2026-02-12 20:12:17
Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/weather-tracker-spain-and-portugal-hit-by-third-fatal-storm
Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/weather-tracker-spain-and-portugal-hit-by-third-fatal-storm
uni_email: Email network (Uni. R-V, Spain, 2003)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, in 2003. The KONECT version is undirected.
This network has 1133 nodes and 10903 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
The beautiful white village of Grazalema (Andalusia, Spain) had already been evacuated because of terrible amounts of rain. January had 1295 mm, an all-time high monthly total. But after today's 78 mm (and counting), February now already stands at 1373 mm, that's more than double in any February before!
Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration
that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris.
In Europe, only Spain refused to allow the U.S. to use its bases to attack Iran,
while France, Switzerland, and Slovenia condemned Trump’s attacks as a violation of international law,
as did Russia, China, Chile, Venezuela, and Pakistan.
And yet as the price of fuel a…
in der #verschlagwortung diese woche: "Sneaking into print:
mouvance and narrative culture in Spain c. 1500" (https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/pe
Another app to delete
"Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan" | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-…
Sources: Spain-based Multiverse, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, is in talks to raise ~€500M at a €1.5B valuation and has hit €100M ARR (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/ai…
twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Spanish deputy leader slams Merz for his deference to Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-deference-us-donald-trump-still-infuriates-spain-leaders/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p135#a260309p135
MRD applies.
"They would say that, wouldn't they?"
Spain v social media giants: What’s the big dispute about? | Child Rights News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/6/spain-v-social-med…
Spain, Portugal face floods and chaos after deadly new storm #Spain
Home from our lovely trip. Here's a collection of my postcard posts in a nice web viewer.
I'm thinking of turning this Mastodon − web page script I use into a product others can use too. I really like the result.
"It's one of the features of modern Western democracies that political parties seek their crucial election finance from those people who have surplus wealth, and those who have surplus wealth are by definition those who are profiting from the status quo... So it's little surprise that when 'financial services' institutions shudder and fall, our politicians, whom we elected with their money, choose to use our money to bail them out" -- me, 2012
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-durov-over-mass-telegram-post-on-social-media-ban-plan
from my link log —
A landmark ruling that sets a new standard for algorithmic transparency in Spain.
https://civio.es/novedades/2025/11/17/this-is-the-landmark-ruling-that-sets-a-new-standard-for-algorith…
Trump should remember that if he continues to attack Sanchez, he will end up fighting the whole EU. Especially if he wants to "punish" Spain.
But he is so stupid he probably doesn't realize that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wwq1n542o
"‘A celebration for the bugs’: Flowers burst into colour after southern Spain’s record rainfall"
#Spain #Environment #Nature
Chiefs make 'aggressive' 2026 scheduling request with NFL: Kansas City pushing hard to play in these two games
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-2026-scheduling-spain-christma…
Deadly storm sparks floods in Spain, raises calls to postpone Portugal vote #Spain
Bold move by Spain: US army can't use Spanish airspace or Spanish bases (including jointly operated ones) to carry attacks against Iran.
"The closure will force military planes, including those based in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, to bypass Spain en route to targets in the Middle East except in emergencies."
Spain escorts shadow fleet vessel sanctioned for carrying Russian oil, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/spain-escorts-shadow-fleet-vessel.html
Spain will ban social media for kids under 16 https://therecord.media/spain-to-ban-social-media-children
This is what our oil-burning madness brings...
"Originally designed to carry 530 passengers, the Emir of Dubai’s private 747 jet is so big that when he flew to Badajoz in Spain for a mere 3-hour trip, the small airport had to completely transform itself and arrange for special equipment to handle its biggest visitor yet"
The U.S. under Donald Trump is seen as more of a threat than an ally,
according to a new POLITICO Pulse survey of six major EU countries.
Since returning to power in January 2025, Trump has questioned Washington’s commitment to NATO,
threatened to annex Greenland and Canada,
hit allies with tariffs
and launched a war with Iran that European countries refused to join.
Only 12 percent of those polled in March in Poland, Spain, Belgium, France, Germany and It…
Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…
Amateur diplomat time: I think what Australia is trying to do Schrödinger's support for Trump's (Netanyahu's) war on Iran.
We've almost always gone to war if USA asks. But Trump's *hated* here, so we're helping UAE instead. We've said no boots on the ground, so we're helping with planes/surveillance equipment.
Makes sense, we've recently signed an FTA & Emirates is a key transport link from here to Europe. Trump can't call Albo a 'loser' like Spain & the Australian media can't roast him for 'not doing anything'.
French President Emmanuel Macron says the US could retaliate against EU countries, including France and Spain, over plans to ban children from social media (Leila Abboud/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b5b248a4-c83b-45d9-b676-2dd2ee12597c
Hate to share this because it's so unconfirmed but Spain's Transport Minister said one hypothesis is a cyberattack.
Travel chaos in Catalonia as ‘suspected cyber attack’ hobbles train network leaving thousands stranded amid intermittent services
…
As Trump Terrorizes Immigrants, Spain Offers Permanent Residency for 500,000 People | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/spain-migrants
White House: Spain has agreed to cooperate with US military (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/white-house-spain-has-agreed-cooperate-with-us-military-2026-03-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p110#a260304p110
RE: https://mastodon.social/@BuyFromEU/116040212468280526
Way to go Spain.
Weather tracker: February temperature records broken in France and Spain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/02/weather-tracker-february-temperature-records-broken-in-france-and-spain
"Spain deploys 1.13 GW of solar for self-consumption in 2025"
#Spain #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Ludovic Morlot conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Spanish music including Ravel's iconic Bolero and de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Steven Osborne.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh4b
On Wednesday I got to see Spain's amazing Patrulla Aspa
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Exhibición_de_la_Patrulla_ASPA_en_Buenos_Aires_en_el_Centenario…
from my link log —
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: electrical grid operating policies left Spain at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/…
EU internal market commissioner Stéphane Séjourné responds to Trump's comments:
'Any threat against member state is threat against the EU,'
Séjourné is the latest high-profile name to express solidarity with Madrid over Trump’s threats to
“cut off all dealings with Spain” last night over its criticism of the Iran war
Amazon Prime Video signs deals to offer streaming service M6 in France and RTVE's live channels in Spain, "a landmark agreement", both free of charge (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
evening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i
One thing that makes me curious is why here in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 our Easter public holidays are Maundy Thursday and Good Friday but not Easter Monday. Whereas many countries in Europe and Australia and New Zealand have Easter Monday and sometimes Good Friday if at all. Spain does have Thursday off and could explain ours but they also have Monday off.
"When did empathy become something exceptional?"
Contrast with Starmer's Reform-aping UK Labour.
Pedro Sšnchez, Spanish PM defends plans to regularise half a million undocumented migrants | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2…
Spain 'categorially' denies White House claim it will cooperate on Iran war (Sophie Brams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5767857-spain-denies-us-iran-cooperation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p134#a260304p134
Spain is modernising its grid codes so that generation, demand and storage can cope more robustly with volatility and actively contribute to a more stable power grid. It can no longer wait for the delayed new European grid codes.
https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/energia/parti…
Research shows 41 US states are getting warmer, all in slightly different ways #UnitedStates
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/social-media-ban-children-countries-list/
Spanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024 DANA floods.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/anonymous_…
Excellent dinner of Fabada Asturiana, Spain's answer to cassoulet. Bean stew with cuts of delicious fatty pork sausage and something like bacon. This one was served with beans and meats cooked separately which was a really nice touch, kept the flavors distinct. Very satisfying with good pork.
Spanje heeft wel ballen...
'Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social€
15 US military aircraft have left the Rota and Morón air bases after Spain refused to allow them to be used for operations related to Iran, Reuters reports.'
Via:
https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3mg3eqnm56c2p
White House says Spain agrees to cooperate with US operations in Middle East (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-trump-spain-war-sanchez-bases-26c3132777225c4e473f090b7ab07037
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p97#a260304p97
Spain to supply Ukraine with Lanza LTR-25 radar to bolster air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/spain-to-supply-ukraine-with.html
"Valencia’s deadly flood still haunts Spain. Would it have happened in a fossil fuel-free world?"
#Spain #Valencia #FossilFuels
A #degrowth ecosocial response to the fascist threat.
The Social Forum in Spain proposes a common roadmap for the ecosocial transition | International Degrowth Network
https://www.degrowth.network/ne…
El Perro va a conseguir que los fachas se quiten la banderita de España del coche, la muñeca y la fachada (valga la redundancia) de su casa. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy368j1e3lo
"Spain has ramped up its opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran by closing its airspace to US aircraft involved in attacks, underlining its position as Europe’s leading critic of the conflict."
nice.
It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this duty use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and,in the process, line the pockets of a select few-the same ones as always;the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles,…We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.
RE: https://mastodon.world/@The14/116324129431408873
This why in Italy and Spain the general health is so much better than in our more nordic european countries. Or is it?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Susan Spain-Dunk, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Stephen Bell:
🎵 The Farmer's boy - overture for flute and strings
#SusanSpainDunk #BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra #StephenBell
Countries for which genocide is a deal breaker:
Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain
Countries for which genocide is not a deal breaker:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany (2nd largest arms dealer of the genocide behind the US; historic fan of genocides), Greece, Israel (our good friends who are carrying out the genocide), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, L…
Trump lambasts UK's Starmer, Spain over Iran (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5764930-trump-lambasts-uk-spain-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p105#a260303p105
Trump: Not happy with Spain's position on Iran, we'll cancel all trade ties with it
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/1wydcb29l
No Denmark 😔
#openaccess for all authors from 11 supporting countries:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Now "incentivize" institutions to make this the default #publishing option. #openscience
Spain slashes Russian LNG imports 41% as U.S. deliveries nearly double: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/spain-slashes-russian-lng-imports.html
Groundhog day. #totp
"A guest-singer from Spain, for the producer's previous project Nakatomi, kept repeatedly singing "venga" in their songs, which means "come" in Spanish. This led to the name 'Vengaboys' as their following project. So yes, Vengaboys actually means "Comeboys".
Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/spains-xoople-rais…
Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran (Sam Jones/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/spain-denies-united-states-permission-military-bases-iran-pedro-sanchez
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p118#a260302p118
Trump’s attempted Greenland grab has succeeded in turning Europeans solidly against the U.S.,
the YouGov poll’s latest survey found.
Large majorities in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Great Britain all declared an unfavourable opinion.
The figures, ranging from 62% in France to 84% in Denmark
– of which Greenland is a self-governing territory
– mark a further steep rise in negative perceptions of the US even since November,
when the range was …
uni_email: Email network (Uni. R-V, Spain, 2003)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, in 2003. The KONECT version is undirected.
This network has 1133 nodes and 10903 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
The big RSA news rush of the week is over, but don't miss today's Metacurity for the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia arrests alleged LeakBase admin after global cybercrime forum takedown,
--An Armenian man was extradited to US in connection with RedLine infostealer,
--Ransomware attack disrupts Spain's Port of Vigo,
--AI-assisted campaign distributed 300 trojanized GitHub packages,
--4 vulns affect Cisco Catal…
NFL 2026 international games: Predicting opponents for all nine matchups
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-2026-international-games-predicting-opponents/
Spain's 'Andrea Jenkyns', Isabel Díaz Ayuso:
"Far from pleading for forgiveness, we are deeply proud of the arrival of Spain in Mexico and vice versa [???].
Going to the New World, taking to New Spain (sic), a civilized way of viewing life through the missions, universities and also important infrastructure" [but whatever you do, don't mention the genocide].
One of the most influential figures of the Spanish right.
Sheinbaum: "Su asunto e…
"Italy, Spain set solar records in March"
#Italy #Spain #SolarPower #Energy
US aircraft leave Spain after government says bases cannot be used for Iran attacks (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-aircraft-leave-spain-after-government-says-bases-cannot-be-used-iran-attacks-2026-03-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p40#a260302p40
Ukrainian women fleeing war exploited in multimillion-dollar gambling fraud scheme https://therecord.media/Ukraine-women-Spanish-gambling-ring
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- The Romantic Violin
Violinist Carolin Widmann and pianist Gabriele Carcano play sonatas by Schumann, Brahms and Fauré at the Pau Casals International Music Festival in Spain. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rr7f
@…
It's annoying. PRs should work across providers. There is a reason why GitHub became so big.
Next: convince everyone in Spain to leave WhatsApp 😂
Huawei dominated MWC as the largest exhibitor, illustrating the challenge facing the EU as it pushes to outlaw the Chinese supplier from European networks (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-huawei-dominates-telco-jambo…
In two regions of Spain (NW and South), extreme one-day rainfall amounts have already increased by 29-36% since 1950. This is much more than what climate models predicted. https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/in
uni_email: Email network (Uni. R-V, Spain, 2003)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, in 2003. The KONECT version is undirected.
This network has 1133 nodes and 10903 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
Atlanta Falcons to play game at Madrid's Bernabéu Stadium this fall https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7083222/2026/03/03/atlanta-falcons-madrid-nfl-game-bernabeu/
A HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
derailed in southern Spain on Sunday,
jumping on to the track in the opposite direction and hitting an oncoming train,
the Spanish rail operator Adif said.
Emergency services said the collision killed at least 10 people and injured dozens more.
The evening train between Malaga and Madrid derailed and hit a train coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to Adif.
Earlier, emergency services in Andalucia, the pro…
Spain to grant around half a million undocumented migrants legal status (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/spain-grant-around-half-million-undocumented-migrants-legal-status-2026-01-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p96#a260127p96
AWS plans to invest an additional €18B in Aragon, Spain, taking its total investment to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 (Cristina Cueto/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news
Morocco evacuates 140,000 people as torrential rains and dam releases trigger floods https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/morocco-evacuates-140000-people-as-torrential-rains-and-dam-releases-trigger-flo…
Great little story here about how a small town in Spain was hit with a ransomware attack, with the attackers demanding $5,000 in Bitcoin.
The town told the obviously small-time cybercriminals to go pound sand because they had sufficient backups to restore everything.
https://www.cryptopolitan…
Austria is the latest to take a stance against directly aiding the U.S. and Israel’s war.
Also citing its neutrality principles, Switzerland announced in March that it had halted all weapons export licenses to the U.S. and other involved countries since the first U.S.-Israeli bombardments on February 28,
and would continue doing so “for the duration of the conflict.”
Spain has opposed the war from the start, with its socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez proclaiming “no a…
When I was researching and then pursuing obtaining my Spanish citizenship, I came to realize that citizenship laws are incredibly varied and changeable. They'll change with the political winds, for good and bad!
It looks like Canada has gone a little against the grain and opened up its citizenship requirements!
Now anyone with a proveable ancestral connection to Canada can apply, not just one generation back! This is even better than Spain “Historical Memory" changes that are now slowly expiring!
"“In January 2025, we had 32 requests for certified copies of vital records and this year in January 2026, we've had over 1,000,” she said, adding most of those requests were made by Americans.”
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Heritage #Geneology
Costco will use Instacart's white-label e-commerce service to offer grocery delivery in Spain and France, extending their partnership beyond North America (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/instacart-to…
This is so random.
like... what is he celebrating?
Italians?
The Inquisition?
Boats?
Colonialism? (you can't celebrate something you can't spell so that's no it)
I thought he was mad at Spain?
🤷♂️
#usa #columbus #TheAmericanFascist
Wow, Spain is going to give residence permits to all immigrants at 31.12.25 with proof of 5 months living in the country.
Will regularise status of some 500,000 people.
Podemos anuncia un pacto con el Gobierno para una regularización extraordinaria de migrantes
https://www.
twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged "creation and dissemination" of CSAM (Macarena Munoz Montijano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Uber says it plans to launch Uber Eats in Austria and six other European countries in 2026, as it gains market share in the UK, Germany, France, and Spain (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8280412c-df99-4eb2-b447-f29872d0439d