Impactmeting gaat niet over flashy-maar-onbegrijpelijke dashboards, maar over je succes bewijzen in je eigen woorden. Dit voorjaar mocht ik samen met het fijne R&D-team van @paradisoadam.bsky.social aan de slag met hun impactstrategie. www.congrespodiafestivalsevenementen.nl/programma-on... 👇🏼

I will never send a better message than this one in reply to my wife asking when I'd be home

“Without Hitler we wouldn’t have made it to the moon” I am overhearing a truly wild locker room conversation where two guys are conflating Nazi and NASA. Part of me feels like interrupting, a bigger part is here for the popcorn meme.

Not going to lie: I'd 100% watch the Irish remake of the Terminator.

I see so many orgs apply for subsidies simply because the subsidies are there. Over the years as a freelance advisor I've become more and more reluctant to write these "just make it fit the criteria" applications. It never works. Good article by Desislava Pantcheva www.linkedin.com/pulse/cultur...

hey @mu.social, don't know if this is possible but maybe it is a good idea to have european tags in the 'explore' channel? Like people based in Europe, accounts on European tech, culture, politics, etc... It would make it easier to find local voices.

Now it makes sense. Of course this thing has John Candy in it. It’s all an 80s comedy.

Goed stuk dat die radicaal gekantelde relatie tussen Europeanen en Amerika vat. (Al kan ik me niet van de indruk ontdoen dat vooral Nederlanders dat ‘wij zijn Amerikanen’ zijn gaan omarmen. Meer dan wij Belgen. Moet die Franse connectie zijn)

Amerika is Europa’s slechter ik, betoogde Menno ter Braak al in 1927: het land waar we ons tegen afzetten, maar waar we ook niet zonder kunnen. Europeaan blijven terwijl een straffe wind ons richting Amerika duwt, beschouwde hij als een daad van verzet.

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Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of.... #Hasselt #België #hittegolfeditie 200 jr geleden brandde de abdijkerk van Herkenrode af. Deze zomer herrees ie, herbouwd op de oorspronkelijke schaal in cortenstaal precies op de plek waar ze ooit stond.

You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event

I'm in the middle somewhere. Specifically: - LLM-assisted coding is a new tool, it unlocks a lot of possibilities. - Workflows are changing rapidly, we all need to learn new things. - There are costs and benefits like all technologies. Don't lose your mind over it.

"If it so chooses, Apple has the ability to design iOS in such a way that users have the power to decide which parts of their operating system, which apps, and which data any AI system – including Apple's own – is permitted to access" www.techpolicy.press/google-and-a... #bydesign

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

I really like how @mu.social does this game or the companion cat. All kinds of things that promote their presence without going into the technicalities of explaining AT proto. Crucial for attracting non-tech people (which is most of us)

Being a little Belgian on an international train always makes me think there might be a murderer among the colourful cast of co-travellers.

I am on a 3 hour cross-country train ride in the Netherlands in the middle of a heatwave. Perfect AC, perfect connections and everyone on board is efficient and friendly. Trains really are to most civilised mode of transportation. However, 👇

From a strategic storytelling perspective this is a great metaphor! Leadership is about being visionary AND consequential. It is not about basically offering the same actions with a slightly different wording. New stories need new actions (and vice versa)

A couple of years ago we did a summer trip to Frankfurt, reaching the city in the middle of a crazy heatwave. I remember hopping from air-conditioned place to air-conditioned place and cooling down by the river at night. Just as I was thinking about heatwaves, I came across this travel blog.

It could just be me but the European heatwave also seems to have slowed down new email coming in. Life continues but at a slightly slowed down, less productive, pace.

I've gone this far without learning what sunk-cost fallacy is, so I'm not starting now.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Goed artikel over realisme en mildheid in verwachtingen voor teams en hun leiders. https://boommanagement.nl/artikel/de-moed-om-realistisch-te-zijn/

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

“Forget the dopii, we’ll have two espressi” “Oh no, I dropped a scampo”

The heatwave that hits Europe right now feels very much like the early pandemic. We’ve reached a tipping point where the group who downplays the effects of climate change is now smaller than the group that understands it’s too late to avoid this scenario and we need to act accordingly.

There seems to be a correlation between the room temperature in my office, the amount of coffee I drink and the number of times I've shouted "oh come on!" at software that is not doing what it is supposed to be doing.

Just do it. For two distinct reasons: 1. Your data moves to Europe. 2. The act of migrating is educational: It’ll help you understand what the AT protocol is and why it’s a hugely promising technology. If you’re in the business of knowledge, broadly conceived, ignore #atproto at your peril.

A plan for the summer.... #offprint https://impact-stories.offprint.app/a/3movi2it72z23-a-quick-hi-and-more-coming-up

https://move.eurosky.tech

Each word in this headline is utterly impossible to predict from the one that precedes it.

Je confirme. Héberger ses données en Europe dans le contexte actuel c'est un geste de bon sens, en plus Eurosky est une association à but non lucratif, et enfin @mu.social est largement supérieure à l'appli Bluesky (avec entre-autres la modif à postériori, le mode lecture et le chat de compagnie…)

Cool find. A trendy co-working space chose to paper their toilet walls with old magazines. This is an article (in Dutch) from the 1980s talking about the fear of computer technology (‘office automation’) causing massive job losses. Striking similarities with today’s AI story.

Do you speak/present at events a lot? Would you like to be able to add them to your professional profile? Check out the proposal github.com/singi-labs/s..., triggered by a question/request from @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz Any suggestions?

"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer

Yesterday, I got to present my new book (whose title translates as With Modesty, You Change Nothing) at De Winkelhaak centre in Antwerp. A million thanks to everyone who joined this wonderful evening! 🧵

Excellent podcast. (And excellent book). Give it a follow.

100% agree. I wrote about that!

20,000 strong today. Thank you so much everyone for the confidence and support. There’s still so much to do. Our commitment is to build the best open social experiences for Europe and beyond. Always for people first.

@infomaniak.bsky.social any update on when kSuite is going to be up again? It's been almost an hour

It takes a very specific mindset to put your bin bags on top of some sort of ventilation unit and say “that’ll do”. Incredible soundscape installation this one.

today is the 82nd birthday of the Republic of Iceland, and every year on this day i remember being a new arrival to this country, and working with an old man who was "12 or 13" on the first independence day in 1944. i said "wow! what was that like" and in very icelandic fashion he said: "it rained."

What an excellent show The Europeans is. One of the rare podcasts about Europe that isn’t all doom and gloom yet very informative.

AI spam will become so good it will feel personalised, they said. In reality all I get is “hey [wrong name], I see you’re doing [vague thing]. Do you need [vaguer thing]?”

I have a book presentation tomorrow for my new book on strategic storytelling. I hate the 24h before such an event. It brings out insecurities I didn't even know I had. If last time is anything to go by I'll find myself swearing I'll never write another book again about 60 mins before showtime.

He's back 😄 #archaeohistories

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This morning I couldn't find the @mu.social companion cat in my browser screen. I feared the worst. Then it popped up like nothing happened. Well played.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...