Tom van Doveren

Sybrand Buma vertelt bij @op1npo dat Pieter Omtzigt een vreselijke man is, maar zegt niet waarom. Alexander Pechtold valt de oud-collega bij, maar meldt ook niet wat er mis is met de persoon Omtzigt. ‘Meesterinterviewer’ @SvenKockelmann vraagt niet door. Pijnlijk moment. 😩

Als je al Air Miles spaart, waarom zou je ze dan niet doneren aan Gered Gereedschap? Het is een kleine moeite met een grote impact. Samen kunnen we bijdragen aan de groei en ontwikkeling van vakmensen in Afrika. #AirMilesDoneren Doneer hier:airmiles.nl/goede-doelen/g…

"When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, ‘If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.’⁣ ⁣ He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of our marriage living in Birmingham were hell — I cried every day, and barely ate. No one would speak to us, we couldn’t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and we had no money.⁣ ⁣ People would point at us in the street. Then I gave birth to a stillborn son at eight months. It wasn’t related to the stress I was under but it broke my heart, and we never had any more children.⁣ ⁣ We were at the same technical college. I was having typing and shorthand lessons and he’d been sent there for training by the Air Force. He was with a group of black friends and they called my friend and me over to talk. We didn’t even know they spoke English, but Jake and I got chatting. He quoted Shakespeare to me, which I loved.⁣ ⁣ Jake returned to Trinidad, but we carried on writing to each other, and a few years later he returned to the UK to get better paid work.⁣ ⁣ He asked me to marry him, quite out of the blue, when I was only 19. My father threw me out, and I left with only one small suitcase to my name. No family came to our register office wedding in 1948.⁣ ⁣ But gradually life became easier. I got teaching jobs, ending up as a deputy head teacher. First Jake worked in a factory, then for the Post Office.⁣ Slowly we made friends together, but it was so hard. I used to say to new friends: ‘Look, I have to tell you this before I invite you to my home — my husband is black.’⁣ ⁣ My father died when I was 30 and although we were reconciled by then, he never did approve of Jake.⁣ ⁣ Today we have been married for 63 years, and are still very much in love. I do not regret marrying him for an instant, despite all the pain we have suffered."⁣

Partner Temeke Vocational Training Center in Tanzania geeft gratis vakopleidingen gegeven aan kansarme jongeren. Beatrice Charles is een van hen: “Ik heb het gevoel dat ik dankzij de opleiding meer met mijn leven kan doen!" geredgereedschap.nl/onze-resultate… #vakmanschap #girlpower

Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, and she was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" during her time. She began her acting career in Austria and became notorious for being the first woman to simulate an orgasm on screen in 1933. It was during this time that she also got married to Friedrich Mandl, a Vienna-based arms dealer with ties to Mussolini and later Hitler. The marriage did not last long. In her own words, she wrote, "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded and imprisoned, having no mind, no life of its own." According to her autobiography, she disguised herself as one of the maids and managed to flee to Paris. Others say she convinced her husband to wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterwards. She eventually booked a liner to New York, where she met the head of MGM, who was impressed enough to offer her a $500-a-week contract to work as an actress. In 1938, she arrived in Hollywood and went on to star in several movies, working with the likes of Clark Gable and James Stewart. Beyond her acting career, Lamarr was also a scientist and co-patented spread-spectrum technology during World War II to prevent the Nazis from jamming navy torpedoes. However, her invention was rejected and wouldn't be implemented until the Cold War in 1962. The technology would eventually be used in developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.

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@frederiquespigt Nog wat langer volhouden als maar even!

Je durft haast geen kleine dingetjes meer te plaatsen op X maar ik hou nog even vol; Liefs medemenschen en goede moed! #welterusten

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Net zo'n voorval als toen jij mij mailde dat er bij de ontmanteling van het Zuider??ziekenhuis (@rotterdam ) nog een stapel acryl stond. Gewoon op te halen... wat een deceptie was dat.

hollywood!

WWIII is begonnen, alleen noemen we het nog niet zo?

Sweden didn't invent a thing. Maybe some Swedes did. Or people in Sweden.

@NoContextHumans 126

Some wisdoms from Steve Jobs

@NoContextHumans john

Anyone know the 5th kid’s name?

ik doe iedere dag andere aan, Rini

Happy #InternationalDayofSignLanguages! 🫰 For coders with hearing impairments, working in STEM offers endless possibilities with many deaf people thriving in the field. Here, two deaf software engineers tell their story 👉developer.apple.com/asl-videos/vid… #EUCodeWeek #Accessibility

Rick kan niet in een minuut uitleggen waarom hij dat vindt.

@TansuYegen 36

Question from a primary school exam in Singapore🧐

@thijsroovers Als je hier verbaasd over bent, ben je ofwel jong of heb je altijd onder een steen gelegen.