"Wij van WC-Eend adviseren..."

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Just a friendly reminder that you’re not being “unreasonable” if you wish to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it opens a secret door. If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.

Happy anniversary to all historians who observe.

Finally some good news

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

*Puts book on to read list for my book chapter in revision*

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Petitie: Stop Amerikaanse overname DigID actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st... ✍️

Early Modernists on Bluesky! Can someone provide me with bibliographical indications on fur trade in Central- and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century?

You know who are not in the Epstein files as predators? Trans people. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

In onzekere tijden pakt kabinet Jetten de zekerheid van alle werknemers af. Bezuinigingen op ons sociale vangnet is onverstandig en onnodig. Stop de afbraak van onze WW. Teken de petitie! app.sosha.ai/s/hFrMtnKI

Sometimes, self-care is spending a day exploring bookstores, museums, greenhouses, art galleries, and libraries.

Een mens illiegaal noemen, dat is radicaal. Mensen die ernstig ziek zijn geworden de armoede in duwen, dat is radicaal. Een zoveelste vliegveld openen in dit kleine land, terwijl heel veel vluchten op Schiphol tussenstops zijn en niets toevoegen aan onze samenleving, is radicaal.

#KwootVanDeDag #NooitMeerAuschwitz

death to fascism

Dit stuk is een schoolvoorbeeld van hoe je fascisme en racisme in deftige kringen schoonlikt en witwast en is daarom erg de moeite waard. Art. 1 afschaffen en deportaties (‘stevig rechts’) is je enige issue? Moet kunnen zolang je maar de partijdemocratie op orde hebt en compromissen wil sluiten.

The Iceland Space Agency is on bluesky @icelandspace.bsky.social 🥳 Have followed, and will now wait excitedly until they start posting Iceland Space Things.

Awesome (beta) dashboard for Dutch 🇳🇱 government agencies, #schools, #healthcare and companies: zijnwealautonoom.nl (‘are we autonomous yet’). Red button highlights the enormous extent to which most Dutch organisations behave like a digital colony of the US. #onderwijs #overheid #ict #cloud

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Ooooooohhhhh 😍 *adds to "wants" list*

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

De Sociale Verzekeringsbank, één van de grootste verwerkers van privégegevens van miljoenen Nederlanders gaat volledig naar MICROSOFT AZURE. Dit is geen technische keuze, maar een politieke. Een gevaarlijke! Debat moet snel. Stopknop moet worden ingedrukt! #amerika Lees 👉🏻 www.barbarakathmann.nl/svb/

A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.

Geboortedag filosoof, essayist en 'bijenkoningin van intellectueel Amerika' Susan Sontag (1933-2004). Ze was ook politiek activiste en nam in die hoedanigheid, als 'Amerika's geweten', geen blad voor de mond. Haar essays, zoals die over de impact van ziek zijn, zijn zeer invloedrijk gebleken.

This self-portrait by Louise Hollandine will soon be on display at MSK Gent in the exhibition "Unforgettable: Women artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750," opening March 7 - www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitio...

Making sure no one in the convent eats your hidden stash of donuts. 😆 (Dublin, Trinity College Library, B.11.22, fol. 213r)

Excited to say I have a new book chapter out in 'Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England', part of the Queenship and Power series from Palgrave Macmillan. My chapter explores the anti-Scottish nature of Elizabethan propaganda on Mary Queen of Scots. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Louise Hollandine, Princess Palatine, Self-portrait holding a paintbrush, c. 1650, oil on panel (formerly Sotheby’s)

BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.

Het Zwitserse zwartneusschaap in uw tijdlijn, graag gedaan.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

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We hebben een piano 🎹 🎶gratis af te halen. Heeft al eerder voor een schijntje op Marktplaats gestaan, maar weinig respons. Hopelijk hier meer succes. Moet weg voor 5 januari ivm behandeling van onze vloer. Delen = ❤️ link.marktplaats.nl/m2346892173?...

Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

solidarity with trans people and death to fascism

Lol. AI can't even run a vending machine.

The horrors persist, but so do the horrors wait

2026 will be the year I return to the correspondence of the boar-spearing Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), sometime Queen of Bohemia, ridiculed by most historians as The Winter Queen but known in the 17thc as The Queen of 💕. If I have missed any letters in Volumes 1-2, DM me or forever hold your peace.

"Weit je wat hieâh illeigeal is in dit land? Dat kreupele deimissiaunèâhe klaute kabinet!" #GehoordInHetKoffiehuis

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

All I want for Christmas is the downfall of AI

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

My article, ‘Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe‘, has been published in “Historical Research” and can be read here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Politiek in december Vandaag in @volkskrant.nl

i stand by this statement every year

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.