#southafrica lit in purple, a reminder of the fight against gender-based violence, and of the voices we refuse to silence 💜

😅😅 I don't know if I'm giggling at the anchor or the story

Systems almost always warp people, not the other way around. Too long inside a machine and you start to move like its gears, call its noise harmony, call its walls the world.

Pretoria wearing Purple for Halloween 🦇💜

#fedora 43 is a delight

I had to see it so now you have to also 🤖

Well well well...

In the heart of South Africa’s Cape Winelands, the vineyards of Franschhoek spill across the valley like brushstrokes at the foot of towering peaks. Mont Rochelle catches the light just so, where the earth, sunlight, vines, and mountains meet in quiet splendour. 📸 Mont Rochelle

Introverts trying to leave the house but realising there are people outside.

Don't mind me, just taking my silly little Pokémon on silly little adventures #pokemonza #legendsza

Keeping US politics out of my feed really is a game of Wack-a-Mole with hidden words/filters

Sometimes I reminisce about the doors that closed in my face and feel nothing but gratitude. The wrong paths look so clear from here.

It's Mastodon Icon Colour season here 💜

TIL both Ares and Athena were gods of war. Ares would be the god of brutal, chaotic and impulsive war, whilst Athena would represent the strategic disciplined war.

I was born here, where the mountain meets the veld and time forgets to move. I left many years ago, but the quiet beauty of this place still makes me wonder if we ever stop carrying the shape of the place we first called home. 🌍

My therapist asked me to name three things I'm grateful for and I said "free next day delivery, noise cancelling headphones, and the sweet embrace of the void" and apparently that's concerning but two out of three aint bad

Gavin has had it up to here... I hear 🤔

So here's a tech nightmare nobody's talking about: Google's rolling out their new developer verification rules for Android starting in September 2026. Every app then needs to be registered with Google, even if you're sideloading or using alternative app stores like Samsung's Galaxy Store. 📱 […]

#deltapark #johannesburg #jacaranda #gauteng #southafrica

To the ire of any #french speaker 🇫🇷

😅😅😅 It's true... 🍟

Got a bit of leave days so took today off. Just some errands and general mental health. Work's been a lot lately. Had breakfast in Linden (apparently ranked 17th on Time Out's list of the Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World 2025). Not too shabby for a morning […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Anybody know of a #gotosocial instance accepting new registrations? 🤔 #superseriousbusiness

“Challenge people with more power than you, defend people with less power than you.”

Woke up to a roaring thunderstorm (first proper one for the season) and now it's raining cats and dogs 🐶😺⛈️ My favourite kind of weather 😊

Its a big day for South African opera! Cape Town Opera's stunning Afrofuturist take on Verdi's Aida is hitting cinemas today and it's the first ever locally-produced opera to make the leap to the big screen! This isn't your grandmother's opera (though she'd […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A spring morning in #Hermanus, about 200km south east of #capetown. This time of the year, you can have all four seasons in one day. Sun and rain here, about 500m apart. #photography Original: https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1246081112

An analogy between personal psychology and geopolitics You know how there's a pattern where some of the most vocally homophobic people turn out to be struggling with their own sexuality. They experienced attraction as something to suppress rather than accept, they assume sexual orientation is […]

Finally got access to Perplexity's #Comet browser. Still invite only, if you're curious check it out, here's some invites. I only got four invites its first come first serve: https://perplexity.ai/browser/claim/G0KKNQPJSJ […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Why are all the evangelicals still here and not raptured? I haven't felt this let down since realising my emergency contact was probably a coffee shop 🥲

🫙 "no don't throw it away, we could use it" - me, every time somebody bins a glass jar or container

When your phone battery dies on you mid public transport...

Windows 10 support ends on October 14. Help the people around continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them. Follow @Endof10 for success stories and resources for how to help people switch! […]

So #zorin seems to be getting ready to release version 18 tomorrow... teasing some interesting apps pinned there... 👀

This could be us but you’re not into extracurriculars

My fridge light has seen more of me this week than most people have this year.

Life is finite Prioritise joy 😊 That's it That's the toot

"Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. … You cannot mix up sentiment and reason." -- Agatha Christie #quotes

Have a happy weekend! 🌞

"What need is there to weep for parts of life, when the whole of it calls for tears" Seneca, from his essay De Consolatione ad Marcia (circa 50 AD)

While we are in the Bush, we see some great sights... #bigcats

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

Good morning Fediverse! 🌅

Ever had to put on your glasses so you can hear better over the phone? I just had to 💀👴🏻

Nationality and nationalism always felt so silly to me tbh Like yay, I love celebrating the invisible spaghetti lines humans drew on maps and decided were sacred 🙃 Nothing like pledging lifelong loyalty to a shape on a globe that might look totally different in the next few decades. Go team […]

Someone ends their passive-aggressive email with just “Regards”? You better believe I’m petty enough to drop the “Kind” or “Best” in my reply too.

Did I ever tell you all about that time I wrote a song?

I was in an open relationship once. Being in one was wild. Especially since I was the only one who thought we were exclusive. 🫠

You know you're getting old when you pipe up with stories that start "back in my day..." 🙃 💀