mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Author of novels, short stories and non-fiction in English and Dutch | currently also dabbling in screenwriting | #interviewswithplants #ladyamstel | https://linktr.ee/richarddenooy
This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.
Let’s wait until our fragile, little spaceship is entirely ablaze before we panic.
“The U.K. issued joint statements with Spain and France on Wednesday night reaffirming their commitment to fighting global warming and preparing for increasing climate disasters.”
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My new board game "Where's Willy?" (ages 16-99) will be available at your local museum shortly.
“Oxford academic Prof George Garnett counted 93 penises in 2018 – with 88 belonging to horses and another five to men. But Dr Christopher Monk said he had counted one more on another man.”
If you listen carefully, you can hear nature whispering: “Fuck you, I’ll still be doing rainbows long after you’re all gone.”
Poetry is my favourite Palestinian export product.
Knowing that both of these people actually exist provides the darkest possible backdrop, allowing the tragicomical truth to shine brightly.
Amuse yourself.
Snuck in to write this while
the world was fast asleep
tired of killing darlings
and throwing out babies
with the bathwater used
to rinse blood off shrouds
once used to clothe tables,
veil brides and play ghosts.
Strange how so many poems
end abruptly these days.
Poets too. Anonymously.
"Every bombed village is my hometown.
And every dead child is my child.
Every grieving mother is my mother.
Every crying father is my father.
Every home turned to rubble
is the home I grew up in.
Every brother carrying the remains
of his brother across borders
is my brother.
Every sister waiting for a sister
who will never come home
is my sister.
Every one of these people are ours,
Just like we are theirs.
We belong to them
and they belong to us."
— James Baldwin
The East is ablaze.
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Thread updated in celebration of Dutch Easter, which starts tomorrow.
The Thing (IKEA part no. 131020)
This has the makings of a terrifying Icelandic parable about the dangers of AI.