Trump had 8 fighter jets flyover the #Epstein survivor conference, interrupting them mid speech. #opdeatheaters
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Trump had 8 fighter jets flyover the #Epstein survivor conference, interrupting them mid speech. #opdeatheaters
Good morning from Haarlem. Not something you see in the Netherlands every day edition. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
If Trump try to send the National Guard to Charm City, I think the residents need to invoke ancient Baltimore magic. Light a candle, whistle The Farmer in the Dell, and intone, "OOOOOOOOMAAAAAAAAR'S COOOOOOOMIIIIIIING" Then a great power will appear and wipe them out of the city.
The Joy of AI Painting. This is really funny.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
African novels are being translated to English in a bold new trend. We review Ignatius Mabasa’s The Mad theconversation.com/african-nove... via @theconversation.com #Africa #xl8 #literature #langsky
Behold the Mighty HYRAX! BOW BEFORE ITS CUTENESS!
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
I thought I was the only one who walked my cat, and whichever of his friends shows up.
Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors
Damn. Same thing happened to me last week. It's demoralizing.
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
You and your cryptids! One day, my friend, one day....
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Maandag nog een actie in Haarlem. Wij eisen de nacht op. 20.00uur vertrek Stationsplein. Lopend. Ondertussen zijn er raadsleden die denken dat een fietstunnel bij de Oostpoort een goed idee is, of het een fietspad door een parkje met bomen en struiken bij de Groene singel. Dénk dames en heren!.
shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Be Brave 💪
N=15 and all but damn.
🗃️ Discovered another gem on YouTube. In 1963 Robert Gardner made a film on the Dani of New Guinea. It offers a view of what warfare looked like in the neolithic period. As tribal bands evolved into a sedimentary lifestyle, they had land that gave life to defend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Yr...
"How Pathological Abusers distort language 2 create confusion control & evade accountability. Redefining Words Ambiguity & Vagueness Word Sense Disambiguation Tone as a Weapon Logical Fallacies & Misattribution Semantic manipulation undermines the victim’s ability to trust their own judgment."
New study on #BlueSky for #SciComm. “Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.” 🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci
Goodnight from New Orleans
Good morning from Haarlem. Lost toy left on a window shelf edition. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
The public awaits pictures of Po Boys and Étouffée. Jambalaya or Gumbo are also acceptable.
🇳🇱🇨🇳💻🕵️ New: The Netherlands announced on Thursday that it had been targeted by a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign tracked as Salt Typhoon and RedMike that has been compromising critical infrastructure globally.
And I almost learned the hard way that a titanium wedding ring on a guitar playing guy was a really bad idea. Can't cut through it they told me.
I fucking knew this was coming (alluded to it here actually): oversight.house.gov/release/come...
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Where you headed in that fancy aircraft?
The American bully and dictator Trump threatens to impose "substantial additional tariffs" on countries that implement the #DSA, EU's regulation that combats illegal content and disinfo online. If Trump carries out his threat, the EU should terminate the EU-US trade deal, signed in July, and #BanX.
Except he's stuck on the first stage of evolution in Spore.
This is a real image of what a new solar system looks like. The light from the central star is blocked, so it's possible to see the lanes of cleared-up dust around it. And that small, yellowish blob at lower right? That's a whole, brand new planet.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
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OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen. The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words. The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives. Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
This is a genuine contender for the all-time best photo ever taken of a cartoonist.
Yup. But, the oil industry doesn’t want rail systems. They want you sitting in traffic, in low mpg combustion vehicles. They also fund the GOP to scare white communities into believing brown people will use the rails to invade & terrorize neighborhoods & businesses. thehill.com/policy/trans...
This is one of my two new corvid friends. She’s one of a young pair who bonded over unsalted cashews on my balcony. They enjoy watching me use my mechanical keyboard and watching my cat sleep. The last month they have come around food or no food.
In the West Village right now.
Every. Single. Day.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
The New Problem We All Live With.
🗃️ At the start of the 17th century, there was a large indigenous community in Kansas that Coronado stumbled upon. It was a community of about 14 communities of 10K - 20K people. There is evidence these communities were the center of several major trade routes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQ1...
Can we impeach Jimmy Wales?
We've known for a while that satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX's Starlink are a problem for optical astronomy. Now, a new survey shows they're also adversely affecting radio astronomy – including at wavelengths supposedly protected by international regs. 🔭⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/starlink-s...
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Shut it down.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
What the ever loving fuck?!
🧀 Curious about cheese in the past? Check out our latest video exploring what cheese can reveal about ancient rituals 🏺🧪 youtu.be/8RF7RO9GqDU #archaeology #foodarchaeology #foodhistory
The Americans just sanctioned four sitting judges at the International Criminal Court in the Hague: ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio... And you may know about the plan to invade the Netherlands if the Court ever has an American before it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...
"Devo’s songs now feel like prophecies set to music. That’s cold comfort to the founders, who called it like they saw it but hoped they were wrong,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about Chris Smith’s documentary DEVO: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/devo...
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It's monday morning, which means I have done the thing I do, again www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
I'm sure this bodes well.
This guy says this shows why we need to slavery. It also shows why we need to teach statistics. At least teach the book How to Lie with Statistics.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
I've had it with the hate on my Gen X. The Boomers fucked everything up, and we came of age during, or just post, Reagan, whom *they* elected. If we were selfish it's because we didn't understand how badly the Boomers had screwed the world and that we needed to fix it. Plus, we were high as fuck.
My son, who just saw and loved Seven Samurai on our amazing former Panopticon film theatre refuses to go see Ran which is playing there now because he's "not in the mood for a tragedy." I have tried, and failed, to explain to him the tragedy is not seeing the film in an amazing space.
And with this happy story I'm off to sleep, good night.
That boy done gone fascist a looooong time ago. Just got a lot more idiots along for the ride now.
It is truly the most amazing flim theatre I've ever been in.
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Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
Accepting fascism requires us to unquestioningly replace the learned experience of our own senses with the state’s official version of reality. So reaffirming our past is more than nostalgia. It is an act of resistance. Read @jonsavage.bsky.social's extraordinary 1979 review of Unknown Pleasures.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
The other problem with these "motivational" posters around book bans? They generally show a short list of VERY FAMOUS BOOKS, whose authors are either dead or doing quite well, thanks. Meanwhile, hundreds of books that could save a queer and/or abused child's life are banned all over the U.S.
I just want to check in, from time to time to show that we ARE freeing ourselves, without the help of hypocritical EU. Ruling party's offices were burning list night in #Serbia
Ask your parasitic infestation if seeing a doctor is right for you
Mine told me I just needed to go into therapy, what now?
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Where are the local politicians and police; they have a court order to protect them?
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
Jesus. It all really is that dumb, that petty isn't it?
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Indeed. The purpose of Trump's latest depredation is further consolidation of his power. It's a proof of concept: if people accept this power grab without much complaint we can expect the occupation of other cities Trump considers 'trouble' sooner than anyone can imagine.
Now, do VLCCs!
"Clowns to the left of me...."
For this week’s astonishing artifact, I wrote about the oddly shaped Sabu Disk. 🏺🧪 (Spoiler alert: probably just a hella fancy bowl.)
Breaking: the court ruling in Wikipedia's legal challenge to the Online Safety Act categorisation regime has just been handed down. The court dismissed Wikipedia's challenge. This is bad. This is very bad. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08...
Now that is a surprise!
I feel very conflicted about giving this story a "like."
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Genoeg is genoeg. Morgen maandag 11 augustus 19.30 verzamelen we op de Grote Markt in Haarlem om te laten zien en horen dat we solidair zijn met het slachtoffer. Tegen de bekrompenheid en haat. En doe dan ook wat aan de bezopen verpaupering van de Smedestraat Gemeente Haarlem!
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /
Looks like the kind of hot August day in the city that I do not miss one bit.
Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem
The most shameful narrative this civilisation created was that nature was the aggressor, the “unruly” one to be tamed. Whether it was a thousand-year-old tree or an indigenous tribe, they needed to be exterminated because they were “wild”, “different” and “lesser” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now
And then the less great part of the morning: Watching ~40 detainees load on to an Avelo jet (N804VL). 🤬 The red bags in the first photo hold the shackles they use on board, I believe. Heat and haze made photos tough, but I got shots of 31 pax; I believe the total count was 40.
The ones I know sure are! But I like that about them.
Many Europeans fear a war with Russia, but what if the people of Europe themselves will give Russia what it wants with their own hands? This article examines how Russia is influencing European minds to destabilise our continent. It was first published on the website of the Kent Bylines.
The city of Bonn is awarding craft businesses a giant cargo bike for one month so they can test whether they can switch to these vehicles. It's a great project. Craft businesses in 🇩🇪 in particular are small, often with only a handful of employees, who cannot afford to experiment with their fleet.
They're rapidly realizing they can now straight up steal money for any blue state/blue voter thing and the courts will back them up.
This article is from April, but I've been thinking lately that Trump is likely to find ways to use ICE as his personal national "police force". For the arrest of any and all people he points out, whoever they may be. Jack Smith, anyone who's tried to prosecute him or who calls for his ouster.