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Cris van Eijk

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International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made. PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · Jan 30

Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', just published in Leiden Journal of International Law. This article took 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise, and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way.

doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000554

The exclusive making of space law | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core

The exclusive making of space law

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1m

The polar and moral opposite to what happened to tiki torches in August 2017.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 23m

Seriously!!

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 16h

And for Marco Rubio, who supported her nomination in a letter just last year: www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...

I hope he has a good day arriving to his four simultaneous leadership roles. Has a Cabinet member ever lost four jobs at once?

www.rickscott.senate.gov

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18h

‘A succession of prime ministers persuaded themselves that their country was somehow different from the rest: it could pick and choose from the menu of European options in the way that suited it best. They were all mistaken.’

David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem

From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 20h

The Nobel committee is always playing 3D chess. Giving the prize to Obama in 2009 looked idiotic but 16 years later it's caused a US president to think about peace for almost an entire week.

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

Marco Rubio might lose 4 jobs at once, which must be a record.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

Marco Rubio might lose 4 jobs at once, which must be a record.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...

www.rickscott.senate.gov

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

María Corina Machado's nomination was personally supported by Marco Rubio, who will now get to tie himself in knots on live television to manage his boss' fragile ego.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

María Corina Machado's nomination was personally supported by Marco Rubio, who will now get to tie himself in knots on live television to manage his boss' fragile ego.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

Wstching the livestream and recalling there is no Nobel Prize for cinematography.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 18h

Until climate change picks up a rifle, it's like the 11th most polarising crisis Ireland has faced in the last 150 years. People used to die based on where they kept their toasters.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 19h

Trump has spent 10 months carefully defunding 8 Nobel Peace Prize winners to the point of near-collapse.

The UN, UNICEF, ILO, UNHCR, Peacekeepers, IAEA, IPCC, & the WFP, all buckling - because something something 'globalism is satan', and they didn't let him pick their wallpaper back in 2001.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for OHGOD-

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

beyond parody

screenshot from AlgorithmWatch newsletter with text:

"In 2016, Elon Musk announced that one of his cars would drive from Los Angeles to New York entirely autonomously by 2018. He later changed the date to 2017. Earlier this month – for context, we are in late 2025 – two men attempted to make good on this promise.

A YouTuber going by Bearded Tesla Guy, along with a friend, drove (manually) to San Diego, California, with a Tesla Model Y. There, they began the trip back in “self-driving” mode. About 100 kilometers later (that’s 2.5% of the planned journey), they saw something large on the highway lane. “Looks like roadkill,” one said. “No, it’s not,” he added, as the car, which did not brake, started flying after hitting the large piece of metal. Hours of YouTube videos from repair shops follow.

In a subsequent video, the bearded guy said he’d continue the trip but added: “I’ll be a lot more conservative in what I consider something I’ll take [control of the vehicle] over for.” Hope dies last.

Luis Prada. Tesla Bros Attempt Coast-to-Coast Trip in Self-Driving Mode, Crash Right Away, Vice, 25 Sept.
"

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

Is there an archival version of a photobomb? Maybe that's what this felt like.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 1d

A poem by the legendary Theodor Meron, a Holocaust survivor who (among many other things) served on the ICC Panel of Experts that approved the ICC Prosecutor's charges against Netanyahu, Gallant, Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Deif.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, Meron was also 1st Secretary, then Counsellor at the Israeli Mission to the UN from 1962-1967, where he often liaised with USUN.

Bit of a jumpscare to see him in 1963 USUN cables, meeting with Amb Stevenson just prior to a 3hr secret meeting with the Soviets to negotiate space law.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

😍

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Emily Jones @emilyjones.bsky.social · 1d

Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your post!!

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 3d

The only "default-to-no" bit of this regulatory system is the lliteral categorical exclusion the FCC uses to avoid doing any EIAs for space activities.

Also, it'd be nice if the FCC would "default-to-yes" on the several open recommendations by the GAO, which it has promised to address since 2022.

Center for Space Environmentalism @space-environment.bsky.social · 3d

The FCC Chairman's proposal to replacing current space operations licensing from what he derides as a "default-to-no" system to a "default-to-yes framework" risks reckless actions in space. It caters to powerful corporations and does not serve the public interest.

spacenews.com/fcc-launches...

FCC launches ‘Space Month’ to fast-track satellite licensing and spectrum reforms

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr vowed Oct. 6 to accelerate satellite regulatory reforms, declaring October as “Space Month” at the U.S. regulator to overhaul licensing and spectrum rules amid mounting compe...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of a Toni Morrison quote I've been thinking about a lot lately - and which I love too much to do the violence of shortening:

[from 'Unspeakable Things Unspoken', 11-12]

Two excerpted quotes from Toni Morrison, ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature’ (1989) 28 Michigan Quarterly Review, 11-12 (with the asterisked text highlighted for emphasis):

“We can agree, I think, that invisible things are not necessarily ‘not-there’; that a void may be empty, but is not a vacuum. In addition, certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves.”

“Looking at the scope of American literature, I can't help thinking that the question should never have been ‘Why am I, an Afro-American, absent from it?’ It is not a particularly interesting query anyway. The spectacularly interesting question is *‘What intellectual feats had to be performed by the author or his critic to erase me from a society seething with my presence, and what effect has that performance had on the work?’ What are the strategies of escape from knowledge? Of willful oblivion?*”

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

folukeafrica.com