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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge
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📝 sustainability comms expert & podcaster
🎙 @oumusicpod.bsky.social co-host
📍 Brussels, Belgium
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Bárbara Mendes-Jorge @flamemeup.bsky.social · Nov 15
Plan to use Bluesky in the same way I did Twitter - post haphazardly about too many topics which will limit my engagement! These will for sure include:
- Politics
- Podcasts, especially @oumusicpod.bsky.social
- Comedy
- Music
- Sustainability/climate change (although I do that more on LinkedIn)
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adambienkov.bsky.social
This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism
in the UK over the past year.

How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?

news.sky.com/story/terror...
Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after Palestine Action ban
Official figures show 1,630, or 86%, of the 1,886 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year to the end of September 2025 were linked to supporting the group.
news.sky.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
flamemeup.bsky.social
Guessing people boycotting Carrefour as part of Israel BDS - as I am - is also having an impact
brusselstimes.com The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 17d
The decision follows years of financial losses, with Belgium no longer considered a priority market for the company.
French supermarket giant Carrefour considers exit from Belgium
French supermarket giant Carrefour considers exit from Belgium
www.brusselstimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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robinjames.bsky.social
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 18d
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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thequietus.com
Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:

thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Nov 16
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
flamemeup.bsky.social
absolutely FURIOUS about this today
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
flamemeup.bsky.social
Today's soundtrack in the café I'm working from has so far included:

The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

And I haven't been the only one singing along quietly 🎵
a penguin wearing headphones is standing in front of a radio
ALT: a penguin wearing headphones is standing in front of a radio
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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kendrawrites.com
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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dly.bsky.social
sorry but nothing can be worth $5 trillion, we don't live in a cartoon
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Chatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Norway Wealth Fund CEO Says AI Ends the Need for Climate Hires In this Article Norges Bank Government Pension Fund Global -- Follow Norges Bank -- Follow Anthropic PBC Private company Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip? Send a tip to our reporters Site feedback: Take our Survey By Frances Schwartzkopff and Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM GMT+2 Updated on October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM GMT+2 Save Listen 4:31 Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, is giving artificial intelligence a key role in protecting its $2 trillion portfolio from climate risk. Norges Bank Investment Management will use AI for a range of tasks including to “extract signals from company dialogues,” according to its 2030 Climate Action Plan. The fund also intends to use AI to improve decision making, and “to strengthen investment processes across teams,” ultimately helping it identify corporate winners and losers, it said. Tangen has made no secret of his enthusiasm for AI. In an interview in May, the 59-year-old former hedge fund manager said he’s been running around “like a maniac” trying to get staff to use the technology, even going so far as to say that employees shunning AI “will never be promoted.” At Oslo-based NBIM, AI is already proving useful in determining whether the fund’s climate policy is working, Tangen said. That includes evaluating the effectiveness of its engagement with portfolio companies, crunching data to guide recommendations on proxy votes and generating quantitative climate scores, he said. “Portfolio managers get this information directly in their trading systems,” Tangen said. AI can help identify “transition winners,” which he describes as companies that are “decarbonizing faster and more effectively than the market expects.” During the press briefing, Tangen was asked to comment on ChatGPT’s advice that a long-term investor keen to manage climate risk should reduce its exposure to fossil fuel companies. “We disagree, we won’t do it,” he said. Tangen then asked the head of his climate team, Eivind Filflet, to run the same question by Claude, the language model developed by Anthropic PBC. Claude’s response laid out the case “for continuing engagement,” he said. “But Claude knows me,” Filflet said. Tangen said the example demonstrates why it’s still important to have a “human in the mix.”
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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bx1.be
Les concentrations de dioxide d'azote ont presque chuté de moitié en 6 ans
La LEZ améliore la qualité de l’air dans la capitale, selon un rapport de Bruxelles Environnement
bx1.be
October 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
flamemeup.bsky.social
My photoshop/Canva skills are second to NONE (i.e. please hire me for my other much more developed comms skills, thank you)
oumusicpod.bsky.social Over/underrated music podcast 🎵 @oumusicpod.bsky.social · Oct 20
Our next episode is out tomorrow - and what potentially overrated musician could our upcoming special guest Joe be talking about…?
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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benansell.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
flamemeup.bsky.social
Got a job thanks to telling people on Twitter about my MSc dissertation, another job thanks to connecting with someone I didn't know on LinkedIn, moved to Brussels (where I have been since 2013) thanks to talking to who would become my future boss on Twitter
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Oct 8
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
flamemeup.bsky.social
Happy Taylor Swift release day to those who celebrate 😉
oumusicpod.bsky.social Over/underrated music podcast 🎵 @oumusicpod.bsky.social · Oct 3
We’ve wanted to talk about Taylor Swift for a long time...after collaborating on a playlist, will we think she’s a Mastermind or more of an Anti-Hero?

Listen to our latest episode, Pop Singer-Songwriters Part III, here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat...

#podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #taylorswift
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM