Yuri van Hoef

Europe's Next Hegemon The perils of German power.

"Germany and its European allies should think about deeper military integration," writes Liana Fix for Foreign Affairs. "Because the United States has been pulling back, Europe will need to find military formats and structures outside NATO with which to defend itself."

A kind reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts for @europeanisa.bsky.social (Lissabon) is 18 February.

We are section S43 Friendship & Positive Peace Studies, and you can submit through the EISA portal: eisa-net.org/pec-2026/

🎶Friendship is rare🎵

"sovereignty and national borders are less important than the singular role the United States plays as the protector of the West"

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Donald Trump says US is ‘going to run’ Venezuela after overnight strikes – live US president says ‘we’re going to run the country until a safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place and that he is ‘prepared’ for a second attack

“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,”

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“When you have a group of kids you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

YouTube video by ligia.kesisian Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital -- scene from the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

I dread the dawn’s recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...

Since WHEN do ssds mount on the motherboard

@rianjohnson.bsky.social dear creator-of-the-best-star-wars-film-ever,

I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.

YouTube video by ITV News Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen reunite 50 years after Macbeth | ITV News

"she's had so many men in her life"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNK...

My cups break. My lasagne falls upside down. What is this november

Radiomaker Mischa Blok belaagd door jongens op fatbike: 'Gekneusde rib rijker' Mischa Blok is zondagavond aangevallen op straat, laat ze weten op X. De radiopresentatrice werd door jongens op een fatbike bekogeld met een boek van de Amerikaanse schrijver Charles Bukowski. Ze hie...

"bekogeld met een exemplaar van de verzamelde werken van Charles Bukowski"

www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...

2009

"But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?"

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Great article; great person.

I'm a God Damn Marvel of Modern Film Scholarship – Black and White and Read All Over A Contextual History Approach to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next (1975 [Content Warning: Mention of suicide] [Contains light spoilers] Poster for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) via IMDb One Fl...

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on November 19, 1975, I want to reshare my contextual history review of the film that doubles as a guide for thinking through our reactions to films, why we feel the ways we do, with my own thinking as a case study.

"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't know me"

Not as much as I appreciate your thoughts and work on here. Keep being awesome!

Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:

Japan's Love-Hate Relationship With Cats From shapeshifters to demonic corpse eaters, supernatural cats have roamed for centuries in the country's folklore

"None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a bi disk. When it stands its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds."

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Final call to jump onboard our "Friendship & Positive Peace" section for @europeanisa.bsky.social in 2026. Deadline is 17/11

YouTube video by IFix Tech Lenovo Thinkpad Musical Tone Error at boot up - Black screen beeping error #shorts

Not only did my desktop die last week, my laptop died today as well, live, in an important meeting, as I was about to take the floor, with the most melodious beep possible. Twice.

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"do you think the French are better?"

Table of neighborhoods showing strongest Mamdani vote shares. Columns list neighborhood, margin (all heavily Mamdani), Mamdani percentage (mostly 77–82%), Cuomo percentage (14–20%), total votes, and percent reporting. Top areas include Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, East Williamsburg, and others.

Table of neighborhoods showing strongest Cuomo vote shares. Columns list neighborhood, margin (Cuomo +42 to +81), Cuomo percentages (typically 67–87%), Mamdani percentages (6–24%), total votes, and percent reporting. Top areas include Manhattan Beach, Borough Park, Midwood, Kew Gardens Hills, Sheepshead Bay, Mill Basin, Willowbrook, and others.

Mixed table of neighborhoods showing both Mamdani- and Cuomo-leaning areas with vote share margins. Includes Upper East Side (Cuomo +24), Upper West Side (Mamdani +5), Bedford-Stuyvesant (Mamdani +57), Astoria (Mamdani +41), Crown Heights (Mamdani +43), Williamsburg (Mamdani +26), Washington Heights (Mamdani +32), Harlem (Mamdani +45), Midwood (Cuomo +57), Bushwick (Mamdani +68), and Flushing (Cuomo +13). Shows Mamdani and Cuomo percentages, total votes, and reporting percentage.

Top Mamdani-leaning neighborhoods, top Cuomo-leaning neighborhoods, and results from the highest-turnout areas: www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... And the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Horatius reads before Maecenas

Horatius reads before Maecenas https://www.wikiart.org/en/fyodor-bronnikov/horatius-reads-before-maecenas-1863

"The Netherlands is one of the last cases of “pure” proportional representation (PR) anywhere in the world, and certainly the only one in an established democracy"

Van twintig naar nul zetels: NSC verdwijnt na snelle opkomst uit Kamer NSC bestormde twee jaar geleden met twintig zetels de Tweede Kamer, maar kwam deze verkiezingen keihard ten val. De partij kwam de deelname aan de rommelige coalitie met de PVV en het vertrek van Piet...

"Zelfs in Omtzigts thuisstad Enschede, waar twee jaar geleden nog meer dan een kwart van de mensen op hem stemde, stemde nog maar 1 procent van de kiezers op NSC."

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Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side?
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?

"celebrating the enduring friendship through taste"

New article title just dropped

Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life

10/16 and the world makes no sense anymore

www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

"Trump en Xi zijn twee wereldleiders die meer gemeen hebben dan ze toegeven. Beiden geloven dat macht belangrijker is dan het respect van vrienden"