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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

WTF, Microsoft? The format with the year first exists for 2 reasons: No ambiguity of date formats and making dates sortable. NOBODY WANTS YYYY-DD-MM!!!!! Jeez!

SET DATEFORMAT mdy;
SELECT CAST('1987-01-02' AS datetime)
=> 1987-01-02 00:00:00.000
SET DATEFORMAT dmy;
SELECT CAST('1987-01-02' AS datetime)
=> 1987-02-01 00:00:00.000

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@nemo20000.bsky.social @vinceh.com @rougol.bsky.social @riscosbits.co.uk Anyone have the zoom info for the meeting with Mark Moxon? I thought I had it, but WROCC != Rougol, it seems...

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Skatten jeg betaler er en dråpe i havet i forhold til statsbudsjettet. Derfor er det like greit at jeg slipper å betale skatt.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

- Vi vil ha lavere utslipp uten dyrere utslipp, mindre naturtap uten mindre forbruk og grønn omstilling uten at noen skal merke omstillingen. Det er ikke omstilling. Det er ønsketenkning, påpeker Liaklev fra Øst-Finnmark www.nordnorskdebatt.no/drivstoff-og...

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Drivstoff- og strømpriser er for lave

LO-lederne i Troms mener 30 kroner literen er «galematias».

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Zarch has a role in #ndcoslo! David Braben FTW! 😀 Thanks Jarle Adolfsen

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Getting _serious_ Philip K. Dick-story "is the world mad or am I mad?" vibes from reading this 2018 PISA question which claims that only the second answer is correct and the others are wrong, when clearly answers 1 and 4 are equally correct! 🤯 pisa2018-questions.oecd.org/platform/ind...

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There is no room for more wolves in Norway, apparently. There are around 70-80 wolves. The Netherlands has 131, even though Norway has 11x the area and The Netherlands has 3.2x the population. Shameful!

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026

Well. To be fair, we were all hoping he would dye.

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Olav Torvund @olavtorvund.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Påminnelse til de som klager over bensinpriser i Norge.

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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

THIS IS THE PARASITE CAUSING CASES OF EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA IN AMERICA ?

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce the release of my latest Elite hack: Two-player Elite for the #BBCMicro This is the original 1980s Acornsoft Elite, but with split-screen, two-player, deep-space combat See the thread for links, downloads and details (1/10) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #elitedangerous

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jeg har såvidt utsikt på flaggstangen på slottet. Kl. 10:11 var den halv stang, men kl. 12:07 var den i toppen igjen. Merkelig. #kongen

Bilde fra slottet 10:11 med flaggen halv stang

Bilde fra slottet fra 12:07 med flaggen i topp

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Canada gets the job done

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gold

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This dog must have an amazing sense of humor. Original post

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If only we could've heard the group call when world leaders found out that Donald was hiding in a catering truck..

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

😂 and yet they did - lol

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Funny how that works. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Magnificent osprey This never gets old for me We see these almost daily diving for the carp that’s in our small lake near our home. Everyone stops to watch in awe

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Uglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am generally not a fan of turning public infrastructure into advertising spaces, but I'm willing to make an exception for this ad on an Oslo bus for the world accordion championship.

Articulated buses are commonly nicknamed "accordion buses" because of the flexible, ribbed bellows connecting the two cabin sections.

The bus in the photo features a large graphic of a Roland accordion being played by a giant pair of hands. The two halves of the accordion are on either side of the flexible section, so that it looks like the bellows of the instrument. When the vehicle turns or maneuvers, the real bellows compress and stretch, making it look like the instrument is actively playing.

Above the windows is the text "VM på trekkspill, 16.-22. oktober i Asker Kulturhus" ("World accordion championship, 16th-22nd October in Asker cultural centre")

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 31/07/2026

🇬🇧 Fans dance to iconic Kate Bush song on Wuthering Heights Day People dressed in red gather on the Folkestone Harbour Arm in southeast England to recreate Kate Bush's iconic video choreography for her song "Wuthering Heights" as part of the global 'The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever 2026' event.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That's a good one. But I prefer this (used in our book):

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/

A vintage world map. The US has been obscured by a roiling black cloud from which squirm many questing tentacles. A large area around the US has been discolored.

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I liked the picture I took of the bird that visited us during lunch.

Picture of a young bird sitting on a bench

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Verdens Vang @hansvang.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Infantorangen

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Bob Shields @robbo03.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Very sorry to learn that the magnificent David Potter died on Sunday evening. A pioneering mathematical physicist, he founded Psion, created the first hand-held organizer and oversaw Symbian, the standard mobile operating system. He was a wonderful philanthropist and supporter of @opendemocracy.net

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

By far the funniest moment is the sincerity of the professionals' celebration.

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Jan-Jaap van der Geer @jjvdgeer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"The easiest way to get rid of strangers is to introduce yourself"

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I understand the collective reaction to this event, but I haven't yet seen any analysis of the environmental impact of this. Military operations in general are a hugely under-reported global driver of climate collapse. So let's talk about it. Here's a thread on the Kapotnya refinery. 1/

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VeloNitram (Ludditt) 📎 @velonitram.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

«På få dager har det vært flere voldtekter i byen. Dette må vi ta konsekvensene av. Vi er ikke rigget for flere kvinner i Oslo»

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