few movies brave enough to ask: what if the fruit themed samurai was a car, and what if the car themed samurai was an orange

android making it impossible on a system level to modify the app data folder is so fucking irritating man. the usb port on my smartphone is fucked to the point it won't show up on my pc anymore so i guess i just won't be able to access my files forever?

evergreen thing to say but i really don't like the latest pocket casts update. they renamed the filters to "smart playlists" which sure whatever, but also removed the ability to put custom colours and icons on them so you can easily distinguish them from the menu

explaining to my friend how i learnt to use an FTP client to transfer ISOs to my ps3

to the "old" allegations i say: did you know you might be able to get some "loonheffingskorting" money back if you're a student and report your income to the dutch tax office? also your municipality might pay your Eigen Risico, and the rent limit for huurtoeslag recently changed,,

a thing about "the danger of algorithms" that drives me up a wall is that people forget that algorithms can only manipulate numbers? everything that isn't already a number (e.g. watchtime) is tracked by proxies that are often crude and unreliable, like how often people use positive or negative words

the premise "humans are just complex input output machines" shouldn't pass unnoticed as much as it does, bc it's just kinda tacitly assumed in arguments about how chat gpt could have sentience or that we can use algorithms to carefully influence human behaviour

always irritates me a bit when people using the word liberal in the american sense to describe dutch politics -- liberals in the netherlands are the people who are concerned about the mortgage interest rate tax break and are neutral to positive about doing more racism. we're not the US!

PSA for the dutch followers: the rules around rent assistance (huurtoeslag) changed for 2026 so now people with low income whose rent is over €900/month can also qualify the tax office has a little tool for calculating if you can get it and how much: www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/conn...

sometimes being an adult requires one to google environmentally sustainable ways to dispose of paddy box debris

it's funny realising that our landlord didn't do so much as google "things that should be in a rental contract" before making ours, bc it's missing info that should be there (her contact information) while including clauses that are unenforceable because they're against the law

<whistfully> gosh I'd love for our appartment to be renovated by contractors who mess up only some rather than all aspects of construction...

my weekends are spent either watching tv shows made for 12yos or going full stepford mode, comparing the effect of Ajax to my previous cleanser and googling types of light bulb fixtures, talking to the roomfie about health insurance policies. on average that means I'm not super old, i think.

great new argument for climate justice just dropped: "we should have countries pay for the costs of addressing climate change proportionate to how much CO2 they emitted, much like all of us would divide up the plumber's bill by the proportion of hair each housemate has gotten stuck in the drain"

roomfie came into my room to say she thinks it's very nice that all of us agree about cereal and then left, to eat cereal

scenes like this are why i keep watching kamen rider movies

the guys who insist that AI will solve climate change are slightly less sophisticated than kamen rider movie villains working to activate the Big Machine Plan, except when the machine is running we are rewarded with power outages rather than a super sentai cameo

upon hearing that the orbital weapons platform has consciousness, Kisaragi Gentarou has decided that the next course of action should be to befriend it

putting my clothes for the week in the washing machine

"imagine a hypothetical impenetrable barrier along a state border" is one of these tell-me-you're-a-philosopher-without-telling-me-you're-a-philosopher type sentences. apparently this kind of nonsense is what passes for conceptual clarification these days

killer book btw! more people should read it

people talk about living in a bubble as though it's a bad thing but personally i love going through life believing that anyone could break out an excellent Gerry Hannan impression at any time

one can tell the roomfie is a little tipsy from the fact that she couldn't finish a sentence about literacy in edo era japan without breaking into a gerry hannon at the late late show impression

I'm a big fan of "The kantharos [van Stevensweert] is a cup of around half a kilo that wrote legal history" as a sentence nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanthar...

from the wikimedia commons category "damaged computer hardware"

A lost, Arabic-speaking man led to significant security measures in the Wijnhaven building, WOO documents reveal. www.mareonline.nl/en/news/how-...

1) One (1) Arab speaking man enters university building by mistake 2) university security panics, building closed for several days bc they expect a terrorist attack 3) two years later the building is still inaccessible if you can't show a student card this man had an appointment around the corner.

cool birthday gift from @nabnabs.plus.dog

It's my birthday today :)

if james bond movies were actually woke they'd come up with a gender swapped version of the beloved character "pussy galore"

weird to go from "D66 mentioned" to "D66 wins the election" in a few years

every dutch election i am more struck by how ridiculously huge dutch ballots are. they print these on A1 posters lol

our prof in governmental law asked us whether we think fifa is a state and almost nobody thinks it is but it was surprisingly hard to formulate the reasons for that

society if oxford philosophers would realise almost nobody is concerned about having an extentionally and intentionally adequate definition of concepts: - almost entirely the same but my homework reading would be slightly less annoying

looking up dishwasher reviews on the internet and some customer reviews are like "this is a TERRIBLE dishwasher, the dishes are still wet when they come out of the machine" ??

Five Riders vs. King Dark (1974)

i'm willing to argue that the 2005 reboot movie is better than shin kamen rider because instead of giving us long exposition about hongo's cyborg modifications it just does this

love writing feedback from peers that says "you didn't write why these people were arrested" no i didn't, i assumed that the reader would infer that people arrested under article 23 of the anti-terrorism law were arrested for suspicion of terrorism

the roomfie says i don't like tokusatsu I just like being queer baited by bad BL (i disagree). meanwhile she just hates every piece of kamen rider media made after 2006

can someone tell me why the sequel to the 2005 kamen rider reboot that revolves around a heterosexual love triangle is a weird pop idol body horror movie where the main riders are A Thing but in a i-hate-you-please-stop-being-so-gay sort of way

anime is fun bc it can simultaneously by about a hetero love triangle while also being very gay

it's so funny how gay kamen rider is on average

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This is a Memento Mori. It’s meant to remind you that you too must die. This is a philosopher skull, not a Nazi skull. It reminds you that you’re gonna die, but it doesn’t mean the owner is gonna actively try to murder you. 5/x

hey that's my first exam week for law school done, i think it went alright :)

fun dutch election graph: how many election promises violate dutch constitutional law, broken down by party. I'm sure this doesn't portent anything bad for our democracy

i know the culture warring right is incurable but it's always been weird to me that a philosophy professor would act as though you're trying to cancel one of many dead white guys named john for being complicit in colonialism when you bring up their complicity in colonialism

"post-realism", the belief that things are only real if there's people posting about them

due to unforeseen circumstances yaoi sundays have been moved to 11 in the morning. i believe that the universe should apologise to me for the inconvenience

The Left keeps insisting that there's no woke mob of transgenders going around to censor people's free speech, but recently the roomfie became very militant about me calling them tom-aa-toes and not tom-A-toes, because the latter is offensive to her irish sensibilities so much for the tolerent left.