David Short 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈

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Bedfordshire (UK) based engineer working in the TV industry. Cyclist. Rejoiner. Atheist. Born @ ppm ~ 320.

The header picture is a skyline of London’s South Bank taken from Savoy Place. On the far left is the old London Weekend Television building. Towards the centre is the National Theatre lit in purple. On the far right, you can see the Royal Festival Hall.

It’s the silver lining from this terrible age of Donald Trump: he is pushing Britain closer to the EU

Ten years after the Brexit vote, Trump’s disdain and insults are fuelling the belief that the UK should renew ties with Europe, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian
Ben Jennings on the sacking of Reform’s housing spokesperson – cartoon

Simon Dudley was dismissed by the party after he described the Grenfell Tower fire as a ‘tragedy’ but said that ‘everyone dies in the end’

The Guardian
So as of yesterday I am retired, had a 37+ year career working in #NASA human spaceflight, Space Shuttle and then the #Orion spacecraft. I set my retirement date in the hope that the #Artemis 2 mission, Orion’s first crewed flight, would have completed by then but Feb launch was delayed and by “cosmic coincidence” Artemis 2 finally launched yesterday - my final day. Very proud of all my colleagues and all the hard work we’ve done to get to this point. Onward to the #moon - and beyond. Ad astra.

We've already shared EU alternative sites before so we're sharing this one to make sure it's on your radar.

https://europeantechmap.eu/

European Tech Map – Discover European Tech Alternatives

Find GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted software alternatives. Browse 500+ European companies across 30+ categories.

European Tech Map
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/limited-monopoly/
Takedowns
“Viacom admitted in court that its marketing departments would "rough up" clips of its programming and upload them to Youtube, making them appear to be pirate copies, in a bid to interest Youtube users in Viacom's shows, and sometimes Viacom's lawyers would get confused and send threatening letters to Youtube demanding that these be removed” @pluralistic
Pluralistic: It’s extremely good that Claude’s source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

We have opened formal proceedings under the Digital Services Act to investigate how Snapchat exposes minors to grooming, recruitment for criminal purposes, and illegal products.

Key areas of investigation include:

🔹Grooming & recruitment of minors
🔹Age verification and access for under-13s
🔹Default privacy & safety settings
🔹Spread of illegal or age-restricted products
🔹Reporting of illegal content

We will now carry out an in-depth investigation.

More info: https://link.europa.eu/gXFbqm

“The widespread installation of flags by Raise the Colours is not a sign of patriotism. It is an act of intimidation and division that is having a real and damaging impact on our communities,”
Why anyone is still listening to the #BrexitLiars like Rees-Mogg is frankly beyond me... Stop pandering to them and let's #RejoinEU

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hydqkaws3gx3yttu5lrxjb24/post/3miinn4mo4225

Starmer finally shifting away from “make Brexit work”. “He said #Brexit had done “deep damage” to the UK economy and he would seize the opportunity to repair that harm”. His successor will have to do the actual seizing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/uk-needs-ambitious-new-eu-ties-amid-iran-war-starmer-says

Starmer calls for ‘ambitious’ new UK-EU ties as Trump threatens to quit Nato

PM to focus on European defence and economic partnership for ‘dangerous world’, in pivot away from US

The Guardian