Maaike
@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
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non-practicing intellectual on war & tech NL/EN
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Reuters
about 4 hours ago
Researchers say EU lawmaker who investigated surveillance was hacked by Israeli spyware
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Researchers say EU lawmaker who investigated surveillance was hacked by Israeli spyware
A former member of the European Parliament who served on a committee investigating abusive surveillance was himself hacked using an Israeli-made spy tool, a Canadian tech watchdog group said on Friday.
https://reut.rs/4vFMfsT
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Ramses Temmerman
about 20 hours ago
Wat dit stuk niet vermeldt is dat
#pseudowetenschap
in het verleden vaak uit de referentiecentra zelf kwam o.b.v het bio-psychosociale model met
#CGT
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#GET
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Ramses Temmerman
about 20 hours ago
"De nevenschade bij de kwetsbare patiëntengroep van
#MEcvs
is veel groter dan een lege portemonnee, schrijft Prof. Dirk Devroey (VUB). Er moet dringend meer overheidsgeld naar grootschalig biomedisch onderzoek naar ME/CVS. De reguliere zorg moet drastisch veranderen."
#MillionsMissing
#WakeUpCall
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De chronische goudkoorts: waarom pseudowetenschap bloeit waar de zorg ME/CVS-patiënten in de kou laat staan
De nevenschade bij de kwetsbare patiëntengroep van ME/CVS is veel groter dan een lege portemonnee, schrijft Dirk Devroey. Hij is huisarts, VUB-professor en bestuurslid van de Studiekring voor Kritisch...
https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-chronische-goudkoorts-waarom-pseudowetenschap-bloeit-waar-de-zorg-me-cvs-patienten-in-de-kou-laat-staan~bb683970/
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Poldermanie
about 13 hours ago
Het kan aan mij liggen, maar ik vind het schandalig dat de verantwoordelijkheid voor onze gezondheid bij onszelf wordt neergelegd met een 'drink geen alcohol'-campagne terwijl we niet worden beschermd tegen pfas en andere troep in vrijwel alles dat we eten, drinken en inademen.
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William B. Fuckley
about 4 hours ago
Social media polarization is not, imo, a story of the masses becoming radicalized: it is a story of elites becoming radicalized, and that trickling down.
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A survivor from the Venezuela earthquake has been pulled out alive after 8 days!!
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Venezuela quake survivor pulled out alive after eight days on
Hernán Gil was trapped under a collapsed multi-storey car park.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce375v12z0qo
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airplane ian - abolish ICE
about 13 hours ago
there appears to have been a pretty wild breach of
@theintercept.com
's tipline on signal if it's true that they've known about it and covered it up, that's a horrendous breach of trust, idk how you fix that
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Jennifer Ouellette
about 17 hours ago
Unprecedented European Heatwave Has Killed More Than 20,000, New Study Claims
gizmodo.com/unprecedente...
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Unprecedented European Heatwave Has Killed More Than 20,000, New Study Claims
This preliminary estimate underscores the growing threat of deadly extreme heat events despite efforts to adapt to a warming world.
https://gizmodo.com/unprecedented-european-heatwave-has-killed-more-than-20000-new-study-claims-2000780605
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Sam Wilson
about 16 hours ago
The rightmove listing to end all rightmove listings. If it wasn't for popbitch I wouldn't have caught this one.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 3 bedroom link detached house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom link detached house for sale in Christie Miller Road, Salisbury, SP2 for £114,000. Marketed by Carter and May, Salisbury
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/90003912
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There is this influencer on TikTok who claims she invented walking, it is hilarious. Nobody walked until she popularized it in 2020.
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about 22 hours ago
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There is this influencer on TikTok who claims she invented walking, it is hilarious. Nobody walked until she popularized it in 2020.
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about 22 hours ago
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The World Cup is easier when you are a patriot for 5 different countries Next time i am gonna pick a few additional ones, one from each continent, as well. Selective chauvinism ftw.
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Sam Grinsell
3 days ago
The old world is losing on penalties while the new one struggles to be born
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The Daily Tism
1 day ago
An autistic woman is either the most unnecessarily polite person you’ve ever met in your entire life or murderously hangry with no in between, sources have revealed.
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“No worries if FUCK YOU!” Autistic woman either fawning or hangry with no middle ground
An autistic woman is either the most unnecessarily polite person you’ve ever met in your entire life or murderously hangry with no in between, sources have revealed. Marketing executive Lottie…
https://thedailytism.com/no-worries-if-fuck-you-autistic-woman-either-fawning-or-hangry-with-no-middle-ground/
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madeline odent
2 days ago
writers everywhere, take heed I need an empty notebook for a new project and *I actually don’t have one* you should buy that extra notebook just in case; learn from my mistakes
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Cabel Sasser
1 day ago
some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
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Joost Vervoort breaking the 4th wall
1 day ago
One of my favorite Dutch social movements, De Collectieve Beweging, have started a campaign to limit the weath of the Dutch ultra rich. They've started a small crowdfunding campaign for this. Consider supporting them! Link below.
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Liesbeth Corens
1 day ago
I think this might be the biggest difference between universities now and a couple of years ago: I know from experience that saying this to managers now results in them looking at you like you're an idiot with no grasp of reality and solely an ideological agenda. ...
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The difference between the amount that companies get inspected and audited by the government whether they comply with the rules vs the amount that people on benefits get audited is insane
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Doug Parr
1 day ago
Allowing data centres to use carbon offsets, one of the most useless, divisive and generally unhelpful mechanisms for tackling climate change, would be a ridiculous concession to Big Tech power by the EU 🧵🧵 1/4
www.ft.com/content/2135...
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EU weighs weaker data centre climate rules in win for Big Tech
Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows
https://www.ft.com/content/21358a9a-b93b-443c-8a68-6fed89c8b3a6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Joe Noonan
1 day ago
EU Commission meets in Cork today.
euobserver.com/224203/eu-co...
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EU commission see ‘no overriding public interest’ to release secret Gaza reports, on day UN calls out genocide
On the same day that the UN human rights office called out genocide in Gaza, the European Commission told me there was no public interest in releasing 17 documents it wants to keep secret on the encla...
https://euobserver.com/224203/eu-commission-says-there-is-no-public-interest-in-gaza-the-same-day-the-un-rights-office-describes-it-as-a-genocide/
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Stupid Twink
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙
1 day ago
who up embarassing themselves in the pursuit of human connection
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Katya King
1 day ago
Valuable Spanish painting left on street salvaged by man who liked its frame
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Valuable Spanish painting left on street salvaged by man who liked its frame
Andrés Hurtado found work by Joaquín Sorolla after its owners mislaid it, before responding to theft alert
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/02/valuable-spanish-painting-left-on-street-salvaged-by-man-who-liked-its-frame?CMP=share_btn_url
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Emil Archambault
1 day ago
FCAS, an Obituary Nearly a month after the cancellation of the NGF, how can European industry and states work together on other projects? Read more in my
@dgap.org
policy brief.
dgap.org/en/research/...
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The Restructuring of FCAS
In its failures, FCAS demonstrates how the structural industrial, political, and strategic constraints that will affect all European defense projects can be managed to ensure a stronger European defen...
https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/restructuring-fcas
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Everyone thinks thrifting became popular when they were a teen too, coincedentallt
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Brandon T. Snider
1 day ago
Back on my bullsh
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Anthony Zacharzewski
1 day ago
Sad to see some people hating on Belgium here on Bluesky but joke’s on you because Belgians are far ruder about Belgium than you could ever be.
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Ik toeter in mijn hart
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Jonathan M. Katz
5 days ago
Wait … the US made the Congolese team quarantine in … Belgium?!
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3/5 of my teams down Time for the Rode Duivels to rock it
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gotta compensate for all the countries withdrawing over the continued participation of Israel and EBU's disastrous policies
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Conor Gallagher
2 days ago
the joke going round is that Ukraine requested these be donated to Russia instead
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This Many Years Ago
2 days ago
83 years ago, on the 1st of July 1943, Willem Arondéus was executed by the Nazi regime after taking part in the successful bombing of a registration office, destroying 800.000 identity cards. His last words were: "Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards."
#otd
#history
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Laleh Khalili
2 days ago
In our meetings in response to the cuts at Exeter
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Jack Saundrs
2 days ago
imagine the ridiculous information environment you have to create to have people thinking the Russians invading is a more realistic threat to your way of life than climate change.
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SimzArt
2 days ago
Heat Wave. 🫠
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For my fellow people who are sick and have to stay in bed most days: What do you do? I am so freaking bored all the time. What do you do that requires low brain power and can be done laying done but still helps you pass the time?
#NEISVoid
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For my fellow people who are sick and have to stay in bed most days: What do you do? I am so freaking bored all the time. What do you do that requires low brain power and can be done laying done but still helps you pass the time?
#NEISVoid
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Dr Iain Overton
3 days ago
AI is changing warfare. Who is investigating the people, companies and systems behind it? Join us at SOAS for a free one-day seminar on investigating the military-technological complex, with leading journalists, researchers and human rights experts. 11 July. 🎟️
www.eventbrite.com/e/investigat...
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Dr Kate Cook
3 days ago
I think this quote really demonstrates for me something that is quite weird and hard about watching reactions to sector redundancies while precarious - because I am expected to do exactly this next year. And no one seems to find it a problem. (1/2)
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Chris Bertram
3 days ago
And "we must spend more on defence" + "we must stick to the fiscal rules because of the bond markets" >> "we must cut lots of things that we've alway wanted to cut for ideological reasons". Well no. You have to dump the fiscal rules.
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Cephalopods Daily
4 days ago
A reminded that Diamondback Squid (Thysanoteuthis rhombus) lay their eggs in giant pink slinkies. These egg masses are made of two threads wrapped around a cylinder of mucus and contain 35,000 to 75,00 eggs. They can be anywhere from 60 cm to 180 cm in length with a diameter of 11 to 30 cm.
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Matt Potter
3 days ago
Scientists: We can now send cockroaches to Mars, the Moon or the ocean floor! (Everybody cheers) We have given them suits to turn them into cyborg explorers of these environments! (Muted cheering) ...for 3 hours before they run out of oxygen! (Cheering)
www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
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Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater
Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a cyborg insect swarm to explore disaster zones and perhaps even Mars
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531894-remote-controlled-cockroach-swarm-can-now-breathe-underwater/
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I just meowed at the cat and she started purring. What did I tell her???
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Good thing my Dutch flag can stay up to cheer for Paraguay
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GP said my leg was fine 👍. Tbh i was mostly paranoïd cause of what happened with my ankles last time. I should not worry so much.
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🪭LINA لينا
5 days ago
Yes that’s the definition of a child, well done
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Maarten Vink
6 days ago
As shocking as this case is, the history of postcolonial citizenship is full of similar stories. Colonial laws and classifications continue to determine who is recognised as a citizen -and who is not- long after empires ended.
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Maarten Vink
6 days ago
When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.
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