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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 02/10/2026

My favourite part was when he said "It's Diggin' time!" and then he Dugg all over those people.

Poster for Digger (2026), by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Starring Tim Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons.

Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 07/09/2026

Attention #Joburg people, this show's funny as hell. Zany, Ben Elton-style absurdist satire. Go see it! www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.asp...

The Agents, at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, from 20-31 October.

The poster shows three manic, scheming estate agents, played by Kyla Davis, Roberto Pombo, and Lisa Derryn Overy.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 18/08/2026

I hope I get to be a silly gay witness and not a silly gay murder victim.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 14/08/2026

Not a day goes by without need of the Judith Butler Apology Form.

Judith Butler Apology Form
From: [blank]
Date: [blank]
Reason for behaviour: [a series of checkboxes]

- The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
- I never actually read their work
- I miss not thinking about gender
- I didn't realise how much of society is built on gender
- I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
- Mercury was in retrograde

[Final checkbox] I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 11/08/2026

Well, off I go to gym. 🥲

Weather app showing current temperature of 1°C (Feels like -3°) with forecast "Heavy sleet today and cloudy this evening."

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 05/08/2026

6. What books have you read in the last month? Pretty busy month by my standards. If I had to pick a favourite it might be Fake Work, which you can sample in N Plus One. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess...

Recently read (from most to least recent):
Dear Stupid Penpal - Rascal Hartley
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke - Leigh Claire La Berge
The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Flier

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 22/07/2026

I think my "hardest correct answers" list on @catfishing.net says something about me. (Also, it's very neat that there are two parrot-related answers next to one another.)

List of "Correct answers fewest other players got right" and percentage of players that were correct. The date that each answer appeared has been blurred to prevent minor Catfishing spoilers.

Alexander Grothendieck 4%
Gerald Durrell 4%
José Saramago 6%
Robert E. Howard 6%
Stephen Jay Gould 6%
Junkie 6%
Cry, the Beloved Country 7%
Punctuated equilibrium 7%
Sons and Lovers 7%
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 7%
High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program 7%
John Donne 7%
Map–territory relation 8%
Feast of the Ass 8%
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 8%
Stochastic parrot 9%
Alex 9%
Agnès Varda 9%
E. B. White 9%
Peter Kropotkin 9%

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 17/06/2026

UPDATE: As of today, I can see an actual "Age-restricted adult content" warning that correctly informs me that the post exists, as well as why I can't view it.

Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to X. Learn more [link]

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 15/06/2026

Very frustrating new thing on X. Was looking for posts which included a certain out-of-context video. Presumably because of graphic content, the posts weren't shown to logged out viewers. But this is what those viewers see. Not, "you must log in to view this content" but, "this page doesn't exist".

What looks like an error page on X, which reads:

"Nothing to see here
"Looks like this page doesn’t exist. Here’s a picture of a poodle sitting in a chair for your trouble."

The page also features a stock image of a poodle in a chair, and a "Looking for this?" button which links to the X homepage.

Logged-in users would actually see a post with a video, caption, and replies.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 14/06/2026

Yeah, we can tell that Bluesky is built with AI...

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 04/06/2026

If you happen to be anywhere near Belfast next Thursday (11th June) and want to hear some of my favourite music in the world, please go have a first listen to a South African punk compilation I helped put together! 🤘 (And let me know if you'll be there, you can say hi to some lovely people for me!)

Event poster featuring a sick-ass picture of a hadeda, cool yellow fabric patterns, and a juicy-looking vinyl record. It reads:

Sneak preview listen to the new Failed States//Creative Resistances compilation "More Than Hate City"!

Plus Q&A with:
Twenty One Children (skate punk band from Soweto)
We Did This Records (DIY record distro from Joburg)

Thursday 11th June
The Art Shop
Academy St. Belfast (UU York St)
13:00-14:00
Free lunch!

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 14/05/2026

Get the feeling this line from a recent @garbageday.email update is going to be rattling around in my skull often in the near future.

Another assumption I’m going to make is that the average user on a platform like TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram can no longer discern the difference between a legacy media podcast like Popcast, Druski’s one-man Comedy Central on Instagram, Jake Shane sitting on a couch with Kacey Musgraves, and a guy recapping murder trials in his kitchen. Which means all four kinds of videos are held to the same standard, though not how you might think. Instead of users expecting everything on their feeds to be professional, audiences have kind of settled into a weird middle ground where they want videos to feel like a friend with perfect media training casually FaceTiming them from a professional newsroom. A tough balancing act to keep up, for sure.

[The second last sentence of the paragraph, "Instead of users expecting everything on their feeds..." has been highlighted.]

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 30/04/2026

Lerato Orchestral Collective* is the greatest band in the world.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 18/04/2026

You're arguing with an account that's 19 hours old and has already posted >400 times. I think you've gotta just block and move on.

Screenshot showing that the account "skoomanbean.bsky.social" joined Bluesky 19 hours ago, and has made 461 posts.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 15/04/2026

Look at this. It's like this article was written to bait a Spike Lee movie into existence.

In the interviews, Garrison confirmed that he had received a hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars’ worth of checks from Alfortish. Federal authorities realized that, with Garrison’s critical evidence, they could construct a major case. On one level, the slammer conspiracy was an amusing example of New Orleans chicanery at its most baroque, a tale of literal highway robbery so antic and absurd that it seemed like the plot of an Elmore Leonard novel. But, on a deeper level, it was an awful parable of economic desperation in twenty-first-century America. Scores of poor Black Louisianans had volunteered for what was effectively Russian roulette, risking their own lives and the lives of their loved ones in the hope of a onetime payout. The attorneys, by contrast, were well educated and mostly white, and would almost certainly have been loath to climb into a car with Garrison and go looking for a truck to hit. Of course, the lawyers had reaped the bulk of the financial rewards. Motta routinely demanded six- or seven-figure settlements, and contingency fees often ran as high as forty per cent. Actual payments to clients, however, could take years to come through, when they came through at all.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 01/04/2026

Here's the official explanation.

Easter Eggs

Most puzzles contain one or more secret easter eggs. These appear when specific phrases areselected, and can be "collected" by selecting them.

(Example: "joke in spring time" becomes "🤡 April fools?")

When you collect an easter egg, nothing happens in the puzzle. After you complete the puzzle, th summary screen will show the number of easter eggs you found, and your share text will update to indicate that you found one or more easter eggs.

Easter eggs:
* Are most commonly found off the solution path
* Are included in. our game summary and share text if you choose to collect them
* Are not required to enjoy Parseword!

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 31/03/2026

I wish all trans people a very happy TDOV. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 09/03/2026

I continue to have a very good time at the movies. Pictured: two very good Joburg Film Fest showings, and two Luca Guadagnino movies.

Letterboxd recent activity. The four films, in order of least to most recent, are: Challengers, Oca, Nomad Shadow, Call Me by Your Name.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 20/02/2026

Is there some kind of prize for best #LastFourWatched?

Letterboxd recent activity. From least to most recent, the four films are:
- Before Sunrise
- Drive My Car
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 18/02/2026

Hysterical to see this turn up in my @sill.social digest (because so many of you are quote-dunking on it) slotted in amongst four separate articles about different negative impacts of AI. 🫠

Screenshot of a Sill Daily Digest for 18 February 2026. The first six headlines (and teasers) are:

- WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
(Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.)

- “I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
(Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...)

- Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says
(This could go on for another 10 years.)

- 'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
(Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good.")

- The left is missing out on AI
(As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right)

- AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
(ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.)

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 04/02/2026

I am going to get so much mileage out of this Ripley clip.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 31/01/2026

If we work hard enough, we can convince Amazon to re-release this in a months time.

The Melania documentary poster, but the M has been replaced with the one from the Morbius poster.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 19/01/2026

Me, when "Fast Car" comes on in the middle of a workout:

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 02/01/2026

Technically too late for #LetterboxdFriday, but my #LastFourWatched is a veritable glut of Josh O'Connor bangers! (Plus Challengers, which has just slid out of view.)

Letterboxd recent activity from most to least recent:
Wake Up Dead Man
La Chimera
The Mastermind
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 24/12/2025

Super irresponsible for Drop Site to be posting vague speculation like this when the actual context is known. Here's @shayan86.bsky.social on this video.

Tweet from Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86), showing a screenshot of a 3D rendered video on YouTube titled, "Epstein 4k". The tweet reads:

This purported suicide video of Jeffrey Epstein in his prison cell is a fake 3D render that was posted to YouTube back in 2020.

The reason it was recently included in the DoJ's Epstein files is that it was previously sent to investigators by someone who thought it was real.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 20/12/2025

Sick as a dog, feeling terrible, but somehow my hair looks really nice.

Keegan selfie. Dark brown beard & moustache and long wavy hair that's looking nice and soft and bouncy. Keegan looks a little perplexed by this.

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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 01/12/2025

Everyone can (and should) read @readlux.bsky.social online. I've yet to encounter a dull article. But I'm also here to inform you all that if you pay for a subscription you get to see some of the most fantastic magazine layouts that you can find anywhere.