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Lieven Vandelanotte

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English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot

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TIL "sidewalk sheds"

06.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ceausescuesque

06.03.2026 22:32 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
Zwei vergilbte Tulpen, ΓΌber Kreuz vor Rauhfasertapete.

Zwei vergilbte Tulpen, ΓΌber Kreuz vor Rauhfasertapete.

Zwei Tulpen in die Tage gekommen

06.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

but you are a pastry chef and a poet of dough

06.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rio Nakata (JPN) | Junior Men Free Skating | Tallinn 2026 | #WorldJFigure
Rio Nakata (JPN) | Junior Men Free Skating | Tallinn 2026 | #WorldJFigure YouTube video by Skating ISU

The future is bright
youtu.be/xFAuohDc1e8?...

06.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brussels Midi before it was wrecked to receive high-speed trains. It lost the restaurant, the tower and the dome of a thousand glass bricks. Design by Adrien & Yvan Blomme with Fernand Petit

06.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

*in my pocket πŸ₯°

06.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

06.03.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 6736 πŸ” 2299 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 51
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06.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: β€˜They don’t care about fox hunting. It’s about us’ The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege β€” and his numerous tattoos

'He is to conservatism what candyfloss is to sugar: a spectacular manifestation. For nearly 40 years he has sat in the upper chamber, eloquently tutting in the face of progress.'

Brilliant writing by @henrymance.ft.com
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

06.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Axel Springer buys Telegraph in Β£575mn deal [FREE TO READ] German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

LIke reading that Jarndyce v Jarndyce has been settled out of court. Can it really be true?

06.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

Yes, he really is godawful.

06.03.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting (and accurate) social media expert observation in this about Belgium's defence secretary: 'X is Theo Francken's local' ('X is het stamcafΓ© van Theo Francken). Prompted in part by his recent brain fart about 'queers for Khamenei' not yet having had the time to stage a protest.

06.03.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ouch. That stings πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

06.03.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for your service πŸ‘΄πŸ₯°

06.03.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Is the Sea - 2004 Remaster

BANGER
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06.03.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Insult, outrage, injury laid down generation upon generation like sedimentary layers. Where do they think that simmering anger goes? Eventually it must resurface, black as coal, hard as diamond.

06.03.2026 06:30 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

05.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 2233 πŸ” 528 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 15

My ICQ and mIRC username was RtHon πŸ₯Ή

06.03.2026 05:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive First known military strike on a US hyperscaler rattles regional ambitions to build multibillion-dollar cloud facilities

Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive ft.trib.al/OANrek0

06.03.2026 05:19 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

05.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 7020 πŸ” 1219 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 91
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 7414 πŸ” 2148 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 65

Thank you for your service πŸ‘΄πŸ₯°

06.03.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Although it would be doctrinally impermissible to assert definitively that any particular person is the anti-Christ, he is an anti-Christ.

05.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 396 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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Come work with me (ish)! Two-year fellowship at @kingsdh.bsky.social! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/140165-...

05.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Humiliating women is the single* thing Trump has been 100% consistent, 100% reliable throughout his life and career.

*okay, maybe one of the two things.

05.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bright orange sock with the words 'HOT & WRONG' in plain white lettering

Bright orange sock with the words 'HOT & WRONG' in plain white lettering

Let my sock be the judge

05.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, look. Another example of how English literature is totally outdated & irrelevant in modern life. And also how great & trustworthy AI is at sourcing quotes. Deffo trusting this tech and not reading books anymore myself!

05.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

05.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 482 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 4

this is praxis

05.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0