Hoewel ik ook denk dat Trump vriendloos is, sluit ik een heuse vriendschap tussen Rutte en hem niet uit.

Trump criticizes NATO over Iran in meeting with alliance's boss U.S. President Donald Trump vented his frustration with NATO during a private meeting with its secretary-general, Mark Rutte, on Wednesday as relations in the military alliance reached a ​crisis point...

“This was a very frank, very open discussion, but also a discussion between two good friends.”

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Someone in a Tree - Stereo - Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast YouTube video by Broadway Classics

It's the fragment, not the day
It's the pebble, not the stream
It's the ripple, not the sea
That is happening
Not the building, but the beam
Not the garden, but the stone
Only cups of tea
And history
And someone in a tree

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoK...

The River of Love (Nahr Al-Hob) WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - فيلم نهر الحب YouTube video by Kemet Queen

"a book is a loyal companion, always"

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"fascism was not just present in German heads"

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Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: ‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’

"Who knows better about surprise than Japan?"

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Best student mail ever:

"I wanted to write to apologize for some spelling errors in my paper, particularly the mistake regarding Dick van Len(g)te."

When it rains, it pours.

"The footage appears to contradict US President Donald Trump’s claim that it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28."

Coincidence

By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying—
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital -- scene from the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle YouTube video by ligia.kesisian

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...

Ede Staal - Genoat (dvd versie) YouTube video by Noordgedacht

GENOAT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLO...

Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain over air bases Spain is a member of the European Union, a 27-country bloc that operates a common trade policy, so any attempt to single out Madrid would create friction with other member states, like Germany, France...

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 faces greater quandary over ‘special relationship’ after Iran attack PM is in diplomatically precarious position of declining to endorse US strikes while also refusing to condemn them

"Starmer said in 2024 that the “special relationship” with the US “sits above whoever holds the particular office”.

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Warren Zevon - Mohammed's Radio - 4/18/1980 - Capitol Theatre (Official) YouTube video by Roadtrip Rock

"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"

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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

“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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Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

"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 🎶

Europe's Next Hegemon The perils of German power.

"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...

Donald Trump says US is ‘going to run’ Venezuela after overnight strikes – live US president says ‘we’re going to run the country until a safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place and that he is ‘prepared’ for a second attack

“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...

Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital -- scene from the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle YouTube video by ligia.kesisian

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.

Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen reunite 50 years after Macbeth | ITV News YouTube video by ITV News

"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