Mandisi Nkomo
@darkcow.bsky.social
Drummer. Producer. Writer. Find my work here: https://thedarkcow.com/ Shortlisted for the Toyin Falola Prize Longlisted for the Nommo Awards Stories in, The Best of World SciFi Vol 3, The Big Book of Cyberpunk, Omenana, AfroSF
thanks for reading our @sauutiverse.bsky.social anthology! There's a new one out too - Sauuti Terrors - and a lot of cool stories, if you want more of the world we've built. sauuti.com/ourwork/publ...
Sauúti Published Works – The Sauúti Collective
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Lol, I think this Ramaphosa thing implicates local and global capital and that's what all the fuss is about. It's harder to hide behind ANC corruption and criminality, when you're so called clean candidate might be in on the take as well.
Reflections after reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Spook Country. thedarkcow.com/2025/12/23/t...
The Merry-Go-Round To Hell
“We’re all doing VR, every time we look at a screen. We have been for decades now. We just do it. We didn’t need the goggles, the gloves. It just happened. VR was an even more specific way we had o…
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It's fascinating. Starship Troopers and Robocop could be argued to have a higher verisimilitude than films like Alien and Blade Runner, all of which deal in dystopia. There is a comical absurdist nature to all the darkness and pain. Special mention to 12 Monkeys.
It's Bandcamp Friday. Feel free to support if you can. thedarkcow.bandcamp.com/album/19521-...
19521 Chaos, by The Dark Cow and Rap Man Gavin
7 track album
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Reflections after reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Spook Country. thedarkcow.com/2025/12/23/t...
The Merry-Go-Round To Hell
“We’re all doing VR, every time we look at a screen. We have been for decades now. We just do it. We didn’t need the goggles, the gloves. It just happened. VR was an even more specific way we had o…
thedarkcow.com
We're in primal stage of Capitalism where once again humankind must survive the harsh conditions of a planet they're actively making harder to live on. We literally have to rewire our brains to remember how to survive as a species. We're dumber than early humans dog. 😭
Dear Google, I really do mean 'flence' and not 'fleece' so if you could stop auto-correcting this word in my doc, I'd appreciate it. #amwriting #WritingCommunity
This is what E L U C I D does before he writes his rhymes
Sauúti Terrors UK Book Tour 👌🏾@sauutiverse.bsky.social, @flametree.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @andrewhook.bsky.social , @stephenembleton.bsky.social
me in any conversation about anything lately:
A lot of this really is that beloved friend, with the worst taste conceivable, convinced they've generated a masterpiece.
This one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
YouTube video by Adam Neely
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Mandisi Nkomo@darkcow.bsky.social · 8mo agoCan't stop thinking about that YT video where the dude asked people who AI generate music who their favorite AI artist is and none of them could answer. 🤣🤣🤣
When I see, don't take my word for it. Just try it! Prompt it with your latest work and see how sophisticated it is. All I see is feed the machine your best ideas so it can rip you off, help if rip off all your friends IP, and waste a bunch of electricity and water for shits and giggles.
Can't stop thinking about that YT video where the dude asked people who AI generate music who their favorite AI artist is and none of them could answer. 🤣🤣🤣
Publisher: Did you make any use of GenAI? Me: Bro that manuscript tried to kill me 20 times while I was writing and editing it. I've seen the whites of its eyes as it tried to strangle the life out of me. There are horrors in life GenAI could not even begin to imagine.
What an Amazing Book Launch in London, UK! 🚀💫 Even with the cold and rain, London did not disappoint with all the love & support for Sauúti Terrors. Editors @genni.bsky.social Cheryl S. Ntumy, & @stephenembleton.bsky.social were joined by fellow Sauúti Jude Umeh reading excerpts and great Q&A.
🚀 An amazing night at the Flame Tree Press Sauúti Horrors anthology launch, where I caught @stephenembleton.bsky.social and @genni.bsky.social and met the wonderful Cheryl Ntumy and Jude Umeh. This sci-fi universe is 100% African and bursting with detail. Get it today wherever you find your books!
"Honestly I cant tell if it’s the phone, or just being older and better read, but all the propaganda has become increasingly cartoonish." thedarkcow.com/2025/12/23/t...
The Merry-Go-Round To Hell
“We’re all doing VR, every time we look at a screen. We have been for decades now. We just do it. We didn’t need the goggles, the gloves. It just happened. VR was an even more specific way we had o…
thedarkcow.com
“Sauúti Terrors bursts at the seams with nightmares and endless possibilities. One who ventures into these tales does so at the risk of continuous delight in a unique assortment of Afrocentric worldbuilding, voices and storytelling craft.” — @suyidavies.com
