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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 8h

Radicaa rechts laat zijn ware aard zien. Rancuneus, kwaadaardig negatief en reactionair. Homohaat, intolerant, sneu.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 17h

Wexit

Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 18h

That's a good question. I don't have an answer. However, I do notice that in many countries, the radical right, in both old and new political parties, almost consciously attempts to put people in charge who cannot communicate with the capable but distrusted bureaucracy, leaving them at a loss.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 19h

Rapid Support Forces have begun mass killings following their capture of El-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

Satellite/open-source data analysis corroborates reports of killings across civilian neighborhoods, multiple hospital sites & along the borders of the city of those attempting to flee

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

yaledailynews.com

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 1d

Wilders is een X-trol. Hij wil helemaal niet de grootste zijn; hij mist de mensen, de energie en de ambitie. We zien de laatste stuiptrekkingen van een uitgebluste makelaar in haat en chaos. Journalisten zouden er goed aan doen hem te negeren en zijn leugens niet de schijn van legitimiteit te geven.

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K̶e̶n̶s̶o̶u̶ Just an old wrestler @kensouwill.bsky.social · Jul 31

Distopía
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

The value of public R&D

www.gov.uk

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Omnicrisis @sybren.bsky.social · 5d

11 oktober publiceerde De Groene al over die facebook pagina van de kamerleden van de PVV.

In de twee weken sindsdien heeft Wilders het dus lekker zo gelaten.

Ontzettend geloofwaardig dat hij het nu plots ‘onacceptabel’ acht.

dhttps://www.groene.nl/artikel/maak-haar-blond-onschuldig-en-knap

Vanuit de PVV-fractie worden in het geheim met AI racistische ideeën gepromoot

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kame...

www.groene.nl

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Omnicrisis @sybren.bsky.social · 5d

Correctie: bijna een jaar.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

1/ Political parties in my country make a mockery of climate policy. So, what am I going to do?

b1) On the production side: a home battery of roughly 20, possibly 30 kWh, including a ´flexible´ contract. Why this and this capacity?
www.bing.com/videos/river...

the sun is burning in the sky - Search VideosVideos

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Jimmy Dijk @jimmydijk.sp.nl · 6d

De buurten waar de bezuinigingen het hardst zijn aangekomen, kregen beloften van huurverlaging, afschaffen eigen risico en hoger minimumloon. Alle die beloften werden door Wilders gebroken.

Diezelfde buurten kregen wel 20 keer meer asielopvang dan in de 25 rijkste gemeenten van Nederland.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

Dan kunnen landen permanent 100 kruisraketten in de lucht houden. Met zeer hoge snelheid

Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

k) Considering my cash flows and liquid assets, 20 to 30 kWh is a responsible investment. In a purely economic sense.

That´s the production side. On the consumption side, we have the beef about beef... It´s hard to change your ways...

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

j) My house will become (even more) of a production factory, in this case, the service of storing energy (I´m doing this, too: www.vriendenopdefiets.nl ).

k) Yup. Many more people will become entrepreneurs. By the way, we need non-profit entrepreneur memes.

Wij zijn Vrienden op de Fiets | Vrienden op de Fiets

Stichting Vrienden op de Fiets is een non-profitorganisatie en brengt sportieve Vrienden en gastadressen samen

www.vriendenopdefiets.nl

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

i) I´m going to be part of this wave.

h) But: why 30 kWh? My solar cells will be able to charge these for a long time of the year, off-grid will be slightly longer, but it´s mainly an economic decision.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

Interlude: no, spelling corrector, that´s not ´fossil fuels´. It is ´fossil fossils´. We will need oil for plastics, drugs, and more stuff. Oil for energy will go the way of the Dodo.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

i) We do need to have a *democratic* market. Complicated. Individual battery owners will have to organize themselves into large international cooperatives to serve as a counterfailing power against grid monopolists, the government, and the ´fossil fossils` (that book about Oil is a century old!).

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

g) ´Smart´: batteries which supply the grid during times of ´Dunkelflaute´ (German for no wind, no sun). And which charge when there is a lot of wind and sunshine.

h) These batteries do not have to be huge. All technology exists.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

d) A better grid starts with the present grid. Plus several million home batteries (in my country alone). This includes ´smart´ EV batteries. Cars will become batteries that you can use to drive, too.

e) We will, however, need smart batteries

f) Also, I´m 65. I can´t wait any longer.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

b2c) Long story short: living off grid in the winter requires a LARGE battery. That´s expensive for, basically only for two months a year.

c) Off-grid is no solution. A better grid, however, is

(Repeat: a better grid is the solution)

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

b2b But on a dark and dreary day towards the middle of November, the cells will produce... 0,1 kWh? On a sunny day, maybe 8. A 10 kWh battery will enable you to ´bridge´ 1 damp day in this period. This, however, increases very rapidly as days grow shorter.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

2/ b2a) On a perfect summer's day, my solar cells produce 35 kWh, which is largely sold to the grid (15,5 cents per kWh). But, at night, we still use electricity from the grid (27 cents). A 5 kWh battery can easily solve the night problem. In summer, living off-grid is easy and cheap.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 6d

1/ Political parties in my country make a mockery of climate policy. So, what am I going to do?

b1) On the production side: a home battery of roughly 20, possibly 30 kWh, including a ´flexible´ contract. Why this and this capacity?
www.bing.com/videos/river...

the sun is burning in the sky - Search VideosVideos

www.bing.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 7d

1/7 Some important books have been published recently, by leading experts on the history of slavery. What they say is critical when weighing up Commonwealth reparations claims.

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Merijn ´Anti-fascist/Antifa´ Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 8d

Migration update 24 10 2025 (Eurostat data). Net migration, EU, 28 countries. Immigration, emigration, and net migration, UK. Migrant population, US.

In all these countries, immigration is high.

High immigration seems to be a characteristic of Western culture.