation that month. And our societies received access to truths the communists were trying to conceal.
Today's decision by @DOGE to close @RFERL, @VOANews, @RadioFreeAsia is nothing more than a gift to dictators around the world - especially to #Putin and #Russia.
Russia's multibillion-dollar effort to push disinformation abroad has given the Cold War radio a new life. 40 million people from 23 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia tune into its coverage, 11 million inside Russia, despite the Kremlin's labeling them a "foreign agent."
The US is willingly giving away one of the most important tools of its soft power and an instrument that has changed the world for the better.
