iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bogdan Vanden Berghe @bogdanvdberghe.bsky.social · 6h

Onwaarschijnlijk om te lezen De Zondag na de klimaatmars... “Ik lig niet wakker van de klimaatverandering”, zegt minister van Mobiliteit Annick De Ridder. Het klimaatrapport van haar eigen regering zou haar net wél wakker moeten houden. 🧵

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 16/10/2026

The papadam thief:

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My Trade Secrets today. Unfair Chinese competition may exist but it’s not the main reason the EU’s car industry is screwed, and tariffs won’t fix it on their own. Companies need to move faster and leave the internal combustion era behind.

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How not to revive Europe’s auto industry

The electric vehicle market shows how legacy EU companies continue to fail when it comes to countering Chinese competition

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Kristof Debergh 🇧🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @kdebergh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Volgens Van Doesburg gaat het om een 1.000-tal mensen die op de lijst van de politie staan." Dit is de definitie van een politiestaat. Een geheime lijst bij de ordediensten (compleet onwettelijk) met mensen die zonder reden mogen worden aangehouden (compleet onwettelijk). www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

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"Met harde hand aanmoedigen": Antwerps burgemeester Van Doesburg verdedigt aanpak gekende overlastplegers | VRT NWS Nieuws

"We investeren jaarlijks al miljoenen in hulpverlening, maar als mensen pertinent hulp weigeren, moeten we hen met harde hand aanmoedigen". Zo verdedigt Antwerps burgemeester Els van Doesburg (N-VA) d...

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 07/10/2026

Also I'm inordinately horrified by the very idea that a shredder might lurk in my kitchen sink

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Christophe Martens @chrmartens.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Besparen op archieven (die vaak al geen nagel hebben om aan hun spreekwoordelijke gat te krabben), maar een paar jaar terug wel zitten leuteren over een historische canon, ik denk daar wat van.

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Amy @breindelijk.be · 22/09/2026

Pedofielen met moraliteit die inzien dat dit een probleem vormt en dus daarmee geholpen willen worden en een leven van abstinentie kiezen, dat moeten we aanmoedigen. Niet hen veroordelen voor hun aantrekking, maar hen ondersteunen in het niet uitvoeren ervan.

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

EV diagnostics company Aviloo released the results of thousands of battery health checks for 20 popular EVs. Excluding two outliers all notched a median health of roughly 90% health after 100 000 km insideevs.com/news/806798/...

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500,000 EV Battery Health Checks Put 20 Models To The Test. One Car Stood Out

EV diagnostics company Aviloo released the results of thousands of battery health checks for 20 popular EVs. One stood out.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.

elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.

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Toon Huybrechts @toonhuybrechts.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Landa heeft zichzelf, de koerskijker en 't Balanske (door uit te rijden) afgelopen weekend veel deugd gedaan! #TdA #Vueltachallenges

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Foo Yat Chong @fooyatchong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Theo die een verband probeert te leggen tussen ManiFiesta en 9/11 terwijl Van Bossuyt dealtjes maakt met de Taliban.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

👇🏼

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/09/2026

I can’t believe that George W Bush painted the meme

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Siem De Cleyn @siemdc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"De mensen met wie ik spreek, zijn uitgeprocedeerd en mogen dus niet werken in België. ‘Het is stelen of dealen’"

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

May I politely suggest that the correct response to people voting for fascists is not, "how can we feel their pain and listen?" but "what the hell is wrong with these arrogant fools?" The latter is still a quest for understanding, but in the correct frame, I think.

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Siem De Cleyn @siemdc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Het klopt natuurlijk dat de helft van ons land exclusief voorbehouden voor een industrie die aan het subsidieinfuus moet hangen en maar 1 % van onze welvaart genereert, degrowth-beleid is.

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Kevin Spiritus @kevinspiritus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Het huidige systeem discrimineert tussen werknemers: wie geen bedrijfswagen krijgt, betaalt voor het systeem via hogere belastingen, lagere pensioenen en duurdere gezondheidszorg. Hou dat maar in gedachten wanneer Sammy Mahdi beweert op te komen voor "de werkende mens". 2/

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Frederic Blockx @fblockx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Necessary periodic reminder / notwendige regelmäßige Erinnerung

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Supernova Refsdal happened in 2014, but also in 2015 due to a galaxy's gravity delaying the image of the supernova. Amazingly scientists were able to accurately predict that in advance and watch the same supernova twice via photons that arrived via two different routes

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Tour d'Ambiance @go.tda.zone · 02/09/2026

Deze fietsen werden vannacht gestolen. Verwittig meteen @nucleus.bsky.social als je ze ziet opduiken op een tweedehandssite of op sociale media. Graag zo veel mogelijk delen aub! #TdA26

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1/20 In 1990, Sean Connery took a Soviet submarine across the Atlantic in total silence. No propeller. A "caterpillar drive" that made Red October invisible to sonar. Two years later, Japan launched a real ship with no propeller at all. A small 🧵https://youtu.be/NSiAsQMBSRA

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Toon Huybrechts @toonhuybrechts.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Ook België komt hier niet bepaald geweldig uit.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Because of you, we lack housing

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Toon Huybrechts @toonhuybrechts.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

Voor deze Vuelta blijkbaar mijn minst originele ploeg ooit gemaakt #TdA26

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Opiniestuk in Knack. Voor wie geen zin heeft om Cofnas te lezen, maar wel wil weten waar de kwestie om draait. En een uitdaging aan de Cofnas-verdedigers: waarom zijn zijn uitspraken niet problematisch volgens jullie? www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Om al te anticiperen op het publieke debat dat er gaat komen. Een overzicht van preventieve correcties op vaak gemaakte foute statements over de Cofnas-affaire. /1

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/08/2026

First known depiction of The Macarena in sculpture

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

German farmers warn drought will spell heavy crop losses. The head of the German Farmers Association: "We farmers have have been feeling the effects of climate change for a long time now." He also has a recommendation for government: make diesel cheaper. www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

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German farmers warn drought will spell heavy crop losses | Euractiv

The German Farmers' Association says total crop losses are very likely

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wat een absurde argumentatie 🤦‍♂️ Mag ik dan ook: - zonder treinkaartje naar demo? - 200 km/u naar demo rijden? - spookrijden naar demo?

Demonstratierecht
Tractoren mogen niet op de snelweg rijden, maar eerder deze week zeiden het Openbaar Ministerie en de politie dat ze deze niet zouden tegenhouden vanwege het demonstratierecht.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 14/08/2026

A man stops by a car mechanic and asks "can you change a windshield wiper for my Trabant?" "I guess that's a fair trade", says the mechanic.

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David De Pue @dpdaaf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New Euro banknote design just dropped. @lectrr.bsky.social

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Aye, Harry Potter books were fun whimsical mystery adventure stories for kids, which is what they were trying to be! They got a bit dull and self-indulgent to the end as they got Lore Heavy, so it goes. But none of that is really relevant to the fact that we ought not be funnelling money to her now.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is infuriating and is a continuation of the Only The Left Have Agency schtick. The Right are always covered like a premodern people's theory of a natural disaster; to be feared, but perhaps appeased if you're sufficiently sympathetic to its characteristic concerns. The Left are scrutinised.

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Pensioenspook @pensioenspook666.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Man die letterlijk aanzet tot burgeroorlog en rassenoorlogen en meerdere malen zonder enige discussie heeft opgeroepen tot fysiek geweld als gezagsargument gebruiken inzake radicalisering tegen zangeres die tijdens optreden zegt dat alle blanke mannen naar achter moeten als soort statement.

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Andy Kerkhofs @andykerkhofs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Wat betekent het woord 'stimuleren' in deze zin nu eigen concreet? De leefloon-wetgeving omvat algemeen voor elke aanvrager de vereiste tot werkbereidheid, tenzij dat om gezondheids- of billijkheidsredenen niet haalbaar zou zijn. (Art. 3, 5° RMI-wet 26.05.2002). 1/

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Cedric @cdtro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Boekhoudkundig sofisme indeed. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/annic...

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