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Gentriwitch
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Lapsed yogi. Misguided gardener. Books to be read. ʼn Lewe in prentjies.
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“The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s genocide is one of the great journalistic crimes of our age.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social flame the BBC for its pro-Israel bias and vent at right-wing gaslighting over the outlet’s “liberal” slant.
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Two religious landmarks, built a few hundred meters from one another, exemplify the diversity of Wittebome in Wynberg, Cape Town.

Read groundup.org.za/article/witt... by David Harrison
<div>In Photos: Wittebome - a diverse, multifaith Cape Town suburb</div>
groundup.org.za
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Surprise in fine feathers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Friday morning quintet sings in the sun veiled by cloud.
#smallbeauty
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
- McCartney and Lennon

Aria at sunset on a very long Wednesday in late spring.
#capetown
#breathe
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
-Terry Pratchett

Down in the garden. Branches are swaying, birds are chirping, butterflies are flitting. There is a cat about.
#gardentales
#smallbeauty
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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As “aid” dwindled, international trade disappointed, and tax earnings underwhelmed, African governments went on a borrowing spree. Our external debt has tripled since 2009, according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s 2024 Financing Africa report.
Global loan sharks just love our hungry, hungry hippos
Gobble, gobble, gobble – it’s undignified, but who cares, say the gluttonous functionaries
continent.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Good read. // Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Lost in a book, travelling between worlds.
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I go down to the garden every day. Each day, despite daily experience, I am afraid to hope for something new, something beautiful.
The wild garlic has sprouted fresh buds overnight. And I laugh silently at the inevitable fear. To say that word sacred, without being an utter fool. #smallbeauty #hope
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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leaves of grass
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Wolf was splashing happily in a very hot mustard bath in front of the parlour fire. Old Fox had installed a lovely bathroom upstairs a number of years ago, but Wolf much preferred an old-fashioned affair where one's wallowing was by candlelight and the peaceful hiss and crackle of the hearth.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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And this beauty:
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/wont...
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
won't you celebrate with me  won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhi...
www.divasofverse.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A gloriously cool Monday morning after a hotbox Sunday... like all the menopausal women of Cape Town made an appeal to Gift of the Givers and, as usual, they delivered. 🥹
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Empty boxes.

Himself has announced that we are both losing our marbles with age.

I concede. #smallbeauty
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The struggle to start and finish a new book, which has lasted for an exceptionally long time, has ended. Battered, bruised, eyes sore.
It is done.
Love and hisses to all the librarians who incite/forment curiosity, evolution and revolution. Alanis sang it. It's all your fault.🪷
#books #librarians
Himself will be off to watch the rugby later on and has brought gifts of books to secure my co-operation. Solitude with benefits.

She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
- Kretzner and Aznavour
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hymn of birdsong to the morning coffee sky.

The light in me
Bows to the light in you
In this, we are one.
Namaste
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Solace
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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If the entire history of the world led to you, does that make you important or just extremely lucky?
#CalvinandHobbes #DeepThoughts
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Across the lines
Who would dare to go
Under the bridge
Over the tracks
That separates whites from blacks
Choose sides
Run for your life
Tonight the riots begin
On the back streets of America
They kill the dream of America

- Tracy Chapman
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Verstommend!
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM