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Tshiamo Oliphant is a content creator who engages in a deeply affectionate multi-generational bond with his grandmother in Bloemfontein. 🥹 He loves imitating the distinct style of old-school radio presenters and evoking his grandmother's nostalgia for the golden era of broadcasting. 🇿🇦📻🎶

Uncertainty isn't an enemy you negotiate with or outthink. The moment you try to solve it with your thinking, your mind starts projecting futures catastrophes, triumphs, endless what ifs and those projections feel more vivid, more emotionally charged than the present moment ever does. Because uncertainty lives in the zone of God and the universe. That zone is beyond you. Your imaginations and thoughts in that zone feel real. They have power. But that power is not yours to control. It will eat you alive if you stay there. The longer you linger in pure possibility, the stronger the imaginary chains become. The only antidote is action. You act. Immediately. Not a reasonable amount of action. Any action. Because action pulls you out of the zone of God and drops you into concrete reality. It gives you data. It corrects course. Most importantly, it occupies the part of your mind that was busy manufacturing monsters. Motion creates momentum, and momentum is the antidote to paralysis. The people who thrive in fog aren't the ones with the clearest vision of the future, they're the ones who refuse to wait for clarity before moving. As they say, 'A moving man will find his luck.'

Bohemian Rhapsody got 60% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences gave it 85%. The movie made $900 million worldwide and won 4 Oscars at the 2019 ceremony, more than any other film that night. The same producer, Graham King, made MICHAEL too. Critics called Bohemian Rhapsody shallow and sanitized. Eight years later, they used the same two words on MICHAEL, and the score came in even lower. Same pattern with The Super Mario Bros Movie in 2023. 59% from critics, 95% from audiences. The movie pulled in $1.36 billion and is still the highest-grossing video game film ever made. Critics said it was thin and pandering. Families showed up anyway. The Tomatometer is a yes-or-no switch. Every review gets filed as "fresh" or "rotten" based on whether the critic's overall feeling crosses an internal cutoff. A mild 6 out of 10 counts the same as a glowing 10 out of 10, and a tepid 5 counts the same as a savage 1. The percentage you see is just the share of critics in the positive pile. How much they liked the movie, or how much they hated it, disappears in the conversion. When critics are split down the middle, the math erases the split. Joker has a 7.3 out of 10 average from critics, and so does Shazam. Joker scored 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Shazam landed at 90%. Same average, twenty-one points apart, because more critics put Joker in the negative bucket. Some scores have been bought outright. A 2023 Vulture investigation documented a PR firm called Bunker 15 paying small critics 50 to 100 dollars per positive review to push up Tomatometer scores. A Daisy Ridley film called Ophelia climbed from 46% to 62% after a wave of paid reviews. Rotten Tomatoes quietly pulled several of their films from the platform afterward. Around a third of American moviegoers check the Tomatometer before buying a ticket. One number, with no margin of error and no sense of how split the critics actually were, decides whether millions of people show up on opening weekend. MICHAEL got 27%. Bohemian Rhapsody got a similar score and made $900 million from people who ignored the critics. Wait for the audience score before you write this one off.

This was the turning point 😭

Coachella 2026 🙏🏾❤️🥹

During a very dark period, what was the best thing you ever did for your mental health?

50 Places You Must See Before You Leave This Earth: 1. Santorini, Greece 2. Kyoto in cherry blossom season, Japan 3. The Amalfi Coast, Italy 4. Patagonia, Argentina and Chile 5. The Sahara Desert at night, Morocco 6. Machu Picchu, Peru 7. The Northern Lights, Iceland 8. Bali, Indonesia 9. The Maldives 10. Cappadocia, Turkey 11. The Amazon Rainforest, Brazil 12. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 13. The Great Barrier Reef, Australia 14. Banff National Park, Canada 15. The Scottish Highlands 16. Ha Long Bay, Vietnam 17. The Faroe Islands 18. Zhangjiajie, China 19. Plitvice Lakes, Croatia 20. Lofoten Islands, Norway 21. Torres Del Paine, Chile 22. The Dolomites, Italy 23. Lake Bled, Slovenia 24. Meteora, Greece 25. Petra, Jordan 26. Wadi Rum, Jordan 27. The Dead Sea, Jordan 28. Socotra Island, Yemen 29. Guilin, China 30. Raja Ampat, Indonesia 31. The Azores, Portugal 32. Madagascar 33. Bhutan 34. The Silk Road, Central Asia 35. Tbilisi, Georgia 36. Kotor, Montenegro 37. Dubrovnik, Croatia 38. Cinque Terre, Italy 39. The Swiss Alps 40. Black Forest, Germany 41. Transylvania, Romania 42. Hallstatt, Austria 43. Porto, Portugal 44. Seville, Spain 45. Marrakech, Morocco 46. Zanzibar, Tanzania 47. The Serengeti, Tanzania 48. Skeleton Coast, Namibia 49. Antarctic Peninsula 50. Easter Island, Chile More to add???

I want to recreate this; it's beautiful.❤️

You were born with cells whose only job is to find and kill cancer. They're called natural killer cells. In most cancer patients, they don't show up in large enough numbers or stay active long enough to win. A drug called Anktiva changes that, and the early results are wild. Anktiva works by flipping a protein switch in your body that tells your natural killer cells to multiply faster and fight harder. Chemo poisons cancer but destroys your immune system along the way, which is why patients lose their hair, get infections, and feel wrecked. Anktiva does the opposite. Instead of poisoning everything and hoping cancer dies first, it powers up the defense system you were already born with. The FDA approved it in April 2024 for one specific type of bladder cancer. It was tested on 77 patients. In 6 out of 10 cases, all detectable signs of cancer disappeared completely. 40% of those patients stayed cancer-free for two years or more. But the number that stands out: six patients from that original group were checked 9 years later. All six are still cancer-free. From a drug that has never been used in chemotherapy. In January 2026, Saudi Arabia became the first country to approve Anktiva for lung cancer, not just bladder cancer. It's now approved in 33 countries. Sales hit $113 million last year, up 700% from the year before. The EU approved it in February 2026. Trials are running in pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, and a handful of others. The catch: the U.S. FDA has been pushing back hard. It refused to expand Anktiva's approval to additional patients with bladder cancer in May 2025. It caught the company exaggerating results on its website twice. The company paid $10.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by investors who said leadership overpromised about how ready their factories were. The gap between 77 patients with bladder cancer and a broad cancer treatment is still enormous. (The tweet also says he's Japanese. He's not. Patrick Soon-Shiong is South African-born Chinese, grew up under apartheid, and is a billionaire who owns the LA Times and is part of the Lakers. But that's a footnote to the actual science.)

I can't believe y'all come here and make such crazy statements while you don't even seek for South African cinema.

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Now would be a good time to read this book if you have never read it. The GOAT would be salivating right now.

📺 SABBATICAL. Directed by Karabo Lediga. If you ever get any free time, I suggest you go and see this film. It is currently available on Prime Video. You will thank me later. 🤞🏼

We all don’t want Arsenal to win EPL and UCL because we don’t want a team we have banter for over 20 years to suddenly now gain freedom from it. There’s nothing wrong with the way they play football, there’s nothing wrong with their fanbase. We just can’t deal with the fact they’re no longer laughing stock and our own teams are the jokes now. All those banters end the moment they win, that’s our fear.

House Of Errors is miles ahead when it comes to detailing.

Residential Project by Stef Claes Duinbergen, Belgium 🇧🇪

A group of paracyclists are bringing the cinema experience to kids living in camps in Gaza. “Our mobile cinema is moving between camps to spread moments of joy.” 🔗: linktr.ee/thegazasunbird…

It was never a person..

“Fvck Tottenham, we’ll do it ourselves next Sunday”