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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
18 Jan 2024
Spelman College announces a record-breaking $100 million donation — the largest-ever single donation to any HBCU: “Today is a major step to ensure more young women can achieve their dreams.”
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
21 Jul 2023
Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places.
Plan for the city you want.
HT @Fred_Kent @PPS_Placemaking
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
20 Jun 2023
Titanic tourists sink in submarine: whole world watches as navies spare no expense to find them
Hundreds of migrants sink in overcrowded boat: Hope you can swim, losers
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
22 May 2023
If your cycle lanes don’t look like this then you’re doing it wrong
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#Iran:
Update: Het Hooggerechtshof vd stad Isfahan heeft de doodvonnissen v 3 demonstranten, #MajidKazemi, #SaeedYaghoubi en #SalehMirhashemi, definitief bekrachtigd.
Tegen hun vonnissen is geen beroep meer mogelijk
Hun leven is in acuut gevaar.
Wees svp hun stem. #IranRevoIution
Noodkreet uit #Iran:
#MajidKazemi is ter dood veroordeeld door de Revolutionaire Rechtbank van Isfahan in een schijnproces waarin hij werd gemarteld om onware bekentenissen af te leggen.
Hij is nu overgebracht naar een isoleercel en zijn executie is op handen.
Wees svp zijn stem.
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
23 Apr 2023
Studio Drift's Shylight is a sculpture that unfolds and retreats to its original state to make a fascinating choreography, mirroring the nyctinasty of real flowers. These are in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
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Wat een moed ❤️
Dit is vanavond in Mashhad, de meest religieuze stad in #Iran. #WomanLifeFreedom #IranRevoIution
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
4 Apr 2023
Japanese infrastructure firm Kandenko blends science and art to make miniature scenes light up using smart-X conductive threads creating this story called "connecting thoughts" a visualisation of how we are all connected
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
1 Apr 2023
Impacts on Biodiversity 👇👇
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
31 Mar 2023
Looking from above, shadows are our best avatars. An impressive optical illusion artwork by Kostya Terentev
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#Iran:
Dit is #Maryam_Bani_Razi, een verpleegster uit Qom.
Ze werd door de Iraanse rechtbank veroordeeld tot 148 zweepslagen, 8 maanden cel en twee jaar uitsluiting van werk en openbare diensten wegens het niet naleven vd "verplichte hijab".
Wees svp haar stem. #WomanLifeFreedom
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
31 Mar 2023
Tulip season in the Netherlands
📹 @arden_nl
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
30 Mar 2023
Cherry blossom season in Japan is typically in late March to April. Yet, this year it began in mid-March, matching a record early start seen only twice before. This is in Saitama
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
29 Mar 2023
Anyone who thinks that telling young British men they’re at risk of having a “messy night and getting trashed” will put them off going out has clearly never met a young British man
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
29 Mar 2023
A border collie gently guiding ducklings into a puddle
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Bastiaan Schimmel retweeted
30 Mar 2023
Welcome to Al-Mutanabbi Street the ‘Book Market of Baghdad’, where books remain in the street at night because Iraqis say:
“The reader does not steal and the thief does not read.”
A thread on the rich heritage of the historic book market on Al-Mutanabbi Street…
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