@thexchild_ It's likely that it's a real shoot but these are AI-upscaled images (hence the small text going funky on a pure white background, with a white light foreground, but the slightly bigger text being fine on the blue packet)
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Ciarán 🦋 @ciaran.co.za
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Ciarán 🦋 @ciaran.co.za
@parabyl
🎶 I make music as Parabyl 🖥 Software Dev / Computer Person
Cape Town, South Africa Katılım Mart 2010
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this is very obviously AI and it’s such bad taste that you’re lying about it.
care to explain what this jibberish means?
Cerebos South Africa@Cerebos_SA
@WellCallMeMell Hi Mell, these are photos from our cooking show shoot last year. Happy they are too good, you think it's AI. You can refer to our cookbook on our website to see more of them 😃
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@CapeTown_Bru The Basson story is about distribution and proliferation of drugs they already knew to be very addictive, and effective at destroying people's lives, rather than inventing anything himself.
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I was today years old discovering that the recreational drug called quaaludes is actually mandrax.
I always thought Mandrax was specifically designed by Wouter Basson to keep the Cape Flats sedated against uprisings.
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@LetsFreeTheCape @helenzille I'm simply making the point that a party-branded piece of perfectly true information aimed at disparaging another party is propaganda, true or not.
But, if you don't think the GRU often stir up campaigns locally you have your head in the sand. Helen is burying the lede as usual.
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@parabyl @helenzille They kind of are, and that is before we get to the Russian element of the 'story' which you have conveniently glossed over
Do you seriously think that dissatisfaction with excessive rates (or maintaining a dysfunctional state vaccine monopoly) is really a Russian psyop?
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I have known this for a long time. It started with the Bell-Pottinger bots in 2016 with their campaign against Cape Town and myself, and it has continued ever since. At last it is getting official recognition.
news24.com/southafrica/de…
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@LetsFreeTheCape @helenzille They're clearly real and propaganda? Those aren't mutually exclusive labels.
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@WeirdMedieval Surely a mammoth / elephant but no one's seen one it's just through stories?
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The Picts were obsessed with carving this animal into stones but literally no one has any idea what it is now
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Ciarán 🦋 @ciaran.co.za retweetledi
Recently GroundUp reported that six families living in Searle Street, who make up some of the last original residents of District Six, have been ordered to leave their homes after an eviction order was granted in favour of the landlord, a private developer groundup.org.za/article/despit…
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@SaladinAlDronni Another one that was a "skills program for women" which appears to have been a lure to work in a drone manufacturing plant
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@SaladinAlDronni To be fair, in the case of SA at least, it seems like some of the men there are simply victims of recruitment scams - which and have been an ongoing issue for us and many of our neighbours and it's nothing new reuters.com/world/europe/s…
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"Desperate African men tell CNN they were lured by the Islamic State into the war in the Sahel and Somalia using promises of well-paying civilian jobs. But they were forced into the frontlines with little/no training, facing drones & racism."
Awful reporting. Excuses.
Larry Madowo@LarryMadowo
EXCLUSIVE: Desperate African men tell CNN they were lured by Russia into the war in Ukraine using promises of well-paying civilian jobs. But they were forced into the frontlines with little/no training, facing drones & racism. "You escape or you die." ⚠️Story is hard to watch
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@marcelbradshaw1 @BenjaminFogel So you're saying a private film distributor doesn't have the right to choose which products they distribute in the country they're based in?
Sounds like you want the government interfering in private companies' freedom of speech?
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@parabyl @BenjaminFogel About what? Surely it is a simple issue of freedom of speech. Show it and those who want to go,go and those who don’t,do not.
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Do Afriforum/Kiffness anti-national types really want to watch the Melania movie in the cinema?
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@BenjaminFogel You know that it is not the point. Stop being stupid.
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@RamieMokone @karman_de_lange @TrafficSA So then why was NASA JPL doing it here with airplanes in 2023? nasa.gov/missions/airbo…
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@karman_de_lange @TrafficSA Done via Satellites now....not aeroplanes
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The unbearable weight of the knowledge that I will never see the color Olo
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And this is the decline of society
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
You don’t need to sacrifice anything to appease the supposed needs of random people.
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@parabyl @Mikecbi8 @Tupjigson @plantationdrip They basically won every engagement. They lost the demographic war to African birthrates.
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Ciarán 🦋 @ciaran.co.za retweetledi
The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor can there be true humanism without a critical sense, without the courage to ask questions: "Where are we going? For whom and for what are we working? How are we making the world a better place?"
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@John_Galt_ZA @Mikecbi8 @Tupjigson @plantationdrip I've never seen someone so down bad for the losing side of a war 😂 it's like you okes want them remembered for getting a participation trophy, absolute snowflakes the lot of you
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@Mikecbi8 @Tupjigson @plantationdrip The short shorts (Kort broek in afrikaans) were the secret source of their military power
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Ciarán 🦋 @ciaran.co.za retweetledi
@dgtager @Newzroom405 If the DA can't change anything in that regard and it's all the govt's fault then why would we ever vote for the DA?
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