Bárbara Mendes-Jorge
@flamemeup.bsky.social
🎵📚📺 ☕️🥑🎒🚴🏻♀️🇪🇺
📝 sustainability comms expert & podcaster
🎙 @oumusicpod.bsky.social co-host
📍 Brussels, Belgium
she/her/ela
#ADHD
barbaramj.com
📝 sustainability comms expert & podcaster
🎙 @oumusicpod.bsky.social co-host
📍 Brussels, Belgium
she/her/ela
#ADHD
barbaramj.com
Pinned
Plan to use Bluesky in the same way I did Twitter - post haphazardly about too many topics which will limit my engagement! These will for sure include:
- Politics
- Podcasts, especially @oumusicpod.bsky.social
- Comedy
- Music
- Sustainability/climate change (although I do that more on LinkedIn)
- Politics
- Podcasts, especially @oumusicpod.bsky.social
- Comedy
- Music
- Sustainability/climate change (although I do that more on LinkedIn)
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NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever.
🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/
🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 AM
NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever.
🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/
🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/
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I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
I honestly look forward to these more than most British Xmas telly - @jakemc24.bsky.social is a genius
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I honestly look forward to these more than most British Xmas telly - @jakemc24.bsky.social is a genius
Hard agree
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Hard agree
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Cancel your Spotify subscription.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
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I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
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The fact that so many ostensibly progressive people still use X is so demotivating. If we as a collective can't even stop using a social media website that was launched two decades ago, we have zero chance of dismantling infinitely more complex power structures that have existed for millennia.
Elon Musk’s “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis
One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor
decoherence.media
January 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The fact that so many ostensibly progressive people still use X is so demotivating. If we as a collective can't even stop using a social media website that was launched two decades ago, we have zero chance of dismantling infinitely more complex power structures that have existed for millennia.
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Sixth year in a row doing this, love the process and it inspires me to keep up to date, musically!
🎊 NEW EPISODE 🎊 as is tradition for O/U, Fran & Babs have picked their favourite songs of the year…
Listen to Best of 2025 Part I here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat...
#podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #bestof2025
Listen to Best of 2025 Part I here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat...
#podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #bestof2025
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sixth year in a row doing this, love the process and it inspires me to keep up to date, musically!
Sixth year in a row doing this, love the process and it inspires me to keep up to date, musically!
🎊 NEW EPISODE 🎊 as is tradition for O/U, Fran & Babs have picked their favourite songs of the year…
Listen to Best of 2025 Part I here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat...
#podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #bestof2025
Listen to Best of 2025 Part I here ➡️ linktr.ee/overunderrat...
#podcast #musicpodcast #britpodscene #bestof2025
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sixth year in a row doing this, love the process and it inspires me to keep up to date, musically!
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This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after Palestine Action ban
Official figures show 1,630, or 86%, of the 1,886 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year to the end of September 2025 were linked to supporting the group.
news.sky.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
Guessing people boycotting Carrefour as part of Israel BDS - as I am - is also having an impact
The decision follows years of financial losses, with Belgium no longer considered a priority market for the company.
French supermarket giant Carrefour considers exit from Belgium
French supermarket giant Carrefour considers exit from Belgium
www.brusselstimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Guessing people boycotting Carrefour as part of Israel BDS - as I am - is also having an impact
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
absolutely FURIOUS about this today
Far-right support helps EPP win Parliament vote to slash industry red tape
Far-right support helps EPP win Parliament vote to slash industry red tape
The vote is the first significant alignment between centrist and right-wing MEPs
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
absolutely FURIOUS about this today
Today's soundtrack in the café I'm working from has so far included:
The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
And I haven't been the only one singing along quietly 🎵
The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
And I haven't been the only one singing along quietly 🎵
a penguin wearing headphones is standing in front of a radio
ALT: a penguin wearing headphones is standing in front of a radio
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Today's soundtrack in the café I'm working from has so far included:
The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
And I haven't been the only one singing along quietly 🎵
The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
And I haven't been the only one singing along quietly 🎵
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.