Buy European

It's hard to find clothing not made in Asia. So I wanted to shout out Community Clothing, of Patrick Grant, Great British Sewing Bee fame. It's where I buy most stuff now, and I love it.

I've recently found out that Garnier is affiliated with Nestlé which is awful. Been using their bleach for a while now because it's affordable and vegan compared to other brands which aren't specifically marked as vegan.

Do any of you guys have recommendations?

Hello, I got a comment on my previous post recommending I post it here as well.

I had the Philips one but after about a year it's suction changed to the point where it's hard for it to pick up cat litter now..

It must be able to deal with a lot of cat hair and litter.. and preferably be under 500 euros.

Of course I think a corded one is better for my purposes, and I have mostly hard floors with a few small rugs.

The problem is that every year the quality decreases, so it becomes difficult to know which vacuums will still be good. For example, someone may have purchased the same vacuum 5 years ago and think it's great but the one sold today might not compare

Hey. I know, a bit special interest and maybe not the right place for this but i was thinking about animated characters from europe as part of its cultural DNA and then startet to research them for all the countries including where to buy merch (to also support that industry). I will hopefully be able to comlete the list over time but i would be happy about help and feedback. So here is what i got so far:

European animation characters (sometimes with merch) in no particular order:

Finland - Moomins, Angry Birds adaptations: https://shop.moomin.com/collections/all

France - Asterix, TinTin, edit: + les Shadoks, OuiOui, Barbapapas, Yugo https://boutique.asterix.com/de/ https://thetintinshop.uk.com/

Belgium - lucky luke, edit: also TinTin, Spirou & Fantasio, The Smurfs, Marsupilami

Poland - Lolek and Bolek, edit: +Reksio, Koziołek matołek, Plastuś, Miś uszatek

Netherlands - Alfred j. Kwak, nijntje, edit: + Miffy: https://www.dewinkelvannijntje.nl/en/

Czech republic - krtek, edit: + Pat and Mat, Rumcajs: https://czechmovie.com/collections/little-mole-krtek?page=2 https://www.czech-stuff.com/krtek-little-mole/

Spain - Mortadelo and Filemón, Superlópez, Pocoyó, The Telerín Family

Switzerland - globi, pingu, edit: + Titeuf: https://globi.ch/ https://www.pingu-store.jp/ (can't find a european one)

Portugal - tic tac tales

Italy - calimero, edit: + Corto Maltese, mio mao, La Linea, The Seagul and the Cat/Lucky and Zorbq (La Gabbianella e il Cato), Dylan Dog

Greece - Pandora and Plato

Sweden - Bamse, petterson and findus, the little ghost laban, editv + Lippi Longstocking, Arne Anka

Norway - Elias the little rescue boat, Ella Bella Bingo

Iceland - some lazy town characters

Denmark - Rita & Crocodile, Valiant Prince Ivandoe, edit: + The Child Who Wanted to Be a Bear (Drengen der ville gøre det umulige), John Dillermand

Germany - the mouse, bernd the bread, cptn. Blaubär, edit: + the sandman, Werner, the little Asshole: https://www.logoshirt-shop.de/en/COLLECTION/The-Show-with-the-Mouse/ https://mausundmehr.com/ https://www.spreadshirt.de/shop/bernd+das+brot/

UK - wallace and gromit, paddington bear, danger mouse edit: + postman pat, rupert bear, family ness, bananaman, bob the builder, the hurricanes, thomas the tank engine, captain pugwash, Dennis the Menace (the superior one): https://wallaceandgromitvmf.shop/ https://store.paddington.com/ https://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/cartoons/dangermouse

Ireland - puffin rock, Kiva can do, edit: + the book of kells, song of the sea, and wolfwalkers

Luxembourg - ?

Malta - ?

Cyprus - ?

Lithuania - ?

Latvia - Flow

Estonia - ?

Slovakia - ?

Slovenia - Medved Bojan

Croatia - Profesor Baltazar, Little Flying Bears (Leteći Medvjedići)

Bulgaria - The Three Fools, The Blue Eyed Moon, The Little Girl, The Cat and the Clock, Anna Blume

Serbia - ?

North macedonia - ?

Montenegro - ?

Bosnia Herzegowina - ?

Albania - Nine Years, Nine Days

Romania - ?

Moldova - The Stairway (Letnistsa)

Austria - ?

Hungary - The rabbit with checkered ears, Frakk, pom pom, Mézga family, Szaffi, King Matthias, Magyar Népmesék, Ludas Matyi

Also nice read: animationineurope.eu

Just saw that https://www.fractal-design.com/products/chairs/refine/refine/fabric-light/ had some chairs, any other suggestions?

Objectives

This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.

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Hi, look what I found! Hope it's as helpful for you as it's for me as well 🥂

A bit hesitant to post, but here it goes.

When Buy European started it got me immediately hooked into implementing practical changes in my everyday life. One of the first steps was de-googling myself (as much as possible), and with that change my default search engine. For that I built a custom simple start page that offers a European alternative at random https://gohug.eu/

My collection of saved posts, bookmarks, and notes became a bit cumbersome. So I decided to add a bit more to the website and list the main resources, to always come back to. Hope some of you find it helpful too: https://gohug.eu/join/

So here it is. A web devs way of trying to participate and give something back. Cheers