Darren MacDonald

Witsie. YOU know who I am 😉 Be weird 'cause why not. Bad jokes but probably not bad behaviour 😂
PS #SheWillBeLoved ☺
#ImBatman. Feel that? Woah. I know.

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

I just want to look at her and be proud enough to say, "She's mine" and regret nothing <3

[Pyo 5️⃣ @mrpyo1]

With over 105m views, the PlayStation post has been community noted

The push back against this is as strong if not stronger worldwide than the PS3 launch ”get a second job”

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

@sterkinekor with Edgars Club no longer being a partner with SK by the end of the month, is SK looking at other partners to replace? Nu Metro has a wider range of partners. I have Vitality so helps a lot with IMAX but new partners would boost attendance.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

there is something in these photos that nobody is talking about.

the earth, seen from the moon’s surface, is a crescent. the same shape we see the moon from earth. which means from where these astronauts stood, our entire world, every human being alive, every city, every ocean, every mountain, was receiving light the same way the moon does.

dependent. reflective. not a source but a receiver. and God placed both of them, earth and moon, in a gravitational relationship so precise that if either one shifted slightly, the conditions for life dissolve completely.

He did not just create them. He positioned them. He calibrated the distance. He calculated the tilt. He set the orbital speed. and then He rested.
what that tells me about God is something i am still processing.

He is not a God who creates carelessly and steps back. He is a God who creates with intention so deep that billions of years later, the greatest scientific mission of our generation goes out there and finds everything exactly where He left it. the craters on that moon are not evidence of chaos.

they are evidence of endurance. of something built to absorb impact and remain.

God put that quality into the moon because it is His own quality. He absorbs everything this world throws at existence and remains. unchanged. unshaken. still in orbit. still faithful. still holding everything He made in the dark.

[Caitlin Francis @MrsCMFrancis]

I can’t leave this alone.
We all have mental loads.
Every single human on the planet has a mental load.
I do not carry the mental load that my husband carries all day long while he provides for us, deals with money, bank accounts, health insurance, retirement, investments, car loan, mortgage, yard things, car, repairs, etc., etc.
He, therefore, is not expected to carry the load of what is in our refrigerator. He is not expected to know what is in our pantry. He’s also not expected to know what size clothes our kids wear, or even what reading level they are at, cause that’s my job.
The expectation that both a husband and a wife have to carry the entire load of the entire family together is a recipe for disaster.
Maybe your family splits up the tasks differently. Some families I know the wife takes care of the finances, and the man takes care of the groceries/cooking. Our marriage tends to fall along super traditional lines, probably because our parents were super traditional.
The point is not about who carries what part of the mental load, the point is that expecting both spouses to carry each other’s full mental load is a stupid way to live.
I am not saying that the other person should never know anything about the things that you do on a daily basis, and in fact, my husband knows all about the things that I do on a daily basis because I tell him about them constantly. And if I wanna know all the ins and outs of the insurance or the money or whatever, he would happily sit down and explain it all to me, and in fact does.
But please, release yourself from this idea that the mental load is only the woman’s, and rest in the trust that spouses can have when both of them carry their own mental loads and do their best for the other person/family without being constantly up in each other’s business and picking at the other for “not doing enough”.

[knick @Knick_RSA]

A rare video of the ANC 😭😭to South Africans 🇿🇦

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

They're still not listening 😂

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I went back to Luke this morning just to revisit the story of Christmas… and Luke 2:7 hit me like an arrow to the chest:

“She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”

We romanticize that line so much that we forget how brutal it actually is. If the gospel narrative is true, then that’s not a cute nativity detail. That is the most explosive statement in human history.

The God who created galaxies entered His own creation… and there was no room for Him.

No royal welcome, no palace, no safety, no honor, not even a bed. He comes into the world He made, and the doors are closed in His face.

This is the single greatest scandal of Christianity: God doesn’t supervise salvation from a throne. He steps into it. He doesn’t arrive in glory. He arrives vulnerable. He doesn’t come intimidating humanity into submission. He comes as a child who can’t even hold His own head up. If you were inventing a religion, this is not the story you’d write.

Luke is quietly showing something staggering about God’s character:
He wins, not by force, but by love.
He saves, not by domination, but by self-giving. He comes close, not as a King demanding space, but as a Savior entering even when there is “no room.”

And that manger isn’t sentimental. It’s confrontational.

It confronts our pride, cos humanity has always had space for power, wealth, celebrity, and status… just never space for God unless He serves our plans.

It confronts our illusions of strength cos God is showing that real power isn’t the ability to crush. Real power is the courage to empty yourself for the sake of others.

It confronts religion, cos God bypassed temples and elites and arrived where animals feed… then announced His coming not to emperors, but to shepherds.

Luke 2:7 tells us who God is.

He is not distant, He is not indifferent, He is not cold sovereignty. He is the God who chooses weakness so He can stand with the weak. He is the God who walks into human pain instead of observing it from afar. He is the God who would rather be rejected with us than reign without us.

If this verse is true, Christianity isn’t just another belief system. It’s a radical claim that the deepest power in the universe is love; not might, not fear, not spectacle.

So yes… this verse broke me today.
Because if this is who God is… then hope isn’t sentimental. Grace isn’t theoretical. And Christmas isn’t “cute.”

It’s God stepping into history quietly…
exposing us gently… and saving us completely. Luke 2:7 isn’t a children’s story. It’s a revolution.

Merry Christmas 🎄❤️

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Saying “Jesus was Palestinian” is not a harmless metaphor—it is a historical error that replaces documented facts with modern politics. History does not bend to contemporary narratives, no matter how often they are repeated.

https://t.co/E3lkEApUtT such identity existed in the 1st century.
“Palestinian” is a modern national identity that emerged in the 20th century. It did not exist in the time of Jesus, making the claim anachronistic.
2.The land was not called Palestine.
Jesus lived in Judea and Galilee under Roman rule. The name Syria Palaestina was imposed by Rome more than a century later, after the Bar Kokhba revolt, in an effort to sever Jewish ties to the land.
3.Jesus was Jewish—by ethnicity, religion, and practice.
He was born to Jewish parents, observed Jewish law, worshipped in the Temple in Jerusalem, and taught within Jewish society. This is affirmed by both historical and textual sources.
4.The claim is political, not historical.
Labeling Jesus “Palestinian” is a modern ideological move that retroactively assigns a contemporary political identity to a historical figure, substituting activism for evidence.

#christmas2025

[Village Lawyer ⚖️🇿🇦👆 @Malatjie_]

An NGO basically instructed you to grant entry to people without proper papers and you can’t even confirm where they came from as they don’t have departure stamps and they have no interest in applying for asylum,

We are hosting world leaders in just a week.

This is a serious security threat.

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

@Vitality_SA Hi. I wanted to check if Dischem has ended its Healthcare partnership with Vitality? According to a store manager, this is the case. I haven't heard any updates from Discovery on this. Are we getting new choices?

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Charlie Kirk didn't even believe in race.

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

When people misquote, take videos out of context, you paint a different picture (always see the media tick box list of words). Take the full story, like you always should, this is a man of God, hope, and love. A good man. Not perfect but a good man. May he rest in peace 🙏🏻

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

Charlie Kirk was not a racist and I will not sit back and allow people to spread that lie

I gave Charlie Kirk his flowers last year and thanked him for helping 100s of young black people get an invite to the White House back in 2019

He helped pay for most of their flights and hotels because it cost so much to travel and he didn’t want them to miss out

He have gave them an experience & opportunity of a lifetime and yes he helped me get an invite as well.

I’m going to miss him so much! ❤️

[A. Hariharan @_AHariharan]

This would probably be one of the most powerful monuments to erect at a university in this age.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:

“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.

“That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.”

“Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”

[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

Today is a very sad day for America. I am sick to my stomach and can’t stop replaying in my mind what I saw happen to Charlie Kirk and I know many of you were also left traumatized watching not knowing what’s going to happen next. A wife is left without a husband, children left without a father, and many left without a loved one. My thoughts and prayers to all of them especially to his wife and kids. God please help them get through this. We all need to hug our loved ones, be there for one another, and show compassion to each other as human beings. But to anyone celebrating this, posting that you’re happy with a man losing his life, you are disgusting and evil. It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you’re on or what “party” you belong to, whether you liked Charlie or not, you should NOT be ok with what happened today, and if you are, YOU are part of the problem.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear young people, Jesus is our hope. Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less. You will then see the light of the Gospel growing every day, in you and around you.

[Ofentse 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🫧🫧 @Ofs5B]

South Africans must always remember - While Ministers are bragging about giving you grants & giving Graduates R350 p/m. The same minister earn between R2M - R2.5M p/a. They also get - free housing, cars,travel, water, electricity ( generators), VIP protection etc

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

@MbalulaFikile No. You don't know history. Go back thousands of years. That is where you find answers. Truth. This is the wrong side of history.

This government has no direction and what actually impacts us. South Africa could be flourishing under the rainbow nation it could have been.

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

She said she would follow up with her manager when I queried before I flew back from the US in late May 2023. I'm very disappointed in the service.

This was my first time in the US and opening a bank account with Chase so I was eligible after my first paycheck.

[Darren MacDonald @DMacD0804]

@MadiBoity Sickening.