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Amsterdammerung
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Mobility equals equality, dignity and independence for all, including the elderly. Political junkie. The arc of history bends toward justice, with a pitstop at stupid. 🇳🇱
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In the autumn of my life the world feels colder. And yet I’m surrounded by decent, kind people who want to do good, at odds with corrupt world leaders feeding on greed and hate. My local world gives me hope that these dinosaurs will go extinct and that we can change the world, 1 backyard at a time
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Wasn’t that essentially the defense Eichmann offered?

“I acted under the directives of a legitimate government and had no authority to question them; thus, I cannot be held personally accountable.”

By the way, Eichmann was a Nazi.
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.

It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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All of this feels like blind #solutionism. These things get rolled out because corporations expect profit, not because there’s any coherent public vision guiding them. There’s no proper framework shaping the direction, nor are cascading consequences of these shortsighted decisions properly assessed.
Really can't overstate how problematic robotaxis become at scale:

"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
www.economist.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.

Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.

Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Racist abuse is never 'banter.' It’s racist abuse. I was on the receiving end growing up. It has a deep, lasting impact.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Sadiq Khan recalls past abuse as he urges Nigel Farage to apologise over racism claims
Exclusive: London mayor says allegations of teenage racism against Reform leader remind him of being called P-word
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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'Premeditated murder': Pete Hegseth accused of 'unambiguous war crime' after new report
www.rawstory.com
'Premeditated murder': Pete Hegseth accused of 'unambiguous war crime' after new report
twp.ai
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This is how the Netherlands handles road closures - cars have to divert (in one direction) but families on bikes are provided with a temporary cycleway during the works
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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WASH POST: “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed Hegseth’s order to leave no survivors.”

Lawless. Murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#Annimatie | Verandering van het #IJsselmeergebied afgelopen 12.000 jaar, in 5 minuten: youtube.com/watch?v=L9Jj... 💧Archeologische kaart: www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/onderwerpen/...
Archeologische kaart IJsselmeergebied
YouTube video by Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed
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November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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A single bee can produce 1 tablespoon of honey in its lifetime.
683 bees fly roughly 32,550 miles to gather 5.93 lbs of nectar from about 1,185,000 flowers in order to make one 9.5 oz. jar of honey.
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Got 15 minutes? Check out my recent TEDx talk: Why This Isn’t a New Cold War
Why This Isn't a New Cold War | Michael McFaul | TEDxMidAtlantic
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tackles one of the most debated questions in geopolitics: are we entering a new Cold War? Drawing on firsthand experience with world leaders, he…
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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#November_kiek #rond @ikbendaan.bsky.social De watertoren in Eindhoven, de ballen van Quist genoemd, ontworpen door Wim Quist, gebouwd in 1970. Hoogte is 43,45 meter en heeft drie bolvormige waterreservoirs van elk 500 m³, samen zijn ze de grootste watertoren van Nederland. Fijne dag allemaal!😊
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM