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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
If anyone knows how to watch this outside Belgium, please let me know: [Wayback/Archive] Tom Waes tussen twee vuren in Noord-Ierland.
I was there a few years before and a few months after this got broadcasted and I am curious to the footage: how does it compare (or differe) with my own experience and why.
For now, it looks like you cannot view it outside Belgium without confirming you are a Belgian citizen: [Wayback/Archive] Reizen Waes – 5 (4) Noord-Ierland | VRT MAX
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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/02
Een paar jaar terug kwam dit interessante bericht langs van [Wayback/Archive] Lars Boelen 🍃 on Twitter: “Dat kan! En wel door je woning ‘s nacht voor te koelen. Dat doe je door ‘s nachts beneden een raam of deur inbraakveilig open te zetten (dat zal soms wat creativiteit vragen) en zo hoog mogelijk in huis een raam. Het huis gaat daardoor als schoorsteen werken”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/14
Maybe the outcome of this research study is even more reason to promote awareness around ungendered writing.
In this world at large, inclusivity should be the norm and showing that in your writing should increase funding rates for science articles.
[Wayback/Archive] Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences – ScienceDirect.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13
[WaybackSave/Archive] Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …”
This is not limited to organisations having a lot of non-measurable goals: all organisations have those, including the ones in IT.
Research paper (published 7 years ago today, still very relevant) at [Wayback/Archive] Performance measurement, cognitive dissonance and coping strategies: exploring individual responses to NPM-inspired output control | Journal of Management Control
Abstract
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/28
Mooie draad: over “Wat is het Syndroom van Moeje eigenlijk en wat moet je ermee?”
Begin-tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Ester Naomi Perquin on Twitter: “Op speciaal verzoek van iemand met weinig geld en veel zorgen (die momenteel op dagelijke basis met #hetsyndroomvanmoeje te maken krijgt) vandaag nog even een kort draadje daarover. Wat is het Syndroom van Moeje eigenlijk en wat moet je ermee? 1/10”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14
Not limited to the current rise of far right dictators: a repetition of the steps taken a century ago: [Wayback/Archive] Branch removal – Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (actual link not visible in the EU because of GDPR: [Wayback] AJC GDPR Support)
Branch removal: Executive branch of a tree with chainsaw at the tip having cut of the legislative and judicial branches.
Via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/11
A lot of forum software (not just on retro computing or history) embed image smileys in their messages translated from text-smileys.
It seems they missed that a lot of them have made their way into Unicode, making it not just easier to display but also a lot easier for visually impaired.
So, please software developers, use the Unicode characters whenever possible.
Here is a good start
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04
[Wayback/Archive] “United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day.
Most of my cancer story is in reverse chronological order on the pinned Tweet of my Twitter profile twitter.com/jpluimers.
I learned quite a few things of which I mention 2:
Read more at my pinned blog post and [Wayback/Archive] Official website of World Cancer Day by UICC | 4 February.
Image on the right image from [Wayback/Archive] licensed-image (2048×2048) via [Wayback/Archive] world cancer day – Google Search.
Related: World Cancer Day – Wikipedia
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31
Cleaning up my open tabs, I found the below insightful video on arm movements via [WaybackSave/Archive] Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”
Poster on the right, video below the signature, if WordPress now finally decides to embed them properly, from:
--jeroen
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