“Do you like my mask? Isn’t it pretty?” #curseditem

Southern African creative freelancers: If you haven’t already, pretty please take 5-10 minutes to fill in the Safrea rates survey: forms.gle/qkwoKiJURc2S...

lol my gynae’s receptionist just signed off our call with “see you next Tuesday”. Indeed. 🤣 It’s deeply unfair that I have the sense of humour of a 14yo boy but am stuck in the body of this middle-aged woman.

I appreciate a silly bird name (*side-eyes boobies*) but narina trogon is the most bird-sounding bird name. You know when you’re not into birds and someone who is into birds identifies one… “ah yes that’s the tanshrhisnsnks”… it all sounds like narina trogon. Yes. That’s the skeet.

Why do all the high fantasy dwarves need to have a Scottish accent? Feel like some of them could be Afrikaans or whatever.

Caught a witch stirring magic in the waves - bioluminescent tide, Muizenberg.

It’s been at least 25 years of turmoil, living under the tyranny of The Game. At last, I am free. I share the good news with you - unshackle yourselves, weary friends.

Not for recreational buyers apparently #curseditem

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

Here’s a brief interview in which I try to sound vaguely astute, talking about a #shortstory I wrote in the latest Short.Sharp.Stories anthology - www.litnet.co.za/short-sharp-...

There are limits of course, but in my experience plenty of people do, in fact, like a smart ass

there hasn’t been a song of the summer yet because we can’t hear it over the screaming

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

no cheating, post the last pic of your pet

Well this feels disrespectful now 😬 RIP Ozzy 🤘

I saw a post somewhere that called this the “Algernonification” of the web ‼️

Nominate a great song from 1994 for #OutOfOrder Here's one that was the opposite of what was happening but great [email protected] @tiffanytroia.bsky.social @katetd.bsky.social @digitalgypsie.bsky.social @evodaily.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AW...

The guitar riff on Crazy Train deserves a better song than Crazy Train. Here with a 45 year old reference, and opinion no one asked for.

Any FB experts here? I’m part of a freelancers group who have lost access to their FB page. Exactly why this happened pre-dates the current Exco but we’d like admin control back and the page is totally dormant. FB’s “help centre” is spectacularly useless on this and there seems to be no option…

3. "Informational Microplastics" - the artefacts invariably produced as a function of how these models work will be present undetected in Scientific journals and web pages. "ScamTech" will doubtless have web pages generated to "answer" searches with pages of bland, subtly incorrect, blather. 2/

I’m going to need someone to spoil this season of America for me. I need to know where we (the world) are heading as a result (macro scale). Is it Fallout or Silo or Tank Girl or something else? And timescale? Should I spend my savings now?

Why do we use the term “fertility rates” and not “births”? The former feels like a health crisis, as opposed to a series of choices and consequences resulting from current conditions. Asking as one who grew up in the 90s when people were clutching their pearls about overpopulation…

The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests. Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.

If your husband controls your joint bank account - refusing to show you statements, obscuring how much you have in said account, dictating what you're allowed to spend - that's financial abuse.

🎵 You used to call me "Baby, come over" Now I'm the worst person alive 🎶

ooof give me that good good [memes and schadenfreude]

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

Ah, mates, the memes! The memes are gonna be so good.

China's BYD to nearly triple South Africa dealers' network by next year reut.rs/3ZNrSfq

Good morning✌️🍀

I watched every cut-price horror, slasher, and thriller that VideoLand had to offer by the time I was 16, but now 41yo me is hiding behind a pillow watching Last of Us on a Sunday morning. Gah. Adults are so lame.

As Candace Owens is attempting to give Harvey Weinstein a redemption arc I will again point out that for victims of sexual violence there is never any bar of proof, not even the ultra-rare conviction and prison sentence, that will stop people from calling you a liar

You guys! We sent off £10 250 today to @triangleprojectngo.bsky.social in South Africa for their essential trans advocacy work and care. That's almost R250 000, which is a lot of Rands. I'm so damn grateful to everyone who donated to Genre for Trans Rights 1 charity auction and bid on cool things

Who is building the tracker app (suggested name: Trekkker) for keeping tabs on the Voetsekkers in the US? I wanna know where these “boers” go and how long they stay.

When imposter syndrome strikes, I encourage myself to go forth with just a fraction of the confidence of the Google Maps narrator pronouncing South African street names.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

🎶 We were worried about our (MUM!) / Jacker came out and pulled a (GUN!) 🎶

pls just know that if we are involved in a Friend Streak on duo, i will never Nudge you on purpose. they are all buttnudges.

In celebration (consternation) that Netflix has cast a new Pride & Prejudice film, I present this NB analysis*: Book 1813 First movie adaptation 1940 (127yr gap) BBC mini series 1995 (55yr) Knightley & Macfadyen version 2005 (10yr gap or 65 only counting movies) New Netflix film 2026 (21yr) (1/3)

Any MS Word boffins around? Googling has been no help. My proofing language and document language are both set to English UK but Word won’t flag the z words as wrong 😑

When you can’t recreate the full ambiance of Mrs Lippman’s, but you still want that “it puts the lotion on its skin” vibe at home… #curseditem

I dunked a cookie in my tea this morning. Held it under until the bubbles stopped. Thought of you.

Snoozy Jelly Bean content to cleanse the timeline

Something about the anglerfish’s final swim to the light speaks to me in this here political climate.

What in the Mojo Doge-o Casa White House is this?

The Atwoodst of times…

Dear TV and film people (editors? I dunno…) I am absolutely MILES from my TV, please zoom the hell into those plot-crucial text messages popping up on the protagonist’s phone. Sincerely, Ms Pause-rewind-stand-close-and-squint.

it's actually my second rodeo and i think i fucked it up worse than the first one