I would also like to take part in a hostel takeover 😬

Poe's law (...in reverse?...). I can't wait! :)

Do we take the veiled nuclear threats serious or discard them as TACO bluster? I'm caught between shrugging it off and freaking out. I know it likely won't happen, but you can't exclude it either. That's how it'll go wrong. We'll all assume he goes TACO... and then he doesn't. And then millions die.

Ladies and gentleman, the NYT thinks the “A” in NATO stands for “American”. My American friends, you really are lost…

Seems like there is low hanging fruit to reduce climate impact from air traffic. I had no idea! open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

Well look at this…

Coolness!

Exposing the nihilism of Yarvin, Vance's ideological "front". No different then Dugin for Putin. To me it all boils down to intellectual laziness. You can expose the internal contradictions quite easily if you make a bit of an effort (tx Kasper for doing so), but there's intellectual fatigue. 1/3

“I see how blind I’ve been, said all prophets, too late…”

Spring is coming!

Alden Biesen is +/- 1,5km away from where I grew up. I remember walking freely in a castle half in ruins, biking in the overgrown English garden, spotting bats and owls in the ruined "Apostelhuis" in the evening. Mystical place. An EU-summit here "does not compute". How things have changed! :)

Het zou mijn inziens interessanter geweest zijn voor de aflevering van De Afspraak eerder deze week, als Hedebouw naast Lode zou gezeten hebben ipv Duchatelet. Eventueel voor een volgende keer?… @bartschols.bsky.social

Insightful! I didn't know the trend was already reversed. Wonder if this holds for Belgium specifically.

Note the choice of words, not a coincidence: “…bear witness” www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

I miss Mimi Parker… :( link.deezer.com/s/31t1lr6gHW...

🪗 𝟯,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲! What started in our hometown of Leuven in 2019 has grown into a global movement: Telraam now has 3,000 active sensors counting traffic across the world! www.telraam.net

I sometimes wonder how I would react if it happened to me... This personal report, about having to continue after loosing your partner, is painful to read and really beautiful at the same time.

Calling junior @thingscon.org members and others who want to work on beautiful, smart & well-behaved AI traffic counters. @telraam.bsky.social is looking for you: telraam.net/en/jobs#mach...

They're eating the dogs... eeuhmm... swans! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Ik hoop dat er over meer gepraat kan worden dan afschaffen kortingsbonnen voor koelkasten?…

Jaarlijkse herdenking geheim leger Bilzen. Er is niemand meer om de verhalen uit eerste hand te vertellen. Er was wel nog veel volk om te herdenken.

Parallels to the 1930s can feel alarmist or too easy, but I doubt I’m the only one thinking of Horst Wessel right now…

Way too many people, even liberals, fall into this trap of “inversionism”. Read this thread. Twice.

Plainly predictable

just innocent men innocent men innocent me

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

What a time to be alive…

Fun With Data #Telraam

Lovely thread :)

Trump’s handelsoorlog is een uitstekende kans om de theorie achter de voordelen van vrije handel in de verf te zetten. Op dat vlak is er ook hier in de EU nog wel wat werk, ook (vooral?) bij progressieven. (Het is zoeken naar een silver lining, miss is dit em… :)) nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compara...

What the……. Now remember the drama about this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary...

🌍🚦 From trucks to bikes to pedestrians, Telraam’s 2024 totals are in! Billions of counts, countless insights. 🚛 🚲 🚶‍♀️ 🚗 See just how much traffic we’ve captured over the past year: #TrafficData #UrbanMobility #Telraam

Idee voor goed voornemen, om 2025 wat aangenamer te maken: laten we allemaal de pijltjes volgen in de Colruyt. We’re all in this together! #zen #firstworldproblems

I listened for 5,304 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped

Ce matin, le tout premier Telraam a été installé chez un habitant du quartier du Parvis à Saint-Gilles ! Deze ochtend werd het allereerste Telraam bij een inwoner van de Parvis-wijk in Sint-Gillis geïnstalleerd! #Vorst #SinttGillis #Telraam 🏃‍♂️ 🚲 🚗 🚚 ➡️ telraam.net/fr/network/s...

Suggestie voor Groen mbt de Brusselse regeringsonderhandelingen mbt de lage emissie zone (LEZ) en het mobiliteitsplan Good Move. Een compromis dringt zal nodig zijn. In deze draad pleit ik voor versoepeling van LEZ als politieke pasmunt voor behoud/versterking van GoodMove. En wel hierom:

This story just keeps getting better and better 😂

On my way to a conference near Wannsee in Berlin. Not sure of I’m 100% comfortable with that!…

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Mijn opinie in @destandaard: landbouw zonder kunstmest is minder duurzaam dan je zou verwachten. www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20231...