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Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist, publicist. https://berthub.eu/ More active on Mastodon -> @[email protected] -> Nederlandse BlueSky @berthub.eu

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · Jan 25

(sorry to spam you with this) - voor mijn Nederlandstalige volgers, weet dat mijn dingen over Nederland, politiek etc te vinden zijn op mijn andere account: @berthub.eu

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 3h

Ukrainian power grid workers are actually superhuman btw

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 2h

In The Hague we named a lane after this meeting: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Street sign saying "Laan van Reagan en Gorbatsjov", with a subtitle explaining this is named after the 1986 meeting that ended the cold war.

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(he never said that - quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/s...)

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 4d

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍

Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 21h

Netherlands bought Russian fossil fuels worth 500 million euros, an 72% increase compared to 2024. "The Dutch government noted it supports EU phase-out plans but until laws are in place, it cannot void existing contracts with Russian suppliers."
We're so rules-based if it suits us.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23h

⚡️Seven EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports.

Seven EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports

Among the seven nations increasing their purchases, France saw a 40% jump, importing 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion), while the Netherlands’ imports surged 72% to 498 million euros ($579 million). Be...

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We're doing MAHA by reversing every American circumcision one at a time

Reporter: Wait -

RFK Jr: [gesturing at his van] I have two coolers full of foreskins in there

Reporter: How - wait -

RFK Jr: Scientists won't tell you this but you can just rehydrate them using nonpolar water

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 2d

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 3d

Het #NerdVote stemadvies is online! Er is een helder advies, maar het is ook weer niet simpel. Er zijn uitstekende kandidaten die het helaas niet gaan halen. Daarom is het advies strategisch. Reacties zeer welkom! nerdvote.nl

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Ondersteuning voor en informatie over alle kandidaat-kamerleden met en warm hart voor onze privacy en eigen IT-vaardigheden.

nerdvote.nl

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 3d

dank u!

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 3d

goed bekeken kennelijk, viel een hoop mensen op!

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 3d

Een sterke, competente vaste kamercommissie Digitale zaken.
Dit initiatief van @berthubert.bsky.social vraagt aandacht voor "genoeg kennis in de Tweede Kamer te behouden of te krijgen [zo] dat de commissie ook na de verkiezingen geloofwaardig door kan" #tk2025

nerdvote.nl/diza/

NerdVote.NL

Ondersteuning voor en informatie over alle kandidaat-kamerleden met en warm hart voor onze privacy en eigen IT-vaardigheden.

nerdvote.nl

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 4d

The most obvious conclusion is that it has now become more than evident that citizens are withdrawing and disengaging from the arena of conventional politics. Even when they vote, and this is less often than before, or in smaller proportions, their preferences emerge closer and closer to the moment of voting itself, and are now less easily guided by cohesive partisan cues. For whatever reason, and there is no shortage of hypotheses offering to explain this change, there are now fewer and fewer standpatters, and hence more and more citizens who, when they think about politics at all, are likely to operate on the basis of short-term considerations and influences.
Electorates in this sense are becoming progressively destructured, affording more scope to the media to play the role of agenda-setter, and requiring a much greater campaign effort from parties and candidates. What we see here, in short, is a form of voting behaviour that is increasingly contingent, and a type of voter whose choices appear increasingly accidental or even random.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 5d

They could also reach for www.bbc.com/news/busines....

'Bowie bonds' - the singer's financial innovation

David Bowie was a pop music icon to many, but he was also involved in innovation in the world of finance.

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 8d

Each weekday, FT Alphaville picks a dozen or so articles from elsewhere.

Here's today: on.ft.com/4nsHAXf
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All this, and nearly 20 years of FTAV archive, is completely free on.ft.com/3tDRiiu

How to read FT Alphaville for free

Find us by email, RSS, X, Bluesky, and Terminal (sort of)

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 5d

This is an EU proposed policy with the benign-sounding name "Child Sexual Abuse Regulation" which proposes to screen private online communications using sketchy image-scanning algorithms. It is technically unworkable, and would be a privacy catastrophe, especially for those in authoritarian states

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 5d

Er zijn weer verkiezingen & daarmee ontstaat een kans ons bestuur anders in te richten. Met niet alleen al die generalisten, maar ook weer met eigen expertise. Ik sprak hier eerder dit jaar over bij de Tweede Kamer. Hier een opgeleukt verslag van dit prikkelende praatje: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Data, experts en politiek: een ongemakkelijke combinatie - Bert Hubert

Een verbeterd transcript van een praatje gehouden op 24 april 2025 ter afsluiting van de “Datamaand” van de Tweede Kamer. Het publiek bestond uit medewerkers van de Tweede Kamer, zoals de (data) exper...

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 6d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d

exact quotation, and other relevant sections of the speech, translated here:

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 7d

Nu aan het verzenden, nieuwe aflevering van mijn Nederlandstalige nieuwsbrief over AIVD/MIVD, belastingdienst en nerdvote.nl, te vinden in dit overzicht berthub.eu/ckmailer/cha... waar je je ook in kunt schrijven.

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29-7-2025, 10:03:28: Praatjes, interview, Cybersec Netherlands en WHY2025

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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 8d

Hi all, just sent out this free post to explain what matters (and what does not) in the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil refineries. It discusses why the campaign now seems more successful, but also what else needs to happen to have a greater strategic effect. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Attacking An Oil Production System

Some Of The Nuts And Bolts--Starting With Refineries

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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