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Jekanyika

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Social Media & Feminist African Citizenship| PhDing |Views=mine| Sometimes Writer/Poet

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 03/01/2026
Minor thing given what's going on in the world right now, but I've just discovered that TurnitIn, the product many universities use for grading & plagiarism detection, offers students an 'AI-powered writing tool' as well as AI detection tools for instructors. They're selling weapons to both sides.
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The Rhodes Colossus - editorial cartoon illustrated by the English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by Punch magazine in 1892. Showing coloniser Cecil John Rhodes as a giant straddling over Africa and holding a telegraph line.
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Let the joy in.
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There is ONE simple lesson. Learn it. Believe it. Teach it. There is NO benevolent Empire. No matter how politely it dresses up its violence
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 12/12/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 224 of The Continent We celebrate people whose purpose and passion shine through a tumultuous 2025, embodying Khalil Gibran’s words that “work is love made visible.” Meet our Africans of the Year: bit.ly/224_TC
This is the cover of issue 224 of The Continent. It is illustrated by Nzilani Simu. The background is a deep purple with subtle patterns. On the cover is a collage of portraits of the Africans of the Year as selected by the team at The Continent.
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Gwirikwiti chairo?
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/12/2025
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Alongside the word of the year we should have “the word that has lost the most of its meaning this year”. I nominate “ceasefire”.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
This poem is written in the shape of a Christmas tree (well, most of it is) …

Needles

I
wrote
a poem
in the shape
of a Christmas 
tree but then forgot
to water it and only a few
days
later

[but the words beyond this point are scattered around the bottom of the page, like needles which have fallen from a Xmas tree)

there 
were
words
all
over
the
carpet
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/12/2025
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
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‘Stop killing us’: Huge crowds rally in Brazil, decrying rise in femicide
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 06/12/2025
Before all that fame and history-making, Danai Gurira was a high schooler in Harare, acting in the local theatre scene. Her return to those roots may well be her most impactful production.
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Danai Gurira’s Zim baby comes of age
Before all that fame and history-making, Danai Gurira was a high schooler in Harare, acting in the local theatre scene. Her return to those roots may well be her most impactful production.
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Just 2k more to go, people. And this project has been fighting for 8 months. I have seen projects funded overnight - but THIS should be funded now. Translations. Black/African stories. In a world fraught with hate, we mend it with love. ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Rally Weekend - let's close this up! / please see - please share / After eight months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn'...
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I am old enough to remember when the unis forced everyone to return to the classrooms during covid, refused to allow anyone to take a gap year, and endangered us all because they wanted the rent money. But I guess they have a new scam now. Won't even need students soon!
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I know what my December read is
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 25/11/2025
Join us tomorrow for an important event to discuss the future of internet freedom, and what we can do to protect digital rights. @phatcontroller.bsky.social Date: 26 November 2025 Time: 16:00–17:30 UK time Sign up here 👇 www.ids.ac.uk/events/inter...
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
When FB released its first iPhone app (pre-Android), if you let it have access to your contacts, and then deleted the app, IT WOULD LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR CONTACTS. Just take the info with it. This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20/11/2025
The politics, theology, and hype behind the first gamer saint aftermath.site/carlo-acutis-g...
prayer cards of Carlo Acutis
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
who- who do Britons think did the slavery
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists. We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will. Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3
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404 Media @404media.co · 13/11/2025
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11/11/2025
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
An unwrapped tamale.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 10/11/2025
Last day for submission!
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
“I hear you talk about ‘we’ a lot, oh you speak French now?”
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us. The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off. That’s a win for basic law.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Therefore they are about 'entrepreneurs of memory' (ref: Marie Claire Lavabre) building (many reasons: political, financial gain, social cohesion, shaping of a 'national identity', etc.) a collective memory.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When fatigue & utter rage are cohabitating, endurance becomes both resistance and rebellion.
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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It's a notoriously low-risk, high-reward crime. I attended a well-resourced, painstakingly planned police cycle theft sting operation years ago, knocking on doors at dawn. The only thieves caught were at a roadside bike rack with their stolen bikes when officers happened to stop for a comfort break
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Most critically, this: bsky.app/profile/clar...
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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 07/10/2025
- put down the damn AI.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 08/10/2025
Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑 "It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless." Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 08/10/2025
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 17/08/2025
This is amazing, Ireland! // Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Basic Income for the Arts (BIA)
The new Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme provides a basic income payment of €325 a week to 2,000 eligible artists and creative arts workers selected at random to participate.
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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)
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Digital Nation | The UK's Digital Divide | Good Things Foundation
What is the state of the UK's digital divide? Each year, Good Things Foundation gathers new facts and stats to reveal the reality of digital exclusion.
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Another book you should get your hands on, and is also available for you to download and read online is this one here. Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)
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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Now that I’m back to a school and thinking like an academic again… I’m bout to get my hands on this!
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 29/09/2025
At least three African countries that have accepted people expelled by the United States are now facing pressure from lawyers and campaigners.
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Trump’s deportation diplomacy triggers domestic headaches
Campaigners and people deported to African shores are suing participating countries and demanding answers.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 28/09/2025
NoViolet Bulawayo of Zimbabwe has won the 2025 Best of the Caine Prize for African Writing award! 🎉 jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...
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Zimbabwean Writer NoViolet Bulawayo Wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award - JAY Lit
The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story, "Hitting Budapest", which originally won the Pr...
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 27/09/2025
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
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Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
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