Just 19 countries would accept transgender soldiers if Trump’s ban ends up going into place

Around the world in 29 cheeses 

ancientorigins:

Medieval Gravensteen Castle at Ghent Belgium

VILLA EMPAIN ⦿ KATHARINA KASTNER ⦿ 2019

purestform:

Visual clutter remains a challenge in cartography, especially for web maps depicting voluminous, unfiltered collections of point type data. This issue is particularly prevalent in datasets generated in cities due to urban density. Professor Andrew Vande Moere and myself developed BinSq (abbreviated Bin²), a novel gridded dot density mapping technique to overcome this challenge. We demonstrate this technique on a large dataset of language referenced, geotagged tweets to reveal language communities in Brussels. The figure above compares our technique to the [a] standard dot map and six related solutions namely: [b] jittering, [c] refinement, [d] distortion with pixel map as well as [e] aggregation with categorical binning, [f] splatter plot and [g] dot density map. Our output is depicted in [h]. An implementation of BinSq in Java is avaliable on GitHub. Read our paper for a complete description of the technique.

Aujourd'hui, nous pleurons avec Bruxelles et toute la Belgique en face d'une autre horrible tragédie inexplicable. Mais demain, on ne pleurera pas encore, parce qu'il faut continuer: le temps se fuit et s'arrête pour rien. La Beauté et du Sens dans notre courte existence mondaine nous attendent, comme des enfants perdus dans le chaos, et ils comptent sur nous pour les retrouver.

Art: Le voile (1887). Fernand Khnopff. Belgian Symbolist.

Patrick[De Patrick] (Tim Mielants - 2019)

EUROVISION DRINKING GAME!

UPDATED FOR THE FINAL!!!

Non-drinkers, substitute with sweets and chocolate. You’ll probably feel just as sick.

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1823–1906, Belgium)

Female portraits

Alfred Stevens was a Belgian artist, known for his paintingsofelegant modern women.

Toute une nuit (1982)
dir. Chantal Akerman / dop. Caroline Champetier

Beachcombing in the Garden of Adin:
Look what washed ashore!

A Heavenly blue sapphire ring for a match made in heaven.

architectureofdoom:

Eglise Notre-Dame du Travail, Bray, Henri Balthazar, 1932

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