Bas Wisselink
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Student of Philosophy at University of Amsterdam. Interested in sex work, autonomy, classical languages and western esotericism. Member of http://sekswerkexpertise.nl.
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
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BREAKING
Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING
Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
Story soon on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/subscribe
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Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
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We’re still releasing the Epstein files right?
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We’re still releasing the Epstein files right?
Being "on" all the time and sleeping too little is bad for your mental health and decision making abilities.
Lutnick: "The president sleeps less than me. I sleep 5 hours a night. The president sleeps 4 hours a night! And he's working all the time. He calls me late at night, he wants to talk about the day. He's on it all the time. It is the most impressive thing you've ever seen."
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Being "on" all the time and sleeping too little is bad for your mental health and decision making abilities.
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Het is een gotspe dat de BBB-minister de woo gaat inperken vanwege kosten, terwijl de corruptie die de woo voorkomt vele malen meer maatschappelijke schade voorkomt. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/mi...
Ministerie wil openbaarheidswet Woo kortwieken
Het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken wil de Wet open overheid, die journalisten en andere burgers het recht geeft om overheidsdocumenten op te vragen, vergaand inperken. Dat blijkt uit antwoorden van...
www.ftm.nl
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Het is een gotspe dat de BBB-minister de woo gaat inperken vanwege kosten, terwijl de corruptie die de woo voorkomt vele malen meer maatschappelijke schade voorkomt. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/mi...
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Het is niet te vatten dat we komende week - op de Internationale Dag tegen Geweld tegen Sekswerkers - onder andere Roos zullen herdenken bij Belle... 🌹❤️
#17dec #IDEVASW
#17dec #IDEVASW
Eerbetoon aan slachtoffers van geweld tegen sekswerkers bij Belle aan het Oudekerksplein in Amsterdam. Op onze internationale dag van gedenken, 17 december #IDEVASW
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Toch komisch dat mensen er nu pas achterkomen dat de VS een vreselijk land is als reisbestemming.
Velen hadden dit na 9/11 allang ervaren wanneer ze op basis van afkomst of uiterlijk uitgekozen werden voor een extra beveiligingscontrole.
Velen hadden dit na 9/11 allang ervaren wanneer ze op basis van afkomst of uiterlijk uitgekozen werden voor een extra beveiligingscontrole.
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Toch komisch dat mensen er nu pas achterkomen dat de VS een vreselijk land is als reisbestemming.
Velen hadden dit na 9/11 allang ervaren wanneer ze op basis van afkomst of uiterlijk uitgekozen werden voor een extra beveiligingscontrole.
Velen hadden dit na 9/11 allang ervaren wanneer ze op basis van afkomst of uiterlijk uitgekozen werden voor een extra beveiligingscontrole.
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Bluesky now requires age-verification in Mississippi, even though X does not.
So Mississippians can still access X anonymously, but htey have to submit paperwork to read Bluesky. Guess which site doesn't think they'll get prosecuted in Mississippi.
Asymmetrical enforcement threats are censorship.
So Mississippians can still access X anonymously, but htey have to submit paperwork to read Bluesky. Guess which site doesn't think they'll get prosecuted in Mississippi.
Asymmetrical enforcement threats are censorship.
Bluesky Is Back for Mississippi Adults, But Social Giants Still Lack Required Age Checks
Months after Bluesky blocked access to Mississippi, Bluesky is available in the state once again with age verification for adults.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Bluesky now requires age-verification in Mississippi, even though X does not.
So Mississippians can still access X anonymously, but htey have to submit paperwork to read Bluesky. Guess which site doesn't think they'll get prosecuted in Mississippi.
Asymmetrical enforcement threats are censorship.
So Mississippians can still access X anonymously, but htey have to submit paperwork to read Bluesky. Guess which site doesn't think they'll get prosecuted in Mississippi.
Asymmetrical enforcement threats are censorship.
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As a climate scientist, the most charitable thing I can say is that this guy's a fucking moron.
Trump: "Remember -- global warming! And then the temperature started going down like a rock. Remember? Remember?"
December 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
As a climate scientist, the most charitable thing I can say is that this guy's a fucking moron.
Patients have never been consumers.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Patients have never been consumers.
Imagining kids with republican parents seeing this, realising they have 3+ dolls and either destroying some or breaking down in tears.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Imagining kids with republican parents seeing this, realising they have 3+ dolls and either destroying some or breaking down in tears.
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The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
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An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
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You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go
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This is a super common opinion expressed about social sciences: humans are too chaotic to be the subject of scientific understanding. But Hume pointed every minute of every day we predict each other's behavior to get by. The fact that humans are predictable is what makes society possible.
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is a super common opinion expressed about social sciences: humans are too chaotic to be the subject of scientific understanding. But Hume pointed every minute of every day we predict each other's behavior to get by. The fact that humans are predictable is what makes society possible.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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I see your “Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness” and raise you my “Journal of Earth and Flatness”
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I see your “Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness” and raise you my “Journal of Earth and Flatness”
There is plenty of critical disapproval, well founded and necessary in light of mostly uncritical adoption of what amounts to hammering in a screw.
I love you bluesky but I admit I don’t totally understand the rabid and uncritical AI hate that predominates here
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There is plenty of critical disapproval, well founded and necessary in light of mostly uncritical adoption of what amounts to hammering in a screw.
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Trump is actually bragging about the size of the oil tanker he pirated.
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Trump is actually bragging about the size of the oil tanker he pirated.
"The president instructs Americans that racism is fine."
Rep. Randy Fine defends Trump's gutter racist rants about Somalis: "Not all cultures are equal ... the president speaks in language that Americans understand."
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"The president instructs Americans that racism is fine."
Wat kun je ook anders verwachten van Dekker the Wrecker?
Minister Dekker onderhield nauw contact met gokbranche bij legalisering online gokken: ‘Gelukt. Well done!’
Online gokken: Toenmalig minister Sander Dekker (Rechtsbescherming, VVD) had rond het besluit om online gokken te legaliseren uitvoerig contact met vertegenwoordigers uit de gokbranche, blijkt uit ope...
www.nrc.nl
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Wat kun je ook anders verwachten van Dekker the Wrecker?