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Lady Deirdre
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Never too old to see the world with a child-like sense of wonder. She/her.
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The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Nieuwe thuis gezocht voor deze twee poesjes van ongeveer een half jaar oud!

Wegens prive/woon omstandigheden moet een kennis met spoed een nieuwe plek voor deze twee lieverds vinden.

Ze wonen nu in Groningen.

Geen negatieve reacties, dit zijn niet mijn katten en je kent de situatie niet! 🙌🏻
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Aanstaande zaterdag start de stemweek voor de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 dus bij dezen alvast een minicampagne: STEM OP EEN VROUW! (1/4)
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
When I was considering buying a houseboat, several people offered help reading the info pack, even some I barely knew. When I asked my friend why even her brother had picked through the inspection report for me, she said: "Because you always help others and we all think you're good folk." 🥰
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was actually thinking about this little animation the other day 😄
Please get your flu and covid shots, everyone!
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You think the internet is wild today? In the early days, the world wide web was *bonkers*

Or at least the first 500 miles of it 😆
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Ik heb een paar kunstwerken van Jojan. Ze zijn zó mooi ❤
ZOveel werk zonder thuis. Werk dat nooit het daglicht ziet, maar opgesloten zit in een saaie map.

Daarom hou ik komend weekend mega-sale!

Zie je iets moois voorbij komen? Hou mijn webshop in de gaten 👀
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Tip voor wie kinderen uit de buurt van Delft kent die een technische surprise willen maken:
https://www.tudelft.nl/sciencecentre/ontdek/rolfs-surprise-lab
Rolfs Surprise Lab
Ontdek de techniek achter de surprise! In Rolf’s Surprise Lab knutsel je samen met knutselprofessor Rolf Hut een spetterende technisch surprise.
www.tudelft.nl
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Het is altijd spannend om iets nieuws uit te brengen. Zeker na zo'n lange tijd radiostilte mijnerzijds.

Maar gelukkig krijg ik wat bestellingen binnen. Je hebt geen idee hoe blij me dat maakt 🥳🥹❤️

Mocht je nog willen bestellen:
vanjojan.nl/kaarten
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Dit is tot nu toe wel een recordje 😄

🧩 Puzzel #369
🤔 6 gokken
⏱️ 15s
🔗 alfagok.diginaut.net
alfagok
Raad het woord van de dag. Elke gok geeft een hint over waar het woord zich in het alfabet bevindt. Iedereen speelt hetzelfde woord.
alfagok.diginaut.net
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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This postcard I wrote to a young reader, Sasha Stephenson, was returned to me, as she no longer lives at the address she gave me. Please help me to get it to her if you can!
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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We beginnen de dag met dit prachtige gedicht van Toon Hermans

Er moeten mensen zijn die zonnen aansteken

#gedicht #verkiezingen #tweedekamer #verkiezing #tweedekamerverkiezingen #politiek #tk2025
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Deze verkiezingen verspreiden politici weer allerlei economische mythes. Hoog tijd om deze voor woensdag nog door te prikken!

Afgelopen weekend publiceerde mijn team bij de @fnv.bsky.social daarom een de-bunk van de belangrijkste mythes in Vrij Nederland.

Een draadje.
(1/10)
October 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.
October 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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What a gorgeous portrait; basic, but seems to capture the essence of her personality.
#OTD 20 Oct 1557

Mary FitzAlan Countess of Arundel died at Bath Place London

Daughter of Sir John Arundell & Katherine Grenville, she served 3 Queens
Two of the #SIX wives
#JaneSeymour
#AnneofCleves
Plus #MaryTudor👑#MaryI
Twice wed she was survived by her son John Radcliffe
#Elizabethan
#History
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Initiatieven als Hoek6 lijken een druppel op een gloeiende plaat en daarom ’niet de moeite waard’ voor dergelijke fondsen, maar voor deze jongeren, een hele kleine groep, kunnen ze het verschil maken. Ik heb gedoneerd, zullen we dat alsjeblieft allemaal doen?

bsky.app/profile/ingr...
Even klagen. Zo jammer, Hoek6 haar subsidie-aanvraag bij het oranjefonds is ook afgewezen. We zijn, alweer, te klein.

En de donaties op www.geef.nl/nl/doel/hoek... zijn ook zga opgedroogd. Fondsen werven is zeg maar niet mijn ding :-(.
Geef.nl
www.geef.nl
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The badges I ordered from @henrieke.bsky.social have arrived! They're going to look so good on my bags 🤗
Now I just need to decide where I'll put the stickers 😄

Oh, and thank you for the adorable drawing on the envelope, Henrieke! So cute 😊
October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
One of my favourite artists ❤️
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), German Expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century #WomensArt
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM