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Na 3 weken in mijn nieuwe zorgbaan sta ik alweer op straat. Mijn proeftijd is beëindigd omdat ik een grens trok. En eerlijk? Ik ben flabbergasted. Ik werd ingewerkt door 2 collega's. Één collega was heel fijn om mee te werken. Nam me op sleeptouw, beantwoorde mijn vragen en was aardig naar alles en iedereen. De andere collega maakte er een sport van om mij af te blaffen en te intimideren. Ik mocht geen vragen stellen want ze vond dat ik alles zelf gewoon uit moest zoeken en vond het ook irritant dat ik dingen voor mezelf opschreef zodat ik alles beter kon onthouden. Zo leer ik nu eenmaal: vragen stellen, opschrijven en mee kijken. Het dieptepunt: Ik moest van die collega zonder inwerking in mijn uppie de ochtend draaien (incl ontbijt en mensen naar toilet helpen enz) op een groep met mensen die meerzorg nodig hebben. Slikproblemen, dementie, zeer verward, niet meer kunnen praten. Toen ik zei dat ik dat niet okay vond en het mij duidelijk was dat ze niet met mij wilde werken had ik het helemaal gevreten. Gelukkig bood een andere collega aan om met mij naar deze meerzorg groep te gaan en heeft mij daar geholpen. Ik werd uiteindelijk de volgende dag ook fysiek geïntimideerd (compleet met wijzen en aanraken). Ik stapte, compleet over de flos naar de leidinggevende want ik was er na ruim 2 weken intimidatie klaar mee. Ook de andere collega, die erbij stond toen de andere collega intimiderend voor mij stond en mijn schouder aantikte, was naar de leidinggevende geweest om te vertellen dat ik niet okay werd behandeld en dat deze (aardige) collega geen problemen met mij had en vond dat mijn werken goed ging. Eergisteren werd ik gebeld door de leindinggevende, op mijn vrije dag, of ik langs wilde komen. Daar kreeg ik te horen: We gaan niet met je verder, want als de communicatie nu al stroef loopt, zal dat in de toekomst ook zo zijn. De giftige cultuur wordt beschermd, en de melder wordt weggestuurd. Ik ben erdoor ontdaan. Mijn stabiele leven is niet meer stabiel momenteel want ik heb voor het eerst in mijn leven een ww uitkering aan moeten vragen. Het komt weer goed, wat goed dan ook betekent. #zorg #intimidatie #werkervaring

🚨 The world is sleeping on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is the fastest-growing in history. The statistics are startling. More than 2,500 people have now died out of more than 5,000 confirmed cases, with about half of the deaths happening in https://t.co/AiUTcWzrjo #EbolaOutbreak #DRC #HealthCrisis #CD

Rabaa: The Hour the World’s Conscience Stood Still On the anniversary of one of the largest single-day killings of protesters in modern history, one question remains unanswered: who will be held accountable? By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands On 14 August, the anniversary returns of a day unlike any other in modern Egyptian history. Not simply because it was the bloodiest Egypt has known wars and massacres before and since ,but because it was the day a state chose to open fire on its own people in broad daylight, in front of the world’s cameras, and then let thirteen years pass without a single officer ever being held accountable. This article will not be a cold recitation of statistics, though the statistics exist, are documented, and are horrifying. It is an attempt to understand something deeper: how a square in the heart of Cairo, filled with tents, children, and worshippers, became the site of the largest mass killing the Arab world has witnessed in the past decade and why the echo of that day still reverberates in every Egyptian prison cell today. I. A Morning That Began Like Any Other For readers unfamiliar with the background: in July 2013, the Egyptian military, led by then-General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, removed Mohamed Morsy Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who had taken office in 2012 following the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. In response, tens of thousands of Morsy’s supporters staged an open-ended sit-in demanding his reinstatement. By 14 August 2013, more than twenty thousand people had spent weeks camped out at two Cairo squares, Rab’a al-Adawiya and al-Nahda, in a peaceful sit-in. They were not an army, nor a uniform bloc; they were entire families men, women, and children, some affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, many simply ordinary citizens who saw the restoration of elected legitimacy as a cause worth the risk. There were tents for sleeping, communal kitchens feeding the demonstrators, speaking platforms, and a small field clinic that no one imagined would, within hours, become one of the most terrifying places in modern Egyptian history. In the early hours of that morning, Central Security Forces and army units, under the command of then-General Sisi, began what was officially described as a "dispersal" operation targeting both sit-ins simultaneously. It was not a dispersal in any ordinary sense of the word. According to a year-long investigation by Human Rights Watch, it was a pre-planned operation that anticipated, from the outset, thousands of deaths. II. The Numbers the Regime Refuses to Speak The Egyptian government, to this day, cites a death toll of "over 600" for that single day a figure that, even at its official lowest, is horrifying enough to warrant an independent international investigation. But the field investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch, drawing on field hospital records, survivor testimony, and analysis of video footage from dozens of angles, arrived at a far more disturbing figure: at least 817 people killed at Rab’a Square alone, with the true toll likely exceeding 1,000, plus another 87 killed at the nearby al-Nahda Square. When the deaths from the weeks surrounding 14 August are added from the dispersal of the Republican Guard sit-in on 8 July, through the Mansoura Street killings, to the dispersal of an October 6 march the combined total reaches at least 1,150 deaths in just six weeks, according to Human Rights Watch’s meticulous documentation. This figure led the organisation to use a term not deployed lightly in international law: crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch described the Rab’a killings as "one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history." Not in Egyptian history alone in modern history as a whole. What happened at Rab’a is cited in international reporting alongside China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This is the true scale of what the Egyptian state has spent thirteen years trying to minimise, justify, and reduce to a mere "security incident" in a news bulletin. III. "All According to Plan" When Mass Killing Becomes Administration, Not Chaos The title Human Rights Watch chose for its detailed report on the massacre deserves lingering on: "All According to Plan." This is not an emotive headline; it is a precise legal conclusion built on field evidence. According to the investigation, what happened at Rab’a was not a dispersal operation that spiralled out of control amid chaos or panic, as the regime later tried to portray it. It was a carefully planned operation that assumed, in advance, massive casualties. Then-Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim admitted, in a televised interview broadcast on 31 August 2013 just weeks after the massacre that his ministry had anticipated losses of "10 percent of the people" present at the sit-in, acknowledging that the number of demonstrators exceeded twenty thousand. By simple arithmetic, this is an official admission that the state anticipated, in advance, the deaths of roughly two thousand people and proceeded with the operation regardless. This is the true horror at the heart of the Rab’a story: it was not a security operation that spun out of control, but a conscious administrative decision, made in an air-conditioned room, with advance calculations, by men who knew precisely how many human beings would die under their fire and who proceeded anyway, or perhaps because of it. According to Human Rights Watch’s analysis, the objective was to send an unambiguous message: whoever challenges the new state will pay an irreversible price. IV. Snipers, Women, and Children The Faces the Reports Do Not Tell Behind every number in the Human Rights Watch reports lies a full human story, deliberately omitted from the state’s official narrative. The investigation documented how security forces opened fire from multiple angles, and how snipers positioned themselves atop buildings surrounding the square, targeting according to survivor testimony and analysed video footage any movement in the square, regardless of whether it was an armed combatant or a nurse trying to reach a wounded person. According to documented testimony, entire families had their tents burn over their heads as fire swept through the sit-in. Doctors and paramedics were killed while trying to pull the wounded from the line of fire. Most damningly of all, the documentation shows deliberate targeting of ambulances and field medical points meaning that wounded people who survived the first bullet then faced death by bleeding out, because anyone attempting to save them was themselves a target. This detail the targeting of medics is what elevates the event from "excessive violent repression" to what human rights organisations have described as a systematic crime. When security forces target those trying to save the wounded, they are not merely dispersing a sit-in; they are preventing witnesses from surviving to tell what happened. V. Thirteen Years of Total Impunity The most painful part of the Rab’a story is not only what happened that day, but what has not happened in the years since. From 14 August 2013 to today, not a single officer, of any rank, has been held accountable for the deaths of hundreds, or thousands, of Egyptians. Quite the opposite: the state has moved to entrench impunity through the force of law itself. Egypt issued legislation granting senior military officers immunity from questioning over any violations that may have occurred following Morsy’s removal a law specifically designed to close the door on any future judicial accountability, regardless of how political circumstances might change. Even the fact-finding committee established by then-interim President Adly Mansour to investigate the June and July events concluded, in its report issued more than a year after the events, that the sit-in’s leaders bore responsibility for the deaths, on the grounds that they had allowed weapons into the square even as the same report admitted, in a glaring contradiction, that security forces had failed to target only armed individuals, meaning they had fired indiscriminately on everyone: armed and unarmed, man and woman, adult and child. This is the pattern that has repeated for over a decade: as each anniversary approaches, official statements re-narrate the events and shift blame onto the victims, while the actual perpetrators — those who planned the operation, gave the orders, and pulled the trigger — remain free. Some now occupy the highest offices of the state. VI. Why This Anniversary, Why Now? A reader might ask: why revisit this story after all these years? Has the world not moved on to newer crises? The answer lies in the very nature of impunity. When a state is never held accountable for the largest massacre of protesters in its modern history, it does not simply "forget" the crime it sets a precedent, telling every future ruler and every future security apparatus: mass killing is possible, politically profitable, and free of cost. This poisonous lesson does not remain confined within Egyptian borders; its echo reaches every Arab capital contemplating how to handle its own opposition. More dangerously, this system of impunity did not stop at Rab’a’s edges; it is the foundation on which Egypt’s entire subsequent decade of repression was built: thousands of political prisoners, grossly unfair mass trials that produced death sentences for dozens of defendants in cases linked directly to the Rab’a events themselves, laws criminalising peaceful protest, a muzzled press, and a civil society hollowed of substance. All of it traces back to the morning of 14 August 2013, when the state learned that overwhelming force succeeds, and that the world will condemn for a few days, then move on. VII. Delayed Justice Is Not Forgotten Justice Despite more than a decade of official silence and impunity, the Rab’a case remains alive in international legal memory. Human rights organisations, from Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International, continue to renew their annual calls for an independent international investigation, grounded in the legal principle that crimes against humanity are not subject to statutes of limitation: delayed justice is not forgotten justice. The victims who fell in that square were not numbers in a statistical report. They were fathers who left behind children too young, that day, to understand why their father would never return. They were mothers who, thirteen years later, are still searching for a clearly marked grave to which they can carry flowers, and young people who had decades of life ahead of them that they never got to live. Their memory does not fade with time; it grows with their children, who carry with them the same question their parents asked before they were killed: when will justice come? Conclusion: What Does This Anniversary Demand of Us? Every year, as the anniversary of 14 August returns, the same question resurfaces one the Egyptian state refuses to answer: who gave the order? Who planned the operation? Who decided that twenty thousand human beings deserved to be shot with live ammunition because they staged a peaceful sit-in? This anniversary is not a call for vengeance, nor an invocation of the past for its own sake. It is a reminder that justice, however delayed, remains a debt still owed. And that every instance of international silence over a massacre of this scale opens the door to the next one, elsewhere, under a different pretext, carrying the same lethal conviction: that the world will condemn for a week, then forget. We will not forget. And we will not stop asking the question that unsettles everyone who took part in that crime, regardless of the office they hold today: where is the accountability? Rab’a is no longer merely the name of a square in Cairo. In the conscience of everyone who believes in justice, it has become a test of the world’s conscience itself a test the world has not yet passed.

Killing Joke is een invloedrijke Britse band van overwegend postpunk-strekking, die in de jaren tachtig zijn hoogtepunt beleefde. De groep werd in 1978, toen na het hoogtepunt van de punk nieuwe stijlen opkwamen, opgericht door zanger Jaz Coleman, die later ook als componist van klassieke muziek bekend is geworden. Zijn medewerkers waren Paul Ferguson op de drum, Kevin Walker ('Geordie') op de gitaar en Martin Glover ('Youth') op de basgitaar. De naam Killing Joke verwijst naar een legendarische sketch uit Monty Python's Flying Circus over de Tweede Wereldoorlog: daarin heeft een Brits uitvinder een grap bedacht, zodanig geniaal, dat iedereen die hem hoort onmiddellijk sterft van het lachen; dit massavernietigingswapen wordt dan ook, in een Duitse vertaling, tegen de nazi's ingezet. Reeds in 1979 scoorden ze een alternatieve hit met 'Turn to red', waarbij ze de steun genoten van de bekende radio-dj John Peel. Dankzij dit succes sleepten ze een contract bij het label EG Music in de wacht. Hun debuutalbum, eveneens Killing Joke getiteld, sloeg aan en enkele singles kwamen de Britse hitlijsten binnen. 'Wardance', het sarcastische 'Follow the Leaders' en 'Empire Song' zijn culthits geworden. https://hvdommelen.nl/k/KillingJ.html

over the last year #IDFSoldiers have been touring #Italy disguised as tourists and protected by the police. Those among them who have committed #WarCrimes can sleep peacefully: since 1999 #Italy has NOT had a criminal code to implement the #RomeStatute: https://t.co/IEban1h8KE #IDFSoldiers #Italy #WarCrimes #IT

If you want to understand what I mean by "war on human attention" look at young people. They check their phones a million times a day and are completely numb to news, politics, wars. Flat, tired, in ways sleep can't fix. That exhaustion is the product working exactly as designed. https://t.co/w6xxQKIvDE #AttentionEconomy #DigitalNatives #MentalHealth #Therearenospecificcountrycodesidentifiedinthetweet.

El reconocido productor ganador del Grammy, Sleep Deez, reveló que habló con miembros de la Academia y que la idea inicial era usar a BTS como sujeto de prueba para la categoría de Pop Asiático y luego crear una serie de categorías específicas para artistas asiáticos: "Hablé con alguien que trabaja en la Academia y me dijo que (que BTS ganara) sería una situación beneficiosa para los premios. BTS todavía estaba en el ejército cuando comenzaron a crear este premio. Y el razonamiento era que probablemente BTS sería considerado para las categorías más importantes con su regreso (...). La persona me dijo que el premio no se creó para BTS, pero que mentirían si dijeran que ser los primeros en ganar no sería el sueño de los Grammy. Porque si BTS gana primero significaría que otros artistas en el futuro querrían seguir el mismo camino y ganar este premio porque BTS ganó. (...) Y luego la intención era que más artistas quisieran este premio, (...) y eventualmente la categoría se expandiría a categorías más enfocadas en géneros musicales específicos (para Asia), tal vez incluso por país. Y mi respuesta..." fue: 'Entonces querías usar...'" "BTS como ratas de laboratorio". La persona dijo que no le gustaba ese término (...). #BTS #GrammyAwards #MúsicaAsiática

Sleep je speciaal je gigantische watermeloen-parasol mee naar de Neude om de pers het zicht te benemen... wint de Utrechtse wind het van je. 🍉💨 Dat het in Utrecht historisch hard kan waaien (1674, never forget!), was deze mevrouw blijkbaar even ontgaan. #Utrecht #Neude https://t.co/yje8k9kT9F #Utrecht #Wind #Watermeloen

We are entering an age that will reshape economies, institutions, and daily life. We must not enter the #IntelligentAge sleepwalking. We must enter it with awareness, wisdom, and courage. More in 'Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age': ➡️🔗https://t.co/IQtYUm0s3c https://t.co/qaUGszDtfZ #IntelligentAge #Awareness #Leadership #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Fenomenul „sleepmaxxing”, popularizat pe rețelele sociale, se concentrează pe optimizarea somnului prin diverse metode precum utilizarea de benzi nazale, suplimente alimentare și ajustarea condițiilor ambientale, însă medicii subliniază că multe dintre aceste recomandări coincid cu principiile clasice ale igienei somnului, evidențiind importanța somnului de calitate pentru sănătatea generală. #sleepmaxxing #somn #odihnă

Contrary to alarmist claims about an increasingly sleep-deprived society, sleep duration has actually increased among most American demographic groups. Healthy sleep is essential for physical health, cognitive function, and overall well-being, yet many U.S. adults do #SleepHealth #Wellness #CognitiveFunction #US

Israel killed a family of six in a strike on their home in Gaza today. Firas and Salsabeel al-Masri and their three daughters and son were sleeping at the time. Not that you'd know from most of the western media. Because Palestinian lives don't matter to them. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #IL #PS

Morning, we didn’t get much sleep. We were out robbing superyachts last night. Good haul. Prototype designer jewelry Unreleased fragrances Crypto wallets engraved with Latin mottos A priceless bottle of Barolo from a billionaire’s private stash. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/tGPwfGwEIe #SuperyachtHeist #PirateLife #LuxuryLoot #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the election and impose his corrupt autocracy forever. His frenzied followers support it, the majority of Americans aren’t aware and sleepwalk into it. Like it happened in Russia, Turkey, India, Hungary, Poland, Venezuela... https://t.co/QzyKxuZLsZ #Trump #Elections #Autocracy #RU #TR #IN #HU #PL #VE

Looks like I was right: Xi have the Americans one chance to make the MOU stick. They tapped their reserves. Now that Trump screwed it up they’re back in the market. We are staring down a major energy crisis - Western leaders are sleepwalking. Scary. 🇺🇸🇨🇳🛢️ #EnergyCrisis #USChinaRelations #MOU #US #CN

Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? https://x.com/Bitcoin_Teddy/status/2077512782430486720