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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I work in the field of democracy and sometimes I feel like the people who are claiming they focus on thinking about "how AI can also help democracy" are like people claiming that if you defuse a landmine you could use it as a doorstopper...I'm the guy who started coding on a Tandy TRS80 […]

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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@paninid it's an opinion! The newspaper can not be held responsible if someone wants to claim that if a woman has a few beers it's her fault she gets r***d...it's not as they have to have some editorial standards, they have to print stuff "out there". Sure they felt pretty bad about this, but […]

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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@chris yep, all good points and seen from Belgium, that did the first proportional election, it's almost impossible to understand citizens still put up with fptp systems. The extreme-right is the biggest party in the largest region in this country (Flanders, app. 6 million), for the better of 3 […]

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EM SWSurrey🇪🇺 @em-swsurrey.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

On this day in 2016 Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen was murdered by a white supremacist terrorist.

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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social and there would be a beautiful irony that the much older "Reform Society" (electoral-reform.org.uk) that has been banging this nail since *checks notes....1884 would finally be vindicated and take the wind out of the sails of the "Robber Baron Party..."...give […]

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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

@thetnholler.bsky.social there are two things that will vastly improve (if not just basically modernise) US "democracy": roll back Citizens United and proportional representation. In a country with 700 types of chewing gum, there are two parties to choose from who compete in a "who can raise […]

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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I'm the head of a "democratic innovation" network in europe, and for the UK this would be the major "innovation"...before you start looking at intricate apps with AI to connect citizens to policy or whatever...fptp is outdated for decades already (blair had massive […]

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Yves D @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

With Orban blocking another EU support measure to Ukraine on his own, I must be honest that if the man is re-elected I would encourage my country as a founding member of the EU to consider Art.7 of the treaty and call for them to be shut out. I realise this is suboptimal for those in HU and I […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As a reminder: Trump is rewarded for saying the most insanely hateful things if you, like sheep, simply disseminate it for him even on platforms where is largely blocked. 10 years in and he still plays you all like a fiddle.

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 07/12/2025

There is so much censorship in the EU that 7 of the 8 countries with the most freedom of the press are EU member states. #EUpol

Ranking of countries with best press freedom:
1. Iceland
2. Estonia
3. Netherlands
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. Denmark
7. Ireland
8. Portugal

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

Big tech thrives on division. Mastodon thrives with you. Here, you’ll find local journalists 📰, libraries 📚, and grassroots movements, all sharing space on their own terms. Stand with us for a social web that amplifies voices, not outrage. Support us to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A Mastodon hammering away on a computer keyboard

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Just in case you had the slightest doubt about what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter, look at this brief thread. He is one of the true monsters of our era, and he uses X/Twitter to guide his fellow right-wing extremists to ever-more-extreme places. If you are still there, you should be ashamed.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

Aaron Swartz should have been 39 years old today #AaronSwartzDay

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