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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Destructions during school protests in Belgium. Cop: "Don't endanger your future! That's the adults' job!" (Cartoon by lectrr.be)

Cartoon showing a young protester in front of a broken window, with a cop telling him off

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Patriots" cheering for nuking major US cities. It's a fascist death cult in case anyone wasn't yet convinced of that.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm doing the opening keynote at the Axoniq 2026 Conference, October 28 in Utrecht, NL, about software design, agentic engineering, and whether our existing ways of thinking about software are still relevant. www.axoniq.io/events/axoni... You can use the CON26KEYNOTE code for a 30% discount.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 05/10/2026

Fragments: walking the same path as the Krell, Ola Bini banished, interviewed at DDD Europe with Eric Evans, future of reading code, latest Google model knows less, but pretends less martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

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Fragments: October 4

walking the same path as the Krell, Ola Bini banished, interviewed at DDD Europe with Eric Evans, future of reading code, latest Google model knows less, but pretends less

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Netanyahu should be defending himself in The Hague, not in New York.

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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm speaking about Temporal Modelling tomorrow evening at the EDA Community meetup in Anzegem, Belgium. Also lined up are Stephanie De Smet & Christoph Schubert. It's free, signup here: www.eda.community

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Welcome to EDA Community Belgium

Discover the EDA Community Belgium, your destination for learning and networking around Event-Driven Architecture through engaging events and shared expertise.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ok. Why is the media not calling them that?

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We're derailing. My intention was to point out that, according to the media, all Russian billionaires are oligarchs and no American billionaires are oligarchs. Either that is simply true, or there is a reason they use different language.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

During which he stole all the data and cut billions that can now flow into other billionaires' hands.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Musk literally ran DOGE. And given how much of US government is buyable, at the least it's a shadow oligarchy

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026

2026 really was a fundamentally different summer to 1976 in terms of temperature across the UK and Europe Data: ERA5

Comparing 1976 and 2026 summers in NW Europe

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

you to know: your exhaustion is by design. The bombardment of daily "Doom News" isn't accidental. It is a calculated strategy. Authoritarian movements and the billionaires who buy up media platforms thrive on your despair. Why? Because hopeless people do not organise. Hopeless

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well stop learning French and start learning Chinese so you can serve your future overlords

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Critics have argued" is absolute weasel language 🤮 The author should take ownership of their opinions or shut up.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The media only uses the term oligarch for Russian billionaires. Musk and co fit the definition just as well, and yet they get innocent sounding labels like tech mogul.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Soon we'll all be climate refugees.

The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temperatures are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combination means 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A sad truth is most companies do not know how to assess quality of knowledge work. This is why they resort to RTO policies because they can’t simply judge if people are working better or worse from home. This is also why they think all AI usage is good when most of it is obviously counterproductive

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I read an opinion piece when he was re-elected titled The End of the American Century. I think you're right.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The next Dem president should obviously rescind the executive order, but also amend it that Apple and Google have to keep it as a monument to their corruption.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The correct response to any Musk prediction is "Was he on Mars when he said it?"

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Politicians are great at promising, negotiating, compromising, forging alliances, and looking ahead to the next election. Climate change is immune to all that.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Scientists have been warning about climate change since 1896! The first formal warning to the White House was in 1965.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Scientists have been warning about climate change since 1896! The first formal warning to the White House was in 1965.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is what a real leader says.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What Huang is not saying out loud is that Altman is a pathological liar who's preparing for an IPO. Of course he's not worried.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And to everybody claiming to be a free speech absolutist: no, you're not, you just haven't thought about it from first principles. Free speech is a tool to make a better world, not a goal in itself. Rights end when they infringe upon rights of others, which is why hate speech et al must be illegal.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reminder to whoever needs it that Karl Popper solved the problem of tolerance for the intolerant in 1945. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox... TL;DR We must suppress intolerance, by force if needed, because they will not meet us with rational argument.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My most evergreen post.

Them: "why didn't you warn us?"
Everyone: "we did"
Them: "why didn't you warn us louder?"
Everyone: "WE DID"
Them: "Well you should've warned us in a way that got through to us. This is definitely on you"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

it's scary af to continue to see vile takes on Jason Ardey even after his death. i dunno, as a Black woman in a western institute, you can't help but feel that all you've built over a decade can be made crumble down within days

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yeah. The people claiming they build AI for the good of humankind are very intentionally lying about it. See "Empire of AI" by Karen Hao

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'd be happy for post-scarcity society where AI takes care of all our basic needs. I'll still want to read good stuff and write.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Same for me. Writing is more than converting thoughts into text. Writing forces you to think about your ideas, what you're trying to say, what audience you're trying to reach, how to express it in a way that they will understand. If you outsource your thinking to a machine, why should I read it?

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

People look for safety in mediocrity

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Love this. It will save me reading two lines before getting to "It's not bla. It's not bla. It's bla" 🤣

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Nick Tune @nick-tune.me · 14/08/2026

Protip: start by reading linkedin posts backwards. If it ends with a pointless question, scroll on past the slop.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to Mr. Farage for beating a bloke with a bin on his head. Quite the achievement!

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And spectacular failures of course, but that's how we learn.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you let go of the idea that cooking should be easy, fast, and always successful, you can make amazing dishes.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

They sure have a lot of alternatives huh.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One can at least admire their creativity, if not the way they channel it.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The great thing about America is that it can always be relied upon to do the right thing — but only after it has exhausted every alternative." Attributed to Winston Churchill

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