Reminds me to download STALKER 2 on steam

22 November 1909 | A Polish woman, Zofia Skurska, was born in Warsaw. A university student. In #Auschwitz from 14 October 1942. No. 22549 She was evacuated to Ravensbrück and liberated there. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

An ancient multiplication table in clay by a student named Suen-apil-Urim from the 1800s BCE

De werkloosheid onder jongeren stijgt, en daar speelt het gebrek aan jobs voor juniorprofielen door de opkomst van AI waarschijnlijk een rol in. Tegelijkertijd zie ik veel sollicitanten dezelfde fouten maken. Misschien kunnen deze tips helpen: www.ljosmyndun.com/blog-posts/s...

21 November 1929 | A Polish Jewish girl, Sara Brukner, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 19 August 1942 in a transport of 997 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 897 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

Inside Big Tobacco’s push to sway the World Health Organization

The dark truth behind supermarket tuna on.ft.com/48ph7od

21 November 1907 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Elisabeth Cohen-Duits, was born in Dordrecht. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

23.000 extra coviddoden door latere lockdown in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, zegt rapport onderzoekscommissie vrtnws.be/p.xZa6LPQ54

🤖 Can Brussels balance its desire to set guardrails for AI with its need to attract investment? Must-read deep dive on how the EU botched its attempt to regulate artificial intelligence - and now is trying to desperately fix it, by @bmoens.bsky.social @melissahei.bsky.social on.ft.com/4o59nws

Last week, the European Parliament's center-right EPP worked with the far right to roll back green rules. Now that the cordon sanitaire has fallen, there will be space for a right-wing majority to pass legislation.  🔗 politi.co/485yw3V

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific research that supports the finding. n.pr/4oiyHPO

‘Ik kwam als jongen thuis met 35 kilo paleocene kalksteen in mijn rugzak’ - NRC share.google/VkK2nSfyOKjP...

BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

What's the matter with Germany? Because it's not what you think it is. on.ft.com/4raAAk3

60 jaar geleden werden 4 arbeiders wereldberoemd in Vlaanderen www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJl6...

The EU’s scheme to protect the names of local cheese delicacies from replicas produced elsewhere has left the bloc’s small-time food producers in a bind: their protected status is vital for promoting their traditional products abroad, but charges of protectionism have soured some trade talks.

Yes minister - 10 of bernards best one liners youtu.be/gJC1LNhmtC4?...

Exclusive: US officials are privately saying that they might not levy long-promised semiconductor tariffs soon, potentially delaying a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic agenda reut.rs/4i6CKgm

Groundhog Day looming for the EU deforestation regulation as member states and the biggest political group in the EP calls for a(nother!) one year extension to the application date borderlex.net/2025/11/19/e...

19 November 1889 | A Polish woman, Katarzyna Grelowska, was born in Tenczynek. A tailor. In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943. No. 29776 She perished in the camp on 6 April 1943.

Is het project van het Brussels gewest gefaald? youtu.be/jWZm2cjEOLQ?...

BREAKING: The Commission’s digital omnibus on AI proposes delaying the AI Act’s high-risk rules under Annex III to Dec 2027 and Annex I to Aug 2028. But the Commission could anticipate the deadline, giving a six-month or 12-month notice, respectively. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

What has Martin Wolf been reading in 2025? Tap here to find out: on.ft.com/49u4UzS

📉🇭🇺 INVESTIGATION: Viktor Orbán vowed to boost Hungary’s population without immigrants. But births keep falling—and emigration is soaring. Direkt36's investigation shows many young people are leaving, posing serious risks for the country’s future.

Rainy days

🚨🚨 "Brussels is a bureaucracy. It is good at process and law. But it is incapable of acting quickly and ruthlessly like the European great powers of the past, or like the US and China today." Excellent piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the "Scramble for Europe".

The Brief – Will the Franco-German fighter jet crash and burn?

The scramble for Europe is just beginning on.ft.com/3X16XUC | opinion

While the rest of Europe prepares for Christmas with bright lights and decorations, Kherson is hanging anti-drone nets over its streets, trying to shield civilians from russia’s “human safari.”

💥Viktor Orbán’s media doxxed 200,000 opposition supporters by publishing stolen personal data, including names & addresses – unprecedented in Hungarian politics. Recovering from this, opposition leader Péter Magyar held a rally in Győr, saying they are the majority — and they’re not afraid of Orbán.

Brussels and Washington are still fully at odds when it comes to climate change and energy policy, despite the EU’s promise to buy hundred of billions of dollars of American oil and gas and ongoing work to pick apart Green Deal legislation www.euractiv.com/news/energy-...

NEW from Ipsos Satisfaction with the PM remains unchanged since September, continuing to be the worst ever recorded by Ipsos for a Prime Minister, going back to 1977…

In the 2015 attacks, 130 people were killed, including at the Bataclan concert hall. France is still wrestling with how to remember the deadliest attack on its soil in modern history and how to live with it.

The president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, said a ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before the end of the year, pointing to the spring as a more plausible time for progress in ending the war.

New toy arrived eaelier this week - @homewizardenergy.bsky.social 2.4 kwh plug in home battery. To increase the self consumprion of the energy from our 14 PV panels - but belgian weather hasnt been helpfull so far

GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of #LongCovid. @wired.com @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/weight...

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

This coffee bar should open a branch in Brussels.

The European Commission wants to end a customs exemption for cheap parcels two years earlier than planned, a letter seen by POLITICO spells out.

Dutch gov going to Beijing for Nexperia talks next wk "We welcome China’s openness for furthering close engagement, including in-person. Early next week, a senior official delegation from my Ministry will travel to Beijing to continue efforts to find mutually agreeable solution”

Schuman roundabout c.1971. The Hexagons presumably represent the original Six. The version we see today represents work in progress 🙏

'Hoe vaak ik aan het Romeinse Rijk denk? Sinds 'Anno 117: Pax Romana' dag en nacht' www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

For sale, one of the last surviving luxury mansions in rue de la Loi, from 1860. In 1900, architect Léon Govaerts added an art nouveau bank in the back yard. Asking price €25m. www.immobestinternational.com/fr/detail/58...

"Ik zie mezelf niet meer zo vroeg opstaan": RTL-reportage over misbruik uitkeringen maakt veel los in Wallonië vrtnws.be/p.d9j4P7453bV

The last Belgian soldier to be killed during WWI was a private called Marcel Terfve. He was shot at 10.42 on 11/11 by a German machine gun near the Gent-Terneuzen canal. He in the Belgian army since 1914 and sadly almost made it throught the entire war #armisticeday #LestWeForget

With regard to Russia, Germans still aren’t sure what happened. 39% say Germany “has shown too much understanding for Russia” in recent years. But 26% say it didn’t show enough. And 23% say it was just right, so the problem was elsewhere. 🤷‍♀️