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Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600.bsky.social

Every year I’m reposting this classic map to wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄

December 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM

BeeLikeJ

@beelikej.bsky.social

Thank you @dancing-adrift.bsky.social and @sillie82.bsky.social for the adorable Christmas cards! 🥰

December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM

BeeLikeJ

@beelikej.bsky.social

#GeenMensIsIllegaal
www.trouw.nl/buitenland/i...

December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Poldermanie

@poldermanie.bsky.social

Sinterklaasfeest!
Vandaag in @volkskrant.nl

December 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

YO.

Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"

Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉

Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!

artisans.coop/pages/seller...

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December 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM

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Emilius Duckberry

@emiliusdraws.bsky.social

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Randall Munroe

@xkcd.com

Big and Little Spoons

xkcd.com/3166/

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the big spoon. (2) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the little spoon. (3) [two sets of spoons that don’t lay flat against each other, one arranged with the little one on top of the big one, the other with the big spoon on top of the little spoon] PERSON 1: And some brave truth-tellers point out that the metaphor makes no sense because different-sized spoons don’t nest right *either* way. You nest *same*-sized spoons. (4) PERSON: ...And apparently *we* sleep on the couch. PERSON 2 off-screen: Why are you *still* going on about the spoon thing? PERSON 1: Because I’m *right!*

November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM

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Gerrit Hiemstra🐇

@gerrithiemstra.bsky.social

Idee voor de verkenner: misschien kan er een samenwerkingsverband gesmeed worden tussen ChristenUnie, Partij voor de Dieren, SP en Denk om een centrum-links kabinet mogelijk te maken samen met D66, GL-PvdA en CDA. Een soort 'coalition of the willing' met een meerderheid van 76 zetels.

November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A pen and ink drawing.
Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Maria Bustillos

@mariabustillos.com

Politics should not take up this much of your brain every day

September 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM

BeeLikeJ

@beelikej.bsky.social

In case you missed it, I shared photos of my latest adventures on my Instagram:
Schwebebahn in Wuppertal and Tiger & Turtle in Duisburg:
www.instagram.com/beelikej/p/D...

BeeLikeJ on Instagram: "Spent my final bit of summervacation in Germany; two days in Wuppertal and an afternoon in Duisburg. Here is a short impression. For a full photo-report, check my Dreamwidth or...

18 likes, 6 comments - beelikej on September 20, 2025: "Spent my final bit of summervacation in Germany; two days in Wuppertal and an afternoon in Duisburg. Here is a short impression. For a full phot...

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September 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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Nadia Bouras

@nadiabouras.bsky.social

Het politieke debat in een notendop.

September 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM

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Pieter Derks

@pieterderks.bsky.social

Polarisatie schijnt het grote probleem te zijn. We moeten minder polariseren. Je zal het in de komende weken nog vaak horen in de campagnes. Meestal door mensen met een angstaanjagende lading boter op hun hoofd.

Column: youtu.be/YjLwCrhGSik?...

Pieter Derks over polarisatie

YouTube video by Pieter Derks

youtu.be

September 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM

BeeLikeJ

@beelikej.bsky.social

Netherlands back at number 5. 😀

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Sep 28

The US once again hits a new low in the World Happiness Report. The most powerful country is only the 24th happiest country. Happiness in Australia declined massively in the last few years. Source: buff.ly/rRBCNE9

September 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly.
Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers:
“Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”

September 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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FunkSchwein

@irritantje.bsky.social

September 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM

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Omnicrisis

@sybren.bsky.social

What remains of the rule of law when the judges are putting peaceful protestors behind bars just because the powers that be demand it.

September 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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Marten Brinkman

@martenbrinkman.bsky.social

Waarom, waarom moet ik tegenwoordig in elke actualiteitenrubriek horen dat de 'kiezer' op Wilders stemt omdat ze ontevreden zijn? Waarom wordt mijn ontevredenheid niet vertollkt? Ik zie dat Wilders, Yesilgöz van der Plas allemaal liegen dat ze barsten. En ik vind dit niet als enige.

August 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM

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Erin Biba

@erinbiba.bsky.social

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black.

Text reads: I defragged my zebra

August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM

BeeLikeJ

@beelikej.bsky.social

Help mee de asielwetten tegen te houden, roep de Eerste Kamer op om tégen deze onmenselijke wetten te stemmen, kies vóór medemenselijkheid. Teken de petitie van Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland:
actie.vluchtelingenwerk.nl/2025-petitie...

August 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM

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Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600.bsky.social

MySpace, your short lifespan is only beaten by Vine. Twenty years of social media represented in a single chart. HT @chartrdaily

August 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM

BeeLikeJ

@beelikej.bsky.social

Big picspam of my summervacation in my LJ and DW (link below). I spent three nights in a Water Tower Hotel (!) and visited the Biesbosch, a fresh water wetland in the South West of the Netherlands.
beelikej.dreamwidth.org/587350.html

August 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

Motherfucking wind farms…

July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Sander Schimmelpenninck

@schimmelpenninck.bsky.social

Ten overvloede: links dient helemaal niet naar rechts op te schuiven, maar ruggengraat te kweken. Dat zal Elshout wel hooghartig vinden, maar ik draag mijn hooghartigheid met trots, nu ik weet dat daar slechts interesse in de waarheid mee wordt bedoeld. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...