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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seeing the musical version of Pride tonight 😌🌈

Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm sorry I haven't been more active here lately. There's so much going on in my life right now, but not much I can post about on a public account 😅

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EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 21/07/2026

🇧🇪 Joyeuse fête nationale! Gelukkige nationale feestdag! Einen schönen Nationalfeiertag! The colours of the Belgian flag come from the coat of arms of the Duke of Brabant: a yellow lion with red claws and a red tongue on a black background. ➡️ www.consilium.europa.eu/de/

A raised hand holds a small Belgian flag with vertical black, yellow and red stripes, set against a pale yellow background with a large yellow circle, scattered red confetti shapes, and a small white rectangle showing the EU flag.

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Vamos, España! We are with you! 🇪🇸

Map of the dominions of the House of Habsburg in Europe at the abdication of Charles V

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Are any of my oomfies going to be in Berlin between the 10th and 13th of September? 👉👈

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Tyler always joked her family would never let her become a diva...her “most outrageous” act occurred during an interview in Denmark when, convinced her big 1980s hair was a wig, a rock critic gave it a painful yank. “I was so angry I grabbed him by the balls and said: ‘Are yours real?’"

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Bonnie Tyler, singer, 1951-2026

The Welsh coal miner’s daughter shot to fame with ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ — and she never tired of singing it

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 09/07/2026

Bonnie Tyler, best known for her hit single ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ has died at the age of 75.

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Donald Trump, can you hear me? Donald Trump, your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Trump called Infantino on Wednesday to get Balogun's red card lifted. Nice to ride alon with Tyler Pager on what will be seen (and is) in many parts as one of the biggest scandals in World Cup history. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

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Trump Asked FIFA to Review Balogun’s Suspension. He Is Now Eligible to Play.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

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Foo Yat Chong @fooyatchong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One-game red-card ban suspended

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Arrivederci Roma, I hope to visit you again sometime 🥹

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Obligatory Colosseum pictures

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Rome, I am in you 😎 🇮🇹

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month, oomfies! 🥰🏳️‍🌈

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I did not have "The Pope cites Gandalf in an encyclical about Artificial Intelligence" on my nerd cultural supremacy bingo card, but maybe I should've.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/05/2026

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect

Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.

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ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 16/05/2026

🇧🇪 Belgian broadcaster VRT has called for "a direct vote on which countries participate [at #Eurovision] and a clear stand against war and violence." If these conditions are not met, "the chances are slim that VRT will send an artist next year."

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ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 17/05/2026

🇧🇬 Here's the first reaction of BNT's #Eurovision commentator Elena Rosberg to Bulgaria's first win.

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ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 17/05/2026

🇧🇬 BULGARIA is the winner of #Eurovision 2026!

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Kris Ball | Making Things Happen @kriswhoacts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm sick of feeling sick every May. #Eurovision

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I voted 🫡 #Eurovision 5x Serbia 4× Romania 1× UK (I promised a friend, don't judge me 😅)

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Alexandra Căpitănescu, choke me. Choke me, Alexandra Căpitănescu 🥺 #Eurovision

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I need to know Sal's skincare routine #Eurovision

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We should have more live instruments at #Eurovision

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

And now a message from the Moldovan tourist board #Eurovision

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Kraj Mene has grown so much on me this week, it's my favourite now #Eurovision

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

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“Would It Matter If I Told You I’m Pope Leo?” — The Bank Teller Who Hung Up on Robert Prevost

Father Tom McCarthy, who has known Pope Leo XIV for 43 years, told the story at a parish outside Chicago this past Sunday — alongside Peeps closets, Fanny May turtles, and a papacy hidden in plain sig...

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I also think we should say quite explicitly that after the antics of Milošević in the 90s and Putin today, I for one have extremely little patience for "our state should encompass nearly all of our ethnic group as any other state cannot be trusted to protect their rights"

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy Labour Day, everyone! 🌹

Labour Day poster by the Belgian Socialist Common Action

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hoover being a lousy president and also one of the great men of the century as an organizer of famine relief - including saving the nascent Soviet Union from even worse starvation in the early 20sv- is another of those strange facts of history.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world." Oscar Romero

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"It would be really bad if they don't work out this Hormuz thing, so they'll figure it out some way" is still the prevailing attitude. Can see it in markets, media, politicians, public. Bad can't happen, people in charge know what they're doing, it's all content anyway. I find it... unsettling.

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter everyone! 🥰

Greeting card depicting church bells dropping eggs, chicks, and the message "Joyeuses Pâques" ("Happy Easter")

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

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Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

welcome back, 1970

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I think this is true but also in a strategic sense, pretty clearly an Iranian victory: we threw everything at them and proved we could not dislodge them. The question will be if the administration can succeed at spinning it as a success, rather than the defeat it is (I kinda suspect yes?)

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/03/2026

"iran is going to keep trying to close the strait [which will drive insurance costs to unsustainable levels]" versus "no they aren't"

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day everyone! ✊️

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Any centre left governing coalition is now: - Young people, especially graduates - Urban progressives - Minority groups - Working age people with low incomes - Educated Professionals If both your political and economic strategy is not geared towards these groups, they will find a party that is.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy Shrove Tuesday to all who celebrate! I hope you're all having pancakes today 😋🥞

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