João
@euroconcern.bsky.social
International relations with an EU angle, videogames, space and other musings. Posts in EN, PT, FR, plus other languages if I feel brave enough.
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These talks aim to enrich corrupt leaders & their protégés, and treat Ukraine as a colony. This is the rotten peace of 🇷🇺 🇺🇲 crony capitalism.
Those who criticised assistance to Ukraine said the war was encouraged by NATO to stimulate arms sales. Will they denounce this attempted imperial pillaging?
Those who criticised assistance to Ukraine said the war was encouraged by NATO to stimulate arms sales. Will they denounce this attempted imperial pillaging?
1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
These talks aim to enrich corrupt leaders & their protégés, and treat Ukraine as a colony. This is the rotten peace of 🇷🇺 🇺🇲 crony capitalism.
Those who criticised assistance to Ukraine said the war was encouraged by NATO to stimulate arms sales. Will they denounce this attempted imperial pillaging?
Those who criticised assistance to Ukraine said the war was encouraged by NATO to stimulate arms sales. Will they denounce this attempted imperial pillaging?
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*It’s cold outside
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
December 10, 2024 at 10:00 PM
*It’s cold outside
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
*Friends gather for a meal together
*Everyone is thinking about a very special little baby
*An important visitor comes in through the ventilation system
Alien is a Christmas movie
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🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
bit.ly/48mvicJ
bit.ly/48mvicJ
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
bit.ly/48mvicJ
bit.ly/48mvicJ
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Something happened in Yasnyy/Dombarovskiy. There is also a video and some NOTAMs t.me/militaryruss.... Looks like a failed ICBM launch. The color of this cloud doesn't look good. Not clear if it's Sarmat. There are other options: SS-18 or SS-19. Wait for more information.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Something happened in Yasnyy/Dombarovskiy. There is also a video and some NOTAMs t.me/militaryruss.... Looks like a failed ICBM launch. The color of this cloud doesn't look good. Not clear if it's Sarmat. There are other options: SS-18 or SS-19. Wait for more information.
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Trump s’apprêterait à offrir à Poutine la reconnaissance de la Crimée et des territoires conquis comme appartenant à Moscou
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/11/2...
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/11/2...
Trump s'apprête à reconnaître les territoires occupés en Ukraine comme appartenant à la Russie
Les représentants choisis par Trump pour négocier un accord de paix avec Poutine, Steve Witkoff et Jared Kushner, devraient présenter au président russe un document garantissant la reconnaissance par ...
legrandcontinent.eu
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Trump s’apprêterait à offrir à Poutine la reconnaissance de la Crimée et des territoires conquis comme appartenant à Moscou
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/11/2...
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/11/2...
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🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...
Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law
The new rules set a dangerous precedent, big tech companies say.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...
"Why do only fools and horses work?"
"Attention passengers, we regret to inform you that the 08:47 service to..."
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Why do only fools and horses work?"
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Today marks a milestone for European space exploration. The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 billion, were just approved at our Ministerial Council meeting in Bremen, Germany. #CM25
More details 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
More details 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
ESA Member States commit to largest contributions at Ministerial
The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 bn, have been approved at its Council meeting at Ministerial level in Bremen, ...
www.esa.int
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Today marks a milestone for European space exploration. The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 billion, were just approved at our Ministerial Council meeting in Bremen, Germany. #CM25
More details 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
More details 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
No denunciation of imperialism is complete without acknowledging that Russia/USSR has interefered with, intervened in, and attacked a large number of sovereign states - which did not attack Russia in the first place.
"Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked 19 different countries — some of them 3-4 times — and none of these countries, including Ukraine, has ever attacked Russia." - EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
No denunciation of imperialism is complete without acknowledging that Russia/USSR has interefered with, intervened in, and attacked a large number of sovereign states - which did not attack Russia in the first place.
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A quem serve o golpe na Guiné-Bissau? A Fernando Dias, o candidato presidencial da oposição, a quem acusam de estar por trás do levantamento militar? Ou ao Presidente que terá perdido as eleições?
Golpe na Guiné-Bissau: eleições foram suspensas, o Presidente demitido e as fronteiras e os media encerrados
A quem serve o golpe na Guiné-Bissau? A Fernando Dias, o candidato presidencial da oposição, a quem acusam de estar por trás do levantamento militar? Ou ao Presidente que terá perdido as eleições?
www.publico.pt
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A quem serve o golpe na Guiné-Bissau? A Fernando Dias, o candidato presidencial da oposição, a quem acusam de estar por trás do levantamento militar? Ou ao Presidente que terá perdido as eleições?
Ganhámos a liga dos últimos, que emoção avassaladora.
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ganhámos a liga dos últimos, que emoção avassaladora.
War is expensive, and many Russians have to face these consequences, even if they live 2000 km away from the front.
Minus 30 degrees outside, plus 10 inside. While the men are waging hot war on foreign soil, the wives and children of military men from the Kola Peninsula live through ice-cold winter days without heating in their houses
Families of Russian arctic warriors are left in freezing cold
While the men are waging war on foreign soil, and the state spends massive resources on violence and territorial expansion, the wives and children of military men from the Kola Peninsula live through ...
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
War is expensive, and many Russians have to face these consequences, even if they live 2000 km away from the front.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Two days ago, the regime police in Georgia arrested a man over squeaking a chicken toy towards the police.
So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Two days ago, the regime police in Georgia arrested a man over squeaking a chicken toy towards the police.
So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
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No Linkedin, tipos engravatados estão há dias a ver quem lambe as botas ao CR e aos sauditas com mais afinco. Menosprezam qualquer centelha de espírito crítico ou preocupação humanitária como "virtue signaling" (aprenderam esta com a extrema-direita). Nos dias ímpares, enchem a boca com "liberdade".
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
No Linkedin, tipos engravatados estão há dias a ver quem lambe as botas ao CR e aos sauditas com mais afinco. Menosprezam qualquer centelha de espírito crítico ou preocupação humanitária como "virtue signaling" (aprenderam esta com a extrema-direita). Nos dias ímpares, enchem a boca com "liberdade".
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Today is the remembrance day for the victims of a man made famine, Holodomor - the Soviet regime killed at least 4M Ukrainian by starvation.
My great-grandparents, at the time 8 and 14yo, survived but many Ukrainian children didn't. Never forget.
My great-grandparents, at the time 8 and 14yo, survived but many Ukrainian children didn't. Never forget.
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Today is the remembrance day for the victims of a man made famine, Holodomor - the Soviet regime killed at least 4M Ukrainian by starvation.
My great-grandparents, at the time 8 and 14yo, survived but many Ukrainian children didn't. Never forget.
My great-grandparents, at the time 8 and 14yo, survived but many Ukrainian children didn't. Never forget.
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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I’ve seen this with Xinjiang. Meanwhile Xinjiang scholars have taken risks to talk about this because the Islamophobia is so potent and toxic
The people who say "why this obsession with Palestine? why don't you post about Sudan?" never post about Sudan themselves.
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"
(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"
(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve seen this with Xinjiang. Meanwhile Xinjiang scholars have taken risks to talk about this because the Islamophobia is so potent and toxic
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O caso de António Costa é gravíssimo e próximo de espionagem (nem sei se não existará algum tipo objectivo legal para esta situação, teria de ir estudar primeiro). A discussão perder-se-á em questões ideológicas de a justiça ser Salazarista ou de ser "de Direita", desviando o foco do problema.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
O caso de António Costa é gravíssimo e próximo de espionagem (nem sei se não existará algum tipo objectivo legal para esta situação, teria de ir estudar primeiro). A discussão perder-se-á em questões ideológicas de a justiça ser Salazarista ou de ser "de Direita", desviando o foco do problema.
I don't know what's worse: the utter ignorance from people who think everything started with them, or the inability to understand how a peace agreement works.
Most of it reads like vague requests from someone who has no idea why Russia even started this war of aggression in the first place.
Most of it reads like vague requests from someone who has no idea why Russia even started this war of aggression in the first place.
The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I don't know what's worse: the utter ignorance from people who think everything started with them, or the inability to understand how a peace agreement works.
Most of it reads like vague requests from someone who has no idea why Russia even started this war of aggression in the first place.
Most of it reads like vague requests from someone who has no idea why Russia even started this war of aggression in the first place.
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🚨 Troubling news: the US has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press the country into agreeing to the 28-point peace deal, according to @reuters.com.
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚨 Troubling news: the US has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press the country into agreeing to the 28-point peace deal, according to @reuters.com.
Hedging against an unstable US has been going on, at least in rhetoric and as a talking point, but this plan would likely mark an inflection point in US relations with its allies.
It would outlive the Trump regime, too - the consequences would take many years to mend, even if autocratization stops.
It would outlive the Trump regime, too - the consequences would take many years to mend, even if autocratization stops.
BREAKING: Leaked U.S. "Peace Plan": Full Translation of 28 Key Terms Presented to Ukraine
www.onestnetwork.com/post/leaked-...
www.onestnetwork.com/post/leaked-...
Leaked U.S. "Peace Plan": Full Translation of 28 Key Terms Presented to Ukraine
A complete English translation of the leaked 28-point U.S. draft peace plan for Ukraine, detailing security guarantees, NATO restrictions, territorial concessions, sanctions relief for Russia, reconst...
www.onestnetwork.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hedging against an unstable US has been going on, at least in rhetoric and as a talking point, but this plan would likely mark an inflection point in US relations with its allies.
It would outlive the Trump regime, too - the consequences would take many years to mend, even if autocratization stops.
It would outlive the Trump regime, too - the consequences would take many years to mend, even if autocratization stops.
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Me in 1995, pulling an all-nighter in an Edinburgh computer lab: One day Artificial Intelligence might help us diagnose cancer.
2025...
2025...
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Me in 1995, pulling an all-nighter in an Edinburgh computer lab: One day Artificial Intelligence might help us diagnose cancer.
2025...
2025...
They couldn't even bother to attend a conference where the interlocutor was the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas.
Leave it to us to finance the PA, only for Israel to destroy it all through land grabs and bombings with US backing.
Leave it to us to finance the PA, only for Israel to destroy it all through land grabs and bombings with US backing.
US a no-show at EU donor conference for the Palestinian Authority
US a no-show at EU donor conference for the Palestinian Authority
US absence raises questions over transatlantic coordination on Middle East diplomacy
dlvr.it
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
They couldn't even bother to attend a conference where the interlocutor was the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas.
Leave it to us to finance the PA, only for Israel to destroy it all through land grabs and bombings with US backing.
Leave it to us to finance the PA, only for Israel to destroy it all through land grabs and bombings with US backing.