380 Millionen Standortdaten aus 137 Ländern: Ein neuer Datensatz zeigt die Gefahren des globalen Datenhandels. 40.000 Apps sind betroffen, mit alarmierender Genauigkeit geortet wurden Nutzer von Wetter Online, Focus Online und Kleinanzeigen #databrokerfiles netzpolitik.org/2025/databro...

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

memes by Bosnian grandfather does not understand

LA officials say wildfire death toll stands at 16 as firefighters race to contain blazes

Grand Synagogue, Tunis - Happy Hannukah to all who celebrate !

Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.

alma mater

Poland prepares to succeed Hungary at the helm of the EU

Japan’s Cabinet approved a record $55 billion defense budget for 2025, marking the 13th consecutive increase. The spending aligns with plans to strengthen the Self-Defense Forces and reach 2% of GDP by 2027.

on a personal level 2023 was the hardest and most difficult year of my life and then 2024 came and turbocharged it in the totally opposite direction, turning many, many things around in such an unbelievably positive way. Hoping the same for anyone who had a terrible 2024, too. May 2025 be great ❤️

what a headline

Kicking off my Bluesky presence with one of my favourite recent stories from Athens - on miniature horses. Because we all need a bit of joy sometimes. apnews.com/article/gree...

Romanian convicted of spying for Russia gets five-year prison term

“In the years since 1982, developing countries have transferred an estimated $4200 billion in interest payments to their creditors in Europe and North America, far outstripping the official-sector development aid these countries received during the same period.“

Refugee shipwreck 12 miles southwest of Gavdos. 1 dead, 37 rescued, around 40 missing.

CRAZY change in at least half of #BosniaHerzegovina as smoking ban in public places enters into force today in the #FBiH n1info.ba/vijesti/foto...

“There are children in Syria who grew up in Bashar al-Assad's prisons without ever seeing the sky.” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

⚡️ Russia has built only 7 out of 108 planned airliners since 2022, BBC reports. Russia's United Aircraft Corporation managed to build only seven of the 108 passenger planes it planned to produce since 2022, the BBC reported on Dec. 12.

Survey on the most popular prime minister of the Third Hellenic Republic shows the duality of greek political dynasties: Andreas Papandreaou +64/-35 George Papandreaou +12/-87 Konstaninos Karamanlis +59/-38 Kostas Karamanlis +30/-69 Konstaninos Mitsotakis +40/-58 Kyriakos Mitsotakis +33/-66

The body of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada, whose suffering became a symbol of Assad's brutality, has been found in Sednaya prison. Granted asylum in the Netherlands after his 2014 release, he disappeared in 2020 after reportedly returning to Syria. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A brutal daylight ambush on Monday in the suburb of Glyfada in southern Athens marked the latest chapter in the violent turf war among Turkish organized crime factions operating in Greece. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1255821...

Metro Thessaloniki. This is so very Greek.

Saydnaya prison. "The Syrian Civil Defense, an independent rescue organization also known as the White Helmets, deployed wall-breaching specialists, iron door-opening crews and trained dog units to search for any secret chambers." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Every one of my Syrian and non-Syrian colleagues is aware of the huge risks surrounding the post-revolutionary order in Syria. But if everyone pre-emptively abandons hope then the world flees into paralysis that fails to encourage many hopeful trends that can be found too.

And just like that, the Syrian Opposition Flag goes up at the embassy in Moscow.

Syrian rebels enter Damascus: everything we know so far

Protecting you if things go wrong. The new Product Liability Directive enters into force. From today, as a 🇪🇺 consumer, you have more rights if something goes seriously wrong because of a product you bought. A win-win for European consumers and for business ↓ europa.eu/!NFwbfG

‘Gradually, then suddenly’: Syria rebels advance on strategic city of Homs, Assad forces fall back open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

🕵️The Hungarian secret service has been monitoring #OLAF inspectors in #Hungary as they investigated suspicious business dealings by Viktor Orbán's son-in-law, @direkt36.bsky.social and @tijd.be have discovered

And there are still people who think Europe is over… explain this then www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

we used to be a country…

Yugoslav first, Croatian second - always

In Greece, there are no official monuments or museum exhibits dedicated to the December battle or the civil war — conflicts that were officially forgotten. Emergency measures from that time were only fully abolished in 1989. apnews.com/article/gree...

Praha 🇨🇿

Twitter posts no longer have timestamps. That's exactly what you want on a network built on being a realtime information source. Possibly the worst to ever do it in social media

Prague bound 🚅

Landmark win for the reparations movement! A Belgian court ruling found the Belgian govt guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule & ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation. Hard fought justice for survivors! www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

#BREAKING Belgian police raid homes of former EU Justice Chief Didier Reynders over suspected money laundering, just two days after his term as European Commissioner ends.

This is what this toxic cocktail leads to:

"owner-occupation rate fell from 75.4% before the pandemic to 72.8% in 2022. This figure of 2.6% corresponds to 102,695 homes, which means that those who proceeded to sell their home did not buy another one, but chose to rent" (or were kicked out of their home?) www.ekathimerini.com/economy/real...

"Breaking: SOUTH KOREAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO BLOCK PRESIDENT'S MARTIAL LAW DECLARATION"

@giorgosverdi.bsky.social is finally on bluesky, which means I can finally understand digital and AI stuff in the EU a lot better again without having to spam-message him! Follow him if you don’t want to be left out, too!

new haircut makes me look like my main job is ~optimizing~ my uncle’s taxes in Thessaloniki

This colorful taverna salad is a combo of Greek and Lebanese cuisine. "Nice mix of acid, salt, savory and fat." nyti.ms/4ijodxx

2 December 1940 | A German Sinti girl, Rosemarie Blum, was born in Hannover. In Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 6 March 1943. No. Z-513 She did not survive.

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity for forced removal and segregation of mixed raced children in the Belgian Congo. A landmark ruling that is likely to ignite debate on reparations for all who were victims of that policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Police use water cannons to disperse Georgian opposition supporters protesting in front of the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday. 📸 David Mdzinarishvili