Captain Europe (retired)
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Captain Europe (retired)
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Retired real life 🇪🇺superhero. Full-time desk jockey in the Brussels machine. Eclectic tweets on public policy, travel, the environment and life in general.
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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Mao had had enough of experts.
Scientists cautioned against Mao Zedong’s plans to eradicate sparrows during China’s Great Leap Forward. But he did not listen. New research reveals the grim consequences of his campaign
How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people
The birds were almost wiped out during China’s Great Leap Forward
econ.st
Очень хорошое качество.
Yesterday a ceiling collapsed at a children's ward in a Novosibirsk hospital.

Today the same thing happened at a school in Baley in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Authorities say no-one was injured.

#RussiaIsCollapsing
I’m reading a book about Athenian democracy, but it’s all Greek to me.
I'm reading a book about anaesthesia but I keep nodding off.
I'm reading a book about plant pathology but it's a dying field.
Idiot. Time waits for no man. Or something like that.
🇬🇷Greek PM Mitsotakis, also from Merz & von der Leyen's conservative EPP group, also enters #EUCO calling for a reevaluation of the EU's efforts to fight climate change.

"We should allow more time...ensuring that we don’t place unnecessary burdens on European industries.”
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By way of thanking Donald for not escalating with Tomahawks, I just killed a bunch of children at a Kharkiv kindergarten.
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Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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SPOILER ALERT: The number one reason for voting Brexit was to "control our borders".
"Asked if there were any examples where Brexit has helped the UK 'control our borders', both the Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt and the Director General of the National Crime Agency Rob Jones were stumped.”
Borders chief can’t name a way Brexit has helped UK control its borders
The new border security commander, Martin Hewitt, said he did ‘not immediately’ have an answer
www.independent.co.uk
He voted for the wong kai. I mean wrong guy.
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Ähnlichkeiten mit historischen Vorgängern sind nicht rein zufällig, sondern beabsichtigt.
There’s something Vichy about Viktor Orbán.
Orban - who will host Trump and Putin - says Hungary is the only "pro-peace" country in Europe with regard to the war after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán confirmed he will speak with Putin today, following a call with Trump the previous evening. Orbán said preparations are underway for a Trump–Putin meeting in Budapest, calling Hungary the only "pro-peace" country in Europe.
Because he was over-wrong?
Someone seems to be overcorrecting.

I wonder why.

🐻
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There is still widespread circulation of #COVID19 in the Europe although it is decreasing.

#RSV and #influenza transmission remain low - for now.

✅ Consider getting vaccinated against seasonal respiratory viruses!

More info on erviss.org
#RespiratoryDiseases #IDsky #EpiSky #WinterBugs
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urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé

Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République a précisé avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté.
www.liberation.fr
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Unrevised, raw machine translation
Its' a desk reject.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”
Happy Life, the Universe and Everything.