Sebastian Worms

A tough thing in explaining to people why having children is enjoyable is that all the bad stuff is very easy to explain (lost sleep, lost time, more sickness, less sex, etc. etc.) whereas most of the really good stuff whispers.

@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social Life's good when you use Pintjes as a visitor's guide

Poetry on Blusky this morning

One fantastic point made at @worksinprogress.bsky.social 'Can Europe catch up on AI' talk. The market seems winner take all, even meta and xAI are making ~no money from their models. Any EU champion would likely struggle and need endless subsidies as the revenue goes to OpenAI and Anthropic

Tell me you never played RDR2.

GUYS, the words Throne and Dharma have the same Proto-Indo-European root! www.etymonline.com/search?q=thr...

To any peeps in Brussels interested in effective climate action, the org I'm part of (CCL) is organizing a discovery evening. We lobby policy maker for carbon taxation, the most efficient, least disruptive form of climate action. More info here: luma.com/8oa9fqey

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

Stanislaw Lem is so good. I was reading an antology of some of his robotic short stories, ending in "The Mask" ("Maska"), described as a most disturbing love story. No wonder, the plot is that a robot assassin disguised as a woman is sent to a royal ball to kill one of the courtiers.

We Are Will Stancil's Honda Fit Tires. We Carry the Flame.

Type of guy who think drawing borders because they look good on a map while ignoring the composition of the local population and their wishes is anticolonial.

Sooo cool to see RNAi pesticides coming to Belgium. Can't wait for a future where every field teems with insects and bird life since we can target only pest. Organic certifying bodies should embrace RNAi. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2137...

Hello my Brussels rats/EA and adjacent. This sunday, we'll have the Brussels ACX meetup! Let's come and have a great time of great discussions! luma.com/b10b7fzx

Something very American about the headline. "Thousands of steps"? I would have tried the shorts for at least a couple of days!

Tbh firing underlings that made up impossible shit to please you is good governance

From Australia: "New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport." "Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."

Russian losses: Orban (1, wrecked) :)

This week on the blog: Carthaginian Armies! We're going to discuss over the next few weeks the makeup of Carthaginian armies and how they were raised, beginning this week with the (quite limited) role of Carthaginian citizen soldiers. acoup.blog/2026/04/10/c...

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

It's amazing that Trump basically managed to slap a tax on US gas to fund the IRGC. Maybe he just secretly wants to retire and be impeached after the midterms.

Un vent de fronde souffle sur le marché du carbone européen (ETS 1) Vouloir affaiblir cet outil serait pourtant un contresens historique. La seule véritable protection contre l'instabilité chronique du cours des énergies fossiles, c'est la décarbonation. Merci @cclfrance.bsky.social chk.me/JA22lmc

De Wever wants a deal with Putin. That makes one wonder if his defense of Russian assets is only due to the legal risk to Belgium

Amazing this Western GBAD shot more fighters by mistake than all of Iran's russian stuff did on purpose.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Super conférence de @lereveilleur.bsky.social , @philoxime.bsky.social et @heu7reka.bsky.social hier au festival Fluctuations ! Beaucoup de curiosité dans le public, ça fait plaisir.

🚨 En 2027, l’#ETS2 élargira le marché carbone 🇪🇺 aux émissions du transport & chauffage. Résultat : hausse progressive des prix à la pompe et du chauffage. Quels effets sur le climat, la société et le coût de la vie ? 📅 27 août, 18h | Hub Volt Etterbeek 🇫🇷 Avec @CCL_Belgium

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

À 1 an, Charles-Louis Bouchez devient président du CHU de Liège : "Une décision prise en toute transparence", assure son père.

Idea: a sculpture park for famous protein structures

Wow, it's hard to imagine science funding that has had more impact than CASP. Madness to defund it.

Pedestrian Observations: Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon pedestrianobservations.com/2025/06/08/m...

Nothing says "WW2 German engineering" like special deep sea toilets that requires specially trained technicians and flood your submarine if you press the wrong button.

Park Life! Or, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Drunk in a Park. For Vol.2 of Pintjes - the zine about Brussels' café culture - we're celebrating the city's guinguettes, pavilions, and buvettes. Coming to the launch on 28 May? brusselsnotes.substack.com/p/park-life

Whoopsie 😅 Avec le thinking mode des nouveaux LLM, on peut voir la censure Chinoise opérer en direct dans ses pensées... 🫥 (Qwen3-30B en local) #Tiananmen #TryingNotToThinkAboutIt

Look, they said they were going to bring back American manufacturing and look - they've brought it back an entire year in just a few months!

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social 's latest SMBC reminds me of the Louvain-La-Neuve Lake, Belgium. I really should find out who designed it.

Une petite pensée pour Jan Jambon, qui comptait sur sa nouvelle taxe sur les gains du capital pour renflouer le budget Belge.

Tu es navetteur SNCB? N'oublie pas de soutenir les grévistes en te faisant rembourser ton abonnement pour les jours où tu ne circule pas. (Ou récupère juste de la thunes). www.belgiantrain.be/fr/my-accoun...

« On voit qu’ils n’ont pas de mal à trouver une majorité lorsqu’il s’agit de menacer la santé des Bruxellois » @sudinfo.bsky.social

When the shelling gets worse, sales of renewable energy systems increase; when it eases, demand subsides until the shelling starts again. ‘It’s pretty funny…Of course, in general, it’s not funny He redicts that “80%” of new PV plants will be built with storage (largely due to the grid challenges).

Mongolia deserves a coastline. All those horses have never been to the beach

C'est quand même incroyable que malgré un gouvernement sois disant pro-nucleaire, on est parti pour fermer trois réacteurs en 2025.

There is a new axis of countries bend on territorial expansion.

The team at Unlock Aid have launched an emergency fund to help the most impactful frontline operations affected by the foreign aid freeze to resume their lifesaving work. Share and consider donating:

Like if you think the @ec.europa.eu should put up the #InnovationCompass on the Berlaimont to inspire 500 millions Europeans