Carla van der Waal
banner
carlavdw.bsky.social
Carla van der Waal
@carlavdw.bsky.social
Dutch. What else.
Eten, slapen, zitten, kijken, zeiken
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Wrong man wrong place. So bullsit news
August 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
May 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
May 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trump
February 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Vooruit, hier eentje dan. Hij speelt altijd de hoofdrol
February 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Vandaag op tv in Buitenhof om 12.45 uur @timothysnyder.bsky.social over zijn boek "Over Vrijheid".
January 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
December 25, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Homs, Syria on the
🎈First 🎈Free 🎈Friday
December 13, 2024 at 1:42 PM

1857.
Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, looking cockey in his stove pipe hat.
Behind him the launching chains of the ship he designed: SS Great Eastern - at that time the largest ship ever built.
December 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Today's saint:
Daniel the stylite.
Sat on a pillar near Constantinopel and came down only once in 33 years.
(Not as famous as Simeon the stylite who sat on a pillar in NW Syria).
Died December 11 in 493.
December 11, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Translated:

“I was talking to this guy from HTS. I stopped him in the street and said: “I want to tell you something, I’m Shia.”
He looked at me and said: “Everyone has their own religion.”
I told him: “I’m joking, I’m Alawite.”
He said: “Everyone is free to be who they are.” 1/2
December 11, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Syria:
USA Criminal charges against former high-ranking Syrian govt intelligence officials #JamilHassan and #AbdulSalamMahmoud for War Crimes against Americans and Other Civilians

indictment can be downloaded via this page:

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/crimi...
December 10, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Syria
Those enormous #Assad statues had some use as waypoints: "Take the next exit after the large statue"
Now:
"Look out for the big stump"
December 9, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Omdat Sakir Khader hier nog niets heeft gepost ben ik zo vrij om zijn berichten over #Mazen van dat andere medium hier te delen. Een #mustread. Over hoe ons Nederlands systeem geen ruimte gaf aan een gebroken man.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18662...
December 9, 2024 at 11:12 PM

The decoration, inspired by Greek mythology, portrays Perseus fighting the dragon to free Andromeda.
The Musée d'Orsay bought this in an auction early 2024.
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
65 cm tall and weighing around 16 kilo's, made from four blocks of jasper (bloodstone,) gold, enamel.
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Palate cleanser post:
The Hope cup.
Made by Jean-Valentin Morel in Paris.
Commissioned by Henry Thomas Hope in 1853, displayed at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1855
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Syria:
Returning from Idlib to their liberated cities
December 8, 2024 at 11:46 PM
#Assad
De schurk zit in Rusland..
December 8, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Syria
#Wanted: Amjad Youssef, perpetrator of the #Tadamon (Tadamun) massacre April 16, 2013. He's still out there:

snhr.org/blog/2022/05...
December 7, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Syrian torture facilities
December 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM
‘The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression,’ report draws on over 300 witness interviews, medical forensic evidence and the Syrian Government’s own documentation. It reveals widespread human rights violations including sexual violence and enforced disappearances.
December 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Framing this one:

"the president continues his work and his national and constitutional tasks from the capital Damascus"

(statement published by SANA)
December 7, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Syria
Bashar al-Assad portrait in Sweida police station:
Now you see him...
Now you don't.
December 6, 2024 at 4:31 PM