Slovakia and Hungary had three years to find alternatives to their addiction on Russian methane.

They didn't do jack shit towards doing that and now they want to put the blame on Ukraine because they're letting the contract to allow it to be piped across their country lapse as is their right.

Being addicted to fossil fuels is horrible for the soul.

This is from the PM of Slovakia btw.

https://www.europesays.com/1705613/ Switzerland – KeinerBleibtAllein (No one remains alone) – Christmas/New Year’s Eve #switzerland

Wir trauern.

#Magedeburg #DGB #Gewerkschaft

Puzzling ATAX tax news yesterday

Update 12/21/2024: I am aware that at least two major media outlet tax reporters saw my post about this on social media but still no follow-up published, as far as I can see. Puzzling tax news yesterday: AI news digests suggest that the Rafael Alvarez of ATAX indicted in New York yesterday in one of the biggest tax fraud cases in U.S.

https://tonynovak.com/puzzling-atax-tax-news-yesterday/

https://www.europesays.com/1705611/ Заповядайте! #bulgaria

#Musk will auch in #Großbritannien mitmischen https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/musk-farage-grossbritannien-spende-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=ZDFheuteApp&at_specific=ZDFheute&at_content=iOS

I love little kids with NYC accents. Nothing is more cute.

Als erster Schweizer Female Act haben «Zivadiliring» das Zürcher Hallenstadion ausverkauft. https://www.watson.ch/!886580488?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social-auto&utm_campaign=auto-share

@Souristine Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

i saw this online, so now you have to.

@Kelissen Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

@OrangeR😘😘😘😘

https://www.europesays.com/1705607/ 🛻 🌲 #poland

'The Bible Belt is a region in the United States where evangelical Protestantism is a strong influence on society and politics'

Can I ask the USA Bible belt where, in the Bible, does it say "and the super-rich shall inherit the Earth"

@dada Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

La peña en Mastodon be like: "bueno, si todos fuesen en bicicleta esto no pasaba".

@uichelorraine Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

https://www.europesays.com/1705605/ What Christmas in Ukraine looks like thanks to russian missile attacks #Ukraine

https://www.europesays.com/1705603/ Mietervereine in Hamburg schlagen Alarm: Bei vielen Kündigungen ist Eigenbedarf nur vorgeschoben #DE #Deutschsprechenden

- Elon Musk apoyando partidos neonazis
- En Bluesky son un poco tránsfobos (el staff, no los usuarios)
- Threads y su algoritmo, con gente que sólo quiere likes y alcance

Muy agradecido con quienes disteis la oportunidad a La Plaza, en eso tan difícil y para frikis que es Mastodon.

@ceciestmontpouet Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

Ganz im Ernst. Wir sollten als Gesellschaft überlegen, wie mittelalte bis alte meist weiße Männer sinnvolle Aufgaben übernehmen können, damit sie im Kampf mit dem Bedeutungsverlust nicht immer so unfassbar dummes Zeug machen.

Meinetwegen mit etwas Bauchpinseln, wenn's hilft.

re: Lindner / Musk

So elegant in battle. darn it, for cutting off the second bird! 😫

“May the longest night and the shortest day
Bring rest to your mind and soul, I pray
On the shortest day and the longest night
Keep your inner light shining strong and bright
May you find guidance and may you find peace
As the cycle of light will slowly increase
The wheel of nature spins endless and true
Have faith in the rhythm of nature for you”
~ Unknown ✍🏻
~ Sandra Bartocha 📸
#nature #trees #WinterSolstice ❄️✨

@daph Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

Warum kommuniziert unsere @Bundesregierung eigentlich noch auf der Plattform eines Hetzers und Faschisten?
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/anschlag-in-magdeburg-elon-musk-fordert-olaf-scholz-zum-sofortigen-ruecktritt-auf-a-03bb8c63-7be9-47e0-ba85-7d833a4b10e1
#Magdeburg #X #Scholz #Musk

Ok, I'm curious. Are you still being careful about COVID, and what did you consider yourself before the pandemic?
#COVID #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver

• cautious, introvert (0 votes)
• cautious, extrovert (0 votes)
• not cautious, introvert (0 votes)
• not cautious, extrovert (0 votes)

Poll end: 2 days ago

a large drone the size of a small drone

https://www.europesays.com/1705601/ Ich weiß, dass es OSB-Platte heißt. #DeutscheMemes #Memes

Let’s get to work: https://indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organize_on_your_home_turf?source=mastodon

Trump and allies are waging campaign against media to stifle dissent – experts | Donald Trump | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-media-assault-silence-criticism

Q&A with Laura Lee, news director of Blue Ridge Public Radio, on managing a team after Hurricane Helene, focusing on producing info about basic needs, and more (Catherine Komp/NC Local News Workshop)

https://nclocalnewsworkshop.org/news-leader-interviews/a-beacon-during-crisis-how-bpr-reinvented-news-coverage-during-helene/
http://mediagazer.com/241221/p1#a241221p1

I have been thinking a lot about Sandy Hook this week. Twelve years and just a few days ago, I was standing in my then girlfriend’s kitchen (now wife of 10 years) as we were preparing to go somewhere, I don’t even remember where. I was scrolling Twitter and started seeing breaking news about a shooting at an elementary school somewhere in Connecticut, where we lived. Then I realized it was in Newtown, virtually next door to Westport where she worked as a minister and I (still in grad school) was helping to run educational programming at her church. We scrapped our plans and drove to her office. We saw fear in our students’ faces. We saw it even more painfully in their parents: they all knew someone in Newtown, it was another wealthy Connecticut suburb like theirs, it was supposed to be “safe”. How could this happen here? We heard from colleagues in Newtown who had been thrust into the middle of unspeakable tragedy. We held vigils. We did them again the next year. And the year after that.

To be clear: I was not a victim of Sandy Hook, but it took on a special significance in my consciousness and every year in mid-December I find myself mentally back in that place, with new meaning each time. I watch students I have worked with over the years grow up and think “those kids at Sandy Hook should have gotten this chance.” They would be wrapping up their first semesters of college now. I see Christmas lights and gifts under trees and think “those families will always experience this time of year that is supposed to be joy and light as a reminder of terror and death.” I have kids of my own now who are about the same age as the victims were, and so the anniversary hits even more close to the very core of my being. And then twelve years almost to the day later, another shooting in Madison, another set of families who will forever experience sadness when this season rolls around.

I don’t have a conclusion to this. I can’t tie it up in a nice bow. It’s an open wound that we have collectively chosen should be left to fester. And I will never understand that choice. I will never have sympathy for anyone who chooses political power at the price of children’s lives. I’m fairly certain there’s a ring of hell dedicated specifically to that, occupied by the likes of King Herrod from the Christmas story. I will never be convinced that an amendment premised on the need for maintaining a “well-regulated militia” is somehow meant to undergird un-regulated chaos and home-grown terror. I will never accept that this is the price of freedom or that it has to be this way. It doesn’t, that’s non-sense. I will always feel a deep suspicion towards those who spout “conspiracy theories” because of the way the Newtown families were treated.

I found this article in @TheAtlantic helpful. This is not happy Christmas reading. But in its way it fits into the advent season’s story arc: the deep longing for healing and peace and the journey it takes to get there.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/sandy-hook-parents-twelve-years/680994/

#Newtown #sandyhook #2A #advent #christmas