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Jan Adriaenssens
@verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Aspiring Superintendent of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 📖
Bike, bench & tree 🚲🪑🌳
He/him 🙋🏻‍♂️

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verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Dat het een gezellige avond was.
Straatbeeld van Café Oud Arsenaal in Antwerpen, met een klassieke gevel met glas-in-loodramen, donkerhouten kozijnen en een blauwe luifel met de tekst “Café Oud Arsenaal Troubadour.” Boven de ingang hangen borden met reclames voor onder andere Duvel, De Koninck, Stella Artois en Trappist Westmalle.
January 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/115881711076604591

"What happens when the only justification for the use of coercive and lethal use of force – or excuse or pretext – is that might is right?

Well, among other things, you have a fundamental failure in the functioning of a modern state."
mastodon.green
January 12, 2026 at 10:55 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
For the love of books!

💌

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/t-magazine/best-home-library-design.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.xHz6.3yrpKdSfY_ot&smid=nytcore-ios-share
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Ik heb een abonnement genomen.

Omdat satire een maatschappij hoop kan geven.

@theonion.com
Satirisch artikel van The Onion met de datum “Donderdag 8 januari 2026”. De headline luidt: “DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism.”
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Working from home today.
A close-up image of a large pile of empty pistachio shells, showing their natural beige color and rough, broken interior surfaces where the nuts were removed.
January 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I need non-functional cool-looking flipping switches and red buttons all over my bikes and house and wherenot.

(This image was sent to me, and reverse image search does not reveal a source.)
A photo shows a car's manual gear shift and dashboard area, featuring a custom panel with multiple red toggle switches that appear non-functional. Overlaid text reads: "I installed switches on my car’s dash that don’t do anything. When someone gets in my car I look them in the eye, say 'buckle up,' and start flipping switches in what appears to be a purposeful order. Then I’ll drive like a grandma while refusing to answer any questions about the switches."
January 8, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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A side-by-side comparison meme showing the concept of survivorship bias applied to fantasy video game armor. On the left is a diagram of a human figure with red dots marking wounds on the arms and legs, representing where survivors were hit. On the right is a female character in revealing fantasy armor that only covers the arms and legs, leaving the torso and head exposed. The image includes a tweet by Leonard Ritter (@leonard_ritter) that reads: "our dwarven engineers came up with a new armor design protecting against the typical injuries sustained by warriors returning from battles in the netherworld." Below the tweet, a Tumblr comment by uniquecrash5 says: "Ah yes, the ol 'B-17 survivorship bias' lesson. Okay but this is a hilarious explanation."
January 3, 2026 at 10:48 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Geen idee hoe ik er nu pas bij kom, maar toch even een appreciatie-toot voor @Tweakers.

Fijne website. Ik ben gekomen voor hun “prijsalerts”, maar blijf meer en meer plakken voor hun “nieuws” en hun “reviews”.
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Smart 🥸

What is the best/most fun snow sculptures you made/seen? I will put them in a post on the blog.

Funny Snow Sculptures (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/02/funny-snow-sculptures-10-photos/
A dark-humor snow sculpture in a suburban yard shows a large, rough snowman holding what appear to be a pair of children’s legs sticking out of its mouth, creating the illusion that the snowman has eaten a child. The legs wear blue jeans and red-and-black sneakers, with twig arms extending from the snowman’s sides. Patchy snow covers the ground, with a house wall visible in the background. White text at the top reads, “How to keep the neighbor kids out of your yard this winter…”, turning the scene into a provocative visual joke.
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Something with looking back and wishes and humor and wit and all that?

Or you just fold a lot of paper airplanes!

https://www.foldnfly.com/
Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions
A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans. Find the best paper airplanes!
www.foldnfly.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
These Japanese microseasons remain poetically descriptive. There’s so much beauty in such observations.

“Deer shed antlers”
https://mas.to/@microseasons/115788822114470029
72 Microseasons (@microseasons@mas.to)
A new microseason in the "Winter solstice" (冬至 Tōji) division has begun: Deer shed antlers (麋角解 Sawashika no tsuno otsuru) This microseason will last until December 31.
mas.to
December 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Don’t mind me, I’m just doing my correspondence for today.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Is it art? A statement?

Maybe it will be, if I place a little plaque next to it. “Reclaiming space (Unknown artist, 2024)”
A black bicycle is overgrown with dense green ground cover plants, which reach up past the front wheel and partially obscure the frame, indicating it has been left unused for a long time. The bike leans against a metal frame surrounding a tree in an urban sidewalk setting.
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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verbeeld.bsky.social
Remarkable Belgium on productivity!
Alt text: Line chart titled “Productivity: output per hour worked” shows GDP per hour worked from 1950 to 2023 for 13 countries, adjusted for inflation and cost-of-living. Belgium, the United States, and Germany lead with over $70/hour in 2023, while Ethiopia and India remain under $10/hour. South Korea shows sharp growth from the 1980s onward, surpassing Japan by 2023. The chart highlights long-term productivity trends across countries using international dollars.
December 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Happy solstice! Little wood engraving made this morning ✨
A 5 by 7cm block of lemon wood, engraved with a sun, planetary orbits, the earth on its tilt and our moon, with stars and a robin and wren at the front
December 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Don’t mind me, I’m just doing my correspondence for today.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.

Who's coming to save you?
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Four people sit inside a car in the TV series “How to Kill Your Sister”; a woman with long blonde hair sits in the front passenger seat, a man wearing a cap drives, and two women sit in the back, one in a striped shirt and the other in a gray outfit, all appearing to be mid-conversation or enjoying the drive. Two women stand in front of a car with a coffin on the roof, looking ahead with serious expressions.
December 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I thin chart quite precisely explains **why Ukraine is fighting so fiercely.** And why all of these countries on the top right are so desperately rearming themselves right now. And why most of of them joined #nato on the first opportunity.

You can play with […]

[Original post on agora.echelon.pl]
OurWorldInData chart showing historic Human Rights Index among Eastern European countries bordering with Russia since 1900. All of them made huge improvement 1920-1940, then huge drop as they were occupied by USSR, then again huge improvement after 1990. Russia remains low most of the time.
December 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Let’s dance!
A copper plaque on a wooden table reads: “THIS TABLE WILL BE REMOVED AT 9.30pm FOR THE DANCING.”
December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Movie scene from Monty Python's Life of Bryan. Three men in dark robes, including John Cleese as Reg, sit shoulder to shoulder at a table in a dimly lit wooden room during a tense discussion. The white subtitles state what Reg is saying: “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verbeeld/112264395971708759

Vinyl records are strategic autonomy.
mastodon.social
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Just put the instructions for making your tea on the tag.

Thank you, Dael.

#bestpractice
White mug of tea with a visible teabag; tag reads: "dael thee DAEL'S DELIGHT 4-5 MIN ±95°C."
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Als Antwerpenaren denken we gewoon niet ambitieus genoeg. Waarom zouden we onze lokale luchthaven niet combineren met een fietsbrug over de Schelde?
Gesimuleerde afbeelding met label "Could have been" toont een concept van een luchthaven boven de Theems naast het Palace of Westminster, met een vliegtuig in de lucht. Luchtbeeld met label "Could have been" laat een enorme luchthaventerminal zien over de Theems, naast de Britse parlementsgebouwen, met vliegtuigen op het dak. Huidige situatie met label "Current" toont Westminster zonder de luchthavenconstrutie. Luchtbeeld met label "Current" toont het echte stadsbeeld van Londen zonder luchthavenstructuur.
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
verbeeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Just put the instructions for making your tea on the tag.

Thank you, Dael.

#bestpractice
White mug of tea with a visible teabag; tag reads: "dael thee DAEL'S DELIGHT 4-5 MIN ±95°C."
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM