I'm honestly still in shock from just how horrible the new coalition in the #Netherlands is. I mean, I knew it was going to happen for over a decade, but now that it actually happened... fuck.
These are #european bison rather than imports from the #us . Thirty years ago they were almost extinct - small populations in north east #romania and north east #poland They have since been introduced elsewhere - including the #netherlands and even the #english county of #kent - somewhere normally not at all keen on anything #european !
I don't follow news from my home country #netherlands much, but I just saw that the coalition is going as fashy as possible. With the liberals (note for Americans, liberalism is not left wing in most of the world) being the most left wing party in the coalition.
“It is recommended that politics and policy focus on a society that can respond resiliently to the effects of #ClimateChange, both in spatial planning and economic activities and behavior.”
Good luck with that. Two decades of conservatives-led governments have gone all in for airport expansion and such, and the far-right Wilders who just may be the next PM is really not into climate action.
Good on the #Amsterdam for refusing to accept police violence against students. Heard in an interview “we are not American, we believe in international law and the fundamental freedom of protest, the #Netherlands is a free country.”
According to my information 4 out of 5 student encampments are allowed to stay the night! 🎉 Only Amsterdam was evicted, more about that later. Preview: outside agitators, not Antifa, escalated things. Probably same folks as earlier (nazi hooligans). 💤
Up at 04:30 this morning to take my wife to the station & thence the airport for an early flight to Edinburgh, to help our daughter again in her post broken kneecap surgery recovery 🤕🩼
If you know me & my night owl habits, you’ll know how much fun that was 😬✌️
So have some pre-dawn clouds: I’m going back to bed 🤷♂️
Last #eurovision thoughts of the season. #france should have won - a better song and better sung. #norway deserved more points. #unitedkingdom tried to make up for a so-so ditty with incredible staging, but I'm not sure the sweaty-sexy side of it worked well (but it could just be that it wasn't aimed at me). #netherlands were missed (the song, anyway, we'll see what has to be said about the singer) #ireland was still my favourite and for bonus points the singer seems to be a nice person too.
Gutted that #netherlands were disqualified from Eurovision. I was sure #joostklein was going to win! It's the most streamed song out of all the entries. Such a shame.
Staying up late hoping for the #auroraborealis to come back... (no luck so far and might have to give up soon) but glad to hear that #Switzerland :blobcat_flagEnby: has won #eurovision (and not, for example, a country currently engaged in genocide who should definitely have been banned if only the #ebu weren't cowardly hypocrites)
If it "would not be appropriate" for #Netherlands to take part in #eurovision while an investigation by the Swedish police is taking place, why exactly is it just fine for a certain other country to take part while an investigation by the ICC is taking place?
I'm not saying that threatening production crew members is fine; it's just really not on the same level as War Crimes and Genocide though, is it, #ebu?