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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Going out on a limb here that transforming NATO into a protection racket will have dire long term negative consequences for the US specifically and the alliance as a whole. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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US to build new military bases in Greenland as deal seeks to end tensions between Nato allies - as it happened

Agreement signed at the UN general assembly in New York

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎵 Daddy's doing Sister Sally Grandma's dying of cancer now The cattle all have brucellosis We'll get through somehow 🎶 youtu.be/cUyNBEzJTNE?...

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Warren Zevon - Play It All Night Long

YouTube video by BlancotronCC

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Friendship as rescue from political loneliness" @europeanisa.bsky.social

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

EISA friends of Friendship & Positive Peace, our very first panel "at a Crossroads? German Foreign Policy towards Israel/Palestine" is about to begin. We have 5 (!) more panels lined up this week @europeanisa.bsky.social

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In dire need of 10k and a private museum.

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Faced with something—someone—so ultimately unknowable, perhaps the best that anyone can do is decide on their own version of the truth and stick to it." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Rosenberg Boys

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened...

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

De schaduw rukt nu op, het is Een teken hoe de dag verglijdt En opgaat in geschiedenis Doeko Bosscher (1949-2026)

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power, – A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong To him as his to me. www.kellscraft.com/wantsman.html

kellscraft.com

The Wants of Man

Kellscraft Studio

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection" www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

currentaffairs.org

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It's the fragment, not the day It's the pebble, not the stream It's the ripple, not the sea That is happening Not the building, but the beam Not the garden, but the stone Only cups of tea And history And someone in a tree www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoK...

youtube.com

Someone in a Tree - Stereo - Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast

YouTube video by Broadway Classics

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Best student mail ever: "I wanted to write to apologize for some spelling errors in my paper, particularly the mistake regarding Dick van Len(g)te."

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"The footage appears to contradict US President Donald Trump’s claim that it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28."

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Coincidence By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying Dorothy Parker

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I dread the dawn's recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find no peace in paint or type. My world is but a lot of tripe. I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted. For what I think, I'd be arrested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...

youtube.com

Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital -- scene from the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

YouTube video by ligia.kesisian

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A dream lies dead here Walk not in woe, But, for a little, let your step be slow. And, of your mercy, be not sweetly wise With words of hope and Spring and tenderer skies. share.google/VdI9sJ2F412q...

share.google

Voetica Poetry Spoken

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"Ayatollah’s got his problems too And even Jimmy Carter’s got the highway blues I went and asked the Governor ’cause I thought that he would know You see I knew he’d been up all night listening to Mohammed’s radio" youtu.be/REYBMks2q3w?...

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Warren Zevon - Mohammed's Radio - 4/18/1980 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

YouTube video by Roadtrip Rock

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“We are at enormous risk if we overestimate our conscious ability to differentiate [AI] from a real person – and that’s what we’re watching play out with the psychosis stories,” share.google/eRTg7qNxGlmZ...

share.google

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"How dare you say shit about our fair city and our single child, when you won’t even help your own" clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🎵 Cover me in sunshine Shower me with good times Tell me that the world's been spinning since the beginning And everything will be alright Cover me in sunshine 🎶

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Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org · 11/02/2026

"Germany and its European allies should think about deeper military integration," writes Liana Fix for Foreign Affairs. "Because the United States has been pulling back, Europe will need to find military formats and structures outside NATO with which to defend itself."

foreignaffairs.com

Europe's Next Hegemon

The perils of German power.

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A kind reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts for @europeanisa.bsky.social (Lissabon) is 18 February. We are section S43 Friendship & Positive Peace Studies, and you can submit through the EISA portal: eisa-net.org/pec-2026/

eisa-net.org

PEC 2026 | EISA

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"sovereignty and national borders are less important than the singular role the United States plays as the protector of the West" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

“When you have a group of kids you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

nytimes.com

‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I dread the dawn’s recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find no peace in paint or type. My world is but a lot of tripe. I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted. For what I think, I’d be arrested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...

youtube.com

Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital -- scene from the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

YouTube video by ligia.kesisian

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Since WHEN do ssds mount on the motherboard

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@rianjohnson.bsky.social dear creator-of-the-best-star-wars-film-ever, I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

My cups break. My lasagne falls upside down. What is this november

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

2009 "But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?" grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on November 19, 1975, I want to reshare my contextual history review of the film that doubles as a guide for thinking through our reactions to films, why we feel the ways we do, with my own thinking as a case study.

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I'm a God Damn Marvel of Modern Film Scholarship – Black and White and Read All Over

A Contextual History Approach to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next (1975 [Content Warning: Mention of suicide] [Contains light spoilers] Poster for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) via IMDb One Fl...

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't know me"

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

"None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a bi disk. When it stands its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds." www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

smithsonianmag.com

Japan's Love-Hate Relationship With Cats

From shapeshifters to demonic corpse eaters, supernatural cats have roamed for centuries in the country's folklore

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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Final call to jump onboard our "Friendship & Positive Peace" section for @europeanisa.bsky.social in 2026. Deadline is 17/11

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