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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

New capsule reviews at my CD Project: Pharos by Ihsahn; a 1999 album of various artists in the goth/metal corner; I Robot by Alan Parsons Project; Let It Be by The Beatles; and Let It Be by Laibach. lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php…

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

De eerste keer dat ik studentassistent bij een vak was, dat was Thermische Fysica, kwam ik in een discussie terecht met een eerstejaars student natuurkunde die erg eigenwijs was (duh) en die ik een uur lang niet heb kunnen overtuigen van de waarheid over het drie deuren probleem. Ik heb wel even […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

Having just carefully listened to Let It Be by the Beatles (the album) and then to the bizarre cover album Let It Be by Laibach, I'm willing to go on the record claiming that the Laibach version is more fun, more interesting, more musically inventive, and just overall better. I started out […]

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

@Wilhelm_Grafe Yeah! It might not be a dead mouse, of course, and I have seen no signs of living ones. Could be a dead bird in the gutter, or something else entirely...

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

My study smells like dead mouse. But I can't find the source. This is distracting...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/10/2026

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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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 · 21/09/2026

@kevinzollman.com In my experience, that are the scientists like that, but there are also the scientists who have a lot of respect because they just work on the assumption that other fields have their own experts.

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@stefan_hessbrueggen I'm a big big fan of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, but for some reason I've never delved much into the rest of Sellars! At some point I should change that...

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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 · 11/09/2026

@ionica Een MA student wier scriptie ik had begeleid gaf mij als cadeau een stempel met de dikke rode tekst: NOT PHILOSOPHY. Die gebruik ik soms stiekem op preprints van bevriende collegas. 😇

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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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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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 · 04/09/2026

@ionica Wel geruststellend dat er vlamvertragers in het water zitten!

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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 · 27/08/2026

@twebr En welke mogelijkheden ze dan ontdekten. "Ik kwam erachter dat het ook mogelijk is om failliet te gaan!"

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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 · 19/08/2026

@ionica Ik gaf het bericht een like, maar van binnen huil ik!

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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

Prime example. Even on tropical drink they could find something Swiss about it, and hence an opportunity to slap the flag onto it! ("Swiss quality drinking water." Not that dirty stuff that comes out of the tap in Germany, or, gasp, France!)

Bottle of Oasis tropical drink, with a Swiss flag and "Swiss quality drinking water".

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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

@ionica Lieke Marsman, Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden.

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

@consequently It's only about 2.5 hours from where I live, but somehow I still haven't planned a city trip. 😄

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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 · 29/06/2026

@ionica #Polderprikker nummer 28 — 4853/5000 🟩981 🟦1000 🟦1000 🟨872 🟦1000 Leuk ja! Had bij de eerste nog niet door dat je kan inzoomen. 😄 Maar ze zijn zo wel snel door de echt gemakkelijke heen, lijkt me...

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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 · 06/06/2026

@ionica Mooi stukje. Maar ik geloof dat het FD de grammatica van het woord 'respectievelijk' niet helemaal begrijpt!

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

@ionica @lonnyfennis.bsky.social Geen logische implicatie inderdaad, maar misschien wel conversational implicature? 🤔

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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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