the tickets to the museum of the royal library in brussels are just 🥰

De Vaartkapoen, by Tom Frantzen, 1985

Another Lego life raft has surfaced, nearly 30 years after it fell into the sea. This one was found last week by Belgian fisherman Diego Vandierendonck, who hauled it up in his nets while fishing south of the Isles of Scilly. Picture credit: Diego Vandierendonck.

Having watched the police here in Brussels in action over the past several days I can't help but conclude they're crap at fighting crime and very good at beating up and teargassing protesting high school kids.

The Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels organizes visitor tours every month. Here's the info: 200year.observatory.be/en-gb/coupole 🔭 🧪

Met onderzoek naar braakballen van kerkuilen is Lowie Maes (10) uit Kruibeke de jongste wetenschapper van het land Met een pincet peuterde hij braakballen van kerkuilen uit elkaar en documenteerde elke prooi die hij vond. Dat deed hij voor de wedstrijd van ZOO Antwerpen en ZOO Planckendael—...

The Belgian Riviera

"yes, we need a special unit for the planning of school holidays. yes, we will pay for its own logo and flag. no, it can't be done in an excel sheet." #bureaucracy

The Oyster Eater 1882, oil on canvas, early work by James Ensor, Belgian Expressionist artist, born in 1860. Rejected for exhibition, its painterly treatment of light & colour were admired by poet Emile Verhaeren as Belgium’s first Impressionist painting. ALT Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

Bedriegertje of trompe l'oeuil met o.a. de Gazette van Antwerpen en Almanagh 1739 door mr. Willem Crabbe uitgegeven in Brussel 📰 Gesigneerd IP E t (?) 1739 ✍️ Museum voor heem- en oudheidkunde #Kontich 🇧🇪

Today's railway photograph: the booking hall at Verviers Central, Belgium.

Brussels is where I learned that spinach mixed into mashed potatoes is Good Actually. For that alone I like the place.

what a 🧵

⛈️ Optimale sfeer van kleuren en dreiging afgelopen zaterdag rond zonsondergang! Deze onweersbui ontstond pal voor onze neus en kreeg binnen korte tijd kenmerken van een supercell, met een prachtige ronde 'schotel'. Dit plaatje heb ik rond 21 uur gemaakt tussen Bergen en Charleroi in België:

Shadowology. The shadow casted art of Belgian filmmaker and visual artist Vincent Bal

20 km through brussels 🏃

fantastic energy from this lady pirate and her group at the zinneke parade in brussels today

it's always a bit of both in this country 💃✊

an interesting account if you are interested in hiking in 🇧🇪

There is a hiking trail around Charleroi called the Boucle Noire, which was created by a couple of hiking enthusiasts through hard work and the use of machetes. This beautiful trail celebrates its tenth anniversary tomorrow. www.charleroi.be/actualites/l...

There is a tourism website for all of the overgrown coal slag piles (Terrils) in the French/Belgian border area and I think that's neat.

Zwoele Critical Mass vandaag. Het was alsof heel Brussel op de fiets zat.

How dependent were Belgian investors on Belgian Congo? This chart shows the share of Brussels Stock Exchange dividends paid by Congo-based firms, 1890–1962. By the mid 20th century, colonial firms were paying 30-40% of all dividends on the BSE.

To grow my 🇧🇪 Belgians list, I resorted to the power of python, and was able to add 805 additional accounts, using signals such as the handle, bio, followers graph and an assessment based on the last 20 posts (language, content). If you're Belgian and not on it, let me know! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Il y a 85 ans, le 29 mai 1941, sur l’impulsion de militantes communistes 3000 femmes manifestent contre la faim à Bruxelles. www.belgiumwwii.be/belgique-en-...

Heb jij een ‘Ugly Belgian House’? Makers zoeken opnieuw opvallende gevels voor nieuw boek: “Beter lelijk dan saai” Woont u in een opvallend, vreemd of lelijk huis? Dan kunt u uw woning inzenden voor het derde boek van ‘Ugly Belgian Houses’, dat opnieuw de lelijkste woningen van het land...

belgian citizens from a couple of hundred years ago 🦠

something breezy from brussels' isaac van dessel www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzi...

📣 La SRAB aux Urban Archaeology Days ! Cette édition revient les 12, 13 et 14 juin et mettra à l’honneur le thème « Notre paysage, notre histoire ». 1/2

it is heartbreaking to see that this country which does so many things right is incapable of dealing with the sinister parts of its history.

Does that count as #rewilding @irishrainforest.bsky.social ? Some wild flowers in border of the train station tracks in the village of Chastre @brussels.eurosky.social

Grand asymmetrical building in Brussels. The tower isn’t in the centre of the building. The entrance isn’t centred on the tower. The windows on one side of the building are a different shape than the ones on the other side. #architecture

On my neighbour’s wall: “Dear Postie, please don’t put our mail in the letterbox: there is a nest with eggs. Please put it in the Leonidas bag” (bag is just out of the picture but how Belgian to use a chocolate bag)

first time i see a tropic ficus tree in the wild in bxl. and in full bloom, the smell is 🥰

Antwerp Port Epic isn't a big race, but the vibes? Immaculate. escapecollective.com/of-dust-and-...

Albert Einstein, relaxing on a Belgian beach with his "computer,"* Austrian mathematician Walther Mayer, 1933. *In those days, humans adept at calculations who worked for professors to help them complete their projects were known as computers or calculators. #histSTM #Science #Physics #Einstein

for the Dianas among you...

Antwerpen, never change! Gewoon op café !

this bike 💚

on this photo, one knows right away which one is belgian and which is french 😂

Look at these adorable chocolate mousse puppies! From the Marijn Coertjens bakery in #Ghent #Belgium

The Five Senses by Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier, 1650, on loan to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Well four, actually, because Bluesky won't let me do more)

La Belgique définitivement condamnée pour l'enlèvement d'enfants métis pendant la colonisation

Nadège Dauvergne, nature morte réalisée à Mons en Belgique, d’après un tableau du peintre flamand Joris Von Son.

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The music that moves Brussels’ metro 

flagey 🌴

open air entertainment by philippe geluck on chaussee de wavre

Just a normal Thursday afternoon on Steenstraat, Brugge 😂