Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.

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    In other news of the day, the Court of Justice of the European Union ( #CJEU ) declared that a shitty attempt by Meta to avoid abiding to GDPR was unlawful, and that they have to actually comply and not just add some bullshit loophole into the terms of service.

    I read this as Meta’s response: “Fine, you won’t get to participate in our brand new shiny social network then”. Joke’s on them, the EU is already on the Fediverse running its own Mastodon instance.

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      To get people out of cars, it’s absolutely to get the elderly on bicycles. I’m not talking about people in their 90s; but getting the 50-to-80s cadre cycling will change society. It will end forever the image of the cyclist as an arrogant young man, and make cycling obviously what it is: functional, sensible, the most essential way to save our climate, and to save our health

      wtf?!

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        Did you respond to the wrong post?

        This seems to be some toot posted to mastodon.ie - if you somehow saw it on the EU instance it’s just because they’re federated. The purpose of the instance is for EU institutions to have accounts to post from, it’s not really intended for casual surfing. :)

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        I don’t see anything wrong with that, exercise is good and if the weather isn’t inclement cycling is a good way to go from point A to point B.