What a surprise. People are choosing non-alcoholic more and more. MyStErIoUs

When people gather together to publicly support governmental action, it's not called a *protest.* For Example: if a group of people gathered together to support the government creating National Parks, it wouldn't be called "A protest in support of National Parks." Language matters. @nltimes.nl

A good article to read! A good follow up article can be found here: kim-hipwell.medium.com/why-gamete-p... Both are worth the time.

Reagan and Thatcher get a lot of blame for what they did, but I think a lot more blame needs to also fall onto Clinton and Blair. It really feels like Reagan and Thatcher dug a hole into their two respective nations while Clinton and Blair decided that having the hole was acceptable.

Guy who makes AI "art" tried to follow me.

I decided to leave the USA during Bush II and it took me about 12 years to make it happen. My entire life has been spent watching the USA progressively choose fascism because White USAians stopped being able to racist as hard as they believed they should be able to.

This is why AI sucks. It's not a truth-finding device. It's a creating-the-appearance-of-truth device.

I block pro-AI posters.

Psst.... Corrupt racist, bigoted, and xenophobic politicians will still be strongly supported by their voters. Their voters' care about corruption is orders of magnitude *less* than their care about the racism, bigotry, and xenophobic of those they vote for.

As an USA immigrant, it's nice seeing so many Dutch people deeply angered by the firebombing of a emergency shelter for asylum seekers. I hope it continues and the right-wing is recognized as the real threat it is. Look at the USA & see what's down the road if you don't. nos.nl/artikel/2614...

Engaging with the disingenuous reduces the amount of time you can spend combating them. This is why the right is so eager to "debate."

The solution is easy, but untenable because the status quo currently harms non-landowners to the benefit of landowners. The Solution: Renters get the tax reductions, not Landlords. Owning residences that one does not personally live in does not have favorable taxation.

Fafhrd, a northern barbarian, trying not to misgender the sorcerer Ningauble of the Seven Eyes in Fritz Leiber’s 1939 story The Jewels in the Forest.

Nearing 25 years with my lovely wife and I hope that I've got at least another 25 more to go. Anyone know what Atropos likes? Full-size snickers?

Some people look as though they have a psychiatric condition, with hallucinations and delusions, but are actually experiencing an autoimmune illness. The divide is less stark than previously realized, and now physicians are working to bring neurological treatments to psychiatry.

Europe Has Become the New America. For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to Europe than Europeans are moving to America. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/...

Naw, my mask doesn't mean I'm afraid. It means I'm angry. Angry about living in a world where almost everyone but me goes upstream to shit.

De ‘Forever Chemical’ heeft het Amsterdamse Bos veroverd. Omdat ik voelde dat het onderzoek niet af was, zette ik een nieuw Woo-verzoek uit. Een rapport van sept 2025 bevestigt nu: de waterbodem is op grote schaal verzadigd met PFOS – de meest schadelijke variant uit de PFAS-familie. 🧵

The new Dutch Right-Wing party is called DNA and they're using a strand of DNA as their logo. I shit you not. The racism and xenophobia goes *VERY* deep among the Dutch Right-Wing. They really want Dutch Citizenship to be Ethnic, not Civil.

"You, can get, into my van I think, your friends, will understand. I'm not concerned about repercussions I wanna rip a bong and drink some Robitussin." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w96...

Had my first appointment with my new Dr. and she was really good. That's one worry I can shelve away now.

What the measure won't be: A governmental workforce tasked with creating housing that is not determined by the profitability of creating the housing. Like how the creation of transport infrastructure is determined not by the profit created in transport infrastructure, but by the need.

I'm mostly off Twitter now, only occasionally going over to check up on the people I'm following (I only do following), but I've recently noticed something. My following feed used to be filled with posts from those people but now it it mostly composed of replies by those people... (1/3)

I wonder if dogs say they have different breeds of humans. Like are some dogs saying to other dogs, "This is my Linda, she's a Blue-Haired Feeder," and other dogs are saying something like, "This is my Chuck, he's a pure-breed Warm Lap."

And just like that....Europe became a better place.

"This bread is sprung like Sir Mix-a-Lot on a thicc woman!" my darling Suzi, upon seeing that the bread she's baking has really good oven spring.

Huh... Sarcasm font render's Google Translate unusable. Interesting. However, if you go English>Dutch and then take the result back to Dutch>English you get a response. I wonder if mixed capitalization has this effect in other automated translation services and/or in different languages.

Oh look, can't end discrimination because that's bad for business. As I've said repeatedly, Capitalism is *structurally* anti-democratic.

I find that Double Think oftentimes more accurately describes what people call cognitive dissonance. So I don't know if it's bigger, but it may be better. In some circumstances.

I wonder if these additives are on the labels? Any of my non-vegge* friends know? (*I don't know because I'm a vegetarian and never look at the meat section.)

So much of the USA is too far gone to even do this...

I dunno, but I'm getting the inkling that perhaps the USA's behavior may be the first example of an "influencer war" or a "SEO" war. ie. "The image and presentation is what is important, not the product (the war, in this case)."

It's so strange how unintentional discrimination always ends up targeting the same groups as intentional discrimination does.

Heh. Immigrants are *always* blamed for the problems created by Rich Citizens.

Inside this president are two wolves both called Sun Sun. They are the evil dopplegangers of Moon Moon from another universe. They have goatees.

Any woman who treats an abortion pill like an impulse buy such as a snickers... GOOD ON THEM! THEY ARE FUCKING GROWN-ASS WOMEN MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODY. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PATRONIZING MISOGYNISTIC ASSHOLES.

Defunding the DHS is a good thing.

The Speld out here throwing The Onion levels of shade.

The art is always separate from the artist. The money paid to the artist to (experience) the art never is. They're two separate issues.

Blocked again by T. Ryan Gregory, but this time not about wearing masks. Here's my offending posts. I dared to point out that the USA is not insolvent as that erroneous Forbes article making the rounds is claiming. The human endeavor is becoming better via change: but you have to do it.

The amount of USA federal debt held by other countries is almost equal to the amount of USA federal debt held by various parts of the government against other parts of the government.

The Onion, killing it as always.

Saw it when I was 11 or 12.

You want people to use healthcare because using healthcare is less expensive than not using healthcare. They say they're worries about "seeking unnecessary care" while noting that price is artificially suppressing the amount of care that people actually need. *sigh*

Woah. Amazing map.

Oh look, The Netherlands is importing Southern USA religion and saying it's because of...get this... Experts point to corona and the individualization of society as key factors." It's the racism and bigotry. That's why these particular religions are growing in NL.

Cast my first vote here in The Netherlands! NL allows residents who have been here for 5 years to vote in municipal elections, so I did my civic duty.