Today is the Legislative elections, or general elections, in Portugal, my home country.
I will use this thread to talk about, and cover, them throughout the day like I I did 3,5 months ago for the Dutch (country where I live) ones.
1/ By the way, its been 3,5 months and many people here on Xitter asked what was going to happen after the win of the far-right but there's still no new government and I'm not sure if an agreement will be reached.
But that's a story for another day
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Tomorrow is a general elections (for the parliament, the 2nd Chamber, officially "Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal") day here in 🇳🇱.
Normally elections were due in 2025 but the Rutte IV cabinet (a coalition one) fell apart in July this year resulting in snap elections.
1/ There are 21 parties with candidates for the parliament seats. In reality 22, as the PvdA and the GroenLinks are running together with same list.
This election will result in a new prime-minister since October 2010, as Mark Rutte announced he would quit back in July.
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Por uma vez escrevo uma thread em Português pois é um fact-check desta notícia do @dntwit (DN) que presumo outros órgãos de comunicação social também partilharam (eu admito só vi esta)

Comecemos então.
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https://twitter.com/dntwit/status/1726227466640142552

O DN não "inventou" esta notícia. O DN usou como referencia um artigo do jornal israelita Haaretz. Eu não tenho conta no site deles, mas o artigo pode ser consultado no Archive Today, aqui (e podem usar um tradutor online para ver o que diz):

2/archive.is/6g2g9

Hey @F1 , I have a suggestion: next time there's heavy rain and bad visibility, instead of waiting hour(s) and then have drivers immediately box for inters once SC goes in, why not go early behind SC on full wets, that are designed to clear water... 1/5 ... for some laps, then allow them to race on full wets for some other laps some other laps, maybe with some yellow flags on sectors that are more dangerous, or if visibility is really really bad under VSC? Cars running on full wets create a racing line pretty quickly 2/5

Coming to check Twitter this morning and seeing the images and news about the damaged Crimean Bridge over the Kerch Strait is very satisfying.
There's a particular significance to this as the bridge was built after 🇷🇺 illegal annexation of the peninsula 1/6

https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1578609090724782081

Most of us further West, myself included, reacted too lightly to that annexation, and quickly accepted it as a "fait accompli" because, well, there wasn't much anyone could do about it.
Then 🇷🇺 build the bride to connect Crimean to the "motherland" and reaffirm its claim 2/6

During a talk with a colleague (because of a longer than usual post of mine on LinkedIn) he said I could title myself as a content creator, and I had forgotten about that definition.
1/7 It is true, I see myself as a content creator, in particular if I take Adobe's definition of it:
"A content creator is someone who creates entertaining or educational material to be expressed through any medium or channel."
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It's now ~5:45 AM here and I tried to hide from my son that woke up and was looking to see if I was already awake so that he could stay with me in the living room and watch telly (or watch videos on the telly). I succeeded for 3 minutes only... Most of the mornings I try to lay very still and see if he doesn't realize I'm already downstairs but today I tried to hide when he went upstairs to check our room.
Didn't work, as always...

At lunch my father gave me a great example of what affects society nowadays, in particular white males over 55 yo: they are scared of problems that don't exist but they think are very important ones. 1/ According to him, it's a big fucking deal that employers, or people responsible for employees, don't keep a close and detailed track of the employees whereabouts, in particular their absences and why, you may ask? 2/

It seems I'm not able to gather enough inspiration and motivation (and time, what I constantly lack to do all that I want and must) to sit for a few hours and write the Cogitation in the Time of War #32 (the 100+ days of Putin's Invasion). So I'll share here some points 1/ Most of the focus has been on the Donbas, first Izyum, then Popasna and now Sievierodonetsk because 🇷🇺 keeps "reducing" their goals, but actually I'm much more interested in what's happening near Kherson with 🇺🇦 counteroffensive there 2/

There's a song from a Portuguese artist entitled "Os Maridos das Outras", translated as "The Other Women's Husbands" with very clever lyrics that maybe surprisingly became popular also with married women (the target of the critique). 1/ lyricstranslate.com/en/os-maridos-… And today a thought popped in my mind, related with this song: that my wife wants me to be an amalgamation of the other women's husband's 2/

In Portugal we have an expression: "a praça pública", the public square, that we use to designate the public discussion of stuff by normal people. Can't remember the English equivalent so I'll use this translation to elaborate on what I've been seeing around here regarding UA 1/ The Internet is the public square and it's populated by all sorts of people. And there are those who push a narrative and those who just agree and share it. And there are those who simply report on facts and give a sort of neutral analysis 2/

And what about those peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia? What's up with that? This is a thread to comment on this one from @lapatina_ (and based on what she wrote) 1/8

https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/1508781149027540992

Regarding Ukraine accepting neutrality and not joining NATO that is perfectly fine. It does not mean they won't have protection. You don't need to be part of NATO to have security treaties. Also Finland is not in NATO but their military is perfectly integrated with it 2/8

I can't really understand why people continue to think that the West (or any other country) can simply send an advanced weapons system (fighter jets, air defense, missiles) to Ukraine and they can just use it 1/5 These systems are not like a more advanced vacuum cleaner that ukrainians just set it up and start using it. Most system require training (several months) and other integrations to be able to use them properly 2/5

Um pequeno desvio pela política nacional uma vez que vi recentemente duas notícias relacionadas com o Bloco de Esquerda. Segue-se uma🧵 1/6 Quero começar por dizer que ideologicamente não me identifico com o BE e apesar de ser apologista da máxima "nunca digas desta água não beberei", não creio que alguma vez vote neles, apesar de concordar com certas ideias do ponto vista social 2/6

This might be mostly based on personal perception but it seems that the general opposing view (as opposed to the main line from Western government) moved from "NATO caused this war by forcing Putin's end" to ... 1/4 🧵 ... "NATO is leaving Ukraine alone to fight and must do something". Then the "opposition" asks for a no-fly zone (something they picked up somewhere but have no clue about what it really is) or even asks for troops on the ground 2/4