H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ever seen a pregnant tomato about to give birth to seedlings? No, me neither, but this is what it looks like. The question now is whether to plant it and give the babies a fighting chance or not. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“…Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer, studying workplace mortality, concluded that harmful management practices are “literally killing people”. We banned smoking in offices, so why do we still tolerate this?” www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...theguardian.comToxic bosses: why do companies protect managers who make working life hell?Bullying, manipulation and intimidation can destroy lives, yet abusive authoritarians continue to rise to the top. How do they get away with it – and can they be brought to heel? 000
Reposted by H. KeyserChris Gee / ◣ ◢ \ @chrisgeeuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Interesting read with the Strait of Hormuz still closed and the previous reliability of availability challenged. How farmers in Zimbabwe, India, Brazil, and Poland are reducing their dependence on fossil fuel chemical fertilizers. futureoffood.org/how-transiti...futureoffood.orgEssay: How transitioning away from chemical fertilizers pays off for farmersAs fertilizer prices surge amid conflict in the Middle East, farmers share how agroecological practices reduce dependence on chemical inputs. 19456
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“Cities are, literally, monuments to extraction and emissions, the focused expressions of mining, burning, melting, sintering and moulding the mineral contents of the Earth.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.comThe flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the futureThe long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber? 010
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My neighbor is audibly having sex with his wife, banging away with great force, but it seems theirs is not geared towards her satisfaction. I don’t know if he’s aware how to make a woman happy. Can I gift them a book on erotica provided it’s Islamic? 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There’s a lot of stuff happening that will dull your spirits, but this article can only brighten your day. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itselfFarmer Derek Sayer let a boggy field run wild and just one annual hay-cut has led to remarkable biodiversity 010
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I live in a socialist democracy with a health care system that still functions. I needed a small operation at the hospital that cost me nothing. The hospital was modern, bright, clean, calm, and close to public transport. Staff was friendly, cheerful and not suffering overwhelm. The food was good. 110
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Praise be the Internet Archive for making the Knitting Reference Library available as open access files. archive.org/details/knit...archive.orgKnitting Reference LibraryThe Knitting Reference Library (KRL) includes the published works collected by Montse Stanley, Richard Rutt and Jane Waller. These comprise books, exhibition catalogues, knitting patterns, journals an... 001
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Dutch dentists have told me on two separate occasions that it was customary in some remote farming communities for a bride to have all her teeth pulled before the wedding, and that this was considered part of the dowry. Apparently, it still happens, although rarely. I need to know more. 100
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I need new socks this winter, so I thought I should learn how to make them myself. The concept of knitting tubular structures is simple enough; it’s holding this devil’s nest of mikado sticks that is just … 🤯😤🥵🤔… should I say grueling? 110
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Oil: Keep it in the ground. And bury the American assholes who want to extort permission to drill in Greenland’s conservation wetlands alongside their vile ambitions. These men are a scourge upon the earth and their names ought to be forgotten forever. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comGreenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drillIsland’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Hear, hear! “Green spaces are not sustainable unless you have someone looking after them,” says Little. “Yet in the public realm, the investment is often about infrastructure – overly designed landscapes and extravagant architecture – and rarely the ongoing care.”theguardian.com‘If a space is cared for, everything improves’: Meet four gardeners transforming their urban communitiesFrom improving biodiversity to managing antisocial behaviour, the benefits of greening towns and cities are massive. These names are leading the charge… 100
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 29/07/2026When can we talk about the wildfires outside the Northern Hemisphere? ms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 25/07/2026In Europe we can vote which new currency design we like best. We are so lucky to have some great and colorful candidates among them. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...surveys.ecb.europa.euSurvey | surveys.ecb.europa.euI’ve just had my say on our future banknotes. Have your say too! 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This pic is not the best, but it’s the Southern Darter in it that makes it ‘hot’. This dragonfly is quite rare in the Netherlands, although its numbers are increasing. However, you rarely see it in the middle of the city. The gardens we tend there offer nature a chance to show how resilient it is. 💚 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The more mankind disconnects from nature and from non-human life on the planet, the more we lose our common sense. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 13/07/2026A bumblebee sleeping on the flowering head of Wild Teasel in my street garden. Rewilding the city! 020
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Would like to know where I can submit my dust bunny for the contest of largest in its category (Dutch Giant)? 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 09/07/2026A meadow brown paid our garden a visit this afternoon, enjoying some pink yarrow. 010
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Someone brought what looks like a Voigtlander Avus large format plate camera to the World Cup game! 100
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Finished: first sustainability sweater. Made from recycled and leftover yarn. Designed and handmade by me. I challenged myself to knit a new sweater from an old one that didn’t fit well enough, so that hard to reuse mixed yarn didn’t end up in the trash. Will definitely wear it this winter. 130
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Homemade kwark (soft cheese) with homemade orange jam and crunchy muesli. Delicious! Soft cheese is surprisingly easy to make if you start with good ingredients and is ready in 12 hours. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I stopped during a walk in the forest last year and said to the present company: why, it’s so quiet, where are the birds? — oh, they are sleeping right now, a woman replied. I looked rather incredulous. How could she forget what it sounded like? This is how the baseline shifts.theguardian.comListen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 yearsGuardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It would be funny if it wouldn’t be so mindbogglingly insane and also sad. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Does this mean I should consider going in politics? And where are you on the spectrum? britmonkey.com/2020s-politi... 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Onze steden moeten en kunnen groener! nos.nl/l/2620443nos.nlHitteverschillen in de stad van soms bijna 20 graden: 'Veel meer groen nodig'Binnen steden is het verschil tussen warm en heet enorm groot. Dat is in Eindhoven direct voelbaar. Wethouder Rik Thijs wil de komende vier jaar nog veel meer groen zien in de wijken. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My go to hack for sleeping during warm nights when you have no AC, is to get a damp towel and drape it over your body. Instant relief! 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 22/06/2026 “We mostly think of nature as biodiversity, a concept, but this made it so personal, so emotional and so horrific,” she said. “It was hard to feel how we’ve made the world a really hostile place for all these individual creatures. When that’s you, you really feel it. It was quite galvanising.”theguardian.com‘Emotional and horrific’: volunteers ‘live’ as Somerset animals to study wildlife risksPeople trained to experience world as otters, salmon and other River Tone creatures for pioneering research 030
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It seems that the older I get, the less I understand British politics and the principles it operates on. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 20/06/2026We’re having thunderstorms throughout the night and my dog won’t rest until we’re both sitting in a windowless room in the house away from the lightning. It’s not enough for her to hide away, she panics when I am not also in the safest spot: our toilet. Now waiting for the sky to fall on our heads. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Really great article by Joris Doddens on discovering the oldest known painting of the States General in the Netherlands. He identified all sitters and the room, but —alas— not a single word about the dog, who certainly belonged to one of the attendants. An affront! emlc-journal.org/article/view... 100
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Yeehaw! said the common carder bee as it prepared a raid on the California poppy. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Very important achievement lol, but what Norwegian TV shows are there to watch for free apart from the never ending train rides? 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I grew a local eatery for insects in the middle of the city and it’s getting loads of great reviews from the customers. The humans are, by and large, a little confused about the chaos. 010
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 26/05/2026When it’s hot, Mallepoes loves hanging out with her besties, living the dream as a yard dog. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 17/05/2026How was your Sunday? We sowed an organic native seed mix in a local park. The city paid for the seeds, we provided the elbow grease, and the skies gave us plenty rain. Now we wait for nature to prove her plenty. 000
Reposted by H. KeyserEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16/05/2026"Birds are our place-makers, memory-keepers, calendars and clocks. They stitch the world's parts together: earth to sky, river to woodland, mountain to sea, country to country, hemisphere to hemisphere. Without them, things start to fall apart." Writing doesn’t get much better than this book. 1017444
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Nature close to home: 🐜 dragging a dying 🐝, probably to their nest to feed it to their larvae. Ants have specialized gravedigger divisions for this type of labor. 000
Reposted by H. KeyserAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Ihor "Omelianovych" Shkilnyi, Ukrainian volunteer and founder of the ZAMPOTEKH Charity Foundation, showed a Russian "international" Shahed drone from the inside - revealing numerous foreign-made components from Switzerland, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and China. 📹: omelyanovi4 12378156
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This is what just 1 year of urban gardening has achieved in terms of creating and supporting biodiversity. Screenshots are from OBS Identify. Last week, I spotted four swallows hunting over the crossing. Must mean there are enough insects. And I discovered a nest of baby spiders who also hunt 🦟. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 03/05/2026While cleaning up a street garden, I found a vintage Omega watch half-buried in the soil under dead leaves and plastic wrappers. A mystery how it got there or how long ago it landed there, but it’s in poor shape. Going to take it to a professional watchmaker and keeping fingers crossed about costs. 100
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I’m in contact with a lot of white Dutch people - born into the culture of this country - and I suspect a lot of them have no idea how pervasively white their attitude and frame of mind are. I just don’t know where to start when I notice it, but it feels damn good to find allies. 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 02/05/2026We will all always already have and not have the pot of gold ⚱️at the end of the rainbow 🌈 because it is the golden sun itself 🌞 that gives life to our world 🌍. We can bask in it but never stare at it or touch it, forever out of reach yet always there. Let’s take better care 🪬of what sustains us. 010
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 25/04/2026New skill level unlocked: chisel sharpening! Tradies bring their discarded chisels for free, so I can practise! More tools saved means 🌍🥰 000
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Fodder, right — Employees themselves are becoming fodder to train AI models. Reuters recently uncovered an internal memo at Meta showing that the company is installing new software on American employees’ computers to record their mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to feed into AI training data.theguardian.comMicrosoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AIMeta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers 010
H. Keyser @hkeijser.bsky.social · 21/04/2026My dog, so happy playing with her first Barby doll. 😍 100