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Writer, voice artist & Executive Producer of BRAM RADIO from Broadcast Amsterdam | Sharing local stories for radio, podcasts & online, for all of Amsterdam and beyond, in English. https://broadcastamsterdam.nl/

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I had some fun with this one …. πŸŽ™οΈπŸ€£

30.08.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have a listen 😁

21.08.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dam Daily | 24 June 6am trucks, traffic chaos, what’s hot in Amstelkartier, and more news out of Amsterdam. Listen back to this episode of our Dam Daily show on the mixcloud player above.Β  🎢 Music included a few…

6am trucks, traffic chaos, what’s hot in Amstelkartier, and more news out of Amsterdam on the latest Dam Daily ep w/ @cathycentral.bsky.social here: broadcastamsterdam.nl/podcast/dd-2...

πŸ“» Re-run of the show also on our internet radio station, Thursday, 10-11h and 17-18h.

26.06.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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D66 Amsterdam: "Don't scapegoat internationals – include them" - DutchNews.nl Amsterdam should avoid β€œscapegoating” highly-skilled migrants for the national housing crisis and instead focus on including them in the democratic debate, according to local politicians. The D66…

D66 Amsterdam: β€œDon’t scapegoat internationals – include them”

11.06.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really can’t get over the final point in that French Open final yesterday. Jannik RIPS it. He earned that point. I’m in awe of how perfect the return was by Carlos. The speed and the precision

Jannik gets that point against any other player on earth

10.06.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super fresh interview from me. Enjoy!

25.05.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to promote a song on here is as hard as what I can only imagine carrying a 6 seater corner couch up 6 flights of a spiral staircase would be.

Alas I will keep posting into the void and mourn my wonderful engagement on tw*tter before I left

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Mark Zuckerberg is the least inspiring futurist of our and possibly any time nymag.com/intelligence...

02.05.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 426    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 33
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Discoveries from Kitchen Republic Startup Market 2025 From jalapeΓ±o joy to traceable honey to local fruit fizz: Cathy and Geli share their discoveries from the 2025 Kitchen Republic Startup Market. Listen back to the one-hour episode (with music track…

From jalapeΓ±o joy to traceable honey to local fruit fizz: we share our discoveries from the 2025 Kitchen Republic Startup Market. β–Ί Listen back to the episode On Demand here: broadcastamsterdam.nl/podcast/kitc...
Hosts: Geli & @cathycentral.bsky.social

15.04.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Titanic (1997)

31.03.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1337    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 14
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Heads up for early April, Ams! Early April gigs, a mini front garden and a call for tech talent: all on the latest Dam Daily ep here. Listen back to the show on the mixcloud player above to this edition of our Dam Daily show. πŸ”— …

Early April gigs, a mini front garden & a call for tech talent: all on the latest Dam Daily ep with @cathycentral.bsky.social here: broadcastamsterdam.nl/podcast/dd-e...

🎢 Music inc gig teasers from ISA, Zimmer 90 & we ended with new wave indie rock band, @listentohook.bsky.social off their new EP.

25.03.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ik maakte een tekening.

β€˜An unlikely lovestory’
29,7 x 21 cm
Inkt op papier.

Delen is lief

24.03.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Most probably!

22.03.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My latest show. πŸŽ™οΈπŸŽΆ

07.03.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday Times.

02.03.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8711    πŸ” 1806    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 63

From garage rock out of Madrid to student films, and special bakes. ▢️ Listen On Demand to this ep of #YourAmsterdamWeekend w/ @cathycentral.bsky.social on our website here,
broadcastamsterdam.nl/podcast/wk-9...

28.02.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rotterdam Open, snack bars not so much News out of Amsterdam, some what’s on tips, Feb/March gigs, Cathy’s music picks, and more for this Dam Daily ep. Listen back on the mixcloud player above to this edition of our Dam Dail…

"Rotterdam Open, snack bars not so much" 🎧 The latest episode of #DamDaily w/ @cathycentral.bsky.social is up on our website here, broadcastamsterdam.nl/podcast/11-f...

12.02.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My latest radio show! ▢️πŸ₯°πŸ‘‡

07.02.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
An old Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer. Built like a brick shithouse, and just, you know, printed.

An old Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer. Built like a brick shithouse, and just, you know, printed.

This is the last printer I owned that wasn't an absolute piece of shit.

05.02.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A cheeseburger walks into a bar. The bartender says, β€œSorry, we don't serve food here.”

28.01.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

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My latest radio show … have a listen. Get involved …

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When you clean a vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner.

13.01.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
A large Sainsbury’s Store Front with the signs for the other shops laid out underneath. They are Argos Habitat Tu. sounds a bit Latin dunnit. lol eh

The fact they left out Specsavers leads me to think they knew what they were doing, and I’m probably just explaining their own joke to them

A large Sainsbury’s Store Front with the signs for the other shops laid out underneath. They are Argos Habitat Tu. sounds a bit Latin dunnit. lol eh The fact they left out Specsavers leads me to think they knew what they were doing, and I’m probably just explaining their own joke to them

Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts

Grow up

12.01.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2658    πŸ” 515    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 28

Yes, still wearing my Christmas jumper.

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Enjoy the show! (Powered by the coffee I just made them). β˜•οΈπŸ€—πŸŽ™οΈπŸ“»β–ΆοΈ

13.01.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

1/ So, where were we? Oh yep, #duvetknowitschristmas. Firstly, some admin: Twitter/X has evidently been run into the ground by a preening, self-radicalised clot, so while there's a slim possibility that this annual celebration might be thriving over there, I won't know cos I won't be looking.

24.12.2024 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1421    πŸ” 312    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 84
Headline: Do men know what an actual woman looks like?

Candid, paparazzi photos of actor Sydney Sweeney in a purple bikini

Text: After candid photos of Sydney Sweeney in a bikini leaked online, thousands of men on X have been having a full on mental breakdown because she doesn't look exactly the same as when she's glammed up for an award show or airbrushed in a magazine. They've been tearing her apart for her body, her face, and basically calling her an ugly hag and a catfish.

Headline: Do men know what an actual woman looks like? Candid, paparazzi photos of actor Sydney Sweeney in a purple bikini Text: After candid photos of Sydney Sweeney in a bikini leaked online, thousands of men on X have been having a full on mental breakdown because she doesn't look exactly the same as when she's glammed up for an award show or airbrushed in a magazine. They've been tearing her apart for her body, her face, and basically calling her an ugly hag and a catfish.

The entire "controversy" reminds me of the famous quote from philosopher Marilyn Frye, who wrote in her book, The Politics of Reality:
Essays in Feminist Theory, "To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men.
In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving."

The entire "controversy" reminds me of the famous quote from philosopher Marilyn Frye, who wrote in her book, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, "To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving."

Constantly thinking of this Marilyn Frye quote

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There is only 1 Person of the Year 2024

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