Martijn Grooten

I have so many thoughts and feelings about that Gaza peace deal and everything surrounding it's but then I saw a Gazan journalist post on Instagram "the genocide is over" and I realized my thoughts and feelings don't fucking matter.

I work in threat intelligence. This tracks.

Not the main point of the article, nor the main problem, but now I have to add "but not those people" to my "does digital security work for vulnerable people".

Same!

(I realized that when I liked the photos on another social network I was supposed to choose one, but then they had already gone.)

I didn't manage to register to vote in the upcoming Dutch elections which is kind of okay, as I've not lived there in almost two decades, and kind of not, as the country has some crazy politicians and also, I myself tend to have political views that I 100% agree with.

I think also they have historically avoided team codes that are already used as country codes (hence also TBV).

My brain registered that headline as "preschoolers arrested for ransomware attack" and yeah, soon.

Yeah, I was clearly told this by a CBP official when I ticked the 'tourism' box because my first destination wasn't the conference I was going to attend.

A poster that says: Behind the scenes of comics translation: A case study of two panels from fenta's comic Our Home, which you can find in our upcoming anthology. Then there's a partial mockup of the anthology book, a "live on Kickstarter" text label and the Paradise Systems logo.

Shows the original Chinese script from two panels of a comic about mouse and real estate.

Text overlay appears over the previous image and says: "Every translation we make usually

Shows our first pass at translation.

Made a series of annotated screenshots showing how we translate comics at @paradisesystems.bsky.social (every script passes through at least 3 sets of eyes)!

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Abracadabra Finance is at least not hiding the fact that it's all based on nothing.

Did they hear about the Discord data hack?

every day it's a man who looks like my father, taken to the ground. a man who looks like my brother, on his knees. a woman who looks just like my sister, screaming for her children. every day.

I work in press freedom. The news is bleak, and I know journalists feel it too.

I hope you will support the news in whatever way you can to ensure they can do the work. It’s not their fault things suck, they’re just working their asses off to help get you fact checked information. Get them paid.

Tunisian sentenced to death for Facebook posts criticising president A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the president and assaulting state security through posts on social media, the head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights and his lawyer said on Friday.

There are many self-obsessed autocrats around the world. In Tunisia someone got sentenced to death for a Facebook post critical of the president www.reuters.com/world/africa...
The "oh, but actually we're a really civilized country" responses are fairly unique to the United States though.

Mooi! En jaloers!

I just wanted to state publicly that I've been using em-dashes long before ChatGPT started doing it.

Gen Z Anger at Ruling Elites Is Erupting Across the World From Morocco to Indonesia, young people are taking to the streets to protest against inequality and a lack of jobs.

A good story about youth-led protests in Africa and Asia “against aging leaders, corruption, joblessness, income disparities and economies that have left people in their teens to late 20s behind” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

A scientist stands in front of an enormous contraption "I created this device to test my theory that our entire reality is a simulation, but the readings I'm getting suggest something much worse" "What?" Asks a second scientist. "We're living in a cartoon!" Says the first. "Does it at least have a good punchline?" says the second. The fiorst scientist carefully looks over the data, then eventually replies "Nope" From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

My mother is one of the few people who consistently talks about X rather than Twitter. She does mean Instagram though.

Glad to see my home country doing —checks notes—a rounding error better at family reunion rights.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Facebook post by Liverpool Echo showing a picture of a man wearing a hi vis top wearing a vacant expression. The text caption is “Dog became suspicious when he wore two pairs of trousers to work”

I don’t even want to know what this is about, the preview is so perfect it would only disappoint me if

I think everyone uses the former now.

A good post by Bruce Schneier: digital threat modeling under authoritarianism www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

"Here's your chance to roll out strong encryption throughout your organization" and I would have bitten.

What, no birthday calendar?

YouTube video by dead account Bis - Tell It To The Kids

"Hey you!
Fascist man
Working on your master plan
We know what we saw (we know)
Won't let you do more (no more)
Hey you!
Homophobe
Life without your frontal lobe
Your prejudice lies
While innocents die"

This is quite an old song but the lyrics in particular feel fresh youtu.be/qopEvYpmikc?...

I was in Berlin so I joined this for a bit. It was impressive. It's embarrassing for us as a species that we still need to protest against genocide (I think I've attended anti-genocide marches in five countries now), but the alternative is staying silent and that's a million times worse.