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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 30/09/2026

Big fan of this lawyer, who appears ready to demand a 220 BILLION fine from Meta for misleading its millions of users

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 29/09/2026

Excellent work everyone, A+++ no notes 👍 🏆

Screenshot of a TomsHardware article, "Milestone one billionth GitHub repo is just the word "shit"" with a phone photo of the actual repository

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 19/09/2026

I'm a proponent of banning sequels to movies more than, say 5 years after the original. After that it's 1) a cash grab, and 2) super bad. Plus if the original actors are in it, it's pretty sad to see.

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 13/09/2026

For some reason, this xkcd comic makes me uncomfortable.

XKCD Comic: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth's latitude and longitude lines int he wash. Image: the Earth, but the aforementioned lines are too small and earth bulges through the space between lines.

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 30/08/2026

It's been one year since I was shook to my core by Ario

A Mario action figure in a display case in a toy shop, but it's somehow missing the nose and moustache, leaving only a soulless toothless grin

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 26/08/2026

Looks like it's the end of Nitter, the free open-source alternative to reading current Twitter. 🫡 Frankly surprised it held up this long. nitter.net

Cease and desist
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 24/08/2026

Things are going well in the SomethingAwful AI thread 🤔

Post by Votskomit: /plucks all the feathers from a parrot "Behold! An LLM!" (because an AI model isn't conscious but talks anyway)

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 29/06/2026

what the hell is going on with duolingo

Screenshot off Google Play market with Duolingo in recommended apps, but the app icon is all messed up nightmare version

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 17/06/2026

IT FINALLY HAPPENED 🍑 #wordle

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 28/05/2026

I discovered a new biome in Satisfactory last night, but my delight was quickly interrupted by a new enemy that looked like a very fast 7-foot spider, that killed me very quickly. The wiki says it's a "Stinger" but defaults to non-scary images, and I'm too lazy to find the real image. 😁

Screenshot of the Satisfactory wiki, listing enemies Stinger, Alpha Stinger and Elite Gas Stinger. All three have photos of cats because of arachnophobia mode

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 22/05/2026

Noticed that one of my gaming discords picked a new "game of the month" a few weeks ago, surprised to see it was Destiny 1. Kept an eye on it, and sure enough, last night they organised a heroic Kings Fall raid, I joined and.. finally completed it, 9 years after I stopped playing! 🥳

Screenshot of Destiny 1 Kings Fall raid, with raid boss Oryx front and center as well as my teammates

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 08/05/2026

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough! 🎉🥳

Sir David Attenborough in front of some cliffs

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 19/04/2026

Not This Shit Again

A clickbait article headline "A 10yo Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them To Restore Pluto to a Planet, and NASA's Chief Replied With Four Words No One Expected"

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 02/04/2026

I don't know how y'all are finding screenshots of old good tweets, but here's a few I like. The one I like best goes like: *crests a hill* hey dudes

I'm sorry Ms Jackson (Ooooo)/ I am four eels/ Never meant to make your daughter cry/ I am several fish and not a guy

"The bond's Name. James Name"
Pleased to... what?
"Bond Name's the games"
Are you alright?
"Names Nond's having a stronk, call a Bondulance"

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 22/03/2026

Just got told my bio on discord is "insane" by some random. I guess he's on CodeBerg? 🤷

My discord bio. It's:
"Trans women are women 🏳️‍⚧️
<link to my github page>"

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 21/03/2026

Made this a few weeks ago and forgot to post it. I've played SoT for 2400+ hours over almost 8 years, but the state of the game is terrible right now. Hopefully taking a break will allow the spark to come back like last time. Meanwhile, ROCK AND STONE! ⛏️

The meme pic of the Indian publicly breaking up with his friend and starting a new friendship, but the text reads FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH SEA OF THIEVES - NOW DEEP ROCK GALACTIC IS MY BEST FRIEND

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 20/03/2026

I'm 3 episodes into the new One Piece live-action season 2 and I'm enjoying it SO MUCH. The love for the manga shines through so clearly, this is absolutely an amazing show! 🏴‍☠️👒👊

Poster for One Piece, showing the crew from behind in front of their ship, at sunset

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 10/03/2026

Thanks! It's so obvious now, even the first hit on Google is to a wiki article with two old white dudes doing *exactly the thing in the video* 😄

Wiki for "shuffleboard" featuring a photo of two men playing on a boat deck

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 07/03/2026

This website is absolutely amazing 10/10 no notes youraislopbores.me

A prompt by me to "ai" for a picture of a pirate in laundry day, followed by a response of aan extremely happy drawn person (who might be a pirate) near a crudely drawn washing machine

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 04/03/2026

Heads up: if you need a new computer in the next few years, look for one without an "NPU" processor! tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...

Story highlight:
Reports suggest that Microsoft is gearing up to launch Windows 12 later this year.
The new OS will be entirely modular and will be AI-focused.
Unfortunately, the upgrade requires NPU processors, which will lock out millions from getting into the new ecosystem.

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 02/03/2026

I've started using the screen time feature in Android to block myself from using doomscroll apps too much. Works great 👍

Screen time screen for tiktok, set to max 1h per day

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 18/02/2026

Just noticed this new feature in WhatsApp: you can add a role (30 characters max) to yourself in group chats. Very useful if you're in group chats where not everyone might know you, like for schools. Or you can add a joke role for your family group chat, of course..

Screenshot of a WhatsApp group description, cropped to the member list, showing a clickable "Add member tag" below my entry

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 15/02/2026

Been looking for this image for a while, and just had it pop up on Reddit of all things! "Software terminology before and after the iPhone" aka "everything is an app now"

Table, titled "software terminology"
Left column "Then": application, program, operating system, script, shell, batch file, compiler, daemon, service, game, patch, software
Right column "Now": app replaces every term

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 02/02/2026

This meme gets larger and larger every month 😄

The meme "my body is a massive that turns x into y" but instead is "Microsoft is a sloporation that turns [Microsoft ceo claims 30% of its new code is written by AI] into" followed by an enormous list of recent bugs, one more ridiculous than the other

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 31/01/2026

Was just reminded of the podcast "The Worst Idea Of All Time" where two Australians watch and review the same movie every week, for an entire year. And these are the absolute worst movies ever. Sex And The City 2, Grown-ups 2, We Are Your Friends, etc Look at that episode count!

Screenshot of my podcast app showing TWIOAT, with a whopping 852 episodes, and reviews of Sex and the City 2, Grown-ups 2, Sex and the City 1, We Are Your Friends, The Fast and the Furious and more

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 13/01/2026

You might think I'm not a fan of Scott Adams. You would be right.

Snippet from Variety:
Adams started writing blog posts about Donald Trump and his persuasion skills in 2015 and his daily video podcast featured a range of conservative guests. His writings and podcasts began to question the Holocaust, oppose the Covid vaccine and promote concepts of “men’s rights.”

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 12/01/2026

So that's just these 4 mini-movies, right? How about the tv shows from 2002 (Cracking Contraptions) and 2010 (World of Invention)? I cant seen to find those anywhere.

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 10/01/2026

Some absolute :chefskiss: quotes from the orange granpa: "We don't want Russia/China taking over Greenland and be our neighbours" - Alaska borders on Russia "You dont just own the land if you can reach it by boat 500y ago" - lmao this coming from the USA is rich m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

US President Donald Trump again reiterated the claims of having to do "something" about Greenland, saying that if US doesn't take any action, Russia and China would spring in and that Washington does not want to have them as neighbours. In the context of Denmark, he said that landing a boat 500 years ago "doesn't mean they own the land".

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 02/01/2026

First new game is the year. The Stanley Parable sure is.... different. 🤔

Screenshot from The Stanley Parable, showing a think yellow line on the floor marked THE STANLEY PARABLE ADVENTURE LINE

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 30/12/2025

14yo me delivering a newspaper to a pharmacy and a local sitcom celebrity just walked past me with a gruff face. Johnny Kraaijkamp Sr. I recognized him immediately but too surprised to say anything.

Photo of Johnny Kraaijkamp Sr., a Dutch actor

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 28/12/2025

This is Peep and I love him

An orange parakeet in a banana outfit in Sea of Thieves

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 25/12/2025

If you liked Lemmings, try Humanity! It has a similar vibe and pretty fun 👍

Splash screen for Humanity, featuring rows and rows of faceless humans marching to the light, led by a luminescent dog

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 16/12/2025

I have never agreed so much with a meme as with this one. (And it doesn't even mention the stupid AI button!!) I want Win7 Notepad back!

STOP UPDATING NOTEPAD
bullet points describing features in modern notepad that nobody wants
We used wordpad for fancy layout
We don't want links, headers, formatting options
LOOK at what Microsoft has been demanding our respect for
"hello i would like TABLES in a future update"
They have played us for absolute fools

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 13/12/2025

Happy ACAB Day to those who celebrate 🎉

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 27/11/2025

This is the most insane notification on the reddit app 🤮

Notification with text "you have reached your daily limit for hiding ads"

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 27/11/2025

Finished Alien: Earth! Well, the 9 episodes that are up on Prime right now. I hope there's more coming, it's fun they're doing something new with the Alien franchise. 👍

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 25/11/2025

I'm so glad Android has this really useful feature where you can see the patch notes for your app updates at a glance. I'm also glad that app developers make proper use of this feature. 🫠

A screen filled with app update notifications, with the patch notes for each app visible. They all say "fixed bugs and improvements", except for Microsoft Teams......which says "added ai"

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 20/11/2025

Finally started the RoboCop game, accidentally the right way: shooting an enemy in the dick in the first level 🫡

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 18/11/2025

Cloudflare is having issues, and you know it's bad when even the status page looks like this 😬

Cloudflarestatus.com, but all the css failed to load and everything is unstyled plaintext

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 15/11/2025

Someone posted different formatting styles to r/ProgrammingHumor, and edits are getting posted. Things are heating up now!

The picture showing different formatting styles, but edited to label most of them as "mental illness"

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 13/11/2025

Steam announced a new gaming pc/console called Steam Machine and it didn't even take half an hour before it was re-christened "GabeCube" by gamers, lmao

Comic with three panels:
Gabe: it's show and tell children, this is Steam'a new hardware
Children: GabeCube! GabeCube!
Gabe: NO!
[chanting continues]

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mrbellek @merijn.nu · 11/11/2025

Started watching Amsterdam Empire last night, after my wife suggested it. It's very fun to see Famke Janssen speaking Dutch for a change! 👍 But sometimes it feels that the only cinema we export is war movies and weed farm drama shows.

Poster for Amsterdam Empire, featuring the canals, Famke Janssen on top, Jacob Derwig upside down at the bottom (as an "underworld" figure)

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