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Penny dV 🇿🇦
@penza.bsky.social
I’m in my late sixties, also late to grannyhood which I love. Passionate and enthusiastic about rugby, test cricket, reading, birding and nature in general.
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I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Zoë Wicomb’s debut blurs memoir and fiction, exploring love for home and the uneasy price of writing about your own. 📚

theconversation.com/south-africa...

#ArtsCultureAndSociety
South African writer Zoë Wicomb embraced humanity in all its complexity
Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing.
theconversation.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Opinions do not require understanding, or even research, and are certainly not equivalent to knowledge based on critical study and reflection. To Baudrillard's warning about the terror of more and more information and less and less meaning, add misinformation and disinformation, for worse opining.
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Stuart Broad has taken the English Glenn McGrath role of running his mouth and we as a cricket watching public thank him for that.
Headlines that precede unfortunate events….
October 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A giant petrel, its white feathers stained red with blood; a cormorant, feasting on a school of small fish; a lone bird perched on a sea of solar panels. All were among the winning images of Bird Photographer of the Year 2025. https://cnn.it/4mGzs43
October 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Spring has officially arrived in our beloved Johannesburg Botanical Gardens! The trees and plants are bursting into bloom, transforming the park into a living canvas. I hope you get a chance to wander through and enjoy it in the coming days. 🌸🌱
September 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Can you legally adopt a try?
August 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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TRC Team of Week 2:

1. Nche🇿🇦
2. Montoya🇦🇷
3. Du Toit🇿🇦
4. Frost🇦🇺
5. Holland🇳🇿
6. Matera🇦🇷
7. McReight🇦🇺
8. Valetini🇦🇺
9. Garcia🇦🇷
10. Pollard🇿🇦
11. M Carreras🇦🇷
12. Chocobares🇦🇷
13. Cinti🇦🇷
14. Kolbe🇿🇦
15. Mallia🇦🇷

16. Marx🇿🇦
17. Bell🇦🇺
18. Newell🇳🇿
19. Rubiolo🇦🇷
20. Ardie🇳🇿
21. Williams🇿🇦
22. Beauden🇳🇿
23. Toole🇦🇺
August 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I adore this book. Wouldn't call it "dark" so much as it's a viciously accurate satire with a profound and compassionate heart... but anything that gets you to read it i guess
August 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
@patriciawolfcrime.bsky.social @karinamszczurek.bsky.social
My new favourite Aussie crime fiction writer. Karina, you’ll love them.
Outback
Paradise
Opal
Can’t wait for the next one.
August 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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A selection of life-altering books beloved or enjoyed by The Emperor of Solitude across the decades of a long life and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary.

🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍

📚💙 📚🖋 869

August is #WomensMonth in South Africa to commemorate the Women's March of #9August1956
August 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I rank it, alongside Wilma Stockenström's DIE KREMETARTEKSPEDISIE and André Brink's 'N OOMBLIK IN DIE WIND and 'N DROË WIT SEISOEN, among the best Afrikaans novels written by white South Africans.
July 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Debate: We asked Just Share’s Kwanele Ngogela to explain why he supports the new Employment Equity Act regulations, and the Democratic Alliance’s Michael Bagraim to explain why he opposes them.

Read groundup.org.za/article/deba... by GroundUp Staff
Debate: Will the Employment Equity Act transform companies or slow growth?
DA’s Michael Bagraim debates Just Share’s Kwanele Ngogela
groundup.org.za
July 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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After 25 years at South Africa’s biggest retail bank, Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie is stepping down. But don’t expect a quiet goodbye or a conventional retirement.
EXIT STRATEGY: CEO Gerrie Fourie exits Capitec, ready to grab new opportunities
www.dailymaverick.co.za
July 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Are the Covid vaccines real vaccines in the traditional sense @askgrok.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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She's not nostalgic for her childhood, but [hearing her mother's language], at once familiar and foreign, gives her pause. Part of her wonders whether the dormant comprehension in her brain will ever be jostled. If one day she might remember how to say something.
▪︎Jhumpa Lahiri, 2013
#BOTD 📚💙 📚🖋
July 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Watch out Stonehenge
Why I kick down Peak District stone stacks
Stuart Cox says he wants to raise awareness of the damage the stacks can do to the environment.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Nice Para of Cricket Writing
July 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Museum visits spark curiosity and boost understanding of human evolution—interactive learning brings the past to life for students. 🦴🏫

theconversation.com/fun-with-fos...

#ScienceAndTech
Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops
Learners understood human evolution better after interactive workshops at a museum.
theconversation.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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This is actually a really normal thing that plenty of student deal with and the most disturbing part about the article is that the NYT spent more energy on protecting the identity of an internet race theorist than asking themselves why they would act as mouthpieces for such a person
July 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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As someone born in South Africa but has an Arabic name and is descended from Indians, I've always struggled to tick the right box in background classifications. The world doesn't operate according to race science nonsense.
This is actually a really normal thing that plenty of student deal with and the most disturbing part about the article is that the NYT spent more energy on protecting the identity of an internet race theorist than asking themselves why they would act as mouthpieces for such a person
July 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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US Americans interested in the construction of African identity, might I refer you to the book The Lie Of 1652, by Patric Tariq Mellet.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM