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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Update my CD project post with the latest three albums I've added -- the unlikely trio of Tarja (ex-Nightwish), Beethoven (his Missa Solemnis) and Bob Marley and the Wailers. lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/wp-admin/…

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Just read The End of Everything by M John Harrison. The man is 81 years old, but his books just keep getting better. And weirder.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Achilles seems a pretty good candidate for the Idaho senate, but he has one weakness.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

New Ubuntu installation. I clicked 'add printer', it immediately saw my printer over the network, and then it printed my document! What's going on? Since when do such things just work?

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

NPO is op zoek naar een omroep die de deelname aan het Songfestival wil organiseren. Hebben ze al bij ON aangeklopt?

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Gas prices in the USA are apparently high enough to doom the Republican party. My friends, gas costs $4,32 a gallon in the US. That's €0,99 a liter. In the Netherlands, gas now costs €2,72 a liter. That's $11,88 a gallon. I haven't tanked gas as cheap as it's in the USA today for as long as I […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I wasn't really listening to music any more. I mean, I listened, but not with attention. Not sitting down with an album. Not discovering much new music either. So I started a project where I emulate building up a CD collection from scratch, one record at a time. I currently 'own' seven albums […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

One of the things I put on my birthday wish list was "a cd you think I should listen to." A friend gave me Berlin by Lou Reed. Wow. This is bleak. And great.

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Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Why does every website today look the way astalavista did in the 90s? Only difference is that the aggressive porn popups are now aggressive cookie popups. (We and our 1752 partners value your privacy!)

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I'm not saying that Paracelsus is a bad nickname, but who needs a nickname if he's called Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim? (Alas, the claim that the word 'bombastic' comes from his name seems to be false.)

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

In three weeks, I'll again be teaching my first year course on European philosophy in the 17th and 18th century. I like to start by pointing out that philosophers are unique in the attention they pay to their own history. Physicist won't get a 1st year course where they read the works of early […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

One of the many great things about going on holiday in Switzerland, is that back home in the Netherlands the amount you have to pay at the counter of any shop is such a pleasant surprise.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

One of the things that's strange about the USA when you walk around as a European, is how often you see the national flag. But I'm starting to think that maybe the Swiss can go toe to toe with the Americans. The flag is everywhere, including on every product you can buy in the supermarket […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Al ruim twintig jaar een baard, nog nooit uitgenodigd om mee te kaapren te varen.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Sadly, my YouTube audience doesn't seem to like #mercy! (I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately and want to write about it.)

List of my most recent YouTube videos ranked by views in the first eight hours. At the very bottom my new video on Alwynne Smart's paper "Mercy".

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I guess that's one way to make the entire world root for Belgium. #worldcup

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

YouTube hangt kennelijk een Verelendung-theorie van hun eigen app aan? Zeker dat boek over enshittification van @pluralistic gelezen. 😂

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

I was at a teaching training yesterday where the purposes of feedback were set out. One of them was: preparing the student for the workplace. So from now on, my feedback on essays will consist of two parts. The first part is titled "reviewer one", and gives oddly detailed comments on a few […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Googling world cup probabilities just sent me to an AI-powered prediction site that claims to combine 'Elo ratings, recent form analysis, squad strength assessment, and historical data to forecast World Cup 2026 outcomes with 73% accuracy rate in knockout stages.' They've got France and […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Some books I read in the past six weeks. For years (and years) I intermittently studied some French (and then neglected it again), trying to get to the turning point -- the point where I could just read a book in French for fun. If I only I could reach […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Eight French books: three Simenon detectives, two more detectives (Fred Vargas and Frédéric Lenormand), Exercises de Style by Queneau, Le rhinocéros by Ionesco, and Vie de Jésus by Renan.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Delicious fact: Scrooge McDuck, the great capitalist, is the brainchild of a guy called Carl Barks.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Ik ben een Maigret aan het lezen in het Frans. Af en toe als ik zin echt niet begrijp laat ik Google Lens een stukje vertalen. Werkt prima! Meestal dan. Ik ben er namelijk vrij zeker van dat als mevrouw Maigret aan het einde van het boek aan haar man vraagt: "Une pipe?", de juiste vertaling niet […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

I just got an email from a journalist who works for the quarterly journal of the main Dutch scientific grant organisation. They want to interview me for the upcoming issue of their journal. The theme of that issue is: Failure.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

In his book Aboutness, Stephen Yablo gives a definition of 'being true about'. A sentence can be false, but sill be true about part of its subject matter, and Yablo tries to capture this using a possible worlds analysis. I wrote a small post about why I think his construction fails […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Everywhere along their borders, the Germans have recently built checkpoints. Even apart from the traffic jams and fatal accidents to which this has led, I resent this betrayal of Europe.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

I was looking to buy some new albums from the French comic (bandes dessinées, #bd ) series Donjon by Sfar and Trondheim. You can't get that in the Netherlands, but surely in France! Comic store in Guebwiller: only manga. Comic store in Colmar: only manga. Finally found some in a general […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

The optimist thinks it was smart of me to bring a paper map. The pessimist thinks it was stupid of me to not charge my phone before a hike in the mountains with the 7yo. I like the optimist.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

When you look from the Grand Ballon in the French Vosges Mountains to the east, you have the beautiful sight of the Vosges foothills, then the Alsace plain, and then the German Black Forest mountains in the distance. But even more amazing is when you […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Foothills of the Vosges, seen from the Grand Ballon looking to the east, with behind the hills first the Alsace plain and then, in the distance, the low mountains of the Black Forest.

Highly zoomed in shot from the Grand Ballon to the south east, showing a few hills, then plains, then the Jura mountains... and behind those, in the far far distance, the white shapes of the Swiss Alps.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Today I realised that although everyone would translate English 'butterfly' as Dutch 'vlinder', this is in fact a nice case of language mismatch. In Dutch, we differentiate between 'dagvlinder' and 'nachtvlinder', day butterfly and night butterfly. But only the first are called butterflies in […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

The 10yo wants to light a candle in every church we visit. Not because he loves Jesus, but because he loves fire.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

It's hard to overstate how much better OpenStreetMap is than Google Maps, especially when it comes to walking/hiking. It's the difference between the unusable and the nearly perfect. (Showing Google Maps app and Organic Maps app.)

Google Maps just east of the Grand Ballon. Mostly just green, a few roads or paths, you can't see the difference, often going seemingly nowhere.

OpenStreetMap in Organic Maps, just east of the Grand Ballon. Many paths, clear altitude lines, names of cols and tops, perfect for planning a hike.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Want to study #philosophy? We're nearing the enrollment deadlines in Leiden, where there's a Dutch BA, but also an English BA in global and comparative philosophy, and several English philosophy MAs (including the new 2-year programma Philosophy of the Arts)! And a lot of great teachers, such as […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

In order to open the Strait of Hormuz, the USA will now block the Strait of Hormuz.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

[Risqué Heidegger Limerick] READY-AT-HAND Each morning before I go skiing, I unconceal all of my Being to Das Man in the street. I authentically need his care till my Zeug starts agreeing.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

The kids, 7 and 10, often take the bus to school, increasingly without me. No problem, and they like the responsibility and independence. Today, the bus driver got out of his bus, walked up to me, and told me in no uncertain terms that it's irresponsible to let kids that small travel alone […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Happy lose-an-hour weekend for those who celebrate!

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

@ionica Toch een gemiste kans dat het niet De Deugpartij is geworden. 😎

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

The 10yo has found a new way to irritate me. He sits next to me and starts repeating: "Microsoft is great! Microsoft is great! AI is great! Microsoft is great!"

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

I may have a small garden, but big enough for a tree with innumerable blossoms!

Branches against a blue sky, with houses at the right. The branches are full of small pink flowers.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

I would like to express my deeply negative emotions towards Noah Webster, whose changes to spelling (a) didn't make English spelling any easier, but (b) did make it a lot harder by introducing the distinction between US and British forms of words. Mister Webster: boo.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

I made a short video explaining Rorty's ideas on truth (and arguing that he is was certainly not advocating for a post-truth society): youtu.be/mHlwEBWX3gA

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

I don't want much. I just want us to treat every human being as valuable.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

SThere seem to be a lot of people who claim that (a) gender is genitals, and (b) God is male, but who somehow aren't willing to draw the logical conclusion!

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

There are no unlockable doors There are no unwinnable wars There are no unrightable wrongs or unsingable songs There are no unbeatable odds There are no believable Gods There are no unnameable names Shall I say it again, yeah? ... I love it, but doesn't he mean 'ununlockable' doors?

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Participating in IronChIF has made me hungry to write interactive fiction again! But I'm also hungry to write another book. And there's a few articles I'm hungry to write. So much hunger.

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