Camino Mortera
@caminomortera.bsky.social
Formerly EU affairs for Spain’s Prime Minister. Used to unsuccessfully try to head EU things. Recovering, and aspiring, think tanker. My views only, otherwise they would be interesting.
Tuesday Kigali office
August 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Tuesday Kigali office
Now that I finally got some time to sit down this year, I am at last diving into this. As a Brussels veteran, I’ve been wary to open it. I have always had a complicated relationship with Merkel’s European legacy. Wonder whether this book will help.
August 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Now that I finally got some time to sit down this year, I am at last diving into this. As a Brussels veteran, I’ve been wary to open it. I have always had a complicated relationship with Merkel’s European legacy. Wonder whether this book will help.
Ok, slightly revising this. Drove at rush hour for the first time today and the pixie thing looks like a piece of cake in comparison. More juicy updates like this one coming soon.
I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.
August 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Ok, slightly revising this. Drove at rush hour for the first time today and the pixie thing looks like a piece of cake in comparison. More juicy updates like this one coming soon.
I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.
August 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.
Taking off to a new adventure kind of far away in a few minutes. More news coming soon!
a cartoon of snoopy wearing a green hat and scarf
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy wearing a green hat and scarf
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August 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Taking off to a new adventure kind of far away in a few minutes. More news coming soon!
Buscando apoyo para mi obsesión con el irritante anuncio de los interruptores, una amiga ingeniera me enseñó este otro. Y ahora me preocupa que la Generación Z no sólo no sepa lo que es un interruptor, sino tampoco de dónde viene la energía fósil.
youtu.be/7glyTv7Wm1E
youtu.be/7glyTv7Wm1E
Nos transformamos en Moeve
YouTube video by Moeve
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July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Buscando apoyo para mi obsesión con el irritante anuncio de los interruptores, una amiga ingeniera me enseñó este otro. Y ahora me preocupa que la Generación Z no sólo no sepa lo que es un interruptor, sino tampoco de dónde viene la energía fósil.
youtu.be/7glyTv7Wm1E
youtu.be/7glyTv7Wm1E
Or a piece on how there are way too many men pulling the strings of power so the democratic deficit is not only a fallacy, but a phallacy. True fact, albeit an unintended one.
are you writing a piece on how the sui generis supra national / intra governmental thing called the EU is to navigate a world that has gone all binary?
July 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Or a piece on how there are way too many men pulling the strings of power so the democratic deficit is not only a fallacy, but a phallacy. True fact, albeit an unintended one.
True. Which is even more appalling, because it is a direct translation from French that makes even less sense in other languages.
July 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
True. Which is even more appalling, because it is a direct translation from French that makes even less sense in other languages.
And it can even be a phallacy, so it appeals to Gen Z and boost some TikTok algorithm
Keep up with me, because I am soon doing one of that awful ✨personal news✨ posts and will be heading to some place where having coined a European political science term that nobody understands will come in handy.
This is what I have decided, just now, to call the democratic deficit phallacy and you should all be hearing from that in the next few months.
July 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And it can even be a phallacy, so it appeals to Gen Z and boost some TikTok algorithm
Reposted by Camino Mortera
Did you mean “fallacy” or is that quite a racy double entendre?
July 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Did you mean “fallacy” or is that quite a racy double entendre?
As I cannot edit this. Of course I meant fallacy, although there is probably a case to bring feminism into this and apply the below term. Thanks @alanbeattie.bsky.social
This is what I have decided, just now, to call the democratic deficit phallacy and you should all be hearing from that in the next few months.
July 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As I cannot edit this. Of course I meant fallacy, although there is probably a case to bring feminism into this and apply the below term. Thanks @alanbeattie.bsky.social
Keep up with me, because I am soon doing one of that awful ✨personal news✨ posts and will be heading to some place where having coined a European political science term that nobody understands will come in handy.
This is what I have decided, just now, to call the democratic deficit phallacy and you should all be hearing from that in the next few months.
July 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Keep up with me, because I am soon doing one of that awful ✨personal news✨ posts and will be heading to some place where having coined a European political science term that nobody understands will come in handy.
There is a motion of confidence (which should be called a motion of no confidence if we were speaking English in Brussels, but hey) against Ursula von der Leyen going on right now that you probably do not know and do not care about. And rightly so, because it will fail. But
July 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
There is a motion of confidence (which should be called a motion of no confidence if we were speaking English in Brussels, but hey) against Ursula von der Leyen going on right now that you probably do not know and do not care about. And rightly so, because it will fail. But
Artículo 14 de la Constitución española:
Los españoles son iguales ante la ley, sin que pueda prevalecer discriminación alguna por razón de nacimiento, raza, sexo, religión, opinión o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.
Los españoles son iguales ante la ley, sin que pueda prevalecer discriminación alguna por razón de nacimiento, raza, sexo, religión, opinión o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.
June 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Artículo 14 de la Constitución española:
Los españoles son iguales ante la ley, sin que pueda prevalecer discriminación alguna por razón de nacimiento, raza, sexo, religión, opinión o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.
Los españoles son iguales ante la ley, sin que pueda prevalecer discriminación alguna por razón de nacimiento, raza, sexo, religión, opinión o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.
Sunday scaries, but with WWIII
June 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sunday scaries, but with WWIII
Y los interruptores igual interrumpen la corriente. Pero que no sé, igual en TikTok todavía no lo saben y lo petáis.
Este anuncio no se entiende en la radio, igual en la tele sí (me diréis vosotros). En cualquier caso, me radicaliza contra la Generación Z: si hablas así, eres del 2000, guiri, o imbécil.
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué se llaman interruptores?
YouTube video by repsol
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June 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Y los interruptores igual interrumpen la corriente. Pero que no sé, igual en TikTok todavía no lo saben y lo petáis.
Reposted by Camino Mortera
Este anuncio no se entiende en la radio, igual en la tele sí (me diréis vosotros). En cualquier caso, me radicaliza contra la Generación Z: si hablas así, eres del 2000, guiri, o imbécil.
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué se llaman interruptores?
YouTube video by repsol
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Este anuncio no se entiende en la radio, igual en la tele sí (me diréis vosotros). En cualquier caso, me radicaliza contra la Generación Z: si hablas así, eres del 2000, guiri, o imbécil.
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
Este anuncio no se entiende en la radio, igual en la tele sí (me diréis vosotros). En cualquier caso, me radicaliza contra la Generación Z: si hablas así, eres del 2000, guiri, o imbécil.
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué se llaman interruptores?
YouTube video by repsol
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Este anuncio no se entiende en la radio, igual en la tele sí (me diréis vosotros). En cualquier caso, me radicaliza contra la Generación Z: si hablas así, eres del 2000, guiri, o imbécil.
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...
Lowkey I will need to reinvent myself yet again in a few months so I told my husband I am done with trying to be clever I want to be very pretty instead and he laughed but I am damned serious.
May 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Lowkey I will need to reinvent myself yet again in a few months so I told my husband I am done with trying to be clever I want to be very pretty instead and he laughed but I am damned serious.