Amsterdam Eric

@amsterdameric
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Immigrant copywriter living a deeply satisfying life with a balcony above a community garden in #amsterdam. I like to ride my #singlespeed around the city and the Dutch countryside and take photos. Ik heb alle twaalf provincies gefietst! (Ik ben gek op #fietsen.) Read my newsletter Becoming Dutch.
Becoming Dutchhttps://becomingdutch.substack.com

Earlier Tonight

#Birds #Urban #Photography

I booed Eric Schmidt in public before it was cool
Notice how quickly all that bullshit about "liberating the Iranian people" disappeared and now it's all bomb them into the stone age, poison their air and water, destroy their schools and universities, and steal their oil.
We are facing the most significant days and weeks in world history since 1945

I have spent rather too much of Sunday pondering upon “what if?” questions. The sense of anxiety that I feel, which I explored in my early-in-the-day post concerning Trump’s threats issued with regard to a Monday deadline, was increased by his utterly intemperate, and frankly mad, expletive-laden post on social media...

Funding the Future

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t
political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent.”

—Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet

Diplomatic words of beauty.

French president Emmanuel Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicting himself on the Iran conflict.

"You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don't say the opposite every day of what you said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn't talk every day”.

#Politics #EmmanuelMacron #Trump #France

https://www.france24.com/en/macron-says-unrealistic-open-hormuz-strait-force-urges-trump-be-serious

Macron says 'unrealistic' to open Hormuz Strait by force, urges Trump to 'be serious'

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump challenged allies to work towards reopening it. In unusually strong criticism, Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicting himself on the Iran war and of undermining faith in the NATO military alliance.

FRANCE 24
Aangelicht #Deventer
One of my all time favorite books. #literature #fineArtAmerica #superintelligence
Turns out Parisians don’t hate bike lanes as much as CNN thinks.