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Amsterdam pulled through in preventing the Netherlands fascist party remaining the largest party. So we're flying the Amsterdam flag today. #tk2025

Once you realise that the chainmail was all crocheted wool you never unsee it.

I heartily recommend learning Latin and Greek as part of a wide subject based education.

I saw it on TV at the time and it was causing nightmares.

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

#nzpol
Parliamentary petition to withdraw the RSB

petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f...

Reading the comments by Wilders supporters how they see the prospective prime minister of the Netherlands:

I was born very close to this castle.

Our cover this week

“Europe should take heart and recognise its own strength. Its military budget is already four times larger than Russia’s; its economy is ten times larger. Far from shying away from a financial contest with the Kremlin, Europe should embrace it—and win the war”

What's Japan doing supporting Russia?

With an Argentinean hockey playing boyfriend, did you expect anything else?

50 centimetres a day.

And $40bn for new roads.

Me and husband in Kurow 2021:

The data must have excluded super funds Australians have. Also, housing equity is excluded, but is mortgage debt (which an eventual claim on your financial resources)?

@heardislandgov.bsky.social

What do self-driving cars do to your sense of masculinity? Is it worse than being driven by your wife/girlfriend?

How much happier the cows are compared to these days.

Capacity in the public sector needs to increase then, but unsure how that can be achieved when many health professionals work in both systems.

So is oil.

John Waters is a great drag persona too.

It worked wonders for the Clintons.

If you are not allowed to vote for the first 18 years of your life, you should not be allowed to for the last 18 years of your life either (calculated on the average lifespan).

USAID was just re-labeled as MilAID.

Putin's greatest victory over the EU has been Brexit.

My cat Linus was my work-from-home supervisor during Covid.

Plonker Plunket claims he is a sovereign citizen.

Eat your veggies instead.

YouTube video by Shout! Studios Streamers (1983) - DVD Trailer

Should watch Robert Altman's Streamers movie too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmr...

Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize María Corina Machado has made downfall of Maduro regime in Venezuela her mission

The irony, of course, is that she would never have got the prize had there been free and fair elections in Venezuela before. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...