The evening read by @dirkmoses.bsky.social on #Holocaust #Memory today thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

Thanks, Luigi, I'm so glad you found it valuable. I think they did such a brilliant job.

“These are not natural consequences of war. They constitute a pattern of reproductive violence.” New report out by the @theguardian.com on #violence against #mothers and #children in #ConflictZones www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The morning #Syria #WarCrimes read: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...

IT'S CARS THE ANSWER IS, CARS

Here's this year's addition to the collection of Christmas tree ornaments: the NS train!!! Hey @ns.nl good job on the Christmas decorations!

Days pass, and the landgrab continues, and it's been like that for many years. If you hear anyone on the political scene speak of the "two state solution" that we must "work towards", ask them "where". These people need to be kicked out, this is not theirs. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

When I was studying historical linguistics, one of the most mind-blowing things was just how often we had primary texts to research an extinct language because someone found a book at a library that nobody knew was there. Many libraries are so old and so big that we don't know what's in them.

Israël legaliseert nog eens negentien nederzettingen op Westelijke Jordaanoever

An illegal landgrab. #Israel #Palestine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

AI is an existential crisis for scholarship, and this thread is an example of why. If you use genAI in your "research," even if it's just for a "thought partner" or "writing-starter," you are contributing to this crisis. Full stop.

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Thank you @gemeentedenhaag.bsky.social for this perfection of a #BikePath close to the Palaistuin. <3 It's enormous, feels like a highway. Good job, makes me happy to give you my tax money every year. #Cycling #Fietsen #Nederland #Netherlands #DenHaag #Mobility

I wonder if he feels like he's covered in slime when he says shit like this, and the famous "daddy" bit. The stomach needed for this....

This will be a big one. #ICJ #Genocide

The morning #Sudan read: #MassViolence #Darfur www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.” @seyeabimbola.bsky.social www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

Bullies will bully. #ICC www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Cringe.

I joined, for the second time, the sit-in that Dutch civil servants organize weekly, to insist that the state applies #InternationalLaw, and not double standards, to #Israel and #Palestine. I don't normally get nervous often, but I get nervous doing a speech for them. #Nederland #Netherlands

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

This is the (Dutch language) announcement of the sit-in I will be participating in again today, in #DenHaag, where civil servants protest, tirelessly, the state's response and the double standards. What they want is the state to follow #InternationalLaw and its own #constitution. #Israel #Palestine

This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)

Sometimes work is emails, meetings and crap, but sometimes it's also delightful messages from students. I don't care if this is bragging, getting these chocolates was so touching today, made me tear up. This job can also be meaningful and full of joy <3 #AmTeaching #HigherEd #Academia

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

In this @foreignaffairs.com essay, I discuss why the killing spree at sea is so different from the US armed conflicts with AQ, ISIS, etc. The "whatabout Obama" talking point is extremely weak sauce. www.foreignaffairs.com/central-amer...

This is Rose. She's paralyzed in both her back legs from being hit by a car as a stray. But when she sees her wheelchair harness come out, she knows it's time to walk and roll. 14/10 (IG: twopawrose)

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

In Zagreb, I lived for a while on a street named after him. What a lovely gravestone.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Dit is deel 1 van een nieuwe serie. Volgende week meer! www.nu.nl/klimaat/6379...

Het sneeuwt letterlijk pfas bij een brandblusverwerker in Lelystad. Vlokken schuim vliegen niet alleen bij de buurman over de schutting, maar deze schadelijke stoffen komen ook via het riool terecht in ons drinkwater. Het opruimen hiervan gaat miljoenen euro’s kosten. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/bi...

Bijna 5 procent van de Nederlandse stroom gaat naar datacenters

Is it possible not to love #Japan? <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...

Alright. One step closer to some resolution hopefully, because this has been taking a year, and it's not a moment for the Office to be without its chief (although, from what I understand, the deputies have stepped up to fill the gap). #ICC www.reuters.com/world/un-com...

I don't think many people will visit anymore. To give my DNA? Yeah, nope.

Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Recently I visited Zagreb and did a few interviews in Croatian (which I don't do much). This one was cool because it was at the Faculty of Political Science, where I studied. It's a podcast and conversation on international justice and courts in The Hague. Here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYV...

This government is breaking stuff and causing permanent damage. Higher education. The environment....We have to move to something better. #Nederland #Netherlands

Today I attended the presentation of the judgment of the PPT on systemic #discrimination and #gender #apartheid women of #Afghanistan have been subjected to by The Taliban regime. It was a powerful telling of this painful reality, and a call to action. permanentpeoplestribunal.org/the-hague-11...

i like these home details designed for pets IG meredithsterninteriors

Belangrijk verhaal. Wordt dit weer een NACO? Netherlands Always Chickens Out? Je kunt stoer praten over digitale soevereiniteit, maar als je dit soort basisvoorzieningen niet op orde hebt, blijven dat lege woorden. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/am...

...but..that's not how courts work, Donald. If they were to do this, they can close up shop immediately. #ICC www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The size of life. So beautifully done by Neal Agarwal. neal.fun/size-of-life/

Is there a piece of scholarship on your syllabus that students really connected with or really worked well for your semester? You should take some time today to email those authors and tell them. I love sending these emails.

Question of the day. #TweedeKamer #Nederland #Kabinetsformatie