Joost
@almodozo.bsky.social
Holland > Hungary > Spain
Same @almodozo as on Twitter, just without the Országház. Worked at OSF and CEU, but that's a long while ago. Studied East-European History, but that's even longer ago. Now, somehow, I ended up in Extremadura.
Same @almodozo as on Twitter, just without the Országház. Worked at OSF and CEU, but that's a long while ago. Studied East-European History, but that's even longer ago. Now, somehow, I ended up in Extremadura.
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Joost
@almodozo.bsky.social
· Sep 21
Not going to update my ancient Twitter bio, but I mostly post about:
— Elections and polls
— Central/East-European politics
— The war in Ukraine
— Maps and charts
— Dutch and Spanish politics
— Budapest memories, life in Extremadura
— The left, a love/hate relationship
— Media, archiving, minorities
— Elections and polls
— Central/East-European politics
— The war in Ukraine
— Maps and charts
— Dutch and Spanish politics
— Budapest memories, life in Extremadura
— The left, a love/hate relationship
— Media, archiving, minorities
The Guardian straight up calling out its own columnists with the links it inserts into their pieces
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Guardian straight up calling out its own columnists with the links it inserts into their pieces
In today's AI headlines: birth rate set to drop to zero
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In today's AI headlines: birth rate set to drop to zero
Reposted by Joost
The most positive gloss IU leader Antonio Maíllo can think of putting on the current state of Spain's government is that Sánchez heads a Schrödinger Cat Cabinet: it both is (since Junts' position won't "change its maintenance") and isn't (since it won't be able to pass any laws or a budget)
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The most positive gloss IU leader Antonio Maíllo can think of putting on the current state of Spain's government is that Sánchez heads a Schrödinger Cat Cabinet: it both is (since Junts' position won't "change its maintenance") and isn't (since it won't be able to pass any laws or a budget)
Hinchliff had the whip restored yesterday, but nature defenders have as hard a time as ever getting a hearing with Starmer's government, and his account of the prevailing culture doesn't surprise at all
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hinchliff had the whip restored yesterday, but nature defenders have as hard a time as ever getting a hearing with Starmer's government, and his account of the prevailing culture doesn't surprise at all
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
0.3% for Pete Buttigieg, lol
But 0.8% for Jasmine Crockett, almost as much as AOC
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But 0.8% for Jasmine Crockett, almost as much as AOC
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Poll: Democrats have no idea who their leader is
Only one person hit double digits.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
0.3% for Pete Buttigieg, lol
But 0.8% for Jasmine Crockett, almost as much as AOC
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But 0.8% for Jasmine Crockett, almost as much as AOC
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist would probably be better if its playlist was less... ordinary
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist would probably be better if its playlist was less... ordinary
The Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley is obviously very different from the Hispanic communities in Greater New York or Washington. Still, maybe some first jitters in the GOP camp about their brand new Texas map?
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Hispanic population in the Rio Grande Valley is obviously very different from the Hispanic communities in Greater New York or Washington. Still, maybe some first jitters in the GOP camp about their brand new Texas map?
Six months before the election, the Orbán machine buys up Blikk as well. With so few independent outlets left, "many journalists who have decided to stay say they are in a difficult position as there are not many other outlets left to which they could apply."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Shock as Orbán allies take ownership of Hungary’s most-read newspaper
Blikk, a tabloid with about 3 million online monthly readers, bought by pro-Orbán media group Indamedia
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Six months before the election, the Orbán machine buys up Blikk as well. With so few independent outlets left, "many journalists who have decided to stay say they are in a difficult position as there are not many other outlets left to which they could apply."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Reposted by Joost
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Tangential, but one thing I hate is how, maybe because of my age, something can unlock a memory but not any identifying detail.
As I read this post, images popped into my mind from a short film I saw decades ago, but not the title, director, etc.
Found it: www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_f...
As I read this post, images popped into my mind from a short film I saw decades ago, but not the title, director, etc.
Found it: www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_f...
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Tangential, but one thing I hate is how, maybe because of my age, something can unlock a memory but not any identifying detail.
As I read this post, images popped into my mind from a short film I saw decades ago, but not the title, director, etc.
Found it: www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_f...
As I read this post, images popped into my mind from a short film I saw decades ago, but not the title, director, etc.
Found it: www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_f...
Remember how Teen Vogue became an unlikely source of critical journalism?
Yeah, that's over...
Yeah, that's over...
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Remember how Teen Vogue became an unlikely source of critical journalism?
Yeah, that's over...
Yeah, that's over...
AI helping us learn about history
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
AI helping us learn about history
"The villagers could still see each other by climbing hills, but on the eastern side waving and shouting were prohibited. One woman was put on a Stasi watch list for responding “same to you” to a (Bavarian) villager who wished her “happy new year”."
Mödlareuth: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Mödlareuth: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war
A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The villagers could still see each other by climbing hills, but on the eastern side waving and shouting were prohibited. One woman was put on a Stasi watch list for responding “same to you” to a (Bavarian) villager who wished her “happy new year”."
Mödlareuth: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Mödlareuth: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
"the Democrats were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016)"
Hillary Clinton got a much larger share of the vote in 2016 than the Democrat did in either 1980 or 1968, so I'm not sure how 1980->2016 was another "stage" of the Democrats being "reduced to a minority"
Hillary Clinton got a much larger share of the vote in 2016 than the Democrat did in either 1980 or 1968, so I'm not sure how 1980->2016 was another "stage" of the Democrats being "reduced to a minority"
I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"the Democrats were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016)"
Hillary Clinton got a much larger share of the vote in 2016 than the Democrat did in either 1980 or 1968, so I'm not sure how 1980->2016 was another "stage" of the Democrats being "reduced to a minority"
Hillary Clinton got a much larger share of the vote in 2016 than the Democrat did in either 1980 or 1968, so I'm not sure how 1980->2016 was another "stage" of the Democrats being "reduced to a minority"
Listening to a mix of music from my youth and it's pretty good! But I had to laugh because, damn... it was all a bit much, wasn't it?
I'm never gonna cry again.. It took seconds of your time/to take his life.. Grey skies/getting ready for the rain.. I stand alone in the cold/of an old train station
I'm never gonna cry again.. It took seconds of your time/to take his life.. Grey skies/getting ready for the rain.. I stand alone in the cold/of an old train station
November 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Listening to a mix of music from my youth and it's pretty good! But I had to laugh because, damn... it was all a bit much, wasn't it?
I'm never gonna cry again.. It took seconds of your time/to take his life.. Grey skies/getting ready for the rain.. I stand alone in the cold/of an old train station
I'm never gonna cry again.. It took seconds of your time/to take his life.. Grey skies/getting ready for the rain.. I stand alone in the cold/of an old train station
The war with the highest death toll in the world got even worse: "Rwanda-level mass extermination of people who are trapped inside” El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region.
sudanwarmonitor.com/p/fall-of-el...
sudanwarmonitor.com/p/fall-of-el...
Thousands killed and others escape in chaotic rout of El Fasher defenders
RSF fighters film ethnic killings and boast over war crimes
sudanwarmonitor.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The war with the highest death toll in the world got even worse: "Rwanda-level mass extermination of people who are trapped inside” El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region.
sudanwarmonitor.com/p/fall-of-el...
sudanwarmonitor.com/p/fall-of-el...
"“We thought it was almost a deterministic thing, that the radical right was always going to become bigger ...,” said Kristof Jacobs"
I mean, I don't want to be a spoilsport, but it did become bigger, again. JA21 and FvD gained more than the PVV lost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
I mean, I don't want to be a spoilsport, but it did become bigger, again. JA21 and FvD gained more than the PVV lost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"“We thought it was almost a deterministic thing, that the radical right was always going to become bigger ...,” said Kristof Jacobs"
I mean, I don't want to be a spoilsport, but it did become bigger, again. JA21 and FvD gained more than the PVV lost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
I mean, I don't want to be a spoilsport, but it did become bigger, again. JA21 and FvD gained more than the PVV lost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
In the Netherlands, the Bible Belt party SGP (whose website goes offline on Sundays, and which had to be forced by the courts to allow women to run for office) has just gotten its best election result since 1971. The more open-minded Christian Union is struggling.
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In the Netherlands, the Bible Belt party SGP (whose website goes offline on Sundays, and which had to be forced by the courts to allow women to run for office) has just gotten its best election result since 1971. The more open-minded Christian Union is struggling.
Wat is het toch met Nederlandse politici en taart?
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wat is het toch met Nederlandse politici en taart?
Don't look now, but the last slight changes in the ANP prognosis mean that Yesilgoz's favoured coalition of D66, VVD, CDA and JA21 doesn't have a majority anymore either
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Don't look now, but the last slight changes in the ANP prognosis mean that Yesilgoz's favoured coalition of D66, VVD, CDA and JA21 doesn't have a majority anymore either
Bij1 is alive in Amsterdam...
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Bij1 is alive in Amsterdam...
Deze boodschap gaan de twijfelende kiezers die voor D66 kozen ipv GL/PvdA zich nog met spijt herinneren, gok ik zo.
CDA en D66 zeggen iedere keer dat ze best ook met JA21 kunnen regeren.
De beste keuze voor progressieve kiezers is GroenLinks-PvdA de grootste maken. Wij zijn de enige garantie op een links en progressief kabinet.
De beste keuze voor progressieve kiezers is GroenLinks-PvdA de grootste maken. Wij zijn de enige garantie op een links en progressief kabinet.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Deze boodschap gaan de twijfelende kiezers die voor D66 kozen ipv GL/PvdA zich nog met spijt herinneren, gok ik zo.
Here's how I see the Netherlands election exit poll results in context:
Far-right parties:
Second-best since WWI (after 2023)
Parties to left of D66:
Worst result since WWI
D66 and all to its left:
Third-worst since 1967 (after 2023, 2002)
Parties to left of Labour/GreenLeft:
Worst since 1998
Far-right parties:
Second-best since WWI (after 2023)
Parties to left of D66:
Worst result since WWI
D66 and all to its left:
Third-worst since 1967 (after 2023, 2002)
Parties to left of Labour/GreenLeft:
Worst since 1998
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Here's how I see the Netherlands election exit poll results in context:
Far-right parties:
Second-best since WWI (after 2023)
Parties to left of D66:
Worst result since WWI
D66 and all to its left:
Third-worst since 1967 (after 2023, 2002)
Parties to left of Labour/GreenLeft:
Worst since 1998
Far-right parties:
Second-best since WWI (after 2023)
Parties to left of D66:
Worst result since WWI
D66 and all to its left:
Third-worst since 1967 (after 2023, 2002)
Parties to left of Labour/GreenLeft:
Worst since 1998
Hoe links verdween uit Pekela
"Met elke verkiezing sinds 2010 verschoven zetels van de linker- naar de rechterkant van het politieke spectrum," en in Noord-Nederland ging dat bijzonder snel.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
"Met elke verkiezing sinds 2010 verschoven zetels van de linker- naar de rechterkant van het politieke spectrum," en in Noord-Nederland ging dat bijzonder snel.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hoe links verdween uit Pekela
"Met elke verkiezing sinds 2010 verschoven zetels van de linker- naar de rechterkant van het politieke spectrum," en in Noord-Nederland ging dat bijzonder snel.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
"Met elke verkiezing sinds 2010 verschoven zetels van de linker- naar de rechterkant van het politieke spectrum," en in Noord-Nederland ging dat bijzonder snel.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...