Reposted by Alexander DrechselDimitri Strobbe 🚧 @strobbe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I was wrong when I said the new Beco-park next to the canal and T&T would not be enough green - damn, this is great! 🍀🌱🌳 061
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 08/06/2026Sideloading shouldn't require a 24-hour waiting period and a 9-step gauntlet. Google's 'advanced flow' is designed to fail. Keep Android Open! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.orgkeepandroidopen.orgKeep Android OpenYour phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them. 000
Reposted by Alexander DrechselDaniel Jalkut @danielpunkass.punkitup.com · 26/05/2026My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. 2127173
Reposted by Alexander DrechselSarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community — this isn’t special pleading — they are completely revolutionary and though expensive they are in relative reasonable reach in a way a lot of disability tech is not It is expensive being blind 797199
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 11/05/2026That post from Dukalskis is what Colbert invented the word "truthiness" for. 010
Reposted by Alexander DrechselCaptain Europe (retired) @captaineurope.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Goodbye, dictator.media.tenor.coma group of men in suits are shaking hands in front of flags .Alt: Jean-Claude Juncker slapping Viktor Orbán in the face 032
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 20/03/2026www.iea.org/news/new-iea...iea.orgNew IEA report highlights options to ease oil price pressures on consumers in response to Middle East supply disruptions - News - IEANew IEA report highlights options to ease oil price pressures on consumers in response to Middle East supply disruptions - News from the International Energy Agency 001
Reposted by Alexander DrechselMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers. 18556478711945
Reposted by Alexander DrechselDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are. 7688145
Reposted by Alexander Drechsel🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026if cyclo closes down, it would be a dreadful shame it's such a great service, somewhere you can reliably get a puncture fixed on the way to work or get your whole bike serviced at a reasonable pricebrusselstimes.comSix Brussels non-profit bicycle repair spots are in danger of closureCyCLO, a Brussels-based non-profit, serves about 100 city's cyclists daily. However, due to budget allocation issues they may close down. 063
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 04/03/2026Meanwhile, the person on the bike simply squeezes through and gets on with their day. 🤷🏻♂️ 000
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 20/02/2026@samwilkin.bsky.social took a closer look here: www.the-sentinel.media/p/the-sentin.... Worth a read.the-sentinel.mediaThe Sentinel Weekly: Derisking from AmericaPlus EU integration, Starlink, procurement strategy and more 010
Reposted by Alexander DrechselAndrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 20/02/2026🔴 12 years ago russia invaded 🇺🇦 🔴 12 years ago russia upended the post WWII order 🔴 12 years ago russia began committing heinous crimes in 🇺🇦 🔵 12 years of the Free World failing to stop russia; failing to call the moscow centered terrorist organization by its name 526697
Reposted by Alexander DrechselMark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 31/01/2026Ursula Le Guin wrote: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words." New on words & beginnings: 0152
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 31/01/2026"Toddlers eventually develop object permanence; one day, God willing, our opinion columnists will too." open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...open.substack.comThe Appalling VistaClear vision in hard times 000
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 30/01/2026Sure thing, Katy. (I'm still recovering from losing the once-great Twitter. Maybe I've grown too old for the new social media 🤕) 000
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 30/01/2026Important reporting from @katyinparis.bsky.social: millefeuilleparis.substack.com/p/a-man-just...millefeuilleparis.substack.comA man just died in Paris in police custody. Why aren’t we more outraged?His name was El Hacen Diarra. In a video of his arrest, he tells the officers: ‘You’re strangling me.’ 122
Reposted by Alexander DrechselPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union? Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39. One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl." 9569130
Reposted by Alexander Drechselsam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2025you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold... 391591312
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 02/05/2025Gosh, yes, don't get me started on Avenue Louise. (And the "bicycle infrastructure" there.) What a disgrace. 010
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 02/05/2025Chaussée d'Ixelles is pretty close. Mind you, far from perfect. 110
Reposted by Alexander DrechselBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history. 9488134
Reposted by Alexander DrechselBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead. Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to. 1526495
Reposted by Alexander DrechselMaja Göpel @beyond-ideology.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Let’s create a big European welcome center for the best thinkers & innovators with spine & values. 15564131
Reposted by Alexander Drechselkatapultmagazin @katapultmagazin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Europa hat mehr gegeben als die USA. Während US-Präsident Trump in der Vergangenheit behauptete, dass die Vereinigten Staaten der Ukraine am meisten unterstützt hätten – und dabei falsche Zahlen präsentierte –, zeigt die Realität ein differenzierteres Bild: 1/ 12010
Reposted by Alexander DrechselAndrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Today's "woke" is yesterday's "political correctness" is the day-before-that's "try to be polite and treat people decently." 48424
Reposted by Alexander DrechselAntónio Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 28/02/2025Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace. 222166033068
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 22/02/2025@jonworth.eu adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...adamtooze.substack.comChartbook 354: Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class actually know how bad things are?Ahead of Germany’s election on Sunday 23 February, one question is pushing to the fore. 110
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 20/02/2025I seem to remember they even have locked parking. And they do: www.brusselsairport.be/en/passenger… 000
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 19/02/2025And you want to know if you can leave the bike there safely until you come back? 110
Reposted by Alexander DrechselJohn Gruber @gruber.foo · 18/02/2025Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.daringfireball.netGolfo del Gringo LocoMuch serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing. 5136654
Reposted by Alexander DrechselPablo Perez @pablopereza.bsky.social · 08/12/20248 December 1955 | The Council of Europe adopts the blue flag with 12 gold stars as its emblem. 30 years later, EU Institutions made it the official European Union flag. A story of symbolism, religious connotations, suggestions refused and Sandra Kim... 🧵media.tenor.coma blue background with a circle of yellow starsALT: a blue background with a circle of yellow stars 22212
Reposted by Alexander DrechselDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/02/2025The leaders of 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇳🇱🇩🇰 are holding an emergency meeting in Paris today to respond to the US vice president's Munich provocations and try to reach consensus on how Europe should respond. The 1st step should be ending the denial about what the US really is, and devise a solution from there.davekeating.substack.comWake up Europe - America is not your allyAs Macron convenes an emergency leaders summit today to react to Vance's Munich provocations, a new survey finds 78% of Europeans no longer consider the US an ally. Can their leaders get the message? 1114747
Reposted by Alexander Drechselnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/02/2025These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles 552218384
Reposted by Alexander DrechselFrau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Man braucht nicht mit Aufforderungen wie "Schämt euch!" zu kommen - Moral zählt in diesem politischen System nichts mehr. Es geht nur über Druck. 417512
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 11/02/2025Well, it's also right next to a building site at the moment, but still, this is shameful. None of the shops or banks nearby can be arsed to clean this up a bit? 110
Reposted by Alexander DrechselLes chercheurs d'air @leschercheursdair.be · 11/02/2025Bruxelles suffoque ! Il n'est pas normal que nous devions en arriver là pour encourager les alternatives à la voiture. La lutte contre la pollution de l'air doit se faire sur le long terme, pas en dernière minute. Ca passe, entre autres, par une Zone de Basses-Emissions forte. bx1.be/categories/n...bx1.beQualité de l’air : Bruxelles Environnement active le “seuil d’information et de sensibilisation”Le seuil d’information et de sensibilisation du plan d’urgence « pic de pollution » en Région bruxelloise, est activé afin d’informer la population de la situation de la qualité de l’air. Si cette sit... 0154
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 10/02/2025Bitte unbedingt weiterreichen! 15 Tipps für eine sinnvolle Nutzung sozialer Medien in diesen verrückten Zeiten. (Die helfen auch, nicht selber durchzudrehen.) social-media-manifest.de Ganz famos, von @martinfehrensen.de / @socialmediawatchblog.desocial-media-manifest.deSocial Media ManifestIch befinde mich in einem Informationskrieg. Klingt dramatisch, ich weiß. Ist aber so. Ein Großteil dieses Kampfes findet in den sozialen Medien statt. Ich bin dabei in aller Regel nicht nur Beobachte... 000
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 09/02/2025"It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like “women” and “trauma,” less than three weeks in, it can’t be good." gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forb…gizmodo.comThe List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSFIt's fascism, plain and simple. 062
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 06/02/2025@jonworth.eu www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/1... - the article is annoyingly short of detail. Any idea what's going on?brusselstimes.comBrussels-Venice night train launch derailed by border bureaucracy"This is not the best start to this journey." 110
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 06/02/2025Wait, I was wrong: www.rtbf.be/article/form.... To avoid having to properly form a coalition, they are still looking into possibilities of simply electing a minister-president and seeing if that helps somehow. #ffsrtbf.beFormation bruxelloise : le Parlement étudiera les conditions d'accès à la voie de détresse de la Loi SpécialeLe Bureau élargi du Parlement bruxellois a décidé mercredi de demander au Greffe de l'assemblée bruxelloise d'établir... 010
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 06/02/2025It's an absolute disgrace. There aren't even any news any more about the failure that is building a regional government. 110
Alexander Drechsel @adrechsel.de · 04/02/2025I know a guy who knows a guy... who sells R&M here in Brussels and has been in the industry for a long time. Might be worth a shot. 110
