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ORCID 0000-0002-4836-6568. #tfr Internationalist. Open Access. EU Citizen, ex-UK resident. ⓐ = I claim no rights other than attribution, and even that I'm […] [bridged from mastodon.online/@villavelius on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20h
"Schrödinger's chat" podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-i…
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Schrödinger’s chat: can AI and scientists co-exist?
Podcast Episode · The Intelligence from The Economist · 16 October · 28min
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22h
Reality doesn't do unimaginable.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Callicarpa. Doet het ook goed in Nederland.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Lasted less than half of one Scaramucci. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Some people actually offer hope. www.theguardian.com/business/2026/o…
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‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality
Exclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Mind versus machine: can biological models of the mind inspire machine intelligence design? www.frontiersin.org/journals/artifi…
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Frontiers | Mind versus machine: can biological models of the mind inspire machine intelligence design?
Models of human cognition that look biologically plausible might in principle be a source of insights that could prove applicable to machine intelligence. Th...
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
US citizens, when you're voting Republican on November 3rd, you're voting for the Trump regime, for genocide, for the destruction of Ukraine, for the destruction of the ICC, in favour of impunity for war crimes, for unprecedented corruption, and against a reasonably civilised world order. Don't […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
"When someone develops a mental health condition that risks causing serious harm to others, it is customary to hold them in a secure facility where the risk can be contained." https:// robinlustig.substack.com/
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
In line with Trump's ego? www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy8lx3pg…
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US inflation rises more than expected ahead of midterm elections
The pace of price rises increased to 3.7% in the year to September, driving by higher motor fuel costs.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Are we witnessing the demise of Western civilization? It appears so.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
That figures, she's corrupt. And as we know, licet Iovi non licet bovi. (Translation: what is allowed for Trump is not allowed for the dumb. ) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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Kimberly Guilfoyle ousted as US ambassador to Greece after alleged misconduct
White House told Guilfoyle, who is alleged to have sought a bill payment from a Trump donor, to resign from post
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Niet allen in Nederland, maar ook in het VK ligt het gevaar voor de samenleving niet bij asielzoekers, maar bij uiterst rechts. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oc…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Looking at the various conflicts and wars around the world, it seems that MAD, mutually assured destruction, does not need nuclear weapons. Nor is mutual destruction deterred by those weapons. MAD just needs forever wars, which, by definition, are here to stay.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Waarom kan die temperatuurregeling niet lokaal worden gedaan ipv centraal via het internet? "De aanval vond plaats in de nacht van zondag op maandag en was gericht op de controlesystemen van de koeling, gemaakt door het Deense bedrijf Danfoss." […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Funny, that. I would have thought the US would be needing a new leader, much more urgently than Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Ik ben het met hem eens. Oud-premier Schoof: 'Oekraïne-beleid VS niet meer te volgen na aantreden Trump' nos.nl/l/2634249
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Oud-premier Schoof: 'Oekraïne-beleid VS niet meer te volgen na aantreden Trump'
Schoof zegt in een podcast dat de Amerikanen zich steeds op het laatste moment terugtrokken uit onderhandelingen.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Zij is de diametrale tegenhanger van Trump. Chapeau, Nobel Comité! Nobelprijs voor de Vrede naar Zuid-Afrikaanse ICC-rechter Navi Pillay nos.nl/l/2634250
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Vredesprijs voor Zuid-Afrikaanse mensenrechtenchef en ICC-rechter Navi Pillay
Ze was Hoge Commissaris voor de Mensenrechten van de Verenigde Naties. Momenteel behandelt ze namens het Internationaal Gerechtshof de genocidezaak tegen Myanmar.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
We call her Yuki, because she's a refugee and has a Ukrainian (pet)passport.
Yuki looking at youki
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
The illusionist fooling himself. Best not to mention his name.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Zou je zo ook schapen kunnen beschermen tegen wolven? news.mongabay.com/2026/09/turning-v…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Dat zou, grosso modo, ook wel eens voor individuele landen kunnen gelden. www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/de-…
'De mens kon alleen uitgroeien tot de machtigste soort op aarde door voor de zwakke exemplaren te zorgen'
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Many people seem to love being dissatisfied. That's why they vote for someone who appears to guarantee that they'll be even more dissatisfied. This popular strategy is known as "winning is losing".
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
In his book 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence' Norman Dixon describes the tendency of the military to prepare for the previous war. Pete Hegseth takes it several steps further. He prepares for midiaeval testosterone-heavy wars with swords, halberds, and poleaxes and the like. Brilliant […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Waarom zouden ze dat nou doen? 'Veel datacenters in Nederland houden water- en stroomverbruik geheim' nos.nl/l/2633080
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'Veel datacenters in Nederland houden water- en stroomverbruik geheim'
Uit cijfers die wel beschikbaar zijn, blijkt dat de milieubelasting stijgt, meldt Trouw.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
No shame www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/netany…
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DPG Media Privacy Gate
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
"Questions are raised as to whether the adaptable and highly creative character of evolved intelligence is reproducible in artificial systems" Mind versus machine: can biological models of the mind inspire machine intelligence design? www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.338…
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Frontiers | Mind versus machine: can biological models of the mind inspire machine intelligence design?
Models of human cognition that look biologically plausible might in principle be a source of insights that could prove applicable to machine intelligence. Th...
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
#Trump is facing a slow rise in Congressional #Republicans pushback, even if small, on tariffs, foreign wars (Ukraine, Venezuela, Iran), federal spending, DOGE, immigration, and corruption. And now science. From Dave McCormick, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania: "I’m a Republican senator […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
False friends: Immerschlimmerismus is German for pessimism; immerslimmerisme is Dutch for optimism.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Doesn't history – as well as contemporary news – seem to show that the human race is particularly fond of destruction? Probably part of creation's 'intelligent design'.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
De tragiek van de macht. 25 jaar 'War on Terror' heeft de VS op het wereldtoneel vooral verzwakt nos.nl/l/2631719
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25 jaar 'War on Terror' heeft de VS op het wereldtoneel vooral verzwakt
De strijd tegen terroristen heeft gezorgd voor ondermijning van het vertrouwen in de VS als wereldmacht, zeggen experts. "Het probleem van terrorisme is daarnaast alleen maar groter geworden."
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Despicable. Unconscionable. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Artificial Insanity edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics…
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Lees dit boek. www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/querido/b… #Israel #Palestine
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Staat van verbeelding - Singel Uitgeverijen
‘De politieke realiteit is altijd het product van menselijk denken en handelen. Dit maakt geen enkel feit tot een voldongen feit. De werkelijkheid kan altijd anders.’ Staat van verbeelding is een historische reis door Palestina-Israël en een zoektocht naar de feiten én fabels die het langdurige conflict in het Midden-Oosten voortdrijven. Het is een urgente […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
'Immerschlimmerismus' (ever-getting-worse-ism). German is a wonderful language.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
If you're planning a train journey through Germany, it's best to reconsider. Delays and cancellations and overcrowded trains are rife, with only standing places avaulable, as the reservations you might have had are not valid on the later train going some 2,5 hours after the cancelled one you […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Doesn't look good for the regime www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Buying votes. The bane of elections. Read Against Elections (www.goodreads.com/book/show/3095727…) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se…
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Against Elections: The Case for Democracy
Democracy is in bad health. Against Elections offers a …
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
"The Anglo-Jewish community is committed to a Jewish state that is founded, not on oppression and violence, but, in the words of Israel’s declaration of independence, ‘on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel’.” Quite […]
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Het niveau van de leesvaardigheid in Nederland is bedroevend. Ik geef toe dat de tekst op dit bordje niet de meest eenvoudige is, en hij blijkt dan ook erg vaak niet te worden begrepen.
Bord met de tekst 'verboden voor honden'
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Ga er maar van uit dat het land steeds meer kennismigranten nodig heeft. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/leesva…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
I wonder how the other German Länder will cope with the influx of refugees from Saxony-Anhalt if the AfD takes the political reins there.
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Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
#Harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a #CognitiveVirus” "Think about how a #virus operates: It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself. An #LLM cannot execute, compute, or […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Abstract  Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show that the interplay between social transmission, recovery, and collective reinforcement can generate tipping points and technological lock-in. A central consequence is the possibility of runaway dynamics: once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence. The same framework, however, identifies conditions for cognitive immunization, based on reducing transmission and facilitating reversibility. Our results highlight how LLM adoption may involve nonlinear collective transitions with important consequences for cognitive autonomy.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Machina sapiens? Nieuw tijdperk van superintelligente AI aangebroken, zegt OpenAI nos.nl/l/2629704
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Zolang ik me kan herinneren was en is er woningnood/kamernood. Het lijkt wel een cosmische constante.
Maarten van Rossem: De kamernood in 1962 was precies even groot of nog groter dan de kamernood tegenwoordig is.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
I noticed a shocking deterioration in the Google Translate results today (German to English). It used to have some flaws, but never as ridiculous as today. Judge for yourself. #GoogleTranslate
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Object lesson for right-whiners: never trust your fellow right-whingers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se…
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Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
It's almost as if pest control is being aimed at the farmers themselves. www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Koekje van eigen deeg, lijkt me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se…
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
The mnemonic for the Great Lakes was HOMES. Trump made it into SHAME.
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪 @villavelius.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Lake Canada Superior from now on?
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