R.I.P.

Surgery went as well as expected, hoping we get to see her today still

The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting a newly set-up camp.

Als je maar vaak genoeg herhaalt dat je voor ‘constructieve samenwerking’ bent, gaan mensen het vanzelf geloven. Alsof samenwerken met het racistische afdruipwater van de PVV de normaalste zaak van de wereld is.

Really worried what Rutte has gotten up to tbh 🙃

Two Crows 🐦‍⬛ having a great time rolling in the snow ❄️

Driving the mummy to the hospital in a few for her big surgery tomorrow. Thoughts and prayers of all denominations welcome

Mensen: als ik een riem van 145 centimeter nodig heb, welke dames riemmaat heb ik dan?

Even melden dat de peer van gisteren gezelschap heeft gekregen van een pinguïn! En er volgt nog een eekhoorn en een (soort) fazant, wordt aan gewerkt. www.instagram.com/de.lachende....

Stolen Venezuelan oil is moored in Curaçao. Aruba has decided to reject the shipments though, despite their large oil refineries. I am glad about that at least. nu.cw/2026/01/21/a... bsky.app/profile/amri...

In my last job, I was part of a Copilot working group which had participants from across the whole (large) company. Our conclusion was that it was useful for summarising meetings or parsing through email threads but otherwise it made everything worse. We recommended it for “senior managers only”.

De EU-fractie @partijvoordedieren.nl heeft een belangrijke stap gezet tegen het Mercosur-verdrag! Motie om het Hof van Justitie een advies te vragen over de rechtmatigheid van het verdrag aangenomen! Kabinetsreactie gevraagd. Geen verdere stappen tot het advies er ligt! www.nu.nl/economie/638...

Maar eerst even die bankiersbonussen regelen

"Five days later, the same doctor came back online long enough to describe a nightmare scenario: the first thing he told Qorashi was he could still see “blood in the streets”, during his journey to work at the hospital." How Iran's brutal crackdown unfolded, my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Twee procent van de werkenden in Nederland leeft in armoede. En dat aantal groeit, laten de nieuwste cijfers van het CBS zien. De helft van de werkende armen leeft zelfs diep onder de armoedegrens www.parool.nl/nederland/ze...

Forgot to bring a belt so I am down from 4 pairs of trousers (okay, 2 pairs of jeans and 2 joggers) to no jeans. Ordered a belt online and am trying to find nice tops as well but as I am new to being plus sized I keep forgetting they want us to exists as shapeless blobs

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

DISCONCERTING? Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK (Sorry…)

The key to making a funny absurdist post in 2026 is just to look up whatever famous people were saying 10 years ago. We need an Internet of my dang Wife

“About 70% of fresh water taken by human withdrawals was used for agriculture … More than half of global food was grown in areas where water storage was declining or unstable … Increased variability is as much a problem as scarcity” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."

This is really not much less than some authors would get from someone buying their book on a discount from The Evil Bookshop. Never feel bad about getting that book from the library! We want you to do it! Most of use use/have used a library a lot! We still get paid!

If you don't know the story of Able Seacat Simon, you could do worse than read up on him greenhowards.org.uk/simon-the-se...

"Fetch boom could falter without wider adoption, Gretchen from Mean Girls warns"

Jetten over een gewelddadige zionist: 'constructief'

yup, exactly 🙂‍↕️

think it's nice that all handbag manufacturers got together one day and collectively agreed that women only ever leave the house needing to carry either one single cigarette or an entire human man, it absolutely chimes in with how I live my life day-to-day

Belgian PM not fucking about.

CHURCHILL ANUS SOCIETY PROBED

I'm really pleased to see this issue getting coverage. AI BSL is not fit for purpose: "The NHS has already had to withdraw an AI generated BSL video about measles because the grammar was incorrect, and the meaning therefore became entirely misleading." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Life comes at you fast.

Another beauty out in March: I Sleep in My Kitchen: Comfort Food Recipes from My Palestinian American Home: A Cookbook by Mariam Daud

It's a real pleasure to see this: Nandên: Recipes from My Kurdish Kitchen by Pary Baban will be published in March.

February: I've previously posted about Soomaaliya: Food, Memory, and Migration: A Cookbook by Ifrah F. Ahmed, but I wanted to highlight it once more. So good to see regional African cookbooks being published!

A great thread for cookbook hoarders

is weerbaarheidstraining een vorm van victim blaming? ja, zegt @nydiadamnhoney.bsky.social. nee, zegt een man die er commercieel belang bij heeft 🙃 fd.nl/samenleving/...

Any time I think of Mark Rutte I think of Bill Hicks' boyband bit

Vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog verloor de Mark ook z'n waarde.

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

Medelijden met de rest van de wereld die nu de echte Rutte leren kennen

You love to see it. cybernews.com/security/dev...

“As the ground is ceded to the far right, the far right has grown in response. Far-right groups in Calais are the norm now.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Politiek Cliëntelisme in VVD-kringen, je verwacht het niet.

72 procent van de giften aan PVV, FvD, JA21 en BVNL komt uit het clubje van Quote 500-leden. Extreem-rijk ❤️ Extreem-rechts

OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense

This is quite the journey. Literally. (Everyone seems to be ok)

Zoom call about a potential trip to Sulawesi in September, would be nice if things stop being so insane on a personal level (and a global one too)

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS