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Emily B

@emilycgb.bsky.social

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🇦🇹🇺🇸 in Brussels / EU 🇪🇺| chemicals•plastics•policy•circular economy | she/her | 🚲| swiftie 🩵| solo mom | booksky 💙📚

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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 27m

Haha I will have to send that to my Finnish friend lol

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 51m

Mohela be gone!!

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 52m

Sorry but Vienna doesn’t exist

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CEN and CENELEC @cen-cenelec.bsky.social · 1h

🌍 CEN and CENELEC aim for an inclusive, open and transparent standardization system where everyone can take part. On 9 October, together with @aminaaissani.bsky.social from @ecos.ngo, we hosted a webinar on Inclusive Standardization 👉 lnkd.in/ej7as8KC
#WSD2025 #WorldStandardsDay2025 #SDG17

🌍 CEN and CENELEC aim for an inclusive, open and transparent standardization system where everyone can take part.
On 9 October, together with Amina AISSANI from ECOS, we hosted a webinar on Inclusive Standardization — check it out 👉 https://lnkd.in/ej7as8KC
#WSD2025 #WorldStandardsDay2025 #SDG17

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1h

As I’ve said before

donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 3d

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

The economy is increasingly reliant on the wealthiest 10%.

(via MS) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

Probably this

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s gotten worse in Brussels since I arrived

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

I love cycling and try to be as considerate as possible, especially to pedestrians and other cyclists, but car drivers are truly ruining the experience with being totally oblivious to their surroundings! It’s so dangerous!!

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

I’m getting bike road rage recently at how poorly people are driving these days, no one is signaling, drivers just stopping in the middle of the road, it’s an epidemic of terrible driving

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

Omg I love this! Monterey Bay Aquarium reissues vintage tshirt after seen in a recent photo of Taylor Swift - 100% cotton, decent dye, cooperative owned company, less packaging. This may be the only merch I’ll buy from the TLOAS album release!

www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/tayl...

www.montereybayaquarium.org

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

I knew very early on also because I was overly emotional and my body just felt DIFFERENT. then my period was late and I tested.

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no 😥

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 2d

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 2d

She did not take my advice with this one … is this shirt even legal in the EU lmao

(It is)

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 3d

Babby in placenta

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 3d

Yes and she’s obviously an autistic woman, how is this even a debate??

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 3d

Or even Franklin, Juniata etc …

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Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 4d

💰 EU billionaires’ wealth surged by €400 billion in just six months — that’s over €2 billion a day.

Meanwhile, ordinary Europeans are paying the price.

Our new report shows how decades of tax policies have favored the super-rich 👇

A 🧵

#TaxTheRich #ECOFIN

Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 4d

📢 EU Billionaires’ wealth surges by over €400bn in first half of 2025.

That’s over €2bn a day.

🔗https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/eu-billionaires-wealth-surges-over-eu400-billion-first-half-2025

#TaxTheRich

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 4d

I bake when I’m relaxed or when I’m stressed and it’s mid-October a week before leaving for a two week U.S. trip so assume I’m not relaxed 😮‍💨

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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IPEN: toxics-free @toxicsfree.bsky.social · 5d

Three CNN reporters wore chemical-tracking wristbands provided by IPEN found exposure to an average of 28 toxic chemicals in just five days, including phthalates and bisphenols linked to cancer, fertility issues, and heart disease.

Read and watch more: edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/c...

Three CNN reporters on three continents wore chemical-tracking wristbands. The results were alarming | CNN

Plastic is woven into our lives and its chemical pollution is in the air we breathe, the dust we inhale, the food we eat. We did an experiment to see what we’re exposed to every day.

edition.cnn.com

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s a wiki on it - contrastive focus reduplication - I wonder how many of the other attendees caught it and if it’s a familiar feature to speakers of “Brussels English”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras...

Contrastive focus reduplication - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight I attended Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s talk at Bozar and besides the many interesting discussions, she said, when referencing Nigeria, that she “didn’t leave leave”, and this made me reflect upon how that is linguistic quirk I haven’t heard in quite some time

Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 6d

People hate it when women are having fun