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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

It never gets old looking out over what is essentially an accidental forest. Thousands of hectares of urban canopy rolling all the way to the horizon. Millions of trees, all planted by humans. This used to be Highveld grasslands before it was a city. 🏙️🌲🌳 […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

High-angle panoramic landscape overlooking a dense, rolling urban tree canopy extending for miles, completely enveloping the neighborhoods below, with a faint city skyline barely visible along the distant horizon.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Spotted at the Pret A Manger in Joburg this morning. The way these chairs are tucked in at different depths or levels with the tables, but themselves staggered... peak geometric harmony and oddly satisfying 👌

An indoor shot of a brightly lit coffee shop with light wooden furniture and gray terrazzo flooring. In the center, three small round wooden tables are arranged in a staggered row, each surrounded by matching wooden chairs with gray cushioned seats tucked in flush against the table edges. A single small green potted plant sits in the exact center of each table. Along the left wall, a row of square wooden tables is arranged against a banquette seating area. Along the right wall, a black counter features a row of tall wooden barstools beneath a line of globe pendant lamps with burgundy shades. Three large framed rectangular posters hang on the back wall, featuring graphic illustrations including a vegetable design that looks like a lion and the text "Hello Johannesburg".

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Fell into the lavender haze, where the jacarandas do the dreaming for you. 🌸 #Johannesburg #Jacarandas

A white pelican stands on a grassy slope, with blooming purple jacaranda trees in the background.

A quiet street tunnels beneath a dense canopy of purple jacaranda blossoms, with a few vehicles passing through in soft early light.

A suburban Johannesburg street on a sunny day, arched by tall jacaranda trees in full purple bloom, fallen petals carpeting the road beside green lawns.

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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.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Sensitive content - history, war, genocide, starvation, graphic image] History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. This is Lizzie van Zyl. In May 1901, aged seven, she died of starvation and typhoid in the British concentration camp hospital at […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Black-and-white photograph of Lizzie van Zyl, an emaciated seven-year-old Boer girl, lying on a hospital bed in the British concentration camp at Bloemfontein, 1901.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Can we get a Dungeon Crawler Carl game already? 🎮

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it, that is your punishment. But if you never know, then you can become anything new, anything at all and that is your reward.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

We’re all unreliable narrators because memory isn’t a recording being played, it’s a rewrite of the file. Every time we recall the past, we’re editing the truth to fit the person we’ve since become. We're not just unreliable narrators, we’re also the only narrators to our stories. So then at […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Big congrats to Canada, the EU’s first ever associate member! A bold step for transatlantic cooperation and a new chapter for global partnerships 🤝🇨🇦🇪🇺 #eucananda

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

A little is a lot, but only if you know what nothing is.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

My cappuccino with complimentary swan art 🦢 from Platō this morning 🌅 ☕

A photo of a cappuccino with foam art showing two swans facing each other and a fern or plant in the centre.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

On 11 and 12 May this year large parts of the Western Cape, South Africa experienced heavy rainfall, swallowing vineyards, tearing through cellars, and rising two metres high, they left behind a landscape unrecognisable. The vineyards had its fertile topsoil […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A large wooden retail bin filled with rows of stacked white wine bottles, all heavily coated in dried mud with stained, peeling labels following the floods.

Aerial view of a large winery complex and silver fermentation tanks surrounded and partially submerged by deep brown floodwaters, with surrounding vineyard rows covered in silt and water.

The interior of a flood-damaged winery warehouse, showing collapsed, mud-stained cardboard wine boxes and scattered wine bottles strewn across a thick silt-covered floor.

A hand holding an individual bottle of rosé wine caked in dried river mud and silt, featuring a torn, water-damaged paper label and a red screw-cap.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

All empires fail, few dismantle themselves voluntarily like this.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Waterfox/117123110… Such a brilliant update!! The new Nova look is 🔥🔥 or well... in this case... 🌊🌊

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Joburg’s weather setting: [ ] Winter [ ] Spring [x] Straight to Summer Sunscreen out, windows open, zero complaints today 🌞

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

New research published today reveals four times more peat in Angolan Highlands than previously estimated Scientists from The Nature Conservancy and partners mapped the whole 380 382 sq km Angolan Highlands Water Tower in higher resolution for the first time […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Aerial top-down view of a rugged shoreline where dry, grassy ground meets deep teal-to-dark-blue open water.

High-angle panoramic view of a wide river curving through golden-brown wetlands and marsh reeds during sunset.

A person standing on a traditional wooden dugout canoe, steering with a long pole across calm water dotted with lily pads against a backdrop of tall reeds and a soft pastel sky.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

"Yes, I could have traveled quickly. But all men have the same ultimate destination. Whether we find our end in a hallowed sepulcher or a pauper's ditch, all save the Heralds themselves must dine with the Nightwatcher. And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Watching the city settle into dusk yesterday through a frame of crimson coral tree blooms 🌸 #johannesburg #sandton

A view of the Sandton skyline framed by the dark branches and bright red flowers of a coral tree at twilight.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

A democracy, if you can keep it On September 18, 1787, as the Constitutional Convention wrapped up in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin walked out of Independence Hall into the crisp autumn air. Waiting outside was Elizabeth Willing Powel, a prominent Philadelphia socialite and sharp political […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Today was a holiday in lieu in South Africa. Yesterday was our National Women’s Day, celebrated on August 9th, not March 8th like much of the world. South Africa celebrates National Women’s Day on August 9th to commemorate the 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Black-and-white photograph of the 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa. A large crowd of women of diverse races, dressed in formal and traditional attire, walk together in protest, holding papers and wearing badges. The image captures the unity and determination of the women during this historic event against apartheid pass laws.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Really hope we get some snow again this year in Joburg 😊 seems like large parts of South Africa and the entire mountain kingdom of Lesotho will get some snow over the weekend and early next week ❄️ ⛄

Vox Weather snow forecast map for South Africa and Lesotho, covering 9–11 August 2026. Shows widespread light snowfall across interior regions, with heavy snow (>20 cm) predicted with high confidence in the Drakensberg mountain areas.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: eldritch.cafe/@Lucia/11703520659802… This was THE absolute wildest culture shock for me the first time I visited the US. In South Africa and most of Europe, there are strict limits on what kind of meds you can advertise. Going from silly aspirin or cough syrup commercials to […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

If I ever need to produce tears for any occasion I just need to watch a video of a dog getting adopted. That shit wrecks me every damn time 😭😭😭🐶❤️

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

"Reality, my dear, is the dream that forgot it was dreaming"

The Cheshire Cat from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with bright teal eyes and a wide, toothy grin floating in front of Alice in a dark forest.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

If you have a Bookwyrm account, I would very much appreciate it if you would add and shelve my books there. I'm trying to get more traction there, and convince more people to leave Goodreads: bookwyrm.social/author/262791/s/gra… #bookstodon #bookwyrm

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Clearly I’m just a nosy mofo, because ever since #Pokémon games stopped letting you walk into random houses, the magic is gone. Sure, it could be the open world or the muted colours, but deep down I know it’s because I can’t just stomp into a stranger’s living room no more 🕵️‍♂️

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I swear I’m probably the ultimate celebrity ally because of my severe fame blindness. I genuinely cannot tell famous people apart from total street randos. If a famous person is screaming at the sky in a distressed designer coat, they don't have to worry about me asking for a selfie or some […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

I hadn’t heard of Alexis Nikole Nelson before listening to the latest episode of #Humans with @hankgreen but she is just a wonderful, amazing human. Hearing her say that "humans are the only animal that can gather enough knowledge to try to positively help the other organisms around them. We're […]

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Grant_H @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Crafting a bow. I suspect that that #spokeshave is at least 70 years old, possibly more. My son has restored the edge on the blade - it slices wood like butter. The second image is the #workbench #Photography #BlackAndWhite #SouthAfrica #Handcraft The […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A black and white closeup of a pair of hands pulling a spokeshave along a slender piece of clamped wood.

A robust homemade workbench with a spokeshave and other tools and wood shavings. Black and white.

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@pixelfed/116821893… Please boost this for awareness! The fediverse owes so much to Sean’s impactful work and words! Let’s get him funded to attend FediCon ❤️

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

I was reading about the regulatory gray zones and neobank collapses in the US and Europe, and it got me thinking, why don’t we talk more about our system? South Africa’s banking sector isn’t just solid for an emerging market; it’s a global benchmark. We hear a lot about South Africa’s economic […]

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Josh Leibstein 👽 @joshliebe.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Yes boys! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦📣📣📣📣📣📣 #worldcup #bafanabafana

South African team celebrates Thapelo Maseko's strike after going on to win 1-0 vs South Korea. This is the first time South Africa has made it into the knockout stages of the World Cup. Image courtesy of the BBC.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

One of the most defining features of #isiZulu is its noun class system. Instead of masculine or feminine genders (like German or French), nouns are grouped by categories (humans, animals, abstract concepts), and each category gets a specific prefix. But here is a psychological key: that prefix […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

"Your own happiness is too important to be outsourced to somebody else’s values."

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

🗞️ My weekly newspapers arrived twice yesterday, so I dropped the extras off at a favourite local coffee shop for others to enjoy. Spread the words (and the pages I guess) 😅

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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו @hnygd.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

I am not sure if many people know that the world's most successful #sailplane|s are manufactured in #SouthAfrica and that #Jonker also seems to be the world's largest #glider manufacturer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_LhPikeZo #Aviation

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