Natasha 🧗‍♀️

Get stuff done today, arrest a billionaire CEO!

"Stopping an AI system from generating sexualized imagery is not a matter of ideology. It is a legal obligation and a basic moral responsibility that all of Europe shares." euractiv.com/opinion/grok-m…

Wonder what it's like to join X as a highly experienced head of comms for EMEA, and then spend your time ignoring journalists @Victoriawaw? We've been messaging X every day in the hope of understanding why Grok appears to regularly violate its own acceptable use policy

"Like E coli O157:H7 (which emerged in cattle feedlots) & methicillin-resistant S aureus (aka MRSA, which emerged at industrial hog farms and kills about 9,000 Americans every year), H5N1 is simply the latest unanticipated cost of factory farming." theguardian.com/news/2026/jan/…

Imposing a travel ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton for doing his job as a European Commissioner, and others, is unacceptable. On behalf of @Europarl_EN, I urge for it to be rescinded quickly.

"... regulating the information space is not optional: it is a sine qua non for turning the narrow mercantile logic of a few into a genuine contribution towards human progress and the common good." - @ThierryBreton

“Everyone wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, listens to the same podcasts, follows the same fads. It’s a place born of immense sort of herd-like behaviour.” theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

@bbcpaddy Hi, why did your interview with Ehud Olmert cut out to non-UK listeners - stating that this part of the programme is unable due to rights restrictions? Hard to imagine a discussion about the disaster in Gaza triggers copyright concerns

@_Movelia Still waiting for a response to my reclamacion ...

@riptari Sorry for the inconvenience. We are currently in high season and receiving a high volume of emails, which we are doing our best to respond to as quickly as possible. You will receive a reply soon. Best regards.

@_Movelia how much will you be compensating this double decker bus full of people for ruining their day trip?

@_Movelia July 5. Movelia. I have emailed asking for reclamation but have not had a reply

@riptari Hello Natasha, We apologise for the inconvenience. A bus breakdown is something that cannot be predicted and is beyond our control. Nevertheless, please let us know the date and the coach company so we can look into what happened.

The Chernobyl disaster struck 39 years ago on April 26, 1986. Though it happened in #Ukraine, its devastating impact reached deep into #Belarus, contaminating land and poisoning our population. A passage from Sviatlana Alexievich captures the haunting loss: "The sparrows disappeared from our town in the first year after the accident. They were lying around everywhere – in the yards, on the asphalt. They’d be raked up and taken away in the containers with the leaves. They didn’t let people burn the leaves that year, because they were radioactive, so they buried the leaves. The sparrows came back two years later. We were so happy, we were calling to each other: “I saw a sparrow yesterday! They’re back.” The May bugs also disappeared, and they haven’t come back. Maybe they’ll come back in a hundred years or a thousand. That’s what our teacher says. I won’t see them."

Delay, distract, dissemble?

🎙️@TanyaOCarroll called this privacy settlement she won from Meta a “bittersweet victory” techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/met… It’s also bittersweet for me as it’s my last story for @TechCrunch - but happily it underscores the value & power of public interest reporting. Support #journalism

@lukOlejnik His early appraisal was definiately ‘looks tasty’😸

Happy reading, Natasha! Bonus points if the cat gives it a review. 😺

Looking fwd to getting my teeth into @lukOlejnik’s book on infowar tactics — which, as cat has clearly recognised, is required reading for these propaganda-troubled times

In April 1986 my parents learned about the #Chernobyl nuclear disaster via #RadioFreeEurope, while the Polish communist regime continued to hide the fact that a radioactive cloud was passing over Poland. Thanks to a radio funded by the US government, I and many other children behind the Iron Curain were less exposed to radiation that month. And our societies received access to truths the communists were trying to conceal. Today's decision by @DOGE to close @RFERL, @VOANews⁩, ⁦@RadioFreeAsia is ⁩nothing more than a gift to dictators around the world - especially to #Putin and #Russia. Russia's multibillion-dollar effort to push disinformation abroad has given the Cold War radio a new life. 40 million people from 23 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia tune into its coverage, 11 million inside Russia, despite the Kremlin's labeling them a "foreign agent." The US is willingly giving away one of the most important tools of its soft power and an instrument that has changed the world for the better.

imagine such bliss

Being mugged €10 for a sandwich that looks and tastes like someone sat on it is the full #MWC experience

Even the music they're playing at #MWC2025 sounds like it was composed by AI

The utter shame of it. A nation of bullies and bastards