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Really, only three? I think we have three locations where you can donate plasma in Amsterdam.

And if you're cool with needles, donate plasma! It's super cool to watch them separate it and then pump the platelets back into you. Had to start taking arthritis medicine so I'm not allowed to any more....

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 8h

You can find some real gourmet cat food flavors there. We always bring back treats for the cats when we go to Italy.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 8h

I assume you've met Arthur Brand...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 9h

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

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 13h

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

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

He could finally catch up on all the news he hasn't been aware of

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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 · 08/10/2026

Look up what murdering 1700 civilians looks like, you sociopath.

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

Look up what zero sum means.

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

1. This is Bluesky. Use alt text. 2. Anyone who's pro-Hamas or celebrates 7 October is a piece of garbage. It's not a zero sum game.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

What the hell are you talking about?

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

And how do you figure out how to replace it?

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

OK, good to know you've thought about how to tackle the underlying systemic problem.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

So what's your solution, then?

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

It's either Cornell funds a study / commission or nothing happens.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

So you'd prefer the status quo?

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

Do you expect her to volunteer or for Yale to pay?

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 06/10/2026

I mean, of course Kafka can act as an event bus. You're mixing up the logical and physical architecture, I think.

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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 · 05/10/2026

There does seem to be a lot of main character thinking on both sides over there.

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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 · 03/10/2026

There's a very successful "Science and Cocktails" series of lectures at local music venues here in Amsterdam, so I bet it would work!

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 02/10/2026

Now that I'm working at a place that does everything on Google docs, I just wish there *were* a folder structure.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 01/10/2026

I have a feeling a lot of folks are frustrated with D66s embrace of the right - I'm certainly considering switching to PRO / GroenLinks.

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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 · 30/09/2026

Did you read through the FAQ? I guess there's some stuff they can't say due to privacy, but it looks like they're trying to push blame onto the DA for not prosecuting - specifically say they forwarded the chats to the DA. And the poor woman's been doxxed on twitter now...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/09/2026

I'd like to think that we in KDR were all such dorks that things like this never happened, but...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/09/2026

I was sitting on my bench on the sidewalk one day last year when something fell from the sky onto the brick street. Turned out a crow had found some kind of a shellfish in the canal. Transatlantic corvid culture!

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/09/2026

We've got the three body problem: one on regular food, one on low calorie food, and one on kidney friendly food.

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

Counterpoint - when I took college calc in high school, the prof caught me reading a David Eddings novel in class. He told me if I was going to read read something good and gave me his copy of Dhalgren.

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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 · 28/09/2026

The one issue he appears actually to be aware of and his opinion is this stump dumb.

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

Maybe the (Dutch) East India Companies as well. Of course, that's all the Western / European perspective. I'm sure other places had a few bedrock human systems that were critical to their functioning.

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

Guess who's trying to write up the standard at my organization for how we define and manage criticality, as legally defined by multiple regulations? FUN!

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

Yeah - visible tattoos are not allowed at most onsens.

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

How's that going to work with Japan? My wife is there now and brought along a huge roll of tape to cover her tats up in the onsens. They do look really nice.

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