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We zijn GEK op vrouwen. Maar vrouwenstemrecht? Te vroeg om te zeggen, of te laat! Want op gezette tijden luidt de systeempers natuurlijk de noodklok om de 'Manosphere' en hoe misogyn en fascistisch De Jongens worden. Maar onderzoek toont aan dat juist vrouwen veel verder naar links schuiven, dan jongens naar rechts. En dat diezelfde vrouwen bovendien véél negatiever zijn over mannen, dan mannen over vrouwen. Dus, wie radicaliseert hier nou eigenlijk?

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Waarom kan Talitha zich nog altijd in de 7e versnelling boos maken om het coronabeleid van 6 jaar geleden, terwijl veel mensen die er destijds hetzelfde in stonden als zij, het inmiddels nog maar heel weinig kan schelen?

En waarom wordt Noorwegen wereldwijd geprezen om zijn viering van het koloniale Viking-verleden, met die (fantastische) Viking-teamfoto en Viking-roei, terwijl het destijds nou niet bepaald gegadigden voor de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede waren? En waarom mogen West-Europese landen dit dan niet, terwijl West-Europees kolonialisme in tegenstelling tot de Vikings niet bijna uitsluitend verminking, verkrachting, dood en verderf bracht?

Afijn, daar hebben we het dus eens goed over. En de tweede helft dus onderstaand te zien, uitsluitend voor GEENSTIJL PREMIUMS! Tot over twee weken makkers!

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The latest Linux Mint blog says that its Wayland support is about ready for primetime – but X11 isn’t going away. Linux Mint lead developer Clement Lefebvre has published the Linux Mint blog for June 2026, announcing that as of the next version of the Cinnamon desktop, it will officially drop “experimental” status for Wayland: this will be a fully supported way to use the Cinnamon desktop environment. You will have to be patient, though – the post says: “The improvements and features mentioned in this blog post are planned for the next version of Linux Mint, which is scheduled for Christmas this year.” The current release of Mint is version 22.3, which we looked at in January this year, and, as we said then, it shipped with Cinnamon version 6.6.4. The version of the desktop in development in the project’s Github repo is currently 6.7.4. So this suggests that Linux Mint 24 will arrive at the end of 2026, and that it will come with Cinnamon 6.8. Mint fans will have to be patient, but the Mint blog for March did reveal that the project was slowing down its release cycle. The post discusses some of the issues the team is encountering with Wayland, such as around controlling the size and positioning of new windows, updating icons with progress bars, and so on. Earlier in the year, the Mint blog for February went into some depth on the problem creating screensaver support in a Wayland environment. If you track such things, this is not shocking. For instance, this is something that XScreensaver creator Jamie Zawinski castigated Wayland for this at very amusing length, back in 2023. Similarly, the May Mint blog discussed performance issues in detail with hard numbers, and showed the effects of different settings on dialog boxes and screenshot-grabbing tools. For us, though, what these insights into the development process illustrate is the Mint team’s determination to bring Cinnamon to Wayland without losing any of its rich functionality – however serious the challenges this presents. And despite the effort going into Wayland, X11 is not going away. The blog says: “In the next version of Cinnamon, both X11 and Wayland will be fully supported.” Perhaps it’s paranoia, but it seems to us that there’s some subtext here, which we interpret as the next version will still support X11 – but after that, all bets are off. We hope we’re wrong on that front. ®

A staff member sent the personal details of around 150 women who were in contact with a Scottish NHS Trust’s maternity services to their own personal email account, the Trust has revealed. NHS Forth Valley, the health board that oversees NHS services in the region between Edinburgh and Glasgow, said it is investigating the matter and has contacted the women affected. “An internal investigation is underway after a member of staff transferred a spreadsheet containing an extract of data from our maternity system to their personal email address,” a spokesperson said. "While the majority of information in the spreadsheet is unidentifiable, it contained some lines of data relating to a number of women who had accessed local maternity services. "There is no evidence that the information has been shared any wider at this stage, and the member of staff has also advised that they have now deleted the data.” NHS Forth Valley has contacted to data subjects directly and informed a number of other relevant organizations, including the UK Information Commissioner. A new mum who was one of the circa 150 women affected by the data mishap, told the Fakirk Herald, which first reported the story, that she was experiencing anxiety that her details were out in the public domain. The woman reportedly was told by NHS Forth Valley that the information was transferred for analytical purposes and concerned a fully qualified, non-clinical staff member, and not a junior. She was also informed that the data in the spreadsheet included full names, dates of birth, NHS numbers, pregnancy treatment information, and the patients’ total number of children. NHS Forth Valley said it had made Police Scotland and the Information Commissioner’s Office aware of what happened. The UK’s health service, for all its merits, has a far from sparkling record when it comes to email-based data breaches. Between bungled Freedom of Information responses to the BCC function proving too difficult for staff members, the NHS and wider UK public sector have been the subject of their fair share of blunders in recent years. Two separate Trusts – Chelsea and Westminster and NHS Highland – failed to protect HIV patients’ data when bulk-sending responses via the CC field instead of the BCC field in recent years. Between 2020 and 2021, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was also found exposing extraneous data in spreadsheets sent as part of FoI responses. And perhaps our favorite NHS clanger of all, the service’s Digital division, no less, exposed hundreds of email addresses via a failed BCC attempt when sending four separate emails to attendees of a cybersecurity event. ®

Jante Wortels eetstoornis kwam voort uit een gebrek aan controle in haar leven. „Ik had een project nodig waarbij ik zelf kon bepalen of het lukt of niet.” Dat werd eten.

NRC-columnist Floor Rusman kreeg in september te horen dat ze eierstokkanker had. Deze zomer schrijft ze wekelijks over wat er in haar hoofd gebeurde toen haar lichaam een bedreiging werd.

Nadat er in het weekend ongeregeldheden waren na de wedstrijd van Marokko tegen Canada, werd er bij programma’s als ‘Vandaag Inside’ in apocalyptische woorden vooruitgeblikt op de wedstrijd van donderdagavond. Blijft Amsterdam overeind?

De autoriteiten in Spanje houden er rekening mee dat veel slachtoffers van de dodelijke natuurbrand in de Zuid-Spaanse provincie Almería uit het buitenland komen.

"I've loved the sickbay on Star Trek: The Next Generation since I was a teenager... Cortical stimulators that revive the unconscious, no matter how traumatising their injuries. Biobeds that enclose patients within sensor arrays, short metal tunnels that scan and analyse —all, I imagine, while keeping sick and hurt beings warm... Our delivery suite has a pseudo-dot-matrix printer, a team of blue scrubs, and the promise of a scalpel."

What the attack on Monticello cost was not the truth. The truth is in the ground, in the archive, in the oral histories collected beginning in 1993, in the names Stanton and Swann-Wright recovered, in the descendants' faces in the photographs taken on the West Lawn steps. Those things were put in the record by specific people doing specific work over three decades, and they remain; the work was done carefully enough that it survives the institution's retreat from it. What the attack cost was the institution's willingness to stand in front of that truth without flinching. That is a real cost.

jspeter9191 has added a photo to the pool:

In the afternoon at my village(Tallawong), Sydney, Australia.
God bless you.