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André Bruwer

@andrebruwer.bsky.social

Full time parent, part time engineer/air quality specialist, part time (wishing it to be fulltime) gardener Kempton Park, South Africa

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photo of a black Specialized Diverge gravel bike leaning against a beam and post fence under a willow tree. on the other side of the fence are some trees that are mostly bare, their leaves having fallen for the season. the willow tree is showing mostly green leaves with some yellow here and there. it’s branches are moving gently in the wind

photo of a black Specialized Diverge gravel bike leaning against a beam and post fence under a willow tree. on the other side of the fence are some trees that are mostly bare, their leaves having fallen for the season. the willow tree is showing mostly green leaves with some yellow here and there. it’s branches are moving gently in the wind

riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1897

#Cycling #BikeTO #Photography

03.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 43    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
Waypoint Commentates The Game Awards 2017 - Waypoint in the PM
YouTube video by Waypoint Waypoint Commentates The Game Awards 2017 - Waypoint in the PM

I'm delighted with @danika.bsky.social being back on @remapradio.bsky.social. She has the award for my favorite joke ever told on a livestream in reaction to the Death Stranding trailer at the 2017 TGAs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzUz...

03.11.2025 17:11 — 👍 69    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
Illustration by NOAA, showing an underwater cliff and the cold-water overflow racing down it: "In the Denmark Strait, southward-flowing frigid water from the Nordic Seas meets warmer water from the Irminger Sea. The cold, dense water quickly sinks below the warmer water and flows over the huge drop in the ocean floor, creating a downward flow estimated over 123 million cubic feet per second."

Illustration by NOAA, showing an underwater cliff and the cold-water overflow racing down it: "In the Denmark Strait, southward-flowing frigid water from the Nordic Seas meets warmer water from the Irminger Sea. The cold, dense water quickly sinks below the warmer water and flows over the huge drop in the ocean floor, creating a downward flow estimated over 123 million cubic feet per second."

Since this current of incoming water & melting ice is fiercely cold, it sinks below the warmer waters & descends to the sea-bed - which, halfway down the strait, plunges over a cliff.

Here’s an illustration of it, courtesy of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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03.11.2025 11:22 — 👍 64    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Tugela falls is still higher than Angel falls... runs!

03.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the revelation that most American citizens and institutions will knuckle under when faced with brutal tyranny is something that elites are going to remember long after Trump is gone

03.11.2025 02:52 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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He’s got a point…🤣 #CalvinandHobbes

03.11.2025 00:00 — 👍 107    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2

Yeah! we really do. Obs is also a very diverse neighborhood which helps. Always loved to visit there. Mine here in Kempton Park is overrun with closed off roads for security complexes and some very busy roads. So it will take some effort to get it working.

02.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It still feels fresh after all this time, big part of this might be down to how modern media have completely obscured the original story. This story has some teeth.

02.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We've joined some friends in the Moot in Pta on Friday for Halloween. They got their entire neighborhood to do it. My kid got roped into helping handing out candy and she loved it. Definitely might try this next year as well.

02.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can finally add Frankenstein to this year's completed books list. Glad I stuck with. It's a pretty impressive read.

02.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

So Bluesky is already hiding replies and I can't tell you how incredibly dangerous this can be. I need to see for myself if people are threatening to kill me over a film review (which has happened!) and I don't understand why they think preventing me from knowing that is helping

02.11.2025 12:09 — 👍 139    🔁 35    💬 3    📌 1

Tell people when you like what they do, people.

02.11.2025 16:20 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Alan Moore knows the score

01.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 3175    🔁 1254    💬 0    📌 0
34-Year-Old Finds Dream Job Doing The Unexpected
YouTube video by Cottage and Company 34-Year-Old Finds Dream Job Doing The Unexpected

Would not mind riding a bicycle for work every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahX...

02.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!

01.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 89    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1
Board mid game of Fate of the Fellowship.

Board mid game of Fate of the Fellowship.

Rulebook from Fate of the Fellowship showing the basic actions you can take.

Rulebook from Fate of the Fellowship showing the basic actions you can take.

Teaching a big game later today. Whish me luck..

02.11.2025 07:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

01.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 1868    🔁 486    💬 30    📌 50

Saint Jerome busting out their terrain for Warhammer night at the games club.

02.11.2025 06:04 — 👍 349    🔁 66    💬 3    📌 1

Just more christo-fascism. smh.

02.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The world used to be so large and unconnected that we needed witnesses, people who could observe and bring back news.
Today, we are all witnesses. But the assumption that once gave value to the act of witnessing has proven to be completely untrue when it comes to Palestine.”

02.11.2025 06:59 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM:
rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...

01.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 135    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 6
Four hashbrowns browning in a cast iron pan.

Four hashbrowns browning in a cast iron pan.

Hashbrowns on a rainy Saturday morning for breakfast. Haven't done this in a while.

01.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I ate all the candy, so passing out terrible advice.

01.11.2025 04:27 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Alt text: a somber but handsome gray poodle or labradoodle sits on a cement porch gazing out past a wrought iron fence. He is wearing a black vampire’s cape with an upright flared collar & a red ribbon has been tied around the neck. They’re all good vampires, Brent.

01.11.2025 02:30 — 👍 62    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Calvin skipped the costume and went straight for existential dread. Now that’s scary.
#CalvinandHobbes #TrickOrTreat #SpookyThoughts #Halloween

31.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 120    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 2
A brindle pit bull style dog sits on a mat inside a front door, wearing a Halloween costume consisting of a black and white horizontally striped shirt with foam “arms” at the sides, one holding a painter’s palette, one holding a paint brush, she also has a beret on

A brindle pit bull style dog sits on a mat inside a front door, wearing a Halloween costume consisting of a black and white horizontally striped shirt with foam “arms” at the sides, one holding a painter’s palette, one holding a paint brush, she also has a beret on

When no one at the école noticed your work

01.11.2025 01:01 — 👍 637    🔁 79    💬 9    📌 5

A tale of two front pages.

31.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Fungi growing in a woodland, it looks remarkably like zombie fingers reaching up from the ground

Fungi growing in a woodland, it looks remarkably like zombie fingers reaching up from the ground

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

31.10.2025 08:08 — 👍 938    🔁 316    💬 14    📌 28
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Monsters

31.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 641    🔁 163    💬 7    📌 1

Bullying works.

31.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 170    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 0

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