Tot ik haar het bordje wees, stoorde ze zich er niet aan dat ze in een stiltewagon zit. Nu belt ze fluisterend. Luid fluisterend. 😂 Die stapt straks hees de trein weer af 👻

Met droogte komt verzilting: als er minder tegendruk van zoetwater op onze rivieren zit, loopt er zeewater landinwaarts. Dat legt landbouw en scheepsvaart beperkingen op en verandert fauna en flora op de oevers, in slikken en schorren. Ook microbieel wijzigt er dan wat: cc @paulvdvijver.bsky.social

"They subsequently renamed her Mary in a nod to the virgin birth. Bouts jokingly suggested naming the 12 young snakes after the apostles." 🤩 God is a snake.

Update Rijn Stand Lobith bereikt morgenochtend laagste stand: 7,58 m NAP (afvoer 710-720 m3/s). 75m3/s onder juli 1976 en 40 m3/s boven aug. 2022. Vanaf 18/7 lichte stijging. In stroomgebied viel ongeveer verwachte hvh regen en stand gaat naar ca 7 m NAP voor periode 22-25/7 (afvoer 850-875 m3/s).

"We have no idea how to generate money from this. The idea is that, once we've built this sort of generally intelligent system, we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return." -Sam Altman. Come again!? 😂🖕 Meanwhile, #ScorchedEarth.

There should be a class action lawsuit against these companies. If you are a musician and your music was scraped for training data you should be compensated for it. I mean, there’s a non-zero chance that MY music was used for it, which just makes me feel gross ><

In an incoherent speech last night, Trump prepared the US public for him stealing the midterm elections in November, which his Republican party would normally lose.

"The documents he offered tonight, though, tell a different story—so different that they raise the question of whether Trump, or anyone else in the White House, actually read them." If anything, Putin's Russia did go full on influencing. Against Biden, pro-Trump. 😏

Yay, rain near the Meuse river. 🤞 this eases the drought problems on the lock basins on the Meuse, if only a little.

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case.

Voor elk wat wils 😂

Thanks to @fsfe.org & others, "important precedent in ensuring competitive fairness and openness in the digital marketplace": "Apple argued […] that it should be exempted" but court decides that under DMA, "developers will be given more choice on where they can publish their apps"

Beste garantie op onweer is als ik 🛥️ een paar dagen achterlaat met de tent op een kier vanwege de hitte. Vorige keer was Erquelinnes. 6 bomen af in de jachthaven alleen al. 😏

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The European Commission on Tuesday exempted wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a major hurdle for Meta’s smart glasses to take on the #EU market following pressure from the United States [Screenshot without source or alt text = 😔] www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

In #Belgium we get to identify with our eID for transactions with govt, like when filing taxes. May I assume it works the same in the rest of EU? If so, why does Belgium have their own repo for eID software, and is this not a general EU thingie? I love how the eID software is #FOSS since forever:

I absolutely adore these mock adverts by EHE. "They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They Live." (Except, in this movie, the dedicated goggles reveal *them*;)

Bij de fietsenmaker.

"The discovery of Colobus congoensis is both a scientific triumph and a sobering reminder that some of Earth's rarest creatures may vanish before the world even knows they exist."

Wie als toerist naar de VS gaat in deze tijden doet zichzelf den duvel aan, maar wie voor 't werk moet is serieus gechareld.

that's great, and I like what I've seen from Ossoff. and yet Senate Dems have not been unified in not confirming all these weasels who keep refusing to answer the question. *we have no opposition party*

Superb lengthy conversation with author and environmental scholar @billmckibben.bsky.social youtu.be/ogAZS7_RhhA #climate #futurescapes #synthesis #perspectives #complexity #decarbonisation 🌍✨

A difference of 0.1 pH seems small but this "fundamentally alters marine carbonate chemistry and reduces the availability of carbonate ions needed by countless marine organisms to build shells and skeletons." #BlueMarble

"On ne commande à la nature qu'en lui obéissant." F. Bacon #nn

At least the little Belgians scored against Spain. #SpaFra

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

If you want to reduce crime rates, don’t invest in policing. Invest in libraries.

"Trump’s tyrannical playbook has infected the entire administration with an ethos of retaliation, targeting free speech that contradicts him." "The […] incessant attacks on even the most tentatively oppositional speech are uniquely aggressive, pervasive and escalating."

"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...

En een zonnescherm helpt zeker en vast, maar wapperen met een waaier doet jou meer opwarmen dan dat het verkoeling brengt. NIET doen dus. We weten dat allemaal. Maar als de emo het overneemt dan kijkt de ratio zieltogend toe. Vandaar, friendly reminder: niet wapperen. Draagbare blazer koelt wel!

Vanochtend afgevaren voor de opvaart naar Dinant. Ben zo benieuwd, en wat is het hier mooi varen!

The lamest excuse for being on any of Meta's services, for that Google or MS account, for fidelity cards, for using stock Android, for shopping on Amazon, for that camera doorbell, for that fitness tracker. If YOUR privacy is dead, that's cos YOU killed it by ticking "I agree" thousands of times.

Vandaag mét ijsje. 🍦 #nn

📡 “With VLASS, we now have a radio map of the sky that matches the resolution of modern optical and infrared surveys” 📡

Ondertussen in België, op het jaagdpad langs de Maas, gegraveerde boordstenen. "Het is pas als de bron opdroogt dat men de waarde van water ontdekt."

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | July 2026. Boltzmann Brains, science in science fiction, uses of LLMs, confronting the forces of anti-science, and more. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Life on land is a mere afterthought. #BluePlanet #BlueMarble

Everyone's waiting for the other to step up and decide. 🤯 Meanwhile, @kajakallas.bsky.social says EU legal dept. argues Westbank is a trade issue. EU stepped up on Russia, takes hard felt measures when it comes to Ukraine. A strong response to and actions on Israel's atrocities are long overdue.

Goed nieuws voor onze noorderburen. Onze belastingbrief hier moet ook binnen, en, ICT'ers, zo vroeg ik me af op welke servers onze Belgische belastingsdienst draait. Wie van jullie heeft daar een kijk op? #dtv

Goeiemorgen bsky, bj Namur! Die rukwinden hebben me gisteren wel es parten gespeeld. Moest bvb m'n aanmeermanoeuvre in de laatste sluis opnieuw beginnen: ging bijna rond toen de boeg weggeblazen werd 🛥️🙈

Naar bed zonder ijsje vanavond. Wisselde dat in voor het uitzicht ☺️ #nn

Jump!

Veel Nederlanders varen rond Vlaanderen, via de Maas naar Wallonië. Want in Vlaanderen moet je een waterwegenverginning kopen vanaf je een sluis door wil. In Wallonië niet. Ik vermoed dat er veel noorderburen nu ook de E19 zullen vermijden. Kan het zuiden via Maastricht, Aken, Luxemburg?

🎼Smoke on the water 🎶 Goeiemorgen bsky, bonjour Sambre! Aujourd'hui… j'ai aucune idée ce que le jour apportera. On verra bien, il est dimanche. 🧘 ⤵️ Florette ➡️ … ➡️ Namur Namen? Probably. 13km, 2hrs de 🛥️

Een bosuil roept op de Samber. #nn

If you see this post an archer. ✌️

Graffiti under a bridge near Charleroi today: "Fire to datacenters"

720 Members and 27 EU countries. Wait, so how are Member seats distributed fairly?   By population of course.   Along with ensuring that smaller nations have a minimum of 6 seats, and larger nations have a maximum of 96.   Happy World Population Day!

Typisch of cliché?