Eric Van Goethem

And far off the chart rests the “medicinal” drink that is Riga Black Balsam Original.

Yeah well no. Price of potatoes has gone down so much in my region that farmers are thinking about giving potatoes for free to people.

Not because farming got so efficient that potatoes cost nothing to farm. Because there have been too many potatoes farmed and nobody wants to buy them.

To anyone who ever said #philcollins wasn’t one of the greatest amongst drummers, I’d say these two things:
- really listen to “Dance on a Volcano” and
- remember the guy was drumming AND singing the intro on “Three Sides Live”.

Then ask yourself how many drummers were able to do both.

I… not being from a place where those limericks are even remotely popular makes it a tough one, to be honest.

Realising that Diablo II Resurrected is controller-compatible, that I’m able to bind keys to skills AND that my 8BitDo software allows me to bind effing macros to specific keys…

How my Fishymancer build feels EASY now!

Right. First of all, which French pop?

Etienne Daho, early Cabrel, Noir Désir, Indochine… right, OK.

What passes for “modern pop” nowadays: auto tune garbage. A lot of 80’s “one hit wonder” bands (“Chagrin d’Amour”, “Tenue de Soirée”…), equal garbage.

US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White, on Instagram: “Conner Rousseau is banned from travelling to the US!”

The US administration: crickets. Even after being asked for clarification by our government.

Since when does an ambassador decides for a whole country? Ego much, Bill White?!

Yeah cool. Now try that with the whole EU, Herr Drumpf.

Nice economy you got there USA. Mighty dependent of imports, I see. Be a shame if something would happen to it…

Water voles (campagnols) are back in the garden.

Time to dust off my pyrotechnic kit and have those critters go “boom”, the lawn robot is due to restart its duty soon.

What in the Beavis and Butthead are the two… faces (?!) on the left?!

My bet is on Steve from Accounting.

There’s always a Steve from Accounting. And less Elder Dragons than we’d like.

And now they’re even threatening other governments and politicians. See the comments / complaints / threats of US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White for reference.
Bunch of thugs, the lot of them.

The guy is an unapologetic MAGA, donated $5 million to the 🍊 🤡 during the presidential campaign, and even relocated himself to Florida, post elections, to be closer to his master.

Says everything you need to know about him.

Hey, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White: fuck you.

You don’t get to threaten our Government. You don’t get to accuse us of antisemitism because some unlicensed people illegally practice circumcision.

Go whine to that Orange Turd you call a “formidable President” and fuck off.

The US never had a “left”, bar from a few politicians here and there.

When I was starting Pol. Sci. in 1991, our teachers were already saying that the US political spectrum was simply “from moderate right to far right”.

Cut it in half, it’s still the biggest defence budget on Earth. So it’s not as if it’s gonna make the USA “less safe”.

And to be 100% precise, what European jurisdictions get is named extracts relevant to:
• European nationals
• European soil
• European victims
• European institutions
• Contextual metadata (dates, locations, travel)
• Testimony segments involving EU jurisdiction

No “full unredacted files”.

And?!

Where does it says that “the EU” has access to the “unredacted files”?!

This article only mentions:
- the French authorities (not really “the EU”),
- the -released- files.

Why do you conflate a Member State with the European Union? It’s like saying Texas is “the US”, you know?

Any link? ‘Cause, and it’s not a brag, I have ears at the level of our Secretary General, Alessandro Chiocchetti.

As well as in the ECJ, the OLAF and the CERT-EU.

It’d take something more than Top Secret to go past this old bastard.

Music was one of my first forays into the English language, through lyrics included in cassette tapes and CD sleeves, so the two of them are indissociable from each other to me.

And ignoring the lyrics is a big mistake when you see what Steely Dan, Supertramp or 10CC hide in those (to name a few).

You sure about that? I’m working FOR the EU. European Parliament to be exact.

The DOJ hasn’t released anything our way or towards the Commission.

I have enough antennas here and there to know if something of that magnitude would actually happen.

That’s the main reason why we at the European Institutions are developing our own, on-premises, “ChatGPT-equivalent”.

To avoid our users to use the commercial tool and feed it sensitive data and to be able to block it without bluntly saying users “deal with it!” (a bad idea with MEP’s).

It’s indeed true that LLM’s are used (and quite efficiently) to produce high quality phishing mails.

But cybersecurity also profits of AML to better identify and triage spams and phishing emails and automatically improve filters in either rack-mounted anti-spam servers or in software mail servers.

Son brought back “Riga Black Balsam Original” from Latvia.

I had no idea their national drink was the liquid equivalent of a cilice. Suffering and bitterness made alcohol.

Next time someone asks me for a “manly drink”, I know what to serve.

#Rigablackbalsam #Latvia

Je pense que ma mère les a encore 🤣🤣🤣…

Barry Steakfries would be proud of you.

I… yes. This -actually- happened. Minus the springs to be fully honest.

Our son, aged 6, vs a Moulinex hand mixer. While I was busy prepping veggies.

Shen writing his own name on. Every. Single. Line. while smiling at is.

As someone who went to see “Star Wars” in theatres in 1977, who saw every single movie on release day, who watched every single series & animated show, read a -lot- of books and comics before Lucasfilms moved them to “Legends”… bring it on kiddo.

I’m not “Y’all”.