En dan hier in Loenen het, voor zover ik kan zien, meest eenzame woonhuis van Nederland! De buren wonen 1,8 kilometer verderop. Volgens Google Maps woont er een kunstenaar (hier een foto van zijn website).

Ik sla een paar andere meetpunten/installaties over en dan komen we bij het eerste huiselijke ding, https://galiartweb.nl/Aortjes-Huus in Hulshorst - een klein huisje midden in het bos, op 1,9 kilometer afstand van alles. Ik vind allemaal Facebooklinks over […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Griend 1, West-Terschelling is wel the real deal, en lijkt een of andere installatie, met zonnepanelen. Maar hier woont niemand. Wel 12 kilometer afstand tot het dichtstbijzijnde adres!

Maar wat is het meest afgelegen adres? De top-zoveel bestaat uit rare gevallen. Zo wint Jan Brandspad 1, Warffum op Rottumerplaat omdat mijn database geen Duitse adressen kent. Maar het dichtstbijzijnde Nederlandse adres is 12,4 kilometer verderop!

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

@Tom_ofB I once watched an aphid giving birth and right behind there was a ladybird just eating them like it was a chicken nugget dispenser. Nature is messed up.

People think ladybirds are cute little bugs but do not often consider their criminal tendencies.

RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116907357793032995 This “interesting series of ambiguities” process is also why Old Chinese is almost entirely one-syllable words written with one character, and Modern Mandarin (which has lost many sounds) is mostly two-syllable words written with two […]

Ik heb dus een computerprogramma gemaakt wat adressen vindt die ver verwijderd zijn van andere adressen. En die tool vindt werkelijk de gekste panden, bunkers, verdwaalde molens & moeilijk verklaarbare huisjes in het bos. Vervolgens vraagt iemand 'ja maar waarom […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Fixed it for you, NOS. Ik vind niet dat je over een land als Qatar moet schrijven zonder even te noemen dat het een autocratische staat vrijwel zonder burgerrechten is – en niet alleen rijk en modern. Niet iedereen heeft dat helder op z’n netvlies staan. Bij […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Dutch Junior Minister for Kingdom Relations Van den Burg is urging Bonaire to finally start introducing public transport, after already investing over a million euros. Long article in Dutch: https://nos.nl/l/2622745

Profound words from the manual

#til that #venus has a "quasi-moon" named #zoozve. it was originally named "2002VE" but an artist misread the numbers. The name stuck! 🪐 👍 😁 #space #cosmos #planetaryscience https://www.planetary.org/articles/venus-quasi-moon-zoozve

genuine question for blind people, if a braille sign is made out of metal and you know it's hot outside what do you do? i found this image of this massive braille sign made out of sheet metal that was baking in the sun. seemed to be one of those park infographics about the native plant/animal […]

okay okay so hear us out: 36-bit architecture is a PITA because everyone assumes 8-bit bytes but 36 and 8 don't divide cleanly but that problem doesn't exist when you double the word size, therefore we should revive multics under a RISClike 72-bit segmented architecture, preserving […]

(What I have seen is a lot of people bent over rare books taking notes. And among those who do so digitally, a stylus is more common than typing)

The linguistics summer school in Leiden attracts the smartest, hardest working, most sincere and driven students imaginable. Every one of them wants to learn, wants to master their field and wants to make new meaningful advancements. I’m in awe of them. And you know what I haven’t seen once all […]

Gezegend is een cultuur die mensen voortbrengt als Jan Beuving en Ionica Smeets. https://neerlandistiek.nl/2026/07/achter-iedere-deur-een-andere-fascinerende-geit/

Het blijft frappant hoe deze Fokke en Sukke uit 2022 *exact* klopt met de recente berichtgeving over dat Nederland de wereld helemaal niet "voedt". Wat we wel doen is onwijs veel poep hier maken (en houden) met buitenlands veevoer. /cc @JeanMarcvanTol

I just saw this penny arcade comic about secret questions from literally 20 years ago and realized that no-one does secret questions anymore as a method to protect website accounts, and the world can in fact get better sometimes […]

I miss Jane Goodall.

You don't have to be the best to succeed. You just need to know your strengths. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once said, "I knew I wasn't the best at drawing comics or the best at being racist. But I knew I was better than most people at drawing comics and being racist, so I combined the two."

I LOVE waking up on a Saturday morning and thinking about nothing but Reflect Orbital and how to fight it. And then sending lots of emails and texts to my many astronomer colleagues who woke up similarly angry this morning. The one thing that gives me hope is that 99.9% of people who find out […]

Reflect Orbital is going to launch a giant fucking mirror into orbit. SpaceX has asked to launch a million gigantic fucking orbital data centers, and they've already got 11,000 sats in orbit. The UN website that allows everyone to see what new satellites have been launched has not been updated […]

RE: https://beige.party/@adub/116896129245194088 Oh fantastic, the FCC approved Reflect Orbital on Matariki. Just to make it more hideously disrespectful to absolutely everything. Relatedly, I got interviewed months ago as one of 3 experts for this Aotearoa-based podcast that just came out […]

I just reached out to a bunch of journalists who already wrote about how awful Reflect Orbital is. I hope at least some of them will write more about it. (Please DM me if you have suggestions for journalists I should reach out to who might be interested in writing about this to a large audience)

Yet another article submitted for The Conversation, with some last minute modifications to express how fucking terrible the FCC's decision on Reflect Orbital is, which fit in perfectly with the overall theme of the article. (How many articles in The Conversation is too many? I think this is my […]

GREAT guess I'm not going to sleep tonight either. Maybe there will be auroras. I need to enjoy the stars as much as I can now, I guess. Fuck you, FCC, for approving this. Fuck Reflect Orbital and all the copycats it's going to spawn. Fuck techbros everywhere. Fuck venture capitalists for […]

Want some reminders of how fucking terrible this idea is? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/true-cost-solar-power-night-reflect-orbital/ https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-deliver-sunlight-on-demand-after-dark-can-it-work-and-would-we-want-it-to-264323 […]

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO https://ca.pcmag.com/news/16760/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-giant-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate

I just saw a Dutch-speaking user who was trying to look up more information about a photo of an archaeological dig (a black and white photo of a man and a woman) and Gemini interjected, in Dutch, that it was a photo of a previous Dutch royal couple. There is no particularly strong resemblance […]

TIL it is hypothesized that the reduplicative god names Kubaba, Pazuzu, Alala, Aruru, Belili, Zababa etc all come from the same otherwise lost language... and linguists call it The Banana Language. 🍌 🍌 #linguistics

In which the reviewer glosses a word with "to fuck" and writes a footnote to justify himself

Of all the entries on the "Musicians who oppose Donald Trump's use of their music" Wikipedia page, Frank Sinatra's is probably my favorite:

Nou weet ik niet wat dit kan zijn maar dit lijkt een DC van 275MW te vergen (ofzo). Heeft iemand in Nederland 275MW over? Dat is de helft van de kerncentrale ongeveer (al is die nu al weken uit de running) […]

I read a suggestion today that I don't fully believe, nor do I feel like checking to make sure. I'll share it all the same: Should Zinedine Zidane take over as head coach of France, he'll have to sit out the first three matches because he retired straight after the 2006 final and never served […]

Solar energy is an absolutely incredible technology. It's a key building block of our sustainable future. We need lots of it. But maybe before we start trying to cram it into the safety critical infrastructure of our railway tracks, we start first with every equatorial facing roof top. And maybe […]

Ye fucking gods, just like how techbros keep reinventing the bus, it seems in solar circles, the idea of putting solar panels in transport surfaces is an idea that a) should never had be got off the fag packet sketch, b) keeps coming back. We had the trial of a 100m long 18KW install in […]

Meta’s new AI creep glasses to record 24-7 without a light the continuing legacy of FaceMash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YxiCqUz98&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Here's his comparative Cushitic database: ahmedsosal.github.io/CLD/#/lexicon

when your functional language is radioactive https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/116891324417184677

I am here to report that news in Chinese transcribes Kanye West as “grampa who never shuts up”

Tag yourself I'm all the way on the left Great defense, congratulations Dr. Sosal!

Medieval cozycore IS real and it CAN heal you. #netherlands #leiden #cozy #cozycore

🇪🇺 The European Parliament lets #chatcontrol 1.0 go through despite a majority voting against it (314:276) – allowing mass scanning of private chats until 2028. Survivors are warning. My analysis and why this is the wrong approach 👇 […]

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

For those of you who would like to read our actual paper (without any AI shit), it is open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1617138125001955

Our paper on biodiversity in the media was cited in this section as [67]. Guess if we wrote anything about reduced thermal loss values 😭 #fuckai

This is exactly the kind of news I want to see after spending a whole day reading and writing about Kessler Syndrome, right before I go to bed. Fuuuuuuck.

HAHAHA FUCK SpaceX just launched a nuclear powered satellite. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-just-launched-the-1st-ever-nuclear-powered-commercial-satellite Sounds like this particular satellite is tiny and doesn't have a lot of tritium on board but HOLY […]