wrote some thorough yapping on the voting rights situation in estonia - substack is a good place for yapping for whenever i feel like it and so i did open.substack.com/pub/violetsa...

Estonia: the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDE-S&D) has been removed from the governing coalition of the liberal Reform Party (RE-RE) and the liberal Estonia 200 (E200→EPP). With the Social Democratic Party removed, the coalition has 52/101 MPs. ➤https://europeelects.eu/estonia/

the official ESC page has tommy cash on it but the video of his performance was taken down from the ESC channel hours after uploading, and now there's also that new song with joost klein getting mixed signals as to whether we'll have someone out there in may or not ...no stresso, no stresso?

is this what the sino-soviet split felt like

rabbits

currently the main 100% reliable partners we have are the nordics, the poles and the brits german and french voters don't care for playing world nor european police and the US has also directly expressed disinterest

i'm gonna lose it

elon is faking it in terms of liking ai for the record before he went nuts he used to often warn about the dangers of ai, he even used to call for global regulations on ai now, like on almost everything, he's flipped in order to pursue corruption with the republicans

if we assume that the law is changed so that voting rights are restricted to just citizens of estonia in municipal elections, then using riigikogu polling in tallinn could give an overview of what to expect this year here's a chart of a tallinn seat projection per polling avg

sorry latvians i didn't know you were cooking

Desynchronising our energy grid from Russia has begun. We have thoroughly prepared for this. There are sufficient controllable capacity and external connections in the Baltic States to ensure a smooth transition. Tomorrow we will join the Continental European frequency band.

the red shell mafia can't take me down

"we want to make america more respected on the world stage" *abolishes the main tool of american soft power and influence*

this will be the most "libcoded" thread i will ever make but, my american friends: it feels like there's too much happening. but that's basically the intention here. to wear people out and do a lot of nefarious shit while people don't notice.

DOGE and musk don't have the authority they claim to have here. as bluntly put and as uncomfortable it might be for fence-sitters - this is ILLEGAL and deserving of nothing less than complete and TOTAL legal prosecution and punishment come 2029. legitimately.

i feel like partyball - a kind of mix of polandball and polcompball - would be a decent concept for internet comics if there was an audience for it (something like election twitter would probably fit in that box but it's also the demographic to not do either polandball or polcompball actively)

so #1 this will definitely lead to a spike in coffee-related prices #2 who are "allies and supporters"? the US has designated colombia as a major non-NATO ally #3 i'm very curious how this will impact the US-backed fight against FARC dissident guerillas, especially as the US suspended foreign aid

kagame continues to be evil

there's another 4 years of this bullshit because some people really thought this diabolical idiot will fix grocery prices and decided to completely overlook that he attempted a coup

Trump might spend every last bit of political capital trying in vain to undo his 2020 defeat. He pardoned the J6ers out of weakness — his loss remains a massive ego blow and this was the only thing he could do about it.

Trump always talks about Finland and how they don’t get the forest fires California gets because they manage their forests better. It’s true that Finland excels in forest management… but there’s one big difference: FINLAND GETS MUCH MORE RAIN.

it is january 2017. trump is inaugurared. the popular short video sharing app vine becomes unavailable leading to a flock of people moving from vine to youtube. it is january 2025. trump is inaugurared. the popular short video sharing app tiktok becomes

would be cool to be the speaker of the estonian parliament for just a second because they draw a cool portrait of you that has the potential to go hard

>39% for the austrian far-right

shameless promotion, polandball world map 2024 is out - check out the reddit link for a better resolution of the image than what bluesky allows on this post reddit.com/r/polandball...

interesting, estonian-born 👀

why are there no flag emojis on bluesky

so basically there will be elections in vanuatu in less than a month (16th january) the first ones after the referendums this year which banned party-hopping (the act of changing from the party you were elected with, punishable by being forced to vacate the seat)

regardless of the political opinions expressed, this is nice. always could go for a rendition of winter wonderland youtu.be/TgtXO1RmT0E

living in places like NZ seems so nice like what do you mean elections in other countries don't decide whether your country gets to keep existing

i feel like foreign social media misinformation campaigns and interferences by various powers in global democracies could be argued to be a new form of 21st century hybrid proxy wars taking place around the world, not fought with gun but with ballot paper

it's a curious contradiction how the populistic MAGA movement is simultaneously shilling for corrupt plutocratic rule not surprising to those actively keeping up with politics but probably unbeknownst to many americans

certified freak seven days a week

>strikes deep into Russia with US weaponry >incoming US president suddenly going after BRICS with threats >Israel and Hezbollah ceasefire >unrest in Georgia with circumstances alike the Orange Revolution, parliament on fire >Syrian opposition making a comeback out of nowhere

OH GODS STOP! I HAVE NOT TAKING IN THE BUNNY FENCE YET!

with friends like these, who needs enemies for some reason, wouldn't ever consider such actions over helping russia (re: hungary) but helping uphold international law? god forbid you do that

everyone thinks winter and snow are cool (no pun intended) until it finally comes around and they remember it sucks again really not a fan of the cold, the darkness, the slipperyness... all that.

eesti poliitilise eliidi seas tundub ikka veel olevat mingi imelik arusaamatus ja tunnetus, et praegused USA vabariiklased on needsamad venemaa vastu karmid ja "venemaa on sõjas süüdi" juhtisikud nagu mccaini ja romney kandidatuuri ajal, kuigi kõik praegused empiirilised tõendid on vastupidised:

I FORGOT ON BLUESKY YOU CAN SEE WHO LIKES WHAT

so apparently there's a browser extension that allows you to effectively import all twitter followings over here so you don't have to start off the long manual work that i did before finding out: skyfollowerbridge.com

are people really settling in here now, is it finally happening

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