Yuri van Hoef
@vanhoef.bsky.social
IR and political history @erasmusuni | Expert on friendship in international politics, especially US politics and Franco-German relations | #History #International #Relations #Politics | PhD @UniversityLeeds
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Yuri van Hoef
@vanhoef.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Scholars of Friendship, Positive Peace, Emotions, come join our section @europeanisa.bsky.social this summer in Bologna (abstracts due 20 March 2025):
eisa-net.org/section-list/
@simonkoschut.bsky.social @kristinhaugevik.bsky.social @bctallis.bsky.social @naomich.bsky.social @ericvanr.bsky.social
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"sovereignty and national borders are less important than the singular role the United States plays as the protector of the West"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,” he added.
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“I don’t need international law,” he added.
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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:58 AM
"sovereignty and national borders are less important than the singular role the United States plays as the protector of the West"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,”
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Donald Trump says US is ‘going to run’ Venezuela after overnight strikes – live
US president says ‘we’re going to run the country until a safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place and that he is ‘prepared’ for a second attack
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January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,”
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“When you have a group of kids you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“When you have a group of kids you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
I dread the dawn’s recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...
Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital -- scene from the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
YouTube video by ligia.kesisian
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I dread the dawn’s recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...
Since WHEN do ssds mount on the motherboard
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Since WHEN do ssds mount on the motherboard
@rianjohnson.bsky.social dear creator-of-the-best-star-wars-film-ever,
I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.
I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@rianjohnson.bsky.social dear creator-of-the-best-star-wars-film-ever,
I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.
I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.
My cups break. My lasagne falls upside down. What is this november
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My cups break. My lasagne falls upside down. What is this november
"bekogeld met een exemplaar van de verzamelde werken van Charles Bukowski"
www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...
www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...
Radiomaker Mischa Blok belaagd door jongens op fatbike: 'Gekneusde rib rijker'
Mischa Blok is zondagavond aangevallen op straat, laat ze weten op X. De radiopresentatrice werd door jongens op een fatbike bekogeld met een boek van de Amerikaanse schrijver Charles Bukowski. Ze hie...
www.nu.nl
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"bekogeld met een exemplaar van de verzamelde werken van Charles Bukowski"
www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...
www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...
2009
"But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?"
grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html
"But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?"
grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
2009
"But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?"
grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html
"But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?"
grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html
Great article; great person.
I'm delighted to share my new article, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! It examines how the Zapatistas used colonial memory while forging transnational alliances with European activists.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Great article; great person.
Reposted by Yuri van Hoef
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on November 19, 1975, I want to reshare my contextual history review of the film that doubles as a guide for thinking through our reactions to films, why we feel the ways we do, with my own thinking as a case study.
I'm a God Damn Marvel of Modern Film Scholarship – Black and White and Read All Over
A Contextual History Approach to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next (1975 [Content Warning: Mention of suicide] [Contains light spoilers] Poster for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) via IMDb One Fl...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on November 19, 1975, I want to reshare my contextual history review of the film that doubles as a guide for thinking through our reactions to films, why we feel the ways we do, with my own thinking as a case study.
"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't know me"
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't know me"
Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:
"None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a bi disk. When it stands its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds."
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Japan's Love-Hate Relationship With Cats
From shapeshifters to demonic corpse eaters, supernatural cats have roamed for centuries in the country's folklore
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a bi disk. When it stands its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds."
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Final call to jump onboard our "Friendship & Positive Peace" section for @europeanisa.bsky.social in 2026. Deadline is 17/11
Currently finalizing our "friendship & positive peace" section proposal for @europeanisa.bsky.social. Do feel free to get in touch if you're working in this area as well; there's room for everyone.
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Final call to jump onboard our "Friendship & Positive Peace" section for @europeanisa.bsky.social in 2026. Deadline is 17/11
Not only did my desktop die last week, my laptop died today as well, live, in an important meeting, as I was about to take the floor, with the most melodious beep possible. Twice.
youtube.com/shorts/6avdY...
youtube.com/shorts/6avdY...
Lenovo Thinkpad Musical Tone Error at boot up - Black screen beeping error #shorts
YouTube video by IFix Tech
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Not only did my desktop die last week, my laptop died today as well, live, in an important meeting, as I was about to take the floor, with the most melodious beep possible. Twice.
youtube.com/shorts/6avdY...
youtube.com/shorts/6avdY...
"do you think the French are better?"
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"do you think the French are better?"
Reposted by Yuri van Hoef
Top Mamdani-leaning neighborhoods, top Cuomo-leaning neighborhoods, and results from the highest-turnout areas: www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... And the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Top Mamdani-leaning neighborhoods, top Cuomo-leaning neighborhoods, and results from the highest-turnout areas: www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... And the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Yuri van Hoef
Horatius reads before Maecenas https://www.wikiart.org/en/fyodor-bronnikov/horatius-reads-before-maecenas-1863
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Horatius reads before Maecenas https://www.wikiart.org/en/fyodor-bronnikov/horatius-reads-before-maecenas-1863
"The Netherlands is one of the last cases of “pure” proportional representation (PR) anywhere in the world, and certainly the only one in an established democracy"
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The Netherlands is one of the last cases of “pure” proportional representation (PR) anywhere in the world, and certainly the only one in an established democracy"
"Zelfs in Omtzigts thuisstad Enschede, waar twee jaar geleden nog meer dan een kwart van de mensen op hem stemde, stemde nog maar 1 procent van de kiezers op NSC."
www.nu.nl/tweede-kamer...
www.nu.nl/tweede-kamer...
Van twintig naar nul zetels: NSC verdwijnt na snelle opkomst uit Kamer
NSC bestormde twee jaar geleden met twintig zetels de Tweede Kamer, maar kwam deze verkiezingen keihard ten val. De partij kwam de deelname aan de rommelige coalitie met de PVV en het vertrek van Piet...
www.nu.nl
October 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Zelfs in Omtzigts thuisstad Enschede, waar twee jaar geleden nog meer dan een kwart van de mensen op hem stemde, stemde nog maar 1 procent van de kiezers op NSC."
www.nu.nl/tweede-kamer...
www.nu.nl/tweede-kamer...
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side?
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
War, war, no peace! Peace is to me a war.
True Story: JRR Tolkien plotted a sequel to Lord Of The Rings where a couple generations later, disaffected teenage boys in Gondor start LARPing as orcs to be edgy.
He wrote a chapter or two but abandoned it as “too depressing”.
No, really. Absolutely true— tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_New...
He wrote a chapter or two but abandoned it as “too depressing”.
No, really. Absolutely true— tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_New...
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side?
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
"celebrating the enduring friendship through taste"
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October 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"celebrating the enduring friendship through taste"
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Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM