38 years ago today: The Next Generation's first scene🖖 "Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7. Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world." TNG is 40 soon 🤯

No bread. Just circuses.

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*valt van stoel*

A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment. (I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)

Wow. I'm watching a Moldovan TV channel and can't believe they're running ads against anti-EU propaganda. All decent TV stations in the EU should be doing this. Good job, tv8.md!

Pro-Europese partij op winst in Moldavië.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Zoek de kikker.

Kleurtjes. Drietand (Obs).

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🇲🇩 Aujourd’hui, des élections parlementaires ont lieu en Moldavie. Le pays aura le choix de continuer à suivre son destin européen, ou bien de revenir sur le chemin de la corruption, de la misère des années précédentes. Attendez-vous à une avalanche de fake news. On parie ? 😉

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

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This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

So funny! 🤣😂 Que Hora Es?🇪🇸 youtu.be/4cKGyOE_jOI?...

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet! messenger.abeto.co

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

In 1945, artist NC Wyeth was killed when hit by a train at a railway crossing. His stricken son Andrew’s tribute/farewell to him was this enigmatic ‘Winter 1946’, set over the hill from where the accident occurred, and showing himself as a young man running, erratically

Ik heb kamervragen. 😳

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This only happens to you once

Kijk eens wat ik net gered heb! 😍😍😍

Well don't I feel stupid

Metafoor voor politieke verandering. *Lalalala* *blub*

Als je zo'n bericht leest zonder de context te kennen, zie je Antifa zo voor je:

Situatie.

Art vs artist 🎨 color version 🖌️

Un misterio de amor (Ein Liebesmysterium) de Joseph Uhl (1913). Simboliza tantas cosas... Me recuerda ciertos grabados de Goya. #art #engraving

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Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Chien et chat au balcon. 1960. Paris Dog Cat

More here: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Dankzij deze boodschap op een Zuid-Afrikaanse brief uit de jaren veertig weet ik nu dat het Engelse 'meal' ook gewoon 'meel' kan betekenen. 🤓

Beetje beteuterde vis bij de post vandaag. Mooie zegel. #filatelie #philately #philatelie

Nog een heleboel zwaluwen in de lucht hier. Die van mij zijn al een tijdje weg.

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

#Rasputin and his magic wand. Listen now on #BetwixtTheSheets

Persoonlijk vind ik deze appels niet te vreten, maar gelukkig denken anderen daar anders over.

Enjoying 20C English artist Malcolm Midwood Milne’s "Barrow Hill" (1939) Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Zijn er eigenlijk ook leerkrachtrechten?

Wounded Knee est un massacre d'une intensité folle, 300 à 350 tués environ en quelques minutes, des Sioux désarmés, dont beaucoup de femmes et d'enfants, coincés dans une cuvette et mitraillés depuis le haut. Les 26 soldats américains tués ont été touchés par... Leurs camarades.

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NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, born in 1690, was the greatest Italian Rococo painter although his style was founded in the Grand Manner of the High Renaissance. ''Allegory of the Planets and Continents'', 1752 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Political capture of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office by national governments. National governments are annoyed by the highly effective fight against corruption by #EPPO and try to neuter it. Law professors ring the alarm bells in open letter 👇 We should all support EPPO

Taking off her clothes.

Look what we have here then.