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Nzeru Aquilar
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cloudwatcher~
you know what? i really appreciate Unathi Slasha for talking shit about the South African cultural industries every chance he gets lol

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Iskanchi Press
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December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
musical project i enjoyed, 2025
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
African heads of states are already disgusting but selling your citizen’s health data and biometrics to the US mass surveillance industrial complex is a new low.

Someone should assassinate ruto
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We tried to rebuilt a month ago and they stole them again lol
Every Fortnite a reminder that this country is too far gone.

My uncle and I have spent the past several days building brick foundation for three family members’ graves.

This is what one of them looked like when we were done:
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
'Makafane Tšepang Ntlamelle reflects on being a (Black) Commonwealth literary translator, the Tolstoys of the Basutos, and the exhaustion of being The Lone Man. Anglophone publishers want more African literature, but with conditions, it turns out.'

sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/resta...
(Re)staging ‘Sekese’ | Sydney Review of Books
Makafane Tšepang Ntlamelle reflects on being a (Black) Commonwealth literary translator, the Tolstoys of the Basutos, and the exhaustion of being The Lone Man. Anglophone publishers want more African ...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
😢
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Anyone on here knows where I can find English subtitles for Désiré Ecaré’s Visages des Femmes (1985)?
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Commencement of the wailing season 🫢🫢🫢

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The Sword & The Soaring by Navy Blue on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 16 Songs
music.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
what was Danny Brown thinking (complimentary)?
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Members of Operation Dudula have been interdicted from “taking the law into their own hands” and uttering hate speech in their “xenophobic” campaign against immigrants.

Read groundup.org.za/article/judg... by Tania Broughton
Judge interdicts Operation Dudula
Human dignity has no nationality, says Judge Adams
groundup.org.za
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
~cloudwatching
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Cloudwatching
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
hooke’s law by KeiyaA on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 19 Songs
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November 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
new season of Slow Horses underwhelmed me
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
the other day—
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
a twitter mutual posted a link to their project a while back, & i didn’t want to take a look lest it be trash & ruin our interactions lol. glad to report that it’s actually good.

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Ubuhle bub' hlungu by DEAD SYMBOLS on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 12 Songs
music.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Anyways, here a picture of clouds I took a few days ago:
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Every Fortnite a reminder that this country is too far gone.

My uncle and I have spent the past several days building brick foundation for three family members’ graves.

This is what one of them looked like when we were done:
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
D'Angelo - Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine (Official Video)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Miss Major died at home on October 13 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by loved ones. A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.
Trans Activist and Movement Leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78
A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.
truthout.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Watching this lesbian documentary from the early 90’s &… young Dionne Brand looks (and sounds!) so different . Wow!
October 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Statement: My wife and writer Zukiswa Wanner has been kidnapped in Israel
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www.writingafrica.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Just as the skeletons were beginning to tumble out…
September 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
south-ah
Waste reclaimers, dressed in green overalls, rode their makeshift recycling trolleys through the streets of Johannesburg on Monday.

Read groundup.org.za/article/wast... by Ihsaan Haffejee
JHB reclaimers call for landfill to be reopened
Pikitup has promised it will “come up with solutions” to the Marie Louise landfill over the next week
groundup.org.za
September 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reposted by Nzeru Aquilar
Waste reclaimers, dressed in green overalls, rode their makeshift recycling trolleys through the streets of Johannesburg on Monday.

Read groundup.org.za/article/wast... by Ihsaan Haffejee
JHB reclaimers call for landfill to be reopened
Pikitup has promised it will “come up with solutions” to the Marie Louise landfill over the next week
groundup.org.za
September 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM