bad gyal imp >:) 🛹🇿🇼

A screenshot from The Continent. Text reads: TC BOOK REVIEW BY JACQUELINE NYATHI Seeing ourselves in inconvenient mirrors Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat forces us to face ourselves in her intense novel. OSVALDE LEWAT'S debut novel The Aquatics (translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner) reads at first like the usual tired satire about African countries. A place called Zambuena; the Old Man, whose influence is felt everywhere; a bloated Official Party with bloated officials; a culture of terror and repression. But then the focus sharpens on the stifling life of Katmé, wife of an ambitious, rising political star who's the prefect of Akriba. Katmé is managing a staff of servants, eating with fine silverware, and determinedly ignoring her own demon: the death of her mother 20 years ago. Everything changes when a foreign company is contracted to build a road that plans to pass over her mother's grave. Her canny husband seizes on this as an opportunity to advance his career. The collateral damage of the manoeuvrings falls on Katmé's gay best friend and protégé, Samy. Naturally, homosexuality is illegal in Zambuena - what will people say when they find out the prefect's wife supports a person like that? The Aquatics morphs quickly from satire to horror. What happens to Samyis unspeakable - and, as Lewat makes clear, everyone is responsible. It overshadows Katmé's own painful journey back to herself, away from the bubble in which she enclosed herself -- one that will be familiar to many middle-class Africans -- in the face of nightmarish inequality. There's little redemption - except for Katmé's feminist (re)awakening, which is heartening. In contrast, the brutality, a reality for gay people across so much of Africa, is sobering. It's hard to ignore how similar Katmé is to most of us: living obliviously, caring only about our own comfort. If the Aquatics of the novel are monsters, then perhaps so are we all.

My latest for @thecontinent.org: on Osvalde Lewat's The Aquatics, tr. by Maren Baudet-Lackner.

now why would anyone...

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year,

Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

also like 1080p 30fps should be such a low bar, lets optimise our games plz 🫩

ima need some of these goofy studios to get rid of kernal anticheat, cause imagine missing out on veinv Deck and MACHNE VERIFIED!?

Fishbowl pre-orders are open on PS5! 🫶🏽💜 Get the full game 72 hours before release date 👀

am i a math rock now? 😋🎸

Hello friends, greetings from Gaza. I'm back after a long absence. I'm doing well, but I miss you all. Please share and donate if you can. Eid al-Fitr is approaching; let's buy clothes for the children.
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seems my activities fall under "dangerous activities not done by a professional" 🫩, ive literally seen so much fucked up shit on that platform...

dookie ass platform making me do an appeal and shit

bruh tiktok flagged one of my skate videos as a community guidelines violation 🫩

im literally wearing full skate gear like!?

its been 3 years since Janelle Monáe gifted us an album 😔

andrew makes pretty great content on youtube too, if you live in an accessible place see if you can find a local anarchist library or community center

love that for you. wishing more blessings your way 🐈‍⬛🖤

Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community The perpetrators were jailed for 15 years for robbery with violence in the east African country, where homophobic attacks are increasing

Two people who attacked and robbed two gay men in Kenya were sentenced to 15 years in prison last week.

LGBT+ rights advocates say it's a rare example of justice being served for queer people in the country. Story by @sajajohnson.bsky.social

explaining imperalism to my brother by calling Israel, the West‘s’ domain expansion onto indigenous North African/west Asian peoples

Hoping that another useless war can also help people come to grips with the idea that poor Kids of Color should not be forced into the military to pay for college or to get discipline or for any reason. Especially now that masks have come off & nazis and white supremacists are running the military

Daily for the first 15 minutes. 😆

im deaaad, that was a good one ahahaha. wish i could play marathon, but it no work on linux 😔

United States reveals five demands for South Africa about BEE, expropriation, and “Kill the Boer” US Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, says Washington is running out of patience with Pretoria's lack of action on a 'list of five asks' delivered a year ago.

After an initial bit of schmoozing, the real Bwana Bozell stood up this week. Apparently Washington is "running out of patience with Pretoria's lack of action on what he called a 'list of five asks' delivered to Pretoria a year ago".
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Art by René Georges Hermann-Paul

1899

Live updates: US says it destroyed 16 mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz The U.S. said it took out more than a dozen mine-laying Iranian vessels Tuesday, and the Islamic Republic vowed to block the region's oil exports, saying it would not allow “even a single liter” to be shipped to its enemies.

BREAKING: A projectile hit a cargo ship In the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel ablaze after the United States targeted Iranian minelaying vessels that could target the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. Follow live updates.

Building Infrastructure in Anarchy — Andrew Sage Q: How would infrastructure get built and maintained in an anarchist society? Before I explore how anarchism might resolve this question, bear with me as I lay some definitional groundwork. “Archis...

"Free association creates a direct relationship between desire, decision, and action: the deciders are the doers, and the doers are the deciders. There is no authority in place to dictate what must or must not be done, nor private property restricting access..."

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🚨 This is not just a post — it’s my child’s life.
In Gaza, he is fighting for survival while we search for a way to get him the treatment he urgently needs outside.
I am pleading with you — don’t scroll away.
Please donate or repost — your action could save him.

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I’m applying for WFH jobs daily, but I’m still short $1,156 for my housing goal. As a disabled person, stability is medical necessity.

Please share or donate to help me stay housed while I secure work.

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Fun is Infinite.

Moderation on Blacksky-Only Posts: A Community Proposal Our team has explored several ways to make permissioned posts possible. Now we’re bringing the decision back to the community. Below are three approaches to moderation: a machine-learning system that ...

Based on the People's Assembly feedback we are sharing 3 proposals for Blacksky-Only Posts. The blog contains 3 possible options and a link to vote on what you feel is best! Let's make this decision together and get Blacksky-Only posts launched!

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Get to voting y'all

“Founded by teenagers” feels exactly right. If you’ve ever had a kid tell that all you need to do to solve an intractable problem with contradictory moral frames is, ya know, “just let the phone do it!” then you actually understand today’s economic elites better than they do themselves.