Donatas Stonkus

a humble servant of team life

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Sikorski brought the heat at the UN Security Council: “Sergey, tell your boss: enough is enough”

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski addressed the Russian delegation directly, pointing to the gap in economic power between Russia, Poland, Europe and NATO.

“You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over 12 years and Kyiv for over four. You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine — a country whose GDP is one-tenth of Russia’s.

But Poland’s GDP is almost half of yours. Europe’s is 10 times bigger. NATO’s is 25 times bigger.

You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don’t endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia’s future.”

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Do something.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Once again, Europe woke up to reckless and dangerous Russian behaviour.

A Russian warship fired emergency flares dangerously close to a Danish helicopter.

A drone entered Lithuanian airspace before being destroyed by NATO fighter jets.

These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a broader pattern of Russian aggression and provocation against Europe, testing our readiness and our resolve.

Russia will find our resolve only growing stronger.

We are reinforcing our collective deterrence and defence, together with NATO. And we are stepping up the pressure on Russia.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@IAI_TV The universe is integer in units of Planck cubes

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Sikorski: The West spent decades trying not to humiliate Russia and to make it a responsible stakeholder.

Russia joined the G7, signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act and built ties with the EU. We all tried. Moscow turned us all down, The Economist. 1/

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

By choosing "de-escalation" tactics, NATO turned Article 5 into a Schrödinger's cat. So long as the decision box stays closed, NATO is both willing and unwilling to react.
Now it seems like Putin might force us to open the box and find out what's inside.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@willdepue Welcome to the Singularity.

How’s the temperature?

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

"With Russia, you either kneel or you are the enemy. There is nothing in between."

Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on meeting Putin in 2010—and why Lithuania immediately built an LNG terminal to completely cut off Russian gas.

[Donatas Stonkus @d_stonkus]

Nota a friendly neighbor, period

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Donatas Stonkus @d_stonkus]

Applies to EU too i guess

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

https://t.co/Ej6npGlQEr

[Voices of Liberty @VoLSubstack]

“In order to make people equal, you have to treat them differently. If you treat people alike, the result is necessarily inequality.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[Donatas Stonkus @d_stonkus]

Not inspiring at all

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.

Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.

Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.

It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.

More people voted no than yes. It still passed.

Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.

This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.

Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"I don't want you to hang my portraits in your offices.
Because a President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait.
Hang pictures of your children instead.
And before you make any decision, look into their eyes."

- Volodymyr Zelensky
President of Ukraine 🇺🇦

Just wow❤️🫡

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

🚨Un eroico giornalista danese prende la parola e dice a Mark Rutte:

«Lei siede accanto a Donald Trump quando parla di conquistare la Groenlandia o svilisce alleati come la Spagna: cose che non sembrano in linea con il Mark Rutte di un tempo. Questo influisce in qualche modo sul rispetto che ha per sé stesso, quando resta seduto lì senza dire nulla?»

[Donatas Stonkus @d_stonkus]

Wtf

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

IT'S REAL BAD.

The British government just came with a new bill that could throw parents 5 years in jail if they try to stop their child from wanting to change gender.

I had a look at what the new "Conversion Practices Bill" says.

And it's WAY WORSE than you think.

Any "conduct" from a parent toward their child that causes the child to "believe that they have or do not have" a "particular" identity will be in violation of what they call "conversion practice".

In other words, if the parents tell their child that they are either male or female and the parent is using what they call "coercive words" which causes what they define as "serious alarm" to the child that has a "substantial adverse effect" on the child's day to day activities, this could then be enough to put a parent 5 years in prison.

PLUS an UNLIMITED FINE.

Years in prison and a limitless fine, where do they even come up with this?

You just know that the activists will use this law to persecute and throw any parent in prison who is in opposition of woke gender ideology.

The state wants to take away parenting rights from the parents and have full control over children.

This comes just days after Britain restarted trials where they will give puberty blockers to children as young as 11.

Britain is turning into a truly evil country at this point.

This goes against all human rights.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

IT'S REAL BAD.

The British government just came with a new bill that could throw parents 5 years in jail if they try to stop their child from wanting to change gender.

I had a look at what the new "Conversion Practices Bill" says.

And it's WAY WORSE than you think.

Any "conduct" from a parent toward their child that causes the child to "believe that they have or do not have" a "particular" identity will be in violation of what they call "conversion practice".

In other words, if the parents tell their child that they are either male or female and the parent is using what they call "coercive words" which causes what they define as "serious alarm" to the child that has a "substantial adverse effect" on the child's day to day activities, this could then be enough to put a parent 5 years in prison.

PLUS an UNLIMITED FINE.

Years in prison and a limitless fine, where do they even come up with this?

You just know that the activists will use this law to persecute and throw any parent in prison who is in opposition of woke gender ideology.

The state wants to take away parenting rights from the parents and have full control over children.

This comes just days after Britain restarted trials where they will give puberty blockers to children as young as 11.

Britain is turning into a truly evil country at this point.

This goes against all human rights.