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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown

@tonyivb.bsky.social

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Brit living in 🇳🇱 with family & a menagerie of pets. Avid podcast listener, with interests in politics, science, nature & weird stuff. Strong supporter of LGBTQ+, Neuro-Divergent & Human rights. Geologist for last 20 years, who knows for the next 20?

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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 20m

Close up of a spider’s head, showing two large black eyes above four smaller eyes

Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 29m

It would make a pretty good spider head?

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 44m

They are innovating in the field of stupid like you wouldn’t believe

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8h

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 23h

New signed sharky comic prints available in my shop

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

Number 598: a baseball cap that informs people whether or not you’re circumcised

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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

I can think of another word beginning with ‘s’ that it is trying to do!

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 1d

And in other extremely important Wyoming news…

Yearling bull moose seeks to seduce — or subjugate — Wilson elk statue

A yearling bull moose caused a stir last Friday when it mounted a statue of a bull elk outside the Fish Creek Center in Wilson.

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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 1d

I’d love to say a successful training day at Border Security, but Ahmed works in catering and now I have so many questions…

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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen this reposted many times now, and each time the photo reminds me of this:

A scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where a guard/soldier looks down from a castle wall while shouting insults

A scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where a guard/soldier looks down from a castle wall while shouting insults and tapping the top of his helmet with his hands

Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

Is he cleverly avoiding being eaten by a graboid?

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 1d

[Doctor looking at chart]

It may be —for now— a mild form of fatal hemorrhagic fever.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned.

But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit… I now have ‘The Frog Chorus’ as an earworm!

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

"Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together"

#Portland h/t @manmademoon.bsky.social

Photo of 3 valiant anti-ICE protesters in inflatable frog costumes in Portland.
One has a sign which has the words "Frogs together strong" above an image of 2 frogs holding hands

Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he had a secret heart transplant a few weeks ago, and ‘his’ heart being 14 years younger is the only truthful part of that statement?

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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

Love that video and the intermittent fireballs… not hard to see where the myth of fire-breathing dragons came from!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d

stop thinking right now

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

A few moments later…

Two kittens asleep in a fluffy basket on top of a kitchen table. The tabby is nuzzled up to the tuxedo’s neck

Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown @tonyivb.bsky.social · 1d

Fell asleep while grooming each other!
#Caturday

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 1d

Born on this day 1937: World Cup winner and Manchester United legend, Bobby Charlton.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2d

Roses are red
The wind makes the trees jostle
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil - Climate Ages

Image Created with CANVA and Adobe Express Image Created with CANVA and Adobe Express How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the...

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