Maksim Tonyushkin

@maksim.brussels

Blue Skying? from Brussels 🇧🇪.

"Cycling is a fundamental, strategic asset for Europe." Here's a throwback to the joint workshop we held with the European Cycling Industries (ECI) where our members discussed cycling policies and bike leasing implementation strategies!

📣𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: A coalition of European mobility advocates is calling on governments at all levels to urgently scale up cycling as a fast, affordable and energy-efficient solution to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. 🔗Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/33jjwttd

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It’s Week 1 of our Cycling Advent Calendar!🚲🎁 We’re counting down to a more sustainable, cycle-friendly Europe. Each “door” in this week’s thread is a wish for the future of cycling, linked to our work. 👉 Follow as we reveal new cycling goals every week and reply with your own cycling wishes! 🎄

A graphic displaying the full "2025 Advent Calendar" by the European Cyclists' Federation. It is a grid of square cards on a teal background, numbered non-sequentially with dates like 1, 23, 15, 9, etc. Each square features a festive illustration such as a bicycle, Santa on a bike, a snowman, a Christmas tree, a candy cane, a wreath, or a gift box. Snow hangs from the top border of the image.

The same week that Elon Musk baselessly called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," his co-president Donald Trump announced that he wants to create a national crypto reserve. This could result in taxpayer dollars being used to prop up an actual Ponzi scheme. Hello?

Better see some “you lie” energy and actions from the democrats at Trump’s “own the libs” joint session of congress speech next week. Otherwise what are they even for there?

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job

Google LM Notebooks feels like a crazy magic trick when it takes some notes and slides I have to make a Planet Money style podcast. But also uncanny and unsettling when they start taking positions and opinions, urging me to make some change, in their conclusion... like you're a robot

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