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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺

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Dutch resident, Australian writer (fiction, TV, film, librettos) with earlier careers in law & biology. Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA [🚫DM unless we know each other] https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan https://www.margaretmorgan.info/

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, it's that time of year when the Dutch consume deep fried sweet delights. Our local oliebollen* van has returned. Lekker! 🎉

On New Year's Eve the queues go around the block.

"De leukste oliebollen van Rotterdam!"

[*Literally, "oil ball". It's better than it sounds 😊]

Oliebollen van in front of old Dutch building, tramlines in the foreground

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 9h

Such stunning photomicrography! In awe.

(Somehow we never managed to get images quite like this when we were lab buddies, hey, @eimirving.bsky.social?)

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Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures

Weevils, spores, slime mold and cells in extreme closeup for the 51st anniversary of the Nikon Small World competition

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 10h

"You can’t spend years dogwhistling to racists and Nazis without expecting racist and Nazi dogs to gather."

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Keystone Klansmen

Another day, another bombshell of a leaked private GOP group chat

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 10h

You can read about it here.

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Keystone Klansmen

Another day, another bombshell of a leaked private GOP group chat

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe it's because I used to prosecute stuff, but I find it delightfully entertaining seeing the brazen incompetence of the Trump regime's lawyers, and watching them come a cropper.

[Also, is it compulsory to be blonde if you're a woman in Trump's orbit?]

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The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 14h

Good. Far right populists like Wilders feed off the justified frustrations people suffer because of housing shortages.

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EU to propose short-term rental rules to tackle ‘social crisis’ in housing

Bloc’s first affordable housing plan to cover issues such as tenants’ rights, property speculation and tourist lets

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 14h

#Herfst
#Autumn
#Rotterdam

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 14h

Bedankt!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16h

It's good to just rename things occasionally so we don't forget what they really are

geordi pointing meme - he says no to "data centres" and yes to "computer buildings"

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 16h

Inappropriate grief in the Scottish Highlands.

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Britain's most remote pub cancels Harry Potter night over backlash

The Old Forge in Knoydart said staff had received 'inappropriate grief' over the Halloween event

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h

Completely understandable. This prelude is transcendental.

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Chopin piano competition contestant visibly moved to tears while playing the ‘Raindrop’ prelude

A case of performer beautifully imitating music...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19h

Australian minister cited US influencer's public comments downplaying the Holocaust and making Islamophobic remarks.

Far-right US influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

Australian minister cited US influencer's public comments downplaying the Holocaust and making Islamophobic remarks.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Trump bailed out Argentina, who then undercut US farmers by selling their soybeans to China, who used be our biggest customer for soybeans before Trump drove them away with his tariffs.

This is Trump 3D chess in action.

Arrogance, Ignorance and Idiocy.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h

Lovely!

I had season tickets with the Concertgebouworkest last year but getting home to Rotterdam late at night by train was a bit wearying. So now I just go to the occasional concert there, but go to more concerts in Rotterdam and Utrecht. I'm spoilt for choice around here!

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h

I love this so much.

It would be exactly the sort of Time cover Trump craves with its Hitlerian/Mussolini overtones ("His Triumph") except... it shows what he actually looks like and his ego has a hurtie.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21h

"Israel is still limiting the number of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza. Its only permitting 300, half the agreed number under the Trump plan"

So Israel continues to starve people in Gaza because they claim Hamas hasn't done something. The definition of collective punishment

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed! Of course, these might be people who were already there on residency visa.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h

I love it beyond words.

If I had to name my religion, it would be music, and the Concertgebouw would be my temple.

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 20h

Currently plotting an Irish ferry/driving tour with the family next year.

I will seek this magnificence out.

Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 2d

🔊 Sound on
Half a minute of the shoreline breathing gently.
County Clare, Ireland.