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Many congratulations to Dr @guardjere.bsky.social 🎉🍾🎊

98% now🥹

it’s deeply depressing to imagine being the kind of person who this would appeal to

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Thank you!!!
I'm now on 65% acceptance.

Overly excited to be asked to write a story for an African Travel magazine on the main sites of the Zimbabwe Culture with my beloved wife. Tight word count which is a challenge but it has promoted clarity in what to include and how. Alway feel like I've left so, so much out though!

I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.

a man in a white shirt is sitting in a dugout with his eyes closed and a sad look on his face . ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting in a dugout with his eyes closed and a sad look on his face .

Crazy things happening all over.
It's almost as if tyrants (read, The Right, Techbros et al.), didn't get the memo about satire or dystopian fiction and their role in society.
They took all that as commandments, things to recreate.
We're so screwed man.

Zig-Zag Band "Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998" (Analog Africa No.42) Listening Party Thank you good people for joining this Worldwide Premiere Listening Party of our upcoming release, Zig-Zag Band - Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998. Tonight we are celebrating a unique contribution to Zim...

If you're a fan of that Zimbabwean. band from yesteryear The Zig Zag Band, come on over to BandCamp, there's a listening session of their upcoming release from Analog Africa.
Plug in your headphones. You wont regret it!😌

analogafrica.bandcamp.com/live/zig-zag...

.... Is this my chance to be THE superhero the world needs RN...... Shrimpman??

At the risk of stating the obvious, if you antagonize a country that wasn't trying to weaponize its nuclear program to the point where they decide to actually build nuclear weapons, you did not actually "set them back" in any meaningful sense...

Noticeable that he thinks ‘peace’ is good without understanding the need for international treaties, frictionless trade and mechanisms to resolve disputes to maintain that peace. He doesn’t understand what peace actually is.

The worst kind of ignorance is the one that thinks it's smart.

POV: Watching Western civ break down in slow motion

You don't. It's a grift. She's a grifter. Everything she says is to line her own pockets. Please don't engage with ANY of her content.

*panic ensures*
#overleafdown

Clearly a gang tattoo

oh another fun chicken fact: chickens love to wolf down shards of broken glass, and sometimes when you butcher a chicken, if you look in the gizzard there'll be a bunch of round glass pebbles. like seaglass except way cooler because it got worn smooth inside a dinosaur

And this is where the Brownshirts become state-sanctioned

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

So far, I'm hooked on New Tutenkhamen's "Kumalila ngwenya".
Elisha Josamu was quite the vocalist.
Followed by Yarira nehosho

Gatefold Cover and liner notes booklet of Roots rocking Zimbabwe compilation

The feast has begun!
I've done 2 full listens since yesterday.

I'm amazed that apart from the budding rock scene of the 70s, Zimbabwe also had a seemingly healthy Soul and Funk scene.
Taken aback by Harare Mambo's Shanga yangu, which totally sounds like Bill Whithers aint no sunshine😀

“Be ungovernable”

baby steps 😝

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

NOAA scientists scrub toilets, rethink experiments after service contracts end One federal lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT, and building maintenance.

After the Department of Commerce failed to renew one lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT, and building maintenance, the scientists picked up the slack.

Learning about Ian Smith's "not in a 1000 years" and the declaration of UDI -white Rhodesian govt declared independence from British Crown with full intent to continue to oppress Black majority under a settler govt.

Pshhh. It doesn't even kick that hard.... Plus you can easily block it's kicks🌚

Page from a book. Text reads: "MINE BOY 'Coming!' Chris shouted back. He turned his eyes back to Xuma and examined him closely. He bent his head forward and raised his chin. 'And who is this?' 'He is called Xuma,' Johannes said. 'Yabo?' Chris asked, cocking his head. 'Yabo,' Xuma said and smiled. The white man returned his smile. And then suddenly his fist shot out and smacked hard against Xuma's chest. Xuma's eyes blazed. Instinctively he stepped back and raised his arms, both hands bunched into great fists. Quickly the white man held up his hands. But his eyes twinkled. 'Sorry Xuma, but I wanted to see if you are a man,' he patted Johannes' shoulder affectionately, 'this one is a woman, only when he is drunk is he a man. All right?' Chris held out his hand. Doubtfully Xuma shook it. Chris searched in his pocket and found a packet of cigarettes. He gave it to Johannes, 'Share it with Xuma. And you can take him inside, Johannes, I will speak to the Red One.'"

Peter Abrahams 1946 novel 'Mine Boy' captures the violence of recruitment on South Africa's gold mines.

Here, he describes how a new 'boss boy' was tested by a white miner for his physical strength and capacity for violence:

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

Did you AT LEAST boop it's nose??

Side of a cruise ship on a dockside. The ship has a dark blue hull with 5 decks each with balconies above it. A red funnel blowing smoke is at the top of the ship.

Very pleased to be joining the maiden world voyage of the Queen Anne to give talks about the history of places we will be visiting.