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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 7h

Light fantastic A coffee and birdsong end to a very hot 1st Sunday of October in #CapeTown

Sky, mountain and landscape make a hazy rainbow of sunset colours. Black landscape, low hazy hills in dark green, blue and purple mountains, a sky going from pink to orange and yellow. Two palm trees at the bottom of the frame.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Saturday at the office in spring. Oh joy oh rapture #CapeTown

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Name a film with real "autumn" vibes, that ISN'T a horror movie. 🍂🍁🎃

Poster for the film Once with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sunset drama, sunset soothe 1st Thursday, October of a very long work year in #CapeTown Heaven knows It's not the way it should be And heaven knows It's not the way it could be And don't you know There's no need to leave - Donna Summer, Georgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte

A pink sunset with a funnel-shaped cloud mass over a mountain also in cloud. Bare branches in the bottom foreground. Charcoal over pimk and balck silhouettes, atmospheric and beautiful.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plot twist. Thursday. Done with yesterday's high temperatures, the weather goes bitchy on the first day of October. #spring #CapeTown

A blue and grey train passing as the wind and rain whip and pelt trees, including a tall palm. Houses and rooftops, a grey sky.

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Charlayn von Solms @charlayn.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

On the topic of the agentic AI laughably named 'Muse': Please note that Muse ΑΟΙΔΗΝ will not access your bank accounts, give out your address to strangers, or require constant supervision while "making your life easier". She will however, serve as a daily reminder that thinking is rooted in doing

Photograph of a Muse named ΑΟΙΔΗΝ basking in the sunshine

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Germination A wooden wine crate in a garden patch, repurposed for use as a planter and holding an abundance of germinated tomato seeds which are yet to be thinned out to avoid overcrowding.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Returm to the real world. End of #Overberg escape #oceans and #firelight Many rivers to cross And it's only my will that keeps me alive I've been licked, washed up for years And I merely survive because of my pride - Jimmy Cliff

Empty brown cappucino cup with saucer and teaspoon. A menu and solid wood table.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cleaning an old pen in a whiskey glass to the sound of crashing waves. Hot coffee and some Coltrane drifting in #gratitude #ALoveSupreme

Nib end of a fountainpen with a blue casing soaking in a whiskey glass of lukewarm water, old ink making purple swirling trails. On a weatherworn white plastic garden table.

Beach dunes with green scrub bearing a profusion of purple-pink daisies. A strip of grey clouded sky above.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nature🌱 Reading📚 What else to do '...I have not known a day's peace and contentment in my life.' 'It's because of education,' the old man said, nodding his head wisely. 'They should not have given you the education.' - When Rain Clouds Gather. Bessie Head

Quote from Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather. 'It's because of education,' the old man said, nodding his head wisely. 'They should not have given you the education. Take away the little bit of education and you will be only too happy to say, "Mama, please find me a tribal girl and let us plough. It's only the education that turns a man away from his tribe.'

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remembering Jim Henson, born on this day, 1936.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Overbergl sunset on Heritage Day 🇿🇦 Waves crashing, fires burning

Neon pink and smoke grey clouds smudge a blue sky at sunset. The silhouettes of a big tree and rooftops.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Môre is nog ŉ dag #BoKaap exhale. Monday sunset.

Bo-Kaap houses, lit windows, the hill and the rose tint fades from the sunset blue sky.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday interrupted and the peace of birds Another brass tap stolen in the early hours. Water gushing for hours, now turned off. We are The Great Unwashed as work waits.

A bird, possibly a sparrow, takes a slow moment to sun itself on bare branches. A blue spring sky, green foliage and a tree in the distance.

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is my kind of data centre

Daunt Books in London, massive number of books for sale on long rows of shelves

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hola to the minibus taxi driver who gave me and my black pussycat hat a silent nod of respect. #WomenRage #WomenGrieve every damn day

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The machine swallows life and spits out convenience. ▪️Omar El Akkad, 2025

Extract and quotation from ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad (Canongate, 2025)

Whatever late capitalism is, it seems to be careening into this embrace of growth by negation. Through that prism, it's hard not to see the advances in something like artificial intelligence less driven by technological breakthroughs as by a society that has, over years, over decades, become normalized to a greater and greater magnitude of both loneliness and theft, such that a sputtering algorithm badly trained on the stolen work of real human beings might be celebrated with a straight face as something approximating humanness. Under this ordering, it is not some corporation's increasing capacity for better that drives the extractive world, but everyone else's increasing tolerance for worse.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Spring rain and the rage of a Tuesday night wind in #CapeTown And I feel Somebody somewhere is trying to breathe Well you know what I mean It's a world gone crazy Keeps woman in chains - Roland Orzabal

Rain against a window on a stormy night, bare dead tree branches, lit windows behind and a grey sky turned slight sepia by light pollution and the camera.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Autumnal embroidery: hawthorn berries, heather & new cow parsley leaf 🌿✂️🧵🪡

A design I’ve embroidered on my jumper inspired by sprigs of hawthorn berries and heather along with a fresh cow parsley leaf

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunday lullaby Cool rains pour down on #CaoeTown as thunder rolls, lightning arcs. I heard the thunder miles away Didn't think that it'd work out this way The storm came and it rained all night Washed away our love before the morning light - Coffing & McCartney

Rain on a window. A lone patrol car cruises down an empty street, headlamps and streetlamps, dark trees and raincloud sky. Night tones of dark green, grey and black

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I really don't know clouds at all - Joni Mitchell

Gloaming. White-gold light on storm clouds over a mountain. A red coffee mug and bare branches in the foreground at bottom of picture.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

6 hrs of gardening at the close of what was a mad, bad week. Watched fat raindrops of a baby thunderstorm wet the soil. Hair minced, gravedigger nails, coffee. Sunday, spring. #CapeTown I started a joke which started the whole world crying But I didn't see that the joke was on me - brothers Gibb

Mad garden replanted with some indigenous plants, tomato and chilli seeds in wooden boxes and a steel and stone birdbath

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anti-apartheid martyr Steve Biko was killed by South Africa's apartheid government on this day in 1977. “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Doorstep joy🤓 And braai smoke on the air at 09h25😂 julle is hard onnorag #CapeTown

Oak bursting with green leaves against a very grey sky.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Undulation Saturday thoughts about gardening and rain. Birds flirting. #CapeTown

Overlapping mountain cloaked in haze and cloud at the horizon, treetops in the foreground with a black utility pole and cables. Shades of grey with sunlight filtering through.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friday evening coffee. The hidden birds singing twilight songs. The coming rain. #justbreathe #CapeTown

Window view with pink mug and bare tree branches behind, mountain peeking through the branches, gathering light grey clouds overhead roll over mountain.

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Such a lovely, wind howling, cold, cloudy night. Silly with tiredness. If only one's brain would stop kvetching, sit with gratitude and go to sleep. #yoga?

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Gentriwitch @waatlemoen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Crescent moon in morning sky. Tuesday's colours #CapeTown

Waning crescent moon, a sliver of bright white in a moody sunrise sky of blue and red. Balck urban landscape, tree silhouettes, a line of yellow streetlamp lights sparkle below mountains in the distance.

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