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Been learning how to grow vegetables in my garden. Been an anxious three weeks watching the green buds turn into visible plants. Butternut, lettuce, choumoellier and assorted herbs are coming to life!

Formlings in the rock art of Zimbabwe are a near-unique set of imagery, likely abstractly depicting various aspects of termite nests. Their colourful beauty and common nature in the Matobo Hills make for an intriguing window into past beliefs of our hunter-gatherer populations.

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Home town on a winter's afternoon

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Always a pleasure to see school groups exploring the majesty of the Matobo Hills. Got asked a million questions a minute by some of the kids about my opinions of the World Cup My admission that I've not watched a minute elicited gasps of sympathetic horror and then retellings of their best moments😄

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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Global health cannot be truly global if researchers from the global south are denied visas to attend meetings to present the work that they have done. I am reminded of this reality all to frequently. Kudos to the organizers who exhausted all options to try to enable his attendance.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Instead of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we should call it Artificial Stupidity System (ASS)

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy 20th birthday to Cars, one of my favourite Pixar movies thanks to Paul Newman's masterful performance as Doc. My takeaways today are more about aging gracefully (but not always willingly) and always be willing to give yourself and others a second chance to make good. youtu.be/5tXh_MfrMe0?...

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Rascal Flatts - Life Is a Highway (From "Cars"/Official Video)

YouTube video by RascalFlattsVEVO

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Two very useful charts from Equity Axis about current happenings in the Zimbabwean economy.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You end up with a PhAID. They should be labeled as such.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

OTD in 1976, Mozambique closed its border with Rhodesia. Samora Machel ordered all Rhodesian property seized & his fiery speech on the situation was initially interpreted as a declaration of war! Until the Portuguese coup in 1974, 80% of Rhodesian exports moved through Mozambique, shifting to SA

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Given the recent news, for which I hope justice is done, I am reminded that on this day in 2012, Robert Mugabe stated in one of a series of interviews granted to state controlled Herald & ZBC that his 15-year old son Bellarmine Chatunga harboured presidential ambitions. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Robert Mugabe's son Bellarmine arrested in South Africa after reported shooting in Johannesburg

Bellarmine Mugabe is in custody after a man who worked at the place where he was staying was shot and injured.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hoping for some help with a research question: was shown this lonely grave today in southern Zimbabwe. Charles Theodore West, Hermitage, Newbury England, died 22 February 1919. How could I find out more about him and his family? Thank you

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Bones, bones and more bones. Happily brushing up on my zoology this week, part of a training course in Zimbabwe.

ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

OTD in 2009, illegal forex dealers at Ximex Mall, Harare were buying US$1 for a Z$10 trln note or Z$2 trln in Z$50 bln notes. Some were willing to exchange Z$2 trln in $50 bln notes for a $10 trln note. Shops in the CBD pegged most of their goods at a $10 trln or $20 trln to avoid change problems.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Delighted that this article on one of my favourite places-the Bulawayo Public Library-has been accepted for publication. I take the story to 2025. Two crucial themes are a constant lack of funds & the the dedication & hard work of the incredible staff who serve "The Castle" every day.

bmarmon.bsky.social @bmarmon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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My original source work on Edson Sithole, coupled with analysis and biographical narrative is apparently now out!

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Writing a new article and got so annoyed, and then resigned, when I realised the truth of this comic!

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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This is a defining image of our times. Aside from its neat encapsulation of vice & virtue (L: pride, greed, envy; R: humility, selflessness), it’ll be used by historians to illustrate the disproportionate effects on geopolitics of one man’s narcissism during the 2020s.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A crashing procession. A rare sight anywhere in Zimbabwe nowadays. Taken last year.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So very happy to have put this article to bed At 15,000 words it's a big 'un but based on a recent awful article on the same topic, no one else has done the legwork in the archives & on the ground to delve into the myriad histories of a single obelisk on a blood-soaked patch of the Matabeleland bush

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Bronze Mannikins at the bird bath. A gorgeous visitor, especially in-between the storms

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Miss the days when our newspapers used to cover fun little stories. Meaningful at the time and still, years later, and never part of the official "big picture" record.

ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

New life in the Matobo Hills.

ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Found this while clearing some papers. The bill to cremate my father in 2008 in 🇿🇼 We had to supply our own firewood for the crematorium as they'd run out; friends helped gather it. We had to borrow the Z$4.2bln as we paid our savings for the ambulance which arrived late - no fuel. A different world.

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Fabulous article this, grappling with recurring questions of heritage, meaning, financial liability and the importance of symbols in the face of malicious vandalism.Motivations to destroy icons are incomprehensible to most people but cf. ending of the movie Glass Onion. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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If a Tree Falls, by Rosa Lyster

The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers

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ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Once again the best summary of the year as done by the incomparable @ordinarythings.bsky.social has landed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEob...

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2025: A Year in Disaster

YouTube video by Ordinary Things