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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀

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Writing The European Perspective europeanperspective.news IT Engineer in the European institutions, currently at EFSA (Parma) Green activist […] [bridged from mastodon.online/@rafa_font on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Moof! 🏳️‍🌈 @moof.space · 18/09/2026
Renfe are organising a hackathon on the 3rd November in Madrid. Places are limited, so they’ll be going through applications to decide who gets the 50 places. data.renfe.com/hackathon I’ve decided to apply, given I’ll be going to the #OpenTransport2026 hackathon, and see if I can […]
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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Today at a family reunion, we wanted to take a group picture. We asked a passerby to be our photographer. As she was taking our picture, another passerby approached her and went: “shall I take it, so you can be in the picture, too?” She went: “Oh no, thanks […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
Still from Six Feet Under. Nate (White man in his forties) leans over the shoulder of Claire (young ginger) as she takes a picture of the view, with the camera in fright of her face. Nate whispers “You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.” In her ear.
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Thiago Ferrer Morini @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Pillan a una empresa eléctrica japonesa falsificando los datos de riesgo sísmico para lograr el permiso para reabrir una central nuclear a media distancia entre Tokio y Nagoya. La dirección de Chubu Electric retira la solicitud de reapertura y dimite en masa t […]
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Thiago Ferrer Morini @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Esto significa... que no sabemos nada. La proyección de la televisión pública SVT pronostica 175 votos para el bloque de centroizquierda (S, V, MP, C) y 174 para las derechas (M, SD, KD, L), con una diferencia de 20.000 votos (de cerca de seis millones) entre ambos
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 11/09/2026
Vor 11 Jahren sah so die "Flüchtlingskrise" aus. Menschen, die Hilfe suchten & sie bekamen. Es war schön. Die Jahre danach waren die mit der niedrigsten Kriminalität ever, die allermeisten gingen zur Schule, in die Arbeit, manche wurden Deutsche. Lasst euch nicht einreden, es sei ein Fehler gewesen.
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Moof! 🏳️‍🌈 @moof.space · 11/09/2026
And as @jon passed through Barcelona Santa on his record-setting #LongestTrainEU attempt, there was a (one man) cheerleading section there to cheer him on his 10-minute platform change. He managed to find a way to the other platform’s queue without leaving […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]
Me in Sants station holding up a sign that says, in big letters “Go Jon!”, and in smaller letters “#LongestTrainEU #TrenMesLlargUE Kemijärvi, FI ➡️ Lagos, PT 7-12 September 2026”
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Braid in trains :lesbian_uz: - solidarity with :streik: @lewd.zug.network.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
We made it 🎉 ! Thanks a lot to the amazing train crew running this wonderful new :european_sleeper: 🇮🇹 Milano - 🇮🇹 Como - 🇨🇭 Lugano - 🇨🇭 Bellinzona - 🇨🇭 Arth-Goldau - 🇨🇭 Göschenen - 🇨🇭 Aarau - 🇩🇪 Köln - 🇩🇪 Aachen - 🇧🇪 Verviers - 🇧🇪 Bruxelles/Brussel/Brüssel 🥰🥰🥰 […] [Original post on zug.network]
Someone leaving the ES with a departure plate of the ES.System change sign between DB and SNCB.The ES about to depart in Köln Hbf.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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Thiago Ferrer Morini @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Bueno, como indiqué, vamos con el postmortem de las elecciones en Sajonia-Anhalt: lo voy a empezar pero no sé si lo podré terminar.
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Reinier Van Lanschot @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org · 03/09/2026
Can’t believe I’m already going into my third year at the European Parliament! My priorities are supporting European democracy, defence, and digital affairs.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I worry this sort of... generalized political and economic pessimism just makes everything feel pointless, but if you zoom out, things are getting better along almost every axis, and the biggest problems we face are all solvable.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Russia's gasoline output now averages 80,000 tons daily after Ukrainian drone attacks and their domestic demand is 115,000 tons. Russia can't close this gap with purchased imports and their situation will only get worse this winter.
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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Self-interested MEPs: Agri-environmental #legislation often faces strong resistance despite a scientific consensus on the need for food system transformation: #MEPs with private financial interests in the agri-food sector are more likely to vote against environmental… doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... +
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
NEW NIGHT TRAIN COMING! #EuropeanSleeper has just announced Brussels-Amsterdam-Copenhaguen-Malmo planned to start in April 2028 This will be their 4th line. More info: www.europeansleeper.eu/malmo #NightTrains
We're starting a new night train from
Brussels and Amsterdam to Scandinavia!
Together with German railway operator RDC, we're
planning to launch a new night train to Copenhagen and
Malmo in April 2028.
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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
Infantino’s rule over #FIFA is so greedy and corrupt that even UEFA is done with it. www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-2…
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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
It turns out that welcoming to your country lots of migrants, who tend to be young and highly motivated, is good for employment. And therefore for financing welfare. We knew, but it's nice to see the data. mastodon.social/@eunews/11699713286… #economics #migration #spain
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Spain’s unemployment rate hits lowest level in 18 years Summer hiring created 486,000 jobs in the second quarter, lifting the number of people in work to a record 22.8 million. http://www.euronews.com/business/2026/07/28/summer-hiring-pushes-spain-to-record-228-million-in-work-and-jobless-rate-falls-below-10
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
David Khachaturov, founder of Egoist Machines, started in the UK and has now relocated to San Francisco In his words, the “speed and access to capital is really unparalleled” compared to Europe "From my experience young folk in Europe don’t want to be working 6-9-6 and unfortunately that’s […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
David Khachaturov, founder of Egoist Machines, started in the UK and has now relocated to San Francisco In his words, the “speed and access to capital is really unparalleled” compared to Europe "From my experience young folk in Europe don’t want to be working 6-9-6 and unfortunately that’s […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Clément Messeri, co-founder and CTO of Clema Colling, relocated to the US. “In short, the way I see it. Europe has the talent, the infrastructure, and the policies. The main issue I think is two-fold. They are access to capital, and the networking effect. On the networking front Europe is […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Clément Messeri, co-founder and CTO of Clema Colling, relocated to the US. “In short, the way I see it. Europe has the talent, the infrastructure, and the policies. The main issue I think is two-fold. They are access to capital, and the networking effect. On the networking front Europe is […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe doesn't have issues founding companies, but growing them It generates start-ups at a rate similar to the US, but converts far less into global champions. The bottleneck is access to capital markets 70% of late-stage capital comes from non-European investors, resulting in an ownership […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe doesn't have issues founding companies, but growing them It generates start-ups at a rate similar to the US, but converts far less into global champions. The bottleneck is access to capital markets 70% of late-stage capital comes from non-European investors, resulting in an ownership […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe’s technological dependence on the US is most visible from orbit When Ariane 5 rocket was retired and Ariane 6 was delayed, Europe had to hire SpaceX to bring Galileo satellites to orbit Starlink operates 10,400 satellites, with ambitions to expand to 42,000. By comparison, Europe’s […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe’s technological dependence on the US is most visible from orbit When Ariane 5 rocket was retired and Ariane 6 was delayed, Europe had to hire SpaceX to bring Galileo satellites to orbit Starlink operates 10,400 satellites, with ambitions to expand to 42,000. By comparison, Europe’s […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe still has leverage. The Dutch company ASML, spun out of Philips in 1984, is the world’s only supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines which are required to manufacture the most advanced semiconductors ASML market capitalisation of around $700 billion makes it Europe’s most […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe still has leverage. The Dutch company ASML, spun out of Philips in 1984, is the world’s only supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines which are required to manufacture the most advanced semiconductors ASML market capitalisation of around $700 billion makes it Europe’s most […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
The defining technological race is for AI, and here the capital gap is starkest Did you know that the lead AI company in 2014 was European? It was DeepMind - now property of Google. This is an American corporation benefiting from European talent that struggled to scale effectively at home This […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
The defining technological race is for AI, and here the capital gap is starkest Did you know that the lead AI company in 2014 was European? It was DeepMind - now property of Google. This is an American corporation benefiting from European talent that struggled to scale effectively at home This […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Payment processors are another huge area of reliance. Visa and Mastercard dominate European card payments: 13 eurozone countries route over 96% of their card transactions through them. For the UK this rises to 98% – a duopoly. European counterparts struggle to capture their domestic market […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Payment processors are another huge area of reliance. Visa and Mastercard dominate European card payments: 13 eurozone countries route over 96% of their card transactions through them. For the UK this rises to 98% – a duopoly. European counterparts struggle to capture their domestic market […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Results? EU depends on US tech Amazon, Microsoft and Google now account for 70% of the European cloud market while European providers only capture 15% of their domestic market This is down from 29% in 2017. However, European providers have more than tripled their revenues from 2017 to 2024 […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Results? EU depends on US tech Amazon, Microsoft and Google now account for 70% of the European cloud market while European providers only capture 15% of their domestic market This is down from 29% in 2017. However, European providers have more than tripled their revenues from 2017 to 2024 […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
This story starts with the Draghi report Draghi finds that - EU companies specialise in mature technologies - where there is less potential for a breakthrough. They spend much less on on research and innovation (R&I) than their US counterparts - The top EU companies for R&I spending continue […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
This story starts with the Draghi report Draghi finds that - EU companies specialise in mature technologies - where there is less potential for a breakthrough. They spend much less on on research and innovation (R&I) than their US counterparts - The top EU companies for R&I spending continue […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Where is Europe's Big Tech Sector? New article at The European Perspective: europeanperspective.news/where-is-e… by our collaborator Alex Hoffmann 30% of the world's deep tech Universities are in Europe. But there's no Big Tech company. Why is growth restricted? […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Where is Europe's Big Tech Sector? New article at The European Perspective: europeanperspective.news/where-is-e… by our collaborator Alex Hoffmann 30% of the world's deep tech Universities are in Europe. But there's no Big Tech company. Why is growth restricted? […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Europe trains some of the world’s best talent but watches it migrate elsewhere as start-ups scale on US capital, and often relocate Most EU reforms have yet to be fully implemented. Challenges such as the limited access to capital markets remain These dependencies are not structural. If the EU […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Estonia has developed 10 unicorns, despite a population of only 1.3 million – the highest concentration per capita of any country in Europe. These companies include Wise, Bolt, Pipedrive and Veriff The country has been rebranded as e-Estonia as almost the entire population hold a digital ID […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Estonia and Sweden are leaders in European start-up and venture capital investments Sweden has developed over 40 unicorns (start-ups worth over $1 billion) They have produced companies such as Spotify, Klarna, Skype, Lovable. The success of each is compounding; alumni from these companies […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Most relevant: the European Technological Sovereignty Package containing: the Chips Act 2.0, the Cloud and AI Development Act, the Open Source Strategy, and the Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy The explicit objective of these four components is to reduce reliance on non-EU […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Despite these financial challenges, Europe has made meaningful progress since the Draghi Report Current reforms include the dedicated EU start-up and scale-up strategy, Apply AI strategy, EU Inc., the Clean Industrial Deal and an affordable energy action plan Additional proposals to further […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
On EU Inc., Ioana Surdu-Bob said “It would be useful, but much less material than passportable licensing. Many cross-border basics already work better than people realise: IBANs, instant SEPA payments, cross-border invoicing, B2B invoicing without charging VAT There is more flexibility than […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
In March, the European Commission proposed EU Inc., a new single set of corporate rules to allow businesses to operate and grow across the EU. Harmonising corporate rules means that companies would no longer need to navigate multiple national regulations. The main features include faster […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Ioana Surdu-Bob, co-founder of Konvi, a European alternative-assets investment platform, suggests that they have been able to scale quickly across borders thanks to being able to use the passportable regulatory framework for financial services. “For a regulated product, passporting is a huge […]
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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Dzmitry Dudzin, CEO of GanttPRO, a Polish project mgmt software company with 1M users: “I don’t think Europe has a problem with talent. There are many strong engineers and good products here. The problem is scale In the US you have one huge market. In Europe you still have many countries […]
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Laurent 🫠 @on-code.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
"You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them." by Dimitra Rizou linktr.ee/ahoy_universe
Comic by Dimitra Rizou: a guy is presenting his "genius machine that will find solutions to all the world's problems" to hear the machine replying: "You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them IT JUST NEEDS
to protect the financial interests of the wealthiest 0.001%."
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
Labour wins in a poor, heavy Leave area with a rejoin pusher. Could it be it's not exactly Labour that's the problem, but aPM resolutely incapable of deciding stuff (and when he decides, it's inane authoritarian shit he obviously doesn't understand because neither he nor his team is technical)?
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Javier de la Cueva @jdelacueva.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
Actions speak louder than words. I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android. Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google. Stupid, no? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot showing need og Google Play Services to install EU Login Mobile App
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