Wrote about how William Gibson's Spook Country gave me memories of the early 2000s and The War on Terror, and how not much seems to have changed since. thedarkcow.com/2025/12/23/t...

I ranted. Merry Christmas. thedarkcow.com/2025/12/23/t...

Did some drums for my brother @snotnozesaleem.bsky.social for his new EP with Hester Valentine. Heat rocks from them. 🫠 snotnozesaleem.bandcamp.com/track/tartar...

This dude talking about how there could simply be a bot that transfers your feed and community to another social media platform seemlessly is such a great reminder that it doesn't have to be this way. We have the technology for the internet to be an awesome place. youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...

I guess it's Jack deJohnette all day today.

We the rats, must have our feast.

Oof forgot how fucking awesome this album is.

Consider buying my new album, also available here on cassette and CD!

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Black Dahlia morning. music.apple.com/za/album/ver...

Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense. People aren't scared of new tech. They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening. They're scared of thirsty data centres. This isn't hard.

South Africans not believing an ANC member would take a decision for the benefit of the citizens, just as a face value statement even, is both sad and hilarious.

🎃Something real special coming out this Halloween from ZamaShort 🎃

it’s mars volta monday open.spotify.com/album/0CA2EV...

Did some drums for my man Snotnoze Saleem on this album. Please give it a listen. Phenomenal MC and producer. illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/a-rive...

Idk how many times doing nothing led to something. It’s the downtime that starts the next push. The mind reflects and wanders and the next idea is born.

If you are attacking unarmed humanitarian aid ships with water cannons and drones, while civilians starve in the city rubble -- you are not the good guys. Anyone pretending Israel is still in the right here needs to take a long hard look at what they're supporting.

South Africa is crazy right now. Lol.

Anybody taking incendiary essays, highly critical of US and Israeli foreign policy, with a bit of sci fi, and Warren Gibson analysis thrown in?

New Between The Buried and Me. 👀

This one gets quoted in my household *at least* weekly. #StarWars #TumblrMemes #LookAtThemAnakin

For the first 40 odd years of my life, I lived under state-sanctioned oppression. The reality is that a great deal of ppl are perfectly comfortable with fascism as long as it doesn't mean them. To see blatant hate speech as "just an opinion" is the outlook of the perfectly comfortable. Same old.

Important reminder

"Free speech for me, But not for thee..."

If you missed it or haven't seen it recently, I am still adding to this starter pack.

I actually naively thought South Africans would be more concerned about what's happening in Nepal, than that white boy bigot getting shot.

South African's upset over Kirk's death, totally baffled how people can be so heartless... Also had nothing to say about the latest school shooting in the US. Yes, murder is wrong. But if the first US murder you comment on is over a cis, white man GOP member...I am taking notes.

I'm fascinated by all the South Africans that are falling over themselves to declare how bad murder is after Kirk's death. I mean, I agree, murder is wrong...which is why I was also sad after Kyle Rittenhouse went on a killing spree and these same people said...nothing.

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The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors! Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry. Jan 2026.

Nommo Awards 2025 finalists announced. #LiteraryAwards #SpeculativeFiction www.writingafrica.com/nommo-awards...

Spotlight: 2025 Nommo Awards Shortlist The finalists for the @africansfs.bsky.social 2025 Nommo Awards have been announced!

2025 Nommo Awards Finalists 🎉 www.africansfs.com/nommo-awards...

Wow. This new Deftones is insane.

Holy shit. music.apple.com/za/album/inf...

Every morning a mad woman come through feeding the birds

One of the funniest things about this it's inevitable, creatives will have to use it or get left behind, is that's never been the case. If that were true, no one would play acoustic guitar or acoustic drum kits anymore. These are human, not tech driven things. People have preferences.

With "writers" embracing the mediocrity of AI-produced slop, it's on us to fight back. And by fight back I mean be feral in your writing, be deeply weird and vulnerable and obsessive and human. Let the predictive text write its anodyne MoR bs. Spill your wild and your strange onto the page.

It's Bandcamp Day. thedarkcow.bandcamp.com/album/19521-...

Tomorrow is Bandcamp day. thedarkcow.bandcamp.com/album/19521-...

I have sent in the full manuscript.

WORLDSTAR!!!!!!! WORLD STAR

every day I see this economy shit on some of the most talented and brilliant minds on earth and I marvel at the strength they find to push through to the next day

ugh there are so many things i could do this morning. but i will probably just be a slug.

I'm almost done.

Had a few conversations today regarding the sinking feeling that we've reached the endgame, and the immense sense of sadness and powerlessness that comes with it. They're really live streaming it while we squirm around desperately trying to stop it. Our world leaders are monsters.

One of my favorite short stories...

The logic that "terrorist" organizations are so unbelievable that they must be pursued at all costs, and all "collateral" is acceptable in this moral pursuit is an American fabrication they've used for decades to commit their own atrocities and attempt to cover it up.

Doomscroll rant. I'm tired of hearing about Hamas. I don't give two shits about Hamas. It's incredibly stupid to blame an entity indirectly responsible for something more than the entity actually committing the fucking act. Pure propaganda bullshit.