Oh boy

In coda all’ufficio immigrazione di Roma per ore, giorni, notti

Fascinating to see how many European commentators there still are that are so wedded to an outdated Transatlantic paradigm that they are in denial about how unreliable the United States now is

Many academic employers employ highly shoddy and often illegal employment practices

In the end the crux is this: @collegeofeurope.bsky.social is a finishing school for wannabe Eurocrats You don’t succeed there by being diligent. By being fair. Or by being honest You succeed by being passive-aggressive, like in politics generally. My boss can dispense with me without consequence

After teaching at @collegeofeurope.bsky.social more than a decade, my course was summarily cancelled by email, ending my work, and without a word of thanks Unlike other underlings in a passive-aggressive environment, I have a voice - my blog, and this blog post euroblog.jonworth.eu/more-than-a-...

Maybe we need laws requiring anyone appearing on a news show or writing for a newspaper to disclose being paid by foreign interests

Much of the art deco architecture in Brussels demands an intensity of light that the city is rarely able to deliver.

btw, the guy who wrote the awful Hungarian constitution for Orbán, is the same guy who got caught at a 20 men gay orgy in Brussels.

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

"Liberalism as a bulwark against fascism"

We all know this is fascism.

History should be rewritten

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

If you ask any journalist from Daily Mail to Guardian, farmers and rewilders hate each other. I drink with the farmers at the local pub and they come help me rewild my land n the weekend. I do this all over the UK. Maybe some of y’all suck at your job but I don’t.

Stabilicum? Piuttosto un ramdomicum 🗳 🤪

"Whether you’re Persian or American or anything else, it’s objectively weird and sick to be gleeful about the destruction of innocent lives, and cities that hold some of the most beautiful achievements of mankind in art and architecture. This goes beyond geopolitics." x.com/megha_lilly/...

“If in the West Bank the state uses settlers to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, inside Israel they are using organized crime groups” - Aida Touma-Suleiman, a Palestinian Israeli member of the Knesset. removepaywalls.com/https://www....

Art nouveau mosaic in Molenbeek from 1909 with a peacock strolling along a yellow brick road through an archway of his own feathers. God bless laudanum.

Brussels Midi before it was wrecked to receive high-speed trains. It lost the restaurant, the tower and the dome of a thousand glass bricks. Design by Adrien & Yvan Blomme with Fernand Petit

Ernest Blerot, architect

Whatever the sector - businesses, courts, lawyers, media, military, parties, universities - the pattern is the same: - the elites mainly collaborate - the masses mainly stay passive - and some everyday heroes resist

The Russians really thought they could roll into Ukraine with no resistance 4 years ago. The footage coming out of Ukraine in these days was quite something. The lost Russian soldiers asking for directions, Russian soldiers getting stuck in death traps, protests, helicopters falling out of the sky.

It’s only February www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/icel...

The American mind cannot comprehend a country where neither the leading party nor its chief rival sit on the left

Just listened to the latest Sam Harris, with him describing Iran as a "more sophisticated culture than Iraq or Afghanistan". There is a part of my soul that shrieks in dismay every time I see the ghost of Samuel Huntington. It annoys me how mainstream & accepted his cultural determinism has become.

a year is a long time in politics

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

He thought about it.

Gaza Resort vibes

Belgrade Tourism Fair: Ethnically cleansed Bosnian Serb entity proudly promotes as tourist destination Hotel Vilina Vlas, notorious 1992-95 war prison & camp where Bosniak women were tortured, gang-raped & murdered by Chetnik paramilitaries. Can you even imagine Hotel Auschwitz? #CelebratingGenocide

I actually adore how ardently Labour cling to an incredibly 1980s position on drugs. It's wildly, comically unserious and antiscience, and yet apparently not a single MP of theirs disagrees.

And you can learn more about what's happened to Europe's broadcaster here. It's a very sad situation.

So sad seeing euronews at these low levels

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The Supreme Court:

I miss the internet when it wasn't so compartmentalized. Blog posts where people shared new music they were listening to, what they were up to, links to other sites, photos they took, just an idea they had or shower thoughts. Branding and work networking has degraded the internet

The Economist making itself look ridiculous again. 🤷‍♂️

you think China is into the idea of "civilizational state" because of some pre-existing tradition? everyone learnt from Huntington. Zhao Tingyang the guy who invented tianxia theory said in interview himself that he was originally a Kantian guy. Then he read Huntington and he thought oh no

If you read one thing this day, this week, let it be this, and think of the thousands of unsung heroes in this country, who are not only resisting this inhumane system, but also display true humanity. Love and respect to all of you. ❤️🙏

this is what your inseam looks like

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Look at all their pop art references to lord of the rings, star wars, star trek, superman etc. They completely miss the point of the most didactic material, the only reason they pretend to like classical art is they think it owns “lesser” people even though this is wholly stolen valor

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about