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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO
@jmaris.me
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#EU Policy Analyst for the #OpenSource Initiative. Former EU Parliament Assistant. Expert in 💻Digital, 🚄Transport, and 🧪Research Policy. #fedi22 #EU #tech #ukraine […]

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Pov: you post pro-ukrainian comments on Instagram and your account gets "suspended for spam". The collapse of traditional social media and the move to the fediverse can't come soon enough.
The Instagram app indicating the author had been suspended.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Just finished my panel at @NGICommons, now listening to a panel full of representatives of amazing European Open Source projects!
An overview of participants in the panel "what do the commons need?". Participants are Amandine Le Pape (founder of Element), Francesco Siddo (Blender), Hans-Christoph Steiner (F-droid), and Susanna Ferro (Global leaks)
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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If anyone is curious about the future of #trains between London and continental Europe, @jon's recent report on the matter is as comprehensive as it gets!

I was among the lucky people in the room when he first presented it this week!

#CrossBorderRail #eupol
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Almost half a century later, IBM's internal training documents from the late 70s are specifically valuable in the era of #AI.
"A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE" "THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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In #slovakia, pro-russian prime minister Fico was visiting a highschool. When he started spouting disinformation about Ukraine, students objected. He told them that if they love #Ukraine so much they should go to the front.

They all walked out. The kids are alright.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The EPP at the next election when their vote share shrinks further as the far-right gobble up their voters:

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-far-right-conservatives-cordon-sanitaire/
*surprised pikachu face*
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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So grateful for the opportunity to speak this year at #SFSCon, for the amazing connections I made with people throughout different #foss communities!
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Loving the #fediverse workshop at #SFSCon
A whiteboard with "❤️ fediverse" and 3 working groups. Below there are two options: Fedi for newbies (other side of the table) Fedi for veterans (this side)
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Absolutely loving @vaurora's talk on crisis engineering and digital resilience!

From moving to European services to the #meshtastic Lan! #SFSCon
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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The percentage of new so-called “unicorn” startups that come from Europe has grown consistently now for 3 years, reaching its highest share in the last eight years.

#eupol
A graph showing the origin of so-called "unicorn" startups, including North America, Asia, Europe and Other. America dominates with almost half of the share, wbut over the past three years, Europe's share has grown year on year from 15 to 23%, the highest number in 8 years.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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it's not much, but it's something!
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October 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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If you're based in #brussels and haven't been to the #ukrainian Café, you're missing out!

Try some great Ukrainian dishes and support a good cause 🇺🇦
The menu of the Ukrainian cafe, detailing various dishes served
October 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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@EclipseFdn also got this cool mug
An Eclipse Foundation "Open Regulatory Compliance" mug
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This is going to go so so so so wrong #aibubble
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/conservative-losers-elon-musk-stephen-miller/?fbclid=PAY2xjawNJ4BNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp5oqTzxAZtC5VZTXdbxKcRaTjmoXffG42pogrQDiKO2aH9qLPIoYn7OYCAM0_aem_PLrniXc3gJ5hEQL-Xw7IzQ
A picture of Elon musk, with the article title "we're being ruled over by the worlds biggest losers"
October 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The only U.N building this man should be in is the Hague.

#netenyahuisawarcriminal #israel
Israeli President Bejamin Netenyahu at the UN GA
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I hate how many media outlets are seriously reporting on #trump's comments at the #un #UNGA

It is not even worthy of anything apart from "Trump says another dumb thing". There is no analysis to be made, no useful insights to be drawn.

#uspol #journalism #news
Still from a simpsons episode showing a still of a newspaper clipping Homer's dad and the headline "OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD"
September 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Behold, the patriots #ukpol
A cartoon by @ahoyuniverse entitled "Behold the patriots", featuring skinheads and reform voters laying the union flag and saint georges cross on the floor under the feet of Trump and Musk, and saying "topple our democracy" "sell our country to the highest bidder" and "let's start a civil war"
September 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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🎼Well sometimes I walk down the street in search of something to eat🎼

And then I pass by

Walkin' Thai

🎺. 🎺
🎺. 🎺. 🎺
🎺

Walkin' thai

🎺.
🎺. 🎺.
🎺

Come and try

We have a lot of dishes and not just rice

The tears that the spiciness gave me when I went to tryyy

🎹🎹🎹🎹

Walkin' thai
A photo of the front of a restaurant called walkin thai
September 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Glad to see open source bootloaders advertised publicly! #grub
A digital advertising screen showing the GRUB boot menu in Brussels Midi station
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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@lavidagata.bsky.social feels like a classic case of this in the making, but best of luck to Catelin Drey!
A photo showing two competing candidates, one being "everyone gets a puppy" and the second "diarrhea forever". The second candidate is ahead by .2 of a % with 50.1% of the vote.
August 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Banned from r/latestagecapitalism for pointing out:
1. That #russia uses the same narratives to justify its bombing of #Ukraine as #israel uses to justify its bombing of #palestine.
2. That the justifications Russia used for its invasion are demonstrably […]

[Original post on eupolicy.social]
Comment from the moderator of the subreddit: "As communists we don't support NATO or imperialist narratives. Ukraine has got a whole lot of neo-nazis in its military, and Russia does too, and we don't support either side of the conflict." Commenter: Well mostly because Israel has no excuses at this scale. They're like several orders of magnitude of dead beyond excuse level. Russians do conduct terror campaign. Part of it are intentional strikes against energy grid and selected civilian facilities, though many of them are used by either AFU or Western advisors/crews. Also, don't forget that AFU is, or at least was, actively using schools, churches and hospitals as temporary FOB, logistical bases, HQs or field hospitals. In such case, building loses its status as civilian facility under Geneva Convention and becomes legitimate military target. As for evacuating children deeper into Russia and placing them in foster families, I did not read enough on that to make a point so Il take yours for now. My reply: Again, funny how you flat out accept the EXACT SAME RHETORIC Israel uses against Palestinians. "We had to bomb that hospital because it's a Hamas stronghold" is no different from "The AFU were using this building as a base", and just as it happens in Palestine, Russia's claims about military use of their targets are regularly debunked. Russia is lying the same way Israel is lying.
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The #eu just leapfrogged #China by #gdp.

We also have:
🗳️ Democracy & Fundamental Rights
💼 Strong #SocialRights and reasonable working hours
🧑‍⚕️ #universalhealthcare
🌿 Strongest environmental protection in the world.

🇪🇺 gets a lot of stick, but we compete […]

[Original post on eupolicy.social]
World of Statistics @stats_feed The EU just passed China on GDP. EU: $19.99 trillion China: $19.23 trillion
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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What if #shakespeare wrote the #jet2 holidays advert?
nothing beats a jet 2 holiday (Shakespeare) as the sun shines upon you on midsommer night and you yearn for the taste of some new far off land; call out to your beloved; and contact jet 2; then beg her to follow with your beaconing hand; with voyage and lodging and magnificent feasts; by atol protected from shore to new shore; and savings, thriftful, of fifty a piece, that maketh 200 for a family of four three stone and six pounds with you you may bring; in the travels your splendid excursions forerun so come, spend your coinage on sun and on sea; for a jet 2 holiday cometh second to none.
August 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Following a #freedomofinformation request, I can reveal that in 2005 — almost two decades ago — the #europeancommission trialled the deployment of an Open Source stack (#linux desktops with #openoffice) and that trial was mostly successful.

Here is the […]

[Original post on eupolicy.social]
The front page of a report from the European Commission, titled "The usage of Linux and Open Source: a study on the possible usage of Linux and Open Source on the PC within the Commission environment. Final report"
August 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM