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We’re being pushed out, say Kalk Bay fishing families Massive increase in water bills means they cannot afford to stay

Fishing families who have lived in blocks of council flats in Kalk Bay for generations say they are being forced out of the community by a massive increase in their water bills.

Read groundup.org.za/article/gent... by Liezl Human

what is this conditional bullshittery?

"it's a state if you keep committing genocide but if you stop actively trying to ethnic cleanse 2 million people in such an undeniable way, we'll let you keep that land so you can carry on with lower-level oppression?"

someone make this garbage make sense

picture of Liu Yuning in comedy Chinese costume drama A Dream Within A Dream (2025), being asked, quote, "What should we do with these plutocrats?"

2025 MOOD

John Steenhuisen needs to sit back down, we don't need to hear claims of how all DA appointees are "succeeding", just deal with the substance. did the man go to the US to do some lobbying without clearance? because that relationship is and has been a tinderbox. others have been fired for this too.

this is one of the rare movies I actually have had on my watchlist for a while. after this hint from the universe, I should get around to it.

ugh, flash flooding. this rain and hail is complete trash.

also, what kind of stupid timeline are we in when people are having this kind of conversation over trashy social media apps instead of picking up the phone and actually speaking to their counterparts?

what's next, diplomacy via bumper sticker?

god, it's such a bummer when the kids don't listen to you even though you pay for their Netflix

In my head, these all-caps sign-offs at the end of Trump’s tweets sound like the news lady in North Korea: “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

the music is absolutely sending me

fully expecting their other sponsor to be Brawndo

eh, people told you that cutting all that soft power stuff was a bad idea but that ex-South African with zero foreign policy background said it was cute so whatever

was undecided on what to watch but it's Cdramas now I think 🤣

here I am in South Africa MINDING MY OWN GODDAMN BUSINESS and I open the laptop to watch some drama on a Saturday and what exactly, Microsoft, is this delicious propaganda background?

They’re doing dompass now. Apartheid South Africa tips its hat.

I can't believe Liam and Noel are fighting.

Snowy roadside scene

It turns out that none of our players now want to play today. Weak!! We must enquire if Greenland has tougher individuals that we can import.

honestly I miss old twitter. I miss being able to have five conversations going on, three serious, one about what to cook for supper, and the last about how Son Sukku is the only person who could make us all desire a depressed alcoholic organised criminal with our whole beings.

nah

Trump Administration Live Updates: Meeting With South African Leader Turns Contentious Over False Genocide Claims

The meeting didn't magically "turn contentious" and it was Trump who made the "false genocide claims," rhetoric that is part of the playbook of the racist right. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

whatever else we might say about the presidential uncle, hedoes have the ability to be effortlessly funny

no wonder that ex-SA oligarch hates him, he only wishes to have that skill

day 11 341 of not being white genocided just in case anyone outside South Africa is wondering

the real replacement theory

honestly, though this is more of the "everybody standing on one side quietly surveying the scene in confusion" unity rather than a "drunk hug everything in the vicinity" one

nyahnyahnyah "free speech" something something

while I kind of get this take, admitting that people (back in some unspecified time) were willing (or compelled by the lack of visible barriers) to be inconvenienced by another implies that said other party is consciously acting on a desire to inconvenience others

you and a whole lot of other people

I'm just going to drop the spiritual koala in the pond and just play with this for an hour or so

Damn, now I‘m hooked… Can someone tell my editor that that story is not coming this week?
#AIdiom

"74% of American kids can't qualify for military service"

did I not say yesterday that one of the aims was sending your excess sons off as cannon fodder? they don't want to spend resources on people that they don't have a use for.

statistically it will be afab women and girls who face the bulk of harassment, but the proponents of this trash of policy can't even admit this because they've created fake statistics and narratives and can't backtrack now

they never had interest in protecting any of our daughters, cis or trans

people wonder why there's resistance to formal diagnoses for stigmatised conditions

wonder if the self-described incel community is feeling the heat yet? when there are no wars to send excess young men out to, they'll always find a way

it was always about you too