Dario van der Kraken

Conversion Optimisation kinda guy ● My life is all about tennis and funnels ● #SpreadTheCoffee is my mission ● European 🇪🇺

[Più Europa @Piu_Europa]

Emma ci ha lasciati ma non ci lascerà mai.

Oggi non ci lascia soltanto la nostra leader, ci lascia una delle protagoniste più lucide, coraggiose e libere della storia politica del nostro Paese e del mondo libero.

Emma fu “scelta dalla politica radicale” quando un divieto cambiò la sua giovane vita.
E da quel momento decise che avrebbe lottato affinché non potesse capitare mai più a nessuna.

Attivista, parlamentare, ministra, commissaria europea. Sempre radicalmente libera.

La sua vita è stata una lunga lotta contro tutto ciò che nega le libertà: contro l’aborto clandestino, contro la fame nel mondo, contro la partitocrazia, contro l’infibulazione, contro il giustizialismo, contro i genocidi, contro ogni forma di autoritarismo.

Ma ancora più numerose sono state le sue battaglie per:

per la democrazia, per lo Stato di diritto, per la giustizia internazionale, per i diritti e i doveri di
ogni persona e ogni famiglia, per l’autodeterminazione delle donne, per la libertà di scegliere, fino alla fine.
E per l’Europa unita, democratica e federale: gli Stati Uniti d’Europa.

È questo il suo testamento: non è importante quante volte occorra perdere prima di riuscire a vincere e conquistare una libertà per tutti.

Non ci sono parole per descrivere il dolore e il vuoto che proviamo oggi.
Da domani proveremo a trovare le parole giuste per trasformare la gratitudine che proviamo per aver potuto lottare al suo fianco nel coraggio di continuare a batterci come ci ha insegnato.

Grazie Emma, dal profondo del cuore.

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

As an Italian I can confidently say this is our most important contribution to global culture tho

[Teddy Kim @Teddy__Kim]

“It’s just that all of these Caribbean resorts look exactly the same to me. It’s just a random beach.”

“Oh I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You sit at your laptop, and you select… I don’t know, that all-inclusive resort for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what cookie-cutter consumerist hotel your parents made you go to.

But what you don’t know is that hotel isn’t just all-inclusive, it’s not Ixtapa, it’s not Zihuatanejo. It’s actually Cancún. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in the late 60s, Mexico ran a huge trade deficit with the US. They were industrializing rapidly, importing machinery and materials that had to be paid for in dollars. Then I believe it was INFRATUR, wasn’t it, that actually spent months building a computer model, feeding data to an IBM 360 to analyze Mexico’s entire coastline, evaluating climate, beach quality, accessibility, and development costs.

Then they identified Cancún as a strategic tourism development zone, deliberately modeled on postwar Mediterranean resort economies. By the mid-1990s, major U.S. and European hotel chains standardized the all-inclusive resort model there. That model was then replicated, refined, and exported across the Caribbean.

Eventually, that choice filtered down through Expedia algorithms, airline bundle deals, and trickled on down into some TikTok’s influencer video which you no doubt watched in bed doom scrolling. However, Cancún represents billions of dollars in coordinated state planning, private capital, labor arbitrage, and tourism dependency. Tens of thousands of jobs. Entire regional supply chains.

And it’s sort of comical that you think you simply picked "a random beach" when in fact you’re sipping a piña colada at a resort selected for you by the Mexican federal government’s years-long optimization process… from a bunch of random beaches.”

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Things that never happened by Zack Polanski

“I met a man recently. Said he wanted to stand on a beach like this one, with a gun. And shoot the people coming across on small boats.”

[The Torch @thetorchsays]

BREAKING 🚨: Bombshell analysis shows the distortion in the BBC's political TV shows.

We tallied up this month's guests on the two flagship shows, finding huge overrepresentation for the right. The Lib Dems receive barely a THIRD of what their seat share should entitle them to.

[chaeri 🪽 @chaereiten]

giving women better training facilities and better pitches? ❌

protecting women from being assaulted by their own managers or owners? ❌

providing a better, safer environment in games? ❌

banning 20 women from playing amateur football? ✅

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

The French overseas territory St. Pierre et Miquelon (population 5,800) now has the highest tariff rates in the world at 99%

Their exports are valued at just $3.5 million dollars a year. My guess as to what happened here is that they likely export a tiny amount (like $100 k worth of lobsters) to America without importing anything in return. So the insane White House algorithm (trade deficit/imports) would have produced this insane 99% tariff figure.

So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane

[Pavvy G @pavyg]

The ATP fans favourite players of the year 2024;

Singles; Sinner 🇮🇹
Doubles: Bolelli & Vavasorri 🇮🇹

ATP comeback player of the year;
Berrettini 🇮🇹

ATP world tour finals hosts till 2030. 🇮🇹
Davis Cup hosts from 2025. 🇮🇹

ATP CEO Calvelli 🇮🇹
ATP Chairman Gaudenzi 🇮🇹

Forza! 🇮🇹👏

[Jannik Sinner @janniksin]

Grazie Torino!!!! 🏆💪🏻💪🏻💚🤍❤️

[Jaanika Merilo @jaanikamerilo]

Great reminders of Russian negotiation technique by @kajakallas

[Vitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa]

Questo post è un esempio perfetto di manipolazione.

Si fa credere che la volontà della maggioranza dell'elettorato (non dei cittadini, come ha scritto Meloni) possa svincolare l'azione di governo da qualunque paletto giuridico. Falso: l'esecutivo non è al sopra della legge e dei giudici, salvo che nelle dittature.

Si fa credere che l'opposizione possa decretare l'illegittimità di un provvedimento per violazione della normativa europea. Falso: solo la Corte di Giustizia Ue può farlo, e la sua pronuncia è eventualmente la base per una procedura di infrazione.

Si fa credere che rilevare l'illegittimità di un provvedimento dell'esecutivo danneggi l'Italia e i suoi cittadini. Falso: sono i provvedimenti che contrastano con i principi dell'ordinamento a nuocere alle libertà e ai diritti di tutti.

È vergognoso che il vertice dell'esecutivo ricorra a tali e tante mistificazioni.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Thanks to England's privatised water, the whole of the UK is rated the dirtiest water in Europe.

They should be in prison for the rest of their lives.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Maybe we should run this as a 3 minute TV ad.

Wadda da ya think?

[Visit London @visitlondon]

Who knew a hidden castle in the woods would be home to some of the best views in London🏰

@severndroog is a hidden gem nestled away in Woolwich with history dating back to the 1700s, it's also home to some incredible views of the London skyline.

#LetsDoLondon #VisitLondon

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

SINNER SINNER US OPEN WINNER‼️

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

For reference, exactly zero kids have died this year from being read to by a drag queen.

[Dario van der Kraken @vanderkraken]

🥇🤩

[Jasmine Paolini @JasminePaolini]

🏅GOOOOOOOLD!!!!!!🏅

What an incredible day and match! So happy that Sara and I could bring the gold medal home to Italy! After a tough first set, we played amazingly well! Thank you all for the great support!!! Forzaaaaaaaaa Italia! 🇮🇹✨ #Gold @Olympics

[ItaliaTeam @ItaliaTeam_it]

SONO L’OROOOOOOOOOO 🥇

#ItaliaTeam @federtennis @Paris2024