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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge

@flamemeup.bsky.social
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🎵📚📺 ☕️🥑🎒🚴🏻‍♀️🇪🇺 📝 sustainability comms expert & podcaster 🎙 @oumusicpod.bsky.social co-host 📍 Brussels, Belgium she/her/ela #ADHD barbaramj.com

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i 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
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This may reference US politicians but applies to SO MANY centrist European ones too
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I 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
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
>:<
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do 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.
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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
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fantastic analogy, taking note as a climate communicator
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty 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/
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Time really is a flat circle for those who remember texting AQA on 63336
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Guardian 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."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream 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
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Recent 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
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Can'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
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
With 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.
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Over/underrated music podcast 🎵 @oumusicpod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
we'll be back with our tenth season soon and this is a discussion point in an upcoming episode!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My 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 💔
A Facebook post from 2016 with a broken heart emoji and text reading "no words."
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans 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
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I 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.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still 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
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks.
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 22/04/2026
it 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
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I learned how to edit Wikipedia last year and do this all the time 😊
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
BRUSSELS, WHEN?!?!
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Spain'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.
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Urban 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. #UrbanTruth
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Denmark 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."
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Just signed the @wemoveeurope.bsky.social petition to prevent ICE-style deportations in Europe, took me literally one minute action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
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Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe
No 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...
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Just 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.eu
Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe
No 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...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026
Kansas 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.
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localswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
Tweet that reads Leo Xander
@STALLEON
Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V
- it is bigger
than the car
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I love Letterboxd, wish more people I knew were on there, here are my #LastFourWatched 🎬 #LetterboxdFriday
My last four films watched as noted on Letterboxd: Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model, I Only Rest in the Storm, Wuthering Heights, Do The Right Thing
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A 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.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The 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.
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
phenomenal
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Fellow 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
Screenshot of Bárbara's profile on the Record Club social media network
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Over/underrated music podcast 🎵 @oumusicpod.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Here 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
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
if 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
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 28/01/2026
ai 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
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Calling 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!
Sharron Davies ranting against 15 minute cities, because of course she is.Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph saying she wants to... kill all dogs??Julie Burchill asking "does it matter if Grok undresses us all?" in The SpectatorGraham Linehan in the midst of his now four-day-long double down on Alex Pretti's murder being justified and fine.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 22/01/2026
NEW | 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…
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I honestly look forward to these more than most British Xmas telly - @jakemc24.bsky.social is a genius
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hard agree
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
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