Richard de Nooy

Author of novels, short stories and non-fiction in English and Dutch | currently also dabbling in screenwriting | #interviewswithplants #ladyamstel | https://linktr.ee/richarddenooy

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2026-07-24 10:14:20 UTC

This "vlizotrap" is a Dutch device traditionally used to manage population size. Once a year, usually in the summer, every Dutch person completes the challenge of using this extendable stepladder to fetch camping equipment from the attic. Those who are too old or unhandy die trying. #FolkloreFriday
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2026-03-10 10:20:21 UTC

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.
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2025-10-18 18:12:07 UTC

My great-uncle Hendrik Jakobs and his wife Marie saved the lives of several Jewish families in The Hague during WWII. Hendrik — a retired family doctor — was executed for his #antifa activities on 18 March 1945. He died for freedom, equality and democracy. Fascism was just a deadly obstacle.
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2025-05-13 21:03:42 UTC

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Get your fucking AI and flying fucking robots to feed starving children, clean oceans and repair the horrors you have inflicted, you smart fuckers with bulging wallets.

2025-05-13 20:52:21 UTC

We have drones that kill children, but none that provide precision-targeted nourishment. We lost focus and became a despicable fuck of a species, squandering that which was paid for with the blood, sweat, tears and lives of millions.

2025-03-18 10:45:07 UTC

Europe must act now, standing united against this horror.
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2024-12-31 17:17:52 UTC

I wish I could love fireworks, but they’re a constant reminder of how loud, wasteful, cruel and stupid capitalism truly is.

2024-11-11 12:02:13 UTC

Your daily reminder…
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2024-10-30 15:19:34 UTC

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2024-10-24 20:35:08 UTC

Never again” is happening in our time, friends. No need to believe me, just check with Unicef, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, UNRWA, UNIFIL and any organisation reporting on the atrocities unfolding in Gaza and Lebanon.
To add to the horror, their reports are being suppressed.