Frédéric Moreau
@goodclimate.bsky.social
Brussels stuff, in English but please reply in any language. Journalism is online.
Just wrote 800 words and put it through a detector service which said it was highly likely to be AI. This sort of bullshit is not good for my circuits.
Rue Belliard, Quartier Léopold Brussels. L-R 1940s, 1970s, 1990s, 2010s. Choose your fighter.
One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone.
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
THAT IS INCORRECT. THE CORRECT SPELLING OF COLOUR IS C-O-L-O-R
Classic 80s Speak & Spell Toy
ALT: Classic 80s Speak & Spell Toy
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Frédéric Moreau@goodclimate.bsky.social · 24h agoAI is not a fan of Belgian French. Dites « septante », « drache » ou « fricadelle », l’IA vous punira www.lesoir.be/763218/artic...
AI is not a fan of Belgian French. Dites « septante », « drache » ou « fricadelle », l’IA vous punira www.lesoir.be/763218/artic...
Dites « septante », « drache » ou « fricadelle », l’IA vous punira
Une expérience démontre que les modèles de langage utilisés majoritairement par les administrations discriminent les Belges francophones au détriment des Français. Jusque dans la durée d’une peine de ...
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How exhilarating to know you can fire up the USB mic and podcast the shit out of any global event or subject with an hour's notice.
The first week of August. Exactly 90 years ago, a couple of dozen European countries agreed to isolate Spain. In the hope geopolitics would spare them or that they'd get a free hand.
What looks like a mini Belgian quarter in Harwich, Essex.
The micro bulletin on 6 Music leads with Farage followed by vox-pops with boomers saying the hot weather is glorious. Anyone defending this trash because it's the BBC is in love with their childhood.
Unless and until you disagree with and rebut Nigel Farage's contention that refugees who wish to be in the UK are the responsibility of France, he will bounce back from every scandal.
It's 35⁰ right now. 92 years ago, the Brussels architect Gaston Brunfaut calculated that for public health reasons, each 50-100k tranche of population required a 23m pool with retractable roof for year-round use. An editorial complained Belgium was 30 years behind its neighbours in this respect.
Proposal for a roundabout with canopy. 1936 by Paris architect Henri Descamps.
Cinematic lighting in another interwar Belgian church. Klein Seminarie, Hoogstraten. 1933 by Frans Peeters.
Clairfontaine, a rather expressionist abbey near Bouillon. By Brussels architect Henry Vaes and in reinforced concrete. Built 1935 by the Semois river on a virgin site (an access road had to be laid).
Park your tanks on Nigel's cliff edge. Take the fight to him but let him choose the weapons.
A very good FT article on the EU's reaction to the Ceuta crossings - almost certainly because it's not been written by the FT's Vox/PP- friendly Spain correspondent!
Europe’s weak reaction to Spain’s migrant crisis
Pedro Sánchez is being unfairly singled out for a liberal immigration policy
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Taverne de Paris, 1929 by Michel Roux-Spitz. Avenue de Clichy, Paris. Now Quick 🍔
I've set out my alternative proposal for the Rotterdam Shift Embassy: www.dezeen.com/2026/08/03/r...
You can talk about tech sovereignty and defence all you like, but it doesn't matter if you're caving in to hybrid attacks within five minutes. Might as well save the money on the weapons, frankly, if European leaders are just going to surrender to hybrid attacks like this.
John Springford@johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d agoTreating this as a pan-European crisis and closing borders disproportionately *encourages* other countries to use these tactics as political weapons. Sow division, isolate EU countries who are particular enemies.
The Chief Minister of Gibraltar on Ceuta (20km away across the strait). Sets the record straight, calls out the bullshit of the European right and defective journalism. x.com/i/status/208...
Fabian Picardo (@FabianPicardo) on X
My interview with @TimesRadio this morning on the issues in Ceuta.
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Ann Droid by Diane Morgan, BBC iPlayer. Comedy about AI and social care. I liked this very much.
Thread. A long one. Takes me back. -We were informed you had a degree -I do -No, British degrees are equivalent to the DEUG
Tomasz Oryński@orynski.eu · 3d agoI am seeing more and more posts in places like Reddit from British people wanting to move to Poland and struggling to get a job. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I didn't want to talk about it but about why I don't predict many of them to be too succesfull. Why? Here is a thread for you:
Just maybe, if people could stop being arseholes about food, a better world emerges 🙏
The presumption that everyone wants to be in the UK, the conflation of swimming next door with a boat crossing, the notion that Schengen is any of the UK's business, the fantasy that the Channel will one day get wider. Perhaps it was taken out of context.
