Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Everybody saw this coming.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

“woke” is the new caravan.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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On The Road – Captain C – Amsterdam, October 2023, Part 11

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And so we reach the final set of photos from my October trip to Amsterdam.  These are mostly from Saturday, my last full day.

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I saw this windmill on my way to meeting up with my cousin and his young son (whom I met for the first time) for games and snacks at a vegan cafe.  Said six year old kid was adorable–he acted like an eight year old, tried some amusing calvinball with the various game rules, and has a very British accent in English which he gets from his mom.

While I’m not sure what, if anything, it’s hooked up to, the windmill definitely gets a good spin when the wind is going.

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Canal traffic.

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I met this lovely kitty not far from my hotel.  I offered my fist to sniff, and they put their head right into my hand for some good scritches.  Then they went off on their Important Cat Business.  I suspect they are an indoor/outdoor cat as they had a collar and were fine with me approaching.

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Looking up Damrak towards Centraal Station.

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My small but comfy bed in my small but comfy hotel room.  The bathroom did feel a bit like what I imagine a submarine’s to be like:  small and one needs to plan their way into various facilities.

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All good things must come to an end, and this trip was no exception.  This is my plane from Reykjavik to JFK, which we boarded on an old fashioned stairway.  I think they had some sort of lift for people who needed it.

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  1. 1.

    eclare

    The canals look so nice.  What are those things suspended from wires in the photo looking up Damrak?

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    bjacques

    @eclare: Dead thread but those are streetlights. The design is a sort of homage to a festival of lights held on that boulevard almost 100 years ago, by the Edison Co. to promote electric streetlighting.

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    MelissaM

    When we visited BIL years ago, we went to Leiden and visited the windmill museum De Valk, which I found really fascinating. It’s set up IIRC as a mill with residence, so you enter and see how the family lived, then go up further to see the the mill process (or that first, then living area) but you can keep going up – if you can get up and down the ladders – to see how they worked, also with explanations of other mills like the polder mills which are so essential to the Netherlands and the land reclamation.

    These have been great pictures – thanks for the trip!

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    owlbrick

    It’s my understanding that many of those windmills are actually water pumps, and were part of the broad scale hydrological project of land reclamation in the 18th century.

    Also, transatlantic on a 737 sounds really cramped… hope it wasn’t too bad.

    Overall, lots of nice pics and I have to say, I’m jealous… the Netherlands is a dream destination for me!

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    Captain C

    @Betty: They are functional (as in used by the locals), though bjacques could probably much better tell you the details of what for.  I think it’s also why there are many spots without railings; people need to get stuff on and off their boats and barges.

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    Captain C

    @owlbrick:

    Also, transatlantic on a 737 sounds really cramped… hope it wasn’t too bad.

    It wasn’t; I had a stopover in Iceland and the flight legs were comparable to NYC-Miami (AMS-KEF) and NYC-Phoenix (but going east timewise).  After my 13-14 hour Japan flights a few years ago, this was easy-peasy.

    Overall, lots of nice pics and I have to say, I’m jealous… the Netherlands is a dream destination for me!

    Thanks!  If you make it, and I hope you do, you can ask WaterGirl for my email and I’ll be happy to write you up a little guide from a tourist’s perspective (or more likely, edit one that I’ve already written for someone else :^) ).

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