Don't let anyone tell you how to live your life.

Niet de ‘stemming in de samenleving’ is veranderd. Den Haag is geradicaliseerd en toe aan z’n eigen deradicaliseringsprotocol.

Now imagine this is Parliament and the RefUKers have just become the government. Because that's what we're looking at right now.

now that is an incredible quote "The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves"

Kinda defeats the point of having a grand jury if you can just boot everyone who didn’t want to indict, keep everyone who did, and keep trying until you get the result you want.

"The victim is lucky the agent did not [checks notes] violate every tenant of his training and every shred of his humanity." Men are too emotional to be law enforcement officers.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

Ik weet -zeker- dat in het huidige medialandschap de talkshows avond na avond na avond vol hadden gezeten met vertegenwoordigers van ‘die opvallende populaire partij’… …en duiders die de soms stevige opvattingen van meneer Hitler hadden vergoelijkt met context over bezorgde burgers en gelukzoekers.

FRANCIS: War has backfired on Russia. Its economy is shrinking. They turned country into a war machine, borrowed money like crazy, invested it all into equipment and soldiers, all of which getting obliterated on battlefield. They done no wealth creation, only wealth destruction.

Counterintuitive chart of the month: Bank tellers survived the ATM. They did not survive the smartphone.

The 200-km mark used to be the limit for Ukraine's AI drones. Now developers are testing a way to push it past 400. The trick: lift the drone with a helium balloon to 8,000 meters before release.

Ik ben bezig met een wat langer artikel over de archieven van ANP (Welke beeldbanken zijn er in opgegaan? Zijn er foto's aan het publieke domein geschonken?) En kwam de fotowinkel tegen... Dat schreeuwde om een apart stukje: www.martinebakx.com/2026/05/afdr...

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

"The Force isn't the load-bearing aspect of Star Wars. It's just the wizard part of a fantasy story. ... The One Ring is load bearing. It's the central technology: a machine of mass surveillance. LoTR is about a desperate apocalyptic black-ops mission to decommission a weapon of mass destruction."

This is fantastic. "Science fiction is about a single, plausible thing that bears the load for the changed universe in which you write. ... in this reading, Star Wars is fantasty, and the Lord of the Rings is sci-fi." damiengwalter.medium.com/you-dont-und...

Column Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, HP/De Tijd, 21 mei 2026:

“I like it … I like it.”

With just a single feather, the turtle managed to attract the attention of the female peacock.

[115] Demo Utrecht om steun asielzoekers (Update: inhoud)

Zo zie je maar dat veel politici en journalisten niet meer weten wat er in de samenleving speelt

republicans in disarray, baby

Don't believe anything until Kremlin denies it, fuel shortages incoming Dmitry Peskov: "The Kremlin sees no risk of fuel shortages due to drone strikes on oil refineries. russia's fuel balance has been calculated and has the necessary compensation system."

Users of Chromium browsers should be suspicious of download dropdowns that appear for no reason.

Europe is swapping one gas dependency for another. Russian pipeline gas: out by 2028. US LNG: 5 bcm in 2019 → ~115 bcm by 2030, ~80% of EU imports. The vulnerability just moved onto tankers. But what if the crisis worsens? Long-read with our latest research on this Sunday: janrosenow.substack.com

"Literally tens of millions of Americans were subjected to improper and unlawful government targeting"?

Over de opgepakte Flotilla-demonstranten en hoe excuses geen enkele waarde hebben wanneer ze niet tot daden leiden. Gisteren bij @pauwendewit.bsky.social:

A new lab takes shape at @nikhef.bsky.social for research into ultra-cold mirrors for gravitational-wave detectors: ICELab The ICELab hosts a new research facility designed to study and characterize mirror coatings for the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors as Einstein Telescope (ET)

[130] Oud-politiechef van Duterte gezocht

Hoog tijd! www.tubantia.nl/borne/tienta...

NEW RESEARCH: We modelled three Hormuz closure scenarios. Europe never physically runs out of gas in any of them. But under the worst shock, LNG hits $54.9/MMBtu, above the 2022 peak. Energy security in 2026 isn't empty pipelines. It's empty wallets. Full paper here www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

P.S most difficult negotiations? With Poland. Going from largest receiver of EU funds to net payer will be a major shakeup. Add agriculture and the fact bombed out Ukrainian can still produce 3x as much wheat as a Polish. Their soil is just so good. Major hurdles to overcome

Another university commencement speaker arrives to tout AI:

Voormalig korpschef van Amsterdamse politie, Bernard Welten, ziet Defend Netherlands c.s., “als criminele organisatie” en roept @openbaarministerie.bsky.social op om daarnaar te handelen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

As of March 31, 2026, SpaceX carries nearly $30 billion in debt.

Meanwhile, and extremely predictably, now that Israel has a bridgehead on the north side of the Litani River, they've just issued a new order threatening all civilians to flee or be killed in the central Lebanese towns of Habboush and Deir al-Zahrani. Because the yellow line was always a lie.

Artsen die zelf zorg nodig hebben, maken vaak handig gebruik van hun netwerk

Hardwerkende Nederlander staat nu al twee weken fulltime in Loosdrecht te demonstreren met een blik bier in z'n hand

having billions of dollars is basically like walking around with a nuclear bomb, politically speaking, and there's a reason we do not let individuals have nuclear bombs to set off entirely at their own whims

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Reading the judgement and he starts right off with "'biological sex' does not account for the complex, multi-step nature of sex development, the numerous physiologic attributes, chromosomes, gonads, anatomy, and secondary sex characteristics that develop during puberty." A good poke in TERF eyes.

"Dit kan uiteindelijk leiden tot een zeespiegelstijging van 3,3 meter, die wereldwijd kustlijnen zal veranderen." En dan maar hopen dat er dan genoeg AZC's zijn in Duitsland om al die Hollanders op te vangen. www.newscientist.nl/nieuws/ijspl...

Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social. Have you been injured? #slushfund

Naast Amsterdam Centraal. Als je dan een vlag wil claimen; zo doe je dat. Niet; hier heb je een vlag voor progressief Nederland, en - by the way - ‘we gaan harder op asiel.’

Ohhhhhh🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Dit is gewéldig!! Niet alleen raken ze hun energie kwijt, ook krijgen ze spelenderwijs klassieke muziek ingeprent! Zoals ik vroeger: op mijn sprookjesplaat begon elk verhaal met een stukje Brandenburger Concert! Dat blijft altijd... Ik vind dit echt fantastisch🥰🤩🥰😍

Scheurtjes in het weefsel van de asielpsychose #screenshot

Alsof het asielhonden zijn!

Paprikapoeder met 18 bestrijdingsmiddelen. We zijn echt helemaal gek geworden. www.nu.nl/economie/639...

i wonder if they check their instagram DMs