Een recent in #Pompeï opgegraven gigantische stenen #trap die nergens heen leek te leiden, blijkt bij een indrukwekkende #toren te horen. www.demorgen.be/tech-wetensc...

Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, epic scale Snow Drawings - Briancon, France, 2014 #womensart

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

Also worth noting here are the replies to this of people who've had a similar belief trajectory, I find them quite heartening

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #WomensArt #December8th #ArtAdvent 🎄

Fall in slow motion.

Frans Halsstraat , Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Remove through motor traffic and car parking, replace with greenery, bike parking, café seating, and kids playing football in the street

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

If antifa were actually a terrorist organization, wouldn’t they be under investigation for *terrorism*??

Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt

Here's an interesting example of how misunderstanding & not fact checking results in spreading misinformation that makes it seem some people were scared of bathing and filthy icky boys. Read it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/12/07/j... or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/john-gabri...

Of over dat X verboden is in China en Rusland. Hoor je Musk ook nooit over.

Ondertussen in Het Muizenhuis

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.

Musk and Medvedev remain unavailable for comment about other federal states, such as the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

Can any archery experts spot a subtle mistake in this image from a series set circa 1470? @fakehistoryhunter.net

A real thing that happened

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Christmas shopping, Dutch style.

Rail Away moet blijven! Erik de Zwart is een petitie gestart www.petitie24.nl/petitie/6157...

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

The view from Yanaka Ginza Yūyake Dandan ("sunset starircase") is now largely blocked by apartment blocks under construction. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

People often ask how I manage my yarn in multi-coloured projects. This is how #knitting

Claude’s secret to surviving winter is having a grandma who knits.

'Inky drawing of a reindeer' by Scottish artist, Kerry Phippen #WomensArt

Goodmorning!!!

Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent

In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

Fall in a Japanese garden. Now!

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

YouTube heeft de instructiefilmpjes van mijn breiclub automatisch nagesynchroniseerd. In plaats van de fijne stem van mijn breijuf is er een door merg en been gaande robotvrouw. De technische termen, oftewel waar het hele filmpje over gaat, zijn verkeerd vertaald en bovendien heb ik leren breien […]

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Vandaag denk ik aan een van mijn grootste filosofische helden, aan Hannah Arendt, die vandaag 50 jaar gelden overleed. Haar belang en haar actualiteit voor wat wij vandaag mee moeten maken, kan niet worden overschat.

December is upon us, and what better movie is there to get you in that holiday mood than Kon Satoshi's Tokyo Godfathers? Heartfelt, hilarious, and even thrilling, it's our pick as one of the top Christmas films of all time. Learn more in our video essay exploring the film! youtu.be/7o0RVtSoGTo

In a tradition popularised in Heian times, seamstresses would pay their respects to their worn out needles before throwing them away. Such memorial services for old items was once common. Simply discarding things, without paying due thanks, was once considered most unwise.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

A tourist couple (50s?), wearing cycling gear, laugh in delight on spotting friends from their German home town sitting in a park. After warm greetings they compare notes on how they've all managed to fly half way across the world only to accidentally meet in a tiny Kiwi country town. (4)

night fall

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

I'm fascinated by how my curfew has changed after using it for over a year. Medieval people would put this over their smouldering fire in the evening so they could go to bed safely and hopefully have still some glowing embers in the morning.

Handig hoor, een appje sturen. Maar check deze ansichtkaart dan uit april 1940.

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs. Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

It’s rather soothing - www.sonicpowered.co.jp/world/nsw/tr...