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Gert-Jan Bartelds

@gertjanbartelds.nl
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book freak. life-long learner. critical voice. ex-astrophysicist. remembers boulderdash. guitar and djembe. test all the things. SWeng. Dem’ter & Türkiye. Dutch.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 21h
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit
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Croohur @ballaug.bsky.social · 22h
Doesnt say "no drunks". Wonder why.
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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very stable super intelligence.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How special is it for #StandingStoneSunday to be utterly alone on a Sunday morning at the stunning World Heritage monument of West Kennett long barrow 🥰 If you haven't been, walk with me into this special Neolithic burial chamber, conserved & reconstructed in the 1950s... 📷 My own
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“What should I do if I need my motherland, but she doesn’t need me?” Superheroes, special operations and “shaping the mindset of children.” An extended edition of #ReadingRussia
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Superheroes, "special operations" and “shaping the mindset of Russian children.”
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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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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bob Walnut @bobwalnut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
I love this @xkcd.com comic. So accurate.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Famous authors asking you out
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Hans Laroes @hanslaroes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ik neem aan dat ze Lenny Kuhr vragen
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 22/09/2026
Europeans never believe me when I tell them this is the state the US is in right now, but here it is. 59% of these Democrats polled are so fearful of what's coming that they would support a military coup to safeguard the constitution.
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Roel Geeraedts @roel.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Dit is niet haar echtgenoot.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵
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Gert-Jan Bartelds @gertjanbartelds.nl · 20/09/2026
Making this
A pan on the stove, covered with a glass lid, containing Turkish fırıklı sebzeli. Roasted zucchini and roasted bell pepper clearly visible
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Gert-Jan Bartelds @gertjanbartelds.nl · 19/09/2026
@dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am happy Canada wants to be closer to the EU. But I find it also so funny that the whole world is commenting on something that has no definition whatsoever. I guess politics can't always be a serious thing.
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★ govert schilling @govertschilling.nl · 17/09/2026
supergaaf nieuws: nos.nl/artikel/2631...
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Nieuwe grote krater op de maan ontdekt: 'Gebeurt misschien eens in de eeuw'
Er moet een asteroïde ter grootte van een gebouw van drie verdiepingen zijn ingeslagen.
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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The drifter... Playful dolphin pops up next to my kayak and keeps me company for a while as I was kayaking over a deep water channel in Tampa Bay. #nature #animals #wildlife #awesome #kayaking #florida
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova? arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
Identity-fluid particles may carry some energy out, leading to direct collapse.
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stel, een klimaatactivist steekt vannacht de boerderij van deze gast in de fik. "Is dat goed te praten? Nee. Maar dat het gebeurt is logisch." Hier hebben we dus een rechtsstaat voor: geen eigen rechter spelen! Die rechtsstaat moet nu ingezet om het agrarisch terrorisme de grond in te stampen.
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emma 🍞 @bnuuy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
we taught this fruit fly to understand the median react native codebase and it hanged itself
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sources close to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner say that, privately, the couple does not support bestiality.
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Gert-Jan Bartelds @gertjanbartelds.nl · 15/09/2026
Hooiligans!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Important read for anyone - all of us - interested in the survival of American democracy.
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Nutwerk🔻 @nutwerk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ophef | Jip van den Toorn #Volkskrant
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Roel Geeraedts @roel.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Elk politiek interview hoort zo gedaan te worden. Dan kijk ik wel.
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Johan Klein Haneveld @johankh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Om dit filmpje van Alasdair Beckett-King moest ik heel hard lachen: Highbrow Cup Shows www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WQ... #Geekalert
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Highbrow Cop Shows
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Johan Klein Haneveld @johankh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nog een geweldig nummer van Luke Nickle 'hey ai come train on this song' - de commentaren eronder zijn ook hilarisch ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvL...
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hey ai come train on this song
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Gert-Jan Bartelds @gertjanbartelds.nl · 10/09/2026
“Prompt antwoorden” betekende in mijn tijd iets heeeeeel anders.
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was flying an F-15 over western Connecticut when I spotted an airliner behaving strangely. Decided not to shoot it down. Will regret that to my dying day. But it was a long time ago, I may be misremembering
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Huub Eggen @huubeggen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dat heb ik ze gevraagd. Het antwoord: 1. de redactie is onafhankelijk; 2. iedereen is welkom; 3. de kijker wil het (vertaald: de kijkcijfers zijn leidend). Conclusie: niet meer kijken.
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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#OTD 🔟 years ago: 2 September 2016, Rosetta's lander Philae was found on the surface of Comet 67P. The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera took these images as the orbiter came within 2.7 km of the surface, clearly showing the main body of the lander and two of its three legs 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Rosetta’s lander Philae has been identified in OSIRIS narrow-angle camera images taken on 2 September 2016 from a distance of 2.7 km. The image scale is about 5 cm/pixel.

Philae’s 1 m-wide body and two of its three legs can be seen extended from the body. The images also provide proof of Philae’s orientation.

A Rosetta Navigation Camera image taken on 16 April 2015 is shown at top right for context, with the approximate location of Philae on the small lobe of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko marked.
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douglasglatt.bsky.social @douglasglatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So if I understand this, it's roughly the same number of people who would use a lighter to see what's in a gas can?
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Food so good you grow an extra finger!
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Gert-Jan Bartelds @gertjanbartelds.nl · 31/08/2026
Er is hier in Turkije een volkszanger, hij komt uit een vissersdorp en hij heet Jan Simit.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Where does this madness with the renaming on Google end? Can Trump call the Atlantic Ocean the “Trump Ocean” and they’ll fall in line? Can he name Minnesota “Big Fat Loserville” and it goes on the map the next day?
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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the early morning hours of August 26, 2026. a large and incredible fast debris flow #flooded the narrow valleys in the border area of #Tibet/Nepal. There was much speculation at first what happened, with many sites eager to report & getting details wrong ...
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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Het kan geen kwaad nog eens uit te leggen waarom het misleidend is Herodotos van Halikarnassos aan te duiden als historicus. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/08/29/h...
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Herodotos was geen historicus - Mainzer Beobachter
Herodotos was geen historicus in de normale zin van het woord, maar blijft een geweldige auteur.
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Gert-Jan Bartelds @gertjanbartelds.nl · 28/08/2026
@frontaalnaakt.nl
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
Looking into bookstore from
The street at night
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