Tiny Raviv

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@buitengebieden Flo. Then you just need Alice and Mel

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I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.

Rotherham. A small town in northern England.

For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.

Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.

The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.

For sixteen years, not one of them moved.

Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.

That is the moment something in you breaks.

And here is the part that makes it worse.

The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.

This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.

Then Elon Musk bought X.

The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.

But it did.

And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.

Towns the country had been told to forget.

Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.

X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.

That is worth saying out loud.

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@merican_great LMAO- He looks familiar. This was the phenotype all over Clearwater beach back during the late 80’s/90’s along with the grumpy Canadians

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@TrumpGirlLove The traffic in Pinellas and Hillsborough county is nuts and off the charts. Everyone drives too fast especially through construction zones. Still waiting for DeSantis to stop yammering on about coming to the great state of Florida. No don’t come—it’s full! He kinda ruined it

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@ImMeme0 Those parents blasting have probably had their daughters in leggings for most of their life because it’s “more comfortable” which is inappropriate. Short shorts were a problem for us 15 years ago-solution? Lands End shorts. Quit buying the slop

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@CalvinandNOBS This is a nuance that the Talented Mr Ripley was able to capture. I love the aesthetics of this film but I’m uncomfortable as I watch it because I keep thinking “they’ll never accept you” Tom

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@SecKennedy 20 years too late for our household

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@JackPosobiec I was 5 years old living in NYC Bronx apartment watching fire works on T.V. New York wasn’t great during the ‘70’s so attending a public event was a no-go for my parents

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@unhealthytruth Yup, I remember seeing him driving down US 19 in Clearwater back in the mid 90’s

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@ItsGoneAwry I’ve been look for good tutorials. Any recommendations?

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@XOQueenEsther William and Catherine exculded, I’m no fan of the royals but the amount of grief that mid-wit Harry caused his grandparents in their final years is really gross

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

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@disclosetv So, he drops by to lecture us about Ukraine? Pretty sure Hawaii and Appalachia could use just a fraction of the billions we’ve already provided. He needs to go home and take his moocher son with him

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@FBIDirectorKash @zerohedge I think it might be time for the Roger Stone door bell special for Walz. He’s definitely brazen

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@TheEXECUTlONER_ I don’t dislike opossums as they are great tick eaters, kind of cute and harmless. They do get a bad rap but this past fall in our area of the mid-Atlantic they’re were in fact several case of opossums with rabies

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@ItsGoneAwry Costco routinely has long carpet runners 3-4’ that are machine washable for around $15

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@kangminlee When this came out, almost everyone in “conservative” sphere congratulated them and I just kept thinking least they could do is make them siblings

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@LangmanVince What happened (or didn’t happen) in Lampedusa at the beginning of her term was the tell

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@wilsonhlthcoach @SBakerMD This happened to my spouse last year after he started eating a very high fiber cereal. Didn’t know this was a thing until I came across the info. I don’t think he believed me, but he cut out the cereal and drank Kefir daily. Did the trick. 1 box of cereal sits unopened

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@NoahRyanCo 🫲 It’s a blessing and a wee bit of a curse too right?