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Pieter Poorter 🇳🇱🇪🇺🌍

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Interested in Dutch, EUropean and International security, (geo)politics and liberal democratic rule of law, plus political propaganda, cartoons and satire.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 8h
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 12h
One of the key lessons from Dutch cycling history is cities didn't start with protected lanes. They began by making streets safer, calmer and more inviting; with lower speeds, parking restrictions, traffic filters and reduced through-traffic to create an environment in which cycling could flourish.🧵
A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.
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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Marike Stellinga @marikestellinga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Column over hulp die niet helpt www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Wooncrisis? Kabinetten willen bepalen zonder te betalen. Maar zo werkt het niet
Column: Weer een rapport dat concludeert dat de wooncrisis geholpen zou zijn bij wat minder politieke bemoeienis. Kabinet na kabinet negeert dat advies, ziet Marike Stellinga.
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Phoaties 📸 @phoaties.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
#phoaties #inktpot #Utrecht
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Arnout Brouwers @abrouwers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kyiv koopt niets voor Europese paniek over eigen veiligheid, heeft alle steun nodig die het kan krijgen www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
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Kyiv koopt niets voor Europese paniek over eigen veiligheid, heeft alle steun nodig die het kan krijgen
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/10/2026
Oxford Street has long been the nation’s high street. On Monday 26 October, it’ll go permanently traffic-free and pave the way for a greener, more welcoming street with new opportunities for retail and leisure.
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Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from October | LBC
Vehicles will be prohibited from accessing almost a kilometre between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street from October 26
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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
INKTOBER 2026 Day 2: Relic A Moomintroll peers into a Roman dodecahedron, one of 100+ mysterious 12-faced bronze objects found across the empire. Nobody knows what they were for. Moomin is investigating. #Inktober2026 #Inktober #PenAndInk #ink #Art #Day2 #Relic #moomin
Pen and ink drawing of a Roman artifact with a Moomin troll peeling in
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."
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Flo @flodego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wat een gemis… Paulien Cornelisse 💔
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De Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
What a difference a road redesign can make! This redesign shows that a fairer (more space for cyclists and pedestrians), safer, and greener road design is possible, while still providing space for all modalities. 📍Socrateslaan, Utrecht NL
Before and after photo of the Socrateslaan in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 

The 'before' photo shows a street consisting mainly of asphalt; by far the most space is reserved for cars. The 'after' photo shows the same street, but now with much more dedicated space for pedestrians, cyclists, and greenery—while still leaving room for cars.
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Mathijs Bouman @mathijsbouman.nl · 30/09/2026
fd.nl/opinie/16137...
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Draw!
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 27/09/2026
Kolumne: Es ist längst klar, dass das 21. Jahrhundert dem Strom gehört (Sie lesen diesen Post auf einem Taschencomputer mit Akku, oder?) Und für fließende Elektronen muss man heute kein Wasser mehr kochen. Deutschlands Zukunft hängt (auch) davon ab, das anzuerkennen.
MEINUNG • Energiewende in Deutschland
• Dampf ist out, Elektronen sind in
Eine Kolumne von Christian Stöcker
Moderne Hochtechnologie braucht nur Strom, keinen Brennstoff, keinen Wasserdampf. Wie löst sich unsere vermeintliche High-Tech-Nation von 150 Jahre alter Technik? An der Antwort hängt unsere Zukunft.
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SPIEGEL bei Google bevorzugen
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Franz Sedlacek (Austrian, born Poland, 1891-missing in Poland, 1945) Übungswiese (Practice Slope), 1926 oil on plywood, 26.5 x 23.3 cm Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
De samengeknepen-billenpolitiek van het midden Mijn column in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Column | De samengeknepen-billenpolitiek van het midden
Op CDU-verkiezingsposters in Berlijn stonden vorige week teksten als „Berlijn blijf stabiel” en „Voor een land om weer trots op te zijn”. Nietszeggende slogans van de volkspartij van de kanselier, het...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Martien Visser @bmvisser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Elektrificatie: in alle delen van de wereld stijgt het aandeel elektriciteit in het finale energieverbruik. #grafiekvandedag bron: @IEA
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Casper Wits @casperwits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In de Volkskrant bespreek ik het "Nationaal Vredesprotest" dat zondag plaatsvindt. De boodschap klinkt verleidelijk: “ik ben voor vrede” is de slogan vd deelnemers. De vraag is of de vrede van de demonstranten voor anderen niet vooral onderwerping betekent.  www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
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Opinie: Het Nationaal Vredesprotest negeert de geopolitieke realiteit en drijft Oekraïners in het nauw
De ‘vrede’ waar demonstranten over spreken, komt voor Oekraïne neer op onderwerping. Want minder westerse militaire steun aan Kyiv brengt Rusland in een uitstekende positie om de oorlog voort te zette...
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Evert Blaauwendraad @blaauwendraad.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Utrecht, afgelopen woensdag.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2026
The American age of global dominance that followed World War II was bound to end eventually, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes—“What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived”:
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The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is an important concept in our anti imperialist quest for utopia. When it comes to the crimes of the USSR, Russia is *not* the soviet union. When it comes to "defeating fascism" and having that UN seat, Russia *is* the soviet union. Think of it as Schroedinger's Soviet Union.
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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026
Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart
Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Joop.nl @joop.nl · 19/09/2026
Armanda Govers: 'Voedseltechnologie zoals kweekvlees en -zuivel kan een beschermingslaag vormen tegen voedselschokken door geopolitieke afhankelijkheid en klimaatverandering'
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Voedselzekerheid vraagt om voedseltechnologie - Joop - BNNVARA
Armanda Govers: 'Voedseltechnologie zoals kweekvlees en -zuivel kan een beschermingslaag vormen tegen voedselschokken door geopolitieke afhankelijkheid en klimaatverandering'.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Water
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All I see is Mondrian when I'm waiting for a train at Green Park!
Green park station looking like a Mondrian painting Mondrian painting
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Kustaw Bessems @kustaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dit schandaal ontrolt zich in stilte verder: Uitvoeringstoetsen van tal van nieuwe wetten en regels ontbreken of zijn niet niet openbaar of - heel bijzonder - bevatten helemaal geen informatie over uitvoerbaarheid, ziet de Rekenkamer. Politiek en media laten de ramp over het algemeen gebeuren.
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Rekenkamer: maak werk van uitvoeringstoets om te zien of politieke plannen uitvoerbaar zijn | Algemene Rekenkamer
Er moet meer aandacht zijn voor uitvoeringstoetsen als de overheid nieuwe plannen maakt. Die oproep doet de Algemene Rekenkamer op basis van onderzoek naar 269 uitvoeringstoetsen in de afgelopen jaren...
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wrote a little love letter to Canada, soon to be the first-ever associate member of the EU. Mark Carney is currently the only associate European leader who dares to use his political mandate for radical initiatives. 🇨🇦🫶🇪🇺
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It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
Mark Carney is the only associate European leader who actually dares to use his political mandate for radical initiatives.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“This is the latest — and the largest — sign that a New World Order is fast developing, one that doesn’t include the US.”
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Canada And The EU Come Together
The world decouples from America
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/09/2026
OH Scale xkcd.com/3297/
Comic. [Next to a two-story house and some trees is a huge rail (several times the height of the house) with an incomplete huge wheel on top surrounded by scaffolding.] [caption] Due to a typo in the plans, I’ve been building an 87:1 model train set in my yard.
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Mark Deckers @markdeckers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
De meest bezochte instelling van Nederland? Niet de Efteling. Niet Ajax. Niet Holland Casino. Wel: De bibliotheek. Bijna 60 miljoen bezoeken per jaar. Toch onderschatten velen haar nog steeds. Meer in mijn nieuwe artikel: www.markdeckers.net/2026/09/bibl...
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Bibliotheek meest bezochte instelling van Nederland
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Gerard Rathenau @grathenau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Leerzame uitleg van Laruelle over waarom AfD gewonnen heeft in Saksen: 1. Nationaliseren welvaartsstaat 2. Verlangen naar Oostduitse nostalgie oproepen en versterken 3. Professionalisering van de organisatie zodat ze bestuurlijk alternatief vormen laruelle.substack.com/p/the-three-...
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The Three Thresholds Crossed by the AfD Victory
The vote becomes normalized, governing becomes imaginable, and history loses some of its power to police the political future.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath
Detailed math as shared in the post. “How much does your commute cost (or save) society? Source is Discourse Media.
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 12/09/2026
Sinds de leesvaardigheid in Nederland in 2018 voor het eerst onder het OESO-gemiddelde dook, is de achterstand iedere drie jaar verder opgelopen. Uit onze analyse blijkt dat het fundament van het Nederlandse onderwijsgebouw rot is.
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Waarom kinderen niet meer lezen (en hun leraren ook niet)
Sinds de leesvaardigheid in Nederland in 2018 voor het eerst onder het OESO-gemiddelde dook, is de achterstand iedere drie jaar verder opgelopen. Ligt dat aan de digitalisering? In andere sterk…
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Paris is a city that's been WINNING the WAR ON WALKING. In the past decade city leaders built 300+ School Streets, launched a 15-minute city and reclaimed their downtown waterfront. It's a place people can enjoy an evening outside on what used to be a car freeway. This is what every city deserves.
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
capyberus
painting of a three-headed capybara with a spiked collar on a warm-colored background
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New from me: The NY Times piece criticized Mamdani for using influencers to share his agenda. But negativity bias means that legacy media like the Times does not cover substantive government stories about Mamdani trying to make the government work better. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post...
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Mamdani, media, and negativity bias
Is it possible to get credit for focusing on implementation?
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 06/09/2026
Geschenklink:
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Meinung: AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt: Wie gefühlte Wahrheiten die Politik bestimmen
Man müsse die AfD »inhaltlich stellen« findet die Union und verkennt ein zentrales Problem: Es geht vielen AfD-Wählern nicht um die Wirklichkeit, sondern um gefühlte Wahrheiten. Dagegen hilft etwas anderes.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another round of "brilliant" negotiations is completed. The only difference this time is that Witkoff and Kushner came to deliver Putin's demands personally after kissing his boot in the Kremlin. We are on, what, 9th circle of this cycle? 1,5 years wasted and countless lives.
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Tom-Jan Meeus @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Terug sinds afgelopen weekeinde: m’n nieuwsbrief Machtige Tijden. Mooi nieuwtje: voortaan wekelijks een cartoon van de briljante Ruben L. Oppenheimer www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Opinie | Constructieve stemmen verdwijnen uit Den Haag. Onderschat het gevaar niet
Machtige Tijden: De chicken game in de coalitie over de Rijksbegroting onderstreept dat Nederland beweegt in de richting van een vechtdemocratie. Strijdbare leiders drukken constructieve stemmen weg. ...
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jan Van Der Veken
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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ukrainian artist, Arthur Anokhin
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 05/09/2026
Will Putin launch a large offensive to finish the war? Russia is increasingly stuck, and war leaders under pressure often try to escalate their way out of problems. But as military analyst Alexander With argues on Logic of War, offensives launched from weakness usually fail.
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One last offensive to end the war?
By Alexander With History shows that states often launch a major offensive when they expect a turning point in the war. The purpose is seldom total victory, but to enhance their diplomatic and milita...
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Floor Rusman @floorrusman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sociale zekerheid, box 3: ineens blijkt politiek toch weer over geld te gaan. Mijn column van vandaag: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Column | Een goed politiek gesprek over geld
Ineens bleek politiek toch weer over geld te gaan. Het was even wennen, na al het gepraat over asielopvang en ‘migratiehubs’, maar de VVD botste tijdens de begrotingsonderhandelingen met CDA en D66 ov...
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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