Trump only knows Ernie Els who lives in Florida for tax reasons. He thinks that he represents all South Africans.

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

My bedroom window in my new place faces East. I guess I'm a morning person now.

The ultraviolent Big Government fascism will continue until morale improves

Can you say Streisand effect?

Aaaand they’ve just covered it up. Which is just another layer of irony… …given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.

Whether it's Barack Obama having SEAL Team Six kill Osama bin Laden or Donald Trump having SEAL Team Six kill a bunch of random Koreans on a fishing boat, both presidents oversaw deadly SEAL Team Six missions.

It is completely unacceptable to attack Kemi Badenoch either because she's black or because she's a woman. Racism and misogyny should have no place in our society. We should be attacking her because she's a bigoted, tory bastard. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

The beerita, a margarita-like drink with beer, is a refreshing cocktail that’s incredibly easy to assemble. Here’s why that is bad news for Democrats.

World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and of Japan. JD Vance doesn't even know history.

"whispering".

Bari fucking Weiss.

My god these guys are such spectacular morons gizmodo.com/billionaires...

if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test

What if dinosaurs were just birds, and not vice versa?

The US empire is ending. The loss of soft power effected by Trump's aid cuts and isolationism will just accelerate it. Welcome to Chinese hegemony.

Grrrr, Wordle. Learn to spell.

The hard part, here, is that — while being parody — this will likely happen at some point this year, so it's also a prediction.

It takes decades to leave our Solar System, but we'll be colonizing the galaxy in... er... four and a half years?

I'm no expert woodworker, but even I can see that this machine would require that you had VERY good medical insurance. The video is literally a list of things not to do with power tools. www.alibaba.com/product-deta...

I do love a stock standard ggplot graph. I really hope that those lines continue to decline following the USAID debacle.

Trump's stumble on the steps up to Air Force One highlights the extent of Joe Biden's physical decline. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Explaining Rugby to the Eastern Cape. Ok... Seems... er... unnecessary?

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

This isn't the whole story. The Democrats are so beholden to corporate interests that they simply won't fix things.

@mattduplessis.bsky.social I thought that you may appreciate this one.

This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen

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When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully. My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com

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Analysis | Donald Trump's corruption is breathtaking. But Democrats don't have a leg to stand on because nine years ago, it was revealed that their presidential nominee had used a private email server 13 years ago.

An understudied issue is how Trump’s victory freed up US think-tank and donor mindspace for chipping away at UK politics again. (Most visible on abortion, but there are signs that Tufton also has benefited.)

Bless you if you thought those red lines hadn't been passed long ago.

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

If you have to clarify that it’s “completely different” to Enoch Powell it’s possible your message isn’t landing right. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I genuinely feel sorry for government officials and politicians who have to engage with the Americans on the "merits" of the issue. How do you refute someone's deliberate fantasy where facts don't matter at all? It's like the Haitian cats and dogs thing all over again.

Mostly I think it's great that SA is, to substantial extent, avoiding getting sucked into this quagmire of nonsense. Perhaps a sign we're maturing. But does mean most of the "discussion" is led by grifters, morons and white nationalists (these categories not mutually exclusive)

Notable how vast majority of SA knows this Afrikaner ethnic persecution/refugee thing is such obvious bullshit--literally made-up--that it's not even worth engaging with. You can't refute baldfaced fantasy with facts etc. But wonder if it makes reality less clear to rest of world

Hahaha...er, wait a sec...

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Wha..?

Is this fuckwit wearing an Oranje Blanje Blou tie?

Is everyone at NYT fucking stupid now? Is it a requirement?

And just to finish me off - the plane ferrying them? AirWors1.

I snorted coffee through my nose when I heard Trump's Afrikaner "refugees" referred to as the "Great 'Tsek". For anyone that a. isn't aware of South African history, or b. Afrikaans cursing, I would be happy to elaborate as to why this is so funny to most South Africans.

Daily Maverick's Rebecca Davis talks about what's actually shaping online political discourse in South Africa right now — and spoiler alert: it’s not ideas, policies, or even real people.