Step in Time for #spookysaturday

When I was a kid I was loaned a book by a family friend. In it were all things paranormal and I remember being fascinated with the ghost photos. The one that scared me the most was 'The Spectre of Newby Church', still is a bit unsettling to be honest.
So, this photo is a little bit of a love-letter to the paranormal and to Jack, who loaned me the book. He's no longer with us but his memory lives on. ♥️ (And it wasn't spontaneous combustion as the book would have led me to believe, I really thought adults were going up in flames left right and centre all over the shop) ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #ghost #stairs #urban #city #ghostphotography #doubleexposure #composite #spooky #creepy #eerje #horror #streetphotography #apparition #paranormal #blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome #vintagestyle #bologna #cityscape #italia #citta #urbanarchitecture #europe

This is scary stuff, really scary:

"Russia’s hidden leverage over Europe’s digital security raises alarm"

britpanorama.co.uk/technology/…

#ripe #russia #technology #internet #europe

Russia’s hidden leverage over Europe’s digital security raises alarm - Britpanorama

The European Union is investing heavily in strengthening its cyber-defence capabilities and is now openly debating a shift from a purely defensive posture to…

^{Thomas Robinson (Britpanorama)}

RE: journa.host/@ScottLucas/115699…

#Germany 's #Merz pushes back #Trump Admin's National Security Strategy portraying #Europe as a threat.

Europe “can stand firmly on its own feet" - "We will...not allow anything or anyone to divide us"

#NATO #EU #Ukraine #TrumpRussia

Scott Lucas (@ScottLucas@journa.host)

Attached: 1 image #UkraineWar, Day 1,386: #Zelensky Discusses #Europe- #Kyiv Economic Proposal With #Trump Camp #Bessent #Kushner #Ukraine #TrumpRussia https://eaworldview.com/2025/12/ukraine-war-trump-team-zelensky-europe-kyiv-proposal/

^{Scott Lucas (Journa.host)}

European Resilience Summit

Opening by Dr. Philipp Mueller
10 dec. 2025.
europeanresiliencesummit.com
Building a trans European community.

#europeanresilience #europe #resilience

European Resilience Summit

Opening by Dr. Philipp Mueller
10 dec. 2025.
europeanresiliencesummit.com
Building a trans European community.

#europeanresilience #europe #resilience

European Resilience Summit

Opening by Dr. Philipp Mueller
10 dec. 2025.
europeanresiliencesummit.com
Building a trans European community.

#europeanresilience #europe #resilience

European Resilience Summit

Opening by Dr. Philipp Mueller
10 dec. 2025.
europeanresiliencesummit.com
Building a trans European community.

#europeanresilience #europe #resilience

So just like #europe with #chatControl is going to be in few months for >17yo...

What is the purpose behind banning minors from general internet? I get that now in 2025 governments are getting obsessed with surveillance, but what does these bans even for?

Do you know what Russia’s, China’s, and even the United States’ greatest fear is?

A united Europe.

Together, we can achieve almost anything, and Trump may have just given us an even stronger reason to unite.

Less than 80 years ago, we were at war with each other. Today, we are more united than ever. Instead of small, isolated states, we are a large, interconnected juggernaut growing more integrated every year.

This is frightening for our enemies, and even for some (former) allies...

#unitedEurope #Europe #together

From Piñeres, Cantabria - videos.trom.tf/w/x2Utwww4BmboT…

This was the most expensive motorhome parking area we had paid for yet. It cost 8 euros per night and included water + clean toilets. We loved it because there was nobody around and it was in a beautiful mountainous area with some fantastic trails and viewpoints of Picos de Europa. There was even a trail called "the mythological route" with witches and goblins in the middle of the forest 😁

#motorhome #travel #Europe #Spain #vanlife #RV #nationalparks #mountains #nature #hiking

"It comes as no surprise to learn that it will be U.S. strategy to support so-called 'patriotic European parties,' for which we should read the overtly racist Nazi-worshipping Alternative For Germany political party that Vice President Vance praised so effusively in February that he practically drooled down his shirt at the Munich Security Conference."

#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism #GreatReplacement
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"Now he has admitted the truth. His unhappiness with NATO is racist. For Trump and adherents to his cause, European nations have become insufficiently white. Trump’s national security strategy supports 'unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history.' That would be the kind of lily-white history he wants taught in American schools and universities."

#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism #GreatReplacement
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"Trump has now formulated a new racism expressed in [the National Security Strategy] document as 'civilizational.' He states outright that Europe and our NATO allies are facing 'civilizational erasure' by allowing immigration from other countries that go unnamed but are clearly not 'European.' This is formulating the Great Replacement Theory as U.S. national policy."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

Trump makes the racist Great Replacement Theory official U.S. policy

Trump did it with the nation’s official National Security Strategy report that was published late last night on the White House website.

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uplo…

"The larger issues facing #Europe include activities of the
#EuropeanUnion and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and
sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating
strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering
birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence"

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 #Musk #Trump #Europe #pressfreedom

Since the #Trump administration declared #Europe the new enemy of the #USA, we should answer in kind.
Since the only language Trump speaks is #Capitalism, let's speak capitalism to him. Consumers are the only power in a capitalistic system. Excluding the USA from the conversation will speak volumes.

I for my part buy anything BUT US-Brands. Indefinitely.

The app "BuyEuropean" as a neat little helper in this endeavour.

Now this is brazen #projection even for the Gremlin from the #Kremlin.
Who invaded #Ukraine twice - in 2014 and 2022?
Who could stop this #war at any moment by retreating from Ukraine's territory.

In reality #Putin thrives on war. From Grozny to South Ossetia and Northern Abkhazia, from Transnistria to Ukraine war has been his career ladder.

Bugger off and die a miserable death soon, Vladimir! To hell with you and all of your orks.
#Europe #StandWithUkraine

« Nous n’avons pas l’intention de faire la #guerre à l’ #Europe, mais si l’ #Europe le souhaite et commence, nous sommes prêts dès maintenant », avait auparavant lancé Vladimir #Poutine #Russie

lemonde.fr/international/live/…

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky attend des « signaux » des émissaires américains après leur réunion avec Vladimir Poutine

L’émissaire américain Steve Witkoff rencontrait le président russe en fin de journée, mardi. « Nous n’avons pas l’intention de faire la guerre à l’Europe, mais si l’Europe le souhaite et commence, nous sommes prêts dès maintenant », avait lancé aupar…

^{Le Monde.fr}

Funny how ‘annexation’ becomes ‘changing the map’ when it’s an ally. The West’s vocabulary shifts faster than its principles.

#Israel #Trump #Gaza #US #Hyprocrites #Europe #FreePalestine #Genocide #Uk #EU #Palestine #USPol #Zionism #Ukraine

I believe Europeans need to worry more about Chat Control / ProtectEU.

It is absolutely dystopian & can not be allowed to be implemented!

After all, it can't be any good if the politicians want to be exempt from it ;)

youtube.com/watch?v=fPzvUW8qaW…

They also provide a nice summary here: mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vp…

(I didn't know Ashton Kutcher was that in love with mass #surveillance 🕺)

⏯️ by @mullvadnet

#ChatControl #ProtectEU #Privacy #eu #europe #europeanunion #it #europa #tech #news #digital

#Finland president urges #Europe to hold its nerve as he warns no ceasefire likely soon in #Ukraine

A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before spring & European #allies need to keep up support despite a #corruption scandal that has engulfed Kyiv, President Alexander #Stubb of Finland told AP.

Europe, meanwhile, will require ‘’sisu,’’ a Finnish word meaning endurance, resilience & grit, to get through the winter months, as #Russia continues its hybrid attacks & info war.

apnews.com/article/stubb-finla…

Our 4 demands for #EuSummit25:

💶 #Fediverse Fund for user-centred development in the amount of €30 million annually

1️⃣ Anchoring the #Plus1 principle in the work of the federal government and public institutions

🤝 Establishing legal certainty: recognition of #non-profit status

🇪🇺 Establishment of #decentralised, interoperable and cross-sectoral multilingual pan-European #media platforms with the involvement of #civil society from the outset

#Europe #socialweb #opensource #digitalpolicy

"#Iceland deems possible #Atlantic current collapse a security risk"

If the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation #AMOC collapses, all of Northern #Europe is screwed. It won't happen soon, but it is a real possibility

All we have to do is take #ClimateChange seriously... oh, yeah. Fuck.

reuters.com/sustainability/cop…