Quatorze Juillet en blanc-rouge, parce que les bleus ne sont pas au rendez-vous 😂
Frederic Blockx
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Judge, PhD by day, classical musician by night, #rstats in between; Copyright law, legal theory, courts; Not here to be serious; ♥️ = usually 😂, not 👍
“the second biggest corruption scandal”. Fixed it for you.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoFat Leonard, the 350-pound con man who masterminded the biggest corruption scandal in U.S. military history, signed a plea deal promising to pay $35 million in restitution. But he now says he can’t scrape together the funds due to massive legal bills.
Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America. Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.
Bart Eeckhout is hoofdcommentator. Hij ziet hoe de weggestemde wet op ‘chat control’ via een achterpoortje toch weer opduikt. ‘Dat ruikt naar vals spel.’
Met chat control wordt de hoeksteen van de bescherming van onze digitale privacy weggeslagen
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Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death
The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.
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This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
“zoals ik eerder al zei, behoort dit niet tot mijn bevoegdheid”… vrij naar Wittgenstein, Tractatus, stelling 7.
De Morgen@demorgen.be · last mo.Burgemeester Marino Keulen (Anders) van Lanaken (provincie Limburg) is niet opgezet met het verblijf van seriemoordenaar Freddy Horion in de gesloten forensische afdeling van het Openbaar Psychiatrisch Zorgcentrum (OPZC) in Rekem.
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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The app icon leaked: 🇳🇱
Mark Gurman@markgurman.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Apple readies iOS 27 service that will let users split bills for dinners, events by taking a photo of a receipt and assigning items to friends. This will be part of Apple Wallet and Cash, taking on Venmo and Splitwise. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@sncb-nmbs.bsky.social be like “no bad wifi here!”
Herbert Garrison: It's So Simple And Yet Genius
ALT: Herbert Garrison: It's So Simple And Yet Genius
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Helen Price@helenpprice.bsky.social · 2mo agoLeast surprising news of the week - Britain's train wifi is spectacularly bad compared to the rest of Europe. Phone signal also very dodgy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”
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It is strange — and IMHO worrying — not to see reporting linking the Rubio and Noem speeches.
Worrying that Biskupic doesn’t (1) know/bother to make the difference between originalism and textualism (2) acknowledges that originalism is being used when convenient and magically disappears when it’s not
CNN@cnn.com · 6mo ago"Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death 10 years ago this month reordered the Supreme Court, presidential politics and, as seen at the court today, invigorated the status of the man himself," writes Joan Biskupic | Analysis
Then Pooh said to Piglet: “I’ll stay quiet about this if you stay quiet about Taiwan, deal?”
So you mean we should visualize President Vance nominating Justices Ho and Bove next summer, after Thomas and Alito retire before the midterms?
Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 9mo agoI think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.
