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How dare you rape women AFTER CLOSING TIME? www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

“When the plans make it out of the group chat”, seen in Antwerp, Belgium today. H/T US SecDef Pete Hegseth, although the ad seems to predate #signalgate

They suck and aren’t useful.

How I arrived on Bluesky. mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-conten...

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

What I don’t understand is that in the current situation well-meaning Americans are arguing about whether or not they/others should use the word fascism instead of fighting it.

Completely worth reading (and a recommendation of the author and @bellingcat.com in general). It helped me make sense of a few things.

[in Dutch] The “Last Words” project collects goodbye letters from WWII resistance fighters. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

I cannot explain why this suddenly floated to the surface of consciousness again, but here it is. youtu.be/PzHLPnGuVSQ?...

Fingers crossed. “[…] when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”

I’m reading about this now. Some ppl who move into management roles mess it up by immediately trying to prove they know everything, when they don’t. Really, it’s about observing, asking questions, being vulnerable and eventually helping your team adapt to necessary changes that improve outcome.

Tears for breakfast.

Joachim Klement about the correlation between tax and growth, and why not. open.substack.com/pub/klemento...

Needs to be a lot more regulation, and public scrutiny, of bottled water industry. For a start, consumers don’t know that many brands are essentially just tap water —and others have a lower health standard than tap water. Then there’s impact of shipping them around. Maybe tax water extraction?

I should not think about work while preparing my son’s lunch.

Why I have been supporting @bellingcat.com for years, and so should you.

"The Onion has acquired Infowars" would be an excellent Onion headline. But we live in an age where reality has crowded out satire by cornering the market on absurdly comical surrealism.

Gonna try another old-Twitter-style thread, since the last one got a lot of engagement. This time about a topic some people have raised, but needs more attention: the likelihood that Trump's tariffs will become an engine of immense corruption 1/

I’ve been working hard on new paintings & these are not them, but they’re along the same lines, so to speak ;) I’ll be sharing the new works soon. Thank you for your patience & support now & always. More soon!🩵 “Medusa”,m, 18”x24” & “Euryale”, 5”x7”,both oil, both in private L.A collections.🔴