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Gert-Jan Bartelds
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book freak. life-long learner. critical voice. ex-astrophysicist. remembers boulderdash. guitar and djembe. test all the things. Dem’ter & Türkiye
Only just saw this now, thnx @arborealbirch.bsky.social , this is just brilliant!
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Nu lees ik dat de VVD vreest voor tijdverlies bij de formatie.

Als er nou één partij is die daar de mond over moet houden dan is het de VVD wel.

Zouden ze echt niet doorhebben hoe belachelijk ze zichzelf maken?
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships.

oddnews.com/article/this...
“This Comet Thing Is Aliens,” Says Resident Harvard Fraud Avi Loeb
Like he does every week, without evidence.
oddnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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”Kritisch rapport Rekenkamer concludeerde dat grenscontroles niet effectief zijn voor de gestelde doelen en ook niet leiden tot minder migratie. Het kabinet zou dat van tevoren al hebben geweten.”

Wij mogen met z’n allen voor onzin-bewaking doorbetalen om gezichtsverlies van Van Weel te voorkomen.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Waarom stopt de Kamer deze peperdure symboolpolitiek niet? Dit gaat toch helemaal nergens over? Los van de zinloosheid ervan wordt hiermee ook de Apocalyptische angst voor vreemdelingen gelegitimeerd en genormaliseerd.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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nerd-humor 🙂 (matthias giesen in eos magazine)
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
@markhertling.bsky.social I seem to recall you are (or were?) involved with ABMC. What’s your take on this?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:

trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I wonder whether cats looked different long ago. I've never seen a cute medieval cat. I think it's possible. When I was in Korea, to me the cats looked different from US and European cats. I mean, people look different in different places - why not cats? And why not different at different times?
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ik zie in mijn foto's dat ik deze vandeweek niet gepost had: de 17e eeuwse versie van grumpy cat 😄 (op een haardkleed in het Rijksmuseum)
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The immune system is dangerous, usually more to pathogens than to you. But only because it’s so tightly controlled.

Activating a T cell can have horrific consequences. You really don’t want to trigger one unless it’s absolutely necessary. You need to be sure. How?
1/10
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Een onbenul die niet weet dat zijn eerste taak is de democratie te hoeden
Hoogste tijd dat er heel snel een capabel kabibet komt
Nu nog meer dan genoeg van al die stompzinnigheid
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"Franklin led the team that created what has been called 'arguably the most important photo ever taken,' the celebrated Photo 51, which revealed the helical structure of DNA. When the structure was published in 1953, however, Franklin... was not among the authors."

The (male) authors won the Nobel.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Yesilgöz is als het geluid van nagels over een schoolbord.
Gruw mee.
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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can big dick energy be converted into matter
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Chaos at Madam Tussaud
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Opvallende oproep.

Argentinië is herhaaldelijk failliet gegaan, kende hyperinflatie en had een niet-onafhankelijke centrale bank.

Ik zie de vergelijking met Nederland niet.

1/
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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just....enjoy this
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO. 

This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting. 
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM