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Fraudehelpdesk ontvangt groot aantal meldingen over fraudetelefoontjes – Security.NL

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/03

[Wayback/Archive] Fraudehelpdesk ontvangt groot aantal meldingen over fraudetelefoontjes – Security.NL

Ik had zelf al gemerkt dat de hoeveelheid SPAM calls enorm was toegenomen: 2025 first quarter (our winter): a set back in energy, slowly getting back, taking preventions to keep this from happening again

Kennelijk ben ik niet alleen hierin.

--jeroen

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Formulier voor bewindvoerders | Ziggo

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/29

Dit Ziggo formulier is vaak veel makkelijker dan mailen/bellen met de afdeling schuldbeheer: [Wayback/Archive] Formulier voor bewindvoerders | Ziggo.

Dat is bij Ziggo veel beter geregeld dan bijvoorbeeld bij KPN.

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Iemand een alternatief NPO Soul & Jazz-kanaal met zo min mogelijk geklets overdag, en elk uur een nieuwsbulletin?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/26

Oh, dit is heel jammer: [Wayback/Archive] NPO verdedigt schrappen Soul & Jazz-kanaal en wijst op andere mediavormen – RadioFreak.nl

NPO Soul & Jazz verdwijnt dus per 1 januari 2026, naast wat andere zaken waaronder 15% baanverlies: [Wayback/Archive] NPO schrapt BVN en NPO Soul & Jazz, ook verdwijnen 80 banen.

Ik zoek een alternatief voor NPO Soul & Jazz, want tot de jaarwisseling is het een erg prettige kanaal om te luisteren:

  • gemoedelijke muziek (voor mijn hoofd)
  • weinig geklets
  • elk uur nieuwsbulletin

Iemand ideetjes?

Misschien [Wayback/Archive] Sublime op https://29033.live.streamtheworld.com/SUBLIMEAAC.aac (meer stations op [Wayback/Archive] playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream?version=1.2&mount=sublime&lang=en / [Wayback/Archive] playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream?version=1.2&mount=sublime / [Wayback/Archive] https://eu-playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream?station=sublime&version=1.9 )?

Wikipedia pagina’s:

--jeroen

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Drie observaties over de tech/geld maatschappij waarin we leven

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/19

Observaties waarin de maatschappij als geheel vast aan het lopen is:

  1. [WaybackSave/Archive] De ware aard van big tech: ‘We zijn heel hard op weg om terug naar de middeleeuwen te gaan’ | de Volkskrant
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Kelly: “Before you judged someone for being disabled, unhoused or struggling …remember that most people are one accident, medical emergency or stroke of bad luck away from same fate. Judge the capitalistic system that treats us as cogs. Judge those who value economic contribution above everything else.” — Bluesky
  3. [Wayback/Wayback] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “This, plus that diversity is a blessing, not the burden that uniformity is.” — Bluesky

De eerste is via [Wayback/ArchivePost by @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social — Bluesky

‘De samenleving zou weleens wat kritischer tegenover het verhaal van Silicon Valley mogen staan. Technologie is niet zomaar een instrument, maar verandert ook hoe mensen denken’

Belangrijk gesprek met hoogleraar Reijer Passchier

--jeroen

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World Health Organisation – “Quick reference guide: responsible reporting on suicide”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05

With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up in less than a week, this is a reminder on how to report on this. Not just important to the media at large, but everyone on social media too.

When you are in The Netherlands:

  • Is your life in immediate danger? Call 112 immediately.
  • If your life is not in immediate danger but you could still use help, call 113 (standard rate) or 0800-0113 (free of charge) or start an online chat.

When you are outside The Netherlands, find help via these links:

Please read the 1 page large font and visually clear [Wayback/Archive] responsible-reporting-on-suicide.pdf.

The [Wayback/Archive] World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 started with the 2024-2026 triennial theme “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, so please please please read the above PDF.

If you cannot view PDF on your computer, you can read it through the picture below, or an on-line PDF viewer in your web-browser through these links:

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ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/14

[Wayback/Archive] ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025.

De belangrijkste punten per 1 september 2025:

  • Er is een contract met: Actief Huiszorg BV, Alfa & Zorg BV,
    Centrum Zorg & Welzijn BV, Coöperatie Zorg en Plezier UA, Flexibel Zorg en Welzijn BV, Groenoord Zorgt BV, MIEP BV, Stichting ActiVite, Stichting DSV, Tzorg BV, We Take Care en Zorg Ondersteuning Nederland BV.
  • Er geldt voor Hulp bij het Huishouden dat alleen nog sprake is van Hulp bij het Huishouden met indicaties op basis van tijd. Dat betekent dat er geen sprake meer is van Schoon en Leefbaar

--jeroen

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2025 first quarter (our winter): a set back in energy, slowly getting back, taking preventions to keep this from happening again

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/03

A list of events caused a big set-back in my energy during last quarter from which I am now – with careful planning what I do and when/how I rest – steadily recovering.

I started writing this early may, and finished early june because too much happened and it took me a while to get it from my confused mind onto paper.

One of the things I thought for and hopefully will start after a much needed holiday (the first longer one since 2018) is mental help.

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Colorline Hirtshals departure/arrival times (boarding 1 hour before departure) to/from Kristiansand and Larvik

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

Somehow initially hard to find, so lets document this (these dates were obtained on 20250625, but changing the dates does not seem so change the times):

Notes:

  1. Embarcation is 60 minutes before departure. Be on time!
  2. Book through their Norwegian site: it gets you more discount.

--jeroen

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grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/09

On the TODO list is to write more about the origin of “grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it”. For now, this is good enough:

The theory is from the influential 1996 article “Growing around grief—another way of looking at grief and recovery, Lois Tonkin TTC, Cert Counselling (NZ)”

Nowadays most people refer to it as the “grief jar”, see image below, but these weren’t the original images: those are on the right. Initially everyone thought that grief would shrink as seen in Figure 1 and Figure 2, but in fact we grow around it as shown in Figure 3.

Links:

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Slavonic Dances – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/23

For music practice Slavonic Dances – Wikipedia:

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