Rop Gonggrijp
Doomscroller avant la lettre. This account is in English, public replies in other languages will be hidden.
Occasional posts in Dutch on @rop.nl and in German on @deutsch.rop.nl
- When ICE is finally abolished, I think Quentin Tarantino should film the documentary.
- I don't understand why the Democrats don't just put an end to this madness and signal that they would give control over Greenland back to Denmark when they get the White House ... ... unless ... ... they wouldn't. It seems such an obvious follow-up question to ask.
- People that complain about Europe not making enough of a fist towards the U.S. while not understanding that Europe needs a massive program, right now, to become U.S.-cloud-independent A.S.A.P. are dangerously stupid. YES, I KNOW IT WILL BE DIFFICULT, BUT THE ALTERNATIVE SUCKS MUCH HARDER.
- Traffic is gone, but AS's stay visible. I'm not a routing guru, but to me this suggests they do not block BGP. Any routing experts want to weigh in? Does this mean Iranians could use lots of VPN endpoints and Tor bridges on TCP port 179? ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?f...
- Reposted by Rop GonggrijpAt last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
- ICE tweet and song it refers to: "We'll have our home again" (Every single US white nationalist knows this song. If they have a Horst Wessel Lied right now, this is it.)
- YOU KNOW IT'S WINTER WHEN THERE'S ICE HANGING FROM THE TREES.
- .... <no words> ...
- Holy smokes. I posted something here. My messages get bridged to Mastodon, and one contained a link to my own server. And I just happened to be looking at my server logs. I'll tell you one thing: if Mastodon ever becomes another order of magnitude bigger, we won't need dDoS tools anymore.
- 45k households without power in Berlin: high-voltage cables firebombed where they crossed a canal. Will take almost a week to repair. The police quickly judged the radical-left claim letter to be "authentic"
- Oddly however, the text seems to be machine-translated to German and contains many passages that one simply would phrase differently if one were a German speaker. And then there's the given names that are spelled in ways that make no sense. Unless you transliterate from Cyrillic.
- Second time in a short period that there's sabotage to the power network here. The previous time, in September, was also quite a lucky hit: many homes dark, long time to repair.
- I've barely posted. Was hoping to open a few more eyes, but it's all out in the open now. But holy cow this new US Nat. Sec. Strategy. Yes, there's the far-right nature. But at least as bad is how much of it was clearly written in Moscow. But hey, sure, migrate to the cloud. See what happens.
- Turns out he wasn't trying to escape, he was just curious how the tech worked. Hackers of the planet: defend Bolsonaro! He's one of us! (Except nah, how lame to not have the proper tools for the job.)
- The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”
- Hmmmm, tough problem, I get it. Lemme think... Maybe you could give them badges and not have them wear full face-covering masks? Or have them behave more like law-enforcement and less like gangsters kidnapping regular people? Just floating some ideas here.
- Worth a read. Or so I think, anyway.
- TIL: Mamdani's father was introduced to Marxism in America. thewashingtonstandard.com/zohran-mamda...
- Reposted by Rop Gonggrijp1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵
- Dutch elections yesterday. Far-right got ~48 of 150 seats. Exit-polls put right-wing extremist PVV at 19 seats. The counted votes now indicate 26 seats. So to summarize the Dutch in 2025: one third nazis, and of those a quarter of the closeted variety. How's your day going?
- Funny how 10 dead white people in Kyiv are framed as proof of a brutal war of aggression, and 100 dead brown people in Gaza are merely an increasingly fragile ceasefire.
- I see no potential conflicts of interest here... The Trump Media & Technology Group, which controls the social media platform, on Tuesday announced it would partner with Crypto.com to introduce “Truth Predict”, which would allow users “to react instantly to developments in major current events”.
- New ICE recruiting ad
- I'm not much of a gamer, but The Flood is a thing from Halo.
- We all know where this ends.
- Major surprise development! It turns out bad things happen when you allow people to wear random camo and masks instead of badges, and have them not show ID as they stuff people in unmarked cars.
- I hope you believe Sam Altman means well. In fact ... you better believe it, you might go insane otherwise.
- Hard to see how a war can be avoided at this point.
- Crap, Trump's gamble with taxpayer money worked. (Probably not for the taxpayers, but that was never a concern anyway.)
- Es geht los...
- Don't know the amount, but $130M is clearly just a drop in the bucket. Unless it goes to selected US Marines and special forces units that have special roles when the Insurrection Act is invoked, and whose loyalty to the king is too important to risk. Not revealing the donor is ... interesting.
- An anonymous friend of the president is paying US military salaries, out of the goodness of his heart. Yeah, that sounds legit.
- New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
- Decent Financial Times article on Trump's stranglehold on power through the threat of revenge.
