Martijn Grooten
@martijngrooten.bsky.social
Threat Intelligence for Silent Push. Digital security for at-risk people.
Researcher, reader, runner. Eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
Researcher, reader, runner. Eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I always struggle to describe Dutch cuisine.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I always struggle to describe Dutch cuisine.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.
I don't know who this Emily Dickinson lady is, but all these em-dashes makes it clear she had ChatGPT write her poems
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I don't know who this Emily Dickinson lady is, but all these em-dashes makes it clear she had ChatGPT write her poems
I know we won't beat the far right by pointing out inconsistencies, but the logo of a Dutch anti immigration protest, uses a foreign language and an animal that doesn't live in the country.
September 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I know we won't beat the far right by pointing out inconsistencies, but the logo of a Dutch anti immigration protest, uses a foreign language and an animal that doesn't live in the country.
The thing with news is that it's only news when it's new and this has long stopped being new. But if you do prayers, pray for those for whom any of these 53 people were their everything, and if you do anger, be angry at Israel and its defenders
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
September 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The thing with news is that it's only news when it's new and this has long stopped being new. But if you do prayers, pray for those for whom any of these 53 people were their everything, and if you do anger, be angry at Israel and its defenders
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Preaching for the converted here, I assume, but still.
September 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Preaching for the converted here, I assume, but still.
Kudos to @micahflee.com for calling the ICEBlock app "activism theater" and pointing out this major red flag micahflee.com/unfortunatel...
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Kudos to @micahflee.com for calling the ICEBlock app "activism theater" and pointing out this major red flag micahflee.com/unfortunatel...
The life of a journalist isn't worth more than that of a child. Or that of an elderly person with preexisting health conditions, for that matter. But killing journalists means trying to kill the news stories about all those killings. That is an outright evil act. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
September 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The life of a journalist isn't worth more than that of a child. Or that of an elderly person with preexisting health conditions, for that matter. But killing journalists means trying to kill the news stories about all those killings. That is an outright evil act. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying, by Noor Hindi www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
August 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying, by Noor Hindi www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Feeling cute, might block later
July 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Feeling cute, might block later
Here's his buddy who went on the trip with him. A loyal customer of the E. Leclerc supermarket chain, he's wearing a free t-shirt they gave him.
July 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Here's his buddy who went on the trip with him. A loyal customer of the E. Leclerc supermarket chain, he's wearing a free t-shirt they gave him.
This guy is in his mid 20s and already did the midlife crisis thing of spending three weeks riding his bike around France
July 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This guy is in his mid 20s and already did the midlife crisis thing of spending three weeks riding his bike around France
I found this photo I took of @themountaingoats.bsky.social playing in Amsterdam in February 2003. I have vivid memories of that concert but I had totally forgotten they played as a duo!
July 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I found this photo I took of @themountaingoats.bsky.social playing in Amsterdam in February 2003. I have vivid memories of that concert but I had totally forgotten they played as a duo!
Drawing and watercolour. (I mostly do the former as it's a nice way to make a diary look pretty. I cheat a little by putting my phone underneath the paper to get the outlines right.)
July 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Drawing and watercolour. (I mostly do the former as it's a nice way to make a diary look pretty. I cheat a little by putting my phone underneath the paper to get the outlines right.)
And third were the @jeanines-band.bsky.social from Boston. Probably my favourite of the three and also the band whose songs I know best, so I could shamelessly sing and dance along. This was a good evening. I'm lucky I got to see the bands.
July 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And third were the @jeanines-band.bsky.social from Boston. Probably my favourite of the three and also the band whose songs I know best, so I could shamelessly sing and dance along. This was a good evening. I'm lucky I got to see the bands.
And third were the @jeanines-band.bsky.social from Boston. Probably my favourite of the three and also the band whose songs I know best, so I could shamelessly sing and dance along. This was a good evening. I'm lucky I got to see the bands.
July 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
And third were the @jeanines-band.bsky.social from Boston. Probably my favourite of the three and also the band whose songs I know best, so I could shamelessly sing and dance along. This was a good evening. I'm lucky I got to see the bands.
Next up are the Gentle Spring, from Paris, whose singer/guitarist is a British expat who once co-founded The Field Mice. They're a bit more mellow so I can relax a little after the dancing (read: awkwardly moving my body to upbeat songs) earlier
July 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Next up are the Gentle Spring, from Paris, whose singer/guitarist is a British expat who once co-founded The Field Mice. They're a bit more mellow so I can relax a little after the dancing (read: awkwardly moving my body to upbeat songs) earlier
The world is going through a particularly rough phase at the moment, but tonight I'm watching three of my favourite new bands play and it's making me really happy.
First one is Lightheaded (not on BSky but their label @slumberlandrecords.com is) from, I think, New Jersey. They're good fun!
First one is Lightheaded (not on BSky but their label @slumberlandrecords.com is) from, I think, New Jersey. They're good fun!
July 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The world is going through a particularly rough phase at the moment, but tonight I'm watching three of my favourite new bands play and it's making me really happy.
First one is Lightheaded (not on BSky but their label @slumberlandrecords.com is) from, I think, New Jersey. They're good fun!
First one is Lightheaded (not on BSky but their label @slumberlandrecords.com is) from, I think, New Jersey. They're good fun!
You into lions? Here's a lion.
July 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You into lions? Here's a lion.
I read Rot, Padraic X Scanlan's book on the devastating Irish famine of the 1840s. It's good on the actual story of 19th century Ireland. It's also good on the story of why the famine happened when it shouldn't have (prejudice, stubborn belief in markets) and thus provides some lessons for today.
June 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I read Rot, Padraic X Scanlan's book on the devastating Irish famine of the 1840s. It's good on the actual story of 19th century Ireland. It's also good on the story of why the famine happened when it shouldn't have (prejudice, stubborn belief in markets) and thus provides some lessons for today.
I probably sound like a broken record posting this, but then so does the situation in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
June 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I probably sound like a broken record posting this, but then so does the situation in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Orhan Pamuk loves cats and this cat is loving him back.
June 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Orhan Pamuk loves cats and this cat is loving him back.
This weekend, I also finished reading @rockingbob.bsky.social's Let's Do It, in pop music during the first 50 years of the 20th century. I loved it, even more than I expected. I thought I wasn't really into early jazz or swing (I was wrong) and that the book would be too Anglo-American centered.
June 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This weekend, I also finished reading @rockingbob.bsky.social's Let's Do It, in pop music during the first 50 years of the 20th century. I loved it, even more than I expected. I thought I wasn't really into early jazz or swing (I was wrong) and that the book would be too Anglo-American centered.
I just finished Greg Grandin's America, América, a history of the new world (that is, the Americas) seen as a whole. (Thanks to @lenazun.bsky.social and others for the recommendation.) It is a great and very timely book. I learned a lot from reading it. I want to learn so much more.
June 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I just finished Greg Grandin's America, América, a history of the new world (that is, the Americas) seen as a whole. (Thanks to @lenazun.bsky.social and others for the recommendation.) It is a great and very timely book. I learned a lot from reading it. I want to learn so much more.
There was an interesting topological challenge with the two guinea pigs in the garden tonight.
June 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
There was an interesting topological challenge with the two guinea pigs in the garden tonight.