Ben HML

historicus

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

“We must listen to the ocean, and we must protect it much, much more”, says President @vonderleyen at #OceanEye pledging event at #UNGA week. Couldn’t agree more. Ocean observation must underpin
🪸 Effective MPAs
🐟Rebuilding of fish stocks
🥵Climate resilience
🌊Ocean governance

[Mick @MickCo8]

If this doesn’t wake you up
You’re dead inside 👀

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Children dancing in the street with an organ. Amsterdam, 1950s, by Henk Jonker

The street organ, called a "pierement" in Dutch, was a regular presence in Amsterdam's streets throughout the 20th century. It was pushed by hand from block to block, playing the favorite tones of the pierementman.

[Thomas C. @tommasson76]

via netlex on tumblr

[leny Booij @leny_booij]

Vasalis
uit: De oude kustlijn

[Thomas C. @tommasson76]

Tragedy, 1908.

Alphonse Maria Mucha.

[leny Booij @leny_booij]

En aangrijpend de foto van de jonge vrouw, te vinden in de reacties.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The opposite of multiculturalism

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

▶️Follow live the #OceanEye International Alliance high-level pledging event at 4pm CEST, with the participation of Oceana's @acousteau.

Hosted by @vonderleyen & @MarkJCarney, it will bring together world leaders, civil society partners & UN organisations:https://t.co/wTyPi6ixmD

[Thomas C. @tommasson76]

Cailin Russo by Michael Donovan.

[Aleksejs @AleksejsZ]

One of the best films about Art Nouveou / Jugendstil in Riga. cc @NouveauDeco

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

Europe's fish populations are in crisis. The Landing Obligation was supposed to end wasteful discarding, yet seven years on, scientific evidence shows it's not working.

@ejfoundation & Oceana have analysed what's needed to make it work. Read our briefing: https://t.co/70ijOtW4Sj

[Famous👑 @thatfamousboi]

Anne Hathaway (2014)

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

Marine mammals are vital allies in keeping our oceans healthy. But these species face growing threats from overfishing, habitat degradation, and disruptions to their migratory routes and breeding grounds.

Protecting them means protecting the health of the entire ocean.🐬🌊

[Afshin Ellian @AfshinEllian1]

Najemeh Amini (23) is door de Islamitische Revolutionaire rechtbank wegens het beledigen van Islam of de sjiitische imams ter dood veroordeeld. Wees haar stem, en protesteer tegen de misdadige islamitische staat van Iran.

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

John Cleese, 86, is being targeted by activist group Deenified as he tours England with his Holy Grail stage show. The group has accused him on X of "using your platform to attack Islam" and "spreading dangerous misinformation," with one activist calling free speech "a convenient shield for anti-Muslim hostility."

Cleese rejects the Islamophobe label entirely, calling himself "Islamosceptic," and has pointed out nobody ever called him "Christophobic" after Life of Brian. Islamic outlet 5Pillars has gone further still, explicitly demanding he be de-platformed.

Rupert Lowe has already called this what it is: a pressure group trying to bully an 86-year-old man into silence over jokes and honest opinions. He's right, and he's right to tell Restore Britain to back Cleese publicly.

These people don't want dialogue. They want submission. Every time someone caves to this kind of pressure, it teaches them the tactic works, and they come back harder next time for the next target. Cleese is refusing to bow, and every single person who values the right to criticise a religion without getting hounded for it should be standing directly behind him.

Protect @JohnCleese, at all costs.

[STM @Suzanne08253534]

Mary Pickford, 1921

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Hopper wasn't the first to portray loneliness in the big city.

Degas showed us the dark side of bohemian Paris.

The settings change, but human nature remains the same.

[Sense Jan vd Molen @sensemolen]

Voor de Hup Hamas roepers:
Een arts uit Gaza die inzicht geeft in de indoctrinerende doodscultuur van Hamas. En die pleit voor een ander soort overwinning: die van goed onderwijs in een vrijere samenleving.