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Elle den Boer

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AKA Michelle, previously Edwin. Unemployed writer, translator, programmer, altcoin historian, Arctic Code Vault Contributor.

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Elle den Boer
@edb Aug 6, 2025, 4:35 PM UTC

My favorite abstract art NFTs - now for sale!

I've been in love with abstract art since I visited the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen and the Leeds Art Gallery in 2013. It wasn't an accident that I was charmed by those provincial museums. Previ…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Aug 5, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

A normal Monday

Posting this just to point out that you can easily reach 11k steps on a regular day. I went to the supermarket and I vacuumed three rooms, nothing special. Random photo: my brother's garden. Although…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Aug 3, 2025, 9:24 PM UTC

Nijmegen and its history

While hundreds of thousands of Dutch people were visiting Amsterdam for the Canal Parade, I went to the eastern city of Nijmegen, also for homosexual purposes, which I won't specify. 😁 It was not a…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jul 28, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC

Berrypicker

I covered almost the same distance on Saturday, when I went cycling with a friend, just to have a chat. Along the way, on a rather remote bike path, we noticed a long stretch of thorny bushes, where…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jul 13, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

Deadlift & Back Extensions

On Saturday I went to the gym, cycling for 2x30 minutes as usual. Since the gym was being remodeled, I couldn't use any cages, but I could do all the exercises I wanted to do with weights on the floo…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jun 30, 2025, 7:51 PM UTC

Lazy Sunday in the park

The weekend before a three-day heatwave was a good time to be outside. On Saturday I went to the gym, where I enjoyed sweating for other reasons than the weather. I squatted 5kg above my PR and lifte…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jun 27, 2025, 6:28 PM UTC

Like A Real Sport

Yesterday I went to Utrecht Central Station on my bike. I noticed a pop-up stadium on the square in front of the train station. Short bursts of loud music were drowning out the audience's cheers. It…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jun 17, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

The cult leader who failed to decentralize IOTA and left that project with a lot ...

... of drama came up with a plan to make himself relevant again: attack Monero mining using a coin that has 3% of Monero's market cap. It's not going well. https://x.com/c___f___b/status/193163959684…

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jun 17, 2025, 7:10 PM UTC

Reminder: if you're a country in a volatile region, make sure you acquire nuclear ...

... weapons ASAP. Otherwise, you'll be treated like Ukraine and Iran. Posted via D.Buzz

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Elle den Boer
@edb Jun 17, 2025, 9:29 AM UTC

Disappointing to see NL in software documentation and notice it means Natural ...

... Language. Especially because the commonly used literal translation is unnatural. (In Dutch, it should be mensentaal = human language.) Posted via D.Buzz

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