Fuck you youtube and your auto-dubbing. It's one thing to offer the option, it's quite another to just force it on people. Some of us are multi-lingual and/or respectful of cultural diversity and just use subtitles.
Yes, I'm aware you can turn it off but you have to do so video by video which is hugely annoying. Also, it should be opt-in, not opt-out.
For some reason this just popped into my mind again. I have loved this ever since it came out. Sadly it was a one-off.
#NewOrder #OrkestraObsolete #VintageMusic #BlueMonday #Theremin #MusicalSaw #Harmonium #PreparedPiano
Once again the European Parliament proves to be the most resilient and gutsy of the European institutions.
The 2026 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was just awarded to the International Criminal Court.
It's remarkable this comes right after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem Pillay, a former judge of the ICC.
Some people and institutions are fighting back, sadly just not the ones who hold actual power and the ability to intervene.
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/117483818077500321
The only good thing about Ireland holding the EU presidency is that come January they won't hold it for another 13 years. But right now, it's a disaster for our basic rights and the future of the internet.
I am really, really sick and tired how sexual abuse has become part of the daily conversation the last few years, without any actual meaningful action to combat it.
I survived assault as a child and several attempts later in life. It's not fun to be reminded of it every single day.
Some conversation around it is important, but it should be accompanied by accountability and concrete action. Neither is happening. This creates new trauma, and I'm far from the only one to experience this.
And yes, this laissez-faire attitude comes from the US. Europe isn't much better in its response but the conversation was different. I do not understand how we allow for this.
The Amy Acton story just got to me. My 'mother' (unworthy of the title), who washed the blood soaked sheets, also denied what happened. I did not need that trigger today.
The A/W 26 collection Soil of Jan Jan van Essche is quite amazing. Love how it is genderless as well as culturally and geographically ambiguous.
I am mostly one for tailored and structured pieces but this looks both ridiculously stylish and comfortable. It's a little above my budget, not gonna lie, but it's not too difficult to replicate the aesthetic.
This is how you do it.
Fairly certain it will be appealed and who knows where it goes from there but it's a strong signal nonetheless.
Europe, are you listening?
https://www.dw.com/en/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-in-cambridge-analytica-case/a-79726486
the human lieven and the unicorn lieven
It's like half the world has forgotten we had a completely functional society with writing, graphic design, photography, music, political debate and absolutely everything else before the arrival of AI.
Granted, not everything was of high quality but still better than the horror show AI produces.
Some of the 'low quality' stuff, like wonky food menus with low-res pictures and weird translations or everything that gave rise to the 'graphic design is my passion' meme, I actually miss. It has a distinctly human charm which we are slowly butchering out of the world.
I am slowly going insane.
I've been looking for the words that adequately describe my feelings about the protests across Europe and elsewhere. Well, here they are.
I spent most of my day trying to approach something from this angle < but I need to connect it to this angle > and I can't quite make it work even though last night I did but that was 04:00 with a mind that's slightly less coherent at the moment (am somewhat ill right now) so maybe I never did. I honestly don't know.
Not sure yet if I lost a day, will lose another one before I give up or if I am about to birth something brilliant.
Absolute insanity how Merz and his ilk are doing everything they can to harm Die Linke and to stop a progressive coalition from happening in Berlin. I'm glad the Berlin factions of the SPD and The Greens are not buying it.
This all happening against a backdrop of a CDU/CSU increasingly locking arms with the AfD, their own fair share of scandal and beyond proven willingness to shaft the people makes it even worse.
Nothing surprising, still utter madness.
Also not quite sure how I feel about Die Linke constantly making gestures to prove false the erroneous accusations lobbed against them but I can sort of understand it. Not sure if it'd be politically smart but I'd love to see them fight it a little harder though.
Ridiculously exhausted. Finally finished work (it's 04:00). Shut down my laptop. Closed the door to my home office. About to go to bed. Get a sudden burst of inspiration.
Just saw a European wearing a NASA shirt so here's the link to the store of ESA, the European Space Agency.
They have some pretty cool and affordable stuff for both adults and children.
I might be a few years late but I just finished the mini-series CLARK, starring a clearly-enjoying-himself Bill Skarsgård as Clark Olofsson (whose hostages were the first to have Stockholm Syndrome) and it's a brilliant, absurd and hilarious series.
10/10 recommend.
RE: https://c.im/@thisislieven/117452867939884148
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If your mood needs a lift, this is the album.
I'd be bouncing if I weren't so ill at the moment. 😞
made something
Scanning European media.
Headlines on the French protests. Those in Albania still make most front pages. Little bit on the protests in Argentina too.
I don't know what you all are doing in the US but unless Europeans are looking for it no one knows anything is happening.
And, sure, the media is to blame but at the same time nothing is drawing attention enough that they want to cover it.
(and no, I haven't checked every single media outlet but broadly No Kings seems to be ignored over here)
The replies here are quite something...
https://bsky.app/profile/ebharrington.bsky.social/post/3mxznuolcu227
European countries aren't immune to putting their own more-or-less-dictators into power someday (I mean, it has happened before) but I like to think at least we pick a charismatic one. One where you seriously consider the hate fuck if given the opportunity.
I don't think we are necessarily better judges of character but I hope we draw a line when someone is this physically repulsive.
(I like how my phone tries to autocorrect repulsive into republican)