Reposted by nthandiweKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026What chills me more is that the Atlantic article's author not only scanned Kundieza's work, but also scanned 25 years' worth of Caine Prize awardees to check whether they were human. A prize for African writers. It feels like the literary equivalent of doing a non-consensual genital check. 11689112
Reposted by nthandiweDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying. 111235411
Reposted by nthandiweKenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC 2004014856
Reposted by nthandiweJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026French. Onion. Soup. Season. 101626
Reposted by nthandiweDinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921. 16833273
Reposted by nthandiweGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMinisters preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spendingExclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say 621139343
Reposted by nthandiweOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all? 551385226
Reposted by nthandiweBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts? 224154752611
Reposted by nthandiweNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions. 302749431
Reposted by nthandiweDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10/10/2026“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.businessinsider.comMy personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel. 1022911641
Reposted by nthandiweA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmedRegulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic 1181385625
Reposted by nthandiweBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/10/2026The Tories want you to trust them on the economy. But they can't even get the numbers right on a spreadsheet.theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ da 24371132
Reposted by nthandiweMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54Cbuff.lyIs It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin... 131315418
Reposted by nthandiweCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026There’s an argument in the comments about when public executions stopped, but like… State actors have been executing people in public, with little consequence or holding them accountable, for a very long time. 336865
Reposted by nthandiwevijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions 1269103
Reposted by nthandiweAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports 348852621096
Reposted by nthandiweJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care. 36051201276
Reposted by nthandiweflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion. 1542494
Reposted by nthandiweA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's because they can't afford to live. 521584237
Reposted by nthandiweSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026New sentence dropped www.tmz.com/2026/10/06/a...tmz.comAmerican Airlines Passenger Allegedly Put Her Legs Against Window As She Masturbated11:57 AM PT -- TMZ has obtained video of the incident. 10962280
Reposted by nthandiweelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hamas is a shell of its former self after 3 years of a war of annihilation and genocide against Palestinian civilians, but that has made no difference to pro-Israel apologists who continue to accuse everyone of being supporters or even members of Hamas 012127
Reposted by nthandiweYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The 7th Oct was the biggest single-day massacre in the modern history of Palestine/Israel. It was followed by the most lethal campaign in the history of the country. In the last three years, Israel inflicted a 7 Oct on Gaza every three weeks on average (in absolute terms; more in relative terms). 219750
Reposted by nthandiweCount Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the abolitionist's dilemma 452761604
Reposted by nthandiweMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He poured fuel on the fire and now he is hiding the petrol can. 2394
Reposted by nthandiweJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851981384
Reposted by nthandiwederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming 494505385
Reposted by nthandiweElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I will never forgive or forget a single Republican Senator who voted yes on RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. But as you know I hold especial contempt for Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) for greasing the skids for RFK Jr. and for the destruction of U.S. public health. 33921166
Reposted by nthandiweGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide 451447537
Reposted by nthandiweIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780861994
Reposted by nthandiweJosh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete there is a war going on in the middle east right now. You might have heard about it. You could literally go right now instead of doing whatever this is. 14612
Reposted by nthandiweErik Ten Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.” 561823375
Reposted by nthandiweKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026I'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis, which is being pitched as a cute romance but is personally horrifying to read / watch as a woman in STEM. (I know the author is also a woman in STEM and honestly I don't get that at all.) 2163541
Reposted by nthandiweHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can you imagine being a son of “good” immigrants, learned to talk, walk and act like an elite, distance yourself from any semblance of ethnic and religious heritage, and reached the highest office in the country, only for a bunch of podcasters to do phrenology on you for YouTube bucks 914114
Reposted by nthandiwePam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 942512665
Reposted by nthandiweMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 553122572
Reposted by nthandiweSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 561634528
Reposted by nthandiwecait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women 92538538
Reposted by nthandiweThe Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene. 21021283
Reposted by nthandiweDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not. 631165173
Reposted by nthandiweHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026British columnists love getting everything they wanted and still moaning about it 42841124
Reposted by nthandiweAmbrose @ambrosia-engine.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026Most of this Silicon Valley network in AI is also Epstein's network. It's not just women and girls who are groomed and abused by these men. Perhaps a death and sex cult shouldn't be left to self regulate tech products. We need accountability and justice. 324894
Reposted by nthandiweTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works. 1145495
Reposted by nthandiweMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...scrippsnews.comInteractive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labelsPork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for. 11527471294
Reposted by nthandiwePeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7779151410