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Vlammend betoog @Molbaas over het politieke zwarte gat dat het massale creperen van Long Covidpatiënten in stand houdt. Terwijl de overgrote meerderheid zonder medische zorg ligt, bezuinigt dit kabinet onze toekomst weg: onderzoek, expertisecentra, alles. Geen plan, geen debat

Insane how the world moved on quickly from this.

Israel dropped white phosphorus bombs on farmers harvesting watermelons in South Lebanon. This is not a military target. This is a field. These are farmers. White phosphorus causes severe chemical burns and is prohibited under international law when used in civilian areas.

🇮🇹 Oscar-winning Italian actor Roberto Benigni criticized Israel: “Why do they keep killing children? Even if a child is only slightly injured, the war must stop. What cowards they are. The human heart cannot bear to hear such a scream of pain. But they do not hear it.”

أقوى مداخلة سمعتها في حياتي! نائبة رومانية في البرلمان الأوروبي ضد إسرائيل: "لن أكون دبلوماسية في الحديث عن غزة، إذا قتلتم أطفالي، ساقـ.ـتلكم. تتحدثون عن روسيا وتتجاهلون ارتكاب إسرائيل أبشع تصفية جماعية في التاريخ. نجلس هنا ونتفرج على إسرائيل وهي تقتل الأطفال وتجوعهم"

De asieldiscussie gaan we hier op X niet oplossen, zeker niet tussen links en rechts. Maar ik mag toch hopen dat iedereen van links tot rechts ziet dat dit echt bizarre verhoudingen zijn. Werden de GGZ en het onderwijs maar minstens zo serieus genomen.

There is no universe where this is not an evil act - cold blooded murder of innocents

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are currently attacking the village of Al-Mughayyir in the West Bank, burning olive fields and attempting to set fire to homes with families inside. Residents are urgently calling for help from nearby villages to stop the attack.

🔴 Eski Fransa İsrail ve ABD Büyükelçisi Gerard Araud: “Şu anda Batı Şeria'da olanlar tam bir skandal.” “Aslında olan, 'yerleşimci' İsrailliler tarafından gerçekleştirilen etnik temizlik.” “Avrupa'nın bu konudaki sessizliği de bir skandal.”

De ironie kan niet groter. School houdt kinderen vd straat omdat het te gevaarlijk is door rellende Nazi's die de boel onveilig maken omdat ze beweren dat 70 azc'ers een gevaar zijn voor kinderen nos.nl/artikel/261485…

Waarom kan dit tuig dit gewoon doen? Waarom is Israël zo onaantastbaar?

ALERT! Yet another act of piracy by the Israeli army in international waters: intercepting the flotilla carrying basic necessities to a desperate population in Gaza. Shame on European govts who are not acting to stop Israel! When will Israel's impunity end?

The israelis are smashing safety cameras on the @gbsumudflotilla in European waters — they do NOT own Cyprus, NOR the Mediterranean

The body whispers before it starts shouting is exactly the tragedy here. For three years, her body whispered through severe breathlessness, but because she kept quietly functioning, her family assumed she was fine. It only shouted when her entire system completely shut down. We have to stop measuring a woman's health by how much suffering she can endure

Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet. For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission. Her health was treated as a background inconvenience. When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her. She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain. It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops. Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life.

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

You ever see spy or action movies where some innocent person stumbles across the baddies' secret base, and the baddies just ruthlessly kill them? This isn't just 'extrajudicial execution'. This is straight up completely illegal in every way murder. Horrible. Horrific.

The U.S. is starving and killing babies in Cuba, and the media is staying silent about it. The U.S. is starving Cuba like Israel is starving Gaza. This's a criminal act of collective punishment. This’s a crime against humanity. And no one is talking about it.

رفح بلا مباني أو سكان اكبر تطهير عرقي في العصر الحديث