Conventional wisdom dictates that when you sell your house, the walls should be white, the floors an inoffensive wood or laminate, and the furniture should be as normal as possible. But when I eventually sell my place, I want everything in it to be blue and I want to have an ambient piano […]

Thou knowest not how to do it, but my friend Anne hath a way.

Who exactly is Big Tech nowadays? Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, plus maybe some AI-related companies like Nvidia, and Anthropic. Put it all together, and I guess that gives you MANAMANA https://youtu.be/TbZ_hTEOKZc

New rule for determining whether or not the funny animal video is slopped: if it was uploaded 10 years ago, it's probably fine. AI hasn't invented time-travel yet

I fear not the man who has graffitied 10 000 walls once, but I do fear one who has graffitied one wall 10 000 times

Why is the person who writes public addresses for politicians called a speechwriter and not Toastmaster General?

Dutch vocabulary for today: De koet heeft een rare voet

Every time you use AI art at work, an illustrator at the Corporate Memphis factory gets laid off.

There is a genus of starfish named Zoroaster, which is weird for a couple of reasons: It can be translated directly as "Pure Star", which for a very starfish-looking starfish is fairly accurate. But it's also the name of the Persian prophet— which, while it might be Zoroaster in the Greek, has […]

Dear YouTube, I can understand Dutch. I do not need a computer-generated voice to dub the news for me.

What it sounds like when politicians blame immigrants for the housing crisis

Thinking about how 'perspex' literally means 'see through' in Latin

Can I give the immigration authorities my Calculus 1 exam results as proof of sufficient integration?

ChatGPT take this big blob of trigonometry and matrix multiplication I wrote and turn it into a CAD model. You have until 9am tomorrow, by which point I would have had a good night's sleep and been adequately refreshed to finish it myself.

Is it patronising if I suggest an alternate soccer World Cup with the lowest-ranked national team in each confederation, and rounding out positions 7 and 8 with whoever the next lowest-tanked teams are?

I fear Greeks bearing gifts, that's why I always look a gift-horse in the mouth

A lot of people think a cheese burger is simply a hamburger with cheese. But that's a common misconception. It's actually a culinary innovation from the town of Cheeseburg

What I used to think of when I read the phrase 'Accountancy AI': Oh cool using pattern recognition to detect fraud What I now think of when I read the phrase 'Accountancy AI': My apologies, you are absolutely right. 9.9 is in fact bigger than 9.11

CAD adventures, 2025-10-12: The numerical instability makes it look more organic

My two favourite exercises are the goblin squat and the horse dance.

#nlpol Racists be like, "Nah we ain't interested in good governance; we just want an excuse to be racist"

Today I learned that Cleopatra's grandfather was Ptolemy the Chickpea, son of Ptolemy the Fat

The year is 2050. There have been 13 failed cabinets in the last 25 years. The longest-running cabinet was a VVD/GL-PvdA cabinet that lasted 3.5 years until the VVD left because GL-PvdA wanted to fund the building of a million houses with a temporary 0.1% corporate tax rate hike. The […]

Why do Dutch people think their language is difficult? The spelling is more consistent than English, the grammar is less complex than German, and the pronunciation is less weird than French

"start wandows ngrmadly" Did you mean: "start windows normally"? No, I meant "start wandows ngrmadly" because I needed a lol

3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Mars in the next few days. If it is aliens, they're looking for the Martians, not us

How do I convince my producer to let me rap over a Dillinger Escape Plan type beat

The Japanese knotweed outside my house has started blooming. Oh no

You're only a champion if you've defended your liege lord in single combat. Otherwise you're just a sparkling winner

New Between the Buried and Me album first thoughts: I think Dan Briggs saw how much people were listening to his side-projects and brought some of that energy over to the main project

#nlpol hot take: I'm not too bothered if the hypotheekrenteaftrek goes away, because if it does go away, that just gives me more of a reason to pay off my mortgage early. Debt is a sin

Growing up there were a few black wattle trees in my yard. I used to love climbing the biggest of them, and I would look forward to September when the flowers would bloom and I could smell their sweet scent. I would later learn that the black wattle is an invasive species in South Africa, and we […]

Today I learned there's a plant whose scientific name is Coprosma foetidissima. From the name itself I can glean a lot of info about the plant.

The one Dutch-language thing that still gets me is that there are two words for 'earlier', and I can never remember which one to use in what situation

'Rituitval' still sounds to my Anglo ass like the tram fell off the tracks and rolled out of the way

'Rituitval' still sounds to my Anglo ass like the tram fell off the tracks and out of the way

As someone whose favourite type of chocolate is white chocolate, I find this to be a personal attack

I think the 2030s are gonna be really weird. “What up biochem fam, so great to see you guys, today we are back at it again with another video, this one’s about making your own mRNA SARS-nCoV-2029 vaccine precursors with a Bambu Lab Crispy CRISPR kit. As you all know my university research […]

It's wild being a regular-old commuter during a mass tourism event

Wild to think that if anyone had paid attention to this we’d have photos of napoleon and jane austen

Hi-fi beats to relax and fly through space to https://soundcloud.com/elektragaaz/soundscape-for-an-imaginary-2

Vert n'est pas une couleur créative

Building Bambu Studio from source because I'm apparently that person

Come work with me at the City of #capetown - https://uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/2025-08/com-e25810-datascientist-jpal-saldru-soe.pdf The job says data scientist, but really this is a #dataengineering position. We run a decent Open Source, modern data stack, but what sets us apart is our […]

Back to school brainrot

An alternate universe where the only difference is that the capital of Italy was founded by Remus instead of Romulus

Whenever I see a car on the highway carrying an abnormal load in the back, my first thought is that I'm about to witness a scene from Final Destination.

Buy cheap angle grinder Use it a bunch Blade explodes and the device no longer switches on I guess this means I need to shell out for a quality one

Jan van Riebeeck and Baruch Spinoza were active in Dutch society around the same time. I wonder how many degrees of separation there were between them.