Europe

2026
• 28 MayEU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
• 27 MayHotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security 𝕏
• 26 MayMy friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display 𝕏
• 25 MayLeiden might be the best Dutch city to visit instead of tourist Amsterdam 𝕏
• 17 MayBarcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
• 9 MayMost EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies 𝕏
• 5 MayMy gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review 𝕏
• 16 AprEuropeans are all captivated by the mind virus 𝕏
• 26 MarChatControl is back with a vengeance 𝕏
• 17 FebSteipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
• 20 JanEurope's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
• 20 JanEurope's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏
2025
• 13 DecChinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
• 9 DecThe European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within 𝕏
• 4 DecArriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
• 28 NovWe've literally just lost power in Europe 𝕏
• 21 NovNetherlands changes stock options tax to us system for startups 𝕏
• 20 NovEU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws 𝕏
• 13 NovEU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏
• 24 OctEU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
• 24 OctI can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020 𝕏
• 23 OctEU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
• 28 SepCounter-law to let all European citizens read any EU politician's chats 𝕏
• 11 JulEurope must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500000 per year 𝕏
• 6 JulChinese pigs are treated better than the average European 𝕏
• 6 JulSpain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning 𝕏
• 4 JulMore Europeans die from heat than Americans from shootings 𝕏
• 2 JulMy friend lives in a tent in his house in Portugal because neighbors ban real AC 𝕏
• 17 JunSouth Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
• 28 AprElectricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula 𝕏
• 26 AprThe only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
• 10 AprEurope wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI 𝕏
• 10 AprAndrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
• 7 AprEurope to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏
• 3 AprEurope is cooked as Italy bans AC below 26°c 𝕏
• 16 FebMan investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’ 𝕏
• 30 JanLeaked EU competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape 𝕏
• 29 JanWe need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China 𝕏
• 26 JanEuropeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago 𝕏
• 12 JanMake Europe great again 𝕏
• 11 JanEurope slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏
2024
• 14 DecEurope is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
• 11 DecEU/acc goals now on euacc.com 𝕏
• 10 DecHow Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe 𝕏
• 24 NovEurope's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
• 6 OctEvery European with talent moves to the US for startups or Bali and Chiang Mai for indie hacking 𝕏
• 6 OctMacron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
• 16 SepThierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
• 9 SepMy recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
• 31 AugEuropean founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
• 25 AugPavel Durov arrested in France 𝕏
• 6 AugEurope's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it 𝕏
• 5 AugCould air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏
• 13 JulThierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director 𝕏
• 10 JulAll Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes 𝕏
• 9 JulIf cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses 𝕏
• 7 JulA majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
• 7 JulImagine traveling to Europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters 𝕏
• 5 JulAmerican restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike Europe 𝕏
• 1 JulThe rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024) 𝕏
• 24 JunEverything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China 𝕏
• 17 JunDegrowth propaganda is everywhere you look now 𝕏
• 17 MayThe euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies 𝕏
• 14 MayEU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
• 29 AprMost Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏
• 29 AprMade EU/acc logo 𝕏
2023
• 9 DecThere are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU 𝕏
• 13 JulPortuguese have a weird love/hate obsession with Brazil 𝕏
• 17 JunWhile the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors 𝕏
• 11 FebDigital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏
2022
• 5 JulThe secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible 𝕏
• 6 JunEuropean sign calls remote workers a plague and tells them to leave 𝕏
• 21 FebEU will require all job postings to show a salary range from August 𝕏
2021
• 13 SepLisbon is now the most visited city on Nomad List 𝕏
2019
• 18 AugEurope is very risky when monetary policy is almost out of gas, political fragmentation and missing the technology revolution 𝕏
2018
• 8 OctMap of every European city 𝕏
• 1 OctVisited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏
• 18 AugWhy Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏
• 14 JulThe first trillion dollar company is Norway's oil fund 𝕏
• 4 JulEU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏
• 23 MayBlocked by a member of the European Parliament 𝕏
2017
• 26 DecChina overtakes US as biggest economy in 2032 while Europe suffers 𝕏
• 26 DecThe European Union's economy is shrinking as a share of the world market 𝕏
2016
• 11 JulBiggest difference living in Netherlands and Western Europe compared to US 𝕏
2015
• 28 OctFirst a cookie law then VATMOSS now a net neutrality law that's against net neutrality 𝕏
• 17 JunEvery EU country is now presenting themselves as startup friendly by doing promo events but how about rewriting the tax code? 𝕏
• 11 JanWhy are you still in Europe 𝕏
2014
• 18 JanHow I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed of All My Stuff)