Jort Mentink

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Jort MentinkMar 29
Shaula EvansMar 29

Please criticize terrible people for their words and deeds, not for their size, appearance, supposed or actual medical conditions, etc.

You can call out the bad guys without being ableist or punching down, I promise.

Bad guys punch down. Who are you trying to align with?

*It's 2026 and you are all terminally online. Why does this still need saying?

Jort MentinkMar 4
Radio/Cloud Kootwijk 😀
Jort MentinkMar 1

The Friesenbrücke in all its glory!

Love the detail of someone changing the original year of finalisation of something to 2025, and it’s now March 2026 😅

Jort MentinkFeb 19
Kudos to #homeassistant developers!
Last week, the SD-card my instance ran on gave up after 6 years of non-stop duty. Got a new card, put the backup on and an hour later, everything back up and running. Only had to reconnect a few aqara weather sensors. Everything else just worked again. Amazing!
Jort MentinkFeb 8
Toni AittoniemiFeb 8

Lol, US rebroadcasts of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony had the boos to JD Vance removed and replaced with fake cheers!

That’s some Soviet Union -level shit! 😅

#olympics #jdvance

Jort MentinkFeb 8
Ben WerdmullerFeb 7
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian
Jort MentinkFeb 6
Show threadAndreeaFeb 3

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

Jort MentinkJan 28
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 27
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Jort MentinkJan 27
Vive LevantJan 27
Geek alert !
Jort MentinkNov 3
Picard TipsNov 3
Picard civics tip: When a foreign power has wormed its way into your institution's highest office, it is every officer's duty to resist.