@vanhoef
IR and political history @erasmusuni | Expert on friendship in international politics, especially US politics and Franco-German relations | #History #International #Relations #Politics | PhD @UniversityLeeds
I dread the dawn's recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I'd be arrested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...
Trump: Spain is "unfriendly". Maybe someone should study the role of friendship?
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A dream lies dead here
Walk not in woe,
But, for a little, let your step be slow.
And, of your mercy, be not sweetly wise
With words of hope and Spring and tenderer skies.
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"Starmer said in 2024 that the “special relationship” with the US “sits above whoever holds the particular office”.
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"Ayatollah’s got his problems too
And even Jimmy Carter’s got the highway blues
I went and asked the Governor ’cause I thought that he would know
You see I knew he’d been up all night listening to Mohammed’s radio"
youtu.be/REYBMks2q3w?...
“We are at enormous risk if we overestimate our conscious ability to differentiate [AI] from a real person – and that’s what we’re watching play out with the psychosis stories,”
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"How dare you say shit about our fair city and our single child, when you won’t even help your own"
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
🎵 Cover me in sunshine
Shower me with good times
Tell me that the world's been spinning since the beginning
And everything will be alright
Cover me in sunshine 🎶
"Germany and its European allies should think about deeper military integration," writes Liana Fix for Foreign Affairs. "Because the United States has been pulling back, Europe will need to find military formats and structures outside NATO with which to defend itself."
A kind reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts for @europeanisa.bsky.social (Lissabon) is 18 February.
We are section S43 Friendship & Positive Peace Studies, and you can submit through the EISA portal: eisa-net.org/pec-2026/
🎶Friendship is rare🎵
"sovereignty and national borders are less important than the singular role the United States plays as the protector of the West"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,”
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“When you have a group of kids you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
I dread the dawn’s recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...
Since WHEN do ssds mount on the motherboard
@rianjohnson.bsky.social dear creator-of-the-best-star-wars-film-ever,
I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.
"she's had so many men in her life"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNK...
My cups break. My lasagne falls upside down. What is this november
"bekogeld met een exemplaar van de verzamelde werken van Charles Bukowski"
www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...
2009
"But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?"
grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html
Great article; great person.
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on November 19, 1975, I want to reshare my contextual history review of the film that doubles as a guide for thinking through our reactions to films, why we feel the ways we do, with my own thinking as a case study.
"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't know me"
Not as much as I appreciate your thoughts and work on here. Keep being awesome!
Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:
"None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a bi disk. When it stands its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds."
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Final call to jump onboard our "Friendship & Positive Peace" section for @europeanisa.bsky.social in 2026. Deadline is 17/11
Not only did my desktop die last week, my laptop died today as well, live, in an important meeting, as I was about to take the floor, with the most melodious beep possible. Twice.
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