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Space engineering, photography, and politics.🇪🇺🛰️

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Luc Stultiens @lucstultiens.bsky.social · 21h
Nóg een blokkade van de VVD. Het lijstje wordt langer en langer. Het gevolg van al deze rechtse taboes op het belasten van de grootste vermogen en winsten: De rekening van €7,8 miljard per jaar komt volledig terecht bij gewone werkende mensen..
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 21h
As the Supreme Court said of Lafayette Park, "Although originally part of the White House grounds, President Jefferson set it aside as a park for the use of residents and visitors" and is in fact "visited by vast numbers of visitors from around the country" and the DC area.
Screenshot from the US Supreme Court case Clark v Community for Creative Non-Violence: "The network of National Parks includes the National Memorial-core parks, Lafayette Park and the Mall, which are set in the heart of Washington, D.C., and which are unique resources that the Federal Government holds in trust for the American people. Lafayette Park is a roughly 7-acre square located across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Although originally part of the White House grounds, President Jefferson set it aside as a park for the use of residents and visitors. It is a "garden park with a . . . formal landscaping of flowers and trees, with fountains, walks and benches." National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, White House and President's Park, Resource Management Plan 4.3 (1981). The Mall is a stretch of land running westward from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial some two miles away. It includes the Washington Monument, a series of reflecting pools, trees, lawns, and other greenery. It is bordered by, inter alia, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art. Both the Park and the Mall were included in Major Pierre L'Enfant's original plan for the Capital. Both are visited by vast numbers of visitors from around the country, as well as by large numbers of residents of the Washington metropolitan area."
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Chris Perreijn @dezedus2.bsky.social · 21h
Het Israëlische tuig haalt het bloed onder mijn nagels vandaan. Stop de betrekkingen.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why the hell is this all written in passive voice, as if he wasn't an active and willing participant in all these things?
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Joop.nl @joop.nl · 05/10/2026
Cartoon meer beter alles: Decadente Europeanen zijn oorlogsmoe... www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
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Decadente Europeanen zijn oorlogsmoe - Joop - BNNVARA
Laat de onderdrukten maar stikken.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Boudewijn Steur @boudewijnsteur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Op deze dag in 1940 werd aan alle ambtenaren en onderwijzers een verklaring gestuurd, waarin zij moesten aangeven dat zij niet Joods waren. Wie het niet invulde, werd op staande voet ontslagen. Er werd heel soms geprotesteerd tegen het invullen van deze Ariërverklaring (afb 3)
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Tourdambiance Tda
Alt: Jody Bernal singing que si que no. Not sure this has any reach outside a millenial Dutch audience.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's Ötzi! 🥶🏹
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heim ins Reich
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Lotfi El Hamidi @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Het is Dierendag en ik denk aan het vluchtelingenmeisje in Gaza dat met haar kat een veilig onderkomen zocht. Bless her soul.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gaza’s Greek Orthodox Church mourns and bids farewell to Maisa Daoud and her daughter Mari, who were killed when an Israeli strike hit their apartment in western Gaza City as they slept.💔😢🤬🇮🇱♾️
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't know. I've recently fully turned all AI features on on my work account. Now there's a 4 line summary above the 4 line emails that I get. The added value so far is very low overall.
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Paula Meijer-de Kok 🍀 PRO @paulasogno.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is not Hiroshima, this's Gaza. Gaza is nearly 3 times smaller than Hiroshima, and Israel dropped 223,000+ tonnes of explosives, equivalent of ~15 "Little Boy" ATOMIC BOMBS, on Gaza. The world hasn’t seen anything like the destruction in Gaza since Second World War. x.com/mhdksafa/sta...
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This is not Hiroshima, this's Gaza. Gaza is nearly 3 times smaller than Hiroshima, and Israel dropped 223,000+ tonnes of explosives, equivalent of ~15 "Little Boy" ATOMIC BOMBS, on Gaza. The world h...
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, they completely forget that they're not just stealing from artist. They also steal every piece of code they could get, including of course every piece of open source software, license be damned. Every forum were coders helped each other. And now, they are competing with all these projects.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lol, book a connection outside the US so you don't have to re-checkin your luggage.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is like, the opposite of staying in the moment
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RollendeRechter @rollenderechter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nou daar zijn we dan: de uitspraak. Of de minister het gaat doen is weer wat anders, maar de wet stelt dus dat de gegevens openbaar moeten zijn.
Rechter oordeelt: minister mag bedrijfsgegevens van boeren openbaar maken

De bedrijfsgegevens van honderden Flevolandse veehouders mogen openbaar worden gemaakt. Dat heeft de rechtbank in Utrecht vrijdag besloten. Milieustichting Mobilisation for the Environment (MOB) had om die openbaarmaking gevraagd en de minister van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur wees dat verzoek toe. Vier agrarische belangenorganisaties die het daar niet eens waren, stapten vervolgens naar de rechter.

Volgens de rechtbank mogen de gegevens openbaar worden gemaakt omdat informatie over de hoeveelheid veedieren en de plek waar de koeien, varkens en kippen worden houden iets zegt over de methaanuitstoot en de gevolgen voor omliggende natuurgebieden. Volgens de wet moeten deze gegevens openbaar zijn.
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Aurélien Morel (pew pews en tout genre) @aurelienmorel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Non mais comprenez, y'a eu des trucs abîmés, donc ça justifie de foncer dans un groupe de lycéens en voiture banalisée, clairement. En gazant au pif. C'est ça la bonne MO positive. Pas du tout des méthodes de bandits.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Insurance fraud!
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was at the Tippett studio sale and there were drawers of this stuff. For those concerned about archiving, I understand that most of the important materials had already gone to museums before the sale.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think we ever really find out, Steve...
A charming black-and-white illustration on an orange background shows Steve the otter standing upright in a witch’s hat and cape, holding a broom beside a pumpkin trick-or-treat bucket, in a whimsical cartoon style.  
Text in image: “Suddenly Steve realised he knew what he wanted to be for Halloween, but not what he wanted to be when he grew up.”
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026
Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.
Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's becoming clear the LOL/Bryson were *wildly* over optimistic about the amount of support they'd get from loyalist paramilitaries, or the broader Orange Lodge network and the protestant community in Portadown. Nor did they expect the cross community support for the GRRC protest.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I dont think I've really used bookmarks in my browser over the passed decade. With the enshittification of search engines and the internet in general I've started using th again, and it's glorious.
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Myrthe Hilkens @myrthehilkens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇵🇸 ♥️
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Het ICJ heeft voorwaarden aan Israel gesteld, om een genocide te voorkomen. Israel heeft deze niet uitgevoerd. Dus het is aannemelijk dat er een genocide plaatsvind. Onder de genocide conventie moet dit voorkomen worden. Als het voorkomen is, komt het niet voor het gerecht.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Genocide is zo'n zwaar delict dat we als land de verantwoordelijkheid hebben genomen het te voorkomen. Andere misdaden vervolgen we. Genocide moeten we voorkomen. We wachten dus niet af tot de daad vervolgd kan worden.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And yet, every time these models say something bad about their CEO, they suddenly know exactly how to control the models.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.
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Jelmer Visser @dietukkerfries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SCHAF DIE HYPOTHEEKRENTEAFTREK NOU GEWOON AF.
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Land van Ons @landvanons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
De eerste grootschalige Nederlandse rijstoogst is een feit, op ons perceel in Oud Ade! Al een paar jaar experimenteert onze teler Sander met tijst op ons perceel in Oud Ade, in samenwerking met Universiteit Leiden, WUR, Regio Holland Rijnland, Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the Baltic states, the UK and France are not invited to discuss the state of NATO with the USA, then the other European NATO states should refuse to attend as well. European security needs to be seen as a whole, only Putin (and Trump) wants to divide it up. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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@Marcel @elsschot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🙏 #PaulienCornelisse @volkskrant.nl
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This assumes the pain isn't the point. Yet for the cruel cheerleaders of the death penalty, pain and cruelty is the point. See the 2008 BBC documentary "How to kill a human, scroll to timestamp 47:41 Link to daily motion (note: contains shocking images) : dai.ly/x7qecbb
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ik, de Nederlander, heeft baat bij het bestaan van Oxfam Novib. En wil ook noteren dat het ondertussen een stuk beter in veel Afrikaanse landen gaat dan vlak nadat wij van het westen het continent hadden leeggeroofd.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“No matter how many times we hear this same horrendous information, it doesn’t get better and it keeps getting worse,” said Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at @detentionwatchnetwork.org. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Jan Leune @janleune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
VVD-topvrouw Dilan Yesilgoz lijkt even van de aardbodem verdwenen nu de kleine spaarders en beleggers zich gepakt voelen. Minister Heinen van Financiën staat er helemaal alleen voor. Ook Brekelmans en Karremans drukken hun snor.
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Plutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There the same image meme comparing a family guy poster and a Ted animated series poster.
Captions say:
Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.
They're the same picture
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lowest on record (1866-2026)! The water level in the Rhine keeps reaching new lows. 6.12 m above sea level already was a new all-time low in August, but now we're at 6.06 m, and still going down.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This animated map by @AaronJBecker shows the average colour of Europe from September 2024 to September 2026 based on satellite images. It's fun to look at your region changing colour through the seasons.
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Bergwelt🇨🇭 @bergwelt.me · 30/09/2026
Ende September: Das #Matterhorn ist schneefrei. 😢 Der #Klimawandel setzt den #Alpen immer mehr zu. Laut MeteoSchweiz war es von April bis September in der #Schweiz so warm und so trocken wie noch nie in den vergangenen 160 Jahren.
Vergleichsbild des Matterhorns vom 29. September 2026 und 29. September 2025. Oben ist die Landschaft rund um das Matterhorn weitgehend schneefrei und von grauem Geröll und Fels geprägt. Unten sind das Matterhorn und die umliegenden Hänge ein Jahr zuvor grossflächig mit Schnee bedeckt.
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NRC @nrc.nl · 30/09/2026
Vliegtuig van Dubai naar Tel Aviv maakt noodlanding: mogelijk sprake van geweld tussen bemanningsleden, Israël hield rekening met kaping
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Vliegtuig van Dubai naar Tel Aviv maakt noodlanding: mogelijk sprake van geweld tussen bemanningsleden, Israël hield rekening met kaping
Volgens vluchtvolgdienst Flightradar24 daalde het toestel binnen dertig seconden met 14.000 voet (4.267,2 meter), waarna een onbekende een noodsignaal afgaf.
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