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My newsletter for July is out. About new release with Rima Khcheich, updates on the new opera, my hand and more. Read it on Substack (and please subscribe if you haven't already). maartenornstein.substack.com/p/the-day-be...

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Shooting children www.btselem.org/video/202606...

Never ever adapt to your opponent. A deserved defeat

Take a break from the football or Trump or whatever you're doing, and enjoy this youtu.be/QuCJ-mXJW44?...

Strawberries and cream make me think of tennis

Some great pictures here www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Handig advies van de VVD: - Als het warmer is dan 26°C, zorg dan voor afkoeling - Als je minder dan € 100.000 hebt, vul dan je bankrekening aan - Als je ziek bent, word dan beter - Als je werkloos bent, ga dan werken - En als het kabinet waardeloos is, stem dan weer VVD!

Don't be silly, beauty still matters

Hear hear

Love it

Apparently there’s another composer that lives here #birdsong #blackbird #Amsterdam

Good morning from hot and cloudy #Amsterdam and thank God for fountains. Today: compose more! #photogtaphy #iPhone

There is no ceasefire

Good day from sunny #Amsterdam. Today: compose! But it’s a bit warm so taking it easy. #espresso #cafekobalt #photography #composer

Escape from New York, 1981

#Amsterdam now

Good morning from sunny #Amsterdam. On today’s todo list: write some music! #composer #dorico #opera

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

A little light reading for the summer #howhardcanitbe #cricket

There is no ceasfire www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, & complex systems of neurons, 1/n 🧪

Dream on

Ha!

Nerd alert, but fascinating www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-store...

Happy World Giraffe Day everyone

There is no ceasefire

I wish there was a way to only see people's original posts and not their reposts of other stuff

Since we're into Bo Diddley, here's one. I've been in love with Norma-Jean Wofford most of my life youtu.be/9Hy6EiiNUmA?...

Yeah, please explain

I am being what I am suppose to be.. Like an Alien-being upon an outcast world. But I am not alone; there are ears to hear even me. (Sun Ra)

This

There are many things I could write here, but I'd rather have you just watch and listen youtu.be/E0Ix1cPIkSM?...

Nu al saai #nedjap

Dit

Perhaps we should have a referendum on how many Swiss are allowed in the EU at any one time

Still at it. Back and forth between hope and total despair, but still determined to master this thing. #cornetto

Congratulations to Elon musk who is now rich enough to end world hunger over 165 times and still stay a billionaire but choses not to.

Good morning from cloudy #Amsterdam. On today’s to do list: compose. (Much like any other day) Have a good one

Culture and the arts should be a key EU programme

Not playing many concerts because of all the composition work, but Friday I play a nice trio set in the Amsterdam Pianola Museum. Come www.pianolamuseum.online/nl/concerten/

Wow nice

9 June 1905 | A Dutch Jew, Eliazar Blok, was born in The Hague. A musician. On 20 January 1944 he was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt Ghetto, and on 28 September 1944 deported to #Auschwitz. He perished in Dachau in April 1945.

Boem paukeslag

Who cares

protect your peace 🌿

In the Dutch mountains #photography #Netherlands