Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
Ex-ex-translator, also artist, writer, songwriter. Currently looking for work in my field.
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: https://rocr.cfw.me
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: https://rocr.cfw.me
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PSA - if you're thinking about picking up Tanith Lee's work because of that viral recommendation for ex Gaiman fans to do so and you're an ex Gaiman fan for personal trauma reasons you might want to know that in addition to being brilliant Tanith Lee also wrote incest and rape a fair bit!
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
PSA - if you're thinking about picking up Tanith Lee's work because of that viral recommendation for ex Gaiman fans to do so and you're an ex Gaiman fan for personal trauma reasons you might want to know that in addition to being brilliant Tanith Lee also wrote incest and rape a fair bit!
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We live in a world where teachers have tried to remove students insulin pumps and cochlear implants because they assumed they were phones or recording devices. Let’s not encourage destroying something that could end up being a legitimate aid.
Sure, counterpoint: I require extremely thick lenses because I have exceedingly bad vision and the only frames that work with them are very similar to Meta glasses. I am literally blind without my glasses, they take 6 weeks to replace and are painfully expensive.
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We live in a world where teachers have tried to remove students insulin pumps and cochlear implants because they assumed they were phones or recording devices. Let’s not encourage destroying something that could end up being a legitimate aid.
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Sure, counterpoint: I require extremely thick lenses because I have exceedingly bad vision and the only frames that work with them are very similar to Meta glasses. I am literally blind without my glasses, they take 6 weeks to replace and are painfully expensive.
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sure, counterpoint: I require extremely thick lenses because I have exceedingly bad vision and the only frames that work with them are very similar to Meta glasses. I am literally blind without my glasses, they take 6 weeks to replace and are painfully expensive.
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We should not be using this in schools
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We should not be using this in schools
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"As just about any working-class American family will tell you, the real 'distortion of reality' is the idea that a family of four can do anything but suffer on $32,150 a year." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics
How much does it cost to stop being poor in America? • New Hampshire Bulletin
Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, “How a broken benchmark quietly broke America.” His provocative economic…
newhampshirebulletin.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"As just about any working-class American family will tell you, the real 'distortion of reality' is the idea that a family of four can do anything but suffer on $32,150 a year." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics
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The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
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Waterboys doing AI visuals for album art is especially worrying, bc they're such a neo-Boomerish, respect for the craft, tastefully modernised trad outfit. So, for them to be skimping on production values in that direction feels like one of us is misreading the room for that kind of selling point...
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Waterboys doing AI visuals for album art is especially worrying, bc they're such a neo-Boomerish, respect for the craft, tastefully modernised trad outfit. So, for them to be skimping on production values in that direction feels like one of us is misreading the room for that kind of selling point...
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Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn
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Assigned Media is essential reading to understand the ongoing assault on trans and genderqueer people and why YOU should be in solidarity with them
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December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Assigned Media is essential reading to understand the ongoing assault on trans and genderqueer people and why YOU should be in solidarity with them
The sad reality is most people don't stand for anything; they just pretend to.
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The sad reality is most people don't stand for anything; they just pretend to.
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multiculturalism is an exponential good: the more of it you have the better, and the less of it you have, the worse. there are no exceptions to this rule
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
multiculturalism is an exponential good: the more of it you have the better, and the less of it you have, the worse. there are no exceptions to this rule
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it is affirmatively bad and misogynistic to care about birthrates even in theory
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
it is affirmatively bad and misogynistic to care about birthrates even in theory
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Gang: Thank you so much for your incredible response to the Iron Circus Black Friday Sale. I don't deserve you, y'all are the best and our Baker & Taylor splash damage has been rendered MUCH less intimidating.
If you missed yesterday, the 40% OFF sale runs thru Cyber Monday!
store.ironcircus.com
If you missed yesterday, the 40% OFF sale runs thru Cyber Monday!
store.ironcircus.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Gang: Thank you so much for your incredible response to the Iron Circus Black Friday Sale. I don't deserve you, y'all are the best and our Baker & Taylor splash damage has been rendered MUCH less intimidating.
If you missed yesterday, the 40% OFF sale runs thru Cyber Monday!
store.ironcircus.com
If you missed yesterday, the 40% OFF sale runs thru Cyber Monday!
store.ironcircus.com
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It shouldn’t be missed how many examples of Farage’s racist bullying are from when he was 17-18 & the kids were 9-10. He’s always been a coward
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It shouldn’t be missed how many examples of Farage’s racist bullying are from when he was 17-18 & the kids were 9-10. He’s always been a coward
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Hey you scrolling late at night. It’s still Bandcamp Friday for
A few hours and you can still DO something with your day.
I just put out a record of heavy antifascist darkwave. Try it out.
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
A few hours and you can still DO something with your day.
I just put out a record of heavy antifascist darkwave. Try it out.
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
The World, by Seeming
11 track album
seeming.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Hey you scrolling late at night. It’s still Bandcamp Friday for
A few hours and you can still DO something with your day.
I just put out a record of heavy antifascist darkwave. Try it out.
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
A few hours and you can still DO something with your day.
I just put out a record of heavy antifascist darkwave. Try it out.
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
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part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children
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The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
BTW I thought I was over performatively hating on Huey Lewis and the News, because 1) it's more fun to performatively hate on The Offspring, and 2) Huey Lewis himself seems to be an OK guy, but sometimes you need something to measure other things by and for that, our man is still useful.
Eh, it's pretty bad, but the worst? Unless all of Huey Lewis and the News's (the yardstick by which I measure badness in pop music) work has been written out of history, it's not even close.
On a related note to previous conversations, THIS is what I think is, without a doubt, the worst pop song out of the 80s, a song for which, from the very first time I heard it, I felt an instant revulsion, and upon watching the video, I strongly felt I needed a tetanus shot
youtu.be/tUJQigu0_04
youtu.be/tUJQigu0_04
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
BTW I thought I was over performatively hating on Huey Lewis and the News, because 1) it's more fun to performatively hate on The Offspring, and 2) Huey Lewis himself seems to be an OK guy, but sometimes you need something to measure other things by and for that, our man is still useful.
Eh, it's pretty bad, but the worst? Unless all of Huey Lewis and the News's (the yardstick by which I measure badness in pop music) work has been written out of history, it's not even close.
On a related note to previous conversations, THIS is what I think is, without a doubt, the worst pop song out of the 80s, a song for which, from the very first time I heard it, I felt an instant revulsion, and upon watching the video, I strongly felt I needed a tetanus shot
youtu.be/tUJQigu0_04
youtu.be/tUJQigu0_04
Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny (Official Video)
YouTube video by HaysiFantayzeeVEVO
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Eh, it's pretty bad, but the worst? Unless all of Huey Lewis and the News's (the yardstick by which I measure badness in pop music) work has been written out of history, it's not even close.
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And you usually get some smartypants saying "But discs can go bad!"
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And you usually get some smartypants saying "But discs can go bad!"
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
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The fact that as soon as I search “we built this city” it suggests ”on sausage rolls” is the only genuine reason that song is bad
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The fact that as soon as I search “we built this city” it suggests ”on sausage rolls” is the only genuine reason that song is bad
It's Bandcamp Friday today, and here's an album I've been waiting for for months:
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
The World, by Seeming
11 track album
seeming.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It's Bandcamp Friday today, and here's an album I've been waiting for for months:
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again
Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.