1/3 Of course this hits an emotional nerve. Books being destructively scanned somehow is painful. Like you can hear them scream. On the other hand: have you recently tried to off-load your books to a second-hand book seller? Nobody wants them anymore, because nobody buys them anymore. Or at least

Me, trying to explain that crypto-rails have already solved a problem to the atproto crowd.

1/4 Het ondersteboven vlaggen is een trend die uit het buitenland is overgewaaid. Het is een noodsignaal om aan te geven dat het land wordt aangevallen. Met vandaag alleen al 2 doden en meerdere gewonden, is het wel erg ironisch dat de mensen die met de vlag ondersteboven aan het wapperen zijn,

1/3 In this well argued and researched essay, Cameron Armstrong argues for a Corpus Levy to be paid by makers of frontier AI models to compensate for the use of, what @cameron calls, the public genius we collectively generated over the existence of humanity. I fully agree on this. Although Cameron

A train ride through Dutch rural parts inspired a fresh poem. For those interested, it is collectable onchain. https://kismet.art/artwork/0x4dd71c80a42b6d186ef921fd4ab4dbf917e98f66/1

Left some highku poetry on a (Dutch) train again. Handwritten on postcards. One in Dutch, the other in English. Because poetry makes you spicy. Hope someone finds it. Originally posted on Farcaster.

Monday me vs Friday me $stables edition Originally posted on Farcaster.

1/3 My friend Iryna has been relentlessly working hard to raise funds to send much needed medical supplies and equipment to frontline medics in Ukraine, literally helping to save lives. Despite all she has done so far, much more is needed. And you can help. Just a small donation, or maybe you can

I had one of those brilliant poetic thoughts in the middle of the night, wrote it down, and when I read it this morning it just said: poem got stuck so I sprayed WD-40 on it 🤡 🤡 🤡

sarah 🥀@sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The ideas you have in the pool are like the ideas you have in a dream, where you get this sentence that answers all questions you’ve ever had about reality and you get up groggily and write it down, and in the morning, it looks like 'let’s buy bananas...'" --Anne Carson interview-The Paris Review

1/4 When my father arrived in The Netherlands as a refugee 75 years ago, together with the soldiers of the Dutch Colonial Army, who were shipped to The Netherlands by order, and arrived as stateless persons, he was assigned to be housed in Kamp Vught, a former Nazi concentration and transit camp.

Monday me vs Friday me, icecream edition. Because every day is a great day for icecream. Originally posted on Farcaster.

This is interesting. What should the new Euro bank notes look like? You can help decide by giving feedback on several design proposals. What's your favourite? https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/ Originally posted on Farcaster.

1/3 Wat betaal je voor een ijsje in de region van Omroep West? Meestal 2,50 voor een bolletje en 4,50 voor twee. De twee zaken die in dit artikel worden genoemd ken ik allebei. Confetti van een paar jaar terug. Hier betaal je 1,50 per bol. En Piet van meer recent. Die is duur. Allebei maken ze

I had never seen (more likely: noticed) this before. A little fish inside a stranded jellyfish. Have you ever seen something like it? Or is it a coincidence of s jellyfish landing on a little fish at the moment it stranded? Originally posted on Farcaster.

1/2 Don't forget the /poidh bounty for a Sopha poem! You can win ~55 Euro worth of ETH if your poem gets selected. All you need to do: - check sopha.social and find a post/article that inspires you - write a poem inspired by that post/article - take a photo of a sofa (couch, bench, comfy chair...)

I firmly believe... Every day is a great day for ice cream. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Originally posted on Farcaster.

1/4 One thing I don't like about football commentators, is that they judge the losing team solely based on results. That is often very unfair. After yesterday's World Cup final, many people say Argentina was playing badly, or "they didn't show up". Because they lost and because they didn't play li

TIL ATproto is not decentralised and we need mindshifts for open internet. Stop sharing private stuff. Once you put it out there, it's public. And other can (ab)use it. Wonderful AMA on bluesky about ATproto, BTW, for those interested: https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3mqjnjafz2s2k

1/3 Hey Dutchies, hoe vaak rijden jullie door België? Wij best vaak, omdat we in Frankrijk wonen. En ergens vind ik dit wel terecht. De Europese infrastructuur is steeds vaker, vooral voor vrachtverkeer, maar ook gewoon voor personenauto's, niet uitsluitend voor de bewoners van het betreffende

1/2 Social thrives by attention. Not the attention of likes, but the attention given to creating a post, or to reading it and responding to it. When we do not measure this, even if we succeed, it may look like a failure. But finding one friend, on person who loves your art, one other interested in

1/4 Who has heard about W, the new social network. Obviously, when I first heard about it coming up, I was curious. So I put myself on the waiting list. This week, the wait was over. I got an email: "Welcome to W." Hurray!

As host nation and State Party, the Netherlands stands behind the International Criminal Court and its staff. International courts must be able to carry out their mandate without interference.

1/2 Update pushed to Arke, the bridge from Farcaster to other open social networks. Today I've added Lens. Now you can connect your lens profile and autopost to Mastodon, Bluesky and Lens by simply adding the share keyword to your cast.

After the first rest day, the Tour continues with stage 10 on 14 juillet, the French national day. So of course, there are a couple of French riders on the attack. Originally posted on Farcaster.

Is it really real? If so, this post might very well have a life on Farcaster, Bluesky, Mastodon and Lens. Originally posted on Farcaster.

1/4 At Farcon Rome last May, Rish (CEO of Farcaster steward Neynar) talked about composable social. On Farcaster, like on other platforms such as Telegram, mini apps are a thing. These are apps that run in the client you use for your social networking. There are games, shows, coin launchers, wallet

#PATIENT Patient Negative One enjoying the noonday sun no virus collecting no victims infecting just an unpraised hero coughing his antibodies onto Would-Be Patient Zero #vss365

1/2 Sweet. Another update on Arke. If you use the keyword to share at the end of your cast, and your cast is longer than a Bluesky or Mastodon post can be, Arke breaks up your longer cast into multiple posts, and the entirety is shared as a thread on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Originally posted on

1/2 These days, it is often too hot to do a second walk in the afternoon. Both Duke and I rather do our park visits in the morning and late at night now. Even in the morning, it is a bit too hot for running after the ball. Fortunately, there are cool sticks to be found. Like this one. And if you

Pushed some updates to Arke Messenger today. Autoshare from Farcaster is now controlled, so you can pick which messages you want to be shared to your connected Mastodon and Bluesky accounts by simply adding a keyword to your cast. If you do that at the end, it will be replaced by a more telling line