Zeggen wij dus niet, zegt Yesim Candan, die met haar 'biculturele vriendinnen' de zaken des levens (vagina's) besprak op een terras op de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. Specifieker: dat zegt Candans Nederlandse vriendin (bicultureel?), die verloskundige is en het kan weten. Goed, omdat u ons niet gelooft, hier het citaat uit Candans column: "Een Nederlandse vriendin op het terras, die verloskundige is, knikte instemmend: 'De schoonste vagina’s die ik zie, zijn vaak die van Marokkaanse vrouwen.' Mijn andere vriendin haalde haar schouders op. 'Logisch, we douchen vaak twee keer per dag en na elk toiletbezoek spoelen we na met water.'" Kunt u denken: logisch want Marokkaanse vrouwen zijn vaak schoonmaakster. Maar ze zijn soms ook agent. Laten we dus gewoon blij zijn dat Marokkanen ons niet alleen couscous en rellen, maar ook de verzorgde vulva brengen. Zijn wij ff een frisse neus halen (op de Nieuwmarkt).

Heel normaal: 'een paar' vriendinnen die dat out of the blue vragen

Knoop het in uw oren!

Op de N215 tussen Middelharnis en Nieuwe-Tonge is vrijdagavond een ongeluk gebeurd tussen twee auto's en een vrachtwagen. Over de toedracht is nog niets bekend, maar de ravage is groot.

In de eerste helft van het jaar zijn bij de politie in de regio Rijnmond ruim 10.000 meldingen binnengekomen over mensen met verward of onbegrepen gedrag. In totaal ging het om 10.338 meldingen. Dat is een toename van bijna 21 procent, vergeleken met dezelfde periode vorig jaar. Landelijk gezien staat Rotterdam op de tweede plek als het gaat om incidenten met verwarde mensen.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (ANP) - Max Verstappen was "best tevreden" na de eerste dag met trainingen voor de Grote Prijs van België. De 28-jarige Nederlander was de snelste in de eerste training en zette de derde tijd neer in de tweede training, al moest hij toen wel bijna een halve seconde toegeven op de Italiaanse Mercedescoureur Kimi Antonelli.

"Het ging best goed", keek Verstappen terug op beide trainingen. "We hadden geen grote problemen en de balans van de auto was meteen goed. Daarna was het vooral finetunen en hopelijk vinden we nog wat meer snelheid."

Verstappen had een dag eerder gezegd dat het een lastig circuit is in Spa-Francorchamps, omdat de Red Bull moeite heeft met het energiemanagement. "We zijn vergeleken met onze concurrenten langzamer op het rechte stuk, maar de balans was best oké", zei Verstappen, die wel wees op het grote gat met Antonelli.

CUPERTINO (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Apple praat met het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie over het schikken van een rechtszaak uit 2024 waarin het techbedrijf wordt beschuldigd van het overtreden van de mededingingswetgeving. Dat zeggen ingewijden tegen persbureau Bloomberg.

De Amerikaanse overheid klaagde Apple aan toen Joe Biden nog president was. De aanklacht hoorde bij een reeks rechtszaken die de macht van grote technologiebedrijven moest indammen. In de aanklacht stelt het ministerie dat Apple concurrenten, softwareontwikkelaars en consumenten heeft benadeeld met zijn vermeende gedrag.

De belangrijkste verwijten draaien om het blokkeren van zogenoemde superapps door Apple. Superapps zijn apps waarin veel verschillende diensten samenkomen, zoals chatten, betalen en winkelen. Je hoeft dan niet voor elke handeling een aparte app te openen. Ook zou het bedrijf onder meer externe berichtendiensten en cloud-streamingapps ontmoedigen en de concurrentie op de smartwatchmarkt belemmeren.

De gesprekken bevinden zich volgens de bronnen in een vroeg stadium, maar zouden al wel in volle gang zijn.

A hasty handover from Starmer meant his successor has not had much time to prepare for office yet his team is quietly confident

• What Andy Burnham’s first speech as Labour leader tells us

Just 20 minutes’ walk along the road to Wigan Pier, Andy Burnham’s own route back to Westminster was cemented. At the Edge community centre, about a mile from the famous canal wharf, the result of the Makerfield byelection was announced, surpassing even his highest expectations.

“Andy knew running in Makerfield was high risk but it was the proof point he needed to show the Labour party and the country that if he could win there, he could win anywhere. He got 55% of the vote. It worked,” one of his team said.

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Reform leader says he’s been ‘demonised’ since revelation he received £5m from billionaire before election

Nigel Farage has accused people raising questions about his financial backing of “demonising” him as part of a “coordinated pile-on” to stop Reform UK.

In one of his first speeches since the opening of two parliamentary standards inquiries into his financial support, the Reform leader said he had been “dehumanised in the most extraordinary way” in recent months, after the Guardian revealed in April that he had received a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne before the last election.

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ABC News reports that White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on Kalshi markets tied to what President Trump would say in speeches, using his access to prepared remarks and last-minute edits. ABC News reports: According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its "Mentions" market, where users can bet on whether specific words, phrases or topics are uttered during a public speech. "Our surveillance team promptly flagged and referred these trades to the CFTC, and we are cooperating and assisting regulators," Kalshi's head of enforcement, Bobby DeNault, said in a statement provided to ABC News.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday afternoon, following ABC News' report, that Perez has been put on unpaid administrative leave. Leavitt said she spoke with President Trump about it, and he thought it was a "disgrace" and made the decision himself to put Perez on unpaid leave. Leavitt said she was unaware of any other White House staffers who have made such trades. "The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle when contacted by ABC News.

In addition to February's State of the Union address, sources said CFTC investigators discovered that Perez placed bets on more than a dozen Trump speeches over a three-month period, including a December primetime address, a January speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and Trump's remarks in March during a Medal of Honor ceremony.

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Al elf jaar hebben bewoners last van een vliegenplaag, veroorzaakt door een lokaal afvalverwerkingsbedrijf. Met de huidige hitte wordt het alleen maar erger. Van huisvliegen tot aas- en vleesvliegen. „Zou jij nog mensen thuis uitnodigen?”

Firefox releases will soon get even closer together – but not ESR ones, which remain annual, with the next one due out soon. The change was announced last week on the dev-platform@mozilla.org mailing list by Mozilla’s director of engineering Sylvestre Ledru: “We are planning to move Firefox Desktop and Android from a 4-week release cadence to a 2-week release cadence starting in September 2026. “This will be an experiment… This does not mean that all work needs to ship twice as fast. Work that is not ready should not be rushed, and features can still take the time they need to bake. “The current target is to release Firefox 155 on September 1, 2026, instead of September 15 … “We will closely monitor how this change works in practice and adjust if needed.” The change is already visible in the upcoming Firefox Release Calendar. At the time of writing, it shows the current four-week cadence for Firefox 153 and 154, with Firefox 155 brought forward to September 1. From then on, it lists releases at roughly two-week intervals. This isn’t unprecedented. The last time Mozilla did it was over a decade ago. Google announced a very similar change for Chrome back in March, and The Register reported on it going to six-weekly releases in 2010 and then four-weekly ones in 2021. Brace for the impact of the next ESR In the meantime, Firefox 153 is nearly here: at the time of writing, it’s scheduled for Tuesday, July 21. Right now, the release notes are blank, but the beta release notes are more forthcoming. You can look forward to further improvements to PDF editing. Version 153 will be able to merge multiple PDF documents into one by a simple drag-and-drop in the PDF sidebar, and insert images into PDFs as new pages. It will also improve highlighting text in PDFs. The new version can generate QR codes for sharing web pages offline, such as in printed documents. It can verify and display the EU’s new Qualified Website Authentication Certificates, or QWACs for short. These are part of the new eIDAS legislation, which is a slightly convoluted acronym for “electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services”. Sounds cumbersome, but if it helps make the Wild West of the Web a bit safer, we’re all for it. Another security tweak is that extensions will lose local-file access by default. As we use one that relies on it - the excellent Multithreaded Download Manager - that's slightly concerning, although users will be able to grant the permission separately, so we'll see. If a tab is using your location, Firefox 153 will highlight this with a map-pin icon in the address bar. The last release could recognize a few keywords in the address bar to mute all sound: this function will get extended, with typed commands for picking colors from pages, and accessing experimental “Labs” features. Come back, Ubuntu Unity and your HUD, all is forgiven. There’s also experimental JPEG XL support. Pop-up video player controls will work better, and if you use Windows and have a compatible GPU and drivers, 153 will play HDR video. On macOS, Firefox supports the Fn+F keystroke for switching to full-screen mode – which means KeyboardControls.com has to update its description of the function. Firefox 153 will also be a significant release, because it will be the next ESR version: it will get security updates for at least 15 months, meaning until late 2027. (And maybe longer: Firefox 115 is still getting updates, and now will until March 2027.) In turn, that means that Firefox 153 is also the basis of the latest beta of the AI-free Waterfox fork, which recently integrated built-in ad blocking. ®

"Destroyer of worlds"
Spaceshuttle and 747 crashed.

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