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Limburger in Exile. Ancient history and modern weird beliefs researcher. Insistent about human rights, principles, and combatting climate change. I like a lot of stuff. I blog about that sometimes (NL) https://wordpress.com/view/dewereldismal.wordpress.com
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The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

submitted 14 hours ago • 223 comments

Today, I had an hour to kill in London, so I made rather useless pilgrimage to the site which, 15 years ago, sparked the joy of urban planning in me. Hello @jayforeman.bsky.social can I tag you here? You make cool stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Trump and Musk accusing each other of being dumb and annoying is actually the first time I think I agree with both of them

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Het commentaar van @trouw.nl vandaag: “Wat zich voltrekt is, kortom, een genocide. (…) Het zou aanleiding moeten zijn tot een wapenembargo, tot een handelsboycot, tot sancties om af te dwingen dat hulpgoederen de grens over mogen, en het moorden stopt.” www.trouw.nl/opinie/het-i...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Egyptologist: Lo! The great King... 13th regnal year Month 5 day 4... I bring a [great?] offering of [X] ... 26 dnS-root, from the land of Goshen May my Lord... [overseer?] of the Treasury ...smote...[Nubians?] Life prosperity and health

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

I love Andor. I think it's my favorite show, maybe of all time. You should watch it. I don't like the way they've been dumping episodes online. I like taking new releases slowly. And right now online spaces where i'd want to discuss it (ep 3 for instance) are often flooded with later spoilers.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

In my purely historical analysis, I am of theuncomplicated opinion that, back in the 1930's and '40ies, individuals joining the brown/blackshirts should have been shot in the streets like the human vermin they were. On an unrelated note. Here is an emoji representing some ice. 🧊

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Het wemelt - ook hier - van de mensen die het een prima idee vinden dat deze raaskallende dorpsidioot minister van volksgezondheid is.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

Ik ga dit niet lezen, sorry. Jammer, want het onderwerp is boeiend en verdient aandacht. Geallieerde oorlogsmisdaden zijn ab-so-luut het bespreken waard. Maar de vergelijking met Gaza gaat ENORM scheef. Geloofden mensen tijdens WO2 dat het hele Duitse volk uitgemoord of verdreven zou worden? Nee.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

submitted 51 days ago • 265 comments

The televised Oval Office meeting with Bukele is mockery. They’re mocking the press, their opposition, the courts, and the entire concept of justice. They’re mocking everyone who isn’t them. The abuser’s playbook yet again.

submitted 55 days ago • 129 comments

Concentrations camps are coming. We warned you. And hoo boy, this just won't go the way this admin thinks. Good luck. 🫡

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

submitted 55 days ago • 106 comments

Heeft Nederlands links compleet besloten dat ze tegen herbewapening zijn? Ik voel me een beetje buiten de boot vallen hiero. De VS wordt gerund door een fascist die EU territoria wil annexeren, Rusland en China, twee andere dictaturen, hebben ook expansie-ambities. C'mon guys, wat is de logica?

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

A vital, actionable 🧵 of advice for all writers, researchers, designers, and artists.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

"Canada Strong!" A frequently heard mantra from the proud defenders of the U.N. Canada Fort.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

De "we moeten diplomatieke oplossingen zoeken" opmerking? Tsja, die was idd slap. Komt voort uit een scepcisme en kritiek op NAVO, "westerse interventie" en militair-industrieel complex. Daar heb ik tot zekere hoogte begrip voor, als je niks van Putin weet. Links is opmerkelijk verdeeld hierover.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Lezersbrief in de Volkskrant Hear hear!

submitted 85 days ago • 10 comments

Each time I see an AI-generated poster for a symposium or a workshop, I feel like I'm one step closer to the brink of utter insanity

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 87 days ago • 5150 comments

Dear Americans. I'm sorry to say this, but your country crossed a threshold here. You cannot remain apathetic to this level of malevolent incompetence. Your action is required. Apathy and inaction will lead you to a fate of totalitarianism, corruption, and endless hyper-stupidity. You must revolt.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I can't let this reality-inverting BS go. The US was a proponent and architect of the EU—in particular, its antecedent the ECSC—because Europe caused massive wars that killed millions (including hundreds of thousands of Americans) and integrating their economies would prevent another. A big success

submitted 87 days ago • 81 comments

These are levels of antisemitism for which you deserve stocks-and-rotten-fruit type humiliation, if not worse. You don't get to police or revoke other people's jewishness. That should be obvious to anyone. Americans, drag this fascist fuck OUT OF YOUR FUCKING GOVERNMENT.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

submitted 94 days ago • 233 comments

When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

submitted 95 days ago • 28 comments

Als tegenwoordig zoveel politici liegen en manipuleren, is het echt zaak dat journalisten beter verslag doen. Ook als dat wat langer duurt. Ook als het vereist dat er niet één, maar twee of zelfs drie journalisten naar kijken voordat een artikel gepubliceerd wordt.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that Zelenskyy was so rude to Trump and Vance that America needs to pull all aid to retain its dignity is the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard and that’s the COVER STORY!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Trump presenting himself as the representative of "peace" with Putin brings out my inner Theoden:

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

The support of The Netherlands to Ukraine is unwavering. We stand with Ukraine, especially when times are tough. Over the last years, today, and in the future for as long as it takes. 🇳🇱🇺🇦

submitted 100 days ago • 78 comments

Dat klimaat kan de VVD echt niks schelen. Het belang van industrie en commercie staan immers voorop. Dan is het juist handig als een coalitiepartner wat fophef maakt. Win/win: PVV kan zich profileren als 'klimaatsceptische' partij en de VVD kan volhouden dat het wel degelijk om 'groene groei' geeft.

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Well, it has to be said—when the abyss starts throwing parties, you know we’ve passed the point of mere moral collapse and entered the realm of full-blown dystopian farce.

submitted 103 days ago • 52 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 104 days ago • 132 comments

In The Age today. If you can't get the editorial parts of the paper to acknowledge this reality, at least you can buy an ad.

submitted 104 days ago • 40 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 105 days ago • 240 comments