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i actually understand how important the strait of hormuz being closed is because i've seen star wars: episode i: the phantom menace (1999)

Brilliant! “Apolitical” Is Not Neutral: An Open Letter to Roedean School mg.co.za/thought-leader…

hyperallergic.com/gabrielle-goli… "What we are now witnessing — the levels of subterfuge involved in attempts to sabotage an artist and their work — hints at the expansive nature of contemporary warfare."

@BenjaminFogel ironically he's a complete philistine, given the origins of that term.

Handing over Arts and Culture to Gayton is one of the lowest moments of the GNU so far dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

So Vele the South African art world is captured by Zionists?

The South African government must stop this nonsense of placing bozos who are totally ignorant of the arts both at practice and intellectual levels at the helm of that Department, like the current people who run it today and think they can censor artists as if we still live in the apartheid era. Those of us who went through censorship during apartheid, and fought for the freedom these goons who want to censor us are enjoying today, will not allow this! When I heard of the Gabrielle Goliath case I was attacked by a quiet rage. I was there before as one who had been censored, during the days when the Boers lorded over us and banned We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays. I didn’t imagine we would go through that again in a liberated South Africa all because of politicians who are neither politically nor artistically savvy. Are they not aware of history? Where were they when a Minister of Arts and Culture many years ago, a certain Lulu Xingwana, (going totally against the progressive worldview of her party, the ANC, on issues of human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression etc), using her own morality, tried to sideline the works of the internationally admired artist, Zanele Muholi, claiming that it went against nation building and social cohesion? It was an incident that shamed South Africa all over the world. This Goliath issue too will do the same. I responded to the Xingwana issue, by the way, by writing a novel, The Sculptors of Mapungubwe, where I satirize the notion of creating state-approved art to meet the needs of nebulous notions of social cohesion and nation-building as defined by the ruling elite. These notions are weaponized to serve the interests of those who are in power. Their meaning is fluid depending on whose political interests they serve. To the bozos, creating art on Gaza does not contribute to social cohesion and nation building IN SOUTH AFRICA, whereas to the artist, it is a ripe subject for art like any other human rights violation in any part of the universe.

@jzux Could be describing the plot of Funny Pages (2022)

thinking about the time my friend said "we talk a lot about big pharma, but what about small pharma?" and then proceeded to explain his very specific beef with his local pharmacy

Yeah, I'm a fan of A24. A24-year-old movie called Zoolander.

@cnkerr I believe we're all slouching towards Bethlehem.. or is that next month?

Anybody know if we got things falling apart this week? Or is the center going to hold?

Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani! You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity. This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.

@BenjaminFogel looks the part.

Is Pete Hegseth part of the Christmas Adventurers Club?

@DanCorderOnAir finished for 'settle down brother' ⚰️

Settle down brother

In apartheid South Africa, museums glorified white settlement and erased Black history; in the US today, they are again being captured under the guise of neutrality artreview.com/the-museum-as-…

@cnkerr if you can catch the flight, i've got a whole room for you.

Used to be a friend could afford 200 couches for you to sleep tonight. Now a days they’re lucky to have one.

If you read one thing today, read this. An ex-farmer managing his parents’ guesthouse spewed misinformation and racism, Musk ate it up and spread it. This guy deleted hundreds of posts but @CowansView @News24 got receipts. Absolutely phenomenal journalism news24.com/news24/investi…

Saw Sinners yesterday and this scene in particular had me enchanted. Couldn’t wait to go back home to paint it.

@souutthhafrica its got a ring to it.

Just got called up asking if I was going to foreclose a property. I said No. then this person was like “you’re not Jacob the sheriff?”

How South Africa’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. nyer.cm/eqGE0PA

theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/… "Revealingly, the binary of the enlightened west and unenlightened east – once used to authorise the Nazi quest for Lebensraum... is the currency today of far-right nationalists across Israel, Europe and America."

@souutthhafrica yes dude, you gotta hit up Obento in Benmore.

Is there a single soul in Johannesburg that still makes Ramen?