Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134773782
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This may reference US politicians but applies to SO MANY centrist European ones too 000
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeGeorge E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s 232743736
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgePete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Do you ever stop and think that Donald Trump has by now probably cost you personally thousands of dollars, regardless of where you live in the world? Like, your actual own money that you could have spent on stuff. 1134989
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"It’s estimated that around a quarter of [the UK's] prison population has ADHD" Great writing and framing by Kat on this issue, as always 151
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Fantastic analogy, taking note as a climate communicator 100
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763112016
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Time really is a flat circle for those who remember texting AQA on 63336 010
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."theguardian.comDon’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John WashingtonI’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities 484152997382
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments. 3558911659
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208695341
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeJohn Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Recent Belgian Heatwave Declared Deadliest on Record: “the situation during the peak weekend was so severe that excess mortality surpassed even the worst weekend of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between June 22nd and June 27th, a staggering 1,747 excess deaths were recorded.” #Belgium #heatwave #europe 49873
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-Jorgea rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce” 4830228
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Can't believe I've been doing this since 2020 with a co-host I met on a Facebook group & that this project has led to me doing podcasting professionally...forever proud of O/U 120
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026With the noble exception of Sadiq and a few others, the failure of progressive politicians to turn clean air into a powerful political agenda is a generational failure. 1678
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeOver/underrated music podcast 🎵 @oumusicpod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026we'll be back with our tenth season soon and this is a discussion point in an upcoming episode! 002
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony” 181219493
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 23/06/2026My Facebook status the morning after the Brexit referendum - I'd moved to Belgium in 2013 and thought I'd probably move back to the UK at some point...well, Brexit ruined that possibility for me as despite being raised there I don't have British nationality...still feeling 💔 000
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should 76118164113
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down. 165108162617
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them 87175186743
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeAlex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks. 10416162
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-Jorgerom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 22/04/2026it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone 5442581647
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I learned how to edit Wikipedia last year and do this all the time 😊 020
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price. 5142431939
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.” We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruthchi.streetsblog.orgDenmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago"The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week." 3284108
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeBárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Just signed the @wemoveeurope.bsky.social petition to prevent ICE-style deportations in Europe, took me literally one minute action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...action.wemove.euSay No to Mass Deportations in EuropeNo one should be taken from their home at dawn and put on a deportation flight. We’re building 100,000 voices against mass deportations in Europe. Sign now - and help us get there. Let’s stop this tog... 001
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Just signed the @wemoveeurope.bsky.social petition to prevent ICE-style deportations in Europe, took me literally one minute action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...action.wemove.euSay No to Mass Deportations in EuropeNo one should be taken from their home at dawn and put on a deportation flight. We’re building 100,000 voices against mass deportations in Europe. Sign now - and help us get there. Let’s stop this tog... 001
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker. It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable. 192060807
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-Jorgelocalswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head 6255476422
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I love Letterboxd, wish more people I knew were on there, here are my #LastFourWatched 🎬 #LetterboxdFriday 0160
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile. 15764953271
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.theguardian.comPoint of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists sayContinued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware 13931421
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Fellow music nerds, join me @record.club music social media network - you can make lists, keep track of music on rotation, pick your top records..I'm really enjoying it! I've already listed my top 10 Belgian albums and have started a list with my top EPs of all time... record.club/flame_me_up 011
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeOver/underrated music podcast 🎵 @oumusicpod.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Here are our 10 albums of the decade so far - check out our latest episode to find out more 💿 Are there any overlaps for you - and what are your top 2020s records? Listen to our latest ep here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat... #podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #bestof2025 #albumsofthedecade 002
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good 111582496
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 28/01/2026ai companies: our ai product is so intuitive, you’ll forget how you ever coped without it! everyone normal: huh this is shit ai companies: oh man sorry to hear you’re too thick to understand how to use it, we should get the government involved in educating you 47625
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs! 8339771135
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeEmber @ember-energy.org · 22/01/2026NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. ember-energy.org/latest-insights/eu… 9448221
Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I honestly look forward to these more than most British Xmas telly - @jakemc24.bsky.social is a genius 100
Reposted by Bárbara Mendes-JorgeIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Cancel your Spotify subscription. 125781339