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Hagen Engler

@hagenengler.bsky.social
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Word artist. Comms worker. Afro-positivist. 🍉Novelist| Ghostwriter | Musician | Editorial Director. Johannesburg, South Africa. Spoken-word acoustic album bit.ly/3KSbbe5

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Seton Hawkins @setonhawkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bokani Dyer is South Africa's most exceptional pianist in the music today. His new album is absolutely incredible. open.spotify.com/album/4Xuhvk... #SouthAfricanJazz
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Bokani Dyer Trio - Traditions - Album by Bokani Dyer | Spotify
Bokani Dyer · album · 2026 · 11 songs
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, some of them come back to SA, cos US healthcare is too expensive www.africaninsider.com/politics/afr...
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Afrikaner ‘refugee’ family learns the hard way after returning to SA for healthcare
An Afrikaner family granted refugee status in the United States has been unable to return to the country after travelling back to South Africa for medical treatment.
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Told my parents a friend had to stop drinking because he had pancreatic failure. They are super sad for him, skulling whiskies. “Surely there’s a homeopathic remedy for that!”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ooops. 🤣🤣🤣
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Home HIV tests are a bloodbath. I clearly lack the IQ to operate a lancet 😫
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Robotic phone farm with an automated rig auto tapping and swiping for nonstop short video viewing Original post
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The countries that ended apartheid did not wait for permission from those who armed it. Neither should we. They are few. We are many.” Varsha Gandikota argues that the only response to unilateral bullying is collective action. 🔗 Read online: buff.ly/CH0olXW
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amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From Our Archives: On paper, CMS Water Engineering was a highly successful, black-owned company securing water and wastewater projects across the country.
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Rethabile @rahlooho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/09/cour... #PhillippaYaaDeVilliers #CourageItTakesMore #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #SouthAfricanPoetry #SouthernAfricanPoetry #AfricanPoetry #21stCenturyPoetry
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Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers's 'Courage – It Takes More' — a stirring poem of ubuntu, justice, and the courage to build a home for all humanity.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
South Africa’s female homicide problem is utterly shameful. However, it’s also worth recognising that 7x more men than women are murdered every year. Part of the problem may be positioning men as Invulnerable in our social imagination. +-20000 murders every year. 😐 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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South Africa’s male homicide epidemic hiding in plain sight: Exploring sex differences and patterns in homicide risk in a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations
South Africa has an overall homicide rate six times the global average. Males are predominantly the victims and perpetrators, but little is known about the male victims. For the country’s first ever s...
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Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the first half of 2026, South Africa’s agricultural exports amounted to US$7.8 billion, up 11% from the first half of 2025.
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For centuries, university halls belonged to men. But since 2000, women caught up and completely took over. Today, female college enrollment outpaces men in 130 countries, leading by +40% in Sweden, +36% in Brazil, and +32% in the US.
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Mapped: Women vs. Men in Higher Education Around the World
Women have higher college enrollment rates than men in 130 countries. See where the gender gap is widest, and where the pattern reverses.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’ bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/jason-ar…
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Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇱🇸 Lesotho: Three men abducted Newsday editor Kananelo Boloetse from his home on September 5, questioned him about his journalism and human rights work, then assaulted him and threatened his life. buff.ly/LYMC8fJ
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I may be dating the Hottest Woman In Joburg. That comes with unanticipated complexities. We will stick to our task tho!
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Two days in Munich next week, never been but really looking forward to it. Should have a few of these stickers left after some meetings in Frankfurt.
white stickers
FAHRRÄDER
BIETEN DIE FREIHEIT, WELCHE DIE AUTOWERBUNG VERSPRICHT
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/09/2026
I am up early for an early flight home and breakfast is three Oreos and a Coke Zero. I have never felt more alive.
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is one of my favourite facts because it's an inversion of how we view things outside our planet and creatures we can see right now if we wanted
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You might not know it, but this is, just, what you need!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It will indeed be an extremely special match! 🏉
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Riaan Louw @ringo26.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not the crazy situation it was made out to be. rugby365.com/countries/so...
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'No money issue': Swys de Bruin sheds light on his resignation
SPOTLIGHT: Swys de Bruin has revealed the real reason behind his resignation as Springbok Women head coach and backed his successors to lead the Bok Women against the Black Ferns at the FNB Stadium on...
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Africa Check @africacheck.org · 02/09/2026
In our newsletter, we unpack: ✔ Viral claims making the rounds ✔ Health and scam misinformation ✔ Practical tips to fact-check for yourself 📧 Get the facts — with context. 👉 Subscribe: africacheck.info/newsletter_sign_up Check out past editions: africacheck.org/newsletter
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Roger Young is nothing if not opinionated. Here he trains his acid pen on South African opposition leader Helen Zille and her Dolly Parton stance... write.as/3j7x5v2rpssf...
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Angrily accurate critique of the unaccountable ANC politically connected. "To every person trying to escape poverty, lawlessness and struggling from one month to the next: we do not give a fuck about you, or this country." www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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383 days, one video, no arrests
The former chief executive of a state entity that spends upwards of R4-billion a year, and her then spokesperson, put R60,000 in a Dior shopping bag on a table in front of a Daily Maverick journalist....
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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My biggest advice for youngsters: take pictures of the places that matter to you. Your home, your bedroom, your classrooms, the stores you frequent, etc. You'll probably have plenty of pictures of the people in your life, but the spaces change and disappear, and they're a wonder to revisit.
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve see live. Al Jarreau Thandiswa Mazwai Guns n Roses Crosby Stills & Nash Green Day Lauryn Hill Bad Brains The Specials Hugh Masekela Juluka The Black Spirits
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Why 10? The Rolling Stones The Who Muddy Waters Fats Domino Little Feat Bob Dylan Dr. John The Clash The Ramones The Cramps Allen Toussaint Frank Sinatra Dexter Gordon Bruce Springsteen Elvis Costello Iggy Pop Buddy Guy and... ...Buddy Hackett
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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defenceWeb @defenceweb.co.za · 26/08/2026
Many countries suffer from an affliction colloquially known as “sea blindness.” The phrase describes a general lack of concern about maritime security, but also the inability to monitor what is happening on the water. defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/...
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Floorlibrarian @floorlibrarian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lamenting the disappearance of the Cape Argus Archives which was online & free circa2009/10 or so. Wonderfully, it had digitized copies of the Argus from the late 70's? till 2000's. Databases with 80's 90's archival material have just vanished into the digital ether. A possible Jam Alley situation
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Marie's Sigh
Alt: Marie's Sigh
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Guitar pick made out of rosewood with geometric shell inlay. [📹 strummerride] Original post
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Jon Cardinelli @joncardinelli.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Boks' performance against the All Blacks was one of the most disappointing and uncharacteristic displays of the Rassie Erasmus era. My analysis on the Boks' set-piece flex and 2nd half slump, the ABs' heroic defence, and what we can expect in RGR2 rugby365.com/countries/ne...
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Wasteful Boks must address second-half slump
OPINION: Rugby365 columnist Jon Cardinelli breaks down the Springboks' brainless performance in a 16-33 defeat to the All Blacks at Ellis Park.
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helchose.bsky.social @helchose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
That's nice, Natalie.
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wow, New Zealand rugby team! You humbled us. 😔 Well played. 🫡
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wind turbine after being hit by a tornado Original post
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André Bruwer @andrebruwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This has to be the serval that I've heard about that lives next to Sasol Secunda. You can see the plant, cooling towers, stacks and the ash dumps off in the distance.
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have to get new work pants because I have holes in my other pants…40 dollars for some extra long work pants should be criminal…
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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
ALT: Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The point is South Africans are massive xenophobes. There are people protesting at court in SA demanding that Chidimma be deported because she has a Nigerian name. Whether she was born here or not. We just hate difference. Apartheid divisiveness still rules. Verwoerd high-firing himself in his grave
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 21/08/2026
The record is clear: Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, fuelled the conflict in Donbas, and on 24 February 2022 launched a full-scale, unprovoked attack on Ukraine from multiple directions.   The denial has aged less well than the facts.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/08/2026
it blew my mind when I realized just how often it never occurs to many, many people in the professional world to ask these questions. it still blows my mind. how is this possible.
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Absolute campaign ad!
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I did these two books almost 30 years apart, full-circle vibes.
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Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Got my poetry book from the printers 👌
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Japan made Band-Aids look like your injury got censored by the internet. These “mosaix” bandages use pixelated patterns to cover cuts and scrapes. Original post
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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Artists always remember nobody sees every post so just go into your older art posts and self reshare them and see what happens or make a brand new post with the art your proud of even if you posted it already. It’s potential brand new to tens of thousands of new eyes. It’s not spam it’s art.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So powerful to be in Trafalgar Square at the vigil. Rest in Power, Professor Jason Arday.
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