Wat een held en en lefbak. Respect ✊🏽 Vraagt om impeachment van #Trump en wordt gearresteerd. Terwijl hij al jaren in dienst is. Kan menigeen een voorbeeld aan nemen!

Best anthropology post of the year!

De records blijven maar doorgaan. Echt een groot drama. Maar laten we het vooral hebben over toeteren. Stelletje kneuzen.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

The Luddites were not beaten by technological progress. They were beaten because capitalists teamed up with the British crown to call up the largest domestic military occupation in the country’s history. The British government hung Luddites or shipped them to penal colonies in Australia

Thanks again to Denmark for covering our defence spending over the past eight years.

En wij maar denken dat we een overheid hebben die te laf is om stelling te nemen…

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Sometimes I revisit the disappointment I experienced when I discovered that duct tape was invented neither for the capture and restraint of ducks, nor for their entertainment.

My boycott buddy was a bit worried that this might be the big year for Orange, but our humble effort seems to have outlived their ridiculously overpaid exploits.

Morgen groot artikel in de Telegraaf dat schande spreekt van mensen met een Nederlandse achtergrond die al decennia in Canada en Australië wonen en toch nog steeds voor Nederland juichen. 'Ondankbaar en onaangepast,' concludeert het hoofdcommentaar. 'Zo lokken ze zelf discussie over remigratie uit.'

bsky this month

Good morning

LET’S BEAT THE HEAT Our thoughts are with Miss Belted who today completely melted, transformed into a puddle on Dam Square. The heat took her in a minute as she was out there in it – in case you’re wondering who, what, when and where. Please hydrate before reading the full translation below.

LET’S BEAT THE HEAT Our thoughts are with Miss Belted who today completely melted, transformed into a puddle on Dam Square. The heat took her in a minute as she was out there in it – in case you’re wondering who, what, when and where. Please hydrate before reading the full translation below.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

New climate, new clouds?

Despite a firm berating: “Watch out, you’re dissipating!” she stayed as stubborn as she’d always been And like a stick of butter, but bigger, dripped into the gutter, as witnessed from the palace by the queen.

Met dit soort uitstekende producties van @nieuws.nos.nl kan ik mijn werk als @datagraver.com mbt het Nederlandse klimaat binnenkort stoppen. Echt heel goed gedaan: app.nos.nl/shorthand/de...

"We publish micro-fiction in the format of the Research Abstract, to encourage imaginative writing in the academy, entirely for fun."

Wat is het warm, hè?

Our thoughts are with Miss Belted who today completely melted, transformed into a puddle on Dam Square. The heat took her in a minute as she was out there in it – in case you’re wondering who, what, when and where. (Annie M.G. Schmidt | translated by Richard de Nooy)

"The ambulance service in Paris had reported four times more cardiac arrests than normal over a 24-hour period."

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Probably at the nearest ICE facility.

MUPPOCALYPSE NOW

Not many people know that our national soccer dance is inspired by the movement of capital from our left to our right pocket as we've "invested in your ventures" for centuries.

“It’s going to be the biggest thing ever. It’s both great and it could be bad.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The most difficult freedom to maintain is freedom in our own thinking […] Freedom of thought means not being dogmatic, having an open mind, and trying to perceive reality with nuance, in shades of gray. Not to be fanatical, while remaining passionate. ▪️José Mujica 2025 📚💙

Mamdani: When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept.

"A Mississippi farmer who paid higher wages and favoured white South African guest workers has been taken to court by five black American workers alleging a pattern of racial and citizenship-based discrimination and 'wage theft'."

Keir Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM.

American comparisons can be quite baffling at times. I'm assuming there are statistics to support this. In this case, let me also ask out loud: In what way is this comparison relevant to, say, a grieving grandmother in Gaza?

Things get a lot less complicated, friends, if you simply choose to stand by the most vulnerable.

An Israeli attack on Barish in southern Lebanon killed Hassan Ismail Khalil, his wife Israa Ali Obeid, and their two children.

Is anyone else boycotting the World Cup?

I understand the collective reaction to this event, but I haven't yet seen any analysis of the environmental impact of this. Military operations in general are a hugely under-reported global driver of climate collapse. So let's talk about it. Here's a thread on the Kapotnya refinery. 1/

One of my favourite things about stormy weather in Amsterdam is that you can hear the neighbours climbing upstairs up to the communal attic, one by one, to check if their dinghy is fully inflated and stocked for survival at sea.

My phone adds drama to the storm.

NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.

Is anyone else boycotting the World Cup?

Dutch parties: Govt parties VVD, CDA: voted YES, DEPORT CHILDREN! Prime Minister Rob Jetten pariy D66: abstain (COWARDS)

Today, they voted to bring ICE-style deportation politics to Europe. They voted for a law that will allow children to be detained. And then they celebrated by chanting: "Send them back." A chant about human beings. About families. About children.

Het luxe resort dat Trumps schoonzoon wil bouwen in Albanië ligt al onder vuur wegens beschuldigingen van corruptie, maar er blijkt nog meer aan de hand? De grond is mogelijk aan de ontwikkelaars verkocht door een internationaal drugs- en witwasnetwerk.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. (Only now do I see it was translated by André Brink.)

Heel goed gedaan door de @nieuws.nos.nl nos.nl/l/2618857

Happy Bloomsday everyone. Here is Joyce (though in Finnegans Wake, not Ulysses) explaining why we ended up with a cage fight on the White House lawn the other night.

This thing with publishers...