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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️

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Schrijver / blogger / copywriter. — “Skeptical and critical, remember? Be strong, even if it breaks your heart.” linktr.ee/daan.kusen

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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 12h
“A very solid RESIDENT EVIL movie…” My ★★★½ star review of Resident Evil (2026) on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/gyc2Gr #FilmSky
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A ★★★½ review of Resident Evil (2026)
Great tension throughout, and a really nice mix of practical effects and CGI. When this gets nasty, it gets nasty. After WEAPONS, Zach Cregger once again proves he knows exactly how to build tension a...
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🐻 Let them. They deserve it.
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wie gaat er eigenlijk nog weer op #hyves zitten? Nostalgie is leuk, but it's gone, mate. Het wordt nooit meer zoals vroeger. Move on.
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Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Er zijn twee manieren om empathie te kweken: door ontmoeting en door te lezen. Beide zaken staan zwaar onder druk in een maatschappij waar mensen scrollend op een eiland zitten. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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Door de voortdurende verdomming via de beeldschermen hebben mensen geen empathie meer
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The Daily Titanic @titanic1912.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On 27 September 1854 the liner SS Arctic collided with the SS Vestra in fog off Newfoundland. While the Vestra survived, the Arctic foundered, with a mad scrum for the 6 lifeboats by the men. Out of about 400 people aboard, only 61 crew and 24 male passengers survive. No women or child survived.
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Roos Vonk @roosvonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lubach afgelopen week over de onnavolgbare move van NPO om AVRO-TROS in hun hemd te zetten, eenheid NPO te doorbreken (tegen meerderheid vd Nederlanders in), en "verbinding te zoeken over de as van de muziek"🤮. "En de as van Gaza" voegde Lubach toe🎯. youtu.be/OtQhfyvzPSk?...
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Wie gaat Nederland vertegenwoordigen op het Songfestival in 2027? | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's that time of the week again! #LetterboxdFriday! We have an eventful #LastFourWatched! From history reimagined to an encore of one of the biggest superhero movies. Avengers: Endgame Encore (Rewatch 4,5 stars) Juste Une Illusion (4 stars) By All Means (3 stars) La Bataille De Gaulle) #FilmSky
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“And I think their landlord might actually have my favourite character development in the film…” My ★★★★ star review of Juste Une Illusion on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/gt6L3d #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of Just an Illusion (2026)
JUSTE UNE ILLUSION is such a lovely film. Set in 1985, it follows thirteen-year-old Vincent Dayan (a wonderful Simon Boublil), caught somewhere between childhood and adolescence. His parents are const...
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 23/09/2026
An early version of ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ featured Peter Parker introducing himself to MJ as Ben Reilly. “We had him putting on his British accent, so it would have been Tom’s British accent, but Tom from Queens pretending he’s British.” (Source: www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-d...)
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“There is clearly an intentionality to the abruptness…” My ★★★ star review of By Any Means on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/grl0m5 #FilmSky
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A ★★★ review of By Any Means (2026)
BY ANY MEANS is one of those films that works largely because you want to keep watching the people at the centre of it. Not necessarily because the story is doing anything revolutionary, but because M...
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#NowWatching: By Any Means (2026) #FilmSky
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Johan van Heerde @johanvanheerde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
- Kinderen die niet naar de wc durven - Veel te weinig sanitair voor 340 bewoners waarvan 172 minderjarig - Nauwelijks (speel)voorzieningen - Met hete pannen trappen op en af - Kinderen die met een vreemde volwassene de slaapkamer moeten delen Welkom in de noodopvang www.trouw.nl/binnenland/p...
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Poepen op een potje en spelen op een drukke weg: in deze noodopvang in Leeuwarden wonen 172 asielkinderen
Een noodopvanglocatie in Leeuwarden is ‘vreselijk’, vertellen bewoners. Toch wonen er 172 minderjarige asielzoekers. De opvang was tijdelijk bedoeld, maar zal uiteindelijk zes jaar open blijven.
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✨Libbey✨ @inthepouringrain.swifties.social · 21/09/2026
HAPPY EQUINOX BESTIES FALL IS UPON US 🍁🍂🎃🪾💨🧣
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Linus & Snoopy Play in Fall Leaves
Alt: Linus & Snoopy Play in Fall Leaves
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Kevin @scribblesscript.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once again proof that the "undecided voter" is an illiterate idiot the press should stop fucking credulously interviewing as the average voice of the people
NBC NEWS: One poll respondent – Aidan Valenzuela, a 19-year-old Texan who doesn't affiliate with either party – told NBC News that he hasn't plugge d into the election yet and is still unsure whom he'll vote for. But he said his father grew up during the Cold War and that he's wary of Democrats who describe themselves as democratic socialists.

"Any relation toward socialism or communism in general gives me the ick. It's like a buzzword that generally just makes me not want to sway in that direction," he said.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“I just wish the film would occasionally stop pointing at itself.…” My ★★★½ star review of De Gaulle: Résistance on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/gop4PB #FilmSky
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A ★★★½ review of De Gaulle: Résistance (2026)
DE GAULLE: RÉSISTANCE insists upon itself, to use the Family Guy meme. And it does. It really does. Antonin Baudry’s historical epic is grand, handsomely made and occasionally genuinely thrilling. The...
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And here we are again, a #LetterboxdFriday evening and a new #LastFourWatched! Simon (Rewatch, 5 stars) The Incomer (4 stars) F*ck De Familie (1,5 stars) Pressure (4 stars)
Simon (Rewatch, 5 stars)
The Incomer (4 stars)
F*ck De Familie (1,5 stars)
Pressure (4 stars)
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Simon could have been an unbearable caricature…” My ★★★★★ star review of Simon on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/gnItLD #FilmSky
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A ★★★★★ review of Simon (2004)
“BUURMAN!” Simon has been my favourite Dutch film ever since I first saw it in 2004. Twenty-two years later, it still is. Simon Cohen is a quintessential macho man. When he befriends the quiet gay stu...
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The Daily Titanic @titanic1912.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On September 17 2011 a gold necklace salvaged from the wrecksite and likely belonging to survivor Eleanor Widener, was stolen from an exhibition in Copenhagen; the case had not been broken into and the alarm had not activated. The necklace was valued at about $18,750. It has not been recovered.
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Weird, warm, dark, ridiculous and surprisingly moving…” My ★★★★ star review of The Incomer on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/gmNEWD #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of The Incomer (2026)
THE INCOMER is much, much funnier than I expected. I laughed out loud multiple times, which rarely happens to me, even during films that have the audacity to officially call themselves comedies. This ...
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seated for The Incomer! 🎥 #FilmSky
Movie theatre with mostly empty seats.
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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of SENTIMENTAL VALUE boxd.it/glKp0p Astute, affecting, incredibly well-acted piece merging family trauma with catharsis thru the artistic process. Bittersweet, hopeful, painfully real, screenplay is particularly empathetic to all characters. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 1311
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A ★★★★½ review of Sentimental Value (2025)
Being the product of a fucked-up family, Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE engages many core memories about how those closest to you can inflict the most damage. Whether intentionally or not, we carry...
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 16/09/2026
Centrumlinkse oppositie in Zweden nipt groter dan rechts blok
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Centrumlinkse oppositie in Zweden nipt groter dan rechts blok
Met 99 procent van de stemmen geteld, heeft de Zweedse publieke omroep de oppositie uitgeroepen tot winnaar.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
16 September 1942 | A transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy in German-occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz. After the selection, 645 of them were murdered in gas chambers. One of them was Felicie Rajter. She was 10 years old. --- Gas chambers at Auschwitz: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Black and white portrait of a young girl , wearing a dark top and a light-colored scarf tied at the neck.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
16 September 1922 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Else Bergmann, was born in Oslo. A bookkeeper’s assistance. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Black and white portrait of a woman with styled hair and a dress.
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 15/09/2026
Stukje van 1700 jaar oude Odyssee ontdekt in Utrecht
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Stukje van 1700 jaar oude Odyssee ontdekt in Utrecht
Het fragment bevat enkele regels uit boek 12 van het beroemde Griekse epos van Homerus.
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Maison Ikkoku
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Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ik heb het een tijdje aangekeken met dit stelletje, maar dit is voor mij de druppel. Een kabinet van middelmanagers die geen probleem in AI zien omdat ‘iedereen het doet’ en je het ‘toch niet tegenhoudt’, verdient niets dan de totale ondergang. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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Een kabinet van middelmanagers die geen probleem zien in AI omdat ‘iedereen het doet’, verdient niets dan de ondergang
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Anke Meijer @meijeranke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Vannacht worden de Emmy Awards uitgereikt. Ik doe alvast een (wilde) gok welke acteurs en series met de beeldjes naar huis gaan. Categorie miniseries:
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remembering Sam Neill on what would have been his 79th birthday. 🕊️ #SamNeill #JurassicPark
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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE CHRISTOPHERS boxd.it/gjP0Bd Intellectual think-piece? Cagey game of cat-and-mouse? Blistering satire of art & commerce? Reflection on legacy? A gift for movie lovers, the great Ian McKellen is given his meatiest, most complex role in decades! Scathingly funny. #filmsky 📽
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A ★★★★ review of The Christophers (2025)
Art... Commerce... Legacy... Steven Soderbergh's THE CHRISTOPHERS plays like a comedic think-piece about how we attribute "worth" to certain artistic endeavors and who exactly should be the arbiters o...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
12 September 1943 | Three boys and five girls born on this day in sector BIIe of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the family camp for Roma and Sinti) were registered in the camp. All of them perished before the end of 1943. More about the Roma in Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschw…
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“For them, June 6 isn’t history. It’s Tuesday…” My ★★★★ star review of Pressure on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/ggOf4f #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of Pressure (2026)
PRESSURE is mostly men talking in rooms. About the weather. And somehow, it’s really fucking exciting. Based on the stage play by David Haig, the film follows James Stagg (Andrew Scott), the meteorolo...
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Tim Hofman @debroervanroos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nieuwe Radio BOOS! 

 Met deze week: 
 •De rel over het als geloof verpakte hyper-individualisme van Wout Weghorst, en de stupide reacties van oa. Mona Keijzer en Don Ceder 
 •Fleur Agema zat bij Pauw en de Wit: en dat ging helemaal mis. 🎧: bit.ly/RADIOBOOS-77... 🖥️: bit.ly/RADIOBOOS-77...
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nieuwe blog online! ‘Mixtape #71 | Embers of My Inferno’ “Tien nieuwe nummers in de mixtape!” daankusen.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/m... Lezen, delen en reageren wordt gewaardeerd. #WegensSuccesGecanceld
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Mixtape #71 | Embers of My Inferno
Tien nieuwe nummers in de playlist!
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mixtape #71 | Embers of My Inferno Tien nieuwe nummers in de playlist!
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Mixtape #71 | Embers of My Inferno
Tien nieuwe nummers in de playlist!
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have seen The Lord of the Rings too many times to count. Yet, every time I see a clip from the films, or even interviews: instant fucking chills. #FilmSky #LOTR
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📷 The road between sectors BIId (men’s camp) and BIIc (transit camp for women who were to be transported to other camps) at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It connected the selection platform with gas chambers and crematoria IV and V. Photo: www.instagram.com/irishphotographer1
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#LetterboxdFriday is upon us! Here with the newest update for #LastFourWatched, is our reporter, me. Coyote Vs. Acme (4 stars) Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Rewatch, 4 stars) Sunny Dancer (Rewatch, 4 stars) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (5 stars)
Coyote Vs. Acme (4 stars)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Rewatch, 4 stars)
Sunny Dancer (Rewatch, 4 stars)
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (5 stars)
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“I really fucking enjoyed this…” My ★★★★ star review of Coyte vs. Acme on @Letterboxd: boxd.it/gaXrqB #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
I really fucking enjoyed this. Coyote vs. Acme is exactly the kind of movie that reminds me why I loved these cartoons as a kid. It’s funny, it’s explosive, completely ridiculous, and somehow, against...
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My book on Veronica Mars was just officially dubbed a "Project We Love" by the kind souls at Kickstarter! Check it out & let's knock out that first stretch goal so we can ship worldwide. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in power glorious, glorious Gloria Steinem  www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
amazing interview, incredible human being www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
YOU'VE GOT A LONESOME ROAD TO WALK AND IT AIN'T ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACK AND IT AIN'T ALONG THE BLACK TOP TAR YOU'VE WALKED A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THE REAL ROAD LIES IT'S BETWEEN YOUR EARS, IT'S BEHIND YOUR EYES THAT'S THE PATH TO PARADISE LIKEWISE THE ROAD TO RUIN!
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Daan Kusen ✍🏻 ⬜️⬛️ @daankusen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nieuwe blog online! ‘Essay | Orpheus & Eurydice - De Tragedie Van Het Bijna’ "Zolang hij niet kijkt, kan zij achter hem lopen..." Lezen, delen en reageren wordt gewaardeerd. #WegensSuccesGecanceld
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Essay | Orpheus & Eurydice: De Tragedie Van Het Bijna
Zolang hij niet kijkt, kan zij achter hem lopen...
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The Daily Titanic @titanic1912.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Over 250 Titanic and White Star artifacts to go on permanent display at the White Star Line Liverpool hotel whitestarlinehotel.co.uk/titanic-exhi...
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Titanic Exhibition at the White Star Line Hotel
Experience the story of the Titanic where it all began: at the former headquarters of the White Star Line in Liverpool.
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