I do nothing but post about genocide and you're gonna lump in with the British?!?!? I mean, in a certainly light...

I am at the Kosovo Special Chambers today for closing statements in the trial of Kosovo’s former president and three other defendants accused of murder and torture of people they considered traitors during the country’s war for independence.

Husband: Oh the singer from Three Doors Down died. Me: Aw, that's a bummer. Husband: You think he played with too much kryptonite? Me: I want a divorce.

Curling Baby is currently my favourite character on this season of the Olympics.

The French got Celien Dion who is at least French speaking and the Italians got...Mariah Carey?

Don't mind me, I'm just staring into the void, waiting for my ADHD meds to kick in.

I've written the first 328 words of my book and I'm told I have to write like 49,700 more?!? This is a scam.

It is time for my January wrap up. Eleven books in total and a pretty good reading month overall. It was heavy on the distraction element (several romances).

Get in losers we are buying back all of the news outlets from the billionaires and running them as non-profits. Also, don't think I am an altruist. I will be buying all the books.

Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives.

A woman on my train just pulled an entire ear of corn out of her bag and is now eating it like a banana.

I have been the victim of a hate crime.

Stolen velour.

My dog has been invited to a retirement party so I need to leave early today is a real thing that I really just told my boss.

It's me, I'm the women.

The Dutch decided that the solution to political instability (three failed governments in five years) is a government with mostly the same parties but without a majority in parliament.

The Americans are coming and amongst the hoard are a dangerous subset known as influencers. Can we survive the onslaught? My @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social latest.

Do you part to combat this insanity. Tell me about a new hobby you've gotten into.

I just heard universal jurisdiction described, on a normally very good news podcast, as "allowing a citizen to be tried in their home country regardless of where the crime was committed."

I am in The Hague today for the verdict in a case brought by residents of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire who say the Netherlands of not doing enough to protect them from the effects of climate change.

I see Bluesky has discovered De Speld, the Dutch version of The Onion.

ICYMI: Judges at the International Criminal Court referred Italy to the institution's oversight body for failing to turn over a Libyan warlord wanted on an ICC warrant last year.

The Vienna Convention would like a word.

Have you seen the news? Why do you think I am drinking?!?!

A Dutch court convicted an Eritrean man Tuesday of people smuggling and extortion and sentenced him to the maximum 20 years imprisonment, saying that he and his accomplices subjected migrants to “cruel, violent, and degrading treatment.”

Yesterday, I was invited to a press conference with the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands to discuss the removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at the American Cemetery in Margraten.

Me: My bike got stolen from the station. Husband: Or did you forget where you parked it? Me: I looked everywhere! It got stolen. Husband: I swear to god if I go to the station and find this bike... Husband, five minutes later: This yours?

📣 ICYMI: Our episode on survivors' hopes and struggles with the ICC is out! How can it feel to "put a name to the things the government did to you"? Luis Carlos Díaz, a journalist and survivor from Venezuela, tells us about his experience and his engagement with the International Criminal Court.

Judges at the International Criminal Court say that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health.

How do we do this for three more years?

Per capita, Denmark had more soldiers killed in Afghanistan than the United States did.

I just filed my latest @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social column and I manage to insult Americans, the Dutch, vinexwijken, Gelderland, Urk, Belgium, Germany, influencers, Lemmer and Dubai. Work of art really.

In the Netherlands alone, nearly one million packages go missing every year. Some are stolen, some delivered to neighbours. Some are simply stuck in transit. And some end up in Heerhugowaard.

Some influencer described Lemmer as "the Dubai of the Netherlands: and I need to sit in a dark room for a while.

Are we gonna have to do the whole Freedom Fries thing again now?

U.S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message released on Monday.

The Dutch have sent two (2) troops to Greenland.

Myanmar insisted Friday that its deadly military campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority was a legitimate counter-terrorism operation and did not amount to genocide, as it defended itself at the top United Nations court against an allegation of breaching the genocide convention.

Two days ago we learned that Federal agents showed up at a Washington Post reporter’s home, searched it, seized her phone and two laptops. We also learned that the Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, remained silent that day. No words of support. Well, Thursday came and went and still nothing from Bezos.

ONLY on Assigned Media: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have accused the regime of genocide. Some of the most vulnerable are trans. Crack reporter @mollyquell.bsky.social comes to us from The Hague to report on trans oppression as part of the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar.

In Ascension was a critics favourite, named Blackwell’s Book of the Year, awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize, but the Dutch main character has an English name, swims on a mythical Rotterdam beach and refers to coffeeshops as “cafes” ...

"Many have lost faith in the promise of international law. And many are looking at this case to see if the Genocide Convention is more than just words on paper," Dawda Jallow, Minister of Justice of The Gambia.

Myanmar will face accusations Monday it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings are set to begin.

There's the blue screen of death and then there is whatever this is.

I spent my afternoon interviewing Rohingya victims who are in town for the start of the genocide hearings between Gambia and Myanmar at the International Court of Justice tomorrow.

Editors matter.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

A friend and I were scheduling a lil phone chat and she tells me she needs to be done by 20:00 because she is going out.