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Franciscus 📎 🇳🇱 🇩🇰
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#elementary school principal 🏳️‍🌈 #duo-cycling volunteer 🚲 #GL-PvdA 💚 dad, foster dad & spoken for 🇳🇱 former #war crimes prosecutor @ Dutch DoJ 1999 - 2016 🇺🇳 PTSD survivor 💜 #canoe & #outdoor fanatic 🇨🇦
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I'm not usually this 'aggressive', but one of my colleagues is about to find out that my entire team has her back - bullying parents be damned.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Violet Ford Fletcher

The oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Bloodbath passes away at age 111.
A relentless hero from one of the darkest chapters of US history.

(Photo: AFP)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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"Littoral Seclusion"
(30x25 cm, October 2025)

#original #coastal #landscape #painting #art
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Bad Hair Day

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November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Prachtig slot van #eventothier waarin onder meer de 2 verdwenen panelen op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats #Margraten zijn teruggeplaatst vlak naast het Amerikaanse grondgebied.

En de naam van één van de 172 aldaar begraven Afro-Amerikaanse helden is van stro gemaakt om hem te eren 🙏.

#MagaHaten
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Working stupidly late
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November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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On a lighter note:
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November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
👇THIS👇
bsky.app/profile/elys...
The movie is based on the real Stanford prison experiment.
If you want to know how ICE agents have gone from ordinary people into heartless, sadists, maniacs, torturers and killers, you may be interrested in that movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_x...
(Trailer in english)
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Ko Un Ryu Sui

Literally: “go cloud, flow water"
One of Japan’s most famous yojijukugo (4-word proverbs).

It means something like:
Float freely as a cloud,
Flow like water when facing adversity.

I painted this on a wall panel of my daughter’s bedroom when she was born, almost 20 years ago.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Keep pushing back. #StandTogether
October 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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For all of you in need of a relaxing sunset, this one was taken during a solo-canoe trip on lake Bolmen, Southern Sweden.

Please remember that even in the midst of a storm, the world is still beautiful,

Enjoy & good night

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November 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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It's #WorldKindnessDay! This quote from our patron Stephen Fry says it all. 🥰
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🦋 RESIST & REMOVE 🦋
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November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The wisest woman I ever met, taught me something very much like this decades ago.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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On a lighter note: a golden oldie, because we need it
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November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Unimaginable, having to fight the same fight over and over. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Oy, MAGAts, you’re not just vandalising your own history, but ours too.

Many Dutchmen living today are descendants from people that these brave US-soldiers saved.

We as people of The Netherlands need (and will) put this right.
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Calls for permanent memorial in Limburg to black US liberators - DutchNews.nl
Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating th...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Smart aliens
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
👇 This 👇
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Signs of Fascism… they’re all there to clearly be seen.

Those denying what’s happening are blind.

#Pinks
#USDemocracy
#SaveOurCountry
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM