Joost
@almodozo
Holland > Hungary > Spain Same @almodozo as on Twitter, just without the Országház. Worked at OSF and CEU, but that's a long while ago. Studied East-European History, but that's even longer ago. Now, somehow, I ended up in Extremadura.
My girlfriend's village was right in the path of the eclipse. She was skeptical beforehand but impressed by the actual event. And afterward the whole village, 100 people, had a communal dinner 🇪🇸
Not just protecting European values, but protecting "Europe's Christian cultural" values.. That's the bit that surprised me more than the anti immigration points per se, tbh
I like the story where their header says "D.S.A. candidates had a mixed night" — and it's 4 victories vs 1 loss
I haven't read enough about the Hong race in Wisconsin to express any opinion more broadly, but explaining away old social media posts, in 2026, because they were written "back in the 2020s" is objectively funny
Labour factoid posting: Burnham leads the first Labour Cabinet without a member of the Benn family
One of the things that illustrates how Burnham's power-shifting devolution agenda is good, actually, is how supposedly progressive Londoners in the comments/replies on these topics instantly start sounding like Tories.
Great photo at the NYT site now (Getty Images) - and at least a couple of sportive smiles from Brazil fans for the happy Norwegian guy
I used to live in Badajoz, and every day passed some very... striking mosaics which vividly illustrated how neither of those things were alien to the Spanish conquests in Latin America
TIL Egon Krenz is still alive. He showed up at an "anti-fascist" forum at one of Moscow's swankiest hotel. But hey, who doesn't hate "arbitrariness"?
Is this, like, a deliberate move to make Wes Streeting look less bad an option? Jesus.
Everybody is saying "fuck 'm," but the "meh" response from locals seems entirely justified. Why would they suddenly change their mind when a lot of that regeneration money has focused on window dressing that didn't impact their primary cost of living concerns, in impossible to evaluate schemes?
I did read the other piece too! But this, at least, is the most American thing I've read in months (and I spend too much time here on BSky, the most US-centred of social networks). It doesn't feel like a way to happiness to me; but more power to those for whom it works.
"Despite what you’ll hear on social media, relationships are becoming more equal — not less," and young men aren't half as reactionary as the Discourse suggests.
Dit was soort van interessant. Staken tegen bezuinigingen op de sociale zekerheid? PRO-kiezers waren het er meest mee eens, natuurlijk (62%), "gevolgd door kiezers van FvD (47%) en PVV (40%)," die daarmee behoorlijk links van D66-kiezers landden. www.ipsos-publiek.nl/actueel/kiez...
"“They’re not for people like us – they’re posh,” one thirtysomething woman told me in the Makerfield neighbourhood of Platt Bridge." Speaking about Reform, not Labour or the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I sometimes forget how much violence I saw, where I lived in Budapest, especially in the last few years. Some of it was part of the landscape, part of the life, and didn't bother me. But some of it was brutal.
Interesting that the Reform vote is stable across Makerfield by-election polls, but the Labour vote varies quite a lot
I'm not saying everything's rosy, but reading just one random article about Makerfield will already give you not one, but two examples. We don't have to pretend it's all tickety-boo, but can we have a little nuance at least?
People like to talk of Makerfield's inhabitants as if they embody the long-suffering dispossessed of our age, but in reality:
How a Romanian family was forced to flee their home last night: "The house was pelted with bricks, and lit fireworks were shoved through the letterbox. Another neighbour helped the family to escape after men in balaclavas broke down the door." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Northern Irish Unionists bringing back pogroms www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...