Valerio D'Astolfo

@valedas
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European citizen 🇪🇺 🇮🇹
Book lover. Family lover.
Software consultant

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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

We think this week’s episode might appeal to a few of you here, because we’re speaking to the founder of this very platform - @Gargron - about his decision to step back from the helm and the future of ethical, supervillain-free online communities.

https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/europes-anti-elon

Europe's anti-Elon — The Europeans

Back when Elon Musk was challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight, Eugen Rochko was building an open-source, non-problematic Twitter alternative, completely without fanfare. Last year, the Mastodon founder announced his departure from the head of the social media platform in  a candid blo

The Europeans

Activism is good for your brain...

Feeling overwhelmed? Touch grass and organise | The European Correspondent

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/feeling-overwhelmed-touch-grass-and-organise

#news #activism #theeuropeancorrespondent

Feeling overwhelmed? Touch grass and organise

Two and a half months into 2026, New Year's Eve feels like an ancient memory. The sunrise finally beats the morning rush hour as winter loosens its gr

The European Correspondent

Yesterday we heard that our podcast host - Podbean - will no longer deliver dynamic ads to listeners in the EEA/EU/UK, effective immediately.

This is the kick up the ass we needed to finally migrate our show to a European hosting provider. Does anyone have good experience with a European provider that offers dynamic ad insertion?

"This war is still, for its aggressors, a war of choice – and a choice that was taken without Europe at the table. That makes the language with which Europe has responded to those aggressors all the more unsettling."

This week in our Good Week, Bad Week newsletter: Europe's response to the escalating conflict in the Middle East

https://substack.com/home/post/p-190033346

#iran #iranwar #europe #politics #geopolitics

Choice words

Global politics, but #makeitshitty

Good Week Bad Week

🚨 We have a new episode out! 🚨

This week we discuss...

- strategies for staying sane whilst trying to make positive change in the world.
- the successful European Citizens’ Initiative that will make it easier for European women to procure abortion across borders
- A very bad week for Yanis Varoufakis (feat. Kylie Minogue)

https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/how-to-keep-going-when-the-world-feels-broken

How to keep going when the world feels broken — The Europeans

This week, we wanted to ask a question that has been in our hearts and on our minds for years: Is it possible to try to make positive change in the world, and still stay healthy and sane? Dutch writer, political philosopher, and “recovering diplomat” Nori Spauwen believes that the answer is yes – ev

The Europeans