Stef Adriaenssens
Economic sociologist @ Economics Dep. KU Leuven
Informal & underground economy, hidden populations, sex work, begging, survival activities
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- Lol! Ctrl-h "Somali" -> "Scandinavian"
- The Dutch decided that the solution to political instability (three failed governments in five years) is a government with mostly the same parties but without a majority in parliament.
- Next Dutch gov’t will be a “cabinet of collaboration”: Jetten www.dutchnews.nl?p=262956
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View full threadIndeed. Same parties plus CU, but, as you said, with a majority back then.
- The country is such a paradox: well-governed by most standards, but so much demand for populist representation.
- "Mostly the same parties" is quite the statement, given that only one of the four previous coalition parties is in the new cabinet.
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- OK with that, just a bit off to call what you name a corner 'academia'. But, hey, stressful days indeed. No offence.
- Fire Kristi Noem. Fire Stephen Miller. Fire Tom Homan. Prosecute every last one of Trump's thugs who are murdering Americans and terrorizing our communities.
- "Prosecute every last one of Trump's thugs who are murdering Americans". Non-Americans still irrelevant?
- So academia enabled this shitshow because of some infighting on Appadurai? Not the whole of academia that embeds tech (or vice versa), not reactionary legal thought, not detached crazies uninterested in furthering knowledge, not technical progress without ethics? Gadver...
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- Ich erinnere mich!
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- Most of my fellow Europeans know all too well how hard it is to withstand authoritarian backsliding. At least those with some knowledge of their own recent history. Maybe just started believing that it should be easy, programmed by all those movies of heroism against evil?
- Dear student, your introduction should be both truthful and intriguing, informing your reader and motivating her to continue. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/w...
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- Dat een button dragen geen burgerschap is, lijkt me nogal nonsensicaal. Een banaan is ook geen burgerschap. Maar waarschijnlijk bedoelt ze dat het zwak is. Dat hangt dan echt af van de button en de context, zou ik zeggen. Een button kan ook een 'Hier sta ik, ik kan niet anders' zijn.
- Great discussion of a great book: 'The business of pleasure' by elwinhofman.bsky.social, Magaly Rodríguez García, and Pieter Vanhees open.spotify.com/episode/4tWW...
- Oh boy... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
- I am excited and proud to announce the release of my book, "Sex Work by Numbers." The electronic version will be available tomorrow, January 14, and the print version will be published on February 25. www.emerald.com/books/monogr...
- The book begins with a dedication to all the sex workers around the world, and breathes the ambition to help society and its policies to allow them to live their lives to the fullest (rather than barring them).
- Save 30% when you order directly from Emerald Publishing by quoting code EMERALD30 when you check out.
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- Internationaal recht is niet gerespecteerd, dat zal wel. Dat dit vooral een imperialistisch-economisch doel moet dienen is bepaald verzwarend. En vanuit realpolitik perspectief: wat ben je als je goedpraat als diezelfde would-be bezetter naar een Europees land lonkt? Kortzichtig? Laf?
- A whole new level of globalisation: a presidency exporting its citizens to foreign gulags, and importing a fellow-strongman to a domestic prison.
- A key question is ‘whether Trump’s appetite for military adventurism will continue to spread. He has advertised designs on Canada, Panama, Greenland and the Gaza Strip. On Saturday, he implied Mexico was also in his sights’ Quick insight from @edwardluce.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/f047cbcd-9...
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- Thanks a million!
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- Bizar interview, met een soortement rechtse hutsepot, waar je moet vissen naar wat 'liberaal' betekent. Als klap op de vuurpijl: iedereen die het niet eens is, die is dom. Héél sterk Dunning-Krugersignaal.
- "A key emphasis very clearly in this document, when it refers to the civilisational crisis of Europe, it’s very clearly framed as racial." open.spotify.com/episode/3fWw...
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View full thread"What does Europe do when confronting a power that has the aim of causing racial war on your continent?"
- Two smart old men shocked by the brutal and, let's be honest, cruel and unstylish approach of the US stated policy.
- "It’s absolutely astonishing to me, I suppose I’m naive, it’s got so far that the US considers the civilisation it’s defending not as a series of values, but as – let’s be brutal- skin colour and religion."
- This makes me think of the old "two cows" joke. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
- Especially this variant: If you have two cows, the Government takes them and then gives you some milk. Which -ism did this represent? Drum drum... Communism!
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- Is there a smeagol in there, too?
- The good thing about the past year's shitshow is that we can sing, in a decade or two, this song and see it as a literal prediction. #keeponhoping youtu.be/ifwtWF485HU?...
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- Horrible as it is, the WWI military death toll in Belgium probably is closer to a half million. Up to another a hundred thousand civilian deaths.
- Happy to announce that I am the proud and grateful winner of the MOPP 2025. (That is: My Own Peace Prize) THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
- Backlash, backlash, backlash...
- Sometimes it is hard to deny the light of the sun, even for the gloomy, the cynics, and the conspiracy cracks.
- ON A ÉLU DES KLETTES Slogan du jour Slogan of the day Slogan van de dag [541 dagen na de verkiezingen geen Brusselse regering, maar wel het schoonste belgicisme]
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- From a different perspective: that means that, back in 2020, 1 in 3 Americans were ok with a president who apparently was in for a coup.
- This one means a lot: just woke up to find that THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US has been named a New York Times Notable Book of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
- Went through the list this morning (last night for you guys) and put it on my (too lengthy) book list. Congrats!
- How to do your worst by being inefficient and immoral at the same time? Let's reduce child abuse investigating time by 33%! I do better: reassign experts in money laundering, transnational crime and counterterrorism to arrests at traffic stops and immigration courts! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
- It's all about defunding real police work, apparently.
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- An English slogan in a Polish procession aimed at making Poland more Polish. Not too much talent for irony, those fascists.
- You start with a very very clear statement in mind, and then you remember you were trained to make plenty of qualifications, at least on average, the modal category to be precise, notwithstanding the outliers and some backfiring effects I will try to explain in a minute. You see? It's that simple!
- Shooting the piano player, Act IC. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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- Definitely.
- There's a broad consensus to increase military investments. The defense sector is quite sensitive to graft, partly due to the combination of large budgets and secrecy. An easy piece of advice then would be: beef up deterrence. The US DOJ now does the opposite. Not great. www.ftm.eu/articles/us-...
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- One hundred and eighty!
- US pundits and social media extraverts seem shocked by the demolition of a White House aisle, but much less so by the defunding that may cost 14 million lives in the coming years. Obelix would have whispered: Ils sont fous, ces A...! doi-org/10.1038/d415...
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- Wat is volgens jou de cost-benefit afweging? Ik denk niet alleen aan budget, maar ook aan betrouwbaarheid en publiek vertrouwen.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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- Goe bezig, daar.
- María Corina Machado, congrats! Not just a deserving Nobel peace prize winner. The message the committee seems to give by this choice is: it's democracy, stupid!
- I thought of a paradox: the most Kremlin-friendly populists (soon) seem to rule Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. All countries that resisted and suffered from the Kremlin's iron fist in postwar central Europe. Am I right here? Any central Europe experts have an explanation?
- One major challenge in understanding the lives of homeless people, is the lack of reliable and encompassing data. One source that is underexploited are the data produced by outreach organisations. Grateful to Diogenes for the collaboration! doi.org/10.4000/14tnx
