🧵 People don't have any inkling of how social media (& regular media; all sorts of media) influences their attitudes. But what we see is who we become. (Get off of X!) In this study, subjects were randomly assigned to view a chronological or algorithmic X feed. Exposure to the latter led users "to

In today's "everything old comes back to bite": In 1848, Emily Brontë was attacked by a stray dog that was foaming at the mouth. At the time, the disease was spreading around Yorkshire, and there was no treatment. She took a red-hot poker and cauterized the wound herself.

Happy year of the Fire Horse. Let it cleanse the world. 🔥🐎

Wat kunnen mensen toch janken. Boeren janken, vuurwerkverkopers janken. Ondernemen is vooruitzien. Als je dit niet zag aankomen, dan ben je gewoon een waardeloze ondernemer. Punt. www.ad.nl/binnenland/v...

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Dude on Reddit doing God's work www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co...

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

Ik moest hier best hard om lachen eigenlijk.. #Vietnam

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Geen minister van Digitale Zaken is tot daaraantoe. Maar Digitale Zaken weg te halen bij BZK en bij een staatssecretaris Economische Zaken, digitale economie en soevereiniteit onder te brengen is echt een bizarre keuze. Verbijsterend. Wat voor een spel is hier op de wagen gezet? #kabinet

Apple pay.. @koppenverklapt.bsky.social

‘We zijn mentaal gekoloniseerd geraakt,’ zegt journalist en schrijver Joris Luyendijk over Europa. Met 500 miljoen inwoners, een enorme economie, eigen scheepsvaartindustrie en topuniversiteiten zouden we alles in huis moeten hebben. Toch blijven we onszelf wijsmaken dat we klein zijn.

Net terug van de nieuwe @28yearslater.bsky.social. Wat een feestje! Ga deze vooral in de bios zien.. #FilmSky @cineville.nl

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

Kolere @nieuws.nos.nl ,ik zit nu echt niet te wachten op een Trump retrospectief in 't journaal, dat was de eerste keer allemaal al erg genoeg, doe dat maar als die gluiperd eindelijk dood is..

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Anybody know of an Android app for Pixelfed that supports cropping of pics? I want to ditch Instagram, but this is quite an essential.. #photosky

No expensive sound system, no high-end noise-cancelling headphones will EVER sound better than THESE.

"We have checked our inventory thoroughly, and we no longer have any shits left to give. We only had a small amount of shits left at the end of last year, and now we’ve found that the most recent news cycles have completely emptied us out." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

Sport is een krachtig propagandamiddel om misdaden wit te wassen. 90 jaar geleden gingen we gewoon naar Berlijn, deze zomer gaan we gewoon lekker voetballen. ⚽🆚 Nieuw stukje. Doneren mag, delen is lief.

Hè lekker.. stroomstoring. Even kijken hoeveel laagjes ik over elkaar aan kan trekken..

1950-something

Dear Americans, This message is for you…

It's winter in Amsterdam, and the bridge across the canal is bustling with people. The woman with a fur stole seems to be in a rush, and almost knocks into us. In fact, she's so close that she's slightly out of focus, as if we were looking through a camera… 📷 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108317

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

I can't believe the FIFA Peace Prize winner would do something like this

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?

Aan het eind van het jaar voegen we traditiegetrouw een nieuw streepje toe aan de klimaatstreepjescode: de reeks gekleurde lijnen die laat zien hoe de temperatuur in Nederland sinds 1901 is veranderd. De streep van 2025 kleurt donkerrood.

Toch, waarom compensatie? Toen supermarkten geen sigaretten meer mochten verkopen is er toch ook niet gecompenseerd? Dit zag je al jarenlang aankomen. Waarom moet maatschappij opdraaien voor risico’s in ondernemerschap ? Of gaan we staatsbeleid economie worden?

"Nederland liep in 2024 meer dan 8,5 miljard euro belastinggeld mis door ontwijking. Ter vergelijking: in 2024 kostte de gehele Nederlandse jeugdzorg 6 miljard euro" 👌Versprille

Kom op mensen, help mijn nicht effies!

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.

Let's go!

When #tvsky meets #metalsky.. #pluribus 🤘🏻 youtu.be/JISQMhtXiSM?...

In Fascist America "new rule means that people visiting the US should expect to be subjected to a social media review by customs officials." www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/u...

Waarom moet ik in de @ns.nl app nou weer 2x een enkeltje kopen om van de korting te profiteren. Wat heeft een retourtje dan voor zin? Ik niet snappen. #dtv

always thinking about herbert ponting's terra nova expedition photographs

Was vanmiddag naar het Kijkhuis voor The Last Viking. Heerlijk absurdistisch en punten voor de pruik van Mads, wat een look! #FilmSky boxd.it/NqyK

Let's go!

Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.