Persepolis remains one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

cloudwatching in a mining town

~cloudwatching

😔 I have thoughts but they’re not fully formed yet www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

i'm thinking of uploading the 56 i have on my hard-drive & 20 i have on my phone to the Internet Archive. One episode a day until i'm done (or until my 14 yr old laptop &/ my 8 yr old phone finally gives up on me).

i was wrong. they're mushrooming, now. & i've lost count of the new ones that sprouted in the last four weeks.

'the bottom line [...] was essentially the capacity of such a programme to provide a horizon, a long-term horizon, for South African investors so they could see the future of the country as a stable one. And therefore, to bet on this future, for themselves and for their kids and for everybody else.'

~cloudwatching w/ trees

mining towns have the same aura (derogatory)

perfect song of the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Br...

i read & agreed w/ all the work abolitionists, yet the minute i get a first full-time job in nine yrs, i find myself having intrusive thoughts like, 'i'm so grateful for this job,' & yuck yuck yuck i rlly hate what this country did to me: abolish South Africa ASAP

Idrissa Ouédraogo left us too soon, man

man, bell hooks had perfect comedic timing. i didn't know that about her

I don't align with the antipsychiatry movement totally, I think mental illness is real unlike some of them, I have a psychiatrist & take meds. Still need it to survive. I think it is inherently brutally ableist & I've been traumatized deeply by it. You have to ask, why's there a movement against it?

"When the state itself presents immigration enforcement through the language of clean-up, sweeping brooms, raids, numbers and deterrence, it does more than communicate policy. It teaches the public how to see, planting the seeds of mistrust." www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

static shock season 😢

i miss hearing Kilo Kish on Vince Staples’ records

almost everyone i know, online & IRL, who wasn’t openly xenophobic pre-covid, now is. & it’s been the heartbreaking thing about the last six years.

May Day clouds~

Perfect song of the day: youtu.be/YBu4rev7wKo?...

the job market is in a weird place were part-time work is mostly reserved for full-time employees in need of extra income & not like people who can’t work full-time hours.

'It goes without saying that the First Nation thesis is shrouded in the operative logics of antiblackness as it hinges upon the zoological, race science belief in the phenotypical differences between the Khoisan and Bantu' afropessazania1.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/m...

Directors always find a way to shoot Sope Dirisu topless. & ykw? i don’t blame them lol lol

a regional sound i used to hear all the time while i was still living in said region almost a decade ago (& haven’t heard since [outside of social media clips]) is finally breaking through. & im overjoyed. music.apple.com/za/album/mar...

'...And maybe this is why eroticism keeps returning in my work, too: because erotic attention is one of the most immediate ways memory shows itself as alive.' herri.org.za/12/fortunate...

New Ital Tek single "Kill Switch" out now italtek.bandcamp.com/track/kill-s...

'...the fact that multiple commercial and non-commercial spaces continue[...] relationships with the A4 Foundation in CPT, & that no arts institution has stepped forward with an explicit message against genocide [...], is alarming and disappointing in itself' herri.org.za/12/thulile-g...

heating up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Every day at about 6am, Motlalepula Lethala pushes his small aluminium boat onto the Senqu River in Qacha’s Nek. Read groundup.org.za/article/how-... by Sechaba Mokhethi

Watch author Sara Ahmed discuss "No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Ahmed is in conversation with Soraya Chemaly, an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media.

i spent the last 2 yrs unable to type the cedilla & thinking Linux was being Linux again, but it turns out there’s now an English (S. Africa) keyboard layout & it doesn’t have the cedilla. all along, i.e. since 2008, ‘US, incl. alt’ has been my default…

shout out to the people involved in uploading one of my favourite films on YT. It's often overlooked in convos re: African Cinema, but more people should see it! Muna Moto (1975) dir Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLo3...

And they cannot.

a Netflix documentary on Winnie Mandela is unleashing levels of xenophobia that i never knew existed

cloudwatching~

bored, so im watching season 2 lol

“That word is nearly gone now. The plant remains. The wind remains. But the listening — the kind of listening that produces that kind of name — is becoming rarer, and we do not have a vocabulary for what it costs to lose it.”

"From 1973 until 1982 he was banned by the apartheid government and spent a significant period under house arrest. Banning restricted writers’ literary production, not only were they forbidden to publish, but even writing was also not allowed." herri.org.za/12/phillippa...

"Laughing at the End of the World: Unsettling Laughter in Black Literature" by Diego A. Millan Black Outdoors Series @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.edu/laughing-at-...

'Choosing the Elim Hlanganani Society for the Care of the Aged as the venue was deliberate. Bila wanted to break the assumption that art belongs only in urban theatres [...] The elderly are bearers of culture & heritage, often condemned to loneliness and grief.' herri.org.za/12/lucas-led...

"[...]mining and conservation increasingly work together to dispossess local communities of land and livelihoods, while reframing exclusion as development and environmental protection [...] Extractive infrastructures open remote areas to research and ecotourism." africasacountry.com/2026/03/coul...

Herri issue 12 is out!!!! herri.org.za/12/

i've transcended nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/kinsha...

just watched a news segment & the new one is called "Progressive Forces of South Africa". this country's beyond parody

Civil society organisations in Lesotho want the government to disclose a health funding agreement signed with the United States on 10 December. Read groundup.org.za/article/leso... by Liezl Human