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Zama

@zamandlovu.bsky.social
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I have a serious job. I’ve done and written serious things. But not here for that. Hoping I can occasionally have serious thoughts without needing to be a serious person.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/05/2025
“I have never done more suicide assessments than when I’ve run credit reports with clients and found coerced debt or identity theft.” @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social digs into a widespread and rarely talked about form of debt: coerced debt.
motherjones.com
She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is the kid who NYU is considering withholding graduation from for speaking out against Gaza. This speech. Ask yourself why. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5mEgHo/
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NYU graduate Logan Rozos is facing criticism after condemning the atrocities committed in Palestine during his commencement speech. #gaza #palestine #israel #nyu #nyugallatin
TikTok video by Daily Mail
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Charl Blignaut @poptartology.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"His photographs are often hazy, evanescent light fading like memories, the camera trying to clutch and fix the image before it is gone for ever." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize
Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid life
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It's interesting that Paradise, Severance, and Silo are hit shows about a group of people trapped in a controlled environment by a group of rich people who are lying to them about the basic structure of their reality. Probably says a lot about where we're at as a people!
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Thank God!
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gooner, the only online raccoon @sopranos69420.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
lsoing my mind rn
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commuternyc.bsky.social @commuternyc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Tesla stock is pumped every Friday on options expiration like clockwork. Tesla is a complexly manipulated stock there can be no doubt $tsla $tslaq
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025
At Pope Leo XIV's first Mass as leader on Friday, he pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and not with the rich and powerful. Many see the first American pope as a continuation of his predecessor, Pope Francis, in his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church.
nytimes.com
Pope Leo XIV Echoes Francis in His First Mass, Aligning Himself With ‘Ordinary People’
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I think a big part of the pushback against GLP-1 meds, despite the strong science, is because wellness industry folks are losing a lot of clients. That Slender Wonder programme they sold in Joburg with the HGC injections cost way more than Ozempic.
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
That image isn’t giving me hope.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025
Breaking News: An air traffic control facility at Newark Airport suffered another radar outage, the latest disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports.
nytimes.com
Newark Airport Has Another Radar Outage
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This administration takes antisemitism seriously. That's why we removed The Diary of Ann Frank from all federal libraries.
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This won’t last long but WHAT?!
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 09/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV has seen the movie #Conclave He watched it right before the actual conclave (via NBC News)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2025
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
There it is…
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David 🇿🇦 🇿🇼 🇿🇲 @zidhiva.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Worrying the extent to which Afriforum and its offshoots get treated as "representatives" of Afrikaners when they are in fact a particular ideological grouping, not even cultural. South Africa is diverse, and noone should hijack a whole ethnicity for political goals www.news24.com/politics/glo...
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‘Gloves were off’: PAC facilitates ‘robust’ ANC-Afrikaner exchange | News24
The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisati...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2025
i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
good to see, more of this from everyone please
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Steve Carell has to do so much acting to hide just how hot he is, but as he gets older, his acting is increasingly not good enough to misdirect us.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔒If you read between the lines of the DA's employment equity court case, it is about milking the current depressed economic environment to build the case against transformation, writes Qaanitah Hunter www.news24.com/opinions/col...
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Qaanitah Hunter | The uncomfortable truth about the fight against redress | News24
If you read between the lines of the DA’s employment equity court case - which may be good for the ultimate certainty about employment quotas and their constitutionality - it is about milking the curr...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/05/2025
To parent today is to encounter an endless firehose of marketing, data, tech optimization, and pastel branding. But rather than set fire to the machines, @amandahess.bsky.social's new memoir offers a refreshing approach to processing this digital behavior. The result is a gentle revolution.
motherjones.com
A better way to think about tech's hold on modern parenting
Apps and influencers offer to ease burdens. But a closer look at the darker origins of that promise can help caregivers navigate what’s real.
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is a lewk!
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I adore this interpretation
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m now reading Reid Hoffman’s book, “blitzscaling.” My general impression is that Silicon Valley’s obsession with “get big fast,” prioritizing fakeable growth metrics over actual product quality, is a big part of what has ruined tech. I suspect I will not like this book.
Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/05/2025
The CRAZY thing nobody is talking about too is that nothing is ever gonna be cheap again. If corporations see that we’ll pay these elevated prices, they have no reason to not make those prices their baseline
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
That story about John Fetterman’s stroke and its very serious symptoms made me so sad. After 40, stories like that remind you that your health is your only true wealth.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I just saw someone asking why don’t Chinese companies eat the price of the tariffs instead of passing them on to the consumer. My brother in Christ, the tariffs are 145%. It’d be cheaper for them to give it to you for free than pay $145 tax on selling you a $100 item. 🤦🏾‍♂️
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/05/2025
Study Finds Ozempic May Reduce Signs Of Fatty Liver Disease theonion.com/study-f...
“What about my other piece-of-shit organs?”

Jane LeClair, Age Guesser
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“In other words, the BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left.”
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
With DEI out of the way, we can finally enjoy a real white boy summer
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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"woke" meant "being aware of injustice & inequality... individuals who are attentive to social issues, particularly race & discrimination" so... a group of people turned "being aware of injustice & inequality" into an insult I think often on what this says about so many ppl in this country
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
X is a propaganda channel owned by a right-wing billionaire and my replies are filled bots and Nazis. Here is why I am staying on it.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We wanted to understand what today's lackluster GDP report means for the future of the American economy. So we talked to three unemployed Joe Rogan fans at a White Castle in Toms River.
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A better copy!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/04/2025
Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.
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U.S. economy shrank in early 2025, as tariffs sapped growth
GDP shrank in the first quarter, a new report shows, offering a look at how tariffs are reshaping spending patterns and changing the economy.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/04/2025
NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com
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Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 29/04/2025
Probably as good a time as ever to re-share our story on why AI language learning is garbage and how you can do so much better. unseen-japan.com/ai-japanese-...
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I Tried AI for Japanese Speaking Practice - Here's What I Learned - Unseen Japan
People keep telling me AI chatbots are the future of Japanese language learning. So I tried a few. Here's why they're wrong.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Someone should remake "Conclave," but from the point of view of inconvenienced tourists
Due to the Conclave
the Sistine Chapel 
will be closed to the public
from Monday 28 April 2025
Visits to the Vatican Gardens and the Necropolis
of the Via Triumphalis are suspended
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GChellie @gchellie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I genuinely cannot understand why Tesla wants fElon back at the helm. Hasn't he done ENOUGH damage to that company? 🙄
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
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Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
American innovation.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Internet of Things ended up being the internet of unsupported products. Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe. Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because of a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.
theverge.com
Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats
No more controlling these “smart” thermostats from a phone.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
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