Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Don't be too hard on yourself. Allow yourself to write crap too. Keep going, Amelia! 010
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here's the same light source before we rolled into the night, seen from Lisse, The Netherlands 120
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 20/03/2026De @nos heeft nog niet door dat Hegseth een doelbewuste oorlogsminister is. Er is niets defensief aan de VS. 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The shamrock is still there on a rare keystone in the arch above a sluice opening. Photo credits: Jelmer Krom 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Kies Leven Jezus Christus .nl vloog over ons heen tijdens een heerlijke strandwandeling. Sommige mensen schamen zich nergens voor. 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 21/01/2026If you're a runner, go US Big Tech free. It's all there. No excuses: 010
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 11/01/2026That time of the year again in Holland. One Night's Ice. 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Nothing can stop The Sun, The Wind, The Water and The Sand. Today in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Happy Christmas! 020
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Brilliant Christmas Concert by The Lasses and Leonie Jansen in Noordwijk, yesterday. 020
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Shout NO! to #ChatControl. This is mass surveillance and undermines a free society. Imagine an extreme govt having these advantages over its people. 010
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Time for another demo. We won't stay silence during a genocide. 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Sunday 21 Sept. in the old city of Leiden, you'll meet one of my friends! Pray for good weather and don't miss it! www.glibbertreel.nl 111
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Thanks to @propublica.org for confirming what we already knew. Isn't it grand boys? To be an average American taxpayer? 100
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Team Genocide making my favourite race complicit in mass murder. #Genocycling #TourDeFrance 001
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 25/05/202518/6/1936 The #Zionism crocodile under protection of British officer to Palestinians: "don't be afraid!!! I will swallow you peacefully..." #StopIsrael #FreePalestine Source: Sufian, Sandy (1/1/2008). "Anatomy of the 1936–39 Revolt: Images of the Body in Political Cartoons of Mandatory Palestine". 020
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Massive anti-Israel protest in The Netherlands. At last. Stop the genocide. 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Little Kingdom Holland celebrating its royal family, meaningless, opinionless, for the fun of it. Having fun is a good thing. Enjoy, fellow Dutchies. Up the Republic! 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Some pictures of an old tourist map of the #Bollenstreek with places like #Sassenheim, #Voorhout, #Warmond and #Leiden, The Netherlands. I have no date, but "bombed area" makes clear that it's post WWII. 220
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Current state of the flower fields. Nice to see it growing! 010
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025And Amazon Web Services alone is in use at 1.3m companies, acc. to Thomson Data. Quite likely that they depend on AWS. To name a few: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Airbnb, McDonald’s, Kellogg’s, Reddit, Facebook, Netflix and Linkedin. More via the link: www.thomsondata.com/customer-bas... 000
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Thinking of the owner and what happened to him or her to neglect their boat like this. (Sorry for the tilted photo) 020
Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My fiets ride today went partly along the man made canal from the city of Leiden to Haarlem, which was dug to have a smooth way of public transport for both people and mail. Its first use was 1657, when this part of Holland was a republic of 7 provinces, after a rebellion against the King of Spain. 011