Good piece, worth the read.

World Cup draw sycophants on every channel = early music practice this evening.

Dank u wel Sinterklaas. (Ik heb lieve buren.)

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

When I was a NY cop. Down/The Shaft. A movie with probably the worst timing in history. A disaster movie set in a New York skyscraper. Release date 6th September 2001.

Another banger...

#notonspotify #dontcare

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

3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar. En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales). Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Robin Blue tits Great tits Blackbird (Dag, Merel!) Earthworms. All on my balcony in the centre of Amsterdam today. No doubt later the silverfish will make an appearance. m.youtube.com/watch?v=i88v...

Rondje België, Tour de Belgique, Tour durch Belgien, Tour of Belgium Hoera. België heeft 't.

Creative typetjes. If you want to do anything for #blackfriday. Sign up to your local collective rights organisations and do yourself a favour. In NL for writers #Lira, picture makers #pictoright, composers #bumastemra, musicians #sena, actors #norma. With overlaps. UK #Dacs, #alcs and more.

#Brexit sunlit uplands.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Wordt lid. Join your union. They’re there for you.

#kunstenbond #union

Tearooms are a sink habitat for teaspoons.

Hoera! Grüntyers goes to Hollywood. Today!!!!! Grüntyers mega movie kiwi comic crime caper "The Apteryx Clan and the Great Falafel Ball Heist" is one of the selected movies at the prestigious Los Angeles Fantasy Fest 2025. Next Week! Crikey! Lashings of garlic sauce!

Grüntyers latest video clip. As Michael Caine said... use the difficulty. Find yourself in an infinite loop of detours whilst cycling through Belgium... use infinite loop of detours through Belgium as inspiration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOD...

The Netherlands vs Lithuania yesterday. With a mouse. A mouse? In Amsterdam? " ... a little mouse with clogs on..."

Kantoor vanavond. Nederland - Litouwen.

So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:

Pop!

The pope's got a point.

Hoera! Grüntyers goes to Hollywood. Grüntyers mega movie kiwi comic crime caper "The Apteryx Clan and the Great Falafel Ball Heist" has been selected for the prestigious Los Angeles Fantasy Fest 2025. Next Week! Crikey! Lashings of garlic sauce! #losangelesfantasyfest #animation #madeinmokum

Suriname - El Salvador. De thuisploeg kan sowieso beter zingen. richardwareham.smugmug.com/Richard-Ware...

THROWBACK THURSDAY: In 2004, a hopeful, but struggling Suriname planned its journey to the World Cup - frontrow.soccer/j4umm

Today is World Kindness Day. Enjoy a Grüntyers clip with a wee love story. Original available on #ampwall and #bandcamp #customerservice #AI #lovestory #worldkindnessday #notonspotify www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Rr...

Use the difficulty. Find yourself on an infinite loop of diversions whilst cycling through Belgium. Use the difficulty. Write a loopy ditty about diversions in Belgium. Video clip soon. Available on #ampwall and #bandcamp #newrelease #grüntyers #soundtrack ampwall.com/a/gruntyers/...

Use the difficulty. Find yourself on an infinite loop of diversions whilst cycling through Belgium. Use the difficulty. Write a loopy ditty about diversions in Belgium. Video clip soon. Available on #ampwall and #bandcamp #newrelease #grüntyers #soundtrack ampwall.com/a/gruntyers/...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Ergens zit hier vleermuizen te vleermuizen. Leuk.

Hoera. De eerste bonen van mijn moestuin. En waarschijnlijk de laatste. First beans of the year from the allotment. Hurrah!

Joop is glashelder: 'De PVV kreeg 8,5 procent van de buitenlandstemmen. Die stemmen werden uitgebracht door Nederlanders in het buitenland die vinden dat al die buitenlanders in hun eigen land moeten blijven. Omdat er stemgeheim bestaat, kan deze mensen geen psychische hulp worden geboden.' 😆

Stemmen tellen Amsterdam

What do you do when war turns off the tap that fuels you? Go green... When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cut off supplies, Moldova’s villages turned to solar to power their schools and homes, and replaced gas with biomass, halving bills and boosting resilience. https://f.mtr.cool/gsqwjzyggd

Hup! Stemmen.

“Vanavond in een praatprogramma praten wij over hoe er werd gepraat in een praatprogramma eerder in de avond waar ze gepraat hebben over een praatprogramma van gisteren. “ Wij zitten in een oneindige lus van gepraat over praatprogramma’s.

Zomertijd off.

Today’s chutney is pear and walnut. Pear from the allotment, walnuts foraged whilst cycling along the Schelde in Belgium last month. Hoera!

Its the time of year where we all go time traveling. #natuurkunde #physics #wormhole #eventhorizon #astronomy #Leipzig #fallback #timetravel www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1i6...

Covering the big stories of the day.

This week is Bat Appreciation Week. Hoera for Bat Appreciation week. Treat yourself to a wee Grüntyers love ditty from the wilds of Woolston. #southampton #lovesong #batweek Available on #ampwall www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PiG...

Today is Zambia Independence Day. Happy Independence Day Zambia. One from my archive. richardwareham.smugmug.com/Richard-Ware...?

Photo’s you take because you think there is a metaphor there somewhere, even if you aren’t quite sure what.

#stormbenjamin #hetweer #weer #storm #shippingforecast #weatherforecast #onweer #weather Original available on #ampwall www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIXD...

Hoera! Grüntyers mega movie kiwi comic crime caper "The Apteryx Clan and the Great Falafel Ball Heist" has been selected for the prestigious Los Angeles Fantasia Fest 2025 coming month. Lashings of garlic sauce! #kiwifilm #animation #madeinmokum #dutchfilm #singersongwriter