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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The British Century of Humiliation continues apace.
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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 19/05/2026
Three years ago, only a fraction of the global public held more favorable opinions of China than of the U.S. Today, China and even Russia have a better global image.
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Poll: How the US Lost the ‘Hearts and Minds’ of People Worldwide
Three years ago, only a fraction of the global public held more favorable opinions of China than of the U.S. Today, China and even Russia have a better global image.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Arsenal is such a massive club, man. Everyone from arm-chopping dictators in Africa to Jeremy Corbyn posting about the title win. 😄
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Haris @afcmhr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
SCENES AY FULL TIME AT SOBHA! 🏆🏆🏆
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
ARSENAL! ARSENAL! ARSENAL!!!
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Mikel Arteta's "let's see who can hold their hand over the candle flame longer" thing is tough, not gonna lie. I have a thundering headache right now.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It says something - not sure what exactly 😄 - that both the white supremacist right wing and black left wing absolutely hate the appointment of the former apartheid cabinet minister Roelf Meyer (and Cyril's personal friend of course) to be South Africa's ambassador to the USA.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS?? Is this about the war? The spinning-out-of-control, Zeppelin crash, humiliating embarrassment of a war happening on our screens right now?
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Wild to me that a new podcast got this interview and not mainstream media. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi interviews the ambassador of Iran. youtu.be/KwtArYKSkWU?...
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Special Broadcast - Ambassador Shakib Mehr of Iran: Having Nuclear Weapons is Forbidden.
YouTube video by African Renaissance Podcast
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I've been looking through the social media profiles of European leaders and it's pathetic to see how they knew absolutely nothing about this deal. And are now scrambling for messaging and positioning. 🙄 Europe's irrelevance laid bare.
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Herman Lategan @hermanlategan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Journalists killed in Lebanon seemingly irrelevant to Western readers www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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Deadly silence: Why 3 journalists killed in Lebanon are irrelevant to Western readers
Their deaths have gone largely unremarked upon across the Western press, unlamented by governments that describe themselves as champions of a free media and unread by audiences who seem to have quietl...
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If that Québécois band didn't look like... that... would anyone actually care? Cuz I've been through their albums now and I dunno, man.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
TEARS IN MY EYES! 😭 UNC STILL GOT IT!
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Interesting to remember that in spite of all the noise, South Africa still sells coal to Israel... share.google/kqMps3L0Gyyp...
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Botswana, South Africa and DRC on standby as reports show US has only two months’ worth of rare earths left
Africa is emerging as a potential source of rare earth minerals for the United States, which reportedly has only about two months’ worth of the critical materials left in its defence stockpile as the ...
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"When South Africa sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're sending people with a lot of problems and they're bringing those problems to us." people.com/real-housewi...
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Real Housewives of Pretoria Star and Husband Arrested After Allegedly Shoplifting Thousands of Dollars in Groceries from Publix
The Real Housewives of Pretoria star Melany Viljoen and her husband, Petrus Viljoen, were arrested on Tuesday, March 10, and charged with larceny coordinated with another person, totaling greater than...
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Finishing up all my incense because Johannesburg smells like a wet fart this morning. 😭
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Trader sentiment that the war is over conflicts with physical reality that 3,000,000 tons of oil a day are not moving. Both of these things cannot continue for long.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This lesson was learned when the West watched and laughed as Gaddafi was sodomised to death by a baying mob after he chose Western alignment. It has now been reinforced by the Iranian experience of abandoning its nuclear weapons programme in for negotiations. open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons
Yes, really.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Genuinely funny watching one subset of AI investors realise that the arrogant language used by most other AI investors and boosters about ending entire industries and fundamentally rendering all human expression meaningless is turning most of their potential customers against them.
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Haris @afcmhr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
No one has ever liked us, it won't change now or going forward. Arsenal together.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
When discussing Tourette's syndrome, please ensure you employ your most cutting and condescending tone. Otherwise you risk not being understood.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
To wit:
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Proper scoop by ICL and Jamil Chade - Heads of state who will attend Trump's "Board of Peace" meeting in Washington were given a "guide" specifying what they could and should say in their two minutes of allocated time. The details are...crazy. iclnoticias.com.br/em-conselho-...
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Em Conselho da Paz, Trump dita até conteúdo de discursos de presidentes estrangeiros - ICL Notícias
O Conselho da Paz de Donald Trump se reúne nesta quinta-feira pela primeira vez e, orgulhosamente, a Casa Branca insiste que o evento em Washington contará
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Is there a long, unwieldy German word for the feeling of successfully forgetting about a nugget of pure #brainrot, till your friend reminds you of it."
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This will likely get waved away as "not the time" but my god does nobody remember the roughshod way that the USA went around the world to force support for The War on Terror? The threats? The ignored please to not start ANOTHER war in the Middle East? Trump is merely downstream of that.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Sending a voice note to my pals in America: "YEAH, SORRY, please excuse the tormented shrieks of 100 dying souls that you're hearing in the background. Those are BIRDS."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
Can't have it both ways, if the government is going to make me do my own taxes they should live with the number I come up with. Don't come back to me later like "Actually,"
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It's that time of the year once more. (Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh.)
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This man's prefrontal cortex has melted into a warm umami soup at this point. He is completely gone.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This survey suggests that South Africans have a far more favourable view of China than the media or opposition parties would have you believe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests
Exclusive: US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies feel ever more distant, results show
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I do appreciate the fact that my government does not actually give a damn about Trump. I like that. 😄 (BTW this article conveniently leaves out that the UAE is also part of these exercises. That's an ally, see, can't make them look bad.) www.bbc.com/news/article...
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South Africa's strained ties with US face new test - war games with China, Iran and Russia
The naval exercises could inflame relations with Donald Trump - who is already at loggerheads with Pretoria.
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sean @seancw.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Rama Duwaji for The Cut is a magnitude 10 motherquake
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Rama Duwaji, who will be First Lady of New York City in nine days, is profiled by The Cut Profile Here: bit.ly/3YH900F
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This editorial is spectacular. Szilveszter Makó is a genius.
Rama Duwaji in The Cut. Shot by Szilveszter Mako.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I'm flabbergasted. Ordered a cappuccino and got a... cup of foamy cold milk??
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Yeah you can really tell when something important happens. This ain't the townsquare just yet.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"Will You Please Hold Still, Sir..." new op-ed by Anton Chigurh out now!
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am screaming 😂😂😂
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Very funny piece about a faction of a whites-only enclave in Pretoria rebelling against the leadership and demanding to be incorporated into the wider city. Funny how these racists always set up in authoritarian cult fashion. www.ewn.co.za/2025/11/11/s...
ewn.co.za
Small group of Kleinfontein residents refusing to pay levies to board of directors
The group, calling itself the Kleinfontein Residents’ Association, wants to pay their rates directly to the Tshwane Municipality.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This album blew me away. Rosalía what have you done to me 🔥
La Yugular by Rosalía
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Interesting to think how Zohran Mamdani might be a lawyer in Johannesburg or doctor in Cape Town right now had it not been for the University of Cape Town's incredible racism. mg.co.za/article/2018...
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20 years after the ‘Mamdani affair’, the old adversary rejoins UCT
The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
And there it is. The day has arrived when the Christian far right remembers that it has always been violently antisemitic, and the whole Zionism thing was a temporary truce. As those of us who were brought up in these circles having been saying FOR YEARS. x.com/KevinRoberts...
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Kevin Roberts on X: "There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: https://t.co/F8bcxBIqKI" / X
There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: https://t.co/F8bcxBIqKI
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Crazy business to finally fulfill what the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 were trying to achieve.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We lost an absolute master.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Damn, dude. This one really got to me. RIP D'Angelo. Thank you for making perfect music. youtu.be/L0AykH20X3Q?...
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D'Angelo - Unshaken (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Isaac Chotiner is just brilliant. My jaw was on the floor by the end of this. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
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Sipho @comradesipho.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
man you have got to live your life so when you die, black twitter doesn't explode with glee. that is the bar. clear that.
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