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History, books, games, music, friends. Stiefvlaming
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Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony.

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November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.

I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Één van de scherpste en meest acute columns van het jaar 👇
'Ter rechterzijde van het politieke spectrum ziet men het pesten van migranten als levensbestemming, ter linkerzijde is men druk met het tellen van vrouwen.

Ach, de nationale politiek, we zullen haar nog missen als Nederland is afgeschaft. Ze is zo grappig.'
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Column | De nerds werden weer genegeerd, en dat gaan we merken
De nerds hadden nog wel zo’n goede verkiezingscampagne gevoerd. NerdVote had zijn best gedaan iemand in de Kamer te krijgen met verstand van digitale zaken en het was nog gelukt ook. Barbara Kathmann,...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756), The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is now also in paper print🤓. brill.com/display/titl... More good news is soon to come!
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Dat was een inspirerende middag met Arjen Barel van het Storytelling Centre: over verhalen vertellen en verhalen delen!

Eén van de onderdelen waar we naar keken was het concept van de ‘Hero’s Journey’, de reis van de held, bekend uit het werk van Joseph Campbell.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#OTD in 1941 Division z.b.V. issued a detailed OOB as it was moving into the Tobruk siege lines in preparation for the assault on the fortress. About a week later it was renamed as 90th Light, the name under which it would become famous in the desert war.

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Order of Battle Division z.b.V. Afrika (Africa Special Purpose Division), 11 November 41
Background The division that would become famous later as 90th Light Division started its life as a formation of odds and sods, thrown together quickly out of whatever was available while a much mo…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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En zo sluipt ongelijkheid er vanaf de allereerste levensdag al in.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Belloludi Made national tv last night! At 14:08. www.hartvannederland.nl/uitzendingen...
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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See also: Kier Starmer.
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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#BoekenTip | Tussen horst en griend: www.atlascontact.nl/boek/tussen-... @casparjanssen.bsky.social 💧Ontdekking van het landschap aan de hand van 60 verdwijnende woorden, zoals (hieronder): balkengat, trekvaart, geest, vlechtheg en ⬇️ griend
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Ha, dat is mooi. Mijn boek over Floris staat nu aangekondigd in de catalogus van Walburg Pers. Met een prachtige aanbeveling van Martine Gosselink (dir. Mauritshuis, waar Floris’ portret hangt).

www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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'Unlike old authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible.'
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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November 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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What a disambiguating opening line of caution!

"Not to be confused with other massacres in El Fasher, such as during the Darfur genocide of 2003–2005."
El Fasher massacre - Wikipedia
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November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Ich kann meine Freude kaum in Worte fassen: Mein erster Aufsatz ist heute erschienen!!!☺️🥳

Ich danke @bgebert.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy und @lasarroise.bsky.social für die tolle Zusammenarbeit und @kpo.bsky.social für die wunderbare Unterstützung!😇

#medievalsky

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Mit grossem geschrei und schalle
Klangdimensionen der Burgunderkriege im „Berner Schilling“ Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Erforschung vormoderner Klangwelten. Anhand der sogenannten Burgunderkriege werden exemplar...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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🎥 Then & Now

The Lost Generation | Where they fell

Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.

Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀

Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Publication day in 🇬🇧 #AdvanceBritannia
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Reviewed the Old King's Crown. This was a hard review to write, both because of the hype and because of the weight and weirdness of the game. I hope I was fair: it's up there, but it has some minor niggles for me. www.ign.com/articles/the...
The Old King’s Crown Board Game Review - IGN
The Old King’s Crown is a grab bag of concepts from all sorts of other board games, each given a loving polish and shape to fit it into a greater whole, wrapped in the most amazing eye candy, creating...
www.ign.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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FACT OF THE DAY. 6 November 1942. Church of England relaxed its rule that women must wear hats in church. Before then church etiquette required women to wear hats during church services because it was considered by male clergy as inappropriate for women to show their hair in church.
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Although this chapter was published in 2015, the publisher recently let me share it. So here it is
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(PDF) Ottoman Strategy and War Aims during the First World War
PDF | The Ottoman decision for war, followed by the Ottoman navy’s fateful naval attack on the Russian Black Sea ports on 29 October 1914 has attracted... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If things are made this easy, even I can get it done
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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If you aren’t familiar with the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, this Continental Army march saw the massacre of Haudenosaunee women, children & elders, & decimated their food supplies. The Continentals called it revenge for frontier raids & Mohawk aid to the British, but most Haudenosaunee were neutral
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM