going to Albert Heijn you guys want anything

this country feels slightly less fake than last time but it does not Entirely feel real. too many reflective bodies of water in the night and weird trains

Dutch “people” will really call anything „pizza”

how it feels to deliberately spread misinformation about the Dutch online

ahh, Amsterdam feels like Berlin, in that it's too famous, a hip capital city where English-language marketing campaigns for random vacuous international bullshit make sense to run

real ones don't live in capitals

whoa this city has casinos? the Dutch really do allow everything. Sweden had like three or four government-owned ones but COVID killed them or something

oh this is also a state monopoly! neat

central amsterdam does in fact smell of weed everywhere it is Like That

god i wish i hadn't forgotten the FFP3 masks

if anyone knows of a store in Amsterdam where i might be able to buy some FFP2 or FFP3 masks i'd be very grateful

an oomf — whose dutchness ought to have been betrayed to me by the ij in their name — suggested going to a large hardware store. hadn't thought of that! sure enough, a Gamma store was in easy reach of public transit and had a few FFP1s, FFP2s and FFP3s

in the Netherlands, it's vital to have your prison clothes ready for the "king's day". it's when everyone displays their fanatical devotion to the king by reminding themselves they are only alive by his grace, their execution by drowning stayed by his majesty's divine floodwalls

NES-on-a-chip famiclones will outlast civilisation

it says something about me that i have to stop myself from saying „ik kan niet nederlands” instead of like “hello, English?”

whoa the 3M Aura is comfy, this is probably the comfiest FFP2 mask we've tried