Jort Mentink

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Jort MentinkJun 2
Sheril KirshenbaumJun 2

A key lesson of the last decade is that effective leadership & strong governance are a lot harder than they look from the outside.

Long-term planning, informed strategies, ongoing relationships across parties & with allies & earned trust matter.

In their absence, things fall apart. #uspol

Jort MentinkMay 28
Lovely day in Hay-on-Wye, town of books today!
Jort MentinkApr 25
Elena Rossini 🌈Apr 24

A routine reminder that it's always a good idea to boycott #Substack.

We have long known that it platforms and profits from Nazi publications. And now: #manosphere influencers with multiple accusations of serious crimes... so much so that there is a dedicated Wikipedia page about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_Tate_brothers

No problem for #Substack though! They happily take a 10% cut from all paid subscriptions.

There are many great alternatives to SS: Ghost, Buttondown, beehiiv, Patreon... no more excuses

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.