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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 1h

Today's gig: Karlovy Vary, Czechia, with about 100 natural springs.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 6h

Even in Czechia, they know where there's always money

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/10/2026

Guess I don't need to worry too much about how my hair will be received here in Czechia - got a big thumbs up from a few salon workers.

Purple haired man posing in front of an ad with a blue haired woman.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/10/2026

Today's gig - rehearsing in a spa hotel somewhere in Bohemia.... #trombone

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 05/10/2026

The girl's come home from Japan (my wife got to chaperone her on the trip home), and now she'll officially registered with the municipality of The Hague...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 04/10/2026

We just got home from a walk, this one ran off looking guilty, my Mac was playing music instead of being asleep, and I'm now locked out of my account. I think she must have been looking for kitty porn.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 30/09/2026

I think I just got gay bashed - maybe? Walking in Oost, some kid runs into me from behind on the sidewalk with his bike, almost knocking me over. As he cycled off I heard him say "kanker homo met je blauwe haar" (basically, "cancer dag with your blue hair"). Not sure what to think or feel about it.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 30/09/2026

80% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during my lifetime?!?!

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 28/09/2026

The sophisticated beauty of a cat that just managed to tip her bed off the desk and fall to the floor. In the middle of a Zoom call. I may need to find a new intern.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 27/09/2026

By the way, the first solo on this number we haven't played for at least six months and on which you've never soloed is for you...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 22/09/2026

Looks like I'll be ending my 57th year with fewer teeth than I began it.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 21/09/2026

This scratched an itch of which I was previously unaware. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFP...

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Troker: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 18/09/2026

Business cat has some feedback on my KPIs... (kitty petting indicators)

Tuxedo cat luxuriously reclining in an LL Bean briefcase

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 16/09/2026

Read #47 for 2026: The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck Maybe more relevant now than it was when I first read it in high school. I'd forgotten how angry the book is. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Grapes of Wrath

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the la...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 15/09/2026

Article in Het Parool today says that the big train disturbance is because someone attached pipes to the train tracks in 23 different locations.

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Sabotage Police

Alt: Clip from Beastie Boys Sabotage video

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 14/09/2026

Discovered that I'd accidentally been carpooling (bikepooling?) today. She seemed annoyed that I destroyed her web cycling home but was already busy reconstructing.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 12/09/2026

Today's Frankenbrunch: gnocchi alla romano rancheros

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 10/09/2026

Just about twenty years ago, I got engaged. At Oktoberfest. On a roller coaster. That was a cheap Star Wars knockoff. While wearing a mask. It's going well so far.

Two very young people who have just become engaged, wearing plastic masks and showing off a bit of string used as an ersatz engagement ring.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/09/2026

Had a pretty good boat ride and sunset last Sunday...

My wife and I on our boat, on the Singel in Amsterdam just behind the flower market.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/09/2026

Read #46 for 2026 - The Gone World, Tom Sweterlitsch Not sure if this was from a review or a humble bundle, but wasn't expecting this combination of body horror, time loops, and crime investigation. Really good stuff. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Gone World

The Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar. The terrifying, thrilling and ingenious science-fiction thriller from Tom Sweterlitsch. Film rights bought by Twentieth Century Fox with Neil Blomkamp (Dis...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/09/2026

Read #45 for 2026 - Storm Watch, CJ Box (audiobook) A bit more fun than others in the series, but Bitcoin mining as a major plot point in 2023? I guess Wyoming is pretty far behind the times, but still... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/stor...

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Storm Watch: Perfect for fans of Yellowstone

THE VOICE OF THE AMERICAN WESTDon’t miss CJ Box’s latest thriller, The Crossroads, where Joe’s daughters investigate the attempted murder of their father... Available to order now.Joe Pickett investig...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/09/2026

So I'm rereading Grapes of Wrath for the first time since high school in the mid 80s. I'm pretty sure I don't remember automatic seeders being compared to penes giving the earth orgasms or bestiality jokes. I wonder if I got a bowdlerized version, or if I was just that clueless at 14?

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 02/09/2026

Always good to have a massive plate of vegan diner right before a 2 1/2 hour orchestra rehearsal. Oh boy was it good, though.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 30/08/2026

Every time we eat dinner out on our bench, we get judged from above by Shitten.

A white cat staring down at us from the first floor.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/08/2026

DuoLingo getting frighteningly accurate...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/08/2026

I told Abbie I was going to buy the painting and glue it to the bedroom ceiling

A photo of my wife standing next to a painting of my wife

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 28/08/2026

If I ever develop a mutant superpower I hope it's the ability to vaporize the phones of people taking pictures or movies in concert halls

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 25/08/2026

Mahler 7 tonight...only one more summer concert to go....

Interior of the Concertgebouw in on Amsterdam

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 23/08/2026

Today's fun solve-at-home mystery: who pissed in the laundry hamper?

A small white cat who may have pissed in the laundry hamper

An older black cat who may have pissed in the laundry hamper

A large white cat who consistently shits on the floor but is probably too big to have pissed in the laundry hamper

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 17/08/2026

Recognize this guy? He had a stroke in Amsterdam 3 years ago, has aphasia and nobody knows who he is. Maybe 'Lucky,' maybe 'Chris from Canada.'

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 17/08/2026

So this ceiling lamp for some reason waita a random amount of time to turn on - anywhere from a minute to a few hours. Working in the dark this morning for two hours, then in a Zoom my colleague asks if I can shed some light on a topic. The timing was PERFECT.

A ceiling lamp that finally decided to turn on two hours after I flipped the switch

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 17/08/2026

Just booked our flights for the trip to the Galapagos and Machu Picchu today. I have about six months to learn how to spell Machu Picchu correctly without looking it up...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 14/08/2026

Tonight it's the Sibelius violin concerto and Tchaikovsky's 6th - Pathetique.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 12/08/2026

A unique way to watch the eclipse in Amsterdam!

Someone treading water in the Amsterdam inner harbor hoisting a flag and watching the eclipse.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 12/08/2026

So I'm watching the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert, and remembering my favorite book as a child and my favorite muppet, and I'm starting to suspect why I started dying my hair purple and blue a few years ago.

Cover of The Monster at the End of This Book, starrring Grover from the muppets.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 11/08/2026

Another super interesting thread from Cory; I guess it's time to read Picketty. It's always too tempting to look for root-level explanations for - all of this - but r > g is a really good lens! I'm reminded of seeing @eosnos.bsky.social talk in Amsterdam about how the gilded age ultra rich avoided

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Turns out it happened on July 23rd. Give him a boost and let's do something nice

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 11/08/2026

Looks like it's an I need an ibuprofen to tie my shoes day.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 09/08/2026

Wagner and Mahler 5 tonight

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 09/08/2026

Using some courgettes from our friend Jolijn's garden. Puff pastry with a base of whipped mascarpone, feta, mint, pomegranate syrup, and pickled lemon. No idea how it's going to turn out

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 04/08/2026

Ninja, guarding the entrance

White cat starting down at me in judgement

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