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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺
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'Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.' - Jane Austen, 'Sense and Sensibility'
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 22h
"De uitdijende weerstand tegen alles wat anders is dan zuiver Nederlands, ontneemt mij het zicht". Verdrietig stemmende afscheidscolumn van Karin Amatmoekrim: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 10h
The choice of books in Felix Vallotton’s 'The Bookcase,' (1915) play nicely into the picture's palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in a nod to the (then) supposed female preference for thrilling novels.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h
CENT How to know if you are under the influence of Illegal Substances: 1.Cotton Mouth 2.Life Seems Pretty Good
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 11h
Happy little paintings.
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NPR @npr.org · 11h
Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ
Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV after funding cuts
Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s.
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 22h
"De uitdijende weerstand tegen alles wat anders is dan zuiver Nederlands, ontneemt mij het zicht". Verdrietig stemmende afscheidscolumn van Karin Amatmoekrim: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d
"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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ILFU Boeken etc. @ilfu.com · 1d
Terugkijken: Book Talk met Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Terugkijken: Book Talk met Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • ILFU
Op vrijdag 3 oktober 2025 werd Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie door Aldith Hunkar geïnterviewd over haar nieuwe roman Dream count en de vele thema’s die het boek rijk is, haar terugkeer naar de romanvorm...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d
Dripping Mushroom, a 1916 woodcut by the Dutch graphic artist and painter Julie de Graag.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/dripping-mushroom/

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 3d
Present.
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GOETHE @jwvgoethe.bsky.social · 3d
Der Herbst ist immer unsere beste Zeit.

▪️Goethe
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 9d
Frog and Toad jumped away. Frog was trembling.

“I am not afraid!” he shouted.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 6d
The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

-John Berger,
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls” (October 2004) I The wind got up in the night and took our plans away (Chinese proverb) #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 4d
One of my childhood favourites: 'The elephant's child', Rudyard Kipling -
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/tale/rk_elep... #bookwormsat #animalday #booksky
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 4d
‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins - www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f... @theguardian.com
‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins
It’s been 11 years since she published a novel. In that time, the author has lost both parents, seen Trump become president twice – and finally returned to fiction after a bruising reaction to her com...
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Universiteit Leiden @unileiden.bsky.social · 9d
De digitale revolutie trekt in een hoog tempo door #Afrika, constateert antropoloog Mayke Kaag @ascleiden.bsky.social Het is hoog tijd dat we met een andere blik naar het continent kijken ➡️https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/09/kijk-naar-afrika-als-spiegel-voor-mondiale-ontwikkelingen
Kijk naar Afrika als spiegel voor mondiale ontwikkelingen
Nog te vaak beschouwen westerse landen Afrika als de periferie, stelt antropoloog Mayke Kaag. In haar oratie pleit ze voor een andere invalshoek: zie Afrika als een spiegel voor mondiale ontwikkelinge...
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Universiteit Leiden @unileiden.bsky.social · 8d
Filosoof en voormalig Denker des Vaderlands @daanroovers.bsky.social houdt op donderdag 11 december de 54e Huizingalezing in de Stadsgehoorzaal te Leiden. Onder de noemer 'Wat op het spel staat. De grenzen van politiek en fair play' zal Daan Roovers de ideeën van Huizinga vertalen naar deze tijd.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d
morning mist and cloud
faint on the mountain
a god is moving his face
over the waters a god
in the cleft in the pass up the
ghyll the scramblers make
their way also up –
yesterday || in the beginning
they told a story about glaciers

A poem by Maureen N. McLane: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Maureen N. McLane · Poem: ‘Clearing’
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 4d
En haar beroemde TEDx talk over feminisme uit 2014 is helaas nog steeds - of weer - zeer actueel: youtu.be/hg3umXU_qWc?...

Zie ook en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Shou...
We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 4d
Elie Nadelman, Standing Female Nude, c. 1909
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Marcia Luyten @marcialuyten.bsky.social · 4d
Eindelijk zegt een Europese leider het: sociale media zijn de nwe publieke ruimte! Verover ze terug - bouw Europese platforms en verban de Amerikaanse, want ze slopen onze democratie. En stop nu de even ongereguleerde Amerikaanse AI-modellen 🏛️
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 5d
Heb je nog nooit iets van haar gelezen, dan is Americanah een geweldige kennismaking. - www.theguardian.com/books/2013/a...
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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 5d
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wordt - terecht - als een literaire popster ontvangen @ilfu.com. - ilfu.com/agenda/book-...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 6d
a figure walking away. The Benefits of Walking Away 1. Makes bad things disappear quickly 2. Gives everyone optimal view of your back 3. Answers guestion, "I wonder what would happen if I just walked away"
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 5d
3 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sonja Muijs, was born in Voorburg (left).

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

She was almost 2 years old.
Two young children sitting and smiling on a porch step, in a black-and-white vintage photo.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d
[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 5d
👏 🇩🇪 Heilbronn, 🇳🇱 Assen, and 🇮🇹 Siena have just been awarded the European Green Capital and Green Leaf Awards!

This recognises their crucial efforts in the transition towards a greener, more sustainable future.

Congratulations and thank you for your hard work!

link.europa.eu/cnVqFB
Photo of a pale-colored villa in Heilbronn, with blue shutters on the edge of a calm pond, reflecting its image in the still water. The house features a spiral staircase on its exterior and a small balcony over the entrance. Surrounding the villa are autumnal trees with golden leaves, and a stone bridge extends from the building across the pond, all under a clear, sunlit sky. © Adobe Stock, Photographer: ThePhotoFab Photo of the scenic hilltop city of Siena, with a cluster of historic buildings in warm earth tones, surrounded by greenery. In the background, the skyline is dominated by grand architectural landmarks, including cathedral domes and tall towers, under a bright, partly cloudy sky. © Adobe Stock, Photographer: f11photo Photo of the picturesque European city of Assen, featuring brick buildings with steep, slate-tiled roofs. In the background, there is a distinct bell tower with a clock and a red dome, set against a bright blue sky and lush green trees. ©️ Adobe Stock, Photographer: venemama
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