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dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

German has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.
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We hebben in Nederland niet te klagen over het niveau van onze satire, maatschappijkritiek met programma's als #Lubach en #eventothier

Even tot hier plaatst panelen terug naast begraafplaats Margraten
Het televisieprogramma Even tot hier heeft naast de Amerikaanse militaire begraafplaats Margraten de twee panelen teruggeplaatst die eerder deze maand door de Amerikaanse beheerder werden verwijderd. De panelen belichten de rol van 'zwarte bevrijders' in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Ook maakten presentatoren Niels van der Laan en Jeroen Woe zaterdag aan het einde van hun uitzending bekend dat zij rondom de teruggeplaatste panelen ook een aanvullende "tentoonstelling" laten bouwen.

«More than 1,500 livestock farmers registered for the buyout schemes» in the #Netherlands.
«Europe has more than 24,000 "mega-farms" (facilities with 40,000 or more poultry, 2,000 or more fattening pigs, or 750 or more breeding sows)»

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …

The Trump administration has reportedly set a goal of yanking citizenship away from over a thousand naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026,
in yet another escalation in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices
to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” next year, according to The New York Times.
Denatu…

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026
Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.

Oh dear. This is distressing on several levels.
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/scientists-confirm-first-mosquitoes-found-in-iceland/

Scientists Confirm First Mosquitoes Found in Iceland
Three mosquitoes have been found in West Iceland, the first confirmed discovery of mosquitoes on Icelandic soil, according to the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. As reported by RÚV, the insects were identified earlier this month by Björn Hjaltason, who reported the find in the Facebook group Insects in Iceland. “At dusk on October 16, […]

So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel

🥙 Battery made from natural materials could replace conventional lithium-ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-battery-natural-materials-conventional-lithium.html

Battery made from natural materials could replace conventional lithium-ion batteries
What if the next battery you buy was made from the same kinds of ingredients found in your body? That's the idea behind a breakthrough battery material made from natural, biodegradable components. It's so natural, it could even be consumed as food.