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Kirsten 🇺🇦

@kirstenvegt.bsky.social

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PhD candidate Leiden University & Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) | Research on citizen science & science skepticism | fantasy & science fiction & DnD Tweets (do we still call them that here?) are my own, in 🇳🇱 and 🇬🇧

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 3d

Fixed it to be on time still!

#lotr #booksky

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 4d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because history is full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders, in the hope that they could soften the blow.

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #jingo #vimes #vetinari #booksky

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Franky and Coen @frankyandcoen.bsky.social · 5d

Onze dierbare vrienden Alyona en Ghenja zijn vandaag vermoord door een Russische droneaanval op hun auto.
We verliezen niet alleen onze vrienden, maar ook de helft van ons team.

Hun dood maakt ons vastberadener om het goede te blijven doen voor hen en iedereen die door dit geweld wordt getroffen.

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 9d

Mij nie bellen

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 16d

Jaa! LOTR is fantastisch - goeie keuze inderdaad :)

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arf (spooky edition) @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18d

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 19d

Maarten van Rossum is mijn spirit animal

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 19d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because one of the rocky patches on the road to becoming who you are now is being a twerp then

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #booksky

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NRC @nrc.nl · 19d

De Nederlandse patatkraam in Oekraïne redt mensenlevens. In de documentaire ‘Patatje Oorlog’ staan twee Hollandse patatboeren tussen de Russische drones.
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Tv-recensie | Een patatje oorlog eten midden in een oorlog

Zap: De Nederlandse patatkraam in Oekraïne redt mensenlevens. In de documentaire ‘Patatje Oorlog’ staan twee Hollandse patatboeren tussen de Russische drones. In het programma ‘Interview met de…

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 19d

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 20d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because someone ought to do something...

... And that someone is me

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #hogfather #booksky

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 21d

Whoa as if the regular mental load wasn't enough 😅 But I do kinda like this initiative from the Canadians - I wonder if it will have any effect (I hope so!)

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 24d

Makes me think of this quote, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 24d

Hope's secret:
it doesn't know
the destination-
it knows only
that all roads
begin with one
foot in front of the other.
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

HOPE

Hope has holes in its pockets.

It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious, can follow it. Hope's secret: it doesn't know the destination-it knows only that all roads begin with one foot in front of the other.

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 25d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because what a place! What a situation!

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #goingpostal #moistvonlipwig #booksky

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 25d

I feel so seen

#lotr #lordoftherings #hobbit #tolkien

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Will you be my precious? Or is this date Mt. Doom-ed? 🌋🔥 #lordoftherings #lotr #lego #hobbit

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 25d

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 26d

Yes same!! She is so badass (and coincidentally, lives there as well 👀)

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 26d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because doing nice is not always the same as doing what is needed

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #thesheperdscrown #grannyweatherwax #booksky

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 27d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because oook!

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #booksky

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NRC @nrc.nl · 27d

Stikstofdoelen blijven buiten bereik. RIVM: ‘Het gaat slecht met veel natuur in Nederland’

Zonder bijsturing gaat Nederland de eigen stikstofdoelen niet halen, concludeert het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM). De stikstofneerslag daalt, maar lang niet snel genoeg.

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Esme Weatherwax 📚🧶🦉🌳🔬📸 🌈 ally @esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social · 28d

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 28d

KIJK DAN

Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 28d

Dit is toch FANTASTISCH

Wales komt op voor Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch www.nu.nl/opmerkelijk/...

Wales komt op voor Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

De regering van Wales heeft een website in het leven geroepen om de eigen taal, het Welsh, te beschermen. Inwoners worden opgeroepen om de lokale benamingen van rivieren, heuvels, bruggen en huizen te...

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Kirsten 🇺🇦 @kirstenvegt.bsky.social · 28d

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because I'M ALWAYS ALONE - BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #reaperman #death #booksky