Call Spain, or Sánchez, any names you like but you'll be adding "leading European economy" to the list. Detractors and right wing nutjobs fret not, I'm sure one day woke socialism will get its just desserts ... Mind you, some of us will be thinking that woke socialism is already enjoying them ...

@soldelsur.bsky.social · 2d ago

La economía española consolida su liderazgo en Europa y supera la barrera histórica del Ibex en 20.000 puntos impulsada por las políticas del Gobierno de Pedro Sánchez - www.soldelsurtenerife.com/economia/eco...

From Spain's Foreign Office clarifying the situation with Schengen, Morocco, and the recent incident in Ceuta, to try to counter the rampant misinformation shared by many through ignorance or malice. In English below. 👇

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación de España@exterioresgob.bsky.social · 3d ago

1/5 🧵 Entering Spain irregularly through Ceuta or Melilla does not grant any right to remain in the country, travel to mainland Spain, or move freely within Europe. It also poses a grave risk to life. No court ruling has changed this. 🔗 www.exteriores.gob.es/en/Comunicac...

What we always said was happening was indeed really happening. Councils have been scattering tourism licences around for private residential property wherever they could without the least care for or oversight of rules, law, residents, or anything except the money. The new law has them scurrying ...

@soldelsur.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tras Granadilla y Adeje, ahora le toca actuar a Arona con las VV - www.soldelsurtenerife.com/opinion/juan...

Ditto. 👇

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4

No changed spots, IMO, just knifing what she sees as treacherous comrades in the back. Very likely true, and so she'd be very well advised to watch her own back now, and stay away from windows ...

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Greene:

Once again, and again from inside the field, my ongoing frustration and incomprehension at economics is acknowledged as the fault of and the problem with economics itself. Dressed up like science, smelling like bullshit, admitted as misinformation. Cannot see how it can be justified.

Evonomics.com@evonomics.bsky.social · 3d ago

Economist Julie Nelson: "The first, and most important, is the way in which certain core economic doctrines have infiltrated, and caused widespread damage to, academic and public discussion. evonomics.com/pretending-h...

When I had the website I'd tell Brits coming to Tenerife that if they needed to work they should expect to have to reassess radically what they might do here, and that they'd almost certainly not find their old type of work. Have a read of Tomasz' thread, show as many "expats" anywhere as poss. 👇

Tomasz Oryński@orynski.eu · 3d ago

I am seeing more and more posts in places like Reddit from British people wanting to move to Poland and struggling to get a job. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I didn't want to talk about it but about why I don't predict many of them to be too succesfull. Why? Here is a thread for you:

Once again beyond glad, and proud, to be a "leftie elitist" and, above all, in Spain. ♥️💛♥️

Max Koch@maxkoch.bsky.social · 4d ago

No wonder other 'leaders' want to get rid of Pedro Sánchez. He speaks the truth: “Climate change kills: ... people ..., our ecosystem, our biodiversity, and it also destroys the things we as a society hold dear – our houses, our businesses, our livestock.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The things you discover that you'd never have imagined ...

Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · 4d ago

til that herb butter was named after its inventor, Sir Herbert Butter-Knife in 1851. That it coincidentally contains both herbs and butter is just one of those wonderful happy accidents.

I've always seen books' value in the ideas and knowledge they contained and not in their physical form itself, however loved that might be. But rare books, by definition, have that additional value. Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Again. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

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👇 👇👇👇 Sigh.

samuel@quilombo.eurosky.social · 5d ago

Migration expert, sociologist Hein de Hass, about the Ceuta border (from LinkedIn):

Women, ordinary women ... not politicians, bigwigs, billionaires ... remember them? Ordinary women, not influencers, tiktockers, only fans porn wannabies... Ordinary women. h/t @nes-tor.bsky.social

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d ago

Spanish crochet teacher Eva Pacheco and her students created a street canopy in crochet and knitting, making welcome shade for the community of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga #WomensArt

I enjoyed this and experienced something almost forgotten, a sense that British politics wasn't a completely lost cause and that there was some scope for something positive. I actually felt a smidgen of something akin to hope. At the very least comfort. Do read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Like Burnham, I was an altar boy. His Catholic upbringing is shaping the way he governs |Julian Coman

With a prime minister raised in a tradition that emphasises our mutual dependency, we may finally have a leader who can address the anomie gripping our country, says Guardian associate editor Julian C...

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While some are whining about their effing 90 bloody days, others are using bilateral and EU-wide opportunities to save the actual planet. 👇

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

At least the vultures have reasons to be cheerful, vultures of various stripes ...

Santiago Martín Barajas@santimartinbarajas.bsky.social · last wk.

El paisaje tras el incendio de la Sierra Oeste de Madrid es dantesco. Enorme desastre ecológico. Miles de árboles abrasados, muchos de gran porte y edad. Gran número de buitres prospectando la zona, alimentándose de los numerosos ciervos y jabalíes que han muerto en el incendio.

Uk might be giving up on looking up but Spain sees the advantages of astrophysics. National government commits €1 billion to bringing the world's largest telescope in the northern hemisphere to the wonderful clear skies of the Canary Islands. www.canarianweekly.com/posts/Spain-...

Spain pledges €1 billion to bring world's largest northern hemisphere telescope to the Canary Islands

The TMT will become one of the world's most important astronomical research facilities…

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Fuerza Canaria quite right to accuse Arona of putting American shite and money ahead of people and basic needs, like somewhere to live instead of a car or a tent. First licence in the insane doubling of Los Cristianos plans (whole area between TF1 and fountain roundabout) goes to McDonalds.

@soldelsur.bsky.social · last wk.

Fuerza Canaria acusa al edil de Urbanismo de priorizar la licencia de McDonald's antes que las viviendas - www.soldelsurtenerife.com/arona/fuerza...

Near Madrid. Would be (and has been, have seen it with my own eyes) the same in the Canaries. Yes we would deserve the meteor but with our own behaviour we just don't need it. The earth has fireworks of its own and we'll all be enjoying them soon enough, meteors or not.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last wk.

We’ll deserve the meteorite. (🎥 BernarGM)

Ditto, especially looking at images like this of tourists casually relaxing and filming the fire they've contributed to from a safe distance, little holiday comforts scattered around while others flee for their lives. One day soon there won't be a safe distance, on holiday or at home.

Elinor Elliot@elinorelliot.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a particular rage when something you've dreaded your whole life begins to happen, and other people react with surprise, or worse, continued indifference. There isn't a word for that rage.

Who needs data centres to run you out of water when you have tourists? 🤬

Fundación Canarina@fundacioncanarina.bsky.social · last wk.

Los acuíferos de Tenerife, al límite por la presión humana y la crisis climática

Trump now demands the 2030 world cup is given to Morocco fully and not shared with Spain, top of his hate list, and the "Trump Highway", from Casablanca to the Sahara ... I think this will not be the beginning of a beautiful friendship ... however long we wait, and wait, and wait ... Fuck's sake 🙂‍↕️

@soldelsur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Donald Trump anuncia que una gran autopista de Casablanca al Sáhara llevará su nombre - www.soldelsurtenerife.com/politica/don...

The biggest fire in Spain's history is still burning and the intense heat is about to return. God help us all.

AEMET@aemet.es · 2w ago

🌡️ Después de un breve paréntesis, vuelve el calor muy intenso a la mayor parte del país, especialmente a partir del martes. ➡️ Con los datos observados y previstos, julio de 2026 empataría como el mes más cálido desde que hay registros con julio de 2022. 1/2

I'm getting allergic to tourists ... visceral reaction now. This is France.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.

... and peat becomes a carbon source rather than the carbon sink it was, and so the costs grow exponentially, which is what's not getting through the wilful misinformation shovelled down people's throats. Fewer peat bogs, less carbon captured, more carbon released, more heat and fires resulting ...

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

The authorities in Wales have been taking steps to preserve the nation's remaining peat bogs - a vital carbon store. But now, climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is turning the land itself into fuel.

In Spain fires are combining, two near Madrid making a vast next-generation conflagration that authorities say is beyond human capacity to deal with. And it's still met with idiocy. And more travel. Yes, we deserve nothing less than extinction. And the planet and all other life needs it. Badly.

Eva Montemaggi@evamontemaggi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Comments on social media show an unbelievable level of imbecility. People can’t go past the notion of direct cause of fires (usually criminal or negligent action) and the climate conditions making fires worse. Maybe we deserve extinction. theconversation.com/how-do-scien...

Maybe when everything is burnt to a cinder tourists won't want to come. We'll have to live with the destruction they left behind but they won't care about that. We've already seen the evidence that they don't give a damn. Pretty much game over when people go on holiday to 6th generation wildfires.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

A clinical professor of medicine in critical care at UCLA diagnoses the death of US democracy from the words of the administration itself .... in combination with history itself. ICU doctors would struggle to argue that the life support system should remain on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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Stay safe and avoid any and all American foods. If in doubt, or in the ignorance they'll try to ensure, just avoid. Anyone needing chocolate in Spain, just buy Mercadona's own brand, especially Senzza ... it's made by Valor, about as good as chocolate can be if you don't know the brand!! 👇

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Listened to an interview with Trump’s tariff guy Jamieson Greer who suggested the EU needed to be punished for keeping out American foodstuffs for “spurious reasons”. Those spurious reasons? Go into US stores and 50% of stuff has been banned in Europe for containing additives proven to cause cancer

Unsafe in our own beds. Unimaginable in and of itself but also in terms of scale. There are details at the end for anyone who might be affected to find help. It seems any number of us could be, however unwittingly. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘The bed you thought was safe, isn’t safe’: how Zoe Watts survived drug-facilitated rape – and fought back

For years, her husband was adding sedatives to her evening cup of tea. Now, with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, she is lifting the lid on a hidden and diabolical crime

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In a bid to keep the two sides of my work life separate I’ve set up @infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social A place for writers of all kinds, readers and viewers too. Things I’ve learned on the road to getting published, my work made for TV, talk about the craft, tips, news and intel, reviews. 1/2