Just came home from the 2025 @vanlanschotkempen.bsky.social Hackathon on a huge high since our team won!

@telenet.bsky.social Jullie kunnen dan wel prijzen verhogen, maar tellen blijkt moeilijk: jullie verhogen met 3,08%, eerder dan 2.9%, op jaarbasis. Dat is bijna 30 pp hoger dan de inflatie verwachting van de NBB voor dit jaar. Heel fijn als je nog geen jaar klant bent. Leer tellen #crooks

Remember how I wrote about Brussels going broke? Yeah, meanwhile S&P has lowered their rating, expecting the BXL government to get their act together after the June :24 elections. Meanwhile, there's still no government in the capital or Europe and their debt rate is about to hit +200%. Wild stuff

@dancarlin.bsky.social so you've often commented on how empires rise and fall over long cycles that tend to go very fast at inflection points. Given how the rate of change is speeding up a lot, wouldn't this be a perfect time to do a Common Sense episode, even if it's under protest?

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They can quadruple it for all I care. Bored and lacking in fantasy, wealthy people have found it very entertaining to watch others carry their sh*t for them. It's a disgrace that this part of nature has become a tourist trap for smoothbrains.

My first newsletter of the year is out: Falling with style. The EU is in all sorts of trouble and I'm here to witness it all and wrap it up nicely for you to read. Come and watch the downfall of the home of democracy with me.
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Unfortunately, the first of my silly predictions for 2025 has already come to pass: climate disasters are claiming ever more time and resources...

But let's all keep on pretending mitigation is feasible. We don't even manage to acknowledge the problem, let alone have a plan of action to tackle it. Meanwhile, we've crossed 1.5°C and the reality is that disasters are our new reality. Adoption will be slow and I see very few mitigation efforts.

Happy Hardcore History Day everyone. I was really hoping to get this out before 2024 ended but it wasn't quite ready. But it is now.
I hope you like it!

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A perfect start of the new year: a brand shiny new episode of #HardcoreHistory ! @dancarlin.bsky.social thanks so much for all your work 🙏

Meanwhile, IDF has taken Golan Heights and sets the region up for some more disastrous conflict.

Here are our 2025 Silly predictions! Enjoy 😊 #Finance #Geopolitics #eoy #newsletter #writing
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2 weken geleden op HQ van de N-VA...

Learning to toy around with #Knime. Fun for the entire family. If your family are robots, that is. 😁😱 #keeplearning

Finally managed to get out the 3rd article in my 4 part series. www.linkedin.com/posts/christ... all the best and stay crazy folks. #newsletter #2024 #geopolitics #migration

open.spotify.com/episode/6Xge... #Fed #Pivot is here. Markets called the Fed's hand and they blinked. Love the smell of rate cuts in the morning. #finance #rate #cuts

I don't care how many HQ's, tunnels or other places of Hamas are hidden beneath schools & hospitals in #Palestine and #Gaza Somewhere last month, the #IDF stopped driving the point home and just started butchering civilians for no reason at all. #stopthewar www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...

Investing sustainably is one thing, communicating effectively about it, is another challenge all together. #neverstopreading #Dotell #sustainability #investing #pr #communication

In case you wondered why it took me so long to write part 2: Events dear boys & girls, events. Without further ado, here's part 2 of the ongoing series of my #Geopolitics #History and #Finance newsletter Notes from the ledge. bit.ly/40PBp4S #writingcommunicty #writerslife #authors