Roel Groeneveld
@roelgroeneveld.bsky.social
Werkt aan online projecten met maatschappelijke impact (freelance PO/projectleider), hardlopen, fotograferen.
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Ran the Zevenheuvelenloop 2025 (15K race in the Netherlands): https://glass.photo/roelgroeneveld/5c1oOI7d4G6HLhjqOEwaqt
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ran the Zevenheuvelenloop 2025 (15K race in the Netherlands): https://glass.photo/roelgroeneveld/5c1oOI7d4G6HLhjqOEwaqt
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Gestemd! 🗳️ Natuurlijk op een kandidaat met veel digitale ervaring. Vind je dat ook belangrijk, check dan even @berthub.eu’s Nerdvote voordat je gaat stemmen: https://www.nerdvote.nl/
NerdVote.NL
Ondersteuning voor en informatie over alle kandidaat-kamerleden met en warm hart voor onze privacy en eigen IT-vaardigheden.
www.nerdvote.nl
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Gestemd! 🗳️ Natuurlijk op een kandidaat met veel digitale ervaring. Vind je dat ook belangrijk, check dan even @berthub.eu’s Nerdvote voordat je gaat stemmen: https://www.nerdvote.nl/
Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
In Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers, Ben Werdmuller quotes Alexandra Geese (member of the European Parliament):
"“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a ... https://roel.io/2025/10/18/in-europe-cant-defend-democracy.html
"“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a ... https://roel.io/2025/10/18/in-europe-cant-defend-democracy.html
Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers
MEP Alexandra Geese argues that Europe needs its own infrastructure, social networks, and software. Rising US authoritarianism means the clock is ticking.
werd.io
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
In Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers, Ben Werdmuller quotes Alexandra Geese (member of the European Parliament):
"“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a ... https://roel.io/2025/10/18/in-europe-cant-defend-democracy.html
"“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a ... https://roel.io/2025/10/18/in-europe-cant-defend-democracy.html
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October 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Brought the camera with me on a stroll through a nearby forest last weekend. Amazin fall colors, and a wealth of mushrooms dotting the forest floor and fallen wood. 🍄
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Brought the camera with me on a stroll through a nearby forest last weekend. Amazin fall colors, and a wealth of mushrooms dotting the forest floor and fallen wood. 🍄
Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. An entertaining heist story set in a Medieval city that resembles Amsterdam, with a dash of magic. Good fun. 📚
October 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. An entertaining heist story set in a Medieval city that resembles Amsterdam, with a dash of magic. Good fun. 📚
I started reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I started reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚
Earlier this morning… 🌈 🌅
October 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Earlier this morning… 🌈 🌅
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
"We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a... https://roel.io/2025/09/28/in-the-future-all-food.html
"We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a... https://roel.io/2025/09/28/in-the-future-all-food.html
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…
www.colincornaby.me
September 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
"We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a... https://roel.io/2025/09/28/in-the-future-all-food.html
"We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a... https://roel.io/2025/09/28/in-the-future-all-food.html
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Surveillance as a service.
I'm only surprised China's using a hedge company. It's been doing this openly, and flying African officials to China for training in surveillance-related public policy for over a decade.
I'm only surprised China's using a hedge company. It's been doing this openly, and flying African officials to China for training in surveillance-related public policy for over a decade.
Through a shell company called Geedge, China is selling its Great Firewall censorship tools to a variety of totalitarian regimes around the world, namely Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Myanmar, and another unidentified country.
www.osnews.com/story/143333...
www.osnews.com/story/143333...
China is selling its Great Firewall censorship tools to countries around the world – OSnews
www.osnews.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Surveillance as a service.
I'm only surprised China's using a hedge company. It's been doing this openly, and flying African officials to China for training in surveillance-related public policy for over a decade.
I'm only surprised China's using a hedge company. It's been doing this openly, and flying African officials to China for training in surveillance-related public policy for over a decade.
Om te snappen hoe online cultuur ons leven beïnvloedt lees ik Ryan Broderick. Ook over hoe Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme:
"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up se... https://roel.io/2025/09/14/om-te-snappen-hoe-online.html
"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up se... https://roel.io/2025/09/14/om-te-snappen-hoe-online.html
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence
www.garbageday.email
September 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Om te snappen hoe online cultuur ons leven beïnvloedt lees ik Ryan Broderick. Ook over hoe Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme:
"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up se... https://roel.io/2025/09/14/om-te-snappen-hoe-online.html
"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up se... https://roel.io/2025/09/14/om-te-snappen-hoe-online.html
I started reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚
A Memory Called Empire
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August 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I started reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚
AI gebruiken? Ethische handvatten uit de natuurfotografie: https://roel.io/2025/07/27/ai-gebruiken-ethische-handvatten-uit.html
July 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
AI gebruiken? Ethische handvatten uit de natuurfotografie: https://roel.io/2025/07/27/ai-gebruiken-ethische-handvatten-uit.html
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Meanwhile, the small sandwich shop I'm at in the UK is begging people to pay cash because their card fees were GBP320 last month.
Allowing card processors to collect rent when better alternatives exist is a policy choice and a political failure.
Allowing card processors to collect rent when better alternatives exist is a policy choice and a political failure.
Pix is the same. Safe, costless, accepted by everyone, easy to use, even embedded in banking apps (as banks were required to do).
With a large territory and millions of informal businesses, Brazil early on turned into a fintech powerhouse.
Nobody uses WhatsApp Pay. It's 💩 compared to Pix.
With a large territory and millions of informal businesses, Brazil early on turned into a fintech powerhouse.
Nobody uses WhatsApp Pay. It's 💩 compared to Pix.
July 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Meanwhile, the small sandwich shop I'm at in the UK is begging people to pay cash because their card fees were GBP320 last month.
Allowing card processors to collect rent when better alternatives exist is a policy choice and a political failure.
Allowing card processors to collect rent when better alternatives exist is a policy choice and a political failure.
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In a timeline defined by absurd headlines, this one might actually take the cake.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...
July 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In a timeline defined by absurd headlines, this one might actually take the cake.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...
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Na Feyenoord meent ook FC Twente dat het oké is om zaken te doen met Rusland. Dat voetbalclubs uit NL gewoon zaken willen doen is de beste propaganda die Poetin kan krijgen. Achter die handel met Rusland schuilt één voetbalmakelaarskantoor, het Amsterdamse Muy Manero 👇
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/na...
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/na...
Spelersmakelaar zonder licentie regelt de voetbaltransfers met Rusland
Nathan van Kooperen is de enige voetbalagent in Nederland die sinds de inval in Oekraïne in 2022 nog zaken doet met clubs in Rusland. Afgelopen winter begeleidde hij spits Manfred Ugalde voor een milj...
www.ftm.nl
July 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Na Feyenoord meent ook FC Twente dat het oké is om zaken te doen met Rusland. Dat voetbalclubs uit NL gewoon zaken willen doen is de beste propaganda die Poetin kan krijgen. Achter die handel met Rusland schuilt één voetbalmakelaarskantoor, het Amsterdamse Muy Manero 👇
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/na...
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/na...
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Nog zoiets, als de politieke werkelijkheid belangrijker is dan de echte werkelijkheid:
Schrappen voorrang vluchtelingen op woningmarkt kost miljarden
Schrappen voorrang vluchtelingen op woningmarkt kost miljarden
July 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Nog zoiets, als de politieke werkelijkheid belangrijker is dan de echte werkelijkheid:
Schrappen voorrang vluchtelingen op woningmarkt kost miljarden
Schrappen voorrang vluchtelingen op woningmarkt kost miljarden
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Better living through technology:
"Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary
Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisis
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Better living through technology:
"Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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25 jr links demoniseren terwijl rechts en extreem rechts met fluwelen handschoentjes wordt aangepakt.
Het hele NL landschap is in die 25 jr verrechtst.
Het hele NL landschap is in die 25 jr verrechtst.
July 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
25 jr links demoniseren terwijl rechts en extreem rechts met fluwelen handschoentjes wordt aangepakt.
Het hele NL landschap is in die 25 jr verrechtst.
Het hele NL landschap is in die 25 jr verrechtst.
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Nulgradengrens stijgt naar uitzonderlijke hoogte in Alpen: ook top van Mont Blanc gaat smelten www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Nulgradengrens stijgt naar uitzonderlijke hoogte in Alpen: ook top van Mont Blanc gaat smelten | VRT NWS: nieuws
De nulgradengrens in de westelijke Alpen is gestegen naar een hoogte van 5.400 meter. De Franse weerdienst noemt dit "uitzonderlijk" voor juni. Het betekent dat ook de hoogste top, de Mont Blanc, aan ...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Nulgradengrens stijgt naar uitzonderlijke hoogte in Alpen: ook top van Mont Blanc gaat smelten www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Went for a photo break after an early start. Just getting outside before it gets hot (35° Celsius). 📷
July 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Went for a photo break after an early start. Just getting outside before it gets hot (35° Celsius). 📷