CeesFrees

Uit IJmuiden gevlucht kustvolk. (ook op BlueSky) Met een stukje of zes het zeegat uit. (of 8)

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

Datacenters haal ze binnen! Maar wel hun eigen broek ophouden, zeewater ontzilten en gebruiken voor koeling, en een eigen kerncentrale voor electriciteit.

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

langoustines met ravioli en een glaasje bourgogne, ik lust dat.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Ukraine isn't testing the SKYNEX air defense system anymore. It's using it - and the results are rewriting Europe's defense orders.

All four SKYNEX systems pledged by Germany have been delivered and are operational. Developed by Rheinmetall, each unit combines a 35mm automated anti-aircraft cannon with radar-guided targeting and a networked battle management system - designed specifically to intercept Shahed-type drones before they reach their targets.

Ukraine's Air Force called the results "impeccable." Rheinmetall is now planning to scale production to 400 systems per year by 2027 - a decision driven directly by what Ukraine proved in combat.

The drone war created the demand. Ukraine created the proof of concept.

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

@Ingeborgvraagt creepy creatures

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

@Rosaliefes Ik dacht het al

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Even Arab leaders admit it.

Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see.

Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective.

Ok, so let us set that aside.

Now watch this.

In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada.

Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance.

He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises.

The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978.

This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel.

When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias.

The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices… generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return.

This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today.

If you value the truth, please share.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

De Raggende Manne - Poep In Je Hoofd (Live on 2 Meter Sessions) https://t.co/76ZE2EZTz7 via @YouTube

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

@Ingeborgvraagt Windkracht 9 zeilend de rally IJmuiden Lissabon, wel mijn mooiste reis!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@NUnl ASML should be treasured and supported. It is arguably the greatest company in Europe.

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

@EMKvissers dat was vroeger wel anders!

[Ronald Plasterk @RPlasterk]

Waar zouden we zijn zonder de EU?

[Juan @XaLaRa_Se_Lew]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[𝓜𝓪𝓻𝔂𝓼𝓸𝓵 🇳🇱 @RosasMarysol2]

Dit is één van de Syriërs die een onschuldige jongen bij AH gruwelijk heeft mishandeld.
Maak dit stuk verdriet beroemd en deel zoveel mogelijk de foto.

Dat Karma hem en z'n smerige maties snel zal vinden.

#Asielstop #asielzoekers

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Unfortunately, the Russian side once again chooses war – everyone heard the response today. Weak response. He simply does not want to end the war.

I think many around the world were disappointed by that response. He does not want to change anything, and he does not want to admit that this war appeals only to him – and to those who are making money off him. They were all smiling very broadly today.

That means Russia must have less money, and there must be more pressure on Russia.

I thank everyone who is helping us. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine and wants a real peace.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

BOCHKOV: "WHAT DID ZELENSKYY REALLY WANT TO TELL PUTIN?

Zelenskyy wrote Putin an open letter. Formally, it was a proposal to resume negotiations. In reality, it was a political epitaph that simply hasn't been signed yet.

The letter is remarkable. Not because it contains anything new, but because, for the first time, the Ukrainian president is speaking to Putin not as a fearsome adversary, but as a man who is already losing and hasn't realized it yet.

Zelenskyy reminds him that Putin has spent half of his twenty-six years in power waging war against Ukraine. Half of his time in office. Half of an era.

And what is the result?

Kyiv still stands. Ukraine still exists. The Russian army is entering its fourth year of assaulting the same tree lines and defensive positions. Drones reach Russian airfields thousands of kilometers away. The economy is suffocating under inflation. China has transformed from a 'junior partner' into a senior overseer.

And Zelenskyy saved the most painful point for last:

Age.

For any dictator, this is a forbidden subject. Especially for someone who spent decades selling himself as an eternal, irreplaceable, almost immortal ruler. But time is the one enemy that cannot be imprisoned, poisoned, or labeled a foreign agent.

So what was Zelenskyy really trying to say?

Something very simple.

Putin still believes he is playing the long game. He thinks he can wait for years. That Ukraine will grow tired, Europe will become divided, America will get distracted, and history itself will hand him victory.

But the letter says the opposite:

'Vladimir Vladimirovich, it is not us who are playing against time. Time is playing against you.'

Every new year of war makes Ukraine more experienced, its weapons more precise, while Russia becomes poorer, weaker, and more dependent.

That is why the proposal for negotiations is not a gesture of desperation.

It is the gesture of someone who believes that the clock is no longer ticking in Kyiv.

It is ticking in the Kremlin.

And that, perhaps, frightened Putin more than any Ukrainian drone ever could."

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation: https://t.co/mEvYqYiqus

[Mona Keijzer @MonaKeijzer]

In kustdorpen zorgde door de eeuwen heen de visserij voor voedsel en handel. Zij bepaalde het ritme van het leven en vormde mede de cultuur.

Maar de losgezongen en geprivilegieerde groenlinkse bovenlaag schaft deze het liefst af. Want slecht voor het klimaat. Ofzo.

Wat een triestigheid.

[CeesFrees @nahup100]

@Vincentgdevlugt dat is niet voor snotneuzen!

[Denkjewel @Denkjewel]

Een duizendjarige bedrijfstak als expandable verklaren. Insane.

[Richard de Mos 💚💛 @RicharddeMos]

Geen verkiezingswinst. Formatie mislukt. En dus grijpt #D66 naar de bekende vluchtroute: demoniseren.
Wie geen argumenten meer heeft, gaat framen. Wie haar zin niet krijgt, gaat moraliseren. Een gevaarlijke én polariserende ontwikkeling.

Lees het hier https://t.co/yotEUxfrGA