Marcel Melis heeft blijkbaar nooit van het Streisand effect gehoord.
Amsterdam landlord only wants employed Dutch women as tenants; requires access to their social media. He's now suing a politician for saying an article about him gave her "Andrew Tate vibes."
www.parool.nl/amsterdam/vo...
Logo on the window of a shop that tries to say "Dress Like You're Already Famous," but really appears to say "Dress Like You're White"
Unfortunately designed logo in The Hague...didn't see 'already famous' the first two times I looked.
A bicycle that has been zip tied to a bike rack.
Thanks to my helpful neighbors in #amsterdam who realized that two locks were not enough and zip tied my bike (and only my bike??) to the bike rack this morning.
Oh, didn't see the photo on my phone (oddly, I was just checking this afternoon if Uniqlo is in the US yet, since we're going in a month). I just Googled, but don't see a relevance?
Those two points are why I suspect it'll take a decade or so (which is just so weird to think - I sometimes forget I live in the city where the first legal gay marriages happened a quarter of a century ago).
I think / hope that there's a generational change coming - something like 23% of gen z apparently identify as some kind of queer.
So maybe not in 2028 but I'm a decade or so I'd hope it would be a non issue. Maybe wishful thinking and enough Americans really are that bigoted.
Well, yeah.
wouldn't vote for a slightly progressive Dem, sonIm hopeful
Very little was said over here in NL when we elected our first (out) gay PM, although there are some pretty crappy homophobic deepfakes floating around.
I suspect there is an almost 100% overlap between people who would refuse to vote for a gay man and those who
Being named Mark? (:
I don't believe the American people are so structurally bigoted.
I was inside just last week!
Four apartments in our building and six nationalities (seven, if you count the one I gave up).
The thing I always found funny about companies advertising ISO9000 is that it only means you know what your processes are, not that they're any good.
We try, at least, in our organization (I'm on the extended leadership team).
I'm involved in defining what our critical systems and processes are (also in line with EU legislation like NIS-2) and people almost universally forget internal vs. customer-facing systems.
Listened to an old Louis Theroux interview with Sharon Stone and she claimed that his career is a regular of a Trading Places bet between a couple producers.
When I joked with a South African colleague (a white guy) that he could always apply for asylum there, he gave me a very concerned look and asked 'You know that whole story is bullshit, right?'
I don't know, I'd cut her a tiny bit of slack on that one.
Vague recollection of trying it years ago. It was underwhelming.
Can confirm
That's what I meant! He'll spend pages without getting to a point and then just drop a singular bomb like this.
Read #22 for 2026: Skin Tight, Carl Hiaasen (audiobook)
Always fun and snarky, but his knives weren't entirely sharpened in this earlier novel.
carlhiaasen.com/books/skin-t...
Read #21 for 2026: Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Way too many dependent clauses, combined with commas, the occasional colons: makes it very difficult to digest. I know he was writing for himself but it cries out for an editor. Still worth a read.
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680
A Kindle loaded with Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in front of the old Roman gateway to Trier.
Appropriate reading material while I wait for Abbie to paint the Roman Porta Nigra in Trier...
Who is this jagoff?
Just mute or block them. That's what I did
So cutting; so original. And you wonder why people block you. Back in the old days, we'd tell you to go jump in a volcano, you cave newt.
Cultish? No, you just seem to be a mean spirited jerk spouting bile for the sake of it.
Unexpected baroque practice in the Basilica of Constantine in Trier (3rd century CE, and an impressively huge space!)
