Praying to the #brussels weather gods that it is not raining all day tomorrow because I’d love to take my kid on a #bike ride but can’t be bothered to ride for leisure when it’s raining!!

When Strasbourg 🇫🇷 opened its tram to Kehl 🇩🇪, this was big news at the time

But there are 5 other #CrossBorderRail tram lines - Basel 🇨🇭 has 4, and Geneva 🇨🇭 1 (2 more planned)

But the real 😳 is all the abandoned ones - there used to 35 other cross border tramways in Europe, the vast majority to/from 🇧🇪

All mapped on my all the #CrossBorderRail all the borders map! https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_838780#6/49.417/8.472

La région bruxelloise va bientôt se doter d’un nouveau Règlement Régional d’Urbanisme (RRU), dénommé Good Living. Son objectif : encadrer la transformation du territoire bruxellois, au service d’une plus grande résilience et d’une meilleure qualité de vie et de l’environnement.

#velo #Bruxelles

https://www.gracq.org/actualites-du-gracq/good-living-quelle-place-pour-le-velo

Very rainy weather + furry and energetic dog is not a great combination… I am almost missing the super cold because at least it wasn’t wet 😭

@patdennis congratulations!!!

Vive l'Europe! 🚋🚎🚇🚌⚡🌻🇪🇺💶💶 #Brussels #mobility #green https://bx1.be/categories/news/un-pret-europeen-de-475-millions-deuros-pour-ameliorer-le-materiel-de-la-stib/

@tomfinley you don’t know me and yet you have somehow seen my laptops 😂

#Mastodon: Strong legal warning from French Gendarmerie Nationale Chief Scientific Advisor - Cybercrime to #ElonMusk, in response to new #Twitter policy launched Sunday

Second thoughts about firing Twitter legal counsel Elon?

@ericfreyss

And based on what's happened the past 48 hours on Twitter... think forward

Imagine - say - Washington Post revealed abuse of workers at a Tesla plant in Shanghai

What would happen?

Would it be dealt with fairly? Now I really doubt it. The reporter(s) would get blocked, and links to the story flagged.

Twitter is no longer a reliable and predictable place for news and the first take on the news.

We celebrated the first night of #Hanukkah tonight with the progressive #jewish community here in #brussels and it was super nice, we are starting to become a part of the community.

No #latkes but in true #belgian fashion, there was a #fritkot 😅 so we got our fried potatoes in #frite form 😂

@Chrisanne “unicorn chips”… we brought them from the US last year, they are vaguely vanilla flavored

More successful in round two! #cookie #baking .. I think the dough wasn’t cold enough and needed more flour 🍪

@giulio_mattioli fairly certain he got a big deal at substack so he’ll do anything for clicks and potential subscriptions 😬

'1619 Project' adapted for docuseries. The six-episode series is hosted by project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones and examines how slavery affected contemporary American life. Premiering Jan. 26 on Hulu.

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/16/1619-project-adapted-for-docuseries-to-air-on-hulu/ #goodblacknews #BlackMastodonAllies #blackjoy

@giulio_mattioli at this point, his whole personality is being a troll

My first attempt (in Europe) at baking holiday sugar #cookies has been a #fail (not totally, as we ate them and were delicious). I’m blaming this on the #butter. Always blame the butter.

Plastics. It's the exit plan for the fossil fuel industry. And it's poisoning people and communities.

Check out our latest episode of "A Matter of Degrees"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/petrochemicals-and-plastics-a-fossil-fuel-lifeline/id1534829787?i=1000590235269

Attn all Bruxellois: it’s a perfect time to air out your flats, sunny and the air isn’t too cold!! Even Mocha is enjoying a moment to get outside #brussels #bruxelles #freshair #dogsmile

@RadReduction this depends on your server. If your server has just gotten overloaded with new people, then it is sluggish.

I see there was another twitter exodus to Mastodon overnight as many friends are now here 😂
Cool I can make more dumb jokes now instead of only posting about policy, cycling, and the weather 😎