In verband met de zware explosie die in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag plaatsvond in Amsterdam Nieuw-West zijn in totaal drie aanhoudingen verricht, laat de politie zaterdag weten. De politie had eerder al gemeld dat er meerdere mensen waren aangehouden, maar niet het exacte aantal. Waarvan ze verdacht worden, wil de politie nog niet zeggen.
Deze vrouw heeft het gered: ze is succesvol genoeg om op social media haar kwetsbare kant te tonen. “We moeten even praten”, zei ze in haar laatste video. “Social media is niet wat het lijkt…”
“Moedig”, vindt Melvin, die de video’s en foto’s ziet waarin de succesvolle vrouw eindelijk het taboe doorbreekt op dat waar zij zich kwetsbaar over voelt. “Met zoveel volgers en bekendheid is het bewonderenswaardig dat ze zich uitspreekt.”
“Ben zelf heel blij dat ik het zo ver heb geschopt”, legt de vrouw uit. “Je ziet ook weleens mensen zich kwetsbaar opstellen als ze niet zo succesvol zijn maar dan denk je toch meteen van ‘ew, loser’, in plaats van ‘jeetje wat moedig’.”
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He pushed landscape painting into the stratosphere, demolished one-point perspective, invented the Los Angeles look, embraced iPads, created dazzling stage sets for theatre and opera …
David Hockney didn’t just appear out of nowhere like some fully formed artistic wunderkind. His work was a synthesis of so much that came before and was happening around him. He took the ideas of minimalism and abstraction, fused them with the traditions of portraiture, and filtered it all through the innovations in pop and conceptualism that were going on in the 1960s. He was heavily indebted to a lot of other artists, but he synthesised all those influences into something so simple, immediate, digestible and approachable that it became something new.
Continue reading...Women in heterosexual marriages continue to do most of the caregiving. Now some are offering guides to AI-fying parenting
In honour of Pride I’d like to share some important news: Being Straight is Great, Actually! This public service announcement is brought to you by the New York Times which, in an offering to the Ragebait Gods, published an op-ed with that headline on the eve of Pride month. It then changed the headline of the piece, which was written by a Playboy editor, to There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men. “I’m going to go out on a limb and say it,” author Magdalene J Taylor bravely wrote. “There has still never been a better time in human history to happily and successfully pursue heterosexuality.”
A sincere congratulations to Ms Taylor for her successful pursuit of heterosexuality, and her brave dismantling of straw men. But, look, while I don’t like to rain on anyone’s (straight) parade, I do have a few little quibbles with her argument. Namely, I keep seeing data which somewhat contradicts the idea that we live in a golden age for straight women.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...People with careers in the UK and beyond offer practical advice for those struggling to secure work
About 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK are not in employment, education or training, and a recent report said this could rise to 1.25 million by the early 2030s without urgent government action.
With the obstacles young people face in securing employment now greater than ever, we asked readers if they had any advice for those seeking work. Here are some of their responses.
Continue reading...The company’s response to the launchpad blast has become a key test for Artemis III
As Blue Origin tells it, the most spectacular launchpad explosion in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.
“We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter,” Dave Limp, the company’s chief executive, posted on X on 1 June, using the Latin form of its motto, “Step by step, ferociously”.
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