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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 10h

As a foreigner, what is this blank space? That “hic sunt dragones” void looks ready for populating!

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 17h

Black country, new road concert in Miami was fantastic!

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vienna also has a smaller population now than in 1910. Losing an empire and having minorities murdered creates housing, I guess.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JD Vance’s Appalachia: famously a high trust “society”.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They’re directionally right. If they also deported all the Scott’s-Irish, Germans, Italians, Irish, English and everyone really except the Dutch, America could be a high trust society again.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The part I don’t understand, is that for the US harvest season purposes, this is too late anyway. Harvest runs from June through October.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What was his worst? Keeping his planes grounded for a day after Pearl Harbor? Not preparing the Philippines for invasion?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Loblaw? Bob Loblaw? From Bob Loblaw’s lawblog?

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You know that only good things can happen, right?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Als straks de enige overgebleven banen artisanale kaasmaker of rijke mensen masseur zijn, ga ik persoonlijk de PMC revolutie tegen AI leiden.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s the most common mortgage in the Netherlands

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Best thing I’ve read in a very long time. samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrio...

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The carrion-eaters

What we did to Jason Arday

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Woke 2 must claim all they love: Copenhagen chew tobacco, mission BBQ, lifted trucks. Having these must be signs of the woke.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It was Joe Weisenthal that once said that 60-40 is the smart person’s 50-50. If the 60 happens, you look smart, and if the 40 happens? Well, that was still a very reasonable chance.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Also seemed that the Spanish government pretty much ignored the ruling, right?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I don’t see anyone really raising this (yet), but the prolonged “pushback” Spain is doing in Ceuta is probably not currently legal right?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My problem is that she goes beyond critiqueing the movie and is describing what she thinks the movie ought to be (centering victims, not having Oddy’s PTSD as a central theme etc.).

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’ve been wondering why they haven’t gone after the major airports yet. Terminals/parked jets are very juicy targets.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You know what is great about the US? 2 people work each register at the supermarket. One for ringing up, one for bagging. Quite a relieve after weeks of AH.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You should do a pod with Ross Douthat about this movie.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I just wonder if Ukraine started to play the UAE/Russia game and is funding podcasters. Seems like good value for money.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s highly problematic that all classes below me are slobs and all those above me are snobs.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

>why are they bombing us Childish delusions. Childish delusions. Childish delusions. None of you are free of childish delusions.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Some of us do, but your feelings are of course justified.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

On the one hand yes, on the other hand, Biden, Starker and Dutch PM Jetten show it somehow is effective when done by the right.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The weaponization fund seems to stick?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

De begeleidende foto is niet helemaal eerlijk. De Telegraaf nodigt bij verkiezingen alle grote lijsttrekkers uit om voor een dag gasthoofdredacteur te zijn. Een versie van deze foto bestaat ook van Jetten en Timmermans.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Yeah I’m not against that. But that’s not different than the current Western European model. What new thing is the “degrowth” movement trying to accomplish in that case?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I don’t think redistribution, except for at the billionaire level, is going to be very popular either. In our mostly meritocratic societies a lot of folks at the bottom are there deservedly. And even if we do redistribute, 10 years later inequality will move back to the mean (some save, some don’t)

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In 6 years he’ll be trying to fend off a right wing challenger to his Senate seat.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Aan de andere kant, is het voor het milieu en de Europese consument echt zo slecht als we massaal super goedkope elektrische auto’s, zonnepanelen en batterijen uit China kopen?

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The EU can start doing “safety inspections” at Calais, Gibraltar and Denmark and confiscate violators. It can also ban flags of certain nations if they don’t meet safety requirements. Not a bad idea.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

You can say what you want about the Jacobins, at least it was an ethos.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The French Revolution was started by middle aged women marching on Versailles.

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Lugdunum Batavorum @zantinge.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Serious question, if the strait is closed for longer than a few weeks, how does food get to all the metropolises in the Gulf?

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