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'The night the sky showered us with stars" by Sarah Morgan, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Eish I think the ANC train has long departed from the hopeful station

Oval shaped stone with a painting of a landscape with a lake and a hill over which many birds fly under a full moon

'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October

White western liberal democracies don't do "never again" ceremonies for the more than 20 million Congolese people that Belgium and their Leopold II murdered, and the millions that were injured, simply because the Congolese aren't white like the European Jews that the nazis murdered.

Thanks I appreciate it 🫶. We are all a bit broken. What a beautiful gift. Dankie.

I just lost my cat and I’m so sad 😭 my beautiful kitten we rescued 8 years ago ❤️. She got so chunky and lived her best life. She suddenly lost weight in days & started hissing more. She had kidney failure and pancreatitis & we couldn’t let her suffer further with dialysis etc. Anyone been here?

Print in blue and white of a stylised garden with trees, plants, birds, tools and plant pots as well as winding text which says 'In my garden I can feel life and it is beautiful"

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime. bit.ly/transvictimized

But still no end to the killing murdering genocide 💔

UN report cites huge government corruption in South Sudan as its food crisis worsens A U.N. commission reports that billions in public funds have been stolen in South Sudan over the past decade.

Billions of dollars in public funds stolen over the past decade in massive govt corruption in South Sudan while the vast majority of the country suffers food insecurity. Also $1.7Bn unaccounted for from the oil-for-roads program, which has resulted in 95% of required roads remaining unbuilt.

I mean every time I open it it’s like a horror show of US bad news - I think we’ve all had enough of the old dominant US media vibe to last beyond lifetimes. little to no global diversity on my feed at all. Ugh.

I wish this platform wasn’t so US-centric. Dare I say it.

If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.

an employee in a Tokyo coffee shop drawing a cat's face on latte foam using chocolate

"All artists will being using Al in the future, and all art will be Al" I'm watching Safiya's video right now and this guy named George is drawing a cat in chocolate on latte foam. So like. Go fuck yourself.

How the hell can return to work policies be equated with improved employment rates (do these journalists not read any research!!?)

This would explain a lot.

It’s where Joburg’s elite go to play and gather away from ‘the others’

Plettenburg Bay is the ultimate wealthy and elite hideaway in SA which is why I won’t read the whole article because I’m sure they’re not going to mention that 😂

“.. small businesses will have to pay an extra $202 billion a year on tariffs, which works out to about $856,000 per company ..”

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Elon Musk's Starlink struggles in key African market amid fight to enter SA Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is losing users in Kenya. Could this signal trouble for the ISP's delayed arrival in South Africa?

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is losing users in Kenya. Could this signal trouble for the ISP’s delayed arrival in South Africa?

I have found everything I need! I have given up everything I can do without! Every day I throw off something that weighs down my soul and burdens me and I realise that I am becoming a little freer every day.

blaming my transgressions on the microplastics in my frontal lobe

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Is this corporate jobs bloodbath going to continue until there’s full societal collapse? Neatly energised by the rise of AI? Eish.

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space While Bill Gates has said the two-day workweek could come within the next decade, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Alpha college graduates will be too busy planet-hopping.

No I don’t want to work in space I’d like to fix earth first Sam Altman you fool www.yahoo.com/tech/ai/arti...

It’s ridiculous there aren’t bilingual schools already in indigenous languages in every town - ppffft

The Origins and Development of Swahili Architecture (ca. 500-1900 CE) The East African coast, also known as the Swahili coast, is well known for its picturesque ruins of stone houses, mosques, tombs, and town walls, which dotted the 2000-mile coastline from southern Som...

“When the Portuguese captain Vasco da Gama first encountered the coast in 1498, he was astounded to find well-developed urban centres with 'buildings of stone and mortar, with windows and terraces like those of Spain.”
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We often become enslaved to meaningless crap. If you escape this endless toil, your freedom will disturb people. Fact. Many people believe they OWN your time and energy and how dare you think you can escape when they cannot. Truth is, this is your life. Live it.

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