Just saw a young black dude in a MAGA hat. Not a common thing here in South Africa. Iβm a little perplexed.
07.08.2025 10:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@wmgbennett.bsky.social
Linguist, professor, Africanist, aspiring mad scientist/inventor/youtuber/occasional shitposter. Interested in meaning, sounds, the navigation therebetween, and how that all plays out for humans across history and geography.
Just saw a young black dude in a MAGA hat. Not a common thing here in South Africa. Iβm a little perplexed.
07.08.2025 10:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Current mood: sitting in the dark by the fireplace and the solar inverter batteries
02.08.2025 19:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I for one did not know about this horrific place before today
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_1391
OMG, I have just realized: Aardvarks are the desert/scrub opposite of beavers. Instead of damming streams, they create holes under the ground. Other critters live in the econiche they create either way.
27.07.2025 11:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This was a fascinating read:
nymag.com/intelligence...
*clove, crimson thereand er
18.07.2025 18:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just saw an ad for a mobile game called, I shit you not, βWhite Defenderβ
15.07.2025 08:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The word of today is βunfuckβ
08.07.2025 16:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I STILL cannot believe this song was legal in apartheid South Africa
youtu.be/BUjcgbS2mWs?...
Just for the record, hereβs a PSA from a linguistics prof in South Africa: Elon Musk is not a boer.
My consultants tell me that the correct terminology is βsoutpielβ, which translates as βsaltdickβ
The real problem in South Africa is the way people pick flavors
23.06.2025 16:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0*z0diac, sorry
15.06.2025 14:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The new AI zondiAIc: a work in progress
Canva: 2% June to 2! July
Lizzo: 2! July to 1& August
nVirgo: 1@ August to 2ΒΏ September
Q: Can you fix my website?
A: No, because you used canva
Episode IV: the Italian Dune
Episode IV: the Arrakeen Job
Star Wars is Dune crossed with a war movie using a caper story device
06.06.2025 07:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This was a great -- and galling -- overview of our local municipality's most recent governmental failings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Iq...
#SouthAfrica #Makana #Makhanda #Wakanda
I wonder if asking for minimal fragment answers would make this easier. Letβs go ask ChatGPT!
30.05.2025 20:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Suck it, Frege!
30.05.2025 11:04 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A 1980s or '90s ad featuring a businessman recoiling in horror at the sight of an envelope zipping around his office in a shower of electric sparks to land on his desk. The text below this image simply reads: "What the heck is Electronic Mail?"
Me, logging on to work after the long weekend
26.05.2025 18:36 β π 3543 π 734 π¬ 14 π 22I have no problem with gayness, this is a joke about how I just happened to take a bunch of pictures that combine homoerotically
27.05.2025 16:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A multi story mural of two men kissing. Iβm not sure if itβs Tintin
βIf it bleeds we donβt eat itβ
Sign that at first glance reads βI love penisβ
Phallic architecture aplenty
Paris is pretty. Pretty gay.
27.05.2025 16:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Great movie, I almost impulse bought the book yesterday
23.05.2025 14:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you for doing your part to normalize hammocks in academia and science
23.05.2025 02:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also I am still a little tiny bit freaked out from when I learned that roots move towards water noise
23.05.2025 02:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1They say you should be careful not to meet your idols. Well, today I met bullet bill of Mario fame! He was so quiet and modest, and so patient to let people take photos
23.05.2025 02:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In group 2, we stopped watering at the CV stage, while group 3 was irrigated throughout the foot
22.05.2025 12:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0OlΓ©!
21.05.2025 03:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Seconded
21.05.2025 03:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0