It says something - not sure what exactly 😄 - that both the white supremacist right wing and black left wing absolutely hate the appointment of the former apartheid cabinet minister Roelf Meyer (and Cyril's personal friend of course) to be South Africa's ambassador to the USA.

NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS?? Is this about the war? The spinning-out-of-control, Zeppelin crash, humiliating embarrassment of a war happening on our screens right now?

Wild to me that a new podcast got this interview and not mainstream media. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi interviews the ambassador of Iran. youtu.be/KwtArYKSkWU?...

I've been looking through the social media profiles of European leaders and it's pathetic to see how they knew absolutely nothing about this deal. And are now scrambling for messaging and positioning. 🙄 Europe's irrelevance laid bare.

Journalists killed in Lebanon seemingly irrelevant to Western readers www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

If that Québécois band didn't look like... that... would anyone actually care? Cuz I've been through their albums now and I dunno, man.

TEARS IN MY EYES! 😭 UNC STILL GOT IT!

Interesting to remember that in spite of all the noise, South Africa still sells coal to Israel... share.google/kqMps3L0Gyyp...

"When South Africa sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're sending people with a lot of problems and they're bringing those problems to us." people.com/real-housewi...

Finishing up all my incense because Johannesburg smells like a wet fart this morning. 😭

Trader sentiment that the war is over conflicts with physical reality that 3,000,000 tons of oil a day are not moving. Both of these things cannot continue for long.

This lesson was learned when the West watched and laughed as Gaddafi was sodomised to death by a baying mob after he chose Western alignment. It has now been reinforced by the Iranian experience of abandoning its nuclear weapons programme in for negotiations. open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Genuinely funny watching one subset of AI investors realise that the arrogant language used by most other AI investors and boosters about ending entire industries and fundamentally rendering all human expression meaningless is turning most of their potential customers against them.

No one has ever liked us, it won't change now or going forward. Arsenal together.

When discussing Tourette's syndrome, please ensure you employ your most cutting and condescending tone. Otherwise you risk not being understood.

To wit:

Proper scoop by ICL and Jamil Chade - Heads of state who will attend Trump's "Board of Peace" meeting in Washington were given a "guide" specifying what they could and should say in their two minutes of allocated time. The details are...crazy. iclnoticias.com.br/em-conselho-...

Is there a long, unwieldy German word for the feeling of successfully forgetting about a nugget of pure #brainrot, till your friend reminds you of it."

This will likely get waved away as "not the time" but my god does nobody remember the roughshod way that the USA went around the world to force support for The War on Terror? The threats? The ignored please to not start ANOTHER war in the Middle East? Trump is merely downstream of that.

Sending a voice note to my pals in America: "YEAH, SORRY, please excuse the tormented shrieks of 100 dying souls that you're hearing in the background. Those are BIRDS."

Can't have it both ways, if the government is going to make me do my own taxes they should live with the number I come up with. Don't come back to me later like "Actually,"

It's that time of the year once more. (Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh.)

This man's prefrontal cortex has melted into a warm umami soup at this point. He is completely gone.

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

This survey suggests that South Africans have a far more favourable view of China than the media or opposition parties would have you believe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I do appreciate the fact that my government does not actually give a damn about Trump. I like that. 😄 (BTW this article conveniently leaves out that the UAE is also part of these exercises. That's an ally, see, can't make them look bad.) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rama Duwaji for The Cut is a magnitude 10 motherquake

Rama Duwaji, who will be First Lady of New York City in nine days, is profiled by The Cut Profile Here: bit.ly/3YH900F

This editorial is spectacular. Szilveszter Makó is a genius.

I'm flabbergasted. Ordered a cappuccino and got a... cup of foamy cold milk??

Yeah you can really tell when something important happens. This ain't the townsquare just yet.

"Will You Please Hold Still, Sir..." new op-ed by Anton Chigurh out now!

I am screaming 😂😂😂

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Very funny piece about a faction of a whites-only enclave in Pretoria rebelling against the leadership and demanding to be incorporated into the wider city. Funny how these racists always set up in authoritarian cult fashion. www.ewn.co.za/2025/11/11/s...

This album blew me away. Rosalía what have you done to me 🔥

Interesting to think how Zohran Mamdani might be a lawyer in Johannesburg or doctor in Cape Town right now had it not been for the University of Cape Town's incredible racism. mg.co.za/article/2018...

And there it is. The day has arrived when the Christian far right remembers that it has always been violently antisemitic, and the whole Zionism thing was a temporary truce. As those of us who were brought up in these circles having been saying FOR YEARS. x.com/KevinRoberts...

Crazy business to finally fulfill what the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 were trying to achieve.

We lost an absolute master.

Damn, dude. This one really got to me. RIP D'Angelo. Thank you for making perfect music. youtu.be/L0AykH20X3Q?...

Isaac Chotiner is just brilliant. My jaw was on the floor by the end of this. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

man you have got to live your life so when you die, black twitter doesn't explode with glee. that is the bar. clear that.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

This week, the triumphant return of @comradesipho.bsky.social with an episode on the fascinating role of witchdoctors, sacrifices and sangomas in African football podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

I might have managed to cause my dad actual psychic damage by reminding him of a mistake he made in my teens with a commercial transaction that he'd clearly successfully forgotten about. Made that man wince. 😭

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