Over 42,000 refugees in West and Central Africa have returned home voluntarily in 2025. Total returns since 2021 is now more than 272,000 people. Most are returning to Nigeria and the Central African Republic, offering hope after years of displacement.

It is both ethically wrong & fundamentally anti-democratic for one man to command this much wealth and power. States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Het indrukwekkendste van LLM’s is dus misschien niet dat ze menselijke taal zo goed kunnen nadoen, maar dat mensen nu LLM’s gaan nadoen en de precisie van taal niet meer waarderen." Precies: machines gaan niet op mensen lijken, maar mensen meer en meer op machines. Trefzekere @felienne.bsky.social

West Bank's ancient olive tree a 'symbol of Palestinian endurance' The guardian of the occupied West Bank's oldest olive tree, Salah Abu Ali says experts estimate the tree to be between 3,000 and 5,500 years old. It has endured millennia in a land scarred by drought and war u.afp.com/SeF7

*sandwich guy post*

[in mijn ernstigste reporterstem] meneer klaver, hoe ruk zijn uw borrels eigenlijk? ik vraag dit omdat de vvd natuurlijk uw partij beticht van saaie borrels. hm? ik proef wel ergernis bij u

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w... It is possible to overcome the infatuation with Russia and see it for what it is - a ruthless murderous empire “...however shocking it may be to say this about an entire people, one can still love some Russians, but one can no longer love Russia.

Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

Returning soldiers buying gifts for their families at the Christmas market in Berlin, 1918. (c) bpk / Kunstbibliothek, SMB, Photothek Willy Römer

Shock as Orbán allies buy Hungary’s most-read newspaper

Democrats swept a trio of races in the first major elections since Donald Trump regained the presidency, elevating a new generation of leaders and giving the beleaguered party a shot of momentum ahead of next year's congressional elections reut.rs/47Fz2Wq

Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami

Als ik mijn geloofsbrieven mag ondertekenen, dan kan ik het vd daken schreeuwen! Wat een eer, met 30.000 voorkeursstemmen kan ik door voor een veilige, gezonde en leuke online wereld. Ik ben dankbaar voor elke stem en wat mogen we trots zijn dat dit knokken voor de digitale zaak gelukt is #nerdvote

The Reader, Ichijō Narumi.

'(...) My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.' Wilfred Owen, 18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918 #dotd - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wilfre...

#Hein #boos

Robinson Crusoë der lage landen.

French photographer Stephan Gladieu’s series in Kinshasa showcases residents turning city waste into art. Locals craft vibrant costumes from discarded plastics, car parts, flip-flops, CDs, and electronics, transforming pollution into creative expression and highlighting environmental resilience #art

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Thatcher in NE England #womensart Image care of and property of Ella Murtha

Michel Lara "On the Ship" is one of my favorite poems by Cavafy. Here, the poet's recurrent themes of memory, desire & loss are bathed by a remembered light of nostalgia.

Good morning! 🪶

The former Afghan Women's National Football Team, now known as Afghan Women United, took the field last week for their first games in four years. Their return after the Taliban banned all sports for women and girls is a victory for human rights.

Het echte nieuws is niet haar sollicitatie, maar dat een vertrouwelijke procedure blijkbaar niet gewaarborgd kan worden. Iemand probeert haar doelbewust te beschadigen.

Het is gewoon een aanval op Lahlah's goede naam, terwijl het volstrekt gewoon is her en der te solliciteren. Alleen bij anderen lekt het niet uit. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/polit...

#MelvilleMonday "O the clammy cold November, And the winter white and dead, And the terror dumb with stupor, And the sky a sheet of lead..." - Melville, Apathy and Enthusiasm (1860-1) 🎨Grace Albee. Forgotten Things (1942).

Hokjesdrang en doorgeslagen psychologisering.

Good morning! 🪶

After escaping brutal fighting, families in Sudan are now running out of time. Children are hungry, parents are desperate, and communities are cut off from aid. They need protection, safety and humanitarian access. Now, not later.

Favo stroman nu is: 'IEDEREEN zegt midden is winnaar, terwijl het extreem rechts is, en ik leg dat hier uit!' Terwijl letterlijk iedereen vrijwel meteen al zei dat extreemrechts is gegroeid

“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” -Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865) #everynightapoem #november

"Frau Und Buch" Lady Reading A Book 1931. www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-w...

Édouard Manet, Illustration for ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe’, Lithograph

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Ceci n'est pas wat jullie denken. Dit is Princesse X, gebeeldhouwd door Brancusi. Als je beter kijkt zie je dat het een vrouw is die voorover gebogen in de spiegel kijkt. Eigenlijk een vroegmoderne smartphone-pose. Nog tot 18 januari te zien in H'ART. - www.hartmuseum.nl/tentoonstell...

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

Rake Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer over het verlies vd lijsttrekker van GL-PvdA Frans Timmermans!

The humanitarian situation in Al Fasher and other parts of Sudan is nothing less than catastrophic. World leaders must act to end the indiscriminate killing. Statement attributable to Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross: ms.spr.ly/63323tEZvx

Rent Strike in Berlin (1932) The slogan “First Food – then Rent” is painted on the wall in the background, Both Communist and National Socialist flags can be seen hanging from the windows. © Ullstein Bild/Granger Collection

Geeft een heel nieuwe betekenis aan #likeaBosch - www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... 1/2

When tradwives talk about "Biblical womanhood," all I can think about is Yael hammering a tent peg through the skull of an army commander to save her people from oppression in the Book of Judges.

Novembertag Nebel hängt wie Rauch ums Haus, drängt die Welt nach innen; ohne Not geht niemand aus; alles fällt in Sinnen. Leiser wird die Hand, der Mund, stiller die Gebärde. Heimlich, wie auf Meeresgrund, träumen Mensch und Erde. Christian Morgenstern

On the midi-plan arête; in the distance: the Périades and the Grandes Jorasses From “Between heaven and earth” by Gaston Rébuffat, 1965.

Scherp stuk in de Irish Times over Nederlandse verkiezingen en de normalisering van radicaal-rechts. 'Een van de verkiezingsbeloftes was het deporteren van de "kinderen en kleinkinderen" van migranten.'

Who ate all the pumpkins? The Hajikkaki (はぢっかき). More Japanese monsters from the Bakemono Zukushi scroll (18th–19th century) here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-bakemono-zukushi-monster-scroll-18th-19th-century

In de categorie hoopvolle berichten: 'Anti-oorlogspoëzie geeft Russen een gevoel van verbondenheid' @wesselnos.bsky.social - nos.nl/l/2588765

Het lijkt me een fantastische move van Rob Jetten om Sigrid Kaag Voor te dragen als premierskandidaat. Ze is geschikt en het is van belang om na dit fiasco met #schoof het verschil met #extreemrechts zo groot mogelijk te maken.

Dozens of recent social media videos show Rapid Support Forces carrying out extrajudicial killings and other serious violations against people fleeing North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, in Sudan. Urgent action is needed to prevent further atrocities.