South of Watford
@graemesow.bsky.social
I fell asleep and I woke up here. Madrid based guiri talking all kinds of shit about Spanish life and politics. Can't even do a decent profile description. Posts in English and pidgin Spanglish
Not surprising Netanyahu wants to go after the people involved in NAZA, this could be evidence for his war crimes trial. None of the propaganda bullshit holds up to this.
A court that likes to do whatever it wants without any other being able to correct it.
El Supremo amnistía la malversación de los líderes del procés y carga contra la "injerencia" del Constitucional
La Sala de lo Penal declara extinguida la responsabilidad penal de Oriol Junqueras, Raül Romeva, Jordi Turull y Dolors Bassa y traslada a Justicia la solicitud de eliminación de sus antecedentes penal...
eldiario.es
I was on a Spanish bus yesterday where someone started sharing their mobile shit, and the driver picked up his microphone in seconds to remind everyone to use their headphones. I would've given him a big bearhug if it wasn't going to cause an accident.
Share the journey, not the noise: government launches measures to prevent noise and antisocial behaviour on transport
Tackling nuisance behaviour on buses and trains will help people feel safer and more comfortable.
gov.uk
This wouldn't be the same Espinosa de los Monteros who recently called the late Maricarmen a 'jeta'? Certainly looks like him.
La Justicia concluye que Espinosa de los Monteros engañó a Hacienda en una operación inmobiliaria de lujo
El Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid tumba los recursos del político y Rocío Monasterio, colaboradora en el fraude, por la multa que les impuso Hacienda al presentar una factura falsa y otros ar...
eldiario.es
Apple should just have hacked OpenAI, apparently there is no punishment for AI companies that do hacking.
Reuters@reuters.com · 7d agoAn OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account and later made a presentation about the unreleased product to senior Apple leadership, a new filing in the lawsuit between OpenAI and Apple alleges reut.rs/4hU5U2B
Yes, it's almost as if the Supremo is really trying to exclude these people from voting?
elDiario.es@eldiario.es · 7d agoEl Gobierno ve imposible cumplir el auto del Supremo al tener que revisar a mano 80.000 expedientes de la ley de nietos
Despite my (multiple) misgivings about the sweet FA, this is the right thing to do. Not all left wing voters will vote for Bildu.
El Frente Amplio se presentará en Euskadi porque tiene "algunos elementos claramente diferenciados" con EH Bildu
"Va a haber una candidatura fuerte a la izquierda del PSOE", dice Jon Hernández, parlamentario de la coalición Sumar, aunque por el momento no hay acuerdo con Podemos
eldiario.es
Yeah, I'll take it. I don't believe it, but I'll take it.
El primer CIS de la precampaña amplía la ventaja del PSOE sobre el PP a 11,8 puntos
Los socialistas logran un 34% de los votos, tres puntos más que en septiembre; el PP, un 22,2%, más de tres puntos por debajo del último estudio; Vox crece hasta un 17,1%; Sumar-Frente Amplio también ...
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Well we know Vox want to privatise pensions, I'll bet the PP have no intention of revealing their plans.
La portavoz del PP defiende "cambiar" el sistema público de pensiones de forma "valiente" porque "va a petar"
Feijóo promete revalorizar las pensiones con el IPC pero apostilla que “los jóvenes tienen derecho a un sistema público de pensiones viable”
eldiario.es
Organisation traditionally packed with rightwing extremists warns about the danger of rightwing extremists.
Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says
Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year
theguardian.com
In the latest episode of Is Anyone Still Watching? we have Ada saying she will only stand as candidate if Irene and Monica say pretty please. But Irene has gone off with Gabriel and everybody is in a huff. To be continued...
Colau se abre a no ser candidata para que Frente Amplio y Podemos pacten
La exalcaldesa de Barcelona acepta replantear la candidatura con el objetivo de lograr un acuerdo entre las distintas fuerzas de izquierda: "Si el problema es el nombre, se le cambia el nombre"
eldiario.es
Positioning yourself between the PSOE and the PP does not make you a 'centrist', especially when the PP have swallowed half of Vox's programme.
Miriam González Durántez launches new centrist party in Spain
Wife of former British deputy PM Nick Clegg promises liberal alternative to the PP and Socialists before snap election
theguardian.com
The only people causing problems in Sol continue to be from the far right.
Jornada de tensión en la acampada de Sol por el asalto de grupos ultras: “Rojo muerto, abono para mi huerto”
Los altercados entre radicales y grupos antifascistas han terminado con tres detenidos, uno menor de edad, y un policía herido
elpais.com
The origin of this case lies in 2 things 1). The rightwing conspiracy theory that Sánchez will try to steal the election and 2). The hard right resentment at descendants of those they expelled from the country getting nationality.
Still time for a few more episodes of what will hopefully be the final season of 'esto no va de nombres ni listas'
La pugna por los escasos puestos de salida tensa las negociaciones del Frente Amplio mientras se abre paso la 'vía Colau'
Más Madrid apoya ahora a la exalcaldesa como candidata, pero reclama que esté en la lista de Barcelona para poder copar ellos la de Madrid. Los Comuns también respaldan a Colau, pero quieren que se pr...
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It will be a very dirty, low quality, campaign then.
Feijóo encarga a Tellado la dirección de la campaña electoral del PP
El presidente del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ha encargado a Miguel Tellado, secretario general del partido, la dirección de la campaña electoral de cara al 29 de noviembre. El líder de la formación eli...
eldiario.es
How to assess the opinion polls in this campaign? My yardstick is this page on the 2023 polls many of which got the result wildly wrong - es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:S... NC Reports consistently overestimated PP support by around 4%
ABC couldn't find space to report on the death of Maricarmen because of a huge story about La Casa de la Arquitectura
Reclaiming the vulture -such a wonderful and ecologically important group of 23 birds around the world- from lazy leftist language. "Love vultures. Hate fascist speculators". I want a badge.
Eneko Arrondo@bioeaf.bsky.social · 2w agocorregida
DIRECTO | El PP veta un minuto de silencio por Maricarmen en la Asamblea de Madrid social.elpais.com/4fw…
María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87
María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87
Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis * ‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction set off a nationwide wave of protests against Spain’s housing crisis, has died. News of her death came two weeks after Maricarmen, as she had come to be known across Spain, was evicted from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for more than seven decades. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
It's important to remember that nobody forced the Spanish right to behave like sociopathic shitbags with Maricarmen. It comes naturally.
Evicted Spanish octogenarian Maricarmen Abascal, heart of Spain's housing protests, has died reut.rs/4AVidEq
Evicted Spanish octogenarian Maricarmen Abascal, heart of Spain's housing protests, has died
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
Nothing to do with the people who spent years trying to evict her.
elDiario.es@eldiario.es · 2w agoVox acusa a Pedro Sánchez de la muerte de Maricarmen: “Ha utilizado el sufrimiento de una persona mayor”
Looks like someone's huffy goth daughter.
Javier Durán@tortondo.bsky.social · 2w agoParece un anuncio de gel: “En lo más íntimo quiero Quirón”.
