Dear @KLM please can you stop dropping passengers somewhere in the middle of @schiphol on open place and there for next time elegently park the plane at a gate? Now also after intercontinental flights? Your ticket prices do not justify a crowded bus transportation. Thank you.
Ever considering travelling with @AirCanada ? Don’t. Rent a car, book an alternative airline company, take a ferry, etc. @AirCanada is the global winner of the chaos award.
Zelfs de koninklijke familie heeft de smaak te pakken. 🤣🧡
Willem-Alexander, Máxima en Amalia:
⬅️ Van links! ➡️ Naar rechts!
Nog even en heel Nederland doet mee. Go left, go right! 🇳🇱🎶🧡
#Oranje#WK2026#VanLinksNaarRechts
Dat ik dit shot van mijn bucketlist mag afstrepen had ik niet durven dromen. Prachtig #onweer boven de iconische molenrij van #Kinderdijk. Dit betreft een '' singel shot '', geen bliksemstack. Alle ontladingen vielen gelijktijdig.
SpaceX hit $3 trillion market cap today.
This means Elon Musk made more money in the last 24 hours than Warren Buffett made in his entire lifetime.
Insane.
“If we are to continue to deliver emission reductions, we need predictable and technology-neutral framework conditions – not costly national requirements that move activity and emissions out of Norway. “
https://t.co/NHkwHiU724
In Beijing, the second humanoid robot half marathon took place.
26 brands participated, with over 100 teams and more than 300 android robots.
The robot “Lightning” from the Honor team was the first to cross the finish line, with a time of 48 minutes and 19 seconds. However, according to the scoring rules, the winner was another “Lightning” robot from a different Honor team, which used autonomous navigation and recorded a net time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds.
The castles of Europe are some of the most amazing things we’ve inherited from history
Between 75,000 and 100,000 castles were built in Western Europe during the medieval period, with around 1,700 in England and Wales alone, and roughly 14,000 in German-speaking areas...
Most of them rose between the 9th and 15th centuries after the collapse of centralized Roman authority and the rise of fragmented feudal power.
As attacking armies grew more sophisticated, so did the walls meant to stop them. The cost was staggering: from 1179 to 1188, King Henry II of England spent over £6,500 on Dover Castle alone — an enormous sum given that his entire annual revenue was around £10,000. That figure was more than three times what he spent on any other building project in his reign, and more than four times what went into grand royal residences like Windsor.
And then there is Malbork...
Built by the Teutonic Knights in what is now Poland, Malbork is the largest castle in the world measured by land area. It covers 52 acres and once housed approximately 3,000 knights. A medieval visitor reportedly noted it seemed "more a city enclosed by walls than a single castle."
In 950, Provence was home to just 12 castles. By 1000, the number had risen to 30. By 1030, it was over 100. The pace was not driven by a single empire with a plan, but by thousands of individual decisions made by lords, bishops, and kings who each decided, in their own time and place, that stone was the only reliable answer to an uncertain world...
The word castle is derived from the Latin word castellum, which is a diminutive of the word castrum, meaning "fortified place". Between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand of these fortresses were built over six centuries as a reminder that every civilization eventually decides what it will leave behind. Europe decided on this. And the castles are still here.
This is what the internet was invented for
In 1996, a King Penguin named Lala became a local celebrity in Shibushi, Japan. After being rescued from a fishing net by the Nishimoto family, he refused to return to the wild.
He lived in an air-conditioned room in their home and was famous for walking alone to the fish market wearing a tiny backpack.
The fishmonger would feed him a fresh fish and place another in his bag for the trip home.