I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of an Ekranoplan.
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En uiterst rechts is een rupsje nooitgenoeg. Remigratie oftwel deportatie komt hierna.

De VVD van Yesilgöz gaat inmiddels full MAGA.

Het maakt niet uit of er een oorlog woedt, er een genocide plaatsvindt, een internationale energiecrisis is die zorgt voor (energie) armoede in steeds meer gezinnen.

Het MOET gaan over asiel.

Dit is de minister van... defensie?

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As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

"Bekijk de video"

Hoeft niet, ik kan de foto al horen

Ja want voor de teelt van peulvruchten (of groente, of fruit, of noten) heb je geen boeren nodig. Dat weet iedereen.

"A bit" is doing a lot of work there though.
I'm still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but only just. Somehow it would be fitting if NATO falls apart during his tenure. But at the same time he did seem to be the right person at the right spot.

(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline)

oh that's probably the good guy in this movie

Along the way genocide became normalised too. Just another dull roar in the background as Russia's forces committed endless atrocities and Ukrainians caught in occupied territories were brutalised along with PoWs.

Also Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, countless African genocides... just a new normal.

Perhaps people ought to have been this upset about targeting civilian infrastructure back in 2022 when Russia began its wide-scale destruction of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.

Years of appeasement later and now we have to justify why things are different somehow in this case.

In 4 weeks Trump has transformed Iran from a country where people poured into the streets to overthrow the regime into a country where people poured into the streets to stop America. Great work.

"Niet 'normaal' maken wat niet normaal is. En: onze vrije, democratische rechtsstaat koesteren en verdedigen. Want alleen die biedt bescherming tegen willekeur en waanzin."

Koning Willem-Alexander, 4 mei 2020.

I’m not a laws of war expert but it’s my impression that just the threat to commit genocide is a war crime. Threatening to destroy a civilization is a war crime, whether or not you carry through. Not that the sort of people who support Trump care.

Nee, zeker niet. Ik was 17 jaar geleden (🤯) verantwoordelijk voor dit plaatje op Wikipedia:
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

De nazi’s deden dit ook in Polen.

Holy nadrukteken, Batman!

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Google Books The Language of Climate Politics The language of climate politics 1 of 10 View all Close search Contents Preface: We Introduction: Why Words Matter in Climate Politics 1. Alarmist 2. Cost 3. Growth 4. "India and China" 5. Innovation 6. Resilience After Words: Walking the Talk Acknowledgments Notes Index ix 253

Hard agree. You are so right! That’s why there’s a whole chapter in my book about how the word is used as fossil-fuel propaganda — it’s so insidious!

I truly believe “resilient” has become a cover for evil. Your city demolished by a hurricane and no one from FEMA coming? You are resilient! You’ll handle it! Cops kill your kid? That community is so resilient.

I think the word is now an excise.

My painting SOUTHERN UTAH

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

I grew up very sheltered as a Catholic and was really surprised as an adolescent to learn there were these people who thought we were a huge threat to America and Jesus and I was like COOOOOLLLL

The Netherlands just launched a platform in the middle of the North Sea that converts wind electricity into green hydrogen fuel without the electricity ever touching land.
The NortH2 offshore hydrogen platform sits 200 kilometers off the Dutch coast, directly connected by underwater power cables.

NASA's Blue Marble picture of Earth, from 1972

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

Helena in Focus @sthelenafocus X.com Not only is Jonathan alive and well on St Helena, but during his time on the planet he has now seen off 76 US Attorney Generals, from the 11th Attorney General, Roger Brooke Taney, in 1832, to outgoing 87th Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in 2026. Jonathan is the great survivor.

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.