A collection of photos I’ve taken throughout the city. I love the diversity of birds here thanks to all the water

Photo by me

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UPDATE: We bought the lock ourselves, only my partner and I have the keys. For more keys to be made, there needs to be written confirmation from us as it is a coded key.

UPDATE 2: Yes, I am 100% sure that doors were locked.

I am honestly still trying to process what happened and I am hoping someone here can give me some advice, because I don’t really know what I am supposed to do now.

I am 21 years old female living in Amsterdam, in what I would consider a very good and generally safe neighbourhood (ou west) and until now I genuinely felt safe here. I live in our apartment mostly alone as my partner with our dog travels often for work.

A few days ago, I was at home all alone when I noticed two men outside my building. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first because there are few more families living in our building.

Then, less than five minutes later, they were inside my apartment.

I still don’t understand how, why and what happened.

They somehow got through …

Has anyone else been finding these large moths inside their apartament? From what I’ve found, they’re called large yellow underwings. I have never seen them before and now all of a sudden I’ve hunted like 8 of them in the past two weeks. They’re huge and make a lot of noise when they fly. I’m trying to figure out if it’s some kind of season for these guys or if there’s something going on in my apartment…

In andere woorden zegt de gemeente dus eigenlijk: zoek het tijdens de staking maar lekker uit.

Ik begrijp dat het openstellen van de tunnel risico’s met zich meebrengt en daarom niet zomaar kan. Maar de metro of de Schellingwouderbrug aanwijzen als alternatief voor de circa 80.000 reizigers die normaal de pont gebruiken? Dat is toch nauwelijks een serieus alternatief te noemen.

Voor mij legt dit vooral weer pijnlijk bloot hoe kwetsbaar de verbinding tussen Noord en de rest van Amsterdam nog altijd is. We noemen Amsterdam graag een wereldstad, maar zijn er in al die jaren niet in geslaagd iets basaals als een vaste fiets- en voetgangersverbinding over of onder het IJ te realiseren. Ik weet dat daar allerlei redenen, belangen en technische uitdagingen achter zitten, maar het blijft eigenlijk absurd. Helemaal gezien de groei plannen voor Noord.

De pont is charmant voor een toerist, maar voor dagelijks vervoer is het een behoorlijk ouderwetse oplossing. Je bent afhankelijk van …

Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain have boycotted the Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation and ongoing genocide. These nations and others asked for a vote on Israel’s participation which was never given.

These nations then had to choose whether to participate with Israel using the stage to wash their genocide or stay home. That’s 74,173,420 actual Europeans who can’t watch their country perform in the Eurovision contest, just so Israel is not offended and continues with what nearly every major human rights organization calls a genocide with sniping of kids and the flattening of whole residential districts. 75 million Europeans to protect 9 millions non-Europeans in the Middle East of which a significant portion served in the IDF.

Now IDF soldiers who have been party to genocide at worst and a brutal massacre at best can watch their country participate in an event in a foreign continent. While someone from Spain or The …

Still can’t get over the fact that apartments here often have no FLOORING😭 And when I move out I just pick up my floor and leave??

Went in for milk. Came out questioning the calendar.

This is Almere, full display, Van Delft, Bolletje, the works. Sinterklaas isn’t even on a boat yet.

I know retail runs ahead of the season. But this is August. Genuinely asking if this is early even by AH standards or if I’ve just blocked out every previous year.

Just spent a week in Purmerend. It’s so lovely , the town square (Cow Mart?) with restaurants and bars, the small indoor mall, the pleasant shopping.

What’s not to like?

Edit: Thanks for the Award, kind Redditor!