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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Perhaps a talented taxidermist has been working on him.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's not really bribing if you don't intend to pay up.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It looks like we are all cosplaying normality.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Schlesinger's accompanying essay explains why Grant and Harding were considered failures.

Part of Schlesingers accompanying essay. It explains Grant and Harding were considered failures because their administrations were the only ones riddled with corruption.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This was the original Trump used for his version. It dates from 1948, so that's why presidents after FDR are missing. They didn't need the category 'Bottom of the Barrel' back then.

Historians Rate US Presidents (Life Magazine. US Presidents until FDR are rated as Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average and Failures.

This rating dates from 1948 and was an initiative of Alfred Schlesinger. This was the sourc

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The UK should just rename them to The Donald J Trump and Falkland Islands and everything will be well.

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Maarten Rabaey @maartenrabaey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Opinie Kiev heeft een ‘Europees schild’ nodig, anders gaan honderden inwoners van de stad de oorlogswinter niet overleven www.demorgen.be/meningen/kie...

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Kiev heeft een ‘Europees schild’ nodig, anders gaan honderden inwoners van de stad de winter niet overleven

Maarten Rabaey is journalist. Hij vraagt dat de Europese Unie meer daadkracht toont om Oekraïne te helpen.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lijkt me geen goed idee om die vragenlijst in te vullen. Dan speel je Trumps spelletje mee. Beter om in Europees verband af te spreken de lijst te negeren. Of genereer met AI een lijst met 20.000 tegenvragen om nadere toelichting en stuur die terug. (Ieder land natuurlijk 20.000 andere vragen.)

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Well, there is still the chain of command, so he can always blame his underlings. He blamed Hegseth for the ammunition shortages he caused himself and Hegseth in turn blamed his underling.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The point where you should stop blaming your predecessor is the point where you can start blaming your successor.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listened to a remarkable survival story today, about François Raynal and Captain Musgrave. What to Carry, What to Burn: The Wreck of the Grafton. Available in any podcast app. youtu.be/uJnql16ZssQ?...

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Ep 3: The Wreck of the Grafton

YouTube video by What to Carry, What to Burn

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It took me five minutes searching for a tea towel that had mysteriously disappeared in my kitchen, before I found it draped over my shoulder.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you are interested in history, you could do much worse than listen to The Fall of Civilizations podcast. A new episode just dropped, clocking at 4:30 hours. Fall of Civilizations and Hardcore History are the best long-form history podcasts around.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As the Department of Defense was renamed to the Department of War, shouldn't the Department of Justice be renamed to the Department of Lawfare?

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Baader-Meinhof strikes again: I had never heard of the city of Nome, Alaska, but this afternoon I heard a podcast about Ada Blackjack (from Nome Alaska), and this evening on Reddit I came across the story of Balto the dog (who saved the city of Nome, Alaska).

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Apparently it's Trump's and Rubio's ambition for the US to become a rogue state. Time for the middle powers (Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan) to speak up for international justice.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I think I am entitled to the Witkoff-Kushner award today, for restoring domestic peace. I only hope my work will last longer than theirs.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Niemand was destijds verbaasd dat hij was overleden, maar iedereen was verbaasd over de manier waarop.

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A happy 4th of July to my American friends! Hopefully next year things will be better.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

And how will history look at those who voted him into power?

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If Brexit isn't working out for you, it just means you haven't been xenophobic enough.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's terrible. The North Sea has been closed for years now. When you go to the beach nowadays there is just a wall. You can't even see the sea. Before they closed the North Sea you could see England if the weather was good. Now if you are lucky you can still faintly hear the sea.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Haar boek over Alexander von Humboldt was inderdaad geweldig. Moet ook haar boek over de Duitse romantici nog lezen.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It is all Joe Biden's fault. He peed in the Reflection Pool first thing in the morning every day of his presidency. And after Trump's magnificent paint job he came back and did it again out of spite.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Anthropic knows the location of their users, but not their nationality, so they pulled it for everyone.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The US government wanted to block Mythos and Fable for non-US citizens, citing national security concerns. Perhaps they just want to give US companies a comparative advantage? I am not opposed to government regulation of AI, but what if the government itself is a criminal organisation?

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wat Duk schrijft is feitelijk onjuist: 1) Iedereen heeft twee vaderlanden: het zijne en Frankrijk 2) Behalve Nederland en Frankrijk zijn er nog 25 andere EU landen waar we naar toe kunnen en die onze Europese cultuur en identiteit delen.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Is this a real Trump tweet or is it fake? I don't know. I don't care anymore. Everything about him is fake. Even his real tweets.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Ik had me bij deze titel iets anders voorgesteld.

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Gingerbread Coffee 🇪🇺 @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It would have been a big gaffe if he had called him Prime Minister Schoof. Rutte is not far off.

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