A Foreigner in Brussels
@afib.bsky.social
Working with (but not for) the EU institutions.
Policy, current affairs, governance, data.
Private life: family, running, hiking.
Policy, current affairs, governance, data.
Private life: family, running, hiking.
Habe mir Revolution Germany nachgeguckt. Scheint rechtsaussene antisemitische Skinheads mit Keffiyehs zu sein 🤷🏻♂️
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Habe mir Revolution Germany nachgeguckt. Scheint rechtsaussene antisemitische Skinheads mit Keffiyehs zu sein 🤷🏻♂️
I think we will see over time that even the worst fears will turn out to have been prescient, not catastrophizing.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I think we will see over time that even the worst fears will turn out to have been prescient, not catastrophizing.
Reading NYT about a year from now
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reading NYT about a year from now
September 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They keep saying "toward". But we're already there. Reich gets it. When will everyone else?
July 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
They keep saying "toward". But we're already there. Reich gets it. When will everyone else?
Or there could just be a NYT cover with nothing on it - nothing - except TRUMP IS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY
THAT is clinical and fearless.
THAT.
Not this:
THAT is clinical and fearless.
THAT.
Not this:
June 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Or there could just be a NYT cover with nothing on it - nothing - except TRUMP IS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY
THAT is clinical and fearless.
THAT.
Not this:
THAT is clinical and fearless.
THAT.
Not this:
I know almost nothing about couture. Is this okay?
June 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I know almost nothing about couture. Is this okay?
It's a real underlying trend.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
May 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It's a real underlying trend.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Agree wholeheartedly with everything here.
On the level of grammar, however, I'm wondering about the repeated use of a comma before "because". This seems to me at least non-standard, if not incorrect.
#grammar #grammarsky
On the level of grammar, however, I'm wondering about the repeated use of a comma before "because". This seems to me at least non-standard, if not incorrect.
#grammar #grammarsky
May 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Agree wholeheartedly with everything here.
On the level of grammar, however, I'm wondering about the repeated use of a comma before "because". This seems to me at least non-standard, if not incorrect.
#grammar #grammarsky
On the level of grammar, however, I'm wondering about the repeated use of a comma before "because". This seems to me at least non-standard, if not incorrect.
#grammar #grammarsky
Watching Bibi getting played by Trump while Trump gets played by Tehran and Qatar would be gratifying if it weren't so dangerous for Israel's stategic security.
May 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Watching Bibi getting played by Trump while Trump gets played by Tehran and Qatar would be gratifying if it weren't so dangerous for Israel's stategic security.
Was she fired for speech about Israel, or was she fired for this:
May 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Was she fired for speech about Israel, or was she fired for this:
No I meant this one:
May 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
No I meant this one:
Once, one expected from a political party that it would have a vision that it believed in and would work to persuade voters to empower it to pursue that vision. Parties and politicians would lead voters, not follow them. We seem to barely even remember that, and we treat the new paradigm as normal.
April 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Once, one expected from a political party that it would have a vision that it believed in and would work to persuade voters to empower it to pursue that vision. Parties and politicians would lead voters, not follow them. We seem to barely even remember that, and we treat the new paradigm as normal.
April 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This seems clever at first glance, and is true in and of itself, but it's probably also a classic case of that internet phenomenon of attacking something that is, itself, fabricated. Here's what Perplexity was able to find:
April 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This seems clever at first glance, and is true in and of itself, but it's probably also a classic case of that internet phenomenon of attacking something that is, itself, fabricated. Here's what Perplexity was able to find:
Hey @safety.bsky.app why am I getting replies to an account that I blocked?
April 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey @safety.bsky.app why am I getting replies to an account that I blocked?