Imagine if Europe would have prevented people from creating an email address unless they had proper documentation to identify themselves.
That’s what they are trying to do now for the new Internet.
Donc Macron peut faire un débat avec l’extrême droite mais pas
@GLBouchez
? 🤔
Un jour faudra arrêter de se cacher derrière des accords d’il y a 20 ans. Le monde change et ce n’est pas en refusant le débat qu’on va avancer.
Mais c’est qui ce gars qui n’habite pas Bruxelles et qui vient nous dire comment on doit gérer notre mobilité ?
Faut qu’on arrête cette connerie de présidents de partis qui viennent s’immiscer dans toutes les conversations dans toutes les régions. Ça n’a aucun sens.
🗣️"C'est terminé de laisser la mobilité aux néerlandophones. Des solutions pour mettre Good Move à terre, j'en ai quelques unes !"
@GLBouchez
➡️Le président du
@MR_officiel
répond à
@elkevdbrandt
et sa volonté de maintenir
#GoodMove
:
Everything is in that picture. The “Declare Climate Emergency” banner, citizens holding peacefully a people assembly and then the police force following the orders of a bankrupt system. The rebellion is just getting started. 🌍🔥⏳
#ExtinctionRebellion
Photo by
@FrancoisDvorak
Brussels 2030.
Residential streets are playful, kids from all cultures are playing together, the police plays with local residents. Laughters have replaced the noise of overpowered cars.
That was yesterday in Schaerbeek.
One day it will be every Sunday and in every neighborhood.
Anyone interested to turn this building into a crypto house in Brussels? We have it for a year, possibly more (temporary occupation).
Would be awesome to use it to host artists and help them get into the NFT bandwagon, host meetups, hackathons, …
Ping me.
This weekend, we turned the wristband of all
@ethglobal
attendees into a crypto wallet.
Top it up with USDC on
@base
, then "tap to pay" with our native PoS app.
That was a fun project to work on with
@kevex91
&
@JonasBoury
.
Can't wait to integrate it to the
@citizenwallet
!
How many cars do I have to pass before they understand that’s it’s the slowest way to get around in a city? (Not to mention the pollution and the impact on air quality)
#micromobility
Speed camera lottery in Stockholm:
If you drive under speed limit, you enter a lottery to win the amount the speeders pay in fines.
Result: avg speed reduced from 32km/h to 25km/h. Brilliant 👌
GenX: work for a corporation
GenY: work for a startup
GenZ: work for a DAO
The .xyz transition from serving private interests to serving the community.
Bruxelles est la 2e ville la plus diverse au monde. Nous accueillerons des réfugiés afghans et nous ferons tout notre possible pour qu’ils puissent contribuer à notre vie sociale et économique, quoiqu’en disent des provinciaux qui n’habitent pas et ne comprennent pas notre ville.
@paulg
I don’t feel impoverished since I stopped growing. Every organism stops growing at some point. Otherwise it becomes a cancer.
What the degrowth movement misses, is that the focus should be on growing in new dimensions: knowledge, spirituality, art, harmony, wisdom.
Rue du Noyer, Schaerbeek, this morning.
6 lanes.
- 2 protected lanes for pedestrians 🚶♀️
- 2 lanes for cars that don't move 🚗
- 2 lanes for cars that try to move 🚙
- 0 lane for bicycles 🚲
Insanity.
If you care about mobility, get rid of one lane of those immobile cars.
Certains disent qu’il est déplacé de parler du débat du nucléaire en ce moment.
Au contraire, je pense qu’au vu des événements, il est déplacé de ne pas vouloir reconsidérer l’arrêt du nucléaire et persister à construire de nouvelles centrales au gaz russe.
A bon entendeur…
When
@XR_Belgium
protested peacefully to declare climate emergency, robocops violently arrested everyone.
When a couple of violent men destroy road signs to protest against
#goodmove
, no arrest and we postpone the plan.
Is this what democracy look like? 😔
Le
@MR_officiel
reçoit la palme de la politique du 20e siècle. Placer le frère de l’ancien premier ministre en tant que ministre du digital. Il n’a jamais que je sache créé ou travaillé dans le digital. Il n’a pas de profil LinkedIn (ni GitHub).
#PartiConservateur
#begov
More than 3,600 bikes today, all packed on a single bike lane whereas there are 4 (mostly empty) lanes for cars.
At the very least we should have every Sunday without cars.
Retweet if you agree.
So grateful to the city of Brussels for planting trees in our neighborhood 🌳
Much better than the parking spots for the wellbeing of the community.
Brussels is changing and I’m here for it.
Drone footage of the
#CriticalMass
Brussels (
@CritMassBrussel
) of yesterday 🚴♀️🚴🚴♂️
The velorution doesn't stop.
Every last Friday of the month, we leave around 6:30pm from Trône. Let's ride together! 🚴♀️🚴🚴♂️
4 lanes for cars. None for bikes.
Those parked cars are preventing the construction of protected bike lanes.
They prevent our kids from going to school safely and stress free.
Rent a garage and get out of the way. You are taking too much space.
@patrickc
And yet, this doesn’t seem to be correlated with quality of life and life expectancy (and the UK average is already lower than mainland Europe’s).
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column:
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
Dear
@elkevdbrandt
We, citizens of Brussels, kindly ask you to make Sunday Without Cars every Sunday this summer 🌞
(Please co-sign this open letter with us!)
I understand why many people are against nuclear energy. I am too. But coal and natural gas plants are much worse.
I was also against Biden. But the alternative was also much worse.
We fought enough. It’s time to come together to keep fossil fuel in the ground.
Sorry folks, I'm done investing in startups. I'm only investing in (digital) cooperatives.
If we don't change the ownership structure, it doesn't matter how much greener we make our businesses. Eventually, they will always create value for shareholders before creating value for
On our way to Amsterdam. First stop Brussels North Station to catch the train to Ghent. Then we will be biking to Veere in the Netherlands.
#slowtravel
Maxime t’es gentil mais tu habites Namur. Alors en toute sympathie on s’en fou de ce que tu penses sur ce sujet. Viens respirer notre air tous les jours et on en reparlera. Bonne soirée. Bisous depuis Bruxelles 😘
Je suis Pdt de parti et profondément soucieux du devenir de la Rég.Bxl-Cap. Et donc inquiet. Je ne dirai donc pas cyniquement que les sociétés bxloises sont welcome à Namur pour leur business. Mais depuis des semaines, c’est vraiment Living in Absurdistan !
#peage
#toutalenvers
#OKBoomer
Le vrai racket c’est tout l’argent public (notre argent) pour financer les infrastructures pour des voitures personnelles que la majorité des bruxellois n’ont pas.
€2500/an (~€7/jour) ne couvre aucunement toutes les externalités négatives pour la société.
“Ethereum is not Bitcoin plus smart contracts. It’s open source programs that can have a memory.” —
@VitalikButerin
quoting his cofounder at
@ETHBerlin
If you've already transitioned to Signal and Discord, you don't even notice FB being down.
If you've already transitioned to vegan, you don't even notice the meat & dairy shortage in the UK.
If you've already transitioned to biking, you don't even notice the high gas price ⛽️
Après Uccle, le
@MR_officiel
s’attaque à Schaerbeek pour revenir au monde d’avant.
Je pense qu’il est temps pour
@GLBouchez
de renommer le parti. Ce n’est plus un « mouvement réformateur » mais un parti conservateur.
Instead of going after the existing industries that are responsible for 99% of all money laundering and of all carbon emissions, EU politicians prefer to go after the new up and coming generation. Stay classy Europe.
How is this flight still allowed to wake up a very dense city before 7am on a Saturday?
Guys, there is a train that takes 75 minutes to get to Paris.
Respect the environment. Respect people. You’re not alone.
@KMbappe
is that you?
Breaking news: des automobilistes, après payer une fortune pour un engin qui peut faire du 140km/h, ne veulent pas que les habitants d’une grande ville limite leur vitesse pour leur sécurité, leurs oreilles, et leurs poumons.
Bruxelles n’appartient plus aux navetteurs. Sorry.
Nurses in Belgium receive €788 as a end of year bonus. They have to pay €464,31 taxes on it.
In the meantime, people who make money by investing on the stock market don’t have to pay any capital gain tax in Belgium.
You said essential workers? 🤨
This is where euros 💶 were printed till 2020. It’s now empty. What about we organise a crypto conference next year here in the capital of Europe?
Who can help?
“Facebook is, in my opinion, the most dangerous company in the world, and ought to be broken up and then severely regulated. Again I say, Facebook is to privacy and civil discourse what Enron was to accounting.” -
@gruber
The Fb group of angry car drivers followed by 43k people organised a “big protest” in Brussels against the
#GoodMove
, the plan to stop cars from going through the city.
Despite the nice weather, only 80 people showed up.
The car emperor has no clothes.
Reclaim your city citizen
Vélorution /ve.lɔ.ʁɔ̃/ noun
1. A combination of the words velo (bike) and revolution. It refers to the mass acceptance of bicycles which will allegedly replace a car driven society with a bike-driven one.
2. Changing your city, one bicycle at a time.
Boomers want a judge to remove all the new cycle paths created during the lockdown.
#OKBoomer
🚗🦖
Can we instead remove all roads made for cars in the past decades that are preventing me to breathe fresh air and prevent my daughter to bike safely? 🚲
The people who got rich during the gold rush were the ones selling shovels.
The people who are getting rich now during the startup revolution are the ones producing stickers.
Yes. Looking at you
@stickermule
. Smart. Very smart.
“If we wait for governments, it will be too late. If we act as individuals, it will be too little. But if we act as communities, it might just be enough, and it might just be in time.” -
@robintransition
, From What Is to What If (thanks for the book Rob!)
I’d pay to have a coworking space at my daughter’s school.
Would you?
This would reduce commute time and it would help build community with other parents.
On our way to Duinrell (near The Hague) for family holidays.
Taking the train to Essen, the northernmost station in Belgium, then it’s a 105km bike ride.
First stop, Willemstad, 32km away. Then Rotterdam tomorrow where
@leen_schelfhout
and her boys will join us.
#slowtravel
Today it’s
@CritMassBrussel
! Expect 3k+ bicycles 🚲🚲🚲 It will be epic 🎉
It will start around 6:30pm from Trone. Arrival at the
@citizencorner_I
where there will be food 🍲, drinks 🍻, music 🎶 & the Solarpunk NFT exhibition to re-
@ImagineBrussels
😎
This was last year 🧵👇
L’arrogance de ceux qui n’habitent pas Bruxelles et qui disent ce que Bruxelles doit faire 🤦🏻♂️
Apres tout, c’est nous et nos enfants qui devons respirer l’air de Bruxelles tous les jours. Alors oui on va mettre une zone 30km/h partout et on ne s’arrêtera pas là!
Suite aux plaintes de personnes du groupe "l'automobiliste en a marre", une enquête a été ouverte suite à l'utilisation de mon drone pour couvrir la Masse Critique de Juillet...
Drone footage of the
#CriticalMass
Brussels (
@CritMassBrussel
) of yesterday 🚴♀️🚴🚴♂️
The velorution doesn't stop.
Every last Friday of the month, we leave around 6:30pm from Trône. Let's ride together! 🚴♀️🚴🚴♂️
This afternoon I biked with my daughter and my mom in the “hellhole” of Brussels.
Don’t trust the media.
Don’t trust your president.
Trust fellow citizens.
#TeamCitizens
#molembike
The commune of Schaerbeek in Brussels uses our taxpayer money to pay Facebook to promote a €25 voucher giveaway for car parking
🚗💨 🚙💨
And we are surprised that the
#cop26
was a failure? We can’t even have our own cities to dare to say no to local car drivers…
Fellow residents of Schaerbeek,
please sign with us this open letter to ask our city to follow the example of 1000 Brussels and give priority to pedestrians and cyclists starting Monday ✍️
Why are there 3 lanes for cars rue Rogier and not even one for bikes on the way to North Station in Brussels?
Rue Brabant is even worse with 4 car lanes, 0 bike lane 😳
Can we share the road a bit more equally please?
@paulg
That’s the point. I stopped growing physically and the world needs to stop growing in material consumption and GDP.
But thanks god there are so many more dimensions where there is growth potential. We only see what we measure (see also “seeing like a state”) and we became blind.
On vit dans une maison partagée. Si chacun d’entre-nous avait sa voiture, on aurait 2-3 voitures parquées dans la rue et cela n’aurait mis personne “mal à l’aise”, personne ne nous aurait rien dit...
C’est fou.
Ce concept de
@citizen_garden
est sympathique mais il me met très mal à l'aise.
Pourquoi ? Car il revient à autoriser les personnes (souvent aisées) qui ont un garage en ville à privatiser une partie de l'espace publique sous prétexte qu'elles pourraient y mettre leur voiture.
Why do we implicitly force everyone to have an opinion on everything, to take a side?
It should be ok to say “I don’t know”, “I didn’t have the time to research this topic properly”.
Resist polarization.