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Good morning from Brussels #BelgianSolutions #BelgianCyclingSolutions

Made it through the second portal! Only Radiohead would make buying a concert ticket like trying to solve an escape room

This exclamation mark is doing an awful lot of work #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

Good to see the kids waiting patiently for the teacher #GreatMomentsInStockPhotography

Good to see the European Commission sharing the sponsorship love in the Brussels morning newsletter wars

I guess it's a sign of the times that I read this headine and for a fleeting second thought this was something that really happened #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

The absolute State of the European Union! Never mind the Strasbourg stemwinders; the real #SOTEU spectacular is on 8 November in Brussels: it's the annual Press Revue, aka #NerdPromEU, back again for another unforgettable night of comedy and music Reserve your tickets here: bit.ly/4lQKVh8

It's a two-fer: #GreatMomentsInStockPhotography #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

It seems Radiohead have found a fitter, happier, more productive way of buying concert tickets

I love the air quotes here:

Good morning from Brussels A post to celebrate @sncb-nmbs.bsky.social finally adding a second train every hour at Watermael 🍾

Just back from a few days off, let's see what's happening in EU news #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

A remote control that mutes people’s phone speakers

Yeah no I'm good thanks #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

Quote of the Day from the European Commission daily press conference: "Right now we're in a moment where we're focusing on the positives"

RIP the king of Tex-Mex music Flaco Jiménez, 86, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

Let’s just see what’s happening in EU news this mo- #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

Our leafy Brussels municipality recently alerted residents to an epidemic of mange among the fox population and offered advice for what to do if a sick or injured fox turns up in our backyard: basically, try to scare it off and if it won't leave, then call the fire department 1/...

A true genius and one of my all-time comedic heroes RIP I discovered him when I was too young to understand most of his jokes, and they’ve been revealing themselves to me ever since www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Hello, I am drinking a glass of wine in a film. It is the size of a goldfish bowl.

Saturday late afternoon coming down

Good morning from Brussels, it's very Schumid out there today

Fireworks acccident in Boom www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1667...

A lot of the European air-conditioning-guilt discourse could be avoided if the continent discovered ceiling fans

Fat-shaming, 1920s style #Hammett

Happy July 4th! A day when we remember what was in the Declaration of Independence. The King, Jefferson wrote, 1. "has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures (what would he make of the billions that now to be spent on armed ICE officers?)

Must remember to mute “welcomes” whenever a new European Commission proposal comes out

BREAKING:

Getting tired of people playing along with this

My timeline blows up with ‘Pulp is onstage at Glastonbury’ posts so I switch on BBC—

#Pulp keyboard player casually ordering a takeaway during Disco 2000 #Glastonbury

Good morning from Brussels #EUCO

#GreatMomentsInStockPhotography #ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

We are hosting a policy event here today but all I can think about is this temporary exhibition on the Citroën DS, one of the coolest-ever automobile designs

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Up there with “People are looking at your LinkedIn profile”

#BXLTOUR first time. This was so much fun! 🚴‍♂️☀️😅

Waterloo sunset’s fine

I could sleep for a thousand years #Friday

The robots took revenge on me by blinging up this video, but I still stand by what I said last year rather clumsily here:

Good morning from Strasbourg

ChatGPT is designed to make people lazier and stupider. It’s a feature not a bug

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling

The opening line of the letter is PRICELESS: 'You will not have missed the fact that major works are underway on Schuman Square.' 🧐

Wow, big news in @politico.eu Playbook this morning: Carrie Budoff Brown is coming back to Brussels. Just when she thought she was out, they pull her back in! But seriously, Carrie is one of the best. Looking forward to seeing where she takes Politico next...