𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣

Sometimes.. I page through my prefrontal cortex like a codex written in fading text contemplating substance abuse Sometimes.. I pinch my carotid artery like my life depended on it contemplating letting go Usually.. i just need more sleep ...

Billionaires don’t steal my money, dipshit. Politicians and bureaucrats do. If a billionaire gets my money, it’s because I paid for a product that he or she has made.

Honestly.... do these people have teams working on this? Downloading, cropping, scrubbing attribution from THOUSANDS of videos... That is not some bloke on the shitter with his mobile. It would just have been easier not be be a douche, to credit, quote, and repost.

"Ya the white privilege arrogance their in opinion piece land is being shown up here." ..huh? 🤔 "Zulu nationalism is alive and kicking." Spokesperson: Minister of International Relations & Co-Operation, and the HEAD OF DIPLOMACY! 😅🤣😂

@algoritmunte As jy té veel wortelwortel eet, sal jy goutgout kry.

Worteltortel goes hard tho

@VinnysCorner1 @grok The world of respect for Marciano and his 49-0 record is phenomenal. But he never faced a machine like Mike Tyson.. because before Mike there had never been a boxer like Mike. Nor since. Not a fair across eras comparison..

@SPQRSA @grok Bro knows that south afrikan speak when he see it lol

Mike sallie net vir Rocky opfokkie, hy sal hom dood bliksem! @grok don't translate that.

Chrispin Phiri casually throwing Mfecane / Difaqane into the illegal immigration discussion... Trying to guilt-trip the class of 2026 about something that happened 200-years ago, to accept being overrun by illegal and undocumented immigrants.

Kholeka Gcaleka was going on about "migration". Now Chrispin Phiri is also saying "migration". Both of them were referring to IMMIGRATION & they know the difference. The are deliberately manipulating the language as if it will make the problem disappear.

Kholeka Gcaleka was going on about "migration". Now Chrispin Phiri is also saying "migration". Both of them were referring to IMMIGRATION & they know the difference. The are deliberately manipulating the language as if it will make the problem disappear. x.com/i/status/20587…

No amount of cyberbullying will change the facts: 1. Irregular migration cannot be addressed by vigilantism. Law enforcement must address all matters of criminality, including the abuse of immigration laws. 2. Migration will happen, but it must happen within the confines of the rule of law. 3. Dehumanising people does not address any problem, let alone immigration challenges. 4. Structural economic issues will not be addressed by targeting foreign nationals. 5. The history of South Africa cannot be told without understanding migration, from the Mfecane / Difaqane up to the dictates of colonial settlers.

@Chrispin_JPhiri Vigilante ke magrigaba from Nyasa. Voetsek

@kirkfletcher @karatademada I mute fools. The only pages I've ever blocked are ad pages.

@SPQRSA @karatademada Just noticed I'm blocked by him... have no idea why.

Massimo, one of the biggest accounts on X, just got removed from the Revenue Sharing Program. In a direct comment, Nikita Bier told him that today is his “last day in the Creator Program” after accusing him of sourcing thousands of videos from another creator and simply cropping out the watermark to bypass attribution. X is making it very clear now: The era of reposting other people’s content, removing credits, and profiting from it is finally coming to an end. Many creators have been waiting for the platform to take action to better protect original work. Stealing someone else’s content, removing attribution, and pretending it’s yours was never sustainable. If X is serious about rewarding original creators, then protecting the people who actually make the content is a step in the right direction. Do you agree? Source : 👇

"About land" can be looked at in two ways.... The negative imperialim / colonialism sense. Which is just dumb. The positive, patriotic sense. In that the anthem is a hymn to our motherland. Which I much prefer to a hymn to any God. I love that the part that we always sang, was entirely a secular hymn of love and allegiance to the country. _____ Uit die blou van onse hemel, uit die diepte van ons see, Oor ons ewige gebergtes waar die kranse antwoord gee. Deur ons ver-verlate vlaktes met die kreun van ossewa —  Ruis die stem van ons geliefde, van ons land Suid-Afrika. Ons sal antwoord op jou roepstem, ons sal offer wat jy vra: Ons sal lewe, ons sal sterwe — ons vir jou, Suid-Afrika.

Very silly take. The reason of course being that the Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika portion was written as a hymn, before it was sloppily, irreverently and artificially cut in half and stitched together with a version of Die Stem van Suid-Afrika which was itself cut and bastardized, and the latter was written as a national anthem, which are usually about folk and fatherland. Even so, the last verse, which the Bantu Supremacist regime ripped out, runs: "Op U Almag vas vertrouend het ons vadere gebou: Skenk ook ons die krag, o Here! om te handhaaf en te hou — Dat die erwe van ons vad’re vir ons kinders erwe bly: Knegte van die Allerhoogste, teen die hele wêreld vry. Soos ons vadere vertrou het, leer ook ons vertrou, o Heer — Met ons land en met ons nasie sal dit wel wees, God regeer." which means something to the effect of: (my own translation) "Firmly trusting in Your omnipotence did our fathers build Grant us too the strength, oh Lord, to govern, and to ensure That the inheritance of our fathers, is kept as inheritances for our children: Servants of the Most High; against the whole world free As our fathers trusted (You) teach us also to trust, (You) oh Lord With our land and with our people, it will be well (because) God governs (it)" So we can see that Boers have always had a very mature, spiritual, understanding of their place on their soil in southern Africa as servants of God, but that this duty to serve Him includes a certain amount of responsibility to folk and fatherland, just as God calls us to protect our houses and immediate nuclear family. After all, the fatherland is the house of the ethnos, and the ethnos is the extended family of the individual. It isn't that Boers were greedy genociders with an obsession with acquiring more and more land and resources. Rather, the lens through which the Boer sees all reality is one where he is the servant of God, but he knows that duty plays out within a particular place, and within a particular people for the most part. Bantu thought had never been this developed. In the very least, their songs have never been this explicit about these concepts, I say because these concepts were foreign to the Bantu mind at the time. Bantus did seem to have some concept of the nation or ethnos, but it wasn't as developed as the Boer concept, otherwise they would have their own anthem with the philosophical and theological depth of Die Stem, yet they had no such thing and had to re-purpose a hymn as their "struggle" song or anthem. To be fair, the anthems of the Bantu Homelands or Bantustans sometimes had this kind of thinking, but of course, the idea was introduced to them, at least in this level of depth, by the Boers. If anything, this silly attempt to show that the songs Boers sung at the time prove we were evil, shows the exact opposite about the so-called "struggle." There are exactly zero period Boer songs about killing Bantus, but there are countless Bantu "struggle" songs about killing Boers. For example, the infamous Kill the Boer song, as well as Dubul'iBhunu (Shoot the Boer; bonus fact: the isiZulu prefix for people, um- is not used for the root - Bhunu meaning "Boer" but rather i- which implies that Boers aren't human grammatically) and Xhosa 'magwijo staple Hamba Kahle Mkhonto WeSizwe (Meaning "Stay well/Goodbye Mkhonto We Sizwe" (Spear of the Nation) in which the translated lyrics "We have pledged ourselves to kill them, to kill the amaBhulu" (Boers, appreciate the human prefix ama- here I guess, even if it's singing about our genocide) feature. What does that say about the consciousness of the people on both sides? Exactly the opposite of what this person is trying to prove. The Boers were and are a good people. We have committed excesses in maintaining systems we genuinely believed at the time benefited everyone, and which ultimately didn't benefit them as much as we had thought, but our intentions were moral. The same can't be said about the Bantu supremacist "struggle."

@BongsMahlangu_ Avocado in Afrikaans is: Prokureurpeer..

What’s an avocado in Afrikaans? Knowing Afrikaans it’s probably called something ridiculous like ‘Worteltortel’ or ‘Groenpampoen’ 😮‍💨😩

@aviationbrk Don't care whose fault it was. That woman has ice in her veins! She didn't panic or freak out, she kept her cool, remained calm and survived without any drama or other BS! Mad props and congrats on walking away from that!

I will never read the solid columns of text. Impossible. Even one sentence paragraphs are easier to read. "Homer makes us Hearers." Pope has said, "and Virgi/leaves us Readers." So the great translator of Homer, no doubt unknowingly, set at odds the claims of an oral tradition and those of a literary one, as we would call the two traditions now. Homer's work isa performance. even in part a musical event. Perhaps that isthe source of his speed, directness and simplicity that Matthew Arnold heard-and his nobility too, elusive yet undeniable, that Arnold chased but never really caught. Surely it is a major source of Homer's energy, the loft and carry of his imagination that sweeps along the listener together with the performer. For there is something powerful in his song, "that unequal'd Fire and Rapture"Pope again-"which is so forcible in Homer, that no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is Master of himself" while he experiences the Iliad. "In Homer. and in him only, it burns every where clearly, and every where irresistibly." But it also brings to light the Homeric Question facing all translators: How to convey the powerof his performance in the medium of writing? "Homer makes us Hearers, and Virgilleaves us Readers." Yet the contrast may be too extreme. Virgil the writer was certainly no stranger to recitation. Homer the performer. as the Introduction speculates. may have knowna rudimentaryform ofwriting. And writing may have lent his work some qualities we associate with texts in general-idiosyncrasies at times. and pungency and wit-and with the Iliad in particular, its archltectonics, its magnificent scale. and the figure of Achilles. But even if Homer never used an alphabet himself. he now seems less the creature of an oral tradition whom Milman Parry discovered. and more and more its master. as envisioned by Parry's son, Adam. Homer the brilliant improviser deployed its stock, inherited features with all the individual talent he could muster. Never more so, in fact. than in his use of the fixed and formulaic. frequently repeated phrase. Not only is Homer often less formulaic. but the formulas themselves are often more resonant, more apt and telling in their contexts than the hard Parryites had argued for at first. So the original form of Homer's work, while a far cry from a work of literature as we know it now. is not exactly a song either. pure and simple. It may be more the irecord of a song. building over the poet's lifetime perhaps, or what Marianne Moore would call "a simulacrum of spontaneity." Obviously at a far remove from Homer, in this translation I have tried to find a middle ground (and not a no man's land, if I can help it) between the features of his performance and the expectations of a contemporary reader. Nota line-for-line translation, my version of the Iliad is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language as to cramp and distort my own-though Iwant to convey as much of what he says as possible-nor so literary as to brake his energy, his forward drivethough I want my work to be literate, with any luck. For the more literal approach would seem to be too little English,and the moreliterary seems too little Greek. I have tried to find a cross between the two, a modern English Homer. Of course it is a risky business, stating what one has tried to do or, worse, the principles one has used (petards that will probably hoist the writer later). But a word or two of explanation seems in order, and the first refers to the more fixedand formulaic pansofHomer. Ihave treated them in a flexible, discretionary way, not incompatible with Homer's way, I think-especially when his formulas are functional as well as fixed-while also answering to the ways we read today. It is a matter of "riding easy in the harness," as Robert Frost once said of democracy. and my practice ranges from the pliant to the strict.

Here's what I don't get. Twitter used to be short snippets of text. Brief and to the point. Then they doubled characters allowed to 280. Longer tweets, but still a single chunk of text. But then they allowed blue checks to write longer posts. Much longer! And suddenly, a new trend started spewing into our timelines. Long posts—really long—filled with short one-sentence 'paragraphs'. Why? Good question. My best guesses are: A- AI. AI loves those snappy short sentences for impact. B- They're designed to appeal to people whose attention span has been so degraded by social media garbage that even this sentence is probably too long for them to fully comprehend. And I hate these long, single-sentence paragraph tweets. I hate them all.

@Lordweb111 Only a couple.. here I documented one. x.com/i/status/18330…

Ever had a brilliant move before?

Genius-level ball sense.. and I don't use that word lightly. Genius not measured by IQ.

@MadeforTyresse Here's some dip for that chip on your shoulder. The human race migrated from Africa all the way to Australia and South America. They also migrated within Africa, as they are still doing today. Or didn't you notice all the Nigerians in SA? Look up: irrefutable proof.

The bantu migration is actually a myth

Here's some dip for that chip on your shoulder. The human race migrated from Africa all the way to Australia and South America. They also migrated within Africa, as they are still doing today. Or didn't you notice all the Nigerians in SA? Look up: irrefutable proof.