Mili-Vanilli?

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

JCPOA similarly took more than a year of direct negotiations.

Je ziet altijd dat clichébeeld van woeste baardmannen die vlaggen verbranden, maar kijk eens hoe verfijnd dit is.

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.

Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?

Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

For 13 years, 4 German governments have turned a blind eye to the US using Ramstein for its wars of aggression | Matthias Monroy Three reports commissioned by the Bundestag are unequivocal: the US attacks on Iran violate international law – and by tolerating Ramstein, Germany may be complicit. Britain, France and Spain have…

The US using #Ramstein – By tolerating it, Germany becomes complicit in an internationally wrongful act digit.site36.net/2026/04/08/f...

dat "and other partners" in diezelfde zin is ook al zo fijn specifiek

Hier als Geschenklink

"Hannover is irrelevant" 😁, thanks!

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order.

Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not.

For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Keep hearing stories of loved ones in Iran going about their days, doing their part to make life continue for their communities despite these unhinged proclamations. The entire US political establishment that lets this continue isn’t worth a single hair on the head of a Red Crescent rescue worker.

Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source Code Copyright is suddenly very important to Anthropic now that its AI source code leaked. Just don't ask how it trained its AI in the first place.

Sad stuff: futurism.com/artificial-i...

wow, congrats!

I first boiled and then put a teabag in it to add a few more microplastics

Von der Leyen 2 buried the European Green Deal of Von der Leyen 1 and that sound you're hearing right now is Von der Leyen 2 digging up "Europe's man on the moon moment" again

(There's of course a single German word for that: Energiewendewendewende)

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

ik ga voor 'en'

Oh well once it gets too hot to think we can ask AI to draft our emails

A young girl plays on a seesaw along the Persian Gulf shoreline as distant military facilities burn in the background. #Iran #IranWar

Corridors for Opportunity: Leveraging Critical Minerals for Job-Rich Growth - newettg March, 2026 Authored by Daniele Fattibene (ETTG), Iliana Olivié (ETTG), Judith Arnal (Real Instituto Elcano), Jorge Cantallopts (Centro de Estudios del Cobre y la Minería), Claude Kabemba (Southern Af...

The energy transition needs critical minerals, but a crisis looms: 𝟭.𝟮𝗯𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝟰𝟬𝟬𝗺 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀.

- We must move from "resource traps" to industrial ecosystems that create real local value

Read our analysis on the future of CRMs: bit.ly/4t56Vca

Historians will be baffled by Trump’s capacity to govern through creating chaos. Last Friday was a case in point.

Not invading and bombing countries is also an excellent way to ensure low oil prices

Sign for Yamato Transport Company. A large black cat carrying a black kitten by its scruff, in a simplified, geometric style.

My favorite piece of graphic design I saw in Japan—this logo for a delivery service.

wunderschön!

So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:

Germany withdraws legal backing for Israel in ICJ genocide case Germany has stepped back from its earlier pledge to support Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Gaza genocide case, in a significant shift from its position when South Africa …

this is huge. 👇

Germany has withdrawn its planned intervention supporting Israel in the South Africa v. Israel ICJ genocide case.

in Europe it was felt that Germany was holding back the EU from being more critical of what's going on. The UK have been helping & largely supporting Israel.

“We may have to declare force majeure on long-term contracts for up to five years for LNG supplies to Italy, Belgium, Korea, and China.” - QatarEnergy CEO

This seems bad.

Confirmed: the European Council will not reopen the discussion on Ukraine. Leaders give up today. They realise there's no point in trying to convince Orbán to lift his veto three weeks before the Hungarian elections.

What a hallucinating situation for Hungarian voters and for the EU to be in, confronted by a new transatlantic alliance...