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Kylé Pienaar

@kylepienaar.bsky.social
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South African documentary producer based in the DC area.

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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 13h
The Mouse of Minsk
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 14h
Some pics of the Brazilian Amazon from right before the 2022 runoff.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Saw the goat Maria Bamford tonight
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The magic of Taskmaster is nerds who love rules can enjoy it and cool people who love chaos can enjoy it too and neither really has to compromise with the other. An incredible synthesis.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
just had a root beer float 👍
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kind of a bummer the first person I ever interviewed on camera for my first documentary project in college was fucking Chris Rufo
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i think about how Walter Benjamin died all the time
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Brazil elects baby Bolsonaro the only upside I guess is maybe not feeling as sure that the wasted interregnum by Garland etc was decisive
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
got up from a nap and there was a dead spotted lantern fly under me on the couch 😭😱
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
IT'S CRUCIAL TO HAVE AN ACTIVE FANTASY LIFE
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s cool Halt and Catch Fire is on the list at all.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me and Lance got our tix to YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. Feeling proud of our boy. Poop flavored froyo can take you places I never would have imagined.
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squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
claude do a breakthrough. restore all power to jurassic park. make no mistakes.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm so scared everything I write in public makes me sound like an idiot and then there's Will Stancil just all confidence.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some unorganized thoughts on language, AI, and the natural world: a big personal goal is to change my relationship with non-human living things. I’m a talker first and struggle to connect in the absence of conversation. But there are many other ways to relate and I want to figure out how to tap in.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My great solace is working with scientists and researchers and conservationists who believe in us and the world and spend their lives in its service
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Whenever these Best 100 lists come out I’m shuttled back to facebook, 2007, agonizing over what combo of books, music and movies would impress my crush
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
theguardian.com
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
all that time worrying about not being cool and all I had to do was wait for my adolescence to become the standard.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Top 5 albums when i was 18… Milk-eyed Mender Ys In the Aeroplane over the sea 69 Love Songs The creek drank the cradle
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We’re doing The Dress: Trump-was-elected-twice edition
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
2014 is a long way away
The Transgender Tipping Point TIME magazine cover
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Had a great afternoon at the Small Press Expo and Lance got me a Moomin hat!
Women in green hat with moomin on it holding up comics
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the story of the day
The story of the day! A third
party weighs in on a
squabble between two
people you don’t know!
You also
don’t know
the third
person! Read
all about it
for some
reason!!!
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 10/09/2026
emmanuel beauty salon, el paso, texas, 2003
emmanuel beauty salon, el paso, texas, 2003
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
so many posts about Reacher on this website which means none of you cancelled Prime.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hawaiian honeycreepers are the most beautiful demonstration of adaptive radiation and we’ve already lost ~40 species. The 17 remaining will likely go extinct in my lifetime because of climate change. The extinction crisis is here and has nothing to do with AI.
Image showing diversity of honeycreeper bird species
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
Beef Tallow Homunculus  Escapes From HHS Building theonion.com/beef-tallow-homunculus…
Beef Tallow Homunculus  Escapes From HHS Building
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can’t shake the feeling that if i were actually a good person i‘d be in prison or dead by now
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@smallpressexpo.bsky.social is this weekend the one weekend of the year my boring suburban Maryland neighborhood is flooded with freaks and weirdos and I feel at home.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Had to hide the Talarico clip the trans people in sports conversation makes me want to kms
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My first real job in documentaries was making videos for the brand new National Museum of African American History and Culture. Feels like another universe, a different timeline.
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Saturday tunes
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Post-literacy graphics at the CVS pharmacy
AI image of person holding phone showing their vaccine history at CVS but lots of the words are garbled
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Doodling instead of doomscrolling
Desk with doodles art supplies reference books
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
God says to a man "you have died. Prepare for judgement. You will now confront your best self. The version of you that lived up to all your potential." An exact duplicate of the man pops into existence and says "hi, it's me! Your best self! I'm exactly like you!" He continues "turns out youa ctually did live up to all of your potential!" The original man puts his hands on his head and says "Jesus, that's depressing."
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In 1947 10yr old Richard Allen of San Francisco spent a week at the movies
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of the great internet images of unclear origin
My idols are dead and my enemies are in power
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
unbelievable service from bookseller partner
Sharing New Yorker post about Merve Emre's campus novel recs and writing, "the Amanda Cross mysteries and Moo sound great! lmk if you ever see them in store"Person holding Jane Smiley's "Moo"
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just subscribed to LRB. Any other print mags people like??
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
doing annual security training modules for work and the scripts are all AI-written!!!!!!!!!! i hate everything in the world!!!!!!!
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI food photos are viscerally nauseating to me but people who make and sell food for a living are using them in marketing. Makes me feel completely out of touch with the world. What are they seeing and why is it so different from what I see?
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Became a citizen so I could say fuck ICE forever in public. I can’t forgive anyone who voted for this psycho!!! I don’t see a way back!!
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Got to the end of reddit
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
spent 2 weeks in South Africa and snagged one day in my hometown. I love Joburg!!!
Me blonde bob lady leaning against a rock with a mosaic
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m here btw
Kelp on beach at sunset
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
taking my partner and his family to South Africa tomorrow. The moms are going to meet for the first time. We’ve been together 9 years. Lots of feelings lol
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