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Victor van der Have’s personal account. Sharing thoughts on history, mobility and the general weirdness 🫡 of the world. Like to connect on a professional level? > https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorvanderhave/
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The Spanish are sending a delegation inc. Minister Ernest Urtasun. elpais.com/sociedad/lgt... Any other members of govt. besides Mariëtte Paul from the netherlands?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

There’s just an enormous difference between 1000kg racing past you at 55km/h or gently being overtaken at 35 km/h. This is such a great way to make the space more liveable for everyone on the street, cars included.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Achter Christenen voor Israël schuilt een lobby die Nederlandse christenen aanzet tot donaties, waarmee – bewust of onbewust – Israëlische gebiedsuitbreiding wordt gefaciliteerd. Daarom moet de ChristenUnie haar banden met CvI opschorten. Lees onze opinie in het ND: www.nd.nl/opinie/opini...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Today on where does my Wiki rabbithole take me: the loxodrome! A path with constant azimuth, which on a global scale means crossing meridian lines on a constant bearing towards true north. Weird, for some reason I feel like listening to Bad Religion now... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_l...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

are there similarities between the fall of the Catholic Church and Germany’s lefties? The answer may surprise you: jacobin.de/artikel/nach...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to our Dutch railway for this amazing opt out system. I just want to mindlessly accept terms and conditions selling my first born son, not be goaded into accepting a newsletter… jeesh

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So if we follow the mad Owl all schools will be duolingo classrooms with Ai teachers. Talk about dystopian. #ai #language #school #learning fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Altijd lekker een gratis krant op R’dam cs. en al helemaal top om Ronald Plasterk zijn eclatant rechtse gelul te zien verspreiden in de @telegraaf.nl Onzin uit de alt-right pipeline van Roelof Bouwman als originele gedachte verkopen, dat verwacht je toch niet van een wetenschapper zoals hij?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Hyped. #eu5 #gaming #history

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I like downvoting popular derogatory comments, and I like upvoting downvoted derogatory content. The correct amount of attention for online shite is right around zero.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

submitted 48 days ago • 13 comments

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

submitted 49 days ago • 184 comments

My first interview!!! Nothing to do with mobility though, just beer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-MCn...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Watched a great film tonight, ‘Strijdbaar’, about saving our local trees from car invasion. Doc by Floris Meinardi. A small history of fighting against our government that’s stuck in the more asphalt loop. #waroncars #amelisweerd #publictransport #cars

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

“We just throw our kids to the wolves algorithmically, and expect them to recognize and reject it [heavily misogynist, anti-feminist and 'alpha-male' content],” she said. “But we need to do a better job of helping those kids and parents understand what they’re seeing.” @milleridriss.bsky.social

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

@kaiserkuo.bsky.social do you remember the 8-12-2022 Sinica episode on RMB internationalisation? Would the new theory by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social (unherd.com/2025/02/why-...) make sense for Chinese currency policy? Am interested in your thoughts on this

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

My face whenever something stupid happens and I’ll stand there watching.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 100 days ago • 1180 comments

So I bought Annelien de Dijn’s ‘Vrijheid’ (Freedom). And the book clerk advised me to buy also @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Freedom. To compare. But my god, the biblical verses in the first chapter are off-putting.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment