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.

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)

“So!”

“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, 'cause you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart, very much. It’s very appreciated.”

~ Jeff Bezos, July 2021, as he departs for space tourism

Windows 2.1 in a VM on Linux viewed over Spice in an SSH-forwarded X11 session running on WSL2 with XWayland forwarded over RDP to a Windows 11 desktop: https://deskto.ps/u/sjmulder/d/fztjse