I have never seen a stock chart like this before.
We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.
Consuelo Roland & Lucienne Bestall join Tyra Asia & Christelle Connor in conversation 🍎 Friday, 24 July 2026, 11am–12.30pm, Bellville Library karavanpress.com/2026/07/02/c...
Bootlicker Band all he needs is that hillbilly banjo man 🤮
Laguna Beach Democratic Club@lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 4mo ago😂🤪
Okay, now, since putting his own name on things illegally isn't an official duty of the President, make him pay for it all.
Watched the docci - Truth vs Alex Jones
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn yet ANOTHER decision by a judge trying to unstick Alex Jones' abuse of the legal process to prevent us from paying the Sandy Hook families, Texas judge Maya Gamble said Alex Jones has conducted "outrageous discovery abuse, tampering with evidence, and continuous, callous disrespect" for the law.
😻Salieri is keeping me company for a few hours with her catchats and purring.
Gratitude Day 91/100: for literary events and spaces. Tonight at The Booklounge in Cape Town, Karina M. Szczurek from @karavanpress.bsky.social introducing @uncleloo.bsky.social and John Maytham for the launch of Louis Viljoen's SELECTED PLAYS #gratitude
Garden birds scatter in panic for cover, I look up...
Insecure, incompetent people feel threatened when surrounded by competent people.
What triggers outrage or crosses the red line says a lot
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoErica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"
We need to find alternatives to American MAGA politically bent corporations, or do without. It may seem impossible but we are very creative in SA 🇿🇦
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 6mo ago🎧: rainey reitman on how Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard have cut off support for journalists and activists, using their power to silence dissenting voices
Dear South Africans read this. We do not want Musk's Starlink, at any cost. We already have election interference from Russian "assets" embedded in the comrade cabal. And right wingers doing their utmost bidding for MAGA ideology.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 6mo ago“Globally the Far Right exist in a supportive ecosystem, a transnational system of corruption, repression and hatred. From Trump to Putin, Milei to Bolsonaro and all the mini-Fuehrers of the European white supremacist parties, the success of one strengthens the others.”
I'm trying to imagine how Americans would have 'dealt' with a woman president a mere fraction as deranged and emotionally fraught.
Immoral, corrupt men can't be healed. Especially dead ones Ai generated "art" is such cringy crap.
Dangerouslytalented@dangrously.bsky.social · 6mo ago... healing Jeffrey Epstein.
Daily Maverick interview with Stephen Symons www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
Stephen Symons wins Olive Schreiner Award for The Algebra of Insignificance
Poet, graphic designer and veteran surfer Stephen Symons was at an event at a Cape Town art gallery when the news came through. It was an unexpected text message from his editor bearing the surprise n…
dailymaverick.co.za
'vote stop Trump's war' (a limp response to what damage he is wreaking worldwide)
Elizabeth Warren@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe can't ignore that the President of the United States threatened to commit war crimes in our names. Congress must vote to stop Trump’s war.
A very chilling, interesting read. Israel "might makes right" a new boogeyman, yet another existential threat. jewishcurrents.org/the-iran-war...
The Iran War Is About Palestine
By helping Israel demolish what’s left of international legal constraint, the Iran war is hastening the dissolution of the Palestinian question.
jewishcurrents.org
You thought Iran was a theocracy. Hegseth: “God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of strikes carried out under the protection of divine providence. A massive effort with miraculous protection. God is good.”
Just think how much further we'd be if we'd taken the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and resulting energy shock as the starting point to reduce our dependence on oil and gas as quickly as possible.
At last some EU backbone. HALT, Slow down the war crimes in any way possible 😭
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 6mo agoNow France is denying airspace…