Sven van der Meer ✅ @vdmeer@mastodon.social

The Guardian: Checks on both sides of Irish border ‘mandatory under no-deal Brexit’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/checks-on-both-sides-of-irish-border-mandatory-under-no-deal-brexit

WTO rules are rules.

@ShippersUnbound@twitter on BBC: UK has negotiated like 27 countries and the EU has negotiated like 1. #Brexit

A #Brexit workflow seen on the bird site - https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1085633994224517122/photo/1 looks like a complex telecom workflow.

2016, the year everybody made their own mind, and some major votes went an unpredicted way: Trump, Brexit.

btw: #Brexit delay by Art. 50 extension collides with next EU elections in May (the month!). Just because this isn't complicated enough alread.

like mastodon I guess :)

Little is known what the meaningful #Brexit vote will actually means. Neither what MPs mean by their vote. Or how to get meaningful discussions on #Brexit. Lots of missing means to understand meaning.

Guardian: EU glyphosate approval was based on plagiarised Monsanto text, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/eu-glyphosate-approval-was-based-on-plagiarised-monsanto-text-report-finds?CMP=twt_gu

#Brexit: one calls it "insurance policy", one calls it "trap", others simply say "backstop". But how bad did _everyone_ manage negotiations to get to this point?

President of German parliarment against using Twitter and FB to communicate with public [in German] - https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article187066072/Kein-Twitter-kein-Facebook-Darum-meidet-der-Bundestag-die-sozialen-Netzwerke.html

The Real Cost of Cheap Groceries - http://fortune.com/longform/cheap-groceries-food-farmers-laborers/

Important to educate consumers on the impact of their choices! Cheap food has almost no positive consequences, for no one. Yet it exists only because we buy it!

Most important vote of a decade on #Brexit, so why are most seats in the UK parliarment right now empty? Strange, no? Seeing the same in Germany as well...

work on an equal earth political map http://equal-earth.com/physical/

Lunch time entertainment: the impossible coin trick that fooled Penn and Teller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2Zx3GM42k

CAN evaluation how European countries do on fighting climate change: http://www.caneurope.org/docman/climate-energy-targets/3357-off-target-ranking-of-eu-countries-ambition-and-progress-in-fighting-climate-change/file

Testing ink for fountain pens seems to be rather scientific ;)

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/306787-ink-review-new-ink-colour-diamine-oxford-blue/

There is no Planet B.