Joost De Cock
@joost.at
I make clothes and shoes. I design sewing patterns. I write code. Blessed/Cursed with ASD.
Benevolent dictator of FreeSewing (1) maintainer of Morio (2).
💜 bikes 🚴♀️ | 👎 cars 🚫
我也在学中文
1) https://freesewing.eu
2) https://morio.it
Benevolent dictator of FreeSewing (1) maintainer of Morio (2).
💜 bikes 🚴♀️ | 👎 cars 🚫
我也在学中文
1) https://freesewing.eu
2) https://morio.it
I sold my car today 🚗
It's just you an me now baby 🚲 (looks lovingly at bicycle)
It's just you an me now baby 🚲 (looks lovingly at bicycle)
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I sold my car today 🚗
It's just you an me now baby 🚲 (looks lovingly at bicycle)
It's just you an me now baby 🚲 (looks lovingly at bicycle)
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This bit here. Especially as like...they say this despite LePen existing and getting tons of votes, on explicitly Nativist ethnonationalism. This thread is absolutely correct.
What do I mean?
It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.
I'm a Black woman. I get it.
And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.
How would they know?
France doesn't track racial data.
It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.
I'm a Black woman. I get it.
And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.
How would they know?
France doesn't track racial data.
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This bit here. Especially as like...they say this despite LePen existing and getting tons of votes, on explicitly Nativist ethnonationalism. This thread is absolutely correct.
Also not pleasant: genocide
🇮🇹 DS Francesco Frassi on the dark days at Israel-Premier Tech
🗣️ "It was not pleasant Frassi said. “Sometimes we found ourselves, facing ugly gestures in the different races we went to. They painted you as an indecent person when you are not."
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ital...
📸 Cor Vos
🗣️ "It was not pleasant Frassi said. “Sometimes we found ourselves, facing ugly gestures in the different races we went to. They painted you as an indecent person when you are not."
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ital...
📸 Cor Vos
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Also not pleasant: genocide
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The sort of report a great paper publishes. It’s a great read about who the man with the gun in this photo, is. Experts now know his name & that he was a school teacher before WWII.
‘Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity’. [1]
‘Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity’. [1]
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The sort of report a great paper publishes. It’s a great read about who the man with the gun in this photo, is. Experts now know his name & that he was a school teacher before WWII.
‘Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity’. [1]
‘Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity’. [1]
Tip: For 'best team' you go with Bull Russell's Boston Celtics, not with Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls.
You wheel out MJ to say: We're going to crush you because just look at what our star can do.
You wheel out BR to say: other teams have bigger stars (Wilt/Pogi) but we'll still win coz team.
You wheel out MJ to say: We're going to crush you because just look at what our star can do.
You wheel out BR to say: other teams have bigger stars (Wilt/Pogi) but we'll still win coz team.
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tip: For 'best team' you go with Bull Russell's Boston Celtics, not with Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls.
You wheel out MJ to say: We're going to crush you because just look at what our star can do.
You wheel out BR to say: other teams have bigger stars (Wilt/Pogi) but we'll still win coz team.
You wheel out MJ to say: We're going to crush you because just look at what our star can do.
You wheel out BR to say: other teams have bigger stars (Wilt/Pogi) but we'll still win coz team.
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when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
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Ik weet niet hoe ik hen kan bereiken dus ik probeer het langs hier: hartelijk dank aan de twee jongedames die gisteren mijn vrouw hielpen en de ambulance belden nadat ze viel met de fiets op de Turnhoutsebaan. Ze stelt het al bij al goed en zal er wellicht niks aan overhouden. Dankjulliewel 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ik weet niet hoe ik hen kan bereiken dus ik probeer het langs hier: hartelijk dank aan de twee jongedames die gisteren mijn vrouw hielpen en de ambulance belden nadat ze viel met de fiets op de Turnhoutsebaan. Ze stelt het al bij al goed en zal er wellicht niks aan overhouden. Dankjulliewel 🙏
"our original crypto food delivery idea"
That so many of the companies doing "AI" have pivoted from crypto tells you everything you need to know about them.
That so many of the companies doing "AI" have pivoted from crypto tells you everything you need to know about them.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"our original crypto food delivery idea"
That so many of the companies doing "AI" have pivoted from crypto tells you everything you need to know about them.
That so many of the companies doing "AI" have pivoted from crypto tells you everything you need to know about them.
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Protests work.
only 2 months ago, pro-Palestinian protesters at La Vuelta were being told that protesting a bike race won’t make a difference
today, the team they were protesting announced that they’ve dumped their owner, rebranded and registered in a new country
procyclinguk.com/nsn-cycling-...
today, the team they were protesting announced that they’ve dumped their owner, rebranded and registered in a new country
procyclinguk.com/nsn-cycling-...
NSN Cycling Team launched as Israel-Premier Tech era ends, with Swiss licence and Spanish base – and Biniam Girmay as marquee signing - ProCyclingUK
WorldTour cycling enters 2026 with a seismic shift. The long-running Israel-Premier Tech structure is no more, replaced by a new organisation built around Swiss registration, Spanish operational bases and a heavyweight commercial partnership. The new outfit, confirmed by Marca as NSN Cycling Team, signals the start of a fresh chapter driven by global investment, entertainment-industry […]
procyclinguk.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Protests work.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Tsjeven gonna tsjeef
Eerst 20 jaar lang zorgen dat onze verslavingszorg vastloopt en dan met een voorstel komen dat wetenschappelijke nonsens is.
Je moet het durven, CD&V.
Po-pu-lisme.
focus-wtv.be/nieuws/gedwo...
Je moet het durven, CD&V.
Po-pu-lisme.
focus-wtv.be/nieuws/gedwo...
Gedwongen opname voor verslaafden? cd&v wil burgemeesters meer macht…
In Roeselare heeft cd&v een nieuwe overlastwet voorgesteld die burgemeesters meer mogelijkheden moet geven om op te treden tegen ernstige buurtproblemen.…
focus-wtv.be
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Tsjeven gonna tsjeef
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They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
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My analysis of the leaked #GDPR overhaul proposal. Some changes are great. Some risk decreasing privacy protections.
The changes are very far‑reaching. Tread carefully! Also, some of the proposed amendments may in fact be ... not so legit. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...
The changes are very far‑reaching. Tread carefully! Also, some of the proposed amendments may in fact be ... not so legit. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My analysis of the leaked #GDPR overhaul proposal. Some changes are great. Some risk decreasing privacy protections.
The changes are very far‑reaching. Tread carefully! Also, some of the proposed amendments may in fact be ... not so legit. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...
The changes are very far‑reaching. Tread carefully! Also, some of the proposed amendments may in fact be ... not so legit. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...
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It's aaronsw's birthday; we will toast today to friends who've left too early
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's aaronsw's birthday; we will toast today to friends who've left too early
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Entire team collpasing but I was told by reliable sources who had my best interest at heart that the protests "didn't help the cause"
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Entire team collpasing but I was told by reliable sources who had my best interest at heart that the protests "didn't help the cause"
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I’ve been thinking about that gold statue of tadej given what uae has been doing to sudan and its just so deeply reprehensible, I don’t have anything else to say aside from that it’s just really incredibly fucked up
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’ve been thinking about that gold statue of tadej given what uae has been doing to sudan and its just so deeply reprehensible, I don’t have anything else to say aside from that it’s just really incredibly fucked up
This is not "good news". This is a collaboration with Juki, and you need a specific Juki industrial sewing machine to sew in these zippers.
It's vendor lock-in dressed up as innovation.
It's vendor lock-in dressed up as innovation.
Behold the zipper’s first upgrade in over a century. YKK, the Japanese company that makes about half the world’s zippers, has created a zipper that removes the traditional fabric tape, creating a lighter, more flexible, lower-impact closure. buff.ly/5UV5gnr
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is not "good news". This is a collaboration with Juki, and you need a specific Juki industrial sewing machine to sew in these zippers.
It's vendor lock-in dressed up as innovation.
It's vendor lock-in dressed up as innovation.
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Protest works.
PremierTech stops as a team sponsor "taking effect immediately"
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Protest works.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Came to Girona 🇪🇸 for 4 days of cycling. Cannot recommend it enough. Truly a wonderful place if you like bicycles 💜
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Came to Girona 🇪🇸 for 4 days of cycling. Cannot recommend it enough. Truly a wonderful place if you like bicycles 💜
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Guess I should have bought this chain-wear tool sooner
October 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Guess I should have bought this chain-wear tool sooner
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MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.
Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.
Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.
Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.
Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.