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  • How to Remove a Mayor (Gently)
    Life

    How to Remove a Mayor (Gently)

    ByMayor 13 November 202513 November 2025

    At exactly 18:00 Fruitloop Time, the constitutional order of Brida was—quite casually—overthrown. A message arrived from Acting Mayor Fruitloop, calmly informing the actual Mayor that he was now officially relieved of duty. No ceremony, no debate, no vote — just a smooth administrative coup wrapped in laughing emojis and delivered with the confidence of someone…

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  • “Island Rules”: Survival Skills for City Souls
    Atlantic Corridor | Skills

    “Island Rules”: Survival Skills for City Souls

    ByMayor 13 November 202510 November 2025

    On a dreary, foggy Monday in Cleebourg, France, the Mayor dials into Campo Grande, Brazil. Two dots on a map; one conversation about survival—less machetes and palm fronds, more mindset and modern street smarts. Ritesh from Bangalore can’t make it, which nudges the theme away from a geographical compare-and-contrast and toward something intimate and universal:…

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  • Crisis in the Potato Fields: The Rise of Queen Fruitloop the First (and the Case of the Missing Cat)
    Life

    Crisis in the Potato Fields: The Rise of Queen Fruitloop the First (and the Case of the Missing Cat)

    ByMayor 12 November 2025

    When historians finally write the story of Brida’s autumn of 2025, they’ll face an impossible question:Was it a coup?Was it a comedy?Or was it just another week in the world’s most delightfully chaotic community? While the Mayor packs for his first holiday in a decade, the Brida Council reels from two simultaneous crises: a peaceful…

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  • Face yourself every morning
    Fruitloop's Reflections

    Face yourself every morning

    ByJanita Le Grange 12 November 202512 November 2025

    Waking up in the morning, depends from person to person. Are you still half asleep? Are you annoyed to be awake? Are the birds singing too loudly? Whether you are happy, grumpy, angry, tired, excited, motivated or just meh! You cross a mirror somewhere. What happens in mirror time? You find two eyes staring back…

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  • “Still Optimists”: A Salesman, a Father, and the Future We’re Already Building
    Skills

    “Still Optimists”: A Salesman, a Father, and the Future We’re Already Building

    ByAlexander 12 November 202510 November 2025

    Monday, late morning. Alexander dials in from Bavaria in Germany; the Mayor sits in a small Alsatian village, Cleebourg, with the November light trying its best through cloud. The question arrives as simply as coffee poured into a familiar mug: Are you an optimist or a pessimist about the future?“I’m an optimist,” Alexander says. He…

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  • Try weird things…
    Fruitloop's Reflections

    Try weird things…

    ByJanita Le Grange 11 November 202511 November 2025

    Let me start with the boring part of things. Friday night dinner was Chinese take-out, we didn’t feel like cooking and this was our choice, a bit healthier than pizza or burgers. Watched movies and went to bed. Normal boring routine. Saturday was spent lounging around and watching rugby and movies. And the chaos unfolded…

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  • Learning, Hot and Spicy: A Monday Morning with Ralf
    Skills

    Learning, Hot and Spicy: A Monday Morning with Ralf

    ByRalf the Grillmeister 11 November 202510 November 2025

    Two dots on the map. Northern Germany. Northeastern France. Rain tapping on two windows, steam rising from two mugs. It’s Monday morning, and the Mayor—our host in Cleebourg—opens the week the Pineapple way: with a warm, slightly mischievous conversation about learning something new. On the other end is Ralf, a barbecue romantic with eleven grills,…

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  • Everyone you meet is a plot twist
    Fruitloop's Reflections

    Everyone you meet is a plot twist

    ByJanita Le Grange 10 November 20258 November 2025

    In a previous meeting we spoke about receiving letters from friends and this reminded me of a box of letters I have stacked away in the top of my closet. Letters from friends, old love notes and letters from past time boyfriends and some other trinkets and memories from my school years. I have been…

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  • Looking for Seoul’s Soul
    Travel

    Looking for Seoul’s Soul

    ByMayor 9 November 20259 November 2025

    I’ve become quite the armchair traveller lately. Brida’s modest footprint — stretching across perhaps eight or ten countries — allows me to feel both worldly and environmentally virtuous. I tell myself I’m doing my bit for the planet, staying put while others chase sunsets. Of course, our digital footprints hum away in data centres, each…

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  • Pain today, punchlines tomorrow
    Fruitloop's Reflections

    Pain today, punchlines tomorrow

    ByJanita Le Grange 9 November 20258 November 2025

    In recent events and to the knowledge of most of you, I have started running. A way to get fit and in shape, take care of my health, but also a way to keep me focussed, relaxed and motivated. Some other reasons include not being a couch potato and getting outside a little more. Because…

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