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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · May 15, 2026

🏳️‍🌈 Brussels Pride 2026 will take place on Saturday 16 May 2026 in the heart of the city. The event will celebrate its 30th anniversary under the powerful theme “When Times Get Darker, We Shine Brighter”, in response to the growing climate of discrimination worldwide.

📷 Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries • Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert • Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen

#BrusselsPride2026 #BrusselsPride #Brussels #Bruxelles #Brussel

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026

In Nederland is de voormalige presentatrice en ‘koningin van de talkshows’ Sonja Barend (86) overleden. Ze was sinds 1966 decennialang een van de meest iconische presentatoren op de televisie in Nederland én in Vlaanderen.

#SonjaBarend #Barend #Nederland #VARA

https://nos.nl/artikel/2610145-televisiepresentator-sonja-barend-86-overleden

https://nos.nl/artikel/2610179-presentator-sonja-barend-1940-2026-was-de-koningin-van-de-talkshow

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @librarianbe@mastodon.social

As bored and unmoved as I was whilst watching ‘Project Hail Mary’ yesterday, I was equally charmed and moved whilst watching Thierry Frémaux’s ‘Lumière, l'aventure continue’ (2025) today. #Lumière #cinema #cinematography #ProjectHailMary

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026

The only few seconds I really enjoyed in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s film ‘Project Hail Mary’ were during the reference to the iconic five-tone sequence from Steven Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ (1977). I was the only one in the cinema who laughed at that bit. #ProjectHailMary

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @Clutha@mastodon.scot

@Clutha@mastodon.scot With a little help from AI, I’m afraid.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026

Who would ever have thought that waving a flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the capital of Europe would come to be seen as an act of resistance against the fascism of the United States of America?

#US #fascism #NATO #Europe #Brussels

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026

Francesca #Albanese, the #UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied #Palestinian territories, was awarded honorary doctorates by three universities in #Belgium. In an interview she says: “I’m not interested in #diplomacy. A special rapporteur is not a diplomat, but a defender of human #rights.”

https://vrtnws.be/p.BlEY4QWRo

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Apr 01, 2026

Claim: Loaded #waffles are so distasteful that I’d rather have a #loaded #revolver.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea @GroupNebula563 I have been learning Spanish in Brussels (Belgium) for 10 years. The language of instruction has been Spanish from the very first lesson. And that pays off, because we never 'translate'. Another language of instruction would not have been possible, because the classes are very international.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea @GroupNebula563 Now I had to look up what a “I know how to say biblioteca” mistake is. 😅

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

@GroupNebula563 True!

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

@GroupNebula563 That could explain it.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

@GroupNebula563 Yes, of course. What I meant to say is that if DeepL translates it correctly, how can it be mistranslated on the placard? I suppose they used a translation machine.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @GroupNebula563__dup_2878@mastodon.social

@GroupNebula563 DeepL gives a correct translation: “The Foreign Nationals Working in China Permit System is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please be patient.”

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

All that buzz about #Obama #POTUS44 and his #aliens ... the #president was merely expressing the well-known #Drake equation, formulated in 1961 by Frank Drake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 19, 2026

The fascist US dictatorship will use the selective release of the Epstein files to try to destabilise European states. We are already seeing this happen in the United Kingdom.

#US #POTUS47 #fascism #dictatorship #Epstein

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 08, 2026

Happy 94th Birthday, John Williams (New York, 8 February 1932).

https://youtu.be/FFALyKG_Bck

Air and Simple Gifts is a quartet composed and arranged by American composer John Williams for the January 20, 2009, inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America.

#JohnWilliams #AirAndSimpleGifts #BarackObama #POTUS44

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

Acteur François #Beukelaers overleden. Hij werd 88 jaar oud. Beukelaers acteerde voor #theater, #televisie en #film, doceerde aan Studio Herman #Teirlinck in Antwerpen en aan de Franstalige Brusselse toneelschool #INSAS. Hij was perfect tweetalig en regisseerde ook. Als acteur en theatermaker heeft hij een indrukwekkend repertoire opgebouwd.

https://vrtnws.be/p.YbG4kpPmx

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Jan 31, 2026

Stop met tijd verspillen over de vraag óf #Trump een #fascist is: handel ernaar / Rosan Smits // in: De Correspondent [website], 29 januari 2026.

— dit artikel kun je gratis lezen omdat ik er voor betaald heb via mijn abonnement op @decorrespondent@mastodon.nl

https://decorrespondent.nl/16703/stop-met-tijd-verspillen-over-de-vraag-of-trump-een-fascist-is-handel-ernaar/c31719a4-086c-0a03-2a69-8bfae4fc43d8

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Jan 27, 2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, ‘1984’.

#Good #Pretti #US #Minneapolis #POTUS47 #ICE #truth #posttruth #2+2=5 #Orwell #1984

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2025

Replying to @DrPen@mastodon.social

@DrPen Don’t say Aspirin, say acetylsalicylic acid. 😅

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Jan 23, 2025

Replying to @troy_frizzell@mstdn.social

@noybeu@mastodon.social @troy_frizzell@mstdn.social Is that ‘us’ or ‘US’?

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Jan 22, 2025

Replying to @signalapp@mastodon.world

@signalapp@mastodon.world In the Belgian App Store, the rankings look completely different.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Aug 02, 2023

Replying to @alternative_be@todon.nl

@alternative_be@todon.nl Il est étrange que vous disiez que les lois linguistiques belges vous empêchent de parler régulièrement le français. En effet, la Constitution belge garantit la liberté linguistique au niveau personnel. Les lois linguistiques ne s'appliquent que dans les contacts avec les services publics (au sens large) et, dans certains cas, dans les relations entre employés et employeurs, ainsi qu'entre clients et commerçants.

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Patrick Vanhoucke @librarianbe@mastodon.social · Nov 10, 2022

Replying to @timhutton@mathstodon.xyz

@timhutton “Open a command-prompt” > I'm not good at that, unfortunately. Isn't there just a piece of installable software for that? Preferably for macOS.

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