Mijn geliefde dochter en ik hebben toch wel een kilometer of 8 gelopen vandaag, en we hadden Egg Benedict voor lunch.
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Barbarella
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Barbarella
@BarbaraAnthoni8
Crazy cat lady, treehugger, coffee addict, Palo, Santeria and hoodoo chick, at your service.
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@MiesBee Lekker passief agressief eindigen met "love", ga ik voortaan ook doen 😂
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I’ve just finished the book ‘The Renoir Girls’ by Catherine Ostler, we meet a French Jewish family who lived at the glittering heart of Belle Époque Paris.
Their world was one of breathtaking opulence, yet threaded through it all was the quiet knowledge that, as Jews, their time in that golden light was always borrowed.
The Cahen d’Anvers family were bankers, collectors, and pillars of society. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir came to their grand home in the 8th arrondissement. He painted two of the young daughters, Alice and Elisabeth, in soft pinks and blues, their innocent faces glowing against clouds of white silk. Their elder sister Irene had her own portrait too. These pictures captured a perfect moment, little girls in a world of balls, racehorses, chateaux and rides through the Bois de Boulogne.
Their parents mixed with aristocrats, hosted lavish parties, and collected art in a city that felt like the centre of civilisation.
For a while, it seemed as though wealth and culture could smooth away every difference. The family moved easily among the elite. They embodied the success of French Jews who had thrived after emancipation, building fortunes and embracing the beauty of Parisian life.
Renoir’s brush made them immortal in that soft, sunlit way he loved, pretty and pleasant, as if trouble could never touch such loveliness.
But beneath the shimmer, older tensions stirred. The Dreyfus Affair later tore at the country’s conscience, reminding everyone how quickly acceptance could turn to suspicion. Still, the family carried on through scandals, love affairs, and changing times. Some daughters married out, seeking security. Others held onto their heritage.
They lived through the First World War, always with that undercurrent of knowing their place in French high society was not entirely secure.
Then came the 1940s and the borrowed time ran out. When the Nazis occupied Paris, even vast fortunes and old connections offered little protection. The very society that had welcomed them now looked the other way or, in some cases, betrayed them.
One of the sisters, along with other family members, was deported. The journey that began in silk dresses and Renoir’s studio ended in the horror of Auschwitz. What wealth could not buy was safety when hatred took hold.
Ostler tells this through letters, diaries, and fresh research, painting the contrast in heartbreaking detail. The same Paris that produced impressionist masterpieces and grand hotels also delivered duplicity and loss. It is a tale of French opulence at its most seductive, but also a reminder of how quickly borrowed time can expire for those who were never fully allowed to forget they were outsiders.
The Renoir girls still smile out from museum walls today, forever young and carefree. Yet their real story whispers something so much darker.
Beauty & privilege offered no shield.
Alice, the younger one in the pink dress, lived a long life. She married a British army officer, Charles Townshend, in 1895. When the Nazis occupied France, she was already connected to England through her marriage. At the age of 64, she showed real courage and crossed back through occupied France to bring her two grandchildren to safety in England. She survived the war and died peacefully in Nice in 1965, at 89 years old.
Elisabeth, the older sister in the blue dress, faced a much darker end. She had divorced twice, first from a French diplomat and then another husband. Though she converted to Catholicism young and lived quietly in the countryside, her Jewish roots still marked her. In February 1944, at nearly 70, she was denounced by the local mayor, arrested, and sent to Drancy. From there she was deported towards Auschwitz. She died on the journey in March 1944. Even her faith and years of trying to blend in offered no protection.
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Terug naar de middel eeuwen, en veel PROgressieven juichen dat toe, want cultuur is alles
Carel Brendel@CarelBrendel
Een ordedienst met gele hesjes zorgde er gisteren voor dat vrouwen en mannen gescheiden bleven tijdens de Al Aqsa-demonstratie in Rotterdam.
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Lieve peeps, ik neem even een pauze van X.
Ik zal de Nijman en Charante podcast nog meepakken maar ben verder even weg.
Ik merk dat alle ellende me echt even teveel wordt, de stoom komt me dagelijks uit de oren en ik moet even afstand nemen.
Zie jullie heel graag later weer 😉😘
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Abou Eenarm, Amin Abou Rashed, fondsenwerver voor Hamas, is op voorwaarden vrij. Hij mag zich niet met de Palestijnse zaak bezighouden. Keer op keer is hij toch bij demonstraties aanwezig. Vandaag demonstreert hij op het Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam voor Al-Aqsa. Zie de rode pijl.
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Nog een avondrondje bij mij door de wijk. Het tempo was niet bepaald fluks te noemen, want ik ben gewoonweg kapot moe, maar ga nu nog wel lekker X-Files kijken met mijn geliefde dochter. 😎
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De reacties van de "heren" hieronder zijn om van te smullen! 😂
Caroline Franssen@CoachCaroline
Vrouwen boven de 35 willen geen man meer in huis die zich gedraagt als een kind. Als mannen een relatie willen, zullen ze zich dus anders moeten gaan gedragen. Volwassen worden en hun eigen verantwoordelijkheid dragen. En leren geven wat een vrouw nodig heeft, in plaats van vooral nemen.
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@MiesBee Ik ken iemand die haar tweelingzus kan zijn en vraag me nu af of ze bij dezelfde cosmetisch chirurg in Turkije zijn geweest 🤔
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Degenen die deze sadist in dienst nemen en hem de hand boven het hoofd houden, zijn net zo schuldig. Dat zo'n figuur vrijuit kan gaan, ik heb hier geen woorden voor.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
The Home Care Service in Sweden hired a Syrian gangster to take care of the elderly. It ended with him recording himself abusing and torturing them while shouting “Allahu Akbar” @samhallsnytt reports that 22-year-old Abdulrahman Al Khleef Almasalmeh from Syrianis being prosecuted for abusing, assaulting and mistreating 15 elderly people. The man, who arrived in Sweden as a refugee in 2015, was a member of a criminal gang and had previously been sentenced for robbing and tormenting several Swedish youths while armed with a gun. The investigation into the home care abuses has in total involved 15 complainants, with the oldest being a 99-year-old woman. In one video, his victim is a 92-year-old Swedish woman. “You look like a monkey!” he says to the woman while pointing at her. Abdulrahman Al Khleef Almasalmeh then swings his open hand toward the woman’s face without hitting her. Instead, he grabs her nose and yanks it while making a honking sound. He continues to insult the elderly woman in Arabic: “You whore! I swear I’m going to curse you! he says,” and adds: “Eat shit you whore!” In other video clips, an 81-year-old man is subjected to abuse and torture. First, the Syrian home care worker repeatedly calls his victim “son of a whore.” Then the 81-year-old is tormented in the shower as the 22-year-old Syrian pours ice-cold water on him. “I swear by Allah that I will make you freeze,” Al Khleef Almasalmeh is heard screaming in Arabic. The mobile phone videos were found on a mobile phone in connection with another criminal investigation. At the end of November last year, while the police investigation against Al Khleef Almasalmeh was ongoing, he was suspended from work with full pay. But the day after the New Year holiday, on January 2nd this year, he was allowed to return to his job in home care. “Since we don’t know more about the investigation, we cannot suspend him for more than one month, says the home care unit manager Maid Prnjavorac in a police interview. The 22-year-old Syrian therefore remained at his workplace until he was arrested by the police on the morning of January 19th. Abdulrahman Al Khleef Almasalmeh came to Sweden from Syria together with his parents and 5 siblings during the 2015 European Migration crisis 2015. He was made a Swedish citizen 3 years later and therefore can’t be deported for his crimes now. Despite Al Khleef Almasalmeh having been sentenced for 2 cases of assault and 5 cases of unlawful threats from his past as a gangster, he was hired in March last year by the home care service in Örebro. The person who hired Abdulrahman Al Khleef Almasalmeh was the home care unit manager Maid Prnjavorac. Prnjavorac does not want to answer @samhallsnytt’s questions when they call him. Instead, he refers to his boss Sahra Strandberg, who serves as the acting operations manager. In case anyone wonders how it is growing old in Sweden after paying 40% of your salary in tax for decades, this case explain a lot.
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Afgelopen maandag lonkte de zon, en heb ik het Norderpad gelopen, vanuit mijn huis. Vandaag zet ik ook de nodige stappen, maar dan op de werkvloer. 💪
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Undeniable evidence that Nessie the
Loch Ness Monster is real has been unearthed. Haters will say it's AI.
#LochNessMonster
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If you love the Gothic, you don't need autumn to be happy. spring gives you dramatic thunderstorms, long linen dresses you can have fluttering behind you as you run through a sprawling estate, gardens to endlessly brood in, pools of water to sigh at....just use your imagination
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