"A Dutch woman has started a campaign to counter what she calls Israeli propaganda on billboards across the country. After a successful campaign, she's raised nearly 80 thousand dollars. The money is being used to buy billboards and show messages in support of Palestine."
"A Dutch woman has started a campaign to counter what she calls Israeli propaganda on billboards across the country. After a successful campaign, she's raised nearly 80 thousand dollars. The money is being used to buy billboards and show messages in support of Palestine."
You bet I enjoyed going out play above the snow with a drone!
It doesn't happen that often anymore that we get a good cover of snow. And if it does like now it will be gone in a day or two.
The woods and fields around Hilversum are always good source of imagery. With a highway snaking through, behind the former convent of Stads God.
This convent was closed on 2014, and the grounds were donated to the Goois Natuur Reservaat. The history These days it is part of a network of nature reserves that are connected using bridges or tunnels.
When author Benjamin Moser was 25, he moved to the Netherlands to start his writing career. He became infatuated by Dutch art, in particular, the artists who didn't live up to their potential. He writes for LitHub about what he learned. "After studying these failed painters, I decided that the only thing that mattered was just to do the work you felt was most important — and to keep doing it."
With two raging wars, an incoming far-right populist president in #Argentina, and a surging far-right movement in #Germany, #TheNetherlands decided that another far-right leader is what the world needs. We're all doomed. #GeertWilders#PVV
Parliamentary elections in #TheNetherlands today. Looks like anti-Islam populism is winning. PVV (you may have heard of their leader Geert Wilders and his short film "Fitna") is projected to get some 35 out of 150 seats, becoming the biggest party in parliament by far. That makes it likely he'll become PM.
By the way, this is how ballots are counted in The Netherlands. Voting is almost 100% in-person and on paper. The ballots are huge, there are 100s of candidates across 26 parties.
@Aquietplacetodie btw absolutely bizarre to me how an entire CONTINENT manages to have a housing crisis when yall have just slightly more people than The Netherlands, which is roughly the size of Perth.
Catching up on my previous trips, look at this beautiful countryside of Zaandam in the Netherlands. I took this shot with the Zorki 4 camera (an old Soviet rangefinder) from 1966. 🥰
Gear:
• Zorki 4 (KMZ, 1966)
• Jupiter-8 50 mm f/2 (KMZ, 1967)
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36
There are elections coming up in The Netherlands on 22/11, and there are too many parties to choose from. Over on my personal blog, I wrote a grifter-by-grifter guide to the depressing choices Dutch voters face.
This is "De Oldehove", an unfinished church tower on the edge of the city centre of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The tower was originally intended to be much higher than its now 40 metres, but it started to lean during construction. The 16th century builders tried to straighten it out, but were unsuccessful. That's why there is no pinnacle. Despite everything, "De Skeve" (Frisian for "the leaning one") has now been standing for almost five hundred years. It is said to be even more askew than the Tower of Pisa. #Leeuwarden#TheNetherlands#architecture
We love nature, even one located under a glass roof. This is a huge strelitzia (our favorite houseplant), commonly known as the Bird of Paradise Plant. I took this photo in Amsterdam, at one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world called Hortus Botanicus, which was founded in 1638. 🪴🪴🪴