📝 @BelgiumFest, journalist 🗞 President @PressClubBXLEU @journalismfund | Ex @EUinAus | @UNSWCanberra Cyber & @KentLawSchool grad | Displaced Melburnian ☕️
Brussels, Belgium
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Submissions for this year’s #ShortStoryBelgium prize 2024 were overwhelming - thank you to all, to our editors/judges and the @BrusselsTimes for publishing the winning entry 📰 ✍🏾
Thank you to all who entered the #ShortStoryBelgium competition🤍 more news on the entries and results at @BelgiumFest ❕
Thank you to @bookhelpline for your editorial prowess for the entries 📖
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Australia also did the same thing with great results
The number of cervical cancer deaths in Australia has halved since the start of the world-first rollout in 2007 of the HPV vaccine to Australian children aged 12-13 years old. | @latikambourke theage.com.au/world/europe/f…
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‘Thé Mediterranean is warming 20% faster than the global average’ @UNEP unep.org/unepmap/resources/f…
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Very hard to focus on anything else but this devastation today 💔 all power to fire fighters the volunteer firefighters emergency services and all
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Such an honour to welcome @SenatorWong to Brussels today - hope her talks and meetings went well. Australians in Brussels so great to see those relations pick up again 🇦🇺🇪🇺 in person!
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Kalimera from the beehives 🐝 of analypsis- 700 metres up a hill from my mum’s. Heard three roosters 🐓 a goat and donkey. Smells like chamomile 🌿🌼
Happy Wednesday 🌞
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Sakura right next to @Europarl_EN , busy bees 🐝 at work, martinitsa’s and bloom #oneitookearlier 🌸
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So happy 200 Greece 🇬🇷 💙 can’t wait to get there ASAP (no clue when that would be but soon hopefully) and celebrate (one day soon..) 🥳
(@stillawake )
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My grandmother, Ioanna Konstandeli passed away early this morning in Athens, Greece.
There’s so much to say about her I don’t know where to start. She helped raise us. Has always been there. She started working at a very young age always practical, strong 💪.
RIP 🤍
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Graffiti like commemoration to the once prosperous and bustling Jewish community of #Thessaloniki who were persecuted and deported the city’s past is very rich, diverse but also serves as a reminder of what hate speech and nationalism can lead to.
#latertweet
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Successfully making an avocado plant farm! So far seed to plant success has also been a measure of counting the pandemic (L-R years 1-2-3) / Still haven’t managed to take guitar lessons / also thinking 💭 choir?
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I am thrilled to say that I will be able to help the @journalismfund Europe in the future. Last night I was voted on to their Board of Directors in Brussels.
Looking forward to working with the board and of course @IdesDebruyne 🙏
journalismfund.eu/about-us/o…
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Ce weekend #Brusselsmylove talks #GreekElections , Russian sanctions and that billion + @meta fine.
Thanks 🙏 to @MeabhMcMahon Karel and Panos for the conversation - @euronews for the invite 📺
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#Restoration in the next nine years will mean reversing the declining number of bees 🐝 and pollinators.
The plan for this? Knowledge4policy.ec.europa.e…
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Oh my .. in some *personal news* as they say! September’s looking busy 🎶 📝
We're very happy to announce that GESAC has hired a new Communications Manager. Alia Papageorgiou will formally start in late August. Feel free to already follow her 👉@Eurocentrique and find out more👇
authorsocieties.eu/staff-upd…
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Gardens on every taratsa please 🙏
Athens has appointed a Chief Heat Officer to protect people from soaring temperatures and try to find ways to adapt the city to the heatwaves and extreme weather that are striking the capital more frequently as the result of the climate emergency.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Hearing more about the great work that @EDMO_EUI does on #disinfo across Europe, with #EDMOHubs and specific fact checking work on Ukraine - @EU_Commission speaker underlining the extensive use of the tool during this time 💻
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Brussels radio history
In this building in Ixelles, 1st November, 1926 Theo Fleischman made the first radio news story on the history of radio
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Through snow ❄️ and metro delays we did get together for breakfast at the press club to have a talk and a think about what more we can do for female journalists to just be able to do their jobs !
More ideas welcome 🙏
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So, in some personal news as they say, two Fridays ago I was voted President of @PressClubBXLEU which means so much 😊 an honour.
More on the club ➡️ pressclub.be where events & meetings can still take place - following all safety measures prescribed. See you there!
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Amazing to be at the first @SalonEurope in #Brussels with the organisers , writers from many countries including the UK, US, Switzerland, Ireland and more ..
@DeborahZafer @norami 🤍📚🙏
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Christmas in #molenbeek as the Moroccan community rightly celebrates their awesome victory with car horns just beyond 🦁🎄💫❤️
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So great to meet with visiting young journalism fellows from the great white north this week! North of the US that is - 🇨🇦
Their fellowships are organised by @EUinCanada - inspiring reporting they do from the Arctic to local Montreal et al 🍁
Welcome to Brussels 🌦
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Family-owned Seattle Times says "Hell, Yes!" in endorsing Harris, throwing shade at owners of WashPost (and LAT and USA Today) for recent decisions not to weigh in editorially. h/t @martinkaste
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First 20 pages of this starts with a ‘head strong’ woman bout to discover what happens next (she’s already ticked off a sales assistant and bought Color’s that don’t match…) recommend
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It was a brilliant intervention 🙌 few minutes of Maori introduction brought tears to my eyes 🙏
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I’m so terrible at selfies but @mikebutcher took this one #TechEUSummit looking forward to the talks/shenanigans over the next couple of days 📱
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Very happy to be heading to Nantes in September - will be leading an atelier on covering #climatechange in the newsroom 🌱☀️🔥
Découvrez les premiers speakers à l’affiche de la 3e édition du Festival de l’info locale ! 🤗 D’autres vont bientôt arriver…
#infolocale #FIL2021
festival-infolocale.fr/speak…
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This #pressfreedom day I’m thinking of Natalia Kalinichenko in Brussels last week with a newspaper printed for + 103 yrs , 7km from the Ukrainian Russian border, who continues to print.
She has a VE Day copy of the paper archived she plans to reproduce when the war ends 📰
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. Rector @FedericaMog & @shada_islam launch #inclusiveu at @PressClubBXLEU this morning -
A scholarship for diverse candidates to @collegeofeurope and two traineeships - more info coming later on today on this year’s beneficiary 📜
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Translation: At least 17 dead from the US airstrikes on Syria
Συρία: Τουλάχιστον 17 νεκροί στα αεροπορικά πλήγματα των ΗΠΑ protothema.gr/world/article/…
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Could not have imagined a better ending to my day, could listen to these two talk #brusselssowhite for days ❕
Thank you to all who made it to @BelgiumFest 🙏
We’ll be back next year and this time I’ll actually try to give everyone a heads up 👋
#writersfestbe
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Presidential Calypso 🐾 #AdoptDontShop
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#TheGreenWave 🌊 in Brussels tonight had some Greek candidates amongst it as well as candidates from around Europe, in these #EUElections the 28 EU countries will have green lists! A gathering of green, progressive, equal citizens looking just that bit further ahead 🌿💚
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Melbourne service on @ryanair BRU - ATH ( @ATH_airport ) thank you very much ☕️ that’s my god daughter’s cousin flying the friendly skies for 13 years plus now since moving to Europe - say hi to Sasa ✈️
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The members of the board of @PressClubBXLEU stand with @IFJGlobal and mourn the loss of all journalists in conflict but especially those killed in Gaza in the past four + months 🩸
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V formation for a fluttering passage of doves by my window, a very very wet Brussels morning for them 🌧️ #firstbirdofmyday
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I found it, a pic of the Palais du Justice even older than the etching I have , sans works! #1888
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I’m sounding more & more like a broken record but it is so heart warming to see more and more people from Asia in Brussels, for meetings, events and just talking about life or in this case #disinformation #youth .. 🙏 @kaseurope @aseforg 💙❤️💛🤍
🇮🇩🇲🇾🇸🇬🇪🇺 @AsiaEuropeMtg
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Justin Trudeau: "It can't just be women who are feminists. We men have to be feminists too." huffingtonpost.com/entry/jus… via @HuffPostPol
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Dappled December morn. Christmas lights hanging over a stained glass window to the right (out of sight)
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Two magpies (Greek this time) dawdling along, pretending they’re not here to steal food from two puppies 😊) - then flew away 🐦
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Burning down the house 🏠
It’s been a while since I wrote something but fire 🔥 and climate change are constantly on my mind. The amount of biodiversity lost & damage done is staggering by any and all fires 🔥
How much more heat can we really handle? revolve.media/burning-down-t…
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Aussie style brunch to celebrate the news this morning that I’m a @UNSWCanberra graduate! A #Master enfin 🤗 #brunchinfluencer #breakfastinfluencer one smashed avo one not 🥑 but no Melbourne latte 🙃
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The primary school in Raksa, Trikala where I’m registered to vote in #Greekelections - there with my dad in 2019 he told me the story of the first time he was allowed to vote in the late 60s there was only one choice by force - how far we’ve come! #Greece
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Launching today with many speakers including @Brussels Mayor @PhilippeClose and Commissioner @JHahnEU the #Cinquantenaire2030 plan - from 9:30 AM at the Museum of Art and History ⬇️
For any questions please contact the @PressClubBXLEU
Launching tomorrow morning #Cinquantenaire2030
The Belgian federal government, the Brussels-Capital Region and the European Commission are jointly launching "Cinquantenaire 2030": a new master plan and cultural interpretation for the Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels 9:30 🕤 AM
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