88 Kilos of Sunshine

So here goes, the complete thread on "The Tyranny of Pretty Things" 88kilosofsunshine.bandcamp.com/album/the-tyra…

BBBEE is not perfect, but it's the reason why some of us can even participate in the economy. It is the reason why the black women in our families are in management. Hands off BBBEE.

'Why would Israel say something that is not true?' asks the credulous Laura Kuenssberg. What planet is she on?

SA boere is kreatief en veerkragtig, sê landbou-gesant landbou.com/bedrywe/bedryf… via @landbou

"Our job is to report".

Give me a break. The UAE is the main financial, military and logistical backer of the RSF, probably the most brutal, rapey, genocidal paramilitary force in existence today.

"Cadbury's are too captured by woke nonsense to use the word Easter on boxes for chocolate eggs"

This man took an old tractor and made a joyride train for kids in his hood 🙌🏽 Im not a kid by any means but id ride this 😂

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology

You people are mad

Luke Kgatitsoe sits where his house stood before the state destroyed it and the rest of the buildings when this farm was declared a ‘black spot’. Magopa, North West. 21 October 1986. Photo Credit: David Goldblatt

ISRAELI AIRLINE "EL AL" ANNOUNCES REVIEW OF CONTINUITY OF ITS OPERATIONS DUE TO NEW GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS LIMITING THE NUMBER OF TRAVELERS

Magnus Heystek (Brenthurst Wealth) settled a 2001 lawsuit out of court after being accused of mismanaging a trust for 2 young kids. He allegedly used funds for a mansion, kickbacks & paying his wife R1.2m for "interior decorating". Just 3 years later, he launched Brenthurst...

BBBEE is under attack. That should worry us. Yes, it has flaws. But scrapping it isn’t reform, it’s regression. Fix the leaks. Close the loopholes. Build real economic participation.

The Cuban people have done nothing to deserve this cruelty.

Private businesses have a Trump carve out to the fuel blockade. Hospitals do not have access to fuel that private businesses do. That is literally US policy, what you voted for. Everyone in the US should understand their responsibility to change this.

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

look, dad, i know they used to call them "moments of zen" on the daily show but they're "future adam curtis b-rolls" now and they're a Symptom of Decline

For @@ErnstRoets and his flock of domkop followers! You are not African. You are not indigenous. You are Settlers. 🧵 Southern Africa: who is indigenous, who arrived, and when 🏹 1. San — first peoples of the land San communities have lived in southern Africa for 20,000–30,000+ years. They are among the oldest continuous human populations on Earth. 🐄 2. Khoekhoe — pastoral societies Khoekhoe-speaking communities arrive around 2000–1500 BCE. ➡️ That is about 4,000 years ago They bring cattle, sheep, and pastoral economies into a land already inhabited. 🌾 3. Abantu — farming and iron-working societies Bantu-speaking communities begin moving into southern Africa around 300 CE. ➡️ That is about 1,700 years ago This movement unfolds over time. It is: gradual generational shaped by settlement, exchange, and adaptation It is not an invasion. 🚢 4. Europeans — colonial settlers Europeans arrive with the in 1652. ➡️ That is about 370 years ago They come from outside Africa and establish a colonial foothold. 📌 The timeline in plain terms 30,000+ years ago → San ~4,000 years ago → Khoekhoe ~1,700 years ago → Abantu ~370 years ago → Europeans ⚠️ What this exposes All African societies in this timeline form part of pre-colonial history. Movement between African societies took place over thousands of years. Europeans arrive very late, through colonial expansion. 🧭 The point No African people arrived through colonial conquest of this land. European settlement introduced dispossession, forced removal, and racial hierarchy. 📍 Keep it clear This is not a debate about dates. It is a question of history, land, and truth.

One of my biggest problems with people who oppose free healthcare in South Africa, free education, and social welfare is that they always tell us to look to the Western world for inspiration, yet they don’t want us to be inspired by Israel’s free higher education, or by the free healthcare systems in Denmark or the UK.

@merf_sdp That's like arguing that Britain invaded France and Belgium in the first World War. Cuba was invited by the Angolan government.