Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/26
In case I ever go traveling far again, I need to check out [WaybackSave/Archive] Airalo eSIM Store (@airalocom) / X
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Rens – Chemtrail Squadron Leader on X: “Voor mijn wereldwijde 5G gebruik ik @flexiroam. (Toen) niet duur tov wat je bij een Nederlands abonnement krijgt. Het is nog een week geldig. Ik wordt al weken bestookt met “je data is bijna op”-berichten. 🙃 Op naar @airalocom 20GB voor €85,- vs 30GB voor €180,- …ä
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/01
Blast from the past: [Wayback/Archive] Wie zijn dit? – Heemkunde Markelo.
Deze foto’s zijn ooit gemaakt door mijn opa: huisschilder/drogist Gerrit Frederik Pluimers (geb. 1909) wonende aan de Grotestraat in Markelo. De foto’s zijn gemaakt in 1941/1942 toen iedereen verplicht was een persoonsbewijs bij zich te hebben.
Ik heb hem nauwelijks gekend doordat mijn vader rond mijn 10e brak met zijn familie, naar ik nu (ruim 45 jaar later) weet daartoe bewogen door mijn narcistische moeder.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/21
Op onze 24e trouwdag en de uitvaart van mijn oudste oom (ook een soort reünie) was voorafgaand aan [Wayback/Archive] taptoe Lisse als onderdeel van [Wayback/Archive] Feestweek Lisse 2026, ook de reünie ter gelegenheid van het 70-jarig jubileum van het [Wayback/Archive] RLO, ofwel het Rijnlands Lyceum in Oegstgeest, waar ik van 1981 tot en met 1987 leerling was en met redelijk succes mijn eindexamen Atheneum haalde.
Wat linkjes zodat ik ze later terug kan vinden:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07
[Wayback/Archive] Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch
This holds for many non-cancer patients as well, see for instance [Wayback/Archive] How to comfort people to actually make them feel better ? : socialskills.
Every patient is unique, so don’t suggest alternatives unless you have been in exactly the same situation as they are in.
Even then, better than bringing up their disease, ask them how you can help, show your care, sit down and just listen, or talk normal aspects of anyone’s life: hobbies, family, weather, food, etc.
The worst you can do is not being there at all. This is how long lasting friendships end.
For anyone, it is very tiring to talk about a single aspect of their life for each and every day. Not even new moms as the article from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center mentions.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/03
English (Nederlands hieronder): The same thing happened Joke Boon as to me: she got rectumcancer with full treatments. Unlike me she already was a book author, and decided to write a book about the whole process, with the second half of the book dedicated to recipes that worked well during and after her treatments.
The rest of the post is in Dutch.
Nederlands: Joke Boon overkwam 3 jaar later hetzelfde als ik: Endeldarmkanker. In tegenstelling tot mij was ze al auteur van een reeks boeken, en schreef ze er een boek over. Het eerste deel vooral met het proces en ervaringen rond kanker en de behandelingen; het tweede deel gevuld met recepten (maar liefst 80 stuks!) die haar in de periode van en na kanker hielpen.
[Wayback/Archive] Eten en leven met kanker, Joke Boon, 9789023017431
Het is een mooi boek, een geweldig kado voor mensen die zelf kanker hebben/hadden en hun omgeving, maar eigenlijk gewoon voor iedereen: het helpt je meer inclusief te worden en je krijgt er een berg fijne recepten mee die makkelijk aan te passen zijn naar niet veganistisch.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Joke Boon (@jokeboon.bsky.social) — Bluesky.
Gerelateerd, waaronder diverse recensies waarvan ik eentje echt heb uitgelicht en tips uit een andere geciteerd:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/24
A year ago, Hadi Hariri wrote this very important Tweet which I preserved through [Wayback/Archive] Thread Reader App because the Space Karen hates the Wayback Machine so much that it still can’t archive tweets ¹:
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @hhariri on Thread Reader App
“You need to learn to delegate”
Learning to delegate is not that hard. Delegating, and doing it successfully on the other hand, requires having the right people to delegate to.
That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control.
Luckily, Archive.is can still archive Tweets, so here is the original one: [WaybackSave/Archive] Hadi Hariri on X: “”You need to learn to delegate” Learning to delegate is not that hard. Delegating, and doing it successfully on the other hand, requires having the right people to delegate to. That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control.”
Anyway, I responded with my story, which I archived too, but this time because Twitter does not allow viewing threads as an anonymous user since 2021: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter won’t show complete threads now without an account. :( Twitter accounts … | Hacker News.
My story [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App
@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself.
Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old “ambulant” care took 2 hours and then “it was OK”.
@hhariri Weekly I try to figure out what happened then hours re-explaining “treat him like he is: mentally a 3 year old with autism in a full grown body that seems to speak Dutch very well, but does not really understand what he says. So what he says is different from what he wants/needs”
@hhariri And for “normal work”, the life long job is to keep explaining that doing things right the first time saves a lot of effort.
@hhariri And yes, there is hindsight when at the time you did things, you didn’t know there was or would become a better way, or that the current situation changed.
Those are valid reasons for redoing things later, but not valid reasons for not even trying to do it right the first time.
In case you have a Twitter account, you can find the thread start at [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself. Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old “ambulant” care took 2 hours and then “it was OK”.”
--jeroen
¹ sometimes it archives something of the tweet, in this case the [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON which you normally would get through the Twitter CDN like [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON (I wrote about creating a JavaScript Bookmarklet for this method in Probably many more like these are needed to download Twitter videos: [extractor/twitter] Fix unauthenticated extraction by bashonly · Pull Request #7476 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/24
Hier een overzicht van de wetgeving over mantelzorg. De regels gaan over hele verschillende situaties/onderwerpen, de doelgroep is vaak anders, de toegangsvoorwaarden verschillen en de uitvoerende instanties zijn niet voor elke regel hetzelfde. Het is echt een lappendeken!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/23
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “@P1NKY_GH0ST [amazon links]”
Related: [Wayback/Archive] scozzi Telefoonhouder Riem Heren (XL) Riemlus Riemclip Telefoon Houder Nylon Heuptasje Universeel Compatibel Met Samsung,iPhone,Xiaomi S22 S21 S20 A72 A52 13 12 11T 11 10 9 XS Plus Ultra Mini Lite Pro : Amazon.nl: Elektronica
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15
Lees deze, juist ook als je dit nog nooit aan de hand gehad hebt:
Het sluit enorm goed aan op mijn eigen ervaringen als partner/naaste van, patiënt, overlevende en ondersteuner van andere mensen met (al dan niet terminale) kanker.
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18
Still using Nikon F-mount DSLRs here, though I might upgrade to Nikon Z-mount and appropriate Z-mount adapter to continue using my F-lenses.
Anyway: some links on HDR, as for older bodies that require extra steps.
--jeroen
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