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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In a time when everyone is digitally screaming for attention, writing with a pen on paper just for yourself almost seems like an act of quiet rebellion.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reddit can be such a treat sometimes.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

These are some of the most fundamentally dishonest people on the planet. NOTHING they say should be trusted and taken at face value.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Earlier this morning a case of blatant theft was reported from our kitchen, but thanks to a swift and credible investigation police were able to identify the mastermind behind the crime.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very much looking forward to @edzitron.com tearing into the '10 percent chance AI will kill us this decade' blabla in The Tech Report tomorrow.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am deeply saddened by the passing of human rights lawyer Sara Mendiola, one of Mexico's foremost defenders of press freedom, a wonderful colleague and a dear friend. On Friday we still traveled together. On Saturday she was gone. We'll miss her terribly. periodistasunidos.com.mx/libertad-de-...

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Muere Sara Lidia Mendiola Landeros, abogada que llevó a los tribunales la violencia contra periodistas - Periodistas Unidos

Periodistas Unidos es un colectivo de periodistas que buscan la libertad de expresión, la defensa de periodistas y la integración de diversas disciplinas culturales para la transformación de la socied...

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Behold, a perfect specimen of canis familiaris!

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Teddy wishes you all a good night.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of my favorite guilty pleasures on social media is reading dating anecdotes of young millennials/Gen Z because they both thoroughly entertain and utterly confuse me. It's like they invented 20.000 new rules in just over a decade. I don't remember it being so complicated when I was that age.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reading @doctorow.pluralistic.net's 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI', which strengthens me in my belief that the best way to combat most of the political and economic problems of our time require strong unions and collective bargaining. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even...

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If I could make one selfish wish: I would like to just once, even if it's only for a few minutes, experience the simple, pure, endless joy of a dog on the beach.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

- Would you like to chill on the floor or the couch, Teddy? - Yes.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I always feel like Somebody's watching me And I have no privacy, oh

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know it's meant well, but I hate it when someone says Teddy looks 'grateful for being rescued'. First off, he doesn't owe me any gratitude. *I* should be grateful any stray dog wants to even be near me after all the s**t humans put them through. Second: I didn't rescue him, he rescued *me*.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Stop calling ICE 'federal law enforcement'. It is not. ICE is a paramilitary death squad.

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Ashley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham is dead.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Two people. Two styles of communication.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

All that US-vs-Europe nonsense during the World Cup is exactly the kind of pointless tribalism the ultra rich want to distract us with so we don't join forces to combat inequality and the grotesque greed of callous billionaires who feel nothing but contempt for us all.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Bret Stephens, the man who said he hated everything about the Iran War but 'supported the mission' anyway, only to incessantly whine about Trump when 'the mission' collapsed, is now engaging in 'THE COMMIES ARE COMING' and frames it as if he's worried about the Dems. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...

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Opinion | Democratic Socialists Are on the Rise. We’ve Seen This Movie Before.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

MAGA mocking Europe for not having AC and then having to shut down the Great MAGA Fair in Washington D.C. because most tents and booths there... do not have AC. Poetic.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Liam Gallagher is one of the few reasons I'm still on that other platform.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

One thing Vledder mentions, and which I think is incredibly important, is that in the Netherlands journalists still aren't allowed to cover family court hearings. According to the lawyer, this often leads to unacceptable lack of empathy by judges for victims of domestic violence going unnoticed.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In the Netherlands, 'intimate terror' (terrorizing a partner within the context of a relationship, through violence, isolation, economic pressures, etc.) will finally be criminalized - largely thanks to the effort of power lawyer Ingrid Vledder. www.trouw.nl/binnenland/d...

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Dankzij advocaat Ingrid Vledder wordt intieme terreur eindelijk strafbaar: ‘Daders konden gewoon hun gang gaan’

Ook Nederland gaat intieme terreur strafbaar stellen. Advocaat Ingrid Vledder pleit hier al langer voor. ‘De nadruk op co-ouderschap is totaal doorgeschoten. Zelfs als een ex-partner aantoonbaar gewel...

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The WSJ Editorial Board: "Corruption is horrible and immoral and it demeans the office of the president, but what would be even worse is if the left would point out that corruption is horrible and immoral and it demeans the office of the president - so we'll keep supporting the corruption."

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

After two days with my new laptop, which has a Qualcomm chip and runs Windows on ARM, I can now officially confirm that I don't understand why anyone would even consider buying Apple's overpriced junk anymore.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Teddy went to the beauty salon today and he came out looking rather splendid - and I believe he is well aware.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Narrator: "Meanwhile, in a dark and evil place, an anonymous Christian fundamentalist's attempts to convert the 95-year old man who played a space captain in a 1966 television series quickly escalated in ways the Good Book did not foresee."

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Mamdani: "And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is." The US Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." The American right:

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The treatment of Iran's team, the fans from Senegal and the referee from Somalia should be enough reason for any participating country to pull out of the World Cup and demand the resignation of Infantino. Such as it is, cowardice and greed always prevails.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

From now on, I will call my friends 'my apostles'.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The EU: We are going to establish rules so sexual predators can't use an AI on a social network to generate nude photos of children. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Chess aficionados: coming from a casual player, why is this move called 'Kiddie Countergambit'? Is there another, better defense that isn't 'kiddie'?

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is the political equivalent of a football manager saying he has the full confidence of the board two days before he's unceremoniously sacked after another 0-5 home defeat.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I've seen this happen so many times in Mexico. Corrupt governor hires buddy to do public work, exceeds budget, the result is completely useless and years later we discover that 90% of the money disappeared without a trace. Congratulations, Trump, you're basically the American Peña Nieto now.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Trump destroyed the US' reputation in the world, alienated all its allies, lost a war against Iran, abruptly ended a period of unprecedented economic prosperity in the US, demolished US soft power and accelerated China's rise. Say what you will, but he was definitely a 'consequential' president.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

People like Bret Stephens are the real problem. They pretend to abhor Trump, but when the moment came to put their money where there mouth is, they 'supported the mission' in Iran. They lament democratic backsliding, but worship the ground Elon Musk walks on. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...

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Opinion | Trump Has Found a New Way to Fail Us

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The world is learning what the Dutch already knew for a very long time: Rafael van der Vaart is an idiot.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

You, the political analysts who said Trump 'was stronger on foreign policy than Kamala Harris'. Step into my office, I'd like a word.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Twitter is currently filling with American trolls trying to ragebait Europeans by constantly repeating that European fans visiting the US for the World Cup are 'stunned' by 'the wealth' they see in the US. They're obviously not convincing a single European, so who are they trying tot convince?

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My dog just made a sound I can only describe as yawning, screaming, laughing, barking, whininh and growling at the same time.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's because we they can't stop laughing at foreign news outlets can't stop clumsily trying to definitively explain the entirety of Dutch culture by focusing on one random aspect of it.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sauerkraut. Even the smell of it makes me profoundly sick to my stomach.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Maybe dark matter is really the friends we made along the way.

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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm sorry, but you're never going to convince me that this individual isn't a complete lunatic.

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