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Patrick Verbiest
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My passion lies in: science and technology. I am a Leftist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Monarchist, Agnostic-Atheist and Anti-Theist. | Den Helder, The Netherlands.
The Stop Killing Games initiative has just reached it's signature goal. It is now important that it goes way over a million. This because a buffer is needed, due to people who sign double or who aren't EU citizens. And are thus invalid. After that, the hard part, ...

#StopKillingGames
July 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Stop Killing Games initiative has almost reached the required number of signatures. Have you signed it? If you're an EU citizen, you can. To sign, use the link in the quoted post below. If this makes it, well... That's where the fun begins.

#StopKillingGames
If you support video game preservation, sign this petition. Make the word purchase mean purchase again. Once you've bought a game it should be yours to play indefinitely. Make the wanton destruction of art stop. Help this initiative today! Sign ⬇️!

Link: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
July 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What I find interesting, is that the people crying about Hunter Schafer possibly being cast as Zelda. Are the same people who cry, it's called acting, when a fuzz is made that a disabled character is not played by a disabled person. Or a black cartoon character is not played by a black actor. ...
June 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Trump and the GOP are intend on cutting all federal funding to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services. Please sign this petition to show your opposition to this.

For the petition, see link below. I've already signed it, how about you?

#TheTrevorProject #LGBTQIA+
June 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy Pride Month to everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community! Remember, your existence has a wonderful effect upon the blood pressure of those that hate you. So, those that can't change their mind and accept you, will resolve themselves, in time.

#PrideMonth #LGBhugtheT #LGBTQIA+
June 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Here is one of the few pieces of good news during the current regime in the United States. Now it's time for the other states, in this union, to become united, in this effort. And finally end child marriage.

And, if you support child marriage, well, I don't think I need to state what you are.
May 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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NEW: Alternative Science™. Now excl. peer review. After all, hypotheses are all you need, if they agree with you. Brought to you by the regime that previously brought you Alternative Facts™. Soon, with consequences to issues affecting you and your loved ones. The Party cares, just not about you.
May 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@drmarina.bsky.social, you might find this interesting.
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The international far-right recently held a conference, about how to "protect" western civilisation (read: keep western countries white). About how to get rid of ze unter...*cough*, immigrants.
Ethnic Cleansing Conference in Europe Draws American Speakers, Advocates for a White Europe
On May 17, an estimated 300 - 400 far-right activists and their supporters gathered in Gallarate, Italy, for the first “Remigration Summit,” a conference dedicated to discussing “remigration.” This et...
globalextremism.org
May 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This corruption is not surprising at all. But, it's good to have as many receipts as possible.

Also, Sex Matters being registered as a human rights charity, how Orwellian.
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Good, hopefully this block becomes permanent. And since this attempted barring of international students will already have done a lot of harm that won't be reversed by a block. This admin should be forced to pay for those damages. I heard Trump recently got a plane. He could sell that to pay for it.
Harvard sues Trump administration over move to bar international students.

"And despite statements from both sides indicating a willingness to compromise, the attacks on Harvard have continued..."

Complying with this type of government, aside from being the wrong thing to do, also doesn't work.
May 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Can't wait for the false claims of domestic terrorism.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · May 23
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency crews, according to multiple sources who spoke to WIRED.
Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, Oregon.
www.wired.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Harvard sues Trump administration over move to bar international students.

"And despite statements from both sides indicating a willingness to compromise, the attacks on Harvard have continued..."

Complying with this type of government, aside from being the wrong thing to do, also doesn't work.
May 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In another act against academic freedom, the Trump administration has revoked foreign student enrollment to Harvard. With this, they want to exercise tighter control on universities and at the same time, deport more of die unterm...*cough*, foreigners. They want full control of the curriculum.
May 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
For managed democracy! For freedom! 😮‍💨.

"(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had selected a design for the $175-billion Golden Dome missile defense shield and named a Space Force general to head the ambitious program aimed at blocking threats from China and Russia."
May 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ah yes, getting rid of political opponents the 'legal' way.

"Attorney General Pam Bondi has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of having weaponized the Justice Department ..."

They do like their accusations in the mirror, don't they?
Exclusive: Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Justice Department.

If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure that cases against public officials are not politically motivated.
Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions
The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section is charged with ensuring cases against elected officials are not politically motivated. The Trump administration is considering changing that.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In The Netherlands, too, academic freedom is under pressure. It is high time, that academic freedom gets enshrined into the Dutch Constitution.
May 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
More people should know about what the Alliance Defending Freedom is. The ADF is a hate organisation intend on, amongst other things, achieving the eradication of homosexuality and transgender people.

To all those LGB drop the T folks. These people want to get rid of all the letters, not just one.
Here’s last night’s story about the Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal organization behind several landmark Supreme Court cases, and the theological importance of the pink fairy armadillo. youtu.be/sCAuHH5EYnE
Alliance Defending Freedom: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
May 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
So, in a country where we have the @democrats.org party who considers trans people a mere distraction, just another culture war topic. And the #GOP, who is looking for a solution to the trans question. Trans rights are considered a topic of debate. As if people's rights are still a matter where...
May 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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If they had a spine they would just admit that it has something to do with the meme below. I mean, these kinds of beliefs are bad enough on their own. But, if you think that way, at least say it with your chest. Because now, on top of your horrible beliefs, you throw contempt for people's intellect.
peter griffin from family guy holding a note that says not okay
Alt: Peter Griffin from Family Guy is being checked whether he has the "right" skin tone at a stop.
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Here is another reminder, that Gender Criticals/Trans Exclusionary "Feminists" can scream that 2+2=5 all they want. It's however, never coming true.

So, GCs/TERFs, you go ahead and move on to the issue of race, *cough*. I mean immigration. ...
Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.
Read the motion below 👇

BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.
May 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents.""

Really, the Gestapo, who just want to silence political opposition for the regime, lied.

Look below for a selfie of my reaction to this news.
May 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
DHS is now threatening elected officials with arrests. This comes as the Trump regime is also looking into getting rid of habeas corpus. So that complaint of wrongful detention can no longer be made.

You're guilty!

What?

You're guilty. Because the Party says so.
May 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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"Kids can't have toys" [unless the parents are rich].

Trump and his ilk, would, if they lived in a Dickens novel, have called the Ghost Busters, rather than see the error of their ways.

Trump: There were FAKE NEWS ghosts. RADICAL LEFTIST, MARXIST ghosts, that visited me. They're now in ALCATRAZ!
May 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Let's use the same logic here as is used anytime policy, that encroaches on people's privacy, gets justified. If you have nothing to hide, why not use body cameras?

Why would you not want them? Aren't you implying that you want do things of which you would like no evidence to exist?
May 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM