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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Zelden zo’n mooi boek gelezen als De reparatie van de wereld. Eén groot verlies.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The highlighted text clarified my thoughts re. ‘academic freedom’. No, conservative students don’t have ‘the right’. A campus is no different from any other domain of life, and a conservative bringing an obnoxious bigot to speak anywhere is, for others that use the space, by supposition, not welcome

Milo Yiannopoulos
Tested Progressives-and They Failed
Conservative students have the right to bring obnoxious bigots to speak on campus and other students have a right to protest. But controversial speakers should be allowed to speak.
By Peter Beinart

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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ik kwam gisteren terug van vakantie en trof de Vargas Llosa in mijn brievenbus aan. Dank Arjen Fortuin! Nu eerst nog even Anna Karenina uitlezen en dan ligt hij (bijna) bovenaan de stapel.

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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This whole thread is a (Dutch) treat.

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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Oké, wie helpt? @fonolog.bsky.social wil ook eens een stukje hebben dat viral gaat. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/03/geze... RT=❤️

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Gezellig onvertaalbaar

De top-7 van Nederlandse woorden die op de hele wereld verder niemand heeft

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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Het is vandaag 2069 jaar geleden dat #JuliusCaesar werd vermoord. Ik ga er enkele keren over bloggen. Hier is het eerste stukje: wat was de situatie? waarom vonden de moordenaars geweld gerechtvaardigd? waarom juist op deze datum? #RealTimeCaesar mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/03/15/d...

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De moord op Julius Caesar (2): de situatie - Mainzer Beobachter

Het is vandaag 2069 jaar geleden dat Julius Caesar in Rome werd vermoord. Hoe was ook alweer de politieke situatie?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers… 5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

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Maartje Luif @zezunja.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

‘Waarom zouden kranten AI gebruiken? Om meer te schrijven? De krant kan toch ook gewoon wat dunner zijn? Er zou heus wel wat werk geautomatiseerd kunnen worden, zoals koppen maken en spellingschecks. Maar is dat de klimaatimpact van AI waard?’ My thoughts. www.svdj.nl/nieuws/felie...

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Felienne Hermans: 'De stekker mag uit de hype rond large language models'

Felienne Hermans (41) is hoogleraar didactiek van de informatie aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Daarnaast geeft ze informaticales aan de Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer en schrijft ze opiniestu...

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Chaotic evil! *librarian hard stare*

Bookmark alignment chart meme

lawful good = book ribbon
neutral good = sentence pointer book strap
chaotic good = scrap paper, receipts

lawful neutral = e-book
true neutral = proper bookmark
chaotic neutral = use a plant leaf

lawful evil = memorising the page number
neutral evil = leaving the book face down
chaotic evil = dog ear (page corner turned over)

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I enjoyed this piece from the Oatmeal on AI art but it got me thinking - I'd love to be able to draw but I can't because I've never studied or practiced. Why not? theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Gert Jan Bakker @isgoedhoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

VVD in woord: "arbeid moet lonen!" VVD in praktijk: 800.000 deeltijdwerkers gaan er honderden euros op achteruit

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It’s the 199th anniversary of Alexander Gordon Laing entering Timbuktu and saying it “has completely met my expectations”, even though someone there a few years earlier had described it as “dull, filthy and exceedingly unattractive”. Why was he putting on a brave face? Well...

Engraving of Alexander Gordon Laing, c. 1830, shows a young man with curly hair in formal military dress, a hand on his hip, looking not quite 'at camera', but gazing ahead at his... glittering future

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:

Should we castigate the public for a lack of imagination or common sense? No, the blame lies with lazy politicians and their craven advisers. The approach of issue polling and then building a campaign around it completely ignores the human faculties of judgement and imagination. It assumes that when people hear a question and answer it, they all mean the same thing and that thing reflects a shared empirical reality. They don’t, and it doesn’t. Everyone has very different images in their mind. The key is to put the right images in their mind, hopefully, good, inspiring, grand, and virtuous ones. Politicians need to go back to basics, to the oldest political skill: rhetoric, that is the art of combining reason with imagery that moves the emotions.

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Ruud Hendriks @ruudhendriks68.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“Nederlandse redacteuren zien uiterst rechts niet als ondermijners van de liberale democratie, maar als een stem als ieder ander. “Maar het gaat in Nederland zelfs verder dan dat. Je normaliseert ze niet alleen, je maakt ze ook af en toe tot de norm.” archive.ph/VFycK

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

New blogpost: Woke - Opposition to "wokeness" has shifted from conservatives peddling myths to liberals deploring radicals for alienating those same conservatives. This reflects a wider surrender by progressives in the face of centre-right government fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/06/woke...

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Woke

From arse to elbow. A blog about politics, economics, football, films, music and various other stuff that catches my fancy. Dave Timoney.

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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism

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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In een biebboek gevonden: my brother from another mother.

Picture showing a receipt with a list of late return fines for the library.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

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a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

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Tom van der Lee @tomvanderlee.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

‘Het brave Nederland rekent zichzelf onnodig arm’ Verstandige economen leggen hier helder uit dat de fixatie van #VVD minister Heinen en zijn politiek leider ⁦‪@DilanYesilgoz‬⁩ op tekort & staatsschuld onze economie schaadt. Middeninkomens betalen de prijs voor hun gedram!

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

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Simon Berger @chakarchinggis.eurosky.social · 24/12/2024

Puisque c'est la saison des cadeaux, en guise de conte de noël mongol, laissez-moi vous raconter mon anecdote favorite sur la générosité proverbiale d'Ögödei. Elle est rapportée par l'historien persan Juvaynī, qui la tient cependant d'annales mongoles tenues à la cour au jour le jour. 1/17

Ögödei, trônant entouré de serviteurs, distribue des parts de son trésor aux membres de sa cour. Montage à partir des miniatures du Ms. BNF, supplément persan 1113.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

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Emine Uğur @overlistener.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Mijn column van 23 november 2024. Over racisme in Nederland.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

1. So - the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant - www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11.... The one strong prediction I have - this is going to lead to US financial sanctions against ICC employees, and possibly the ICC as an institution. That is going to get ugly for the EU.

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ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: Israel-Hamas War Live Updates

The International Criminal Court rejected Israel’s challenges to its jurisdiction, and also issued a warrant for a top Hamas official. Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaz...

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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Happy to see that Bluesky is finally filling up with enough quality contributions for the purpose of endless procrastination.

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Jakob Kramers @jakobkramers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In case people haven't seen it, there's a huge searchable directory of BlueSky starter packs (lists of accounts to follow with regard to certain subjects) at blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Hou je van geschiedenis? Hier lees je binnenkort verhalen van historici over hun onderzoek. Daarvoor hebben we eerst wat volgers nodig. Wil je ons helpen? ➡️ Volg ons om op de hoogte te blijven! 🔁 Repost = fijn! (1/4)

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Shots fired! Excerpt from "The Nobel for Econsplaining" in the FT www.ft.com/content/1e25...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

This week I wrote about the new hard-right Dutch government, which has mired itself in a series of policy conundrums that are simultaneously insoluble, pointless, and deeply rooted in the country’s current populist politics. The first conundrum: immigration. 1/x www.economist.com/europe/2024/...

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The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess

Conflicts over asylum, farms and the constitution could bring it down

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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

“Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.” theconversation.com/the-data-on-...

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‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

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BetrouwbareMannetjes @betmannetjes.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Daar is ie dan.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 20/08/2024

How to title a paper. doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

A warning from the education minister of Poland’s new liberal government, Barbara Nowacka: letting right-wing populists take power so they discredit themselves is a bad plan. They do too much damage before they get kicked out www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

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Barbara Nowacka, ministre polonaise : « L’expérience du populisme est dangereuse et dévastatrice »

La Pologne a été gouvernée par l’extrême droite pendant huit ans. Une large coalition a renversé la table en octobre 2023, mais le chemin est encore long pour retrouver un État égalitaire et progress…

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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Ik blog dagelijks over de #Oudheid. En ik zou eens willen weten waar de belangstelling van de lezers het meest naar uitgaat. Kortom: een poll. Delen is aardig omdat het helpt een scherper beeld te krijgen. mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/04/16/p...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/04/2024

This week's newsletter: Big tech is looting the internet, making every platform actively hostile to the user, turning Facebook, Google Search and Instagram into products that no longer provide a service while making shareholders hundreds of billions of dollars. www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-lo...

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They're Looting The Internet

Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more sho...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/02/2024

If only there had been some way of knowing that you shouldn't let Tesla build a factory on top of the aquifer Berlin relies on for drinking water. Oh wait, there totally was: niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/i...

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 06/02/2024

Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Today, the 387th anniversary of the Actual Thing that Definitely Happened: the collapse of the entire Dutch economy as a result of wild, uncontrolled speculation on the price of tulips (except the one or two bits that aren't true)

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Odd this day

3 February 1637

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