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Actief in Sales & Marketing. Fan van Standard Luik en brouwt af en toe een 🍺 op blommecaes.be
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blommethomas.bsky.social
Dit is pure diefstal. En no way dat het regime in Venezuela dit zal aanvaarden www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
U.S. to Control Venezuelan Oil Sales Indefinitely
Trump has directed Energy Secretary Chris Wright to carry out his plan for the oil to be taken by storage ships and transported to the U.S.
www.wsj.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Dit moet stoppen. Je dreigt niet met militair ingrijpen tegen een bondgenoot.
lukemcgee.bsky.social Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 1d
The White House sticking to the line that military is an option in Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Belangrijk. Zeker als het op een vredevolle manier zou gebeuren.
noelreports.com NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d
Iran’s unrest is escalating. In Abadan, security forces reportedly refused to disperse protesters and instead joined them. The Times reports that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is preparing a contingency plan to flee with his family to Moscow if the situation spirals out of control.
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
"De wereld wordt straks verdeeld in 3 machtsblokken: de VS, China en Rusland"
Datzelfde Rusland dat het al moeilijk heeft in Oekraïne en met een economie de omvang van de Benelux? Geloven die analisten dat eigenlijk zelf als ze het uitspreken?
January 6, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The USA has long had the technological ability to do a wide range of actions, from wiping a nation off the map to individual assassinations but usually those questions of what it could do were leavened with assessments of the chaos that would inevitably follow. Not anymore!
January 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
2 dagen na de aanval op Venezuela. Dreigementem richting Groenland, Columbia, Mexico en nu dus Cuba. Zelfs voor de VS lijkt me dat wat veel hooi op de vork 😂
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target?

MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah.

WELKER: Is that a yes?

RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Goed interview dit. En Rubio staat duidelijk met zijn mond vol tanden. Kans is groot dat hij zelf niet weet wat het plan nu is.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority?

RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela

STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority?

RUBIO: We have court orders
January 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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golikehellmachine.com
one of the dumbest parts of this is the idea that oil producers actually want their holdings in venezeula back, which they do not. it’s a war for oil no one really wants.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Mocht het nog niet duidelijk zijn...
January 4, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
New free link:

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January 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Maar wat dat plan dan is? Nobody knows. Vermoedelijk 1 of ander puppet regime. Dat heeft in het verleden fantastisch gewerkt....
tendar.bsky.social (((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 4d
On the question regarding opposition leader María Corina Machado Trump responded:

„I think it would be tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support or the respect within the country.“

What a slap for Machado. It appears that different plans have been made.
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d
Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.
January 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Het enige dat nog ontbreekt is dat ze straks NATO Article 5 inroepen
judah-grunstein.bsky.social Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4d
To sum up, a US president is going to war without congressional authorization against a sovereign nation that has not attacked or threatened it, and is doing so like a thief in the night, with no explanation for the American people or the world. It is all so unimaginable that it strains credulity.
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Bij deze heeft hij meer oorlogen gestart dan hij beëindigd heeft #trump
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Wanneer gaan we tech eindelijk reguleren zoals we ook met andere sectoren doen? De externe kosten hiervan zijn vele malen hoger dan de opbrengsten. Zie bv ook Meta die 10% van zijn omzet haalt uit scams
jim.londoncentric.media Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Als je 1 iets leest vandaag, laat het dan dit zijn. Het is een heel, heel, heel goed stuk: www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Tegendraadse mening: misschien zal het missen van de AI/tech boom binnen 10 jaar net de winst van Europa blijken
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d
Enshittification's first three stages - from a platform people love to a platform businesses profit off of to a platform that hurts consumers and businesses alike - are well-known. But I argue we're in a fourth stage where stocks have become enshittified too.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
Image Alt Text: We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools, or create the means for the average person to accumulate wealth. The money does exist, it just exists for those who want to gamble — private equity firms, “business development companies” that exist to give money to other companies, venture capitalists, and banks that are getting desperate and need an overnight shot of capital from the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Repurchase Facility or Discount Window, two worrying indicators of bank stress I’ll get into later. No, the money does not exist for you or me or a person. Money is for entities that could potentially funnel more money into the economy, even if the ways that these entities use the money are reckless and foolhardy, because the system’s intent on keeping entities alive incentivizes it. We are in an era where the average person is told to pull up their bootstraps, to work harder, to struggle more, because, as Martin Luther King Jr. once said, it’s socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. The “free market” is a fucking con. When you or I run out of money, our things are taken from us, we receive increasingly-panicked letters, we get phone calls and texts and emails and demands, we are told that all will be lost if we don’t “work it out,” because the financial system is not about an exchange of value but whether or not you can enter into the currently agreed-upon con. By letting neoliberalism and the scourge of the free markets rule, modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory meets my own Rot Economy Thesis in a fourth stage of Enshittification. :In November 2025, Reuters revealed that Meta projected in late 2024 that 10% of its annual revenue ($16 billion) would come from advertisements for scams or banned goods, mere weeks after Meta announced a ridiculous $27 billion data center debt package, one that used deep accountancy magic to keep it off of its balance sheet despite Meta guaranteeing the entirety of the loan. One would think this would horrify investors for two reasons: Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it. Meta is using deliberate and insidious accounting tricks to act like a data center that it is paying to build and will be the sole tenant of is somehow an “off balance sheet” operation. One would be wrong. Morgan Stanley said a few weeks ago that it is “one of the handful of companies that can leverage its leading data, distribution and investments in AI,” and raised its target to $750, with a $1000-a-share bull case. Wedbush raised Meta’s price to $920, and Bank of America staunchly held firm at…$810. I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them, because this is the Rot Economy, and all that matters is number go up.
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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zoandbehold.bsky.social
"And I never say no"

We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.

We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Met het einde van het jaar in zicht: wie moet ik hier op BlueSky zeker nog volgen voor wat meer plezier in 2026? (Nederlandstalig) #dtv #followsunday
December 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Blackberries met fysiek toetsenbord, de ronde navigatie knop in een wagen, een fysiek deurslot... Ik hoop echt dat ze terugkomen
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 11d
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
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December 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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rechtuitgezegd.bsky.social
Wegens ziekte kunnen onze vrienden niet naar PairiDaiza gaan 😓
Iemand interesse in de tickets (voor volwassenen) aan korting?

Geldig tem 02/01
www.ticketswap.be/listing/pair...

En geldig tem 04/01

www.ticketswap.be/listing/pair...

RT is lief ❤️
Pairi Daiza
Op TicketSwap koop en verkoop je veilig, makkelijk en eerlijk tickets voor concerten, festivals, sportwedstrijden, theater en dagjes weg.
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December 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Zo'n countdown doet me ook altijd wat dingen opzoeken op de fantastische tijdloze.rocks website. Ik kom er bv. achter dat Beach Boys en The Clash nog nooit in de top 100 hebben gestaan. Kennen jullie er zo nog? (van de echte classic groepen bedoel ik dan)
tijdloze.rocks
Statistieken en informatie over de Tijdloze 100, de allertijden-lijst van Studio Brussel
tijdloze.rocks
December 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Dat is toch ook een pipo eerste klas hoor. Een regering zonder Vlaamse meerderheid als oplossing? Dan moet ik aan Tindemans denken: de grondwet is geen vodje papier www.standaard.be/politiek/ahm...
Ahmed Laaouej: “2025 was een jaar van enorm veel tijdverlies”
Een jaar lang hield lokaal PS-kopstuk Ahmed Laaouej voet bij stuk: geen Brusselse regering met de N-VA. Nu de MR ook buitenspel staat, komt het spel helemaal zijn richting uit, en die van een centrumlinkse coalitie. “Sommigen beweerden dat ik per se minister-president wilde worden. Dat klopt dus niet.”
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December 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
blommethomas.bsky.social
Slechts 2 clubs (degradatie kandidaten) scoren minder als Standard Liège. En toch staan we als bij mirakel op de 6de plaats 🙌 Al denk ik nu wel dat we na 30 speeldagen een paar plaatsen gaan zakken
December 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM