Henri vdM
henrivdm.bsky.social
Henri vdM
@henrivdm.bsky.social
Cape Town, South Africa. Navigating the complexities of a post-colonial, post-apartheid world.
Would love to live in a car-free city one day...
Trump needs his militia?
March 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Sociopathic arsehole.
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Tx for the article @cilliankelly.bsky.social. Seems so retrogressive to move back to a 'defined bouquet' of million things that most people don't want. I would have thought getting many more to watch globally what they want on demand at a decent price would trump a small elite paying lots...
January 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
To me the most pointless but symbolic Trump exec order was the one renaming Mt Denali back to McKinley. That says it all about his view of a 'Great America'....
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I still miss GCN+ every single day 😭 It really was visionary, and such as shame it became a pawn in corporate strategies...
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yes I am so so so down. Utterly ridiculous how the visionary GCN+, which truly democratised and globalised affordable bike race viewing, has just been dismantled as a pawn in corporate greed. Disgusting and so so sad.
January 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Rolling over one by one. Nauseating 🤑
January 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Je le dis avec force aux défenseuses et défenseurs du climat : ne lâchons rien face aux climatosceptiques !

Vous pourrez toujours compter sur Paris et sur les villes pour résister et tenir bon !

Nous ne manquerons jamais
de courage et de détermination.
January 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As much as I found a lot of it hard to stomach and represent everything I can't stand about Bro Banter, they have one point: progressive people DO tend to 'gaslight' any questioning of the more 'absurd' (with reservation) progressive positions... which inevitably prevents coming to an understanding
January 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I have been acutely aware of how much more settled our lives felt in the Trump interregnum...the level of angst unleashed by his bevy of disastrously retrogressive orders feels existential.
January 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Always bewildering that “the economy” is treated as some kind of law of nature, like gravity, when in fact is a figment of the collective imagination - we have made it this way, and can make it another if we want; the natural world, however, is actually empirically real
January 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM