🇪🇺🇷🇸 Protesting students and other citizens of Serbia have a quite simple demand; no dialogue about the rule of law but its implementation. The real problem is the government’s unwillingness to truly choose the EU path. #Serbia

I’ve spent nearly 50y under some kind of dictatorship, and numbers can’t describe the level of suffering and damage to the human mind those monstrous regimes are making. Idiocrasy is spreading like a fire worldwide – a pathology that must be treated, not merely mocked.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a Serbian academic, Ratko Ristić. He’s best known for engaging in pro-Kremlin, ultranationalist politics and propaganda while undermining business ties between Serbia and the EU.

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tomorrow marks three months since corruption and the arrogance of power claimed 15 lives in the northern city of novi sad. tonight, students from across serbia are gathering there. citizens have lined the streets to welcome them, and local students prepared beds for them to rest.

Students from Serbia marching 80 km from Belgrade to Novi Sad will spend the night at the stadium. In January!

Students in Serbia seek the truth on public media

Life imitates nature.

Belgrade and Milky Way Galaxy.

slavija square, belgrade (photo: arhiv javnih skupova)

Massive protests in Belgrade, Serbia against corruption and calling on the pro-kremlin President Vučić and his government to step down. #SerbiaProtests

Anti-corruption protests have been ongoing in Serbia for over a month, against the pro-Russia / pro-China Vucic regime. The protests are being led by students, centered in Novi Sad and Belgrade, and continue to grow. #SerbiaProtests

failed and captured state #serbia spying on journalists, civil activists www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

✨ The BBC Micro, developed by Acorn Computers, was the classroom computer for a generation in the UK. Originally created for the BBC’s computer literacy TV programs, it became a symbol of education in the 1980s. 📚

Our unit still has stickers for Yugoslav characters once used with it! 🌍✍️

#bbcmicro

At 51. Moving to another country. Closing 28y old business. Moving from Twitter to Bluesky. Learning new languages. And still believe we have a chance to make this world a better place.