"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

Micro-fiction "In the Menstrual Hut" by Sumitra Singam “Seema and I sit with our backs to opposite walls...She gets the benefit of the breeze from the open doorway – they fan her ankles that have become thick with her swollen sense of status.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/in-t...

If Courier has no haters I am dead

Have you read? The Shift Room by Mary Wanjiru at Inner Worlds How has work been defined in your life? How has your work changed you? inner-worlds.ghost.io/the-shift-ro...

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Season finale of IT: Welcome To Derry

Today's hear me out: what if Mary from Sinners just showed up in Derry

Going crazy because I feel like I'm the only one who didn't like the Let's Put The Christ back in Catholicism movie

"I luh God, don't you luh God, what's up with you" for a total run time of 2 hours 24 minutes

That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾 Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!

Dem boys

CAREFUL ATSU, HE HAS A RASH!

ANORA

These “gen ai is the answer to problems” proponents be dishonest about the fact artists need funding. They refuse to solve real problems; they invent them. e.g. an indie filmmaker doesn’t need gen ai. Especially one with actual skills + respects their craft enough to learn it. They need funding.

Of course the British are transphobic. Their most iconic building is big clock

Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

This thread is BRILLIANT!!!

@formerlykevin.bsky.social & I touched on Animal Farm & the many failures of the Swahili version (that had nothing to do with the translators & everything to do with the source material) during the Seattle WorldCon panel on Translation, Language Barriers & The Limits of Canon... I have THOUGHTS 💭

This is a shortened version of that awful Kindred adaptation

@formerlykevin.bsky.social & I touched on Animal Farm & the many failures of the Swahili version (that had nothing to do with the translators & everything to do with the source material) during the Seattle WorldCon panel on Translation, Language Barriers & The Limits of Canon... I have THOUGHTS 💭

the way he is so casual about getting something allegedly containing retinol around his eye socket

Reading an interview with an actor who when asked about preparing for his role says that he "went full method" by binging Orphan Black and drinking shots of olive oil to gain weight

Which TV shows/movies released in the last 5 years would you say absolutely have to be experienced in 4K?

"Are you ashamed of us, Granddad?" "VERY!"

In a fair and just world Sanaipei Tande would have been mother in Aronofsky's Mother!

I need this glorious vessel in my home

Muah 💋

This year needs to end tomorrow!

Windows 98 Plus: Jungle. What a throwback.

This lifesaving information during a real-time unfolding disaster is only available with a subscription!

'tis the season of fat-shaming

Reading is subjective and everyone is entitled to their own opinion except for those who did not like WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY because they are WRONG and ILLITERATE

Currently being accused of being a weird Russian (???) bot on Reddit for suggesting a French streaming alternative to Spotify

anyone else caught [obvious COVID symptom] that's been going round? I was at the [shared enclosed space] and at the [other enclosed place] and everyone seems to have it... What could it be? Oh well *open mouth coughs*

every day a new palantir billionaire slithers out from a damp hole and does a tech conference panel where he casually suggests we round up the "genetically infirm" and toss them in an active volcano, before his head lurches back and chest rips open as he molts his exoskeleton to thunderous applause

“Advanced AI” but it’s just underpaid workers from the global majority taking on tremendous personal trauma to make large data sets look elaborate.

Someone needs to reboot that specific 90's arc of Days of Our Lives when Marlena was possessed by the Devil

Carol Sturka is NOT Skylar White in any way shape or form youtube.com/shorts/vS9g2...

She's still wearing the necklace 👀

Also a Zionist who lives in occupied Palestine and loves to party with the IOF

I feel like there's a poem in here somewhere

Who the hell wants to be in a group chat with Karen Minus One... Girl bye

Time to tune in to the evil yellow lady

"fully sober in the club googling frankenstein 1818 full text" Frankenstein is Actually About Being A Woman youtu.be/CMegdu0GHII?...

paul dano has publicly raised money for gaza and now everything makes sense

What if I told you that Kenya has a Data Protection Act linked to a constitutional right to privacy which prohibits the processing of data collected in the country outside the country? But the person who calls himself president has signed this MOU with zero public or parliamentary participation?

✨2025 Eligibility Post✨ I co-edited an anthology with @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app, published a novelette, three short stories, and one poem. You can read all these works via the link below, and your consideration is most welcome & appreciated. somtoihezue.wordpress.com/2024-eligibi...