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Wendy van Dijk
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Programmer. Female. Business woman.
Married with another woman since 2005 (together since 1986).
Open source. Vegetarian. The Netherlands. Classic liberal. Pro-EU. Metalhead. Pro-Ukraine.
I am T, B, A and Q in LGBTQIA+.
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jmvtol.bsky.social
Hoe zijn we in dit racistische land terechtgekomen? Waar is de medemenselijkheid? Waar de redelijkheid? De gelijkheid?

#nietmijnnederland
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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gellyfish.uk
"legitimate military targets" MY ARSE. "Not all Russians" MY ARSE.
maks23.bsky.social MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24d
🤬 Video from Russian FPV drone that attacked a minibus with people on the Sumy-Bilopillya highway
October 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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dirkverhofstadt.bsky.social
De wereld waarin ze geboren werden, was niet de wereld waarin ze stierven, of ze de oorlog overleefden of niet. Dit is een verhaal dat het verdient om steeds opnieuw verteld te worden. Opdat we niet vergeten, zullen we hen en wat ze meemaakten, blijven herdenken. www.liberales.be/teksten/2025...
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque — Liberales
Erich Maria Remarque laat de verloren generatie van Duitsland zien. Gesneuveld op de slagvelden van Frankrijk, onbegrepen door hun ouders en hun kinderen. De wereld waarin ze geboren werden, was niet ...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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jmvtol.bsky.social
Vandaag bestaat Amsterdam 750 jaar. Ter ere hiervan zijn er 750 verhalen gelanceerd. Fokke & Sukke zijn (niet zonder reden, maar dat snap je als je het leest) verhaal Nummer #8. Blader door alle andere mooie verhalen... amsterdam750.nl/verhalen/
@amsterdam750
750 Amsterdamse verhalen - Amsterdam750
Voor de viering van het jubileumjaar brengen we 750 Amsterdamse verhalen samen onder één digitaal dak. Lezen, kijken en luisteren, maar ook doen. Vóór en dóór Amsterdammers en iedereen die de stad in ...
amsterdam750.nl
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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wilcoveldhorst.bsky.social
Buy European, buy Canadian, buy Mexican, Australian, New Zealand, British etc. but nothing American please. Let Trump know that insulting, betraying, belittling and offending 550 million Europeans, 100 million Australians, Canadians and 125 million Japanese is going to cost the USA a lot of money.
March 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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wilcoveldhorst.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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jmvtol.bsky.social
PREVIEW
Voorlopige omslag Het afzien van 2025
Verschijnt 12 november 2025
15 euro
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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liztormato.bsky.social
And this is Europe's major ally?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
October 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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liztormato.bsky.social
#JeSuisAntifa
September 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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dirkverhofstadt.bsky.social
"We at PEN America view a U.S. president filing a suit claiming a book is “malicious, defamatory, and disparaging” as a grave warning. We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write." - Summer Lopez #booksky @booksky.club www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Trump's lawsuit against book publisher is a dangerous escalation
Don't overlook the significance of a sitting president suing the world’s largest trade book publisher and two authors for publishing a book.
www.latimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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liztormato.bsky.social
Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

I guess we can now really say that nothing has changed since the adoration of Putin in Anchorage, and the EU intervention in the White House.
Exclusive: Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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smokingpancake.bsky.social
Fucking unbelievable. They're going to put US expats under the District of Columbia where....they have no electoral votes. 🤬

I hope they abolish FATCA and having to file taxes whilst living elsewhere, too.
democracydocket.com Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Aug 22
A new GOP bill would force nonmilitary overseas voters to prove they maintain a “current residence” in the U.S. with a verifiable mailing address.

If they cannot provide the proof, the individual cannot be treated as a state resident for voting purposes.
GOP Pushes New Bill That Would Strip Voting Rights From Overseas Citizens
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
Steve Roe (librasteve) published a new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter today, which starts (again) with work by @lizmat on SBOM because of the EU's Cyber Resiliance Act.

Enjoy!

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2025.33 More Resilience
Liz’s Corner Liz continues on the path started last week with (1) Towards more accountability of Raku programs, this week adding new posts on (2) CRA and OpenSource, on (3) CycloneDX Support …
rakudoweekly.blog
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
The European Union has agreed, a few years ago, on the CRA: the Cyber Resilience Act.

To me, it is a bit like the software version of the CE-marking on toys, electronics, and other commercial goods that need to comply to safety, health, and environmental proctection standards of the EU.

#RakuLang
August 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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rubenbolling.bsky.social
With this barrage of unbelievable news, sometimes you've got to step back, draw a breath, and say WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

boingboing.net/2025/08/13/t...
Trump's Labor Statistics pick has painting of Nazi battleship behind his desk
Some people online claim the painting is of the USS New Jersey, but it's the Bismarck, as made obvious by the photograph it traces.
boingboing.net
August 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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westonfront.bsky.social
I've got a huge pile of art to ink up, so I thought I'd get in the zone by doing one of my occasional "just for fun" pages... and to get some of that weird imagery out of my head and onto the paper. One day I'm going to collect all these in a book.
August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
I am alert on the new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter and immediately post about it! Steve Roe (librasteve) just published a new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter, and starts with work by @lizmat on SBOM because of the EU's Cyber Resiliance Act.

Enjoy!

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2025.32 Cyber Resilience
Liz’s Corner Liz sets out the path Towards more accountability of Raku programs and sheds some light on the mysterious work she’s been doing with SBOM and its friends. It became clear t…
rakudoweekly.blog
August 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Panels one and two: Two white mice make their way through a maze. Panel three: Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says: “Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.” The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!” Panels four and five: The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen” Panel six: The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”
August 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
Ow again! I am a nutcase, and told myself last week 'there is a new one'. Sorry for being tardy.

Last week, on the regular Monday, Steve Roe (librasteve) published a new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter, which starts with gorgeous turtle graphics made with Raku.
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2025.31 Snappy Turtles
Anton’s Corner Anton Antonov has provided us with two more lovely posts this week. As ever his visuals and movies are a stunning insight into our world made with Raku. The snappily named Turt…
rakudoweekly.blog
August 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
Ow! For some reason, I skipped posting this last week.

Steve Roe (librasteve) last week Monday published a new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter (I still miss proofreading the Weekly), and he starts with the Sparrow6 "Swiss Army Knife".

Enjoy reading!

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2025.30 A Hexagonal Week
Alexey’s Corner Alexey Melezhik shows his Sparrow6 the Swiss Army knife for Alpine Linux. Tim’s Corner RaClU: Raku Classification Unification is the latest post by Tim Nelson. He makes …
rakudoweekly.blog
August 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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scimon.bsky.social
khanate.co.uk/weekly/331.h...

Here's my ongoing blogs about the weekly Perl coding challenge and how I solve them in Raku. I hope you enjoy.
Multi Operations : Raku Weekly Challenge : Week 331
khanate.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
Steve Roe (librasteve) just published the new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter (so @lizmat could continue to work on interesting stuff like PURL and SBOM, but I miss proofreading her Weekly), and he started with attention for the 15th birthday of Parrot.

Enjoy!
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2025.29 Just Sleeping
Parrot was released 15 years ago today. Fernando’s Corner Recently on IRC someone asked how to add methods to basic types, which reminded me of an old experimental project of mine: Protocol. …
rakudoweekly.blog
July 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
Steve Roe (librasteve) wrote another nice Rakudo Weekly Newsletter (so my @liztormato.bsky.social did not have to and could work on something awesome), and started with new developments on and writings about Cromponent.

Enjoy!
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2025.28 Wayland’s Smithy
Fernando’s Corner Cromponent now lets your components bind cookies, query-string params, headers and HTTP-auth credentials directly in the method signature and push live HTML over WebSockets …
rakudoweekly.blog
July 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
"Questioning is the way of learning,"

Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
wgavandijk.bsky.social
How dangerous is Trump? As dangerous as Vance, and as all the other people in their government, House, Senate, and elsewhere. On a path to destruction, for instance of Europe's democracies. And it is working.

Long article, and maybe not free to read for some.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
euobserver.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM