Stephen Hayes

Three kids looking forward to a carefree horse-riding holiday in the Drakensberg encounter bullies, poachers, the apartheid regime's dreaded Security Police, and then a witch: "The Enchanted Grove," an adventure/ fantasy novel by Stephen Hayes. For kids aged 9-99.
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I can confirm these reports of scams and fraudulent advertising from my own personal experience -- see here:
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#Scams&Fraud #Facebook #Meta #scam

Leaked documents show Meta makes billions from scam ads: Report
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#Facebook #Meta #ScamAlert #Scams&Fraud

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI.
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#socialmedia #advertising #Facebook

Cross Purposes: A New Novel I've written a new novel, Cross Purposes , was released as an ebook on 22 October 2022. It is available from Smashwords and other ebook reta...

Four children who have become friends through riding horses in the mountains go on a seaside holiday, but are swept off into a new adventure with horses & magical reindeer & even stranger creatures from myth and folklore. "Cross Purposes"
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#booksky #kidlit

Dr Imtiaz Sooliman accuses politicians of 'serving themselves, not the people'
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#politics #politicians

Three kids looking forward to a carefree horse-riding holiday in the Drakensberg encounter bullies, poachers, the apartheid regime's dreaded Security Police, and then a witch: "The Enchanted Grove" by Stephen Hayes at #smashwords
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#booksky #kidlit #mglit

A southern African twist on the legend of St George & the dragon: "The Year of the Dragon" by Stephen Hayes at #smashwords www.smashwords.com/books/907935
#booksky #reading

Should the South African government offer to take 7500 refugees from school shootings in the USA each year?

Social media, generations and me Yesterday I heard someone speak on social media, and a lot of it passed me by, and were completely remote from my experience. The main things I took away from it were: A Millennial is someone who k…

When I was younger, my generation was called "war babies". Now they want to call us "silent". But as far as I am concerned, we are the Beat-Hip generation -- we were the bridge between the Beat Generation and the Hippies.
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#generations #socialmedia

Halloween and cultural appropriation Someone asked this question on the Quora web site: How have Halloween celebrations changed in your country or region in the last 50 years? And my answer was that 50 years ago they were only done by…

Halloween and cultural appropriation
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#Halloween #culturalappropriation

Evangelicals and Hallowe’en John Morehead in a blog post Morehead’s Musings: Suggestions for a More Careful Evangelical Assessment at Halloween notes that as October approaches evangelical blogs and websites tend to get…

Why do some Evangelicals get their knickers in a knot over #Halloween?
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#Evangelicals #theology

To all my #Antifa friends: Happy OXI Day!

#OXIDay #OchiDay

The Enchanted Grove The Enchanted Grove - Kindle edition by Hayes, Stephen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Enchanted Grove.

Three kids on holiday have to cope with bullies who are into drugs and witchcraft, poachers, and a secret government project the cops think they know too much about. "The Enchanted Grove" by Stephen Hayes.
#kidlit #MGlit #childrensbooks #booksky
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The Rise and Fall of Russian Historical Determinism Negative perceptions of the consequences of radical liberalism have led Russians to decisively reject its claims to universal inevitability.

The Rise and Fall of Russian Historical Determinism
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The UK media and UK government now seem to equate being anti-football hooliganism with being antisemitic.

#UKpolitics #UKsport #antisemitism

I can't remember things being so bad in the world in my lifetime.

One can cut Trump some slack, because he is so obviously insane, but Vance, Netanyahu and Starmer don't have that excuse.

Students wager NSFAS book allowances and their futures at online betting sites

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#education
#gambling

The legend of Lobengula's treasure meets the legend of St George and the Dragon: a historical fantasy on the end of apartheid
#books #fantasy #ReadingCommunity #BookSky
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If you can read this message, it's proof that there's life after death.
For weeks now messages on Facebook have been warning me that 14 October 2025 was the "end of life" for Windows 10.
Behold! A message, typed on my Windows 10 at 07:24 am on 15 October -- proof that there's life after death.

Patronal festival of St Sergius Orthodox Cathedral in Midrand, Gauteng. Procession around the church with Bishop Konstantin.
#Orthodox #RSA #Africa

I posted the order of preference in the #Inklings, which doesn't have a character limit.

There are conflicting reports about her, and in these days of fake news how do you know which to believe?

Some speak of a peaceful transition to democracy, others say she called for military intervention by foreign governments to achieve regime change -- neither peaceful nor democratic.

@Charlotte Riggle
I responded to your comment on Steinbeck on Facebook, but Facebook rejected it as spam. Here's as much of it as will fit in Bluesky:
I've read 4 of his books, and here's how I rated them in percentages -- all in the 4-star range on GoodReads. I didn't loathe them, I didn't love th

Of course he did. Made victory speeches about it when his party came to power.

New political alliance 'Unite for Change' promises competence over party politics ahead of 2026 local govt elections BOSA (Build One South Africa), RISE Mzansi and the GOOD Party say their pre-coalition pact will give South Africans a credible alternative.

New political alliance 'Unite for Change' promises competence over party politics ahead of 2026 local govt elections
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#RSA #politics

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

Soon it will need to change its name to CATO -- the Central Asian Treaty Alliance, if it continues moving east, shedding its genuinely North Atlantic members.

I think Mussolini would disagree.

10^12 is the metric billion. The US billion is 10^9, the same as the metric milliard.