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an Off-the-Beaten-Tour through the Nine Little Streets in Amsterdam

The other day, Saturday last a week ago to be exact, I was asked by someone dear to me if I wanted to go for a walk. Usually, I embark on a 5-kilometre walk thr...

edje in the Nude - Engaging the Weekend

Selected Topic for this week's Weekend Engagement round: Would you, or have you, ever sent nude images of yourself to someone? Explain. To start, I wonder how m...

My Curation Algorithm & My Conviction for HIVE Social Network

For a long time, I intended to write a post about how I curate. Somehow, I never started such a post since my 'algo' isn't straightforward. Then I left a large ...

My Collection of Pens - Part Two of a Trilogy of Two

Second and last part of my Pen Collection. Click here for the first part. |https://images.ecency.com/DQmchsxDLdvD68neSjRfJguujypsYH2VxXLvDQRXFA6vK1S/20260123123...

My Note<somethings> Collection

During several online meetings with colleagues and even a customer for whom I am doing a post-sales, post-contract job, I managed to find most of my notebooks. ...

the Story of a Months Project for Weekend Engagement nr 294

Yes! I am proud of my house - apartment - and try to present it neatly and keep it clean! And then, SHIT happened! It's already 17 years since I moved into my l...

My Collection of Pens - Part One of a Trilogy of Two

Memories. Whether we realise it or not, we are always creating them. Many of us - if not all of us - intend to remember them. Often a photo camera is used. Some...

the Independent Decentralised SUBSTACK ... powered by HIVE

Some in our HIVE community like to think HIVE can be, or shall become, a kinda Reddit. BUT! Would a Substack approach not be a better one? For a few months, I h...

Self-Centred Behaviour driving Tons of Ridiculous Laws

Early this year, a news item made my not only chuckle, but laugh out loud, while thinking: "Where are we heading with our laws?" And at the same time - literall...

Muiderslot - LEGO project with a little Tour through the Castle

As far as I can remember, I never published anything in Worldmappin. First time for everything. After being with HIVE (and whatever was before HIVE) for 9 years...

Muddy Chocolate/Orange Cake - Yummy - if I may say so myself

This Xmas I asked if I could assist with cooking all the meals. To my surprise I was told: "No Edje, all being handled and in the works." And then: "Edje, we ca...

an Attempted Book Review - Never Flinch by (master of suspense?) Stephen King

As far as I remember, I never wrote a book review. Not for HIVE, not for anything else. At secondary school, I had to review books, but not on paper. The tests ...

Comedy with modesty - and Exactly the right amount of Silly

As it happens to me more often, I am late to the party. While gazillion - more like a few 100 million - subscribers stream their butts off, I was able to stay f...

Nummer 5 - ...or Talking too Much

Reading Galenkp Weekly Engagement post, I was triggered by the fifth and last topic: "Awkward silence, or talking too much...do you do one or the other or know ...

"Do you work here?" - a Story from the Techno underground

Last Friday we headed off to Wuppertal, a city in Germany close to the well known Ruhrgebied, centred in the area marked by the cities Düsseldorf, Köln and Dort...

My Life Changing Period ... Colleagues: Who Need Them, Fuck them

Today I was inspired by a 'recent' post by our own @diabolika, someone who I highly appreciate, who is genuine to her core and is bold enough to talk out in the...

Dutch Political Landslide? ... by your Nutty Columnist ... [eng/nl]

Wilders and his political party PVV suffered a heavy loss recently. He showed himself to be a sore loser by doubting the election result. He claimed votes had b...

Liberation Day in Amsterdam with master Etapp Kyle

EDIT: now WITH the homemade video inside --- A month ago, I received this text message (can you believe it? an original text message, not a WhatsApp, Signal, or...

Discovering Interesting writeups while roaming HIVE this morning

Today I took the step. A writeup showing some of the posts that I like. For years this crossed my mind, to help others get a bit more of a spotlight. But I didn...

WTF! ONLY IF?! .. my Story that Led to this Loud Shout Out to Self

This morning, I woke up and did what I usually do right after waking up .. a "WTF?" and an "ONLY IF?!" escaped my mouth, with my morning voice heavier than usua...