Deshnee Subramany

~ Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

The Great Egg Heist: 280,000 eggs disappeared from America’s top producer. Then came a ransom note. As prices skyrocketed, and egg giant Cal-Maine raked in record profits, the company was hit by one of the biggest egg thefts in history.

With prices soaring, eggs have been reported stolen from porches and farm stands. At one point, federal agents at the border were seizing eggs more often than fentanyl.

Then, earlier this year, a Maryland sheriff’s office learned about a $100,000 egg heist — complete with a ransom note.

I am watching The Outsider. Since Dark, I have not enjoyed something in this flavour until now. Tremendous.

Halala! Professor Ruth Hall appointed as new PLAAS Director | Plaas The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) welcomes Professor Ruth Hall as the new Director of the research institute. Beginning 1 June, P...

Celebrate with us! 🎉 Our new Director, Professor @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social, is no stranger to those in the land, poverty and agrarian sectors. Read about her contributions to research, teaching & policy engagement in SA, the rest of Africa, & her influence globally. plaas.org.za/halala-profe...

Beautiful. @dambakushamba.bsky.social

From Ellen Bass's book, Mules of Love.

#poem #books #writing

This is basically a rewritten press release. Would be fantastic to know how the trust is set up. I always smell machinations with big corporates...

Muriel Rukeyser. 🪽

This is progress, but whether or when the South African government will use these provisions remains to be seen.
#ExpropriationBill

Up to now, government has chosen a "willing buyer, willing seller" approach, paying at or even above market price. It need not do so. The Act gives some examples of cases where no or limited compensation should be paid.
#ExpropriationBill

For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However...
#ExpropriationBill

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OMG MADONNA. I forgot she's in it!

Vocabulary. Dialogue. Character. A concept. And for girls.

I'm watching Desperately Seeking Susan. We used to have films with A PLOT.

The cover of issue 185 of The Continent is an illustration by Ethiopian cartoonist Yemsrach Yetneberk. It depicts two French soldiers, one a standard-bearer, walking away from the graves of the tirailleurs, West African riflemen. The riflemen, who were part of the Second World War effort were not acknowledged by France and were killed when they demanded fair wages when they returned to Senegal. On the ground is the Senegalese flag, demarcated like a roadway with the green, yellow and red stripes with a green star in the middle of the yellow stripe. The words "Revenge of the tirailleurs" are written in the top lefthand corner beneath the words "'The Continent"

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Welcome to Issue 185 of The Continent

France isn't having a great month. This week, its government collapsed. And last week, not one but two of its former African colonies told it to get lost. A lot of western analysts are blaming Russia. This misses the point.

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It's on Netflix! Beautiful film.

Watch Witches (2024) on MUBI Director Elizabeth Sankey explores the connections between postpartum mental health and the portrayal of witches in Western society and popular culture. Sankey intertwines her personal experiences wit...

Incredible. The film history itself feels like this was created by at least six producers. The writing, cinematography - pretty much everything about it - was executed to perfection. For women who have been on the verge of madness, and men witnessing it. Heart wrenching.
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I will say as a Jew and a rabbi that this is a profound desecration of the holy and of history.

On top of all the other atrocities and harms.