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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RichqrddeNooy/116980796756478428 My new board game "Where's Willy?" (ages 16-99) will be available at your local museum shortly.

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  “Oxford academic Prof George Garnett counted 93 penises in 2018 – with 88 belonging to horses and another five to men. But Dr Christopher Monk said he had counted one more on another man.” https://bbc.com/news/articles/cn05wyld45wo

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  Amuse yourself.

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  Let’s wait until our fragile, little spaceship is entirely ablaze before we panic. “The U.K. issued joint statements with Spain and France on Wednesday night reaffirming their commitment to fighting global warming and preparing for increasing climate disasters.” https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-france-uk-warn-megafires-show-climate-change-is-threatening-our-way-of-life/

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  Knowing that both of these people actually exist provides the darkest possible backdrop, allowing the tragicomical truth to shine brightly.

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  "Your timeline is about to be full of videos of Moroccans 'invading Spain' with captions like 'this is what happens when you vote socialist', and I need you to pause before you share that garbage. Ceuta is not in Spain. It's not in Europe." Keep reading and thinking, friends, please.

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  This "vlizotrap" is a Dutch device traditionally used to manage population size. Once a year, usually in the summer, every Dutch person completes the challenge of using this extendable stepladder to fetch camping equipment from the attic. Those who are too old or unhandy die trying. #FolkloreFriday

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  How in the name of sweet jesus can I make it any clearer that I do not want your unsolicited, machine-generated "in-faux-mation" that you're shoving down my throat at the expense of an already overstretched environment?

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  That first peanut.

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  "The library was surveyed shelf by shelf in Milan, with the position of every volume, thematic groupings and connections between authors and disciplines carefully documented, so that the new premises in Bologna could reproduce Eco's original arrangement exactly, down to which books he kept lying flat and which stood upright." https://www.wantedinmilan.com/news/umberto-eco-library-opens-in-bologna-10-years-after-his-death.html

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  What can we surmise, if anything, from the fact that 10 times as many Dutch neighbours fly flags on Liberation Day than they do on Remembrance Day?

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  Today’s reminder that one has to keep reading.

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  Of course, let's celebrate that Orban was soundly thrashed at the polls, but let's not forget that his challenger, Magyar, was "born into a family of prominent conservatives" and was previously an elite member of Orban's Fidesz movement. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260412-peter-magyar-former-govt-insider-promising-system-change

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  Poetry is my favourite Palestinian export product.

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  "Every bombed village is my hometown. And every dead child is my child. Every grieving mother is my mother. Every crying father is my father. Every home turned to rubble is the home I grew up in. Every brother carrying the remains of his brother across borders is my brother. Every sister waiting for a sister who will never come home is my sister. Every one of these people are ours, Just like we are theirs. We belong to them and they belong to us." — James Baldwin https://www....

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  The East is ablaze.

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  The Thing (IKEA part no. 131020) #MashupDIYandHorrorFilms

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  If you listen carefully, you can hear nature whispering: “Fuck you, I’ll still be doing rainbows long after you’re all gone.”

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  This has the makings of a terrifying Icelandic parable about the dangers of AI. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/06/german-mayors-call-for-night-time-ban-on-robot-lawnmowers-to-protect-hedgehogs

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RichqrddeNooy/116204373373144034 Thread updated in celebration of Dutch Easter, which starts tomorrow.

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  “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, Palestinian poet

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  Snuck in to write this while the world was fast asleep tired of killing darlings and throwing out babies with the bathwater used to rinse blood off shrouds once used to clothe tables, veil brides and play ghosts. Strange how so many poems end abruptly these days. Poets too. Anonymously.