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One day we will talk about this half staircase - half escalator in Brussels centra station.
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I think about this escalator very often
One day we will talk about this half staircase - half escalator in Brussels centra station.
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City I like: Brussels. City I dislike: Brussels. It’s complicated.
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Finally Brussels introduced a washing system for pedestrian pavements as I’ve previously asked
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A snowy evening in Brussels ❄️
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@borghi_claudio Scusa ma tu non sai usare un semplice tappo di bottiglia e vorresti governare? Seek professional help instead, my friend.
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#Brussels you’re looking great today
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Brussels drivers take note: Look how neatly out of the cycling lane those tractors are 🚜🚴
@LufienBekkerz
Lufien Bekkerz
9 months
MERCI GOODMOVE !!!!!!!!
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Currently at a restaurant in Brussels EU district and the waiter has the word « RESILIENCE » tattooed on his arm, and that’s the most EU bubble thing I’ve ever seen 🇪🇺
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The caption is funny because liberals in the US has a different meaning than liberals in francophone Belgium
@Qagggy
Qagggy!
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This is the future that liberals want.
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Well done to Catania airport for standing up against the big fat lie that is “Brussels-South Charleroi Airport”. There’s no Brussels in Charleroi.
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We should start a thread on newly elected MEPs who openly (and unknowingly?) admit to have not yet grasped the EU policy-making process. Episode #1 ⤵️
@ciaranmullooly
Ciaran Mullooly MEP
4 months
Ignoring the political pulse of the people ….on my first day in Brussels I want to express my deep dissatisfaction with the passing of the Nature Restoration laws without proper consideration by our Dail - and I share the deep disquiet of my colleague @MichaelFitzTD
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@TrueSlazac Funnier than the trans flag with the hammer and sickle? And a Lenin? I think not, sir.
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@borghi_claudio Io abito all’estero da 15 anni ed ho la bio che pare. In quanto al mostrarsi poco intelligenti, pare che non abbia fatto male alla sua di carriera, quindi mi sa che vado tranquillo.
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One of the historic sculptures (1871) on Place du Luxembourg was dismantled by farmers and set on fire. Destruction of public spaces is simply deplorable. I hope to read words of condemnation from those who lost it when soup or washable paint was thrown over shielded paintings.
@YvesRouyet
Yves Rouyet
9 months
#ixelles Une des sculptures historiques (1871 ) de la place du Luxembourg a été démontée par les agriculteurs et mise au feu. Elle représente un ouvrier sidérurgiste. D'un point de vue patrimonial, c'est irréparable. D'un point de vue symbolique, c'est à pleurer
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Every morning like this. Garbage attracts garbage. That’s why the current waste collection system is not adequate for the city centre of #Brussels .
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Magritte would say « Ceci n’est pas une piste cyclable » Rue Belliard, #Brussel
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4 months
Update: the Indian man who lost his arm and was dumped on the street by his employer instead of being taken to hospital has died. Words fail me.
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This is beyond appalling 🤬 🇮🇹 In Italy, an Indian worker cutting hay, lost an arm while using machinery on a farm. Instead of being helped by his employers, he was dumped on the street from a 9-seater minibus. He is in critical conditions.
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“We will see when…”
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My ideal #Brussels political candidate will: 1⃣Implement a better waste collection system 2⃣Introduce washers for pedestrian areas (as done already elsewhere) 3⃣Reduce/end the 19 communes, 19 ways of doing things 4⃣Make metro stations safer 5⃣Build more safe cycling lanes
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POTUS said it
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Having to share a #bike lane with #cars at peak times 😍 Avenue des Arts, #Bruxelles
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3 months
It’s good to be back in Surrealismland
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11 months
You need a valid ticked To enter in Rotterdam train station. Should we try that in Brussels Midi, Central, and Nord too?
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Brussels be like:
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@OlaLN
Ola Løkken Nordrum
1 year
👈 Why do we accept this in Ireland? We let our streets and urban spaces be cluttered with everything from bollards and signs to these waste containers... 👉 Why can't we have underground systems like other countries? vastly more clever, attractive and space efficient.
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Look what they have done to the city centre in #Brussels 😭 empty bars and restaurants terraces, no one around 🫠
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Tell me you lack nuance and judgment without telling it to me: *enter Julia Hartley-Brewer 👇 I’m Sicilian and I can confirm we *are not* used to drive past a shit tons of wildfires on the highway 🙄
@JuliaHB1
Julia Hartley-Brewer
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Here in Sicily, the wildfires have been tragic for the 3 who died and a pain for holidaymakers evacuated. But despite the UK media hysteria, Sicilians are taking the fires in their stride - because they're used to them. Our drive past Catania yesterday...
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@adb0wen 25% tip is basically extortion
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My theory is that the staircase and the escalator are located in two different communes.
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Registered to vote in the local Belgian elections 🗳️ 🇧🇪 Best regards to the expat-hater trolls 😘
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@JuliaHB1 I’m Sicilian and I can confirm we are definitely *NOT* used to drive past a shit ton of wildfires on the highway 🙄
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My MR-affiliated trolls who regularly attacked me for tweeting in English on my personal account will be pleased to know that their beloved party went the extra mile and wrote to me in 🇮🇹 ITALIAN 🇮🇹 to convince me vote for them 😂
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Belgium be like 🇧🇪
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@moylato
Tom Moylan
6 months
Company car ownership by region (subsidised by €2 billion annually) shows the share of people treating Brussels as a workplace to commute in and out of daily - at the expense of residents' quality of life.
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Quand tu es fier d’emballer ton enfant dans un sac de métal 🚗 …. Must be… ?
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Mystery solved: they are used to hang giant swings and they look pretty awesome 😍
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@sim_palla
Simone 🚲🏙️
7 months
Anyone knows what these are? On Av. Adolphe Max
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The future liberals want… wait, not those liberals, the other one
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Ceci n'est pas une photo malhonnête prise la veille de la collecte. C'est la triste réalité du centre-ville de #Bruxelles . [Samedi, 11:33]
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@borghi_claudio Ma infatti, vedo che il mostrarsi poco intelligenti funziona benissimo per lei, quindi ho ben poco di cui preoccuparmi.
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Brussels' waste collection system
@KaylaChowShow
Kayla Chow Show
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Write a horror story in 4 words or less.
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«We will see when it rains » - cit. 🌧️
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I am going to frame this and hang it on the wall. #Brussels
@VilleBruxelles
Ville de Bruxelles
2 years
@RitaJonusaite Hello Rita, waste management is a competence of the Brussels Region, not the City ;-)
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Work in progress but looks nicer already
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How traumatic is it to be back in Brussels? Yes.
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This is insane. Give us underground waste containers.
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This is beyond appalling 🤬 🇮🇹 In Italy, an Indian worker cutting hay, lost an arm while using machinery on a farm. Instead of being helped by his employers, he was dumped on the street from a 9-seater minibus. He is in critical conditions.
@ultimoranet
Ultimora.net
4 months
Latina, un lavoratore indiano, addetto al taglio del fieno, ha perso un braccio mentre stava usando un macchinario in un'azienda agricola. Invece di essere soccorso dai datori di lavoro, è stato scaricato in strada da un pulmino a 9 posti: è grave @ultimoranet
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Here a Belgian deputy prime minister @DavidClarinval ( @MR_officiel ) retweeting some pretty wild stuff.
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Some of the comments to this tweet give you an idea why we still need to give “acceptance” this level of visibility. #IDAHOBIT2023 🌈
@alexanderdecroo
Alexander De Croo 🇧🇪🇪🇺
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Love is love! #IDAHOT
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Merry garbage Christmas from a typical #Brussels city centre Sunday 🎄 #BruxellesMaPoubelle 🚮
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Morning rush of «fonctionnaires européens» that for unknown reasons go to the city centre instead of the EU district. Don’t ask me why, ask the trolls.
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In Brussels I believe they refer to this as an ecolo bobo gauchiste neobruxellois cyclopathe.
@colvilleandersn
Mikael Colville-Andersen
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I'm not a royalist, but here's a video of the soon-to-be King of Denmark a few years ago, heading home from picking up his kids at daycare on a #cargobike #denmark #abdication
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Another fantastic day for pedestrians and cyclists on Rue Belliard 🥰 #Bruxelles
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@JuliaHB1 @Daves1412 I’m Sicilian, my direct family lives in Sicily and that’s definitely not what I’m hearing from them, Julia 🤷‍♂️
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Despite the weather today, the new giants swings were all occupied when I passed by.
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Mystery solved: they are used to hang giant swings and they look pretty awesome 😍
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@sloppypod_ @maxedlorde 2-hour douching: that explains California's droughts.
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In Brussels we don’t have pavements for pedestrians. We have pavements to drop waste.
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@rhymeswithbeg That’s Tina from Seinfeld
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3️⃣4️⃣ today Happy birthday to me 🎉 Achievements unlocked: - Outlasting Jesus ✅ Future goals - To outlast #Brussels ’ waste collection system (Transparency disclaimer: pic is from when I was 33 years and 363 days old but not yet 34, please don’t sue me)
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Plugs in (new-looking) Belgian trains: a mere two at each end of the carriage, one on each side. And so high you have to hold your phone up. Excellent design.
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Rue Belliard 🥰 #Brussels
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Intersection Rue de la Loi / Av. des Arts. Like this the entire time I was there today at around 18:00. #Bruxelles
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At least back then it was November. What's the excuse today?
@aitorehm
Aitor Hernández-Morales
2 years
The weather today in Brussels isn’t just awful. It’s overtly aggressive. It hates you and your children and your children’s children, and it wants you to know it.
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They finally stopped using memes
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How to explain Belgian #weather to non-Belgians: Best case scenario, the sun ☀️ will come out at 20:00 but will set 22 minutes later. #Belgium 🇧🇪
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Good morning #Brussels 😍
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The *** CYCLING LANE *** that at rush hour systematically turns into a cars lane 😍 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗 beep beep beeeeep Avenue des Arts, #Bruxelles
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It’s sunny ☀️ It’s rainy 🌧️ It’s windy 🌬️ It’s Belgium 🇧🇪
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Didn’t see any cyclists this morning 🚴‍♂️
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We’ve been over this already.
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Critical mass paralysing the streets again.
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@TomHulme79 Is booing or is he crying that he lost to Count Binface?
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Give me that Belgian citizenship now 🇧🇪 🍪
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Anyway, in you work in Rue Belliard or its surroundings may I suggest you give a try to GODO’s panini which are made with pizza dough.
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I have an idea
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@Belga_English
Belga News Agency_English
2 months
Brussels Airlines invites the public to design its next personalised aircraft #Belga #BrusselsAirlines #Airplane #Culture
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@AlexKokcharov @Twitter @TwitterSafety @RussianEmbassy This is what Twitter decided about the heinous Tweet: it violates rules but stays on because of public interest.
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Am I doing this right?
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Your usual dose of #Brussels weirdness #STIB
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Imagine the confusion of a vision-impaired person walking on the tactile paving obstructed by that police van (parked there since a while) 🚓🧑‍🦯
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Build them and they will come
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Joyeuses fêtes de pâques, surtout aux amis "il n'y a pas de problème de gestion des déchets à #Bruxelles " 🐣 Mise à jour: dimanche, 11:11
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Ceci n'est pas une photo malhonnête prise la veille de la collecte. C'est la triste réalité du centre-ville de #Bruxelles . [Samedi, 11:33]
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Spotted in Sevilla 👀
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So many * bicycle hobbyists/enthusiasts* this morning
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The building indicated in the photo hosts #Brussels City Tours & the Visit #Flanders centre. It’s often packed with tourists in the morning & is located in the Rue du Marché Aux Herbes, a street filled with shops that put their trash out daily + by passers-by dumping theirs. 1/2
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The famous Rue Cyclable, featuring vans parked half on it and half on the pedestrian pavement and a row of cars that I suspect are using it as a short cut.
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My favourite #Brussels plants balcony 🪴
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Reminder that e-bikes (~100 kg with cyclist on) are have a factory-set speed limit of 25km/h in Europe. But drivers of +2-tonne vehicles can happily speed throughout towns fully aware that the chances of being caught speeding are slim to none.
@HeroesforZero
Heroes for Zero - Brussels
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Brussels cars exhibit astonishing behaviors. Fortunately, no one was injured when this one decided to flip on its back in avenue du parc, Forest. Where the speed limit is 30km/h.
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2 days after. I hope they loose their operator license next week.
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Hey @limebike , can you please remind your staff not to park your scooters on cycling lanes? Thanks.
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Brussels weather be like: LMAO did you really think that was going to last?
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Thank you to the lovely farmers for once again burning stuff and letting us breathe even more toxins. Great job 👏
@NatashaFoote
Natasha Foote
8 months
Things are heating up here at the farmers’ protests, with tires being set alight just a few buildings down from where EU Agri ministers are meeting
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Build it and they will come 🚲
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Rue du Pont Neuf, #Bruxelles now. The next collection is scheduled for Thursday morning. These garbage bags will stay there for another 2.5 days. At this rate, 2 weekly waste collections = 5 days a week of garbage bags on the street.
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We will see when it rains ☔️
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This “you’re a foreign and so you can’t hold opinions about Belgium” is so tired 🥱 I live, work, and pay taxes in Belgium and I arrogate myself the right to talk about Belgium as much as I please. Block or mute my account if you don’t like that.
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I wish this guy would put a fraction of the energy he puts in promoting clubbing venues and events into trying to solve the cleanliness issues of the city centre. Jenifer Lewis was truly right when she said: you sit in shit too long, it stops smelling.
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According to some Twitter accounts everyone is leaving Brussels. Turns out that's not exactly right.
@roma_masquelier
Romain Masquelier
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Bruxelles s'agrandit... surtout à Evere et Woluwe-Saint-Lambert 📈Ce 1er janvier 2024, la Région bruxelloise comptait 1.244.015 habitants. Une hausse similaire à celle de la Flandre, mais nettement supérieure celle de la Wallonie (0,3%). Voici le détail par commune 👇
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#ComingOutDay retweet Despite their best effort, I wasn't lucky enough to get the support I needed from my family. That caused years of pain, suffering, estrangement, some still ongoing. It did not have to be that way. Let's work to make stories like these a thing of the past.
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And to those parents who are having a hard time dealing with their sons/daughters coming I say to you: please support your kids, and if you don't know how to, please seek professional advice. Your kids will be grateful to know they can count on you on their journey. #LGBTQIA
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Comfortably pissing on the bike track I was about to use to take my bike from the Bourse parking 🅿️. The opposite bike track is covered in vomit since 3 days. Good morning #Brussels 😍
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Every Monday and Thursday the usual ⛰️ mountain of garbage obstructing this pedestrian crossing. Because who needs pedestrian crossings 🫠 #Brussels
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#Brussels announced it will introduce garbage bins and will put and end to the piles of garbage that live rent free across the city centre. #AprilFoolsDay 🥲
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Je vous souhaite à tous un bon week-end depuis le site touristiques bruxellois les plus couverts de détritus 😍 @alainmaron @ZJellab @VilleBruxelles @rbc_bhg 🥰 [Samedi, 11:28]
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