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Context for those not keeping up with Sweden: It’s run by idiots at the moment, as the billionaire coalition did really well at the previous election.

This guy is a Christan Democrat (KD). His party is in government alongside the “Moderates” and the “Liberals”, which is both liberal conservative parties running on platforms of economic liberalism and lower taxes. They’re in power because of the Swedish Democrats, aka the right wing lunatics, who rode on a wave of xenophobia last election and gained more than 20% of the vote.

So yeah, nothing surprising about this.

The next election in Sweden is in September. Hopefully things will improve then. The Swedish Democrats are still polling at over 20% and it is not looking particularly promising at the moment.

I don’t want to use anything Google if I can help it, so I’m using the FOTO keyboard which has its own swipe engine.

It’s… Work in progress. But the keyboard overall is pretty good.

I’m using Busuu, originally Spanish but hq in London. They have implemented some AI stuff recently though. :/

Arte is great if you speak French or German. A lot of European countries have similar things. BBC iPlayer with a VPN is also amazing.

There’s not one mastodon instance for EU stuff, but rather they divide it alongside the division of powers. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/ is only for the European Commission and its related initiatives and officials, while https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/ is for the Court of Justice of the EU.

To my knowledge there’s no official instance for the European Parliament or its members.

Personally I really hope the X exodus will not be caused by new venture capitalist platform taking over, even though it might seem increasingly inevitable at this point.

I have extremely little faith in W social—they didn’t even manage to set up their temporary landing page properly, indicating strongly that this is run by capitalists rather than talented and ideologically motivated people. Apparently it’s a Bluesky fork, so I guess it will have a perceived success by running on ATProto no matter how it goes down.

Yet 58% of MEPs are still on X.

https://leavex.eu/ is a useful resource for those who want to call them out on it - find the representatives from your country and parties you care for still on X, let them know what exactly they are supporting by staying there, and maybe nudge them towards something like https://eupolicy.social/ as a more reasonable alternative.

Remember to be polite - many of them/(the ones we care to convince) are good people who are just doing what they have been told they need to do in order to communicate with their base. They just need to realize the world has changed.

https://wsocial.eu/, though it could beneficially be confused with https://w-social.eu/.

There’s nothing on their site yet, just an empty promise and a broken setup. Not inspiring confidence.

“Dobbelt-V” in Norwegian. It is by far the most poorly named letter of our alphabet, though to be fair it’s also the most neglected one.

Dropbox to Nextcloud. Saves me so much money every month and I way prefer the user experience.

Not to mention W, a single letter that nevertheless takes ages to pronounce in most languages.

It would have been a pity had it been needed - thankfully it is not. This project either needs to connect to ActivityPub, or it’s just a huge waste of time. I suspect the latter.

Hadn’t heard of this, but have been actively waiting for it to exist. Very cool, thanks!