Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Ran the Zevenheuvelenloop 2025 (15K race in the Netherlands): https://glass.photo/roelgroeneveld/5c1oOI7d4G6HLhjqOEwaqt

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Gestemd! 🗳️ Natuurlijk op een kandidaat met veel digitale ervaring. Vind je dat ook belangrijk, check dan even @berthub.eu’s Nerdvote voordat je gaat stemmen: https://www.nerdvote.nl/

Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚

In Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers, Ben Werdmuller quotes Alexandra Geese (member of the European Parliament): "“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a ... https://roel.io/2025/10/18/in-europe-cant-defend-democracy.html

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Brought the camera with me on a stroll through a nearby forest last weekend. Amazin fall colors, and a wealth of mushrooms dotting the forest floor and fallen wood. 🍄

Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. An entertaining heist story set in a Medieval city that resembles Amsterdam, with a dash of magic. Good fun. 📚

Fall colors

I started reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Earlier this morning… 🌈 🌅

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen "We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a... https://roel.io/2025/09/28/in-the-future-all-food.html

Surveillance as a service. I'm only surprised China's using a hedge company. It's been doing this openly, and flying African officials to China for training in surveillance-related public policy for over a decade.

Om te snappen hoe online cultuur ons leven beïnvloedt lees ik Ryan Broderick. Ook over hoe Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme: "We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up se... https://roel.io/2025/09/14/om-te-snappen-hoe-online.html

I started reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚

AI gebruiken? Ethische handvatten uit de natuurfotografie: https://roel.io/2025/07/27/ai-gebruiken-ethische-handvatten-uit.html

Meanwhile, the small sandwich shop I'm at in the UK is begging people to pay cash because their card fees were GBP320 last month. Allowing card processors to collect rent when better alternatives exist is a policy choice and a political failure.

In a timeline defined by absurd headlines, this one might actually take the cake. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...

Na Feyenoord meent ook FC Twente dat het oké is om zaken te doen met Rusland. Dat voetbalclubs uit NL gewoon zaken willen doen is de beste propaganda die Poetin kan krijgen. Achter die handel met Rusland schuilt één voetbalmakelaarskantoor, het Amsterdamse Muy Manero 👇 www.ftm.nl/artikelen/na...

Nog zoiets, als de politieke werkelijkheid belangrijker is dan de echte werkelijkheid: Schrappen voorrang vluchtelingen op woningmarkt kost miljarden

Better living through technology: "Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

25 jr links demoniseren terwijl rechts en extreem rechts met fluwelen handschoentjes wordt aangepakt. Het hele NL landschap is in die 25 jr verrechtst.

Nulgradengrens stijgt naar uitzonderlijke hoogte in Alpen: ook top van Mont Blanc gaat smelten www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Went for a photo break after an early start. Just getting outside before it gets hot (35° Celsius). 📷

Commuting by train today

but… isn’t the point of drinking coffee to sit there and read a book while you do? the decline of reading for fun is maybe the single most depressing thing about the technological era we’re living through

Really liked Maria Farrell’s keynote at the Public Spaces conference this year. Of course she spoke about the importance of rewinding the internet.

Camera’s are a lot like software applications: we use them often, but overlook the less known features. Today I tried the timelapse feature on my camera for the first time. It was a lot of fun! https://roel.io/2025/06/18/cameras-are-a-lot-like.html

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

Rode Lijn II: https://roel.io/2025/06/15/rode-lijn-ii.html

Morgen ga ik naar de PublicSpaces conferentie in Amsterdam. Zie ik jullie daar? #publicspaces #PubConf25 #digitalsovereignty

'Zelfredzaam'

Terwijl de voormalig coalitiepartijen nog even ruzie maken, gaat het debat over gehandicaptenbeleid donderdag tóch niet door. Want (ik verzin het niet): er is geen bewindspersoon beschikbaar. 😫😩 www.telegraaf.nl/video/van-de...

"Have you ever gone to type a message in a comment box on social media, or began entering a search term, and then thought the better of it and deleted it without actually submitting the form? Did you know that those sites used the words you typed anyway and incorporated them into their profile?"

Oh, dit is een fijne 90’s hiphop set: https://youtu.be/kYbw-Xqvau0

1. Ga naar ‘Instellingen’ 2. Scroll naar ‘Privacycentrum’ 3. Bovenin zie je een melding die begint met ‘We werken altijd aan verbeteringen voor AI bij Meta’. In de tekst kun je klikken op de blauwe woorden ‘Bezwaar maken’ 4. Vul je e-mailadres in als dat nog niet is gedaan 5. Klik op ‘Verzenden’

Bij de Telegraaf krijgen ze eindelijk aarzelend door dat ze opnieuw aan de foute kant van de geschiedenis staan.

🇧🇬🇺🇦In March 2025, a voice on the phone said: “We will bring you to your knees, swine.” Weeks later, his family was chased on a Bulgarian highway. 🧵This isn’t fiction. It’s the true story of Svet DiNahum - a writer punished for exposing Russian lies. 1/24

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

Bedrijven positioneren zich als slachtoffers van regels en concurrentie. Maar FNV-economen kraken dat frame: 🏦 De winsten zijn historisch hoog 📉 Maar bedrijven investeren steeds minder in de samenleving🧵👇 @veravrijmoeth.bsky.social @rodeeconoom.bsky.social

'In plaats van regeringsarbeid door ministers kwam een permanente kabinetsformatie tussen fractievoorzitters, waarbij overeenstemming of concrete beleidspunten vaak worden uitgesteld.' #BetrouwbareBronnen art19.com/shows/betrou...

Some industries are more equal than others?

‘Hoe vaak heb jij over een kabinetsval gefantaseerd?’

Not recommending any non-American travel to the US right now, for almost any reason

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

Bewijs zoveel dat #BBB schijt heeft aan het algemeen belang. www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/17495...

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.