Craig Winneker

Yass!

Are you taking notes, @stib-mivb.bsky.social?

Good morning from Brussels

There’s a lot to work with in this story

#ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee
#BelgianSolutions
#GreatMomentsInStockPhotography

Taking my hat off to @nicholasvinocur.bsky.social and @maxgriera.bsky.social for this needle drop in today's @politico.eu Brussels Playbook item on socialist MEPs trying to enforce some internal discipline

There’s a YouTube where squirrels outsmart a fairly clever dude in the most Rube Goldberg way imaginable

The Lamest Race?

#ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

Good morning from Brussels

Brussels: a place where "requests full clarity" counts as a "strongly worded statement"

It’s the Battle of the Expensive Fast Food!

One Directive

#EUSupergroups

Back when people used to do hashtags #EUSupergroups would have been a fun one

Macron, Merz, Meloni and Young
Velvet Devolver
Traveling Secretaries
The Three Presidents
Trilogue
berlaygenius
The Highrepresentatives

Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming The elusive author of paranoid, absurdist novels looks more and more prescient these days.

This piece from @motherslug.bsky.social on Thomas Pynchon and our current predicament is superb

I re-read VINELAND ahead of the release of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and it not only held up, it resonated more with me than when I first encountered it in the '90s

www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-...

Keep hope alive

"Two-speed Europe"?

What the EU really needs is a ten-speed Europe

Interesting development in this story about Belgian taxpayers taking a bunch of horrible looking real estate off the hands of the European Commission

The newest food hall opening up in Brussels is called ... [checks notes]... Ratz

Fans of rock music and waterfowl have a lot of decisions to make this spring in Belgium

#EUCO: "We need to meet urgently to figure out how to make Europe's economy work for everyone"

@eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu: "I know the perfect place"

Would love to have seen the pitch for this, after millions in billing:

“Ditching the E says you are about the future, not the past”

would sell out to Illy in a heartbeat

Choose your fighter

#ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

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#ImGonnaNeedMoreCoffee

I was only just thinking today about Catherine O’Hara in ‘After Hours’ and have been a fan since the days of SCTV and up through The Studio. What a loss.

That thief stole a hell of a lot of bicycles

#GreatMomentsInStockPhotography

Just another day in the Brussels EU quarter

To Be or Not To Be - A Little Piece of Poland YouTube video by omgponies

When Trump talks about "peace" just remember the unsurpassed Mel Brooks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DC...

Just finished SMILEY'S PEOPLE in two formats: first the brilliant novel and then the masterful 1982 television adaptation starring Alec Guinness

Come for the Alan Rickman cameo, stay for the Patrick Stewart cameo

The frangipane is the best part of the galette, the rest is just cardboard

I know, fighting words again. But seriously, why do people like such dry cakes?