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Gilles Pittoors

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

Good grief, this hits home.

Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was a complete farce. Nobody on the European side took control of the messaging, so every rightwing troll/government official seized the opportunity to hurl abuse at a fellow member state government that was facing a crisis. A terrible day for European foreign policy and for the Union as a whole.

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Zusammenfassung: Die Europäer haben auf eine Bedrohung von außen nicht gemeinsam reagiert, sondern sind übereinander hergefallen. Der gestrige Tag war ein schwarzer Tag für Europa und ein Fest für seine Feinde.” www.zeit.de/politik/2026...

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

Pensioenspook @pensioenspook666.bsky.social · 4d ago

Spanje is net één van de weinige landen die zich niet liet chanteren. Het zijn net de andere landen die Spanje aanvielen die de deur openzetten voor chantage. Waarom val je Spanje aan en niet Marokko? Omdat de Marokkanen uw ballen vast hebben.

War and Peas 🧿@warandpeas.bsky.social · 5d ago

"People crave storytelling, but they live in a world that clouds their ability to enjoy those stories. People are empathetic, but they are persuaded to believe that societal trust is dying." Jaskaran (The Social Juice)

Sciencepo ULB @sciencepoulb.bsky.social · 5d ago

[OUT] 'Volt Europa: A Transnational Model of Representation in the EU Multilevel Party Field?', new paper by @alvarooleart.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), with @gillespittoors.bsky.social, in Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Volt Europa: A Transnational Model of Representation in the EU Multilevel Party Field? | Article | Politics and Governance

Alvaro Oleart, Gilles Pittoors

cogitatiopress.com

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · last wk.

Every country is feeling some effect of climate change but Spain is a very notable case. This year's fires, the terrible Valencia flood of 2024, huge climate impacts in recent years on key crops such as olives, etc.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · last wk.

'Monster wildfires' in Spain bring solidarity and political unity

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

Voxpops

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.

MARK TAIT
Mark Tait, who lives near Durham, tells the BBC the bus fare cap will make little difference to him.
"This is great if you use the bus, but no good for those who drive. Yet again, the working class person is left out," Tait says.

laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 2w ago

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 2w ago

Actually, things were at their best during the last year of my life when I had no responsibilities. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poof PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

5-panel SMBC comic update. A man is stating intensely "things are bad. Probably there was some time when they were good. Yesss, yesssss, the past was so much better because—" A little green haired fairy poofs into existence next to him, and says she is the history fairy. She happily says "I’m here to tell you the past was EVEN WORSE!" The man disagrees, explaining "but work was better and people had freedom and–" The fairy hugs his face, shushing him "shh. Shh honey. Things were never good."

Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Harry Potter fan who fell into a coma shortly after reading The Deathly Hallows wakes up in 2026

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy excitedly sits down at their laptop, saying: Boy o’ boy, I wonder what my favourite Author’s up to!

Panel 2: Close up of a J K Rowling tweet where she says “The gay rights movement is currently host to a cannibalising ideology that blames and shames homosexuals for not sleeping with members of the opposite sex. Amnesty International is on the side of the persecutors.”

Panels 3 to 5: Purple Guy slowly closes their laptop, wondering how the billionaire author they loved has become so obsessed with the lives of people who have absolutely no effect on her existence.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE @casmudde.bsky.social · 3w ago

Axel Springer is a German media giant — with Bild & Welt — which has become a major international player — with Politico & Business Insider. Its leadership is a prime example of radicalization of the mainstream right and of the enabling of the far right. Their newest award winner: Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026

Auszeichnung für einen Unternehmer, Investor und Vordenker, der die digitale Transformation maßgeblich geprägt hat

axelspringer.com

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 3w ago

Casually threatening mass rapes

Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 3w ago

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows the face of a black cat.
The second panel shows a hand moving into the panel and pressing the black cat's ears down.
The third panel zooms out and shows the protagonist, Sarah, and the cat. She is still pressing down on the cat's ears. She says, "you have no ears."
The fourth panel shows the cat's face again. It responds, "you have no hobbies."

@galcartoons.bsky.social · 3w ago

#hittegolf #oversterfte #theofrancken

Stef Ketels @stefketels.vrk.social · 3w ago

Misschien is dit een goed moment voor journalisten om eens uit te zoeken wat er met de 4 miljoen die Demir in 2020 vrijmaakte is gebeurd? https://emis.vito.be/nl/artikel/waterbeleidsnota-2020-2025-bestrijden-van-extremen-komt-hoger-op-de-politieke-agenda

Het is Belgisch @begov.skyfleet.blue · 3w ago

Oppompverbod op alle onbevaarbare waterlopen in West-Vlaanderen: "Het ziet er echt niet goed uit"

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 4w ago

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[TV show titles]:
SORT YOUR LIFE OUT

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[STACEY SOLOMON and the team are outside NIGEL FARAGE’S house with Nigel and his girlfriend LAURE FERRARI]

STACEY:
So Nigel - you're a politician aren't you?

3
FARAGE:
Yes Stacey but I also have a hobby...

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LAURE [proudly, but slightly worried]:
Nigel collects nutters.

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[Interior - Stacey and the team entering Nigel and Laure’s house. It is crammed with weird-looking people].

STACEY:
Oh my goooorsh

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STACEY:
Look at all the weirdos!

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STACEY:
Where do you sleep?

NIGEL:
Over there
on the pile of racists

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[Nigel is showing Stacey his collection of lunatics]

NIGEL:
This one talks a lot about UFOs in Doncaster

[He gestures to councillor Kieran Lay standing in a display case]

STACEY:
Wowww...

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[Showing her Reform councillor Steven Lewis, standing behind a lamp]:

NIGEL:
This one thinks we are in a simulation made by Satan called ‘the Matrix’

STACEY:
So many types!

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STACEY [voice over]

But Nigel is worried his collection is affecting his electability at work.

[Nigel is starting to cry]

STACEY [putting hand on his shoulder]:
Oh babe...

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[They are now in THE WAREHOUSE where Stacey puts all the belongings out into zones. Each zone is full of weird looking people. They are labelled: RACISTS, ANTISEMITES, PLANDEMICS, MISOGYNISTS etc]

STACEY:
So listen Nigel,

We can't leave leave the warehouse...

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STACEY:
Till you've donated half of these to Restore.

NIGEL:
I CAN'T DO IT STACEY

[ends]

The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 4w ago

Yachts. thelifeofsharks.com/product/yach...

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 4w ago

what's fascinating to me is that basically most of the radical right populists who oppose the war in Iran are fine with operations against us (Tucker and people further to the right of him)

Margot @margotvds.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ok deze is top!

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · last mo.

Stupidest of all possible timelines, evidence #962534 'Trump went on to say that he didn’t know what a red card was before the penalty against Balogun was made. Once he understood that it would take Balogun out of the next match, he personally intervened because "we have to have our best players."'

HuffPost@huffpost.com · last mo.

"I asked for a review ‘cause I didn’t think it was a foul. And again, I’m good at this stuff. I didn’t think it was a foul," he said.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · last mo.

I wasn't going to stay up for this match, but now I will out of utter loathing for this MF

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on USA-Belgium: "If they beat us, they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, we'll say -- I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020, but I won't get into that."

Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · last mo.

It may not surprise you to learn that the far right schismatics who’ve just been excommunicated by the Pope are also linked to the Flemish far right.

apache/@apache.be · last mo.

📁 Het Vaticaan besliste om zes bisschoppen en de leden van de ultraconservatieve priesterbroederschap Sint Pius X te excommuniceren. Met Britt Huybrechts en Filip Brusselmans als nieuwe ondervoorzitters van Vlaams Belang nestelde Pius X zich in de top van de partij. apache.be/2025/01/31/h...

Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · last mo.

A new game of find the moustache. Go!

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · last mo.

A woman asks "do you have cards for things you said during a mental breakdown?" The clerk gestures "right this way, ma'am!" She holds a flowery card with many different fonts that says "Sorry for calling you 'Pathetic' during my episode.? She remarks "wow, there are so many of these and in such variety!" The clerk says "people are not doing well."

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · last mo.

Have that (Print run of this one now available in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com)

[Scene is a BEACH. A little kid is running towards the shore. Speech bubbles that follow are mostly coming from THE SEA, which is sort of talking to us.]

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THE SEA:
Happens all the time.

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THE SEA:
One second they’re a kid thoughtlessly running into me for joy

[Show kid running towards the sea]

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THE SEA:
And the next, they’re an adult standing there
contemplating my sublime, death-like endlessness.

[Show the kid instantly transformed into an adult, hands on hips, boringly contemplating the horizon].

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THE SEA:
I mean, I get it. I’m the *Sea*.

I don’t really do the whole ‘time’ thing.

But it always seems to happen so *quick*.

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THE SEA:
Right. One way to fix this.

[Shoe the waves licking up against their toes]

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PERSON [shocked from cold]:
JESUS

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THE SEA:
Come on
a bit further ….

[Person paddles out into the water a bit]

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THE SEA:
That’s it…
bit further…

[Person wades to waist height]

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THE SEA:
Right.

[Person standing still waist height in sea]

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THE SEA:
HAVE THAT.

[BIG WAVE goes over them]

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[They are instantly transformed back to a kid again]

KID [laughing]:
UURGHHAHA

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THE SEA:
Works every time

[ends]

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · last mo.

The sheer weirdness of these people cannot be exaggerated. “There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.” That goes way beyond homophobia as we usually think of it. It’s passionately held and consciously nourished hatred.

Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · last mo.

Been round this road before. Iris Robinson carefully claiming that, actually, being gay is worse than child abuse, knowing that she was sleeping with a teenage boy at the time.

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · last mo.

You already see it in how people have clocked out. Universities used to be run on an inordinate amount of goodwill. Yes, the unhealthy kind that meant people bent over backwards in things they should be properly remunerated for, but also more broadly in collegiality and turning up. Eroded now.

Peter Mandler@petermandler.bsky.social · last mo.

Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)

Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · last mo.

Nog warmer

Gerrit Hiemstra🐇@gerrithiemstra.bsky.social · last mo.

Goed stuk van de NOS over het toekomstige zomerklimaat. Belangrijkste: het wordt nog warmer. Oorzaak: fossiele brandstoffen. app.nos.nl/shorthand/de...