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Lifting smarter and harder

While I've been going to a weightlifting gym since December, I hadn't joined the powerlifting classes yet. They're usually fully booked before I can make plans,...

Round numbers

Yesterday I was happy to notice that the gym has 1kg weights now. Actually, it was a girl making fun of them who made me notice them. Previously the lightest we...

My favorite abstract art NFTs - now for sale!

I've been in love with abstract art since I visited the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen and the Leeds Art Gallery in 2013. It wasn't an accident that I was cha...

Nijmegen and its history

While hundreds of thousands of Dutch people were visiting Amsterdam for the Canal Parade, I went to the eastern city of Nijmegen, also for homosexual purposes, ...

Berrypicker

I covered almost the same distance on Saturday, when I went cycling with a friend, just to have a chat. Along the way, on a rather remote bike path, we noticed ...

Like A Real Sport

Yesterday I went to Utrecht Central Station on my bike. I noticed a pop-up stadium on the square in front of the train station. Short bursts of loud music were ...

Red Line Protest in The Hague

On Sunday, I went for a walk in The Hague, along with 150,000 other people. This was the Red Line protest for Gaza, the largest demonstration in the Netherlands...

Daily Quote #35

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that is what is going t...

Daily Quote #34

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road." – Henry Ward Beecher...

This week's crypto hype: Zora content coins on Base

https://img.leopedia.io/DQmWimYAxNDqDii7mE49WJSuEfPM3TGuzs5YthzgdkVmBbE/zora%20coining.png Zora used to be a selective artsy-fartsy NFT platform, but this week ...

The Uncertainty Machine (part 2)

Part 1: Propagating uncertainty Trying out narratives The most annoying part of the past two weeks was seeing the MAGA crowd turn on a dime to support Trump's l...

The Uncertainty Machine (part 1)

The latest news about Trump's tariff shitshow, at least when I started writing this post, was that smartphones, computers and chips have been exempted. This sup...

Pushing and pulling, demolishing and building

This was the first time I went to gym two days in a row, yesterday and today. No, I'm not getting addicted to powerlifting. I just wanted to try a push/pull spl...

Back to the gym (panicking about lost keys)

I'm going back to the gym in the sense that I started powerlifting regularly again. But yesterday I also rushed back to the gym because I'd lost my house keys. ...

Punkrock night in The Hague

On Sunday night I went to see Laura Jane Grace perform in the Hague. She known for the legendary punkrock band Against Me! On this tour, she's performing with a...

OK, Trump won. Now what? The #crypto community is kissing a rapist's ass. He's ...

... pumping our bags, he'll let us scam freely. No whining about global warming anymore! And some even believe that a power-hungry narcissist will give them fre...

Dan Larimer is predicting that the apocalypse will happen today

Dan Larimer, the co-founder of BitShares, Steem and EOS, is not well. Is there anyone here who used to be close to @dan and can contact him tomorrow, if the wor...

Will Money Electric reveal who Satoshi Nakamoto is?

It's over 10 years ago that Newsweek's Leah McGrath Goodman wrongly identified Dorian Nakamoto as the creator of Bitcoin, so I guess we're due for another attem...

Kto zgubił urządzenie nawigacyjne GPS Garmin w Holandii?

Yesterday I took advantage of the sunny late summer weather to go for a walk before dinner time. I hadn't done that for a while. By keeping my eyes open, I foun...

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