Ivan Keun

This is why we can’t have nice things

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

Pretty good analogy.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

🧵Apotemnophilia

In the 90s, Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk Royal Infirmary, performed leg amputations on two men. Both men were perfectly healthy but suffering from apotemnophilia, a psychiatric condition involving the desire to have healthy limbs amputated./1

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

Dear Residents. Cape Town’s water usage has climbed rapidly to pre-drought levels.

Let’s save water and bring usage down to below 850 million litres daily. 💧

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

Lyk soos Clifton.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@sportsfan123 Must've been all that Satanism Koos!

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@NilsFlaatten I'd rather have this.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@NilsFlaatten @ewnupdates @MYANC @DIRCO_ZA No Nils, what they really expect is that it's none of your business how they spend your money.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

Incredible to think that we're related (i.e. share ~50% DNA) with another living creature, that is almost 5,000 years old. Partly why I believe @davidasinclair is on to something.

[WIRED @WIRED]

The world’s oldest individual tree lives 10,000 feet above sea level in the Inyo National Forest, California. A staggering 4,765 years old, this primeval tree was already a century old when the first pyramid was built in Egypt.

📸: Clinton Steeds

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@URCOfficial @leinsterrugby

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@NilsFlaatten @GovernmentZA @DIRCO_ZA @ClaysonMonyela Nils, they don’t care.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@SamHarrisOrg @Kasparov63

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

It’s insane.

[Iona Italia, PhD 🦘🇦🇺 @IonaItalia]

You will never be able to make me believe that there is anything worthy of punishment in simply uttering a taboo word -- no matter the context -- or drawing a picture. In itself, neither of these is bad. We are insane to think otherwise.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@MichaelJordaan Haha!

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

This should always have been our priority. Instead we prioritise “VIP” protection.

[Sakhile Mngadi MPL 🇿🇦 @Sakhilemngadi]

1.1 million grade 1s started school in 2010. Less than 80 000 passed all subjects with 50% in 2021. There should be a term for this ratio and that should be the main priority of the department of basic education. Until that’s fixed, we’re punching air really 💔

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@TheRealGiniel @Toyota_sa @TGRSouthAfrica @RedBullZA @SpecializedZA @oakley Oupa, jy moet nou mielies gooi!

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@JacquesMaree73 Truly glorious. Raise a glass.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

This effect is most likely exaggerated in rugby, which has far more complex rules and 50-50 situations that require on-the-fly interpretation from referees. Not limited to just crowd pressure either.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Pressuring the referees helps your team: The home field advantage is due to the influence of the crowd on referees. When COVID forced soccer matches in closed arenas, it didn't change performance but it eliminated "one-third of a yellow card for away teams relative to home team."

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Retweet this if you would like me to send you a personalised, signed copy of Viral—my new book on the search for the #OriginOfCovid, co-authored with the brilliant scientist @Ayjchan. https://t.co/ZetDkjRJ75

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

@Aella_Girl Yes. And the different spreads likely correlate with the level of group self-censorship.

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

“What could be more comforting than blaming a foreign nation for all your problems?”

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

The economic history of empire is one of those subjects, once well understood, where the field has been contaminated by economically illiterate or mendacious pseudo-scholarship. This is well done: “British India and the $45-Trillion Lie” – Quadrant Online https://t.co/iwTgDkc2tr

[Ivan Keun @IvanKeun]

Spectacular cognitive dissonance on display. @Our_DA stop dithering and remove the posters.

[Khulani Qoma @KhulaniQoma]

“At the meeting today, Dean said the party has to be realistic, we can afford to lose 50% of black DA voters but we cannot afford to lose 50% of the Indian vote who will vote for the DA - whatever that means,” said an insider who was at the meeting.  https://t.co/KDctp1cXrm