Overigens. Sinds wanneer mag een kerststal niet meer lelijk zijn?

"Art is anything you can get away with." - Andy Warhol #quote

Idem voor België

Putin's "ideologist" Dugin: "If Russia wins, Ukraine will become part of Russia, therefore it will not be an independent sovereign state... If the West wins, Russia will use nuclear weapons to protect its sovereignty, which means that in either case, Ukraine will not exist."

Hola! Er is een nieuwe Tortoise uit!

Ukrainians rush to save their 800-year-old stone babas before Russia destroys them. 🧵 1/5 ⬇️

Stop making excuses for unclear writing open.substack.com/pub/bigifftr...

Articles like this exemplify the fundamentally theological nature of consciousness studies. As a field it attracts the same kind of mind that in previous centuries was drawn to debates about the nature of the Trinity or the divine permission of suffering. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The month of December Boar Hunt in the forest, with a view of the towers and central keep of Château de Vincennes Tempera on vellum, c.1440, attributed to painter Barthélemy d’Eyck Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly

30 November 1936 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Anna van Kreveld, was born in Borgerhout. She emigrated to The Netherlands. In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- Ggas chambers & crematoria of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Wat Ruth Joos zegt.

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩 The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Update, 5 uur na mijn melding aan @gentseflikken.bsky.social (hashtag #altijdnabij!). Situatie ongewijzigd, alleen heeft een slimmerd intussen het hek vooraan op de foto verwijderd 😅 Living on the edge in @stad-gent.bsky.social!

Remember how Japan spent decades avoiding the moratorium on commercial whaling by hunting whales under the guise of 'scientific research', before the International Court of Justice decided there was nothing 'scientific' about it whatsoever? This smells exactly the same.

My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial: "Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could." www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...

Voetgangers in Gent: trek uw plan – en riskeer uw leven. (Het is natuurlijk maar de Dendermondsesteenweg. Quantité négligeable.) @filipwatteeuw.bsky.social @liesbetdw.bsky.social

Eternal whirlwind of lovers in Hell. At least they have each other! Fab illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy by William Blake, who was born on this day in 1757.

Trap er niet in. Goff is gewoon een christen.

Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

Provocation, 1957 #brauner #victorbrauner

The mayor of Pesaro has apologised after a statue of the legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti was “caged in” by an ice rink. The mayor added that his call for skaters to ‘high-five’ the statue was an attempt to play down the controversy.

Putin: “Russia has no intention of attacking Europe and is ready to formally confirm this in a legal format. In recent years, we have repeatedly sought to establish the appropriate legal mechanisms within the framework of pan-European security.” Knowing Putin’s antiques, consider this a warning.

“The state needs to be prepared...this is no longer a cold war - it’s an actual war that is being waged against Europe, against democracy.”

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Hoe … maar … geslacht is toch een sociaal-culturele constructie? Niet-binair, bovendien?? Transfoob onderzoek, hoor! 😡

China’s fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy— The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.

Zeggen dat je tegen 2030 1,9 miljard wil besparen bij de langdurig zieken, is zeggen dat je niet gelooft dat ze echt ziek zijn (ook al spin je dat anders). Zeggen dat je 100.000 langdurig zieken opnieuw aan het werk wil krijgen, is jezelf wijsmaken dat je werkgevers daarop zitten te wachten.

Terwijl de kotprijzen in Europese studentensteden de pan uit swingen en commerciële kotenbouwers gouden zaken doen, namen studenten in het Duitse Heidelberg het heft in eigen handen. apache.be/2025/11/27/d...

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This person does not understand statistics or biology. The statistically significant differences between female & males (calculated by comparing averages) in a range of biological variables necessitates female sport categories. Some sports also operate weight categories within sex categories.

I made this pic quickly. One for @fakehistoryhunter.net This has been doing the rounds, once again fake image of a real picture. Is this kind of thing used to avoid publishing rights for some photos I wonder? my image sourced from here: issuu.com/madeinn/docs... #fakehistory #AI

Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.

I generally appreciate @hereandnow.bsky.social 's reporting on "AI" and other issues, but this one was a big miss: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2... 🧵>>

Moeder en dochter belanden in trip door achtergelaten bonbons met cannabis

Ben ík de énige die zich stoort aan het overbódige gebruik van accenttekens?

IEDEREEN TESAMEN

Er is 9 miljard gevonden. Maar zonder verdere maatschappelijke richting of visie. Neem de btw: waarom worden bepaalde producten en diensten duurder en andere niet? Is er bvb een reden om sport en ontspanning duurder te maken? Hebben die niet precies een meerwaarde qua welzijn?

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

People In The Sun, 1960 #hopper #newrealism

Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope.

OTD in 2006 Alexander Litvinenko died from complications of saying Vladimir Putin is a corrupt peadophile ☕️ 🍣 One of the witnesses at the inquest later 'committed suicide by stabbing himself several times'

Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.

Ik verwacht nog meer van journalisten en academici. Ze moeten niet alleen de beweringen van Hedebouw factchecken, ze moeten ook en vooral blootleggen waaróm hij die leugens verkondigt. Waaróm praat Hedebouw Kremlintaal?

Ik was voorbestemd om het te kopen, dus kan ik het net zo goed lezen.

Afghans report the lowest life satisfaction in the world— Measuring happiness is difficult, but one way to understand how satisfied people are with their lives is to simply ask them.

An Italian politician is so angry about 'carbonara sauce' being sold in a Brussels supermarket that his remarks sparked a small diplomatic incident. As an Italian Belgian I'd like to reclaim wafels, chocolate, beer and fries. All of which are shite abroad yet sold all over the globe as 🇧🇪