Just signed the Brussels Greens' petition for more car-free days in Brussels, 100% yes please 🚲 www.groenbrussel.be/meer_autoloz... @groenbe.bsky.social

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

🎤 NEW EPISODE 🎤 …Ready For It? We’re finally rating pop juggernaut Taylor Swift - alongside South African artist Baby Queen - in our latest discussion on pop singer-songwriters 🎸 Listen to our latest ep here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #taylorswift #babyqueen

In the Brussels region, cars occupy 53.2% of public space, according to this calculation. www.lesoir.be/699649/artic...

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

Absolutely furious, hard to wrap your head around the fact a LABOUR government is pushing legislation to discriminate against such a vulnerable minority, this is also dangerous for all women not seen to conform to a certain type of femininity

👨🏻 NEW EPISODE 👨🏻 Joined by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer we chat about his latest album B-Curious, supporting Sparks on tour, and what five songs he thinks are underrated... Listen to our latest episode here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #mrbthegentlemanrhymer

Another reason why I don't understand why people bother still being on there...

Especially because the global south is paying the heaviest price for climate change from western industry. As climate refugees in the first world we can be assured they won't be treated kindly.

To counteract feeling helpless, today I donated to ‘Restoring Hope with PAL Humanity in North of Gaza’ chuffed.org/project/1228...

What?? No! But I thought they were just legitimately concerned mums & dads, not like the rotten terrorists holding up bits of card saying "genocide's bad"

Claiming that the green transition threatens growth and competitiveness is nonsense - and many businesses know it. That's why they're joining forces with us to remind the EU that scrapping the anti-greenwashing law would increase uncertainty and harm consumer trust.

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.

In July 2016,on my 1st visit to Bosnia, I went to Srebrenica to pay respect at memorial & burial ground for the Bosnian Muslim victims of genocide. Starting July 11,1995 and for about a week,Serbs massacred +8k boys & men & ethnically cleansed 30k. Remember Srebrenica End Israel’s genocide in Gaza

We are back on the @flixwatcher.bsky.social podcast! In their latest episode, we are talking about the 2014 film Chef, chosen by Fran as a comfort watch 👨🏻‍🍳 We’ll also be back later in the year talking about Full Metal Jacket 🪖 Listen here ➡️ flixwatcher.tv/episode-383-... #podcast #filmpodcast

The men saying “Who??” on every video of Glastonbury are working so hard this year. Nevermind the thousands of fans in the crowd or in the comments, every single video is very clearly labelled with artists names. It has no effect on anyone and they look nothing but silly but they’re still going.

my personal pick: TIDAL, left Spotify for it in 2022 and have not looked back

🚨 Don’t kill the Green Claims Directive 🚨 Greenwashing is rampant in Europe 👉 over 75% of products carry green claims, and more than half are misleading 😵‍💫 ❗ The #GreenClaimsDirective was meant to fix this. Now it’s at risk of being scrapped before talks even conclude.

I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history

"In our ever-present quest for our perfectly neutral impartiality, we are prepared to pander completely to fascists in news coverage and general telly."

once again I must tap my own sign

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Lovely to see crossings will be painted with the trans flag in Brussels 🏳️‍⚧️ looking forward to Pride this weekend!

WHO is advising the Labour Party

“I woke up with a sense of dread…” — from an EU citizen in the UK on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Powerful open letter. 👇

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

What a depressing read, never been happier to have been born in the 1980's...

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

🦘 NEW EPISODE 🦘 We’re back in Australia for a record fourth time, discussing Tame Impala (Perth) and DZ Deathrays (Brisbane) 🇦🇺 Listen here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #tameimpala #dzdeathrays

Which Kevin are we talking about in this clip? Find out in our latest episode, out tomorrow 🍷 #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #anicebeaujolais

I am 37 and never learned about this at primary or secondary school even though SO MUCH attention was given to WWII

The electorate: we want a political party that doesn't actively make our lives worse Starmer: This result shows we must machine-gun the dinghies

God, can you imagine? He'd fill the Vatican with gaudy kitsch and make it a hub for sexual assault, a place organised crime go to launder money.

'Trump is the symptom of a disease and it's metastasising' - Former Belgian PM Elio Di Rupo

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Insanity. Sheer insanity.

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

oh. oh no. don’t reply to my email what are you doing

Lived in Brussels for 12 years, never been to Maison de la Poste before, deffo have a new favourite event venue in town! Here for EIT Manufacturing’s InnoHive, and of course I’ve chosen to come to the session focused on gender

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.

In our latest Scotland episode, big Simple Minds fan Fran hopes his ten-track playlist introduces Babs and our listeners to some of their lesser-known gems 💎 Listen to our latest episode here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #simpleminds