New Building Award in Amsterdam 2025. Good way to see interesting new buildings.

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Thanks to a local book club, I plowed through Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. A hopeless tale of bloodbath between Americans, Native Indians, and Mexicans during 1850s that renders the reader desensitised to the horrific violence.

The Fortune Teller, 1630s. So much deception! And not for nothing do some refer to Georges de la Tour as Master of the Side-Eye. He was born on this day in 1593.

The Egyptian goose is an invasive species in the EU since 2017 due to its aggression toward native birds. It cannot be imported, bred, transported, sold, used, exchanged, or released. Member states must work to eradicate it.

Memorial to Alexei Navalny on Fredericksplein, maintained by local residents.

The square is named after Prince Frederick, a militarist who sent Dutch troops to suppress the Belgian uprising in 1830 that resulted in Belgium's independence.

Maybe it is time to rename the square?

I didn't expect to stumble upon an MS-DOS manual and a bunch of other retro computer stuff in the window today.

Address: Amstel 312, Amsterdam.

Stumbled upon the Apps section in Telegram. Gambling, bets, and crypto. No, thank you.

Delighted by the forsaken fantasy world of Flow. Reminds me of Tamriel from Morrowind.