Sven van der Meer ✅ @vdmeer@mastodon.social
It’s no longer climate change we’re living through. It’s environmental breakdown.
seen ad by ChampionsLeague on RTE : "out there, on the pitch, we are all the same" - really? after commercialising the hell out of the game? with top clubs wanting a super league? - I think I stop watching this now.
Why no deal #Brexit is likely (from ITV)
Use your money to create memories, not buying 'stuff'.
Guardian on Brexit, good read
The Guardian view on May and the Tories: choosing unity over reality
Editorial - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/the-guardian-view-on-may-and-the-tories-choosing-unity-over-reality
Guardian: #bbctw considers setting up international base in Belgium after #Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/24/bbc-international-hq-belgium-brexit-netherlands-ireland-eu
you can't make this up
Prepare for some severe weather in Western Europe in the next few days...
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 :)
Guardian: EU glyphosate approval was based on plagiarised Monsanto text, report finds
#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/
