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“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year,” Lindberg says. Trump for dictatorship
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Pictures made with the mood camera app on the iPhone. Nice addition to Halide and the stock camera app. A real snapshot camera with surprising results.
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I like the idea of POSSE - Publish Once on your own SIte and Syndicate Elsewhere. I am using my own site hvandenbergh.com on micro.blog to post, and then syndicate to Mastodon and Bluesky (and sometimes Pixelfed)
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Meet OpenClaw, the fastest growing open source project in history
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This is the podcast to get a good perspective on what’s going on in the world from a market perspective.
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So even if you are self reliant, and you hardly import any oil from the Middle-East, you get hit by higher prices. Interesting analysis by Paul Krugman
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Every year we are amazed how beautiful the blossom of the Japanese cherry in our garden is.
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I liked reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki. A fascinating mix of murder mystery, food writing and a critical look at society. It took some time to complete reading it, but absolutely enjoyed it.
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Digital Sovereignty at home
While a lot of companies (especially in Europe) are looking into digital sovereignty, to become less dependent on US companies, there is also a trend with individual people that have had it with the enshittification of a lot of platforms, and are looking for smaller, local companies that are not add-driven. This are my personal steps so far: Email from Gmail to Proton Music from Spotify to Qobuz Whatsapp - partly moved to Signal Continue reading →
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Roon & Qobuz
Combining better sound quality on my new setup (NAD C700v2 streamer & DALI Opticon 2 mk2 speakers) with getting rid of shitty companies, I installed a Roon Rock on a Intel NUC server and started with Qobuz. Was great to do the installation, and the sound quality is amazing. Continue reading →
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December 2025 The Fenix museum in Rotterdam is a must see when in Rotterdam. A museum in a beautiful building with impressive art & stories about immigration #rotterdam #fenix #museum
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November 2025 The art depot of the museum Boijmans van Beuningen is a stunning building with an impressive interior and collection.
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October 2025 Some impressions from a streetart walk in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I walked 18km and came across so many works, many of them I hadn’t seen before #streetart #Rotterdam youtu.be/9_h0yX6FH…
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June 2025 Cycling in Berlin
Last holiday we went cycling in Germany. We noticed Berlin is a great city for cycling. We could take our bikes on the train from the campsite to the centre. And so many bike lanes, an absolute pleasure
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June 2025 Baking naan
Home made naan breads being baked in the pizza oven Made this bread with the ‘5 minute Naan’ recipe from Indian Kitchen by Maunika Gowardhan
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June 2025 White Asparagus pickles
The season for white asparagus is short. A good reason to pickle them to eat later in the year.
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May 2025 Yesterday at a restaurant we had a dish of duck with jellyfish. I liked the dish, and even though the jelly fish does not have a lot of taste, it definitely adds to the mouthfeel of the dish. So today I picked up a bag of jellyfish in the Asian food shop to try and create a dish with it…
