Erick Staal

@erickstaal.bsky.social

Dutch European.

I'm old enough to remember when Obama put up a basketball hoop at one end of the White House tennis court and conservatives absofuckinglutely lost their shit, saying he was "defiling the people's house." Those people are silent how because conservatism is just hypocrisy spelled differently.

In a rare public speech, Anne Keast-Butler, the director of GCHQ — the U.K.’s intelligence, cyber and security agency — will say Britain is at a “moment of consequence,” with the country facing increasingly brazen behavior from hostile nations.

UK spy chief: Time is running out for the West to confront threats from Russia and China

Britain and its allies face a “moment of consequence,” according to the head of its intelligence agency.

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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

politico.eu

The Brexit omerta is certainly ending, with now more voices in the UK openly arguing at least for a revision of the hard Brexit redlines, if not outright rejoin, here the @economist.com. (Though of course this is mainly an UK-internal debate for now).

The Economist@economist.com · 2mo ago

A bolder British prime minister might steer off the political challenge of reversing Brexit and instead trade free movement of people for Swiss-style single-market access

En nu doorpakken en dit vertalen naar duidelijk beleid. Dat nu persoonsinformatie van ambtenaren via Microsoft naar de Amerikaanse overheid is gelekt, is werkelijk schandalig. De overheid zou ten alle tijde haar personeel moeten beschermen en heeft hier een verwijtbaar risico genomen.

🚨 Meer dan 200.000 mensen tekende de petitie, bijna de hele Tweede Kamer in actie. Kogel lijkt nu door de kerk: Overname van Solvinity, bedrijf achter DigiD, gaat NIET door. Advies toezichthouder: Blokkeer de overname! Heel mooi dat de Staatssecretaris dit advies overneemt! www.ad.nl/binnenland/r...

Rel rond DigiD bereikt climax: staatssecretaris verbiedt overname door Amerikaanse onderneming

De staatssecretaris verbiedt de overname van het bedrijf achter DigiD door een Amerikaanse onderneming.

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ROSENBERG: For so many years, Vladimir Putin's image was based on perception of Putin as Mr. Security, Mr. Stability, that sort of captain of the ship who had calmed the stormy waters after the often chaotic 1990s. No sense of stability, no sense of security in Russia right now.

With precise drone attacks, Ukrainian defenders have knocked out almost all major oil refineries in central Russia. In the first 20 days of May, the Ukrainians completely destroyed Tuapse; stopped Moscow, Ryazan, Perm, Kirishi, Samara; and disrupted Primorsk and Yaroslavl.

Nope. There's nothing that can substitute for the 4-8% we are losing each year in income per head. It's a delusion of both the left and the right that you can. The former think they can industrial policy their way out of it; the latter think they can deregulate the UK out of it. Neither true.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 3mo ago

Why Rejoin cannot be Labour's answer Labour keeps learning the wrong lessons from Brexit. Burnham has something which Labour has lacked- a theory of power. Something Rejoin would fatally undermine. Latest piece from me. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-rejoin...

🔥 It is now very important in the North to detect and neutralize enemy antennas, repeaters, surveillance equipment and electronic warfare. 210th Assault Regiment is currently performing this very work in the Sumy region.