Yuri van Hoef

"accidental friends" TM 2025 @vanhoef.bsky.social

@pietervdheede.bsky.social

Title: One door leads to freedom, the others to certain death. You may ask one question. Image: Three guards with shields and speard stand in front of three doors. One guard sits at a folding table working at a typewriter, his shield and spear leaning against the wall. Caption: One guard always tells the truth, one always tells lies, and the third always tells an entrancing story that blends reportage with imagination in an attempt to reach a deeper authenticity by moving beyond the narrow categories of fact and fiction.

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page.
p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

YouTube video by Team Coco Conan And Jordan Are Co-Hosting A Radio Show | Conan O'Brien Radio

"you are one uptight philosopher"
youtu.be/l0Evue46LNk?...

"The young prince's presence, according to Andrus, was the only thing that stopped a riot. They trusted him because he'd been with them at Dachau"

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: Trump and Netanyahu hold a press conference

“I want to thank you for your friendship and for your leadership [...] you have proven time and again what I have said many times: you are the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House. And you and I both know it’s not even close.”

youtu.be/tP0Hf_anQpU

PSA: @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are launching this website to host our public scholarship and get it off of Substack.

It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)

Gelukkig is Nederlands al jarenlang het favoriete vak van alle Duitse scholieren :)

De Duits-Nederlandse militaire samenwerking is op een dusdanig innig niveau dat je hier een prachtig voorbeeld van vriendschap tussen landen ziet in de praktijk.

1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. #EISAPEC26

PEC 2026 Local hosts and programme chairs. 1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Giulia Daniele, Local Host. Ana Mónica Fonseca, Local Host. Elizaveta Gaufman, Programme Chair. Nizar Messari, Programme Chair.

📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026!

⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R

🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025

YouTube video by China Zone 剧乐部 =44集=司马懿临终起舞回忆一生

"What if the mountain is high, Or how deep the sea?
When the Duke of Zhou greeted a guest, in his service all wished to be."

youtu.be/gFIT8s4zLN8?...

Why is Trump so obsessed with Jimmy Kimmel and US late-night TV shows? From JFK to Bill Clinton, US presidents have long accepted the relentless punchlines of late-night hosts as part of the job – until now

"Carson’s daily mentions of Richard Nixon or Watergate in the early 1970s was a major contributor to the president’s approval rating crash, underscoring Carson’s tremendous influence on the bygone monoculture in his nearly 30 years on air"

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Read the King’s state banquet speech to Donald Trump in full Here’s the speech in full

“So in renewing our bond tonight, we do so with unshakeable trust in our friendship and in our shared commitment to independence and liberty."

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

YouTube video by Team Coco Patton Oswalt (FULL EPISODE) | Where Everybody Knows Your Name

"when comedians become the truthtellers and the philosophers, it means the truthtellers and the philosophers are failing"

youtu.be/a1GAGzYVZ5c?...

ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments Nexstar, one of the biggest owners o US f TV stations in, said will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel's late night show due to the host's Charlie Kirk remarks

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variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Classical Chinese for Portents:

天既訖我殷命，假人元龜，無敢知吉...今我民罔不欲喪，曰『天曷不降威，大命胡不至』？

Heaven has revoked its Mandate. No diviner dares read good omens in the plastrons...There is not one commoner who doesn't long for your ruin. They say "Why doesn't Heaven send down its might? Why hasn't its Mandate come?"

necessary

And they say the Dutch don't have a cuisine.

"Inside the 50th-birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein is a photo of a massive, novelty size check, seeming to reference the sale of a human being from one powerful man to another. The man whose supposed signature is on the check is the current president of the United States."

#lockhimup

Don't see you under the donations yet, so -10 friendshippoints.

More retweets please, to voluntarily lock up one of my best friends:

Voor Amnesty doe ik mee aan de Schrijf Je Vrij-challenge Ik ga 10 uur lang brieven schrijven in de gevangenis. Hiermee haal ik geld op voor mensenrechten. Help jij mij hierbij door een donatie te doen?

Vriend Roel laat zich voor een goed doel opsluiten in de gevangenis. Win/win situatie: je kunt hem steunen als vriend en als vijand:

schrijfjevrij.inactievooramnesty.nl/fundraisers/...

Let's also remember that Trump's 1st op, 9 days in, was the Raid on Yakla, Yemen which Obama considered too risky but Trump went ahead it.

The raid was an alsolute failure that killed 14-25 civilians including 9 children; among them a 9 year old American girl shot in the neck.

This is what he does

"The airfield was later seized by Army Rangers who parachuted directly onto the airfield."

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

"Evidence suggested that the crew, which people briefed on the mission said numbered two or three people, had been civilians diving for shellfish"

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

@pietervdheede.bsky.social

Putin hails ties with China as Kim Jong-un arrives in Beijing on eve of parade Russian president says relations at ‘unprecedentedly high level’ as dozens of leaders gather for Victory Day events

"Putin called China’s leader, Xi Jinping, a “dear friend”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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