@amandas.bsky.social
Senior Programme Manager @ Code for Africa Synthetic media ethics, journalism & info manipulation research Some cats & some books Wishful thinker she/her Header by Poorly Drawn Lines
‘At the funeral of Andrea Feldman (a Factory acolyte who had killed herself), Candy Darling asked for Feldman’s fur coat and received a reprimand. “But she doesn’t need it where she is,” Darling protested.’
Nicole Flattery on a Warhol favourite: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Learners at 287 South African public schools only have access to pit toilets. 174 of those schools are in the Eastern Cape. The Department of Basic Education had an initial target of supplying all schools with appropriate sanitation by the end of 2016. https://theoutlier.co.za/charts/chart/88628
13.01.2025 04:20 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A photo of Truro cathedral with the caption "Truro Cathedral - how many spires does this cathedral have? Wikipedia and I disagree."
If you look up Truro Cathedral you will ind a number of fun facts. I shall list the chree most commonly shared ones here, in order of truthfulness. The first "fun fact' about Truro Cathedral is that it's the first Anglican Cathedral in England built on a new site since the Reformation. This is true. In fact, it's che first since Salisbury was relocated in 1220, It's our only fully Victorian Cathedral, and that phrase alone should be foreshadowing for regular readers. The second fun fact' about Truro Cathedral is that it is the place where Nine Lessons and Carols was first held. This is true, and also not; in that though the service of Nine Lessons and Carols was invented by the first Bishop of Truro and held in the building serving as the Cathedral at that time, the building in question was a temporary wooden structure they were using as a Pro-Cathedral (the fancy term for a temporary Cathedral), because the actual Cathedral I'm about to show you would, in fact, take another 7 years of construction to be usable The third 'fun fact' about Truro Cathedral is that it's one of three Cathedrals in the UK with three spires. This is bollocks. I have no idea why people say this. There are four spires. I will elaboratre later, but I have become a Spire Trucher. This is my new weird conspiracy theory. Why is the Big Cathedral Spire Lobby trying to keep Truro down and deny her the honour of being a Four Spired Cathedral??? With this all said... let us begin.
saw a balcony in the north west transept when I was looking around earlier. Also these sketchy looking pathways. How am I supposed to resist that? This text is followed by two images of walkways bridging the corners high up in a cathedral
I hadn't thought much about the concert going on in the nave until this point, but now, I realised there was a problem. I'm here, north side of the great east window. Minding my own business, Enjoying the view. Followed by an image of the south side of the cathedral from high up. Then more text: In the nave? Hundreds of people enjoying a concert. Then the same photo, but taken at a slight angle to show that the nave of the cathedral is full of people.
I've got a new long read for you, in which I climb Truro Cathedral, turn into a conspiracy theorist about church spires, and try really hard not to interrupt a Christmas carol concert.
It's packed with pretty pictures and you can read the whole thing here: jayhulmepoet.substack.com/p/truro-cath...
Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Here are 8 powerful words from them to motivate you.
07.01.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a new year with new possibilities. You can play lute at your enemies or drown them in your portable tub. Sounds win-win.
07.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0‘Do Not Train’ as a standard setting on platforms rather than requiring users to opt-out is about to become a much bigger conversation.
07.01.2025 06:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Housing collapse: 82% fewer RDP/BNG houses were built in 2023/2024 than in 1998/99
Just 42,773 government-funded houses were built in South Africa in the 2023/24 financial year., an 82% decline from the 235,635 houses built 26 years ago in 1998/99. https://theoutlier.co.za/charts/chart/88257
Female employees earn 25% less than men in South Africa. Women's median monthly earnings in 2022 were R1,200 lower than men’s. Women’s median earnings are only R800 higher than the minimum wage. https://theoutlier.co.za/charts/chart/89851
02.01.2025 07:27 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Isn't it nice to know a lot?
And a little bit not . . .
Photo of the packaging of M&S Cheesy Mushroom Arancini
🎶 She wore an
Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…
Every month that debit order goes off, and every month I’m angry about this racket.
16.12.2024 21:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Is gross a flavour 😭 allegedly orange? Paracetamol-flavoured IV solution with extra sympathy was much more pleasant lol
01.12.2024 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from Accuweather showing Real Feel temperature of 31C in Lamu, Kenya
Not kidding about weather.
01.12.2024 18:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Day one of conference in Lamu: get severe tummy bug. It’s 31C outside at 9:30pm and instead of cold beer, I’m mainlining (literally) rehydrat. 0/10. Would not recommend.
01.12.2024 18:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
an orange cat has his eyes squeezed close. his orange triangle head looks like a wedge of cheese
Don’t know who dragged your cheese under the desk I was sleeping honk shoo
24.11.2024 07:01 — 👍 5324 🔁 252 💬 62 📌 8
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading Orlando by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, holding The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading A Room Of Ones Own by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading The Bell Jar.
Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s?
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
‘Mag die bome groen bly
en die sterre wit,
en mag daar altyd mense wees
wat mekaar sonder skaamte
in die oë kan kyk -
want die lewe is 'n asem lank
en die sterre op die Anderplek donker’ - Breyten Breytenbach
Logged onto fb to be met by a picture of my cousin, who tragically died today 10 years ago. A decade is such a long time but for grief, so short. Rus sag, Albert.
26.11.2023 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Yes, there’ll be a hip hop routine with you and Aiden,” - a phone call snippet that just walked past the office. How will I ever know how it went?
07.11.2023 09:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What's the word for the fear of posting out of fear that in 10 years someone will say 'share your first post' and it will be uh ... this.
27.06.2023 09:47 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
