iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Wordle 1 947 5/6* ⬛🟦⬛🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦⬛⬛ ⬛🟦🟦🟦🟧 🟧⬛🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1947

Reposted by Graham Downs

Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@GrahamDowns Genesis 1: We are made in the image of God as men and women, so God is both. It’s right there on the first page.

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Reading the minister's letter in this week's edition of our church bulletin, I'm again reminded that we don't use gender-specific pronouns for God. God is God, and God calls us into deeper relationship with Godself. God is not male or female or any other gender. God is God, and the implication […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

200 2

Reposted by Graham Downs

Bedfordview Methodist Church @bedfordviewmc.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Dear Lord, form us, use us and send us wherever your love is needed. Amen. PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Wordle 1 946 6/6* ⬛⬛🟦⬛🟧 🟦⬛⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1946

041 4

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

So I hear Facebook is officially rolling out its plan to charge people for sharing links.... 🙄 #Meta #SocialMedia

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

All the South African radio stations are begging their listeners to vote for them in this year's Telkom Radio Awards. You can win R40k from the awards themselves, but the radio stations are promising even more winnings if you screenshot the fact that you voted for them and send it in. I've just […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"It's not the load that weighs you down, it's the way you carry it." #quotes #CSLewis

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The Good Things Guy is encouraging South Africans to complete one million acts of kindness before Christmas: www.goodthingsguy.com/1-million-goo… #SouthAfrica #GoodThings

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@hfalcke I probably wouldn't. It looks identical to a million emails I get every day to my author address. All AI generated, probably long cons hoping to swindle money from me or something. But I guess the deciding factor for me would be the From: address. If it were from a real domain, then […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

In today's trivia, apparently a horse can use up to 15 horsepower when it exerts itself. #trivia #horses

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Wordle 1 945 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ 🟧🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1945

0151 15

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Wow! I honestly did not know that airships (aside from promotional blimps) were actually still in common use. But apparently they are: gadget.co.za/hylightairships14w/?ut… #aviation

gadget.co.za

Hydrogen airships take on helicopters

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I remember playing Poohsticks with my brother, on a bridge over the spruit next to Alberton City. Such memories! It's Wiktionary's Word of the Day today: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Poohsticks?u… #WordOfTheDay #English

en.wiktionary.org

Poohsticks - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Wordle 1 944 5/6* ⬛⬛🟦⬛🟧 ⬛🟧⬛⬛🟧 ⬛🟧⬛⬛🟧 ⬛🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1944

051 5

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Most developers I know in person love AI. Can't get enough of it. They use it as much as they can and still want to use it more. And seniority doesn't seem to matter: many are more senior than I am, and quite a few are significantly more junior. I don't *hate* AI. I do use it from time to time […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The 2026 StackOverflow Developer Survey results are in: stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/06/the-r… From a cursory glance, 21% of developers use AI tools for 4+ hours per day, and 70% of them "ask an AI agent" when they're looking […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

101 1

Reposted by Graham Downs

Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Mastodon is the social network to be on if you want to guarantee that your joke will eventually be explained back to you in the most earnest possible way

428 8

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it." -- Douglas Adams #quotes #environment

022 2

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Wordle 1 943 3/6* 🟦🟦⬛⬛⬛ 🟧⬛⬛🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1943

061 6

Reposted by Graham Downs

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

🍂 As Europe and the north slips quietly into shades of amber, rust, and encroaching dark, our world softens into bloom. Down here at the edge of Africa, the canopy catches fire in violet. 💜 #Johannesburg in October.

An elevated, panoramic view across Johannesburg's leafy suburbs at dusk, dominated by the sprawling, vibrant violet canopy of massive jacaranda trees in full bloom rising above red-tiled house roofs. In the distant background, the suburban expanse stretches toward high-rise buildings on the horizon under a soft sunset sky with pastel pink and gold clouds.

Looking up a steep, quiet suburban hill entirely blanketed in fallen violet jacaranda blossoms, resembling a vibrant purple carpet covering the road. Massive jacaranda trees line both sides of the street, forming an overhead tunnel of blooms, with a single pedestrian walking up the center distance beneath a glowing streetlamp.

A quiet residential street framed by a dense canopy of blooming purple jacaranda trees, their branches meeting overhead to form a natural archway. Two runners jog down the shaded road in the foreground, leading towards a glowing, stone triumphal arch illuminated by warm golden morning light at the far end of the avenue.

0232 32

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@bedfordviewmc I will be speaking at this event, sharing a little bit about my condition and my own low-vision challenges.

000 0

Reposted by Graham Downs

Bedfordview Methodist Church @bedfordviewmc.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The Young Men's Guild of the Johannesburg East Circuit 908 of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa is proud to present a free Disability Sensitivity Workshop, which will be held at BMC this Saturday, 17 October, from 10:00 to 15:00. All are welcome. Come […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A flyer from the Methodist Church of Southern Africa Johannesburg East Circuit 908, advertising a Disability Awareness Workshop on Saturday 17 October at Bedfordview Methodist Church. The event runs from 10:00 to 15:00, and refreshments will be served. The flyer contains photos of diverse people with disabilities at the top-right, and a smaller silhouette of a group of people, one of whom is in a wheelchair, at the bottom. A caption at the bottom reads, "One Heart. One Way. Everyone Included.", along with the hashtag, "#IncusionStartsWithUs"

102 2

Reposted by Graham Downs

Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

mnemonic (n.): 3. Something forgettable that helps you forget something memorable. (Obviously includes (1) and (2).) #mnemonics

001 1

Reposted by Graham Downs

Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I am in this picture and I don't like it.

mastodon.social

002 2

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

It's about time a school came up with a formal policy on AI use (that isn't just, "Don't use it under any circumstances"): gadget.co.za/koaacademy32t/?utm_sou… #AI #education

gadget.co.za

Koa Academy sets AI rules for pupils

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Wordle 1 942 6/6* ⬛⬛🟦⬛🟦 🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛🟧🟦🟦⬛ 🟦🟧⬛🟧🟦 🟦🟧⬛🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1942

061 6

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Oh, RJ Mitte passed away. He played Walter White's son in Breaking Bad. I wasn't aware the actor had Cerebral Palsy (the character did). My thoughts are with his family today. #RJMitte […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Wordle 1 941 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦 ⬛⬛🟦⬛🟧 ⬛🟧⬛🟧🟧 ⬛🟧⬛🟧🟧 ⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1941

071 7

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@bluegal.bsky.social Reminds me of a minister I used to have, when he was doing Holy Communion, and he recited the bit about Jesus taking the bread, giving thanks, and breaking it, he would make the sign of the cross as he said, "Gave thanks." Umm... No, Rev. Not yet. :-D

020 2

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Wordle 1 940 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟧🟦 ⬛⬛🟦🟧⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #worlde1940

031 3

Reposted by Graham Downs

Bedfordview Methodist Church @bedfordviewmc.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

🍇 COMMUNITY PRAYER 🍏 Dear God, help us to realise and recognise fruits of the Spirit in our lives, so we can live out your will in the world for all to know that You are Love. This we pray in Jesus Name. Amen #Prayer #Faith

001 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Seen in yesterday's @thecontinent "Authorities in Ghana have arrested seven people for making 'money bouquets' out of cedi banknotes, the BBC reports. The Bank of Ghana warned the practice violates laws against currency misuse, stating the currency must be treated with 'respect'. Money bouquets […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

100 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Wordle 1 939 4/6* 🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛ ⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #wordle #wordle1939

051 5

Reposted by Graham Downs

Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"I will not morally compromise myself by voting and choosing a party which does not reflect my values, the lesser of two evils is still evil" I admire the purity of a position so morally superior that it literally doesn't care what degree of evil everybody around you has to suffer through […]

mastodon.monoceros.co.za

Original post on mastodon.monoceros.co.za

204 4

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@uastronomer Well, you *might* order said meal upon hearing that it's one of the most popular items on the menu. Which is... kinda the same thing. Well, not really, but it is what they're hoping for: theoretically, "box office success" means more people watched it, some even multiple times […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

000 0

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Cyclists, entries for next year's Dis-chem Ride of Sight are now open, and if you book before 15 October, you can get 20% off your entry fee: mailchi.mp/retinasa/entries-are-ope… As always, proceeds go to research […]

mastodon.africa

Original post on mastodon.africa

011 1

Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Oh, wow, this is really cool! A line of handbags created by South African artisan women is going to feature at the Paris fashion week: www.goodthingsguy.com/shweshwe-hand… #SouthAfrica #fashion

002 2