I want to expand my connections in The Netherlands. I'm looking for communities collectives, affinity groups that center human rights, digital rights, queerness. Maybe political hacking, since hacking is political. ^^

I'm based nearby the Hague.

My dream is to join or start or nurture a co-working / co-thinking space.

Feel free to DM me or reply publicly if you're in the area and would like to chat. Or if you have any recommendations.

Boosting for outreach is also appreciated.

in reply to Alex / catileptic

I don't live in The Netherlands anymore, but I did live in The Hague when we started @RevSpace: Hackerspace Den Haag . I'm no longer involved, but at least back then we had some politically motivated hackery ideology in our veins, and some of the same people are still there so perhaps worth to check out and go visit sometime. Worst case you've wasted an evening 😀
in reply to Alex / catileptic

Amsterdam but it's the Randstad:
laglab.org/ (archive events might give a better idea radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/l… ). Several folks from which were just at 2025.tbd.camp/ organising with folks from chaos.amsterdam/ (that's a large intersection or is it a subset).

Down in the opposite direction in Rotterdam: varia.zone/en/

in reply to Alex / catileptic

have you been to @revspace? It is a hacker space, quite queer (but also quite male), well-equipped for both making physical stuff and for extensive conversations on technical and political subjects - lots of cool people with lots of know-how

The website (revspace.nl) is in dutch, but ~everyone speaks english too

If you want to check it out, the easiest way is to join #revspace on libera IRC (or via web.libera.chat/#revspace) and ask for a tour of the space

in reply to Alex / catileptic

Hi! We are a local political/activist party near The Hague focused on digital rights such as privacy, free opensource software, free information and transparent governance. Feel free to join our monthly meetup where we freely discuss these and other subjects. It takes places already this Friday: delft.piratenpartij.nl/event/k…
in reply to Alex / catileptic

Bit late with my reply.

Have you been to TechInc yet? It's another hacker space in Amsterdam (besides Lag). I'm usually there on Wednesday evenings (the regular open/social evenings), you can just show up, but if you let me know if/when you come, I can make sure I'm there too 😀

Also not mentioned yet in the replies: worm.org in Rotterdam. I'm not super familiar with them, but I think this fits your description too.