I wonder what happened to the QAnon jokers. That seems to have disappeared from the social media feeds and the news stream.🤔🤔

D'angelo! WTF?!?! Gosh. At 51? Damn you, cancer!

The Brazilian musical universe is a marvel to me.

Upcoming exhibition from the MFA in Boston: “‘Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography’ explores the evolving techniques photographers have used to record the human experience as it has played out in populous urban spaces…” [mfa.org]

The Economics of Complicity: How Israel Is Buying the Destruction of Gaza www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...

ILIKEU - Silas Short 🎶 🎵 🎼

When the three running apps you use give three wildly different results... 🤭🤦🏾‍♂️

I need to go fetch all my likes and bookmarks—especially all the links to longreads etc—from that other blue app that has now gone to shit.

"I was very lucky to host #DukeEllington and his big band when he came to Ethiopia in 1971 and I played a concert with him at the Addis Hilton hotel. His band honoured me by playing this piece" 'Dewel’ from Mulatu Of Ethiopia (1972) - The Strange World of #MulatuAstatke buff.ly/l4lvVgp

So much for checks and balances. Ah well.

Can someone explain to me what would change if the Epstein files were released today? I am really curious.

When a president (of a 'powerful' Western nation) posts AI-concocted disinformation videos and the official government social media pages feel like meme accounts, it makes me wonder if other countries (especially in Africa) might see this as unproblematic or even as a good example for them to follow

As a tote bag collector, this is very interesting to note. Lol "A Dior book tote says nothing about your level of access to elite spaces. A rare biennale bag from a few years ago? That's a conversation starter" www.linkedin.com/posts/atelie...

Who is surprised? Not me.

Israel is smearing the Global Sumud Flotilla as “Hamas” and accusing it of pursuing a “violent course of action.” This is the kind of rhetoric that Israel uses as a pretext before committing war crimes against unarmed civilians.

Hate hate hate! www.salon.com/2025/09/17/h...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 214 of The Continent The shoes and handbags cost thousands. The workers earn just enough to eat. Inside Kano’s leather pits — and the quiet fight for change. Read it here: bit.ly/214_TC

Little Things Mean A Lot - Bettye Swann 🎼🎶🎵 youtube.com/watch?v=PtOF...

I need to gather all of myself for the love letter matryoshka'd inside a farewell letter I plan to write.

News: Hundreds of Jewish healthcare workers from around the US and beyond are circulating a letter demanding an “end to the genocide in Gaza.” They “reject the weaponization of accusations of antisemitism to suppress criticism of Israel and expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.”

"I have imagined you as one of the invariably unhappy remnants of a people who were broken up and dispersed throughout this earth, perhaps exiled from heaven, but each with a language and feelings peculiar to that race and unlike those of other men." 😊😊 lithub.com/honore-de-ba...

What does recognising the state of Palestine do to stop the "war on Hamas" and the attendant destruction of all the infrastructure in Gaza? Can someone explain to me like I am a five-year-old?

Fienin' - The Family Stand 🎶🎵🎶🎼🎼

To my mind, it seems that the favourite thing history likes to do is to repeat itself.

It's like there's always something new to drain your energy and leave you marvelling at the preposterousness of some sections of society every passing day! Gosh, I am so tired.

I'm always "shocked" when I find out some people can't take what they dish out!

It's here! The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025. What's at Number One? How many have you heard? buff.ly/h3osP6p @normanrecords.com

Has the boy got his mojo back? 🤔 Not so sure yet but we keep it going nonetheless

110k???!!! Just wow.

"It is a classic case of dividing the world into friends and enemies—a tactic suggested by Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt—and inciting violence against newly identified enemies by claiming it is imperative to preempt them from using violence against your friends." rb.gy/pr8o5o

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 213 of The Continent. Botswana bet big on diamonds — and won. But lab-grown stones are rewriting the rules. Is this a slump, or the end of the road? Read more 👉 bit.ly/213_TC

I'm just so nauseated by all the violence spiralling in the world at this exact moment. Gosh!

"White ethnonationalism" Lol.

Always be wary of echo chambers. Amen.

There's an essay about whataboutism—and why we can't jettison it altogether—roaming around my head but I don't have the wherewithal to tame it for the page. Ah well.

I'm just wondering if there's any big brand using/crushing it on BlueSky Probably not.

Happy that they laid a conviction around Bolsanaro's neck like a garland of poisonous flowers, even with the threat of rightwing-led "superpower" that was once the bastion of democracy. Let's see where Brazil goes from here. Though it's useful to note Lula was also jailed for corruption <shrugs>

Just look at that.

It's funny and sad to see people set standards for others that they themselves can't meet. SMH-Lol

Yaaay! Bookmarks are here! Thank you, @bsky.app!

It baffles me how, sometimes with humans, cold hard facts don't change their mind, even when it's to to their advantage if they did. Anyways... #thehumancondition

Another brilliant cover. Another outstanding edition. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Department of War for the one hungry to win the Prize for Peace. Very interesting.

I'm trying to round off all my 'griefs' for this year, just to see them all laid out in one spot. I don't know what that would do for my soul, but I think I still need it.

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 211 of The Continent. Fuel’s been scarce in Burundi since 2018, thanks to political unrest. Now, people are risking bullets, crocodiles, even prison just to fill up. Get your copy here: bit.ly/211_TC

Supreme Clientele 2 sounding brilliant sọ far. The samples are topnotch. 2025 is the year of the OGs, no?

A school shooting in the U.S. on the first week of resumption is some insane work. As if parents didn't have enough anxiety already, now they had to be reminded. What a country. Man!

<Sighs>