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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

had an absolute once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get up close and personal with brussels's main little guy and get sprayed with the blessèd piss

me and silvia and the child up with the mannekin pis, all in blue with a lil red scarf, as the statue urinates over us. the child's face is blocked out with a copy of the mannekin pis's face

sign beside us reads: 1875, les amis de Pogge vrienden

a crow of people in front of the mannekin pis stature, wearing sashes and scarves, plus a giant papier maché head

people have glasses of beer in hand, and are having a good time

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this weekend @silviap.bsky.social and i joined the procession through central brussels to see the mannekin pis dressed in the outfit of pogge, the legendary nice guy of schaerbeek AND i got to run around in the giant pogge head alles es just! 🫲

procession on a cobbled street, featuring a giant papier maché head

giant papier maché head, with my little face visible through the viewing port in his cap

the top of my head, poking through a big pink dome of papier maché

photo of me and silvia embracing, wearing lots of demin

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

not one, but TWO ai sparkles on the name ✨

email screenshot

Euractiv becomes Rapporteur

Joshua Posanar
Managing editor, Rapporteur

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think the "can you dig it" was one doing the rounds ages before (@darach.bsky.social would know) there were a few!

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3 years in and the bbc is still pulling this nonsense for them, hamas attacks israel and kills a definite number of people but israel doesn't attack palestine, it launches an offensive in it it doesn't kill people, but people may be killed during it how many? a subject for debate

The armed Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

In response, Israel launched a massive military offensive in Gaza, during which more than 73,000 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations (UN).

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the story itself uses this much more appropriate image of parched fields why do the image for social media show a guy enjoying the sunshine, if the story is about dangerous drought?

aerial photo of yellowed and browned dry fields

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

can't have negative headlines about missing your gas storage target if you get rid of the gas storage target

smiling man taps the side of his head in a knowing way

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i don't advise it (www.instagram.com/rorypeterbra...)

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

double trouble (www.instagram.com/rorypeterbra...)

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

after all... why not? why shouldn't i keep it? (www.instagram.com/rorypeterbra...)

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

no judgement (www.instagram.com/rorypeterbra...)

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

absolutely love rory's resident evil inspired 'session survivor' series (unfortunately not on here, but you can get him on: www.instagram.com/rorypeterbra...)

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i do always enjoy despairing at job ads that use lots of internal language or acronyms, unintelligible to anyone applying externally but i think a job for a 'diplomatic mission' without saying who (which country, presumably) you'd be working for, that's a new one

Diplomatic Mission in Brussels is looking for a Trade Policy Advisor
About Us:

Our department is responsible for enhancing trade and economic relations with the EU and shaping policies that drive economic growth and innovation bilaterally. We closely monitor trade and regulatory developments in EU institutions, analyze their impact, and actively engage with stakeholders and professional partners across various fields to advance our shared economic interests.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

chronically unable to hold glasses of beer normally at these events it seems

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

says the guy who championed the change to our constitution taking away the right for people born in ireland to have irish citizenship making a lie of the promise written in our actual passports

close up of page in Irish passport reading: it is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in the island of ireland, which includes its islands and seas, to be part of the Irish nation

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

huge things happening this evening in the house, musically speaking

onion headline that reads Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life

except it has been edited to read six year old girl Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of her Fucking Life

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

that's dungeons and dragons babeeeeyy!!!!!

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

we went to the football can i get a hell yeah

us smiling at the football in the evening sun

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this one admittedly quite hard (they're one of her fave snacks though)

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

and technically correct spelling in flemish!

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

so taralli are these little round italian "breadstick" kinda things KROGET is supposed to be courgette, not her best work

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

let's play... decipher the shopping list that i called out and the 6-year-old wrote down important info: she's in a francophone school, so "ch" is what she associates with a "sh" sound (and also she sometimes writes it backwards as "hc")

child's shopping list:

RAIC KRAKR
LEMENS
MELK
TARALEE
FLAWR
EGS
HCOGR
KROGET
PASATA

child's shopping list:

PEENOTBOTR
THCOKOLAT
BROKOLEE
KEHCEN ROL
BEEN STEKS
BEER
ONIENS

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

pretty sure that's not how trailers are supposed to work

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

16) Rose / House Lovely little story with a creepy AI and some nice medium-future speculation about policing. I v enjoyed her "Teixcalaan" books, and this had a little similar flavour, though less fantastical. Got a feel for the characters in short time. Nicely executed whodunnit element too. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

15) Butter Really great exploration of the pressures on women in (particularly Japanese, obvs) society, and the role of food/cooking in domestic life. Kinda a murder mystery but not really, and that aspect become less important as it goes on. Genuinely loved the food descriptions. ⭐⭐⭐⭐