David 🇿🇦 🇿🇼 🇿🇲
@zidhiva.bsky.social
Views owe more to Methodism, looks owe more to Marx
Environmental geochemist
(I use the same handle or my real name on other platforms)
Environmental geochemist
(I use the same handle or my real name on other platforms)
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Trump is just a symptom of our having created a completely untouchable class of billionaire overlords. If we do not eliminate obscene wealth, the world will continue to be at their mercy.
It's a nice idea, but fails to address (or understand) the underlying conditions that fuel the rise of populism and slide into authoritarianism -
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown
The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Trump is just a symptom of our having created a completely untouchable class of billionaire overlords. If we do not eliminate obscene wealth, the world will continue to be at their mercy.
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Gordon Brown is right, we need a new global framework that rejects coercion and restates values in a 21st century setting (probably therefore also has to say something about company responsibilities too).
Hard to see it happening though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hard to see it happening though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown
The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Gordon Brown is right, we need a new global framework that rejects coercion and restates values in a 21st century setting (probably therefore also has to say something about company responsibilities too).
Hard to see it happening though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hard to see it happening though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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He’s seizing Trumps Scottish golf course and turning it into a wind farm? 😏
January 19, 2026 at 8:57 AM
He’s seizing Trumps Scottish golf course and turning it into a wind farm? 😏
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Palantir was a warning sign.
Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.
All in the name of "investment." What about national security?
Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.
All in the name of "investment." What about national security?
January 18, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Palantir was a warning sign.
Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.
All in the name of "investment." What about national security?
Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.
All in the name of "investment." What about national security?
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Star Trek has always been political. On The Lieutenant, Gene Roddenberry's series before Trek, scripts on racial bigotry and the inhumanity of warfare met network censorship. GR designed ST to use s-f allegory to tell stories that wouldn't otherwise be allowed on network TV.
January 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Star Trek has always been political. On The Lieutenant, Gene Roddenberry's series before Trek, scripts on racial bigotry and the inhumanity of warfare met network censorship. GR designed ST to use s-f allegory to tell stories that wouldn't otherwise be allowed on network TV.
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How warm was Europe in 2025? 🔍 It was the third‑warmest year on record for Europe, with an average temperature of 10.41°C, 1.17°C above the 1991–2020 average and 0.30°C below the record year of 2024. #CopernicusClimate #GCH2025
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
January 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM
How warm was Europe in 2025? 🔍 It was the third‑warmest year on record for Europe, with an average temperature of 10.41°C, 1.17°C above the 1991–2020 average and 0.30°C below the record year of 2024. #CopernicusClimate #GCH2025
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Dion George resigned from DA over:
1 Steenhuisen is financially compromised, cannot quit the GNU if he wants to because without his minister's salary he cannot service his debts and maintain his lifestyle. He thinks investigation that cleared Steenhuisen is a whitewash.
www.enca.com/news-top-sto...
1 Steenhuisen is financially compromised, cannot quit the GNU if he wants to because without his minister's salary he cannot service his debts and maintain his lifestyle. He thinks investigation that cleared Steenhuisen is a whitewash.
www.enca.com/news-top-sto...
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Dion George resigned from DA over:
1 Steenhuisen is financially compromised, cannot quit the GNU if he wants to because without his minister's salary he cannot service his debts and maintain his lifestyle. He thinks investigation that cleared Steenhuisen is a whitewash.
www.enca.com/news-top-sto...
1 Steenhuisen is financially compromised, cannot quit the GNU if he wants to because without his minister's salary he cannot service his debts and maintain his lifestyle. He thinks investigation that cleared Steenhuisen is a whitewash.
www.enca.com/news-top-sto...
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America bringing back the dompas. Your revival of apartheid is well on its way, with "cops" harassing and attacking people on the streets and demanding their ID. #AmericanApartheid
January 14, 2026 at 7:17 AM
America bringing back the dompas. Your revival of apartheid is well on its way, with "cops" harassing and attacking people on the streets and demanding their ID. #AmericanApartheid
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2025 has been confirmed as the third warmest year on record, following 2024 and 2023, in a series stretching back to 1850.
Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9
Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9
January 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
2025 has been confirmed as the third warmest year on record, following 2024 and 2023, in a series stretching back to 1850.
Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9
Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9
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Zapiro today. www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2026...
Northern bloc
www.dailymaverick.co.za
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Zapiro today. www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2026...
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2025 has been confirmed as the third warmest year on record, following 2024 and 2023, in a series stretching back to 1850.
Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9
Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace!
A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!
A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!
Art Show - Comic-Con
2026 Comic-Con Art Show JULY 23 through JULY 26 The Comic-Con Art Show is open to the public—you do not need a badge to come in and enjoy or purchase artwork. However, everyone entering the Art Show i...
www.comic-con.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace!
A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!
A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!
Mood:
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Mood:
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*laughs in South African* do it
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
*laughs in South African* do it
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When I was a kid watching Jurassic Park, I thought Ian Malcolm was a killjoy who didn't understand how cool it was to have real live dinosaurs. It's an understandable position for a nine year old. But some people never grew out of that mindset and unfortunately some of them have billions of dollars.
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 AM
When I was a kid watching Jurassic Park, I thought Ian Malcolm was a killjoy who didn't understand how cool it was to have real live dinosaurs. It's an understandable position for a nine year old. But some people never grew out of that mindset and unfortunately some of them have billions of dollars.
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Murders in London in 2025: 86
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
January 1, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Murders in London in 2025: 86
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If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.
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When Keir Starmer appointed Mandelson I said publicly it was a serious error of judgement. I’ve always been a supporter of the BBC in its role as a public broadcaster but the decision to invite Mandelson onto the Kuensberg programme calls into question once more its own judgment.
January 11, 2026 at 11:33 AM
When Keir Starmer appointed Mandelson I said publicly it was a serious error of judgement. I’ve always been a supporter of the BBC in its role as a public broadcaster but the decision to invite Mandelson onto the Kuensberg programme calls into question once more its own judgment.
great post - also read the comments, great names...
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 AM
great post - also read the comments, great names...
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
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Awesome photos of the SAAFs 22 Squadron Oryx helicopter tackling the Overstrand fires, taken by Rayno Snyman, crewman of the Leading Edge UH-60A Black Hawk.
January 11, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Awesome photos of the SAAFs 22 Squadron Oryx helicopter tackling the Overstrand fires, taken by Rayno Snyman, crewman of the Leading Edge UH-60A Black Hawk.
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This day in history. 1968. In Australia following the disappearance while swimming of the previous prime minister, a new one was sworn in without incident though his face was bandaged from a platypus bite.
January 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
This day in history. 1968. In Australia following the disappearance while swimming of the previous prime minister, a new one was sworn in without incident though his face was bandaged from a platypus bite.