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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 10h
Everyone go and wish this sweet boy a very happy World Animal Day, please and thank you
George, my black cocker spaniel, looking up at the treat I’m holding in my left hand to celebrate World Animal Day
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Artisanal sugar bread with pieces of girls from Arnhem” Why are the Dutch so obsessed with eating people?!
A photo advertising traditional sugar bread with pieces of a biscuit called “Arnhemse meisjes” (girls from Arnhem) mixed inA map zoned in on Europe and parts of MENA with most countries green (haven’t eaten their PM), Switzerland yellow (never had PM), Greenland grey for no data, and the Netherlands red for “have eaten their PM”
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Making sure the GAINZ don’t think they’re on holiday too
Me sat between preacher curl sets taking a photo in the gym mirrorMe flexing in front of the gym mirror between sets Me flexing in the mirror post workout
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Me, a Millennial Christian Socialist, to Germany: for the love of all that is holy, do as the Boomers and vote CDU!
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The (East German) youth are NOT okay.
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Ines Kostić #teamplanet 🌍 @ineskostic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ons zwemwater is zo vervuild door industrie en landbouwgif, dat op lange termijn onze gezondheid wordt bedreigd👇🏽 In zomers die steeds heter worden door de klimaatcrisis, moeten onze kinderen veilig een verkoelende duik kunnen nemen. VVD -minister beschermt nu de vervuilers ipv kinderen. Debat
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Nederlandse zwemwateren vervuild met chemische stoffen
De kwaliteit van het Nederlande zwemwater verbetert nauwelijks. Naast bacteriën en blauwalgen zijn er in veel zwemwateren ook chemische stoffen aangetroffen die boven de norm uitkomen.
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Jeff (Liberal Party - NJ) @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Imagine showing this to Martin Luther and explaining this is downstream of him, that mf would tear down those Theses so fast your head would spin
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Me thinking they’d at least spared us in Europe/non-English-language users… until I clicked on it 🙂 When will this insanity end?
Screenshot of Google Maps showing “Lake Ontario”Screenshot of Google Maps with the lake selected saying “Lake Ontario (Lake America): Kleinste van de vijf Grote Meren/Smallest of the five Great Lakes”
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The EU is cursed with these percentages 😭
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Jesse Klaver @jesseklaver.progressiefnederland.nl · 28/08/2026
Het kabinet veroorzaakt een crisis omdat het geen eerlijke bijdrage wil vragen van allerrijksten. Ondertussen wil het snoeihard bezuinigen op gewone mensen. Oneerlijk, onbegrijpelijk en volkomen onverantwoord. Daarom zeg ik: kabinet, doorbreek deze impasse. Ons land snakt naar vooruitgang.
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A couple of years ago, I used to work for a local refugee centre (until the municipality stopped funding us…). Today, I bumped into one of my former “clients,” & he told me all about how things are going: his language skills are coming along, he has a job, & his kids are fully integrated at school.
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Crunching the numbers, this would result in the only non-minority coalition being a rainbow coalition of Labour/LibDem/Tory (considering even if the Tories were ok with it, they couldn’t form a majority) if they could stomach it. If it were to fail though… I fear what the next election would bring.
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Are you mad at me? @bradys.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mark Carney should rename Lake Michigan to "Lake Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files More than 38,000 Times"
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looks like the rest of today will just be me heartbrokenly drinking to Dolly’s music 😢😭
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Charon but make him a modern, smiling Anglo-Dutchman
A photo of me smiling (in a striped green and white polo and navy shorts) on a pontoon turning the wheel to get us from one side to the other
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Still buzzing that I got to see the eclipse the other day: what a beautiful display of the awesomeness of creation
A selfie of me in a green polo wearing my eclipse glasses looking awed at what I can seeA photo of the eclipse as taken through my glassesA photo of me smiling while watching the eclipse A photo of my incredibly long shadow cast by the eclipse
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A reminder that though this is pretty unprecedented for Americans, because of Americans, the Dutch average for gasoline is ~$10.50 a gallon… thanks, guys 🥲
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Got up for an early run (8 km/5 miles) and am ready for the long train ride down to Limburg! Looking forward to a nice Saturday out!
A selfie of me in a salmon-coloured top holding a coffee cup at the station
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Had a lovely evening enjoying a candlelight concert of Hans Zimmer music performed by a very talented strings trio
A photo of the inside of Sint Andreaskerk in Zevenaar, with every surface illuminated by electric candles, where the concert by Lumos Experience was held
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ran 1/3 of a marathon in 3 municipalities to celebrate my 33rd birthday! 🥳🥳🥳
A selfie of me with a grey running top and red, white and blue headband in front of a sign saying “Westervoort”A selfie of me with a grey running top and red, white and blue headband in front of a sign saying “Arnhem”A selfie of me with a grey running top and red, white and blue headband in front of a sign saying “Duiven”A screenshot of my birthday run (14.25km at a pace of 4:54/km, taking 1h09 in total)
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A productive final day of being 32: pre-birthday haircut had and cake baked and decorated!
Me taking a selfie in an orange polo shirt, having just had a hair cut A photo of my birthday cake, which I made: a strawberry, lime and G&T cake with white chocolate ganache, strawberry-flavoured Swiss meringue buttercream, and a lime and G&T-flavoured jelly for the pond effect (with fondant fish)
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yes, this worked so well and definitely didn’t open the floodgates of extremism, fascism and populism in the Netherlands at all
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Every inch formal dress for the new prime minister on this occasion, suit and tie… and buttoned as well.” No shit, Chris Mason, he just met with The King
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Notice how the leaders of the other two host nations didn’t try to make it about themselves and knew their place? Notice how the head of state of the winning nation didn’t try to make it about himself? Notice how… this didn’t surprise us at all though? Yeah…
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Infantino looks so sad 😂😂😂
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The booing 😙👌
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is Argentina all over: arrogant, angry, and aggressive. I’ve never been so happy for a team to lose. Good riddance to them - they deserved to go out in such a humiliating and pathetic way.
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And just a reminder that today’s terrible match for Argentina also means Messi doesn’t get the Golden Boot… DOUBLE JUSTICE!!!
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
JUSTICE!!! 🇪🇸
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What a touching message of global love and unity between all nations in a country that killed a Somali ref’s dream, assaulted a member of the Egyptian team, humiliated a South American team by searching their luggage, and maltreated the Iranians by refusing to allow them to stay.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Do Americans actually like sport? They seem to feel there must always be something else going on to keep you engaged. Most fans just want the game to restart. We’re capable of enjoying the break.
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Today in this household, we stand for the Spanish national anthem and the Spanish national anthem ONLY 😤🇪🇸
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
THIRD PLACE!!! This is our best performance and finish since 1966! I am so unbelievably proud of these chaps, they’ve done England so very proud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Is this how Henry V felt during the Battle of Agincourt?
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Declan Rice, you beauty! What an excellent, effortless goal!
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Something pretty much every England supporter seems to be expressing is three things: 1) Proud of the team - they got us through to the semis!!! 2) Disappointed in their performance/the decisions made post-goal yesterday 3) Fuming that we lost to a dodgy team with some of the nastiest supporters
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What the absolute fuck was that half hour after England’s goal? It’s like they forgot they were actually allowed to have the ball and score…
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is such a dirty match already. I expected a tense one, but this is just nasty…
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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Throw your non-English friends into disarray today by reminding them that the Falklands War was an anti-fascist conflict and an explicit defence of the right to self-determination.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026
I never thought I’d feel protective of the England team but this visceral anti-England BSky discourse is pissing me off. Somehow England’s ethnically diverse team represents the arrogance of the Brexit right but France’s ethnically diverse team represents progressive values? Come on
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Me this morning… being an England supporter is both a blessing and a curse
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It must be part of England players’ contracts that they have to give supporters mini heart attacks every game or something… But my goodness, that was a good match to watch, and it was nice to see the Norwegians and English both enjoying themselves (and even getting along with each other well)!
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Well I suppose Balogun’s match ban had to go somewhere to keep it all in balance…
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 08/07/2026
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves confirms the Clacton by-election will go ahead "It is a farce and a desperate distraction. But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him"
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Japanese are going to be very confused when they wake up tomorrow emperor-less and with mosques on every street corner
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
British democracy is alive and well 😌
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That feels incredibly undeserved by Argentina… not to mention the ref’s more than questionable decisions. Great play by Egypt!
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“After nonsensically rambling for the past 10 minutes, I’m now going to tell you that I’m resigning as an MP of the constituency where I never am just to launch an unnecessary and costly by-election to hopefully be re-elected for my own personal glory & continue not to serve the people of Clacton.”
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Rob @dutchengelsman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s honestly been very frustrating and pretty sad seeing so many Americans of all flavours defending FIFA’s decision. This is not normal, government interference is explicitly banned, and it’s especially problematic considering Infantino and Trump’s pally relationship.
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