Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

Go read The Freeze Frame Revolution!

A cop once asked me to shake my backpack to make sure there were no graffiti cans in there. Obviously there weren’t.

Now I’m involved a bit in activism get searched on the regular. It’s mostly procedural, I have the privilege of being not really considered a criminal.

Don’t tell them about baby powder!

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.

I hope they don’t organise marathons or street fairs where you’re at, or worse, resurface a road.

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn’t go places with their cars… not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say “Those are not the same!” and that’s true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

The sad irony of that site asking me to accept tracking by them and their 214 partners.

I used the last of my leave days for the work mandated time off between Christmas and New Years Day. We have plenty, but I used so much for holiday and activism. So I haven’t taken the customary full two weeks off and will be back at the office on 2 Jan. Don’t mind it, I like the quiet office.

But we make up for that with griekse y, korte ei and lange ij! All pronounced [ɛi], similar to ‘eye’.

Using their phone, e.g. trying to snap it into their phone holder, planning a route, that sort of thing.

It’s the year of Luigi!

I was of this conviction until Amsterdam riot cops hunted down protestors like animals and beat them relentlessly, without reason, after they were released from custody, and not a single other cop denounced it.

(Here’s a short compilation of videos taken while it happened, a journalistic video piece and a news article)

“Genocide is not about numbers, it requires genocidal intent”, I’ve been told by genocide deniers. Well, here it is. Again.

My Lemmy app didn’t link it, so here’s a URL: https://lemmy.world/c/thepoliceproblem

It’s funny that a hangover in Dutch is a kater, or, (male) Katze

tl;dr: things are bad, things will get worse, be angry at the criminals, not those sounding the alarm

We’ve known what we’re in for for half a century, meanwhile governments have kept catering to fossil industries. What’s being destroyed by governmental inaction dwarfs that what you accuse these groups of (art has not been destroyed) and at this point I’m not surprised that people are looking to more disruptive and direct action.

We’ve had scientists do the researching and informing, public interest groups do litigation, NGOs trying what they can themselves, etc, yet we’re still headed to a degree of climate destabilization where large ecosystem tipping points may well launch us into uncharted territory - and even if not, we’re already past the point of ‘dangerous’ climate change and that’s something we’ll have to bear the human, societal and economic costs for.