Trying to stay sane in today’s world. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #MentalHealth #sanity #society #future

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Zoom in to see how steel has written poetry.

Zoom in to see how steel has written poetry.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Nemo geeft zijn prijs terug aan EBU 🔥 #esf

Small and grey and dry and ugly // the skull to Fossanova goes creeping // and when it passes each one it passes goes “euw”

Flash floods, strong winds and hail are likely to hit the enclave today, lasting until Friday evening.

Gisteren demonstreerde ik mee tegen bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Als academische gemeenschap moeten we ons blijven verzetten tegen deze politieke aanval op universiteiten, op vrij en toegankelijk onderwijs, op kritische wetenschap, en op de publieke sector in het algemeen. Stop de sloop!

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

What is the collective noun for a gathering of coots? A coot d’état?

"Dude. Dude. What. The. Fuck. Dude." #sixwordstory

Onze fotograaf Robin Utrecht vangt de status van de kabinetsformatie in 1 beeld: x.com/robinutrecht...

I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing. Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

#headline2525 Martians Returning to Earth Blamed for Housing Shortage

Ram Jam, thank you, ma'am. (Filed under: "Jokes I Wish Were Mine")

Over a quarter of Trump's proposed $1T military budget would go to just four companies who have spent $103B in taxpayer dollars on stock buybacks and dividends over the last decade. He wants to use your money to make the military-industrial complex even richer.

There are few things more delightful than reading to write; building something new for readers to inhabit, inspired by the blueprints of expertly conceived literary architecture.

En hoe zit dat in Nederland?

After two years of violence, #Gaza’s children are finally breathing moments of quiet. The fragile ceasefire has given children a chance to breathe, connect, play and even start to heal. But trauma, injury, grief, and shattered childhoods will take far longer to heal.

Today would've been my father's 106th birthday. I'm sure he would've been proud and delighted to see that his youngest granddaughter tried to reenact his most famous photo at the Acropolis earlier this year.

It would seem that, as one moves ever-closer to a box of one's own, one feels an ever-stronger tendency to place one's smaller valuables in nifty containers, as if one is preparing to hike into the grey hereafter.

A six-word story should be sad. “What exactly is bacon?” asked Piglet.

A six-word story should be sad. “What exactly is bacon?” asked Piglet.

Intriguing and deeply disconcerting thread.

Remember, kids, it’s not about being right, it’s about wondering what the truths might be and where they might hide.

Useless Writing Exercise No. 002 1. Try to withdraw further and further into yourself. 2. Imagine yourself getting smaller and smaller. 3. Do you feel like a minuscule nonentity? 4. You are now fully prepared for your writing career.

It never ceases to amaze me that America's two right-wing parties have somehow managed to convince Americans that one of them is left of centre, because it is slightly to the left of the most right-wing party.

It never ceases to amaze me that America's two right-wing parties have somehow managed to convince Americans that one of them is left of centre, because it is slightly to the left of the most right-wing party.

Kissable autumn.

If we keep fighting against things, our opponents will keep creating new monsters for us to fight, which is why we should focus on finding creative new ways to fight for the greater good.

Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine

"loss of our own dick was not in our projections while pulling the 'shoot off your own dick' lever"

NEW: Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows. Sudan's Death Toll Has Exceeded Gaza’s, Here’s Everything You Need To Know zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Attacks continue in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as Israeli forces expand military action beyond 'yellow line'.

Should any of you ever happen to bump into Allen — he of the eponymous, L-shaped keys — please be sure to give him a knee in his tiny, oddly-recessed, poorly accessible nuts from me.

These cute little buggers are harbingers of doom. It’s November and their mother thinks it’s Second Spring.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

These cute little buggers are harbingers of doom. It’s November and their mother thinks it’s Second Spring.

Als ik nog één keer iets lees over ‘het midden’, ‘de mensen thuis’ of ‘de hardwerkende Nederlander’, word ik gek. Het ‘midden’ is geen plek of positie, maar een pose, een comfortabele schuilhoek voor wie niets wil veranderen en zich graag redelijk waant terwijl de wereld in brand staat.

My great-uncle Hendrik Jakobs and his wife Marie saved the lives of several Jewish families in The Hague during WWII. Hendrik — a retired family doctor — was executed for his #antifa activities on 18 March 1945. He died for freedom, equality and democracy. Fascism was just a deadly obstacle.

In 1863, an overeager subeditor at the Nantucket Sentinel was fined $200 for his role in the death of James Carruthers, who was erroneously hired as harpist aboard a whaling ship.

While this is undoubtedly very funny and the Times has egg not only on its face but all over its head and shoulders, the phrase that leaps out here is ‘an interview…conducted through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida’. What a time to be alive.

Ga in hemelsnaam stemmen!

Ah, het verbreken van het staakt-het-vuren is geen gevaar voor het staakt-het-vuren. WTF. De absurde gaslighting, de minachting van levens en intelligentie van het publiek, het cynisme om dit met droge ogen te beweren. Alle ogen op Gaza en op de ongekende propaganda nos.nl/artikel/2588...

Licorice is called "drop" in the Netherlands, which is presumably what foreign hearts do when they discover it is unnecessarily popular here.

Het schijnt heel sneu te zijn voor de mensen die hun stad niet meer herkennen door alle 'buitenlanders', maar ik vind het zieliger voor mezelf dat ik mijn land niet meer herken door al het openlijke racisme dat daar vaak uit volgt.