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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, and of course, the train is already 1h late.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1h

🇩🇪🚆🇵🇱 PKP should now do a mockumentary about the Polish crew taking over the Berlin-Warszawa Express from DB in Rzepin, only to discover that the beer is missing from the WARS dining car and there's a drunken Russian dude locked in the toilet.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating: Germans love to complain about their trains never being on time. Deutsche Bahn plays for humor and sympathy by commissioning a YouTube sitcom (an Office on wheels).
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Boah, Bahn! - YouTube

BOAH, BAHN! Wir sitzen alle im selben Zug – eine Serie der Deutschen Bahn mit Anke Engelke.

www.youtube.com

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2h

At least the good guys are scoring a moral victory, and we both know that moral victories are the favourite kind of victories for Poles.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2h

UAE is freedom; you just need to know whom to bribe.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe they hoped that one more Instagram reel from Wolne Sądy people would make any President give up and sign it.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 3h

It'll never be entirely clear to me why they didn't have this stuff ready to go right out of the gate in December 2023, and why they didn't make Duda veto it enough times to force PiS to own the sense of stagnation. Maybe now they'd have a more cooperative president in office.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

🇵🇱⚖️The new justice minister, Waldemar Żurek unveils a draft law to resolve the situation of "neo-judges". But if you look under the hood, there's very little "new" here, with only cosmetic changes compared to the draft presented by the previous MoJ Adam Bodnar. 1/

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 20h

Poland’s justice ministry has unveiled new plans for how to deal with the status of around 2,500 judges who were appointed by a body rendered illegitimate by the judicial reforms of the former PiS government, as well as rulings issued by them.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

The Tusk government will likely have to resort to using "bad tools" left by their predecessors (such as the power of the parliament to appoint most of the judicial council) to get anywhere until perhaps after 2030 Poland will have another shot at comprehensive reform of the judiciary. 9/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

Making matters worse is that the binary state of Polish politics means that chances for a compromise that would satisfy Nawrocki while including enough content to make it an actual stab at repairing the rule of law are also vanishingly small. 8/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

What next? The draft will be discussed and proceeded, but the chances that the President, who has one aim: to make PiS return to power in 2027, will agree to a bill that seeks to undo damage done by PiS are, well, very low. 7/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

Minister Żurek was appointed to hyper-charge the rule of law restoration process after the "timid" Minister Bodnar did things the slow way, but I wonder just how of this frenzy of activity is getting us closer to some progress and how much is political flexing of muscles. 6/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

Other solutions aren't that great, such as having most of the "neo-judges" undergo a repeat procedure before a "repaired" National Council of Judiciary. Problem is, the views towards restoring the Council's independence are rather remote at this point. 5/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

Some elements of the draft are things I support 100%, such as removing all the neo-judges from the Supreme Court and abolishing the highly problematic Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of that Court. 4/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

In elaborating this new/revised draft, MoJ Żurek decided to forgo consulting it with the Venice Commission. I'm not sure why the haste, chances that this draft will come into force are pretty much zero due to opposition from President Nawrocki. 3/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

The draft law aims to remove the neo-judges from the Supreme Court and to deal with such judges in lower-level courts depending on how big was the role of the politically compromised National Council of Judiciary in their appointment/promotion. 2/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 4h

🇵🇱⚖️The new justice minister, Waldemar Żurek unveils a draft law to resolve the situation of "neo-judges". But if you look under the hood, there's very little "new" here, with only cosmetic changes compared to the draft presented by the previous MoJ Adam Bodnar. 1/

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 20h

Poland’s justice ministry has unveiled new plans for how to deal with the status of around 2,500 judges who were appointed by a body rendered illegitimate by the judicial reforms of the former PiS government, as well as rulings issued by them.

Polish justice ministry outlines new plan to resolve status of illegitimately appointed judges

notesfrompoland.com

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 16h

It's OK, they'll adapt once they discover that piping it down helps get people to lend them a warm jacket to survive the freezing 10 C days.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

The current trend is an uptick in South Indian immigrants who try to break the ice in the office with Poles by talking very fast about a lot of things. It ends as catastrophically as you could expect.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

The bit about rotten teeth is where Finns give up.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

There is an important difference: Finns stand at a bus stop 10m from each other in complete silence, Poles huddle together and quietly mutter "kurwa, why is this fucking shit late like it always is".

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

"But Jakub, small talk builds bonds" ONLY THE ONE WHO WILL SHED BLOOD WITH ME SHALL BE MY BROTHER/SISTER

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

Probably the only thing we hate more than pointless chatter about things of no consequence are Russians, and it's a rather close call.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

Foreigner: How is your family?
Polish person: Glad you asked, my parents are divorcing, my sister hates me, my brother is dying of cancer, and my aunt was just jailed for posting death threats to gay people on Facebook.
Foreigner: Jesus Christ, why
Polish person: You're welcome, now shut up.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17h

🇵🇱 Habitual friendly reminder: never start small talk with Poles, you'll regret that.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

That weird lost Doctor Who episode where The Doctor has a baby with a Future Doctor, clearly.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

DDH Hazy English Pale Jellied Eel-Ale sounds like something I would guzzle down in Brighton on a gloomy beach day.

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