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sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 21/09/2026

Perhaps the most prized gift of all could be spotted peeking out from beneath the suit worn by Eric Trump at Lindsey Graham's funeral: red cuff links with the presidential seal in gold, embossed with Trump's signature on the back.
'Those are fucking status symbols," says the strategist. "Because they come straight from the president himself." The cuff links are handed out to a select few, because the red pair denotes true admiration. Sir Keir Starmer, then prime minister of the United Kingdom, was shafted with a comparatively pedestrian silver pair.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 21/09/2026

The Trinkets
Louis XIV, the imperial French leader who called himself "The Sun King," was known to hand out miniature portraits of himself, framed by diamonds, as marks of royal favor. Similarly, small tokens of Trump's fleeting affection are highly coveted.
Thankfully, the White House doles out all manner of trinkets to excited visitors. The Oval Office study has even been converted into a miniature gift shop, replete with MAGA hats promising
"Trump 2028" and boxes of M&M's bearing the presidential seal. (Trump refers to this as "the Monica Lewinsky room," given rumors it once hosted an infamous tryst.) The president himself hands out White House "challenge coins," which are small medallions made for each government agency, though Trump's are distinct in one way.
"They typically fit in the palm of your hand," explains a Republican strategist. "His is enormous. It's like a small frisbee."

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 21/09/2026

Mm there's something about these artists...

Unlike the staid and sober Republicans of yore, the MAGA set likes to party, and a number of big-name artists —50 Cent, Timbaland, and Akon— have performed at Executive Branch. These bashes are attended by the most important members of the administration. "The parties are wild," says a club member who's never missed a show. "You have Nelly and Ja Rule and 50 Cent performing, and Dr. Oz and his wife ripping it up on the dance floor. Imagine being 50 Cent and looking out into the crowd and you see the attorney general, Todd Blanche, dancing?"

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 21/09/2026

Missing.

A missing person post from Facebook, by Thandeka Poni, with images.

Text:

...
MISSING PERSON ALERT - HELP US BRING LINDIWE
HOME *
37-year-old Lindiwe Nyasha Mpofu has been reported missing.
She was last seen on Sunday, 13 September 2026 in Ruimsig, Johannesburg. She was last online on WhatsApp on Wednesday, 16 September 2026.
Her family is very worried and asking for help to find her.
If you have seen her or have any information, please urgently contact her brother Sidney on +27 72 950 2360 or contact your nearest SAPS on 10111.
Please SHARE this post, you might help bring her home. #missingperson #Johannesburg #NewsAlert

MISSING PERSON
LINDIWE NYASHA MPOFU

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 28/08/2026

Thank you for reminding me! (Not a great pic but was fun to see)

Not a great picture of the lunar eclipse this morning, at about 85% maybe?

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 28/08/2026

Screaming/cackling www.instagram.com/reel/DaH7F89...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 26/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it)

Sandwich Bay in Namibia. Picture shows dunes meeting the sea. The sea and the sky are grey.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 23/08/2026

Greatly privileged to have been on the team for Coffee with Professor Felwine Sarr, whom I deeply admire. Published in the latest @thecontinent.org, which you can access here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287…

Parts from four pages of The Continent arranged in a grid.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 25/07/2026

Lol, still on this: just saw him next to mbs who's 6'/1.83 cm, and looked it up...

A screenshot from Google of something on threads:

Mohammed bin Salman is 183 cm (6 ft) tall... and is taller than "6'2", 223 Ib" Donald Trum...

13 May,2025 — Mohammed bin Salman is 183 cm (6 ft) tall... and is taller than "6'2", 223 Ib" Donald Trump, while walking next to him in flat, thin soled

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 18/07/2026

This is lovely, from @thecontinent.org's incoming EIC, Christine Mungai

In the Year of Our Lady

christine mungai, incoming editor-in-chief

LYDIA NAMUBIRU described my
replacing her as editor-in-chief as a
peaceful transition of power. That’s
accurate. But I couldn’t resist behaving
like every respectable African leader and
immediately issuing an executive order.
Everything published before this
issue is now officially BC: Before Chris.
We have entered a new era. I titled my
planning folder for this transition In
the Year of Our Lady, and while The
Continent’s publisher Sipho Kings
politely declined to recognise it as the
newspaper’s new calendar, I remain
hopeful that history will vindicate me.
Nine years ago, Sipho and I arrived in
Boston for our Nieman Fellowship. We
were two African journalists trying to
make sense of a profession that seemed
beset by bewildering forces – Brexit,
Trump, digital disruption, a world that
no longer made sense.
It got worse. Six years ago, a pandemic
hit, but also gave rise to The Continent:
a gloriously improbable idea in African
journalism. A weekly PDF newspaper,
sharp on wit, scepticism and intellectual
rigour, passed from phone to phone,
built not on algorithms but on
generosity. One share at a time.
Our friend Dustin Dwyer, who was
in our Nieman cohort, once said
journalism is a prayer. We offer stories
without any guarantee they will change
the world, or even make an “impact”. But
prayer (like journalism) isn’t a simple
technology for unlocking blessings.
The act itself matters. The hope and the
discipline matters.
Our readers rarely tell us we’ve
changed history – although we
sometimes do. More often, they tell us
that The Continent is delightful, a joy to
receive every weekend, a conversation
starter and a guide. That itself is an act
of resistance in a world that is working
overtime to fragment, brutalise, and
enshittify.
In the words of Ta-Nehisi Coates, this
work, to me, is the beautiful struggle.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 17/07/2026

Visitors today 🪶 💙💚 Greater blue-eared starling (should be, although I frequently mix them up)

A glossy, iridescent blue-green bird with an orange eye, perched on a balcony rail. There's some vegetation next to it, and the background is overexposed but you can see a red brick building.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 16/07/2026

Nothing could be more wild www.instagram.com/reel/DY9P3J6...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 15/07/2026

Alt:

A photo of the drained Reflecting Pool, with the following post:

John Bourscheid
@bourscheid
X.com
BREAKING: The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump's vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. He ruined his own project, then lied and blamed the citizens who paid for it.

6:56 AM • 7/14/26 • 125K Views

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 08/07/2026

Bruh, if I speak www.instagram.com/reel/Dad3FUA...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 05/07/2026

This. www.instagram.com/p/DaXmQJFAtn...

Original caption on Instagram: In this image, Malawian migrants desperate to leave South Africa are jammed up against a metal gate at a makeshift IDP camp in Pietermaritzburg as they wait to get on buses to the border.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 05/07/2026

Speaking of!

A Kindle and a Boox side by side on a grey blankie

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 05/07/2026

Oof. Adding alt

A screenshot from X. Text says:

Brigitte Gabriel • @ACTBrigitte
X.com
Zohran Mamdani, the Ugandan-born radical, has the audacity to lecture Americans on what America is, while surrounding George Washington's desk with foreigners.
This is not America. This is an invasion.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. O @QasimRashid
X.com
You're literally a foreigner and immigrant from Lebanon with a thick accent named Hanan Qawaly. You changed your name to Brigitte Gabriel because you're ashamed of who you are. You hate Zohran Kwame Mamdani because he knows who he is and is more successful as his authentic self than you will ever be as your fake persona. Mamdani is who makes America great. Cope.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 02/07/2026

Because FOMO 😆

The same candy as in the OP: Whoppers, Milk Duds and Junior Mints, plus Butterfinger Minis.

Background is a grey furry blankie.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 24/06/2026

Apropos 😅

A very sunburnt and frazzled-looking reporter on the BBC about the heatwave in Europe

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 19/06/2026

Also

Book cover: Nicholas Westcott's Imperialism & Development: The East African Groundnut Scheme.

Black and white image of a groundnut field with a large tree on the right.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 17/06/2026

So fun! Learning

Applied resin on a sticky coaster that I painted a while ago, and now it's so pretty and shiny

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 11/06/2026

Ah, delightful

Screenshot from X.

"Minnow Y
@Phila Mino
X.com
Hahaha, brothers will always be brothers, even if one is the Pope of Rome.

[Last month, Leo mentioned to Mr. Lovera that his brother, John Prevost, still called the pontiff from Chicago for I.T. support.
"And Roberto says, 'John, I'm the pope," Mr. Lovera recalled.
''Oh, sorry, pope," the pope's brother responded, according to Mr. Lovera. "'My computer is broken.'"]

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 24/05/2026

Nice 😎

A post about a family of ducks? that says: TwoPipe @twopipe.bsky.social • 5h
This family decided to cross the "highway" in front of us.
Plenty of room between them and me as I spotted them from a distance and slowed down. Pulled over to capture the picture as they were off the road and waddling away

Above a post that says: Mongabay@mongabay.com • 1h
• Bluesky Elder
A new wildlife corridor in Sydney is reconnecting two national parks across one of Australia's busiest highways.
Designed around animal behavior, it features rope crossings and vegetated

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 15/05/2026

Hum. 1980, eh?

Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is now Zimbabwe, the child of a mechanic and a radiology technician, Ray fled with his family to South Africa during the Zimbabwean War of Lib-eration. He remembers the journey there in 1980 in a convoy of armored cars. As the sun blazed down, a soldier taught
8-year-old Ray how to fire a machine gun. But his mother kept having to stop. She didn't feel well.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 09/05/2026

Actual alt

No I don't think so, usually hantaviruses are not as transmissible person-to-person as coronaviruses, but it's another reminder of the risk of global infections emerging due to climate change, globalization, and why it's reckless to defund @WHO @CDCgov

• Shawn Steadham @bichonsandabc • 35m
@PeterHotez do you think this hantavirus may get out of control & become the next covid? This is concerning that a person flew home & now a flight attendant is hospitalized with mild symptoms. Thanks x.com/turbinetravele...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 30/04/2026

A new day

The sun rising, just peeking over a canopy of trees. The sky is orange and there are some grey clouds.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 30/04/2026

Alt, bc this is powerful

I am now described everywhere as an
"activist." Nothing angers me more. The word flattens me. Worse still, it implies a version of me who was not already shattered by a life of exile, refuge, and resistance. As if this began with something I did. I did not advocate for Palestine because I wanted to be active. I advocate because I have no choice. From the moment I was born Palestinian, my existence was political. What choice does a Palestinian refugee, deprived of basic rights, have but to resist the forces that seek to erase him?

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 29/04/2026

This tsotsi smh Credit: SABC x.com/i/status/204...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 29/04/2026

From Dave Pell's newsletter

In the moments following the arrest of a man who opened fire in the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was taking place, Donald Trump issued a statement that could double as a tagline for his entire presidency: "LET THE SHOW GO ON." Cooler heads prevailed and the remainder of the dinner was canceled. But the show? Oh, the show went on. The show always goes on. And it always has the same host. Thanktully, everyone inside the Hilton survived the evening. So did a key metaphor for our era: At an event that was attended by hundreds of members of the media, Trump was still the one breaking all the news; from what happened, to the arrest, to the first photo of the attacker, to updates on when the event (that he wasn't hosting) would be rescheduled.
Even in a situation when he's being grabbed by Secret Service personnel and rushed from a hotel, Trump still manages to drive the news cycle, and after nearly a term and a half of his presidency, the media hasn't figured out a way to change that dynamic. He's the news-maker, the news-deliverer, the news-distorter, and the news-critic in an all-hours, all-medium show that never ends.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 29/04/2026

Seedless grape endo 🙃

Your Indie band name is:
Your favourite fruit + the last reason you took painkillers

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 25/04/2026

👏🏾🇳🇬

NIGERIA
Batting for the environment
Nigerian scientist Iroro Tanshi has won the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting endangered bats in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, the BBC reports. In Nigeria, as in many other countries, bats are often feared and threatened.
Tanshi began a community effort to prevent wildfires that destroy bats' habitat after she discovered the short-tailed roundleaf bat. She works with local fire brigades to stop major fires and educate people on the roles bats play in our ecosystem, including dispersing seeds and pollinating plants.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 24/04/2026

This, though, is hilarious. Anyway, I remember how astonished i was that BaTswana named everything Tswana, like these dogs and also what we call "makhaya" chicken 😆

Other names

African dog
Mutina dog
Khoekhoe dog
Xhosa dog
Tswana dog
Sotho dog
Zulu Dog
Katali
Bhoki
Kutu
Mukehe
Bobby
Simba
Sibbi
Lokasie-hond
Spoti
Bosco (Kenyan slang name)

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 22/04/2026

Incredible person. www.instagram.com/reel/DXi7du-...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 21/04/2026

Alt

Guidance: NPR editorial employees are prohibited from betting on the outcome of anything we control (ie next Tiny Desk guests) or we cover (news events etc.)

NPR editorial employees are not allowed to use prediction markets or similar sites to place bets on developments of news events, or anything else we might cover, or on things NPR controls (ie next Tiny Desk guests, anything involving NPR personalities or hosts etc.) whether or not the employee is involved in covering that event.
Gambling on sports is permitted where legal and small stakes office pools (The Super Bowl, NCAA, the Oscars etc.) are permitted as long as the employee participating is not involved in coverage of those events.
If you have any questions you should check with a supervisor or standards.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 18/04/2026

Edward the robot is [dancing?] [doing martial arts?] in a living room. The lamp is in danger. www.instagram.com/reel/DXRcLQl...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 17/04/2026

😫

... was scheduled in August to have his spleen removed in a minimally invasive (laparoscopic) procedure. But instead, Shaknovsky opened Bryan’s abdominal cavity, severed his largest vein with a surgical stapling device—which led to his death—and cut his healthy liver from his body as he bled out, according to an investigation by the state health department.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 15/04/2026

If I die today know it's because I laughed to death www.instagram.com/reel/DXFZMVd...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 07/04/2026

With alt

"diplomacy with the Palestinians. "In theory, a weapon like Iron Dome could be used only defensively. But in practice it doesn't work that way," analyst Nathan Thrall told Jewish Currents. "Iron Dome facilitates greater Israeli offensive measures, because it lowers the perceived cost to Israel of escalating or extending or initiating attacks." In other words, while the Iron Dome may prevent the deaths of Israeli non-combatants, it has made it easier for Israel to engage in deadly operations that take Palestinian lives. Indeed, Menendez's formulation is backwards:
Rather than preserving space for diplomacy, Iron Dome enables Israel's commitment to
the status quo of permanent occupation. Its ultimate function is to entrench an already asymmetrical conflict into a state of ongoing bloodshed, dispossession, and devastation for the Palestinians of Gaza."

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 07/04/2026

With alt

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
8 ReTruths 33 Likes
4/7/26, 8:06 AM

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 31/03/2026

😬 With alt

SORRY FOR THE
INCONVENIECE BUT WE ARE
OF 4 OUNCE PATTIES. WE
ONLY HAVE 2 OUNCIE
PATTIES AT THIS TIME WE
CAN SELL ALL SMALLER
BURGUER EXCEPT BOUBLE
STACKS .
THERE IS A MEAT
SHORTAGE.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 27/03/2026

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 23/03/2026

From Breaking Aviation News on X

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 23/03/2026

This, from Anna Mantzaris, really is everything www.instagram.com/p/Brppd0BBIK... First saw it here: www.instagram.com/reel/DU_NO9d...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 19/03/2026

*Nervous laughter* Trouble's coming 🇿🇼

A table showing fuel price changes in the SADC region between Jan-March 2026, from ZimLive on X. Ranges from 2% to 6% increase in most countries (no change in Botswana) but is 39.1% in Zimbabwe.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 17/03/2026

I like it so far!

A photo of a bottle of Nivea "regenerating" micellar water against a grey fleece blanket

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 16/03/2026

My African iris is blooming for the first time! (Nearly missed it) 🌱

A large flower with six white petals, golden streaks in the center of each, and three smaller violet-colored petals in the centre

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 15/03/2026

Alt photo: bee nest that's a grey mound with holes in it. Text in photo: see alt

This is a photo from the shed at work.
These are the nests that the mud bees build. Usually they are brown because of the mud. This one is grey because the bees are using fucking concrete dust from the bags we have in there and it is basically an Indestructible concrete bee fortress.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 15/03/2026

Alt for image

Jim Bianco • @biancoresearch • 23h
Looking at Goldman Sachs Research gives a good timeline for thinking about the Strait of Hormuz

* March 4, Hormuz flows would recover in 5 days.
* March 9, they pushed that to 10 days
* March 11, they extended it again to 21 days of very low flows before a 30-day gradual recovery.
Goldman's thinking was similar to mine. On March 4th, I ASSUMED the US
Military had an active plan to open the Strait.
Between March 4th and March 11th, my thinking (like Goldman's) evolved when we both realized they either had the wrong plan or no plan and are currently struggling to figure out what to do.

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 01/03/2026

www.instagram.com/reel/DU_ZUUi...

sticky biological reality @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 01/03/2026

Ending my experiment 🤩🥳💚🌱

Two peppers on a plant, one green and the other turning red