While Orbán's government has been inciting hatred towards immigrants – Orbán even lashed out against 'race mixing' a few years ago –, the up-and-coming Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party picked my good friend Marietta Le as their lead candidate for the European Parliament election.

A local bar is campaigning for the local gov to allow outdoor seating on the street in Budapest. This city center local government outright banned the option to turn parking space into outdoor seating.

A reminder that *play* is very important when it comes to designing our cities. Pop-up interventions, like this slide at a metro station in Budapest, can change how people relate to public infrastructure.
Photo credit Miklos Tomor

A very similar story happened in Hungary some years ago with a district government commissioning useless designs with children's drawings because community.

Congrats to Humphrey Fellowship Program fellow Marietta Le '22 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on her Certificate of Completion of a program of graduate study & professional development Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)dusp #Fulbright #HumphreyFellows dusp.mit.edu/spurs-fellows/…

Mapping streets named after women in European cities. Project by European Data Journalism Network. Budapest actually not too bad compared to other CE European cities, but the other city mapped in Hungary, Debrecen scores low.

Check out map here mappingdiversity.eu

The sad day when my country makes it to one of my favourite newsletters for limiting young people's access to books that have anything LGBTQ-related in them.

.OpenAI DALL·E 2 AI-generated street transformations in #Budapest : an article on Humphrey Fellowship Program fellow Marietta Le '22 MIT Urban Planning in Qubit.hu #Fulbright #HumphreyFellows qubit.hu/2023/02/20/vel…

The co-chair of the HTTDP (i just came up with the acronym for Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party) told me mid-March that it is important for them to make it to the EP as 'German humour or lack thereof is over-represented right now' and that is an untenable situation.

Szabolcs Panyi direkt36 Flora Garamvolgyi Ákos Hadházy #dontfearEPPO Marietta Le

Congrats to Marietta Le recruited, evaluated and recommended by Fulbright Hungary for the Humphrey Fellowship Program

➊➎ ECS #CitizenScience Ambassador from #Hungary : Marietta will help people to take the first steps to start their own community research. She has joined the group of ECS ambassadors to foster #CitizenScience in her country.
Marietta Le
European Commission
European Research Executive Agency

I can tell you the Two-Tailed Dog Party is a funny political party, meanwhile the other parties are just jokes!

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Beautiful storytelling about the war in Ukraine. A short film about the 11th special brigade of army aviation. It will break your heart.
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