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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 21h

This tells you everything you need to know about the manchild in the White House.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Het is soms dweilen met de kraan open in Europa 👇 Ik heb een donker vermoeden dat de Commissie in kader van het EU-India handelsakkoord achter de schermen heeft geplooid en zo onze recyclagesector te grabbel gooit. Maar in het Europees Parlement zijn we wel nog wakker. Dit mag niet passeren.

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As so often, David Roberts is spot on.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's been a while since I shared something about Tournevie, but here's some news that merits a post: a 33% expansion of our tool collection! Let's hope that translates to more people joining our citizen #commons project in #Brussels :)

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@gilduran.com said something that kind of blew my mind “Why would anyone trust tech oligarchs to share in abundance when they claim it will happen? We already have abundance. Have they shared that?”

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/08/2026

It has been an extraordinary 24 hours, with tit-for-tat border controls between Spain and Italy resulting in checks in both countries. The fault lies with a 🇪🇺President who has refused to do her job as the guarantor of the Schengen treaty. My take:

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Schengen is unravelling. Where is von der Leyen?

The Commission has for years been letting national capitals play political games with Schengen "temporary" exemptions. Now Sanchez says: 'You want to play games? Let's play games.'

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This goes to the heart of the matter (of unbridled growth oriented capitalism)

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like many Europeans, I felt deep unease, not only at the deaths in Ceuta, but at Europe’s dehumanised response. By embracing this dystopian narrative, they turned desperate people into invaders, abandoned European solidarity and helped create the image Europe’s worst enemies want READ below

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

They are fighting fantasy wars in their heads and all the while they are losing badly to a country without a Navy and and Air Force.

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Kasper Nollet @kaspernollet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

De klimaatoorlog is te verwoestend om hem op Greta Thunberg af te schuiven apache.be/2026/08/01/k...

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De klimaatoorlog is te verwoestend om hem op Greta Thunberg af te schuiven

Schieten op de groene boodschapper is een zwaktebod.

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Apollo 🌏 @apollo11.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Een treffende cartoon van Lectrr

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 24/07/2026

"Gentle advocacy believes lasting change is more likely to emerge from inspiration than indignation. People are more willing to embrace a new future when they clearly see themselves in it. And showing what's possible is more effective than endlessly cataloguing what's wrong." READ: bit.ly/4wkWIuf

Two middle aged adults--one man and one woman--in casual business attire cycle side-by-side along a car-free street in Delft lined with a canal, trees, benches, and buidlings.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Saying that the #WorldCup Final is being played in “New York/New Jersey” is false advertising. It’s not even being played in a city.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026

As I keep saying, the big winner of the Iran War is China.

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The sound of the bursting AI bubble will be deafening.

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Een concreet resultaat van de Europese ecodesign wetgeving. Fijn om te zien dat het werk dat we hier in gestoken hebben begint te renderen. Dit is slechts een bescheiden begin. De komende jaren gaan we de kwaliteit en duurzaamheid van tal van producten verhogen! www.demorgen.be/nieuws/grote...

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Grote kledingketens mogen onverkochte stocks niet meer vernietigen: redt de EU straks 600.000 ton kledij?

Vanaf zondag mogen grote kledingketens zoals H&M, Zara en Primark teruggestuurde pakjes en onverkochte stocks niet meer zomaar vernietigen. Wat verandert er, en zal het volstaan? ‘Wie te kwader tr...

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Interesting take, and the graph says it all: if Europeans or Americans want to compete with the Chinese, they could eat into their profits. But they don’t, for obvious reasons.

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is maybe not the most egregious thing happening in the US, but as it’s very relatable it makes crystal clear how the rot has really set in across the atlantic.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The insanity of the world summarised in two headlines "US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades" "Heat dome over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring"

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ready for another 250 loans :) If you're living in #Brussels and in need of some quality tools to fix or make some stuff at home, don't waste your money on cheapo stuff and drop by at www.tournevie.be!

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Israel's crimes in Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza are barely getting reported in the western press.

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As someone living in #Brussels, a city with no public bathing areas whatsoever, this graph hits hard. Time to start Greek language courses 🫠

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Uitstekende getuigenis over de gevolgen van #plastic op ons lichaam, wie ze ons opdringt en waarom. Let op de verwijzing naar REACH, Europese wetgeving die ons moet beschermen en enkele jaren geleden zou versterkt worden. Toch zijn rechts en extreemrechts er in geslaagd om dat te blokkeren 😒

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is a stunning strategic defeat and Trump is without parallel as a strategic loser. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

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Trump Demanded Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ He Got a Surprise Instead.

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Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger) @splainer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A fascinating write-up. An aside that jumped out at me: European electricity users face "a few minutes of outages per year" whereas US users face 2-11 _hours_ per year. One of the hidden economic variables that may explain why US quality of life relative to Europe's is overstated by income stats?

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is what I've been saying for years - there is much more cleantech manufacturing outside China, especially in Europe, Japan, Korea, than the narrative of China's "dominance" suggests.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

27 year olds have seen half of the global warming so far happen in their lifetime.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1/ France's green industrial revival in an unlikely place: Dunkirk! New "battery valley" coz of cheap nuclear, public support (subsidies, EU credit, streamlined permitting) Verkor, Renault, Sino-French cooperation! @shahinvallee.bsky.social @picharbonnier.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hallelujah. Het World Inequality Lab en hun Global Justice Report is politiek goud. Het biedt een aantrekkelijk perspectief dat 9 op de 10 mensen kan steunen.

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Neil Grant @neilgrant.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Chart of the day. The energy transition is happening in real time! 😍

Two area charts showing that in Australia's National Electricity Market, battery discharge replaced peaking gas at the evening demand peak between April 2025 and April 2026.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this is going to go on all summer, isn't it

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

China krijgt haar binnenlandse economie niet op orde, en bedreigt daarom de wereldeconomie met haar ongebreidelde export. Terecht hoog tijd om in Europa een versnelling hoger te schakelen om die stortvloed aan overproductie tegen te houden. www.standaard.be/economie/vij...

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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Important piece, showing that the pitiful deregulation game played by Merz & co yields peanuts compared to what is really needed right now, namely strong trade protection, i.e. “import tariffs, public procurement restrictions, FDI conditionality or mandatory supply chain diversification standards”

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Think using a chatbot makes your work better? Think again. 1/3

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Just IN: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged.
A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it.
3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30
days of tracking.
Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone.
For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric.
Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. Al was making them better.

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