This is what I want to watch at the Olympics. #dog

New definition of sovereignty dropped

My expertise makes me able to advise....War criminals....? On how to escape justice in court?! I know some tricks about how to deploy plausible deniability.....[I'll let myself out]. Jokes aside, how cool is this.

Join us on Monday, 23 Feb 2026 for the seminar “Circulation of Extremist Narratives through the Parliaments” (ARENAS) at INZ or via Zoom. ☕ Details in the programme image. 💻 us06web.zoom.us/j/8244142877... @arenasproject.bsky.social #INT #ARENASproject #seminar #ExtremistNarratives

I had a student who did her MA with me last year, who studied how the rhetoric of the Irish government did not match its actions, and the center of the research was this airport. Weapons transfers, flying in and out, like it's nothing. Shameful.

“Het grote doel van onderwijs is zin van onzin te onderscheiden. Dat betekent dat we studenten de skills bieden waarmee je elkaar kritisch en respectvol kunt bevragen: Hoe weet jij dat? Is het betrouwbaar? Waar komt het vandaan?” Good read, this one: dub.uu.nl/nl/achtergro... #Nederland

Nobody who has ever written and published a book, and I have, and tons of my friends have, would ever, EVER say, they "generated it". Lady, you're no writer. You're an online snake oil saleswoman.

You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.

British values

Really letting us all know it's still one little club and we ain't in it.

This is Kinako. She is a phenomenally proportioned pup proving that bulbous is beautiful. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: nao77001048)

Good question.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Meanwhile in Kyiv

The morning pre-yoga read: #Syria www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I'll be in London twice in the next 2 months and that's great because I love visiting London. Next week quick train trip to catch a play and an exhibition, and then in March it's time to do some work. Travel, naturally, by train. Choo choo! 🚆

Yesterday we had the honour of hosting the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Christophe Kamp at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social He was very kind and gave an insightful talk. It's great to be able to bring practice to the uni. #HumanRights #NationalMinorities #SocietalPartners #HigherEd

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

This is out in the NRC, and it's about #Ukraine and the use of the word #genocide. „Het is een zeer restrictieve definitie. Als we teruggaan naar de definitie uit de Genocide Conventie van 1948 en de praktijk in het Strafhof […] lijkt het me vrij helder op dit moment.” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

So true.

If you're around today in #Utrecht, and you're interested in these topics, do come. I'll talk about what criminal #courts, international and national ones, are doing about crimes perpetrated in #Ukraine. #ICC #DomesticJurisdiction #Investigations #Accountability #Justice www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

Imagine that.

De Koerden in Rojava zijn in grote onveiligheid. Ik sprak Nederlandse Koerden over hoe wij hen kunnen steunen. @glpvdadenhaag.bsky.social is solidair! 💚☀️♥️✌️

Remember, they want us uneducated, uninformed and unable to think critically and independently. Then it's easier for them to steal, lie and remain in power.

Ouch! The D66 communications crowd are having a bad day. Today in Dutch newspaper @volkskrant.nl: "D66 the PM, VVD the policies (..) Comparing the government coalition agreement with each of the three party manifestoes leads to the conclusion: the VVD receives a lot while D66 gets just a little".

"War crimes rage out of control". Well this is just a delightful way to start the week. All that was built over decades, collapsing before our eyes. Who is to blame? States. Not the law. States. The problem is politics, it's not the law. #IHL #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw

All on board with the refusal. Count me in. Have been super successfully refusing as much as I can.

ARTE

Good morning. These institutions, built over decades, are flawed, but we'll miss them when they're gone. Scary to think where we got to. #UN www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is Zeus. He's 13 and can't howl quite like he used to. But that doesn't stop him from stepping pup when his community needs him. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: zeustheoldiegoldie)

look an entire newspaper has been kicked in the head by a horse

"Goedemorgen"

This says it all.

"Displacement makes it impossible to occupy the position academic training demands: the view from nowhere." This is good. Read it. #Academia #Research #Positionality #Displacement

We are going to see this in London in a few weeks and I'm delighted about that. Literally a short weekend trip with this at its center! #Japan #London #Samurai #Exhibition www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The morning "sigh of relief" pre-yoga read. This shit made our life so much worse the last year or so. Good riddance. #Nederland #HigherEd #BudgetCuts #Bezuinigingen #Academia www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Can you imagine being described as 'scowling void of pure nothingness'? Must be tough to be that empty but I guess that's the only way to be around you know who. She just looks really dead inside.

MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

There are no better experts than @mikebecker.bsky.social and @adhaque.bsky.social to speak to the potential outcomes of the ICJ proceedings on Myanmar

This is Frankie. He ran outside like he always does, only to find out his yard had been replaced with a white void. 12/10 (IG: frankiethenorfie)

Nobody needs this crap.

This is Wynn. Her neighborhood friends came over to ask if she could come out to play, and she didn't look back. 13/10 (IG: wynn_thegolden)

This resonates with me. I came here (NL) on a Croatian passport before Cro was EU. Everything was a pain in the ass. Cues, questions, forms, the small humiliations. Then, boom, in 2013 Cro entered the EU and my life changed overnight. No more forms, no nothing. Welcome, hello. I saw it change.

Dear colleagues in Dutch #academia, please sign this petition, to have our pensions untied from #Palantir. Their tech is used for #AITargeting in Gaza. We should say loudly and clearly, I'm not making money out of that murder machine. #Nederland #ABP #Pensions actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ge...

Here's the news in English: #ClimateChange #Netherlands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/c...

This is great. Go see it. #Russia #Ukraine #Resistance #Propaganda www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUe...

Oh my. I'm at the cinema I think I just saw judge Charlesworth! What a sighting! In the wild! Well not wild, more like downtown The Hague. !

the sole purpose of this is to support a massively overvalued, unprofitable industry

This crap makes my blood boil. #Holocaust #Memory #AISlop www.france24.com/en/live-news...