Boekengids

“There are many who do not know they are facists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Ernest Hemingway - For whom the bell tolls

[Marko Kolanovic @markoinny]

This is 100% true. I rewrote all of my physics textbooks by hand and in the process memorized the material for decades after.
https://t.co/rim3VHKyP5

[Boekengids @Boekengids]

Fascinerend en aangrijpend: Het verhaal van Chirbet Chiz'a.

https://t.co/aI8SuEhpl8

[Boekengids @Boekengids]

Demonstreren is in Nederland een groot goed. Vrijheid van meningsuiting hoort bij wie we zijn. En juist daarom is het zo verontrustend wanneer die stem, de stem van de gewone burger, wordt gekaapt door georganiseerd extremisme. https://t.co/D9aiw4cVNv

[gummbah @gummbah]

Today I will be signing (books) at De Fabriek Book Fair | De Fabriek Eindhoven, stand PANTOFLE BOOKS.
Info: https://t.co/79TJSFY5Aa

[Patrick Van Gompel @PVanGompel]

World Press Photo 2026
De beste nieuwsfoto is van Carol Guzy (1956) uit de VS. Ze fotografeert een familie die uiteen wordt gerukt door ICE-agenten nadat een Ecuadoraanse migrant zonder strafblad werd aangehouden in een rechtbank in NYC.
Expo: https://t.co/8o3EvzXdv3

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

‘The old world is dying, the new world is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

[Hans Jager @hansjager]

“Een mens kan overal ontstaan, totaal onbezonnen en zonder logische reden, een paspoort niet.” ‘Gesprekken tussen vluchtelingen’ van Bertolt Brecht is een roman-in-dialogen over twee Duitse emigrés in Helsinki. Oncomfortabel actueel… #literatuur 📚

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

In the summer of 2000, as the Harry Potter series was quickly becoming a global sensation, legendary Yale critic Harold Bloom gave one of his most unpopular takes, calling 35 million readers wrong

[Merel Morre @MerelMorre]

Komt u maar door, lente!
En een vrolijk Pasen alvast allemaal 🐣

[MarkyX 🌹 MafiaBlitz.com @Marky_X_]

Probably one of the better April Fool's jokes with insanely good costume design

Warhammer 40k Musical

[Merel Morre @MerelMorre]

Doen hoor!

[Oliver @oliverhamrin]

Just learned about Ken Isaacs' "Superchair" (1967).

Built-in book rest, shelves, lamp, drink tray, and a seat back that folds into a bed.

A place for "inventive work and the individual search for peace of mind", as he put it.

It was meant for people to build it themselves, hence the almost unfinished look. Blueprints were published in Popular Science in 1968.

[AdrianusPeters @AdrianusPeters]

Tzum | Nieuws: L.H. Wiener wint de Hans Vervoort Prijs 2026 met In verlatenheid - Tzum https://t.co/91bcHSfGa5

[Boekengids @Boekengids]

https://t.co/pAByTpzgwO Alle genomineerden van dit jaar zijn -,wat mij betreft - terechte winnaars.

[Boekengids @Boekengids]

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Ter leering ende vermaak!

[NRC @nrc]

Caesar toonde zich in onze contreien een dictator met genocidale trekjes. En was Augustus wel een vredesstichter? In zijn boek fileert Robert Nouwen vijf eeuwen Romeinse dominantie in de Lage Landen. https://t.co/HwyLwxLRbQ

[Oliver @oliverhamrin]

Just learned about the beautiful personal library of a German mining engineer called Bruno Schröder.

His entire house was covered in custom shelves he built himself, housing his life’s work – a 70,000 book collection.

Bruno died in 2022 at 88, while in the midst of digitally cataloguing his massive collection. Sadly, he had no relatives and the house, including the books, was handed to an estate manager and put up for sale. That’s when his story and these photos surfaced.

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

—J.R.R. Tolkien

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

As a general rule, NEVER engage a shill and his or her arguments. They are paid to promote (at best) cherry-picked facts out of context, strawmen arguments, or (at the worst), just lies.
Just expose them to the audience.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Sir Ian McKellen at 86 expertly reciting Shakespeare last night!