4 years of sick leave yesterday. It does not get easier over time in fact, it only gets harder, mentally and physically. There are no upsides and silver linings.

Just realized that yhis winter (i don't remember the exact date) is my 25 year anniversary of being a vegetarian. I should throw a lentil party.

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Dit begint wel heel erg meta te worden: De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens doet een melding bij de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, vanwege een datalek bij de Autoriteit persoonsgegevens.

Israel spraying pesticide (that are banned in the EU) over south Lebanon as part of its ongoing campaign of ecocide. The goal is simple: to make sure that life itself is rendered impossible. This remains rarely reported in the news despite them doing so for years. www.instagram.com/reel/DUV2aoB...

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Francesca Albanese and various judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court "now sit on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside suspected al Qaeda terrorists, Mexican drug traffickers and North Korean arms dealers". www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Why are people reposting really bad jokes i made 2 years ago? Please you cannot do that to me, that is like Guantanamo Bay'ing me with a recording of my own voice

At the Conference on Disarmament today, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (T) Thomas Di Nanno hinted at the expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and accused China of conducting a low-yield nuclear test in 2020.

Fauxtomation the only thing you can actually count on

So sick of getting spammed with 10 thousand emails per item you buy online, 3 from the shop and 3 from the delivery company per item minimum. Fuck off

a local brewery is brewing a special beer for my 6-year-old's primary school to sell at fundraising events tell me that isn't the most belgian thing you've heard

This is not a drill, we need to be ready to counter and we're not.

Thinking about Big Bertha, the world's oldest cow from County Kerry, who died just before her 49th birthday after calving 39 times over her life (another record) - she also raised thousands for charity, lead the St. Patrick's parade in Sneem, and had her birthday and wake in a local pub

Morning Bluesky.

New job at UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social 'Lecturer in History of Art, Materials, and Technology'. Deadline 1 March. Please circulate/apply! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

It is funny how pro Israel people always say that these human rights NGOs are predisposed to always ruling against Israel, but in reality Arabs have to work extra hard to have their basic humanity acknowledged by these NGOs. It seems we cannot even get HRW to apply consistency on RoR here.

Two HRW employees that make up the entirety of the organization's Israel and Palestine program are stepping down after the leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a "crime against humanity." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up. That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.

In a different world i would be the pet of an elephant herd, i would be called Scratch and my hobbies would be sleeping, playing with the baby elephants, and having the elephants rub me in the neck with their slurf

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.

What? AI just reinforces human cognitive biases and can't do abductive reasoning? Who could have guessed? www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...

Look at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!

Many diseases were once called “psychological” or “all in the mind”. Again and again, biology later proved otherwise. This thread shows clear cases where medicine got it wrong, then changed its mind once real mechanisms were found.

Most substacks and newsletters resemble opinion columns, and i am completely uninterested in those

New START, the last remaining U.S.-Russia treaty codifying limits on the size of their nuclear arsenals, expires at 23:59:59 CET today (17:59:59 EST).

"W/out verification mechanisms, data exchanges and CBMs built into the treaty, the knowledge gaps wrt Russian & US nuclear forces will grow over time (...) Nuclear force planning will increasingly veer towards worst-case assessments as reliable data becomes scarce & intel estimates more politicized"

Please help me decide fam #ThingsInTheShapeOfOtherThings

transgenderism *is* transhumanism eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things

@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social, don't know if you saw this in my July post, but I think it fits #ThingsInTheShapeOfOtherThings + your interests: -shaped like another thing -good tech -humorous fun -kinda bougie -Dutch -carries cats+dogs #cargobike #bikesky #transportsky #Cargobike+Carryshit

De Zweed doet zijn Nederlandse huiswerk op een andere verdieping wat resulteert in elke minuut iets naar mij schreeuwen over 't Kofschip ahhhhhhhhhhhhh wist je dat anderstaligen 't kofschip leren als "soft ketchup"?

I do understand why people mock ADHD cause it truly is the most stupid disease. "I cannot do the thing right in front of me that I really want to do". I mean what is that for disease? Absolutely ridiculous. I would make jokes about it in my dipshit stand-up routine too.

TIL about the most awesome and surely incredibly dangerous airplane concept en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborn...

no wonder he thinks AI can do it when you consider the quality of his books

In addition to New START expiration (which Russia suspended participation in)… …we are w/o fiscal year 2026 congressionally mandated nuclear weapons Stockpile Stewardship & Management report from Department of Energy & I continue to find that concerning. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

nuclear arms control it was nice knowing ya

Oh good, I can finally update Firefox

Please help me decide fam #ThingsInTheShapeOfOtherThings

I just went into another room than the one room in which we generally have the heat on and that was a mistake

NGL i find dressing cute, pretty and fun while fat still so incredibly hard. Everything automatically looks frumpy on me. I can't manage to create interesting silhouettes. Finding clothes that properly fit is impossible so you always to accept "i can put it on" instead, and tailoring is very hard.

Vandaag richt Defensie de 1e en de 7e Brigade van de Landmacht opnieuw op. Toch betekent dat niet dat België nu 7 plots brigades heeft. De benamingen zijn historische keuzes. "Niet bevorderlijk voor de duidelijkheid", klinkt het.

Ik ben bezig met wat Youtubevideo's, o.a. eentje over vlaggen en eentje over de #waterschappen. Gaandeweg kwam ik erachter dat heel veel waterschappen geen vlag hebben en een viertal mist zelfs een wapen(!) Terwijl het wél bestuurlijke organen zijn. Dus, natuurlijk, heb ik me daar op losgelaten 🧵

EXCLUSIVE: EU wants defence data secured without US tech

If Americans couldn't act like it's their god-given right to 'transform' any other country they'd like

"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems." yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.

maybe i am not invalid, maybe loneliness is just the quintessential queer experience