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The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 (@Pen_Is_Mighty on Twitter)
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Med-tech CEO, virologist, MBA. Classical violinist. Award-winning brewer. UW/FHCRC. An American expat in the Netherlands (from Kauai). Victim of the syntonic comma.

Tu non sai chi cazzo sono io.

Hawaii no ka oi.
I would think—after enduring monthly tsunami sirens testing for years on Kauai—that this would be easier.

Always a shock to the system. Air raid sirens plus phones exploding…no mistaking it’s the first of the month
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Not quite the Kauai sunrises that I love, but pretty nonetheless.

Netherlands.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My little Sunday sourdough loaf. Resting.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
For no rational reason, this is me.
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The irony is that if those fucking religious lunatics wouldn’t have come here, who now’s how much better the US would be?
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I love it when the vision you have in the morning comes to fruition
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I’m on a quest to try every local brewery.

Shit pour, wrong glass. Still good.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
humped my camera to a convention in Dusseldorf, and only took three pictures.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
My local wine and spirit shop did me a solid.

Procured from Denmark, a little taste of home. A couple of bottles of the coconut rum incoming and, well, you know what that means…
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My pic of Sinterklaas's arrival in my town. Depicted as a bishop who arrives by steamboat from Spain to give gifts (with his helpers called "Pieten"). Children leave out their shoes to get presents and treats.

The arrival is a major event across NL.
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
On the road again…🎶🎵
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
As an ID microbiologist, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be eating mettbrötchen, yet here we are.
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
On the train to a conference in Germany.

Picked this up on my last trip to the States.

I’m not enjoying it at all. Non-relatable characters. Full of clichés & uninteresting writing. It is rare I don’t finish a book. This may be one of them.

Rating: 0.5 beers out of 5 🍺
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Have family friends in CH; can confirm.
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
In the recent House Epste1n data dump, this is a tally of the number of documents the each of these people were mentioned (top 24 out of 515 unique occurrences).
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Better, thanks!

This kind of point?
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
My version.
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
soon...
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM