Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That being said. I read a lot of declassified internal primary sources, and you’d be surprised how often the history of space debris concerns was filed into folders marked ‘UFO / Fragments’, and also how many useful records are swept up by conspiracist FOIAs. 👀😅 120
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And to that extent, the bottom line is that our world (or mine, anyway) is maybe not one that still needs to hear “and maybe YOU have power, too!” and practice middle-distance-staring. It’s one in which we DO have varying levels of power, & a poor record of wielding it for good or when it matters. 010
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026No no; I get you (and worded it like the ring was pulling levers lmao, was at char limit). But I think a difference between the MCU and DCU so far might be “w/ great power / great responsibility” vs “how do we wield (/refuse) power without losing ourselves on the way” 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Maybe it’s my lapsed Catholicism echoing through me, instead of a more Protestant approach to power and achievement? 🥲 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hmmm, I see what you mean, but. I think I read it as less about the ring exerting either a test or a cost to wielding its power per se, & more about the importance of John *choosing* it, for the right reasons, & without being forced, or agreeing due to bitter resignation, or to satisfy others. 210
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(I mean the watch, and that hurt people hurt people - but this is a show about ending those cycles. I don’t mean things I clearly did not mean. Just inb4 someone takes this and runs) 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It’s an uncomfortable & confronting version, not the one he would have chosen, but there’s a lesson here, too. It’s not about getting the most comfortable version of accountability. Also, that engaging *despite* defensiveness, discomfort, & even wrongdoing by survivors is how the healing happens. 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And in a sense, he was clearly trying/failing to seek that kind of closure elsewise via a safety room for billionaire weirdo business model. This is a version of the thing he came back to town for. 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The usual Pr*me or CBS version of this show would have their male lead stare deeply into the middle distance, and say like, “yeah, kid. We all lost a part of ourselves that day” as music swelled. That would be it. Kid’s college fund, the one that went to rebuild a new house, would still be spent. 020
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They are emphasising reparations via core principles - like repairing harm done to a place, people, & community, based on impact & contribution, not guilt or intent. There is meaning to the notion that reparation is community-based & systemic, but feels individual as hell for those involved. 120
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*Lanterns spoilers* I’ve seen a few ‘why did John give her money’ takes on the timelines and Guys, it’s a reparations narrative. John (unintentionally, but meaningfully) contributed to levelling a town / killing people. The main culprit served time, came back; John left w/o repair, & then thrived. 220
Reposted by Cris van EijkDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026These are the 20th and 21st paragraphs of a story titled "Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w... 99633
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve been wondering if it’s just user error or something else, but the digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org domain in general hasn’t worked for me for about 8 months now. 000
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026>_> not me becoming the UN historical gag jukebox to avoid writing this chapter- 000
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Aw, not *again*....! At least this one is actually digitised, at search.archives.un.org/s-0472-0002-...search.archives.un.orgRedirecting… 100
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Okay you know what, just because I appreciate your work, here's the moment a Missouri-based Methodist priest decided the UNHQ's onsite dive bar was altogether too sinful. "'Soberly' yours," indeed. We only drink *checks notes* uh.... orange juice? 100
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“How did *you* spend the ‘60s?” “Translating jargon about milk production rates by continent into Russian. Why, what about you?” 111
Reposted by Cris van EijkCris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I bought my rhizomatic, antihierarchical, deeply interrelational go-to-work machine from the richest man alive, wait why are you laughing no stop laughing hold on- 2152
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I bought my rhizomatic, antihierarchical, deeply interrelational go-to-work machine from the richest man alive, wait why are you laughing no stop laughing hold on- 2152
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminds me of the time the UN Secretariat invited the cast of Hair for Staff Day in 1970. Very different groups, on a level I doubt any mortal interpreter could fully bridge. 111
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026.... out of literally ALL THE THINGS- bsky.app/profile/eliv... 100
Reposted by Cris van EijkCris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's perhaps *not* a coincidence that maybe the EU's most protective & far-reaching consumer rights protection regime *also* happens to be the system hundreds of EU legislators rely on to get to/from work. >_> 173
Reposted by Cris van EijkAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.” 542082583
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is a crucial gap between proper EIAs (including public data release, public participation, & peer review) vs US space licensing regimes, where the govt accepts SpaceX's proprietary, processed, opaque data, then nods sagely & reaches for the APPROVED stamp. 010
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There's a reason traffic lights don't use a tiered subscription model where only the RedLight+ subscribers can see *all* the other cars on the road. Except, in this analogy, the cars drive at ~27,000km/h, and most are coming at you from angles approaching 180°. And you drive via dial-up trailcam. 151
Reposted by Cris van EijkJerry Threet @jerrythreet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026PUBLISHING classified information is certainly NOT illegal. It is illegal for the government employee to share classified information with the media. Those are TWO VERY DIFFERENT things. 37516
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Engines all fail at once? Bits of the plane fall off? Even some airport strikes? Not necessarily 'extraordinary' circumstances. EU: Good news! Your musical instruments may be better protected by EU law than actual US consumers are at home. Was that what y'all meant by 'sax-based rights', or?? 000
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There is, incidentally, no ideal way to establish this point without sounding something like "I know you are, at this second, managing several dozen/hundred people all delayed at once. But thing is, *I'm* a special special boy whose trip ends in Dublin, and according to my *special* rights...." 010
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Exactly - esp because, per CJEU caselaw now codified into regs, that regime applies to trips to/from the EU (~/UK), *including* to any legs of that trip that start/end in third countries. The average US domestic gate personnel is probably *not* expecting EU law to shape their workday like that. 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's perhaps *not* a coincidence that maybe the EU's most protective & far-reaching consumer rights protection regime *also* happens to be the system hundreds of EU legislators rely on to get to/from work. >_> 173
Reposted by Cris van EijkAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year 20449135
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not legal advice, etc, but just in case the UK-specific site doesn't include the EU's recent clarifying updates from summer 2026. Though medical emergencies are 'extraordinary circumstances', airlines are still obliged to provide care, food, info, etc: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... 161
Reposted by Cris van Eijksarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ok i'm done being polite. do not mention these fucking hot springs to me again. i do not have fresh socks or a fucking toothpaste, i am not getting in the goddamn hot springs in this state 17311547
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026[Instance 1 of 2 was a flight from SFO to the EU, which for most of us was leg 2 of a trip from Melbourne. We'd stopped in Dulles after engine issues, which all became very relevant at the 4hr mark, since the owed compensation broadly scales with the total distance travelled.] 020
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That legal regime relies in practice on a very tired law nerd approaching a US gate staffer - who should have clocked out hours ago, & who caused none of the problems they're being underpaid to solve - with the words "I see we're now at 3hrs45mins delay. So, um, there's a court in Luxembourg..." 140
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have, on two separate occasions, unexpectedly spent Too Many hours delayed at Dulles Airport, after 10PM, & en route to the EU. I have, both times, found myself giving impromptu popup seminars on EU passenger rights protections to the various people huddled around the only working outlets. 240
Reposted by Cris van EijkMark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Netherlands says it has requested the European Commission to prepare to use the Blocking Statute to protect the #ICC 👇 www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/m...volkskrant.nlMinister Berendsen bereid laatste redmiddel in te zetten om Internationaal Strafhof te beschermen tegen VSMinister van Buitenlandse Zaken Tom Berendsen probeert rond de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in New York de steun voor het Internationaal Strafhof overeind te houden, ondanks dreigement... 33819
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey, if there's one thing I hear about New York City, it's the difficulty of finding things!! Especially things for everyday working life or office professonals. Someone should really look into that!! 110
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A moment of silence for the staff at the nearest Staples, or wherever else the Mission goes for all their undersized office paraphernalia needs. 130
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026.... Bruh. Or, I s'pose, 'Hwæt'. (Looking forward already to Maria Dahvana Headley's scathing review in the LRB...) 170
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Also: there were whole Channel Islands under occupation, which would have the very same non-right to sue for whateverthehell the supposed claim is here according to their weird weird brains. Bonus: they can keep my country's name out of their racist mouths. 010
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oops!! Looks like they forgot who the opposition was in WWII!! ah well. I'm sure that's not foreshadowing their wider politics. 110
Reposted by Cris van EijkSergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything must be ready to activate the EU Blocking Statute to shield the ICC from US sanctions targeting it as an institution. The European Commission and all EU member states that considered this measure premature or too radical must now realise that it can no longer be postponed. 096
Reposted by Cris van EijkRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 341127524654