Dad & social scientist @UvA_AISSR researching risk, trust & medicine(s); also into riding bikes & what some would call music. Editor of Health, Risk & Society
University of Amsterdam
Joined February 2009
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Two-time Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee has retired. We'll never forget the time he gave up a chance to a win race to help his brother Jonny cross the line 👏
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Netanyahu cheapens the concept of antisemitism to try to save himself. At a point when Jews around the world need to rally support against antisemitism, Netanyahu throws them under the bus by equating antisemitism with criticism of his own war crimes. xitter.cf/netanyahu/status/18596…
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Gisèle Pelicot finished taking the stand in mass rape trial against 51 men, and said the "macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape" must change. What this woman has done for history and women is astounding, her courage unfathomable, no honour is too great. MERCI 💙🤍♥️
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Madame Pelicot can hold her head high, she has become a heroine to women all over the world!
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Gisele Pelicot’s final statement about her filmed, drugged, unconscious rape by 51 men:
"It's time that the macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape changes…It's time we changed the way we look at rape.”
“I’ve lost 10 years of my life…This scar will never heal.”
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Gisèle Pelicot is on the stand today and asked about her decision to continue using the surname "Pelicot".
Gisèle explains that when the trial began her children were "ashamed" of the name.
She adds: "I have grandchildren who are called that.
"Today, I want them to be proud of their grandmother.
"My name is known across the world now. They shouldn't be ashamed of carrying that name.
"Today we will remember Gisèle Pelicot."
Yes we will. What a woman.
#ShameMustChangeSides
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“Don’t bother. We’re waiting to die.”
The world has failed the Palestinian people.
You included @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy
Thank you for trying @rohantalbot
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The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas: From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza," Netanyahu "has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict" and prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state. 972mag.com/netanyahu-hamas-o…
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @TimothyDSnyder.
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Imagine if this had happened in a residential area of any major capital; the media would be in an uproar. Yet, when it occurs in Lebanon, we are met with silence.
Israeli Airstrikes an hour ago on Chiyah area, Beirut Suburbs.
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Why still no mainstream media coverage of what is unarguably newsworthy testimony before a parliamentary committee?
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King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing
(Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
£600 a year across 6 sites is a “peppercorn rent”: a small amount legally required to create a lease and therefore give rights to tenants. It is usually asked for by the tenant not the landlord, as tenants’ rights are worth far more than £100. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercor…
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Where is the International Criminal Court?
British surgeon Nizam Mamode broke down in UK Parliament, describing Israel’s quadcopters DELIBERATELY TARGETING CHILDREN who had just been bombed.
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David Bowie jokes with Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Brilliant! #BowieForever #DavidBowie
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Varisheh Moradi, a Kurdish woman activist, was sentenced to death by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on Sunday, November 10.
Moradi was violently detained on August 1, 2023, pressured into making forced confessions, and held in solitary confinement for nearly five months.
👉 A source familiar with the case told CHRI that presiding Judge Abolqasem Salavati, a notorious hardline judge nicknamed “the Hanging Judge” for handing down death sentences in political cases, did not allow Moradi or her lawyers to present a defense during her trial.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long, well-documented history of targeting activists from the marginalized Kurdish community, frequently leveling politically motivated accusations based on fabricated charges.
#وریشه_مرادی
🔗 Read more: instagram.com/p/DCM-JreyGRW/…
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Look into her eyes.
The eyes of an Iranian woman – strong, courageous, defying tyranny where the world has looked away.
A gaze that the Tehran regime has decided to extinguish, one morning, at the hour of their prayers.
They are going to execute her. Her name is Varishe Moradi.
Wake up, world. Don’t let bravery die in silence.
#VarisheMoradi
