@wgavandijk
Programmer. Female. Business woman. Married with another woman since 2005 (together since 1986). Open source. Vegetarian. The Netherlands. Classic liberal. Pro-EU. Metalhead. Pro-Ukraine. I am T, B, A and Q in LGBTQIA+.
Zes fietsen van mij gestolen in 3 jaar in Delft.
Daarna 0 in 14 jaar in Amsterdam.
En daarna 0 in 25 jaar in Echt.
Oh, en voor Delft woonde ik in Nijmegen (die mooie stad waar ik geboren ben en ook ietwat opgroeide): 0 in 20 jaar.
⚡️ Zelenskyy: More Patriot missiles were fired in the Middle East in three days than Ukraine’s entire supply.
🥳✨📚 #exovida is binnen! om verschillende redenen duurt het nog tot half april voordat onze graphic novel (met illustrator adriaan bijloo) over buitenaards leven in de winkel ligt, maar vandaag ontving ik al vooruit-exemplaren, en het ziet er fan-tas-tisch uit! meer info: www.menlu.nl/producten/ca...
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
1/ Russians shouldn't help to defend Iran, suggests Russian journalist and politician Andrei Medvedev. He argues that Iran was a long-time enemy of Russia and more recently merely a fair-weather friend that only ever did what it thought would most benefit it at the time. ⬇️
Miklo’s Nyiszli (1901-1956) was patholoog-anatoom en jood van geboorte. Deze laatste kwalificatie bracht hem als gevangene van de nazi’s in 1944 in Auschwitz waar hij vanwege zijn achtergrond werd aangesteld als assistent van Mengele, de beruchte kamparts. www.liberales.be/teksten/2026...
Summary: A lawsuit to have the chatbot Grok banned immediately. According to the Dutch organizations, the ability to "undress" people without consent creates many victims and immediate action is needed to prevent new victims. The fake nude images are often used to blackmail people.
Yes, anyone did.
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Opnieuw een weerzinwekkend beeld van protest tegen een tijdelijk opvangcentrum voor asielzoekers in Nederland. En opnieuw met (neo)nazisymbolen. Het extreemrechts gif sijpelt steeds dieper in de samenleving. #Dagboek1933
The President went down to Georgia,
He was looking for a vote to steal,
He was in a bind,
'cause he's way behind,
In every poll reveal...
Dit boek van Karl Popper wordt beschouwd als een sleutelwerk in de wereldgeschiedenis met meesterlijke kritiek op de vijanden van de democratie van vroeger en nu. Tegen het autoritarisme, nationalisme en neomarxisme, maar voor de vrijheid en de open samenleving. www.liberales.be/teksten/2017...
Op radio 1 wordt iemand geïnterviewd over uitgaan.
Dat is voor mij altijd een totaal onbekende wereld geweest. Ik ben nooit uitgegaan. En geen enkele spijt van.
The interview with James Talarico that Stephen Colbert was not allowed to show on broadcast TV:
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Eichmann was volgens Arendt enkel op zoek naar kansen om zijn carrière vooruit te helpen, iemand die geen vragen stelde en deed wat hem gevraagd werd. Hij was de prototypische nazi: een onverschillige bureaucraat die gewoon orders opvolgde. Recensie door Xander Niks www.liberales.be/teksten/2026...
About time...
Ik kan niet goed tegen Vroege Vogels. Een fiks deel van de tijd lopen ze in een natuurgebied en dan zoeken ze naar vogels, bloemen, planten en meer. En telkens weer "oh kijk nou wat een mooie xxx of yyy". En dan zijn er mensen zonder afantasia die dat dan wel voor zich kunnen zien, en dus niet ik.
Nee. Ik tel geen mollen. Of vogels. Als we langs een fiks weiland met zwanen fietsen, tel ik zwanen, en vandaag waren dat er 30, en bij een ander veld 24. Heel veel zwanen.
It is written by Shakespeare and others, from 1591-1593, over 400 years ago. A speech you might not know, but might like very much, because of the many parallels to the treatment of strangers now.
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Stephen Colbert show, 5Feb2026: interview with Ian McKellen.
Ian McKellen performs "The Strangers' Case" speech from “Sir Thomas More”. The speech (an amazing performance, really) starts at 23:00 minutes into the interview (which on a whole is interesting):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
Reasons 1 and 9 JFC
Nobody else is applying IEEPA or Patriot Act analysis to explain the legal mechanism.
I think I'm serving as the primary source for the specific analytical gap I've identified for the entire national conversation right now.
- Miles Taylor, the author of EO 13848, has the political corruption angle - Gabbard's letter, the Trump phone call, the "smoking gun" piece he published today.
There are two other people that have a picture of this right now:
- Marc Elias at Democracy Docket has the DOJ prosecutorial mechanism (the Albus special assistant appointment with nationwide jurisdiction); he published on this on Jan 30.
A Red-Team scenario for the 2026 Midterms November 3, 2026: Midterm elections are held, with several competitive House races. November 5, 2026: DNI Gabbard's office claims to have identified "indicators of foreign compromise" in voting systems in key swing districts. November 10, 2026: The administration invokes EO 13848 and claims IEEPA authority to "block" affected election materials pending investigation. November 15, 2026: Federal agents seize ballots and machines in targeted jurisdictions. All seized materials are classified TS/SCI: states cannot review, challenge, or verify what was taken. November 17, 2026: States file emergency injunctions. DOJ argues materials are classified under national security authorities and cannot be released pending investigation. Courts face impossible timeline pressure. November 20, 2026: States are unable to certify results because the federal government retains custody of ballots. December 2026: Certification deadlines pass. Affected seats remain vacant. Control of the House is in limbo. Mission accomplished: election disrupted. patreon.com/joohn
Joohn Choe:
For the last 19.5 hours, about every 22 seconds, the Facebook post I wrote about this has gotten shared.
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If any other presidential candidate would have had the same list of evidence against him as Trump, and not even far back in time, say, some 20 years ago, the American security services and the military would have him perish (maybe in mysterious ways).
Trump is a traitor, a spy, an asset, owned by Russia. He should not ever have been allowed to run for president.
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Theo, in the purple organizer's hoodie, smiling
Jonas, attending a visitor at the booth
Sticker selection on the table, with books and plush toys in the background
#FOSDEM was awesome as always! Lots of action around the #perl and #rakulang table. Well done to everyone who volunteered!
British satirical duo Broken News dive into the situation in the USA with observations (statements) that regular British of American media do not dare to make. The "US Correspondent" has a beautiful meltdown, ending with the Epstein Files and the 'alternative F-word'.
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