Brussels wasn’t supposed to be the capital of Europe.
Here’s how the unplanned capital of Europe happened:
🔗 https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/07/20/how-brussels-accidentally-became-the-capital-of-europe/
#EU#Brussels#Europe#Geopolitics#History#NATO#Espionage

Enormous long shot.
I lost my necklace today (Sunday June 15th 2025).
Probably somewhere in Brussels during the #IkTrekEenRodeLijn #RodeLijn manifestation.
It was a custom made present from my wife.
If anyone found this, or sees it posted as found somewhere, please contact me! 😢

#Brussels #Brussel #Bruxelles
#LostAndFound #HelpMeFind
#perdu #trouve
#verloren #gevonden

prompts

Introducing prompts, the latest breakthrough in smoltech AI research. A terminal prompt roulette that will make your panel moderation much more exciting (and cheaper).

https://git.bleu255.com/prompts/files.html

So far prompts has been successfully deployed in artistic research panel moderation (true story 🍷). It will be intensively re-trained on a new thematic next week in Brussels to help moderate a digital art panel discussion at @imal for their 25 years anniversary and the launch of the introspective exhibition "I am vertical (but I would rather be horizontal)".

https://www.imal.org/en/events/i-am-vertical-but-i-would-rather-be-horizontal-vernissage

doors open at 18:30, starts at 19:00 Tuesday 1st July

#golang #digitalart #brussels #bruxelles #prompt #research

There are protests everywhere, including here in #Belgium. On Sunday (11 May), tens of thousands of Belgians took to the streets in #Brussels to demand an end to the blockade and the war on #Gaza.

A week later, on 18 May, a hundred thousand #Dutch people held a march through The Hague with the same demands.

Geert Wilders wrote on X: "Today demo in Dhaag against Israel + for Hamas. Thousands of confused people draw a red line. I also draw a red line. Against terror and starving their own people by Hamas and for maximum destruction of their murderous infrastructure. And for Israel."
So the rest of the world sees this differently.

...For about a week now, we have been reading increasing criticism of Israeli and US policy in #US newspapers. #France, the #UK and #Canada are suddenly threatening concrete action if Israel continues the blockade and war. Belgian rectors took the lead with the joint demand to suspend the #European Association Agreement with Israel.

Many will feel that all this does not go far enough. Indeed, that resolution can be criticised.

The decision by the European Foreign Affairs Council to first "investigate" whether or not Israel is in compliance with human rights before it wants to review the association agreement is also more than cynical.
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar12aa73a8

✹✹✹ personal website moment - maintenance ✹✹✹

Hi BXL,
We, Marie & Martin ( @clemtre) have this idea to organize a day to take care of our personal websites communally. We'd like to come together in an informal in-person on-comptuer work-session, sharing food, drink & advice

You are welcome to come, learn next to us and ask questions, yet this day is not intended as an introduction making websites.

Where? In Bruxelles, probably at my co-working space near Zuid Station.
When? Sunday, June 1st 2025 (to be confirmed)

Are you interested, wanna comme? let us know here or via email > marie(at)verdeil(dot)net

ps. merci de m'avoir soufflé cette idée 😊 @timotheegoguely @julieblanc

#bxl #handmadewebsite #brussels

Thanks to an inquiry posed by @wendy yesterday, I discovered two amazing projects to map community events from aroubd the #fediverse on an @openstreetmap base.

«𝖛𝖔𝔦𝔡 balotta» by @grafton9 shows venues listed on https://balotta.org, an Italian @gancio server.
🗺️ https://autistici.org/void/balotta

«vous revoir» by @simon shows events listed across both @mobilizon and #Gancio servers.
🗺️ https://www.vousrevoir.be

#mobilizon #osm #brussels #bologna #italy #belgium