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Nick Jackson
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While everyone deserves a voice, not everyone has earned a microphone.
US news junkie from SA🇿🇦. I also (re)skeet about advertising, film & TV, HIV, WWW, comedy & Lady Gaga. Agency guy in Digital\Strat\Prod\etc
Got a new* fridge today, retiring our old one after 31 years of service, which means moving that jar of something from the back of one fridge to the back of another.

*great deal on a second-hand "new" fridge. I rarely buy new new.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump blamed the Democrats for creating a hoax that supposedly implicates Democrats.

One of the main tenets of fascism is that the enemy is simultaneously too strong and too weak, and are the root cause of all evil.

"It was their final, most essential command."
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/e...
Leaving this here with no comment.

“It seemed crazy to me, because these are things that every woman wants to be able to track and better understand,” she told TechCrunch
Emm raises $9M seed to create one of the world's first 'smart' menstrual cups | TechCrunch
On Wednesday, Emm, based in the UK, announced a $9 million seed (£6.8 million) round led by Lunar Ventures as it prepares to officially launch the smart menstrual cup in 2026.
techcrunch.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP
Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP
In Papua New Guinea’s highlands, solar kits bring electric light to homes for the first time
dlvr.it
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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what
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...

"with their billions and trillions of dollars, they are trying to create a new world run by post-humans without ever having inquired about the opinions and preferences of the rest of humanity." #TESCREAL

Scary read.
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
It’s not just a figure of speech to say tech titans are indifferent to humanity. From Peter Thiel to Elon Musk, many are adherents of a worldview that envisions humans being replaced by digital post-h...
jacobin.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Dem leadership,

Please run three types of ads, now until midterms:

1. Masked ICE abduction videos, “Trump’s America” (urban)

2. Farmers going bankrupt en mass, “Trump Tariffs Killed US Farms” (rural)

3. Epstein with Trump pics, “Republicans Protect Pedophiles” (everywhere)

Do this, you win.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Nobody loves Siya more than Eben. Get yourself a friend who shouts your name like that.
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
purpose.film/2019/08/28/r...

"There’s not going to be a single thing that replaces GDP. But if you ask Katherine which single measure she would pick ... to analyse if a society is doing better year after year, she’ll say:

Why not get countries to measure the number of girls who bicycle to school?"
Replacing GDP with “Girls on Bikes”. – Purpose
purpose.film
October 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I still miss it
October 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The Supreme Court Might Net Republicans 19 Congressional Seats in One Fell Swoop
slate.com/news-and-pol...

"This is how democracies erode—not in one dramatic moment, but slowly, deliberately, and often quietly, by design."
The Supreme Court Might Net Republicans 19 Congressional Seats in One Fell Swoop
On Wednesday, the justices will take the extraordinary step of rehearing Louisiana v. Callais.
slate.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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That @JoeBiden put out this magnanimous & gracious statement AFTER all the horrible, dishonest things Trump said about Biden today, says so much about who Joe Biden is as a person. And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Okay important update here: You don't actually have to see and "catch" the airplane.

This makes this game like 99% easier.
I saw the TikToks about the "Pokemon Go for airplanes" app, SkyCards, over the weekend, and installed it cos it looked like it could be fun.

FFS ON GOD I HAVE NOT SEEN ONE SINGLE AIRPLANE IN THE SKY SINCE!!

At this point I'm relieved to be going to the airport on Thursday to get on one myself.
October 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Feed, there was an ice-cream truck outside my office today!
October 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I saw the TikToks about the "Pokemon Go for airplanes" app, SkyCards, over the weekend, and installed it cos it looked like it could be fun.

FFS ON GOD I HAVE NOT SEEN ONE SINGLE AIRPLANE IN THE SKY SINCE!!

At this point I'm relieved to be going to the airport on Thursday to get on one myself.
October 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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You're not allowed to quote what he really said, and now they're making up shit and pretending he said it.

Orwell didn't know the half of it.
So, not one but *three* churches used an AI-generated audio clip of Charlie Kirk in services this weekend.

It's part of surge of AI-generated remembrances of Kirk, as MAGA-world's embrace of the technology supercharges a new kind of public memorialization. religionnews.com/2025/09/17/c...
Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection reveals new era of digital grief
(RNS) — AI-generated versions of the conservative Christian activist are popping up online after his killing — as well as in church services.
religionnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself
September 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Drug traffickers are smart and efficient capitalists, so it doesn’t make sense that there were so many people allegedly on board taking up space that could have been used for drugs.
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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(meeting someone’s baby) oh he probably smells my baby
September 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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They tried to ban music in the 70s because they thought there were subliminal messages hidden in the recordings, but now we have a machine that convinces people to do murder-suicides and it’s being haphazardly and hurriedly installed into every aspect of our lives
September 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Be 70% sure, but be 100% committed."
August 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Putin discusses Russia-U.S. summit with South Africa's Ramaphosa, Kremlin says
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM