Pity they couldn't film the Táin at the location it's set in. There are only tiny scraps of native woodland left in Ireland. It would be a shame to see Cú Chulainn in a dark, sterile, non-native spruce plantation, like this one on the Cooley Peninsula, or on the bare uplands, ruined by overgrazing.

Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE (& chair of management board). By some accounts one of the most dangerous people in Europe. Think Rupert Murdoch -> Brexit & Trump, but here in the EU. He controls Politico, The Telegraph newspaper in the UK, and large swathes of the media in Germany.

Corporate ownership via holding companies in UAE or Cyprus is a typical modus operandi of Russian entities to obscure their links. European government agencies among the clients of Russia-controlled firm Passwork. HT @conorgallagher.bsky.social @marchofer.bsky.social @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social

Plenty of brands that sound European / American that are actually Chinese. Amazon, now swamped with Chinese brands, has basically become Ali Express, but to the average consumer it's an outlet for a plethora of new seemingly Western brands.

Not uncommon, but still worth highlighting. A strange encounter with this seemingly innocent account led me to check its replies. All pro-China propaganda. The sooner we implement Europe-wide ZKP (Zero-knowledge proof) the better, to elimate influence ops by China, Russia and the US.

What do these two have in common? Kaja Kallas, the EU's HR/VP Jens Spahn, Leader of the CDU/CSU They've just been revealed as members of Peter Thiel's secretive "Dialog" society, along with Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, Scott Bessent, etc. 1/2

You bought a book. Every third page is an unhinged rant by the owner of the book publisher or one of his paid influencers. Oh, and he's a fascist that has destroyed democracy in the US. Europe is next. He's about to launch a huge IPO fraud against willing speculators. You shrug and keep reading.

A number of brands we should boycott belonging to home grown Kremlin propagandists here in free Europe - the Bolloré family. Canal+, Universal Music, Hachette... and I just discovered he owns Dailymotion too.

Is there some shady financing scheme aimed at unprincipled charlatans in Europe? Say the right words to defend Russian or Chinese interests, and the money tap opens. Far left and far right. Both are for sale. For the right price they'll throw a free democracy to the wolves.

Giving such a huge platform to such a dangerous person without a single challenging question is astonishing. Yanis Varoufakis is a sophisticated propagandist whose narratives support the far right imperialist aggression of Russia. Don't take my word for it. Take his:

Many people believed the blockades were genuine protests and were fooled into tolerating them. The deception worked due to propaganda that falsely portrays farmers as guardians of the countryside who feed Ireland. 2/3

What is wrong with these people? Zack Polanski, Catherine Connolly and the rest of the compromised part of the Left in Europe should be exposed for their support for far right Russian imperialist aggression. Any territorial reward for Russia's war locks in a future spiral of state violence.

Dominic Cummings Xitter post is yet another data point indicating that Brexit was the culmination of a major Kremlin information warfare campaign. Enforce DSA, and block X, TikTok, YouTube, etc. in Europe, please. They violate our laws with impunity. Zero tolerance of hostile subversion networks!

India is a despicable supporter of imperialist Russian aggression. Look how India's imports of Russian oil shot up precisely when Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

That's one hell of a big order of Rafales by India.

"Consider Greenland... by standing together in the face of a direct threat, Europeans discovered a solidarity that had previously seemed out of reach. The shared resolve resonated with the public in ways that no summit communiqué could have achieved." #UnitedFederationOfEurope 7/7

"Some will say that we should not act until our position is stronger... But this trade-off is illusory. It is only moving that we create the conditions to act more decisively later. Unity does not precede action. It is forged by taking consequential decisions together..." 6/7

"Where we have not..., we are treated as a loose assembly of middle-sized states to be divided, and dealt with accordingly. A Europe unified on trade, but fragmented on defence, will find its commercial power leveraged against its security dependence - as is happening now." 5/7

"Power requires Europe to move from confederation to federation. Where Europe has federated - on trade, on competition, on the single market, on monetary policy - we are respected as a power, and negotiate as one..." 4/7

"Grouping together small countries doesn't automatically produce a powerful bloc. This is the logic of confederation... This model does not produce power. A group of states... Each with a veto. Each with a separate calculus. Each vulnerable to being picked off - one by one." 3/7

"Of all those now caught between the United States and China, Europeans alone have the option to become a genuine power themselves. So we must decide. Do we remain merely a large market, subject to the priorities of others? Or do we take the steps necessary to become one power?" 2/7

🧵 Mario Draghi: "Power requires Europe to move from confederation to federation." Here's a short thread with some short video clips and transcripts of key parts of Draghi's pivotal speech today in KU Leuven... #UnitedFederationOfEurope 1/7

Steeper than Hungary, Venezuela, Russia and Turkey. The speed of Trump regime destruction of the former US constitutional order is remarkable. HT @veertjephilips.bsky.social

Epstein may have been a key part of the Kremlin subversion operation to blackmail Krasnov, split NATO, and destroy the former US constitutional order. If true, what a wild success for Russia!

Trump's admiration and respect for our enemies on full display. He put up a picture of himself with Vladimir Putin in the White House.

Many excellent US companies will seek to relocate their HQ, top leadership, main facilities and assets to escape the hostile business environment in the US. If they're unaffiliated with the Trump regime, they're welcome to come here to Europe to thrive in a reliable jurisdiction with rule-of-law.

Latest Kremlin instructions were to continue the Greenland propaganda to undermine Europe and NATO. So... Embrace a bird from the southern hemisphere?

Very disappointed with Albania. Their EU accession process should be frozen. Alignment with the Trump regime and contributing to regime slush funds are incompatible with EU membership. Hungary should have been subject to full TEU art. 7 invocation a long time ago.

Musk wants Ryanair to buy Starlink access. Ryanair said no. Musk said he'd buy Ryanair (thankfully EU law makes this impossible).. Ergo...

There's a permissions problem (see below). Also, is there any possibility of moving to a European video sharing platform or open-source, European-hosted? It's time for a mass exodus from US Big Tech, starting with EU agencies and institutions.