Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When we had a restaurant in PE, our chef was a lovely Xhosa girl, educated and well travelled including a stint at a hotel in Aberdeen, who was prone to chucking litter in the street. She said she did it to keep people in work. People need to understand how litter impacts perceptions and living. 110
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think we have to understand the power that Trump derived from 'The Apprentice'. Every week Americans would invite Trump into their living rooms and they developed a connection to him, almost as a family member. A mega rich uncle. I know because my late girlfriend was a big fan of the show. 011
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fine. Who is going to enforce it, though? The DoJ? I can't see Trump complying. He will refuse to return or reissue passes, claim that existing passes are not valid and continue to block access. He will claim that he is working at restoring access, but bureaucratic holdups are causing delays. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026True, but does Putin know that? I suspect that he's been fed wildly optimistic assessments for years. The invasion of Ukraine started with the 'little green men' and I surmise he'd use similar tactics on Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. He'll soften them up with social media and sabotage. 060
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Don't trust him, Denmark. Trump has never signed an agreement he hasn't been happy to ignore the next day. 030
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm not terribly surprised. I once bought a Proclaimers CD, only to find it was 90% God-bothering dirges. 0140
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026That strikes me as an highly accurate reading of Joe Rogan's modus. Perfect. 020
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Open Street Maps is open source and is unlikely to bend the knee to Trump. www.openstreetmap.orgopenstreetmap.orgOpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Am I being too cynical in thinking that the cops' crime was in conducting the bust in spite of being denied transport and thereby circumventing the protection that the 'leadership' was providing for the criminals? 110
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026You read this and then you turn on CNN and they are talking about how El-Sayed is damaging the Democrat Party. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The collapse of the newsprint subscription based model under the pressure of the WWW has driven the media into the arms of the oligarchy where they sing for their supper to the tune of the piper's agenda. (Forgive the mixed metaphors) 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I wish I could be that confident. The entire Republican machinery understands what's at stake and they are not all as stupid as Trump. They'll do what worked in 2024, namely bring in 'Independents' like the Greens to split the vote and lean heavily into both traditional and electronic media. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Because capitalism is about how much money you can accumulate, not about how much money you can give away. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Nothing in the media about this. You would have thought a fraudulent report issued by the Census Bureau would be newsworthy, but apparently not. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Frankly, the over obsequious nature of these press briefings have contributed in no small measure to them degenerating from any attempt at transparency into choreographed entertainment and performative theatre with no intention of imparting real information. And the press are largely complicit. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Perfectly true. In fact, I believe that nothing would please Iran more than to see him re elected in 2028. 030
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The first thing to do is recognise them for what they are. Donald Trump's private army. An updated version of Hitler's brownshirts, loyal only to him and operating outside the law. I don't think I'm being too dramatic in suggesting that they would be his praetorian guard in the event of civil war. 0100
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Absolutely. In a country where over 90% of the electorate are not white, she advocates for policies which are clearly anti black. I shall probably be voting DA, but it will be because of inspirational politicians like Chris Pappas and not Zille. 110
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The DA's weakness is Zille. While I do appreciate her diligence, I worry that her commitment to Thatcherism makes her anti black. 110
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Obama's most abject failure is in not recognising that the power of the American President is absolute. Trump has shown us what an American President can do if he just doesn't give a fsck. Obama must lie awake at night wondering why he was such a pussy. 100
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I'm afraid that Trump values himself far too highly. The damage that Trump does is too valuable for Iran to ever want him gone. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026It's a bogeyman that everybody has been taught to hate since childhood. Reds under the bed! 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I'm starting to think that this opinion is not widely held. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Additionally, he's wrecked cooperation with America's allies, not only in NATO, but throughout the Gulf and ME. Saudi is refusing American requests for support, scores of American bases have been closed, probably never to reopen, and American assurances of protection shown to be so much hot air. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The word 'ubuntu' comes from a Zulu word referring to a shared humanity. Canonical was set up by Mark Shuttleworth, a South African billionaire who isn't a complete c_nt. 050
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I'll be interested to see who enforces this. Clearly, Trump won't comply and I don't see how it can be enforced. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you have to put 'Obama appointed' or 'Trump appointed' after every judgement, then you have already accepted that judgements are EXPECTED to be political rather than impartial. So, if your Judges are already deemed to be partisan before they pass judgement, impartiality doesn't make sense. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Quite. In the mid nineties, I paid a subscription to bulletin board (CIX) which I used in engineering. The idea of a free repository for universal knowledge seemed a gateway to Utopia. Tim Berners-Lee must be kicking himself. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Nah. As special effects go, those were pretty unconvincing. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This implies that almost half of Americans think he's doing a great job. Can this actually be true? 100
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Last week Tesla was trading at under $400. Last year, it was trading at just over $200. I see that, after this recall, it has jumped to $430. Seems a little bit suspect to me. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I'm convinced that this is why Trump hates Zelenskyy so much. Trump hid in the basement when there were protesters in the street. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Oh, I think there won't be any. Expecting independence to survive Ellison would be the same as expecting freespeech to survive Musk's takeover of Twitter. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I dunno. In the mid eighties, there were a plethora of South African villains, including, but not limited to 'Lethal Weapon'. "Diplomatic immunity, Riggs!" 110
Reposted by Dave CoventryStuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026All that has historically been wrong with the ANC government on show in this one ANC Minister. Sunday Times - S’THEMBISO MSOMI | Tolashe nanny scandal reveals truth of our self-serving political elite www.sundaytimes.co.za/opinion-and-...sundaytimes.co.zaS’THEMBISO MSOMI | Tolashe nanny scandal reveals truth of our self-serving political eliteSocial development minister seems comfortable trampling on the rights of a poor and vulnerable employee for her own benefit, writes S'thembiso Msomi. 011
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026This is odd. Ubuntu isn't Microsoft. Canonical was started by Mark Shuttleworth, a South African tech bro who isn't, AFAICT, an arsehole like Musk. Ubuntu is free, so it's difficult to understand why Iran would attack a South African product. Ubuntu is isiZulu describing human interconnections. 001
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026To you and I, it's not a call to violence, but Trump has used it to galvanise his followers to violence, so he sees it as the spark which leads to conflagration. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Yes. I am also very uneasy about the severity of Malema's sentence. Obviously he isn't my most favourite MP and I do regard his singing of 'Kill the Boer', while not deemed illegal having been tested in court, as definitely provocative. Moreover, it gives ammunition to white supremacists. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Presumably, Russian whorehouses in the eighties hold good memories for Trump. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Ha! Perfect analogy. It's the sort of thing Born again Christians earnestly claim about their Bible. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I feel that John Fetterman has passed this way recently and we all know how that worked out. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Hmmm. I think you have to specify what the aims of the education system is before you can say that it has "failed". For many, education is more about indoctrination than disseminating knowledge and in that respect, the American education system has been an unqualified success for evangelists. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Nice. I agree that kittens should not be weaned too early. 010
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Clearly, Trump has been doing everything he can to hand victory in Ukraine to Putin, so this should have been acknowledged at the start of 2025. Which it probably was. 150
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The poll says that 75% voted for a return to Europe, yet the blue shaded area suggests less than half. Nice slight of hand. 000
Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I don't. If any of them did actually vote for Harris, then they kept quiet about it for fear of standing out from their neighbours or annoying their pastors. All of this was easily predictable, but they thought it preferable not to make waves or be confrontational. 000