Thandeka Mali

Custard and Coal | Product Creative Strategy nerd at Netflix | IAB 2021 Bookmark Awards innovative engineers judge | All views are my own.

[Ayarh 🍒 @AyandaYandiey]

Some friends are truly a blessing. 🥹❤️ You can tell this meant so much to him. It’s the kind of surprise you remember for years.

[Haji @khal_haji]

South Africa, when did we get here?

This is beautiful ❤️

[Walter 🇳🇬 🇵🇭 🇨🇦 @gamerwalt]

You demanded to be the head of the house. Yet you do not know how to operate the washing machine you bought.

You cannot boil water without asking where the salt is.

When your wife gets sick, the entire household logistics collapse in less than 12 hours.

You are just a heavily subsidized dependent with a deep voice.

Weaponized incompetence = embarrassment.

And many of you are on this train of incompetence.

A real man knows the architecture of his own domain. He can step in and run the entire operation seamlessly.

Stop being a burden.

[Rihanna @rihanna]

one minute I feel like that kid from Westbury…the next minute I’m bringing my own kids back to “Rihanna Drive”

Trippy how life works! And the Glory STILL and WILL ALWAYS belong to the Almighty Creator!!!

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

of couse your wife can’t cook like your mom. YOU SHOULD! you’re her son. you ate her food your whole life.

[iScathulo SePhara 👞 @ISephara]

More and more people in Cape Town are starting to wake up... but this is by far the most painful crash out I've seen this week of a woman just trying to survive 💔

[Manzi @ClixWell]

“A way forward.”

[Bored Poster @D_Thaumaturge]

I’m so glad someone brought this
to subwaytakes because so many of you are there and you need to be checked

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[La-Ndlovu @destiny_ndlovu]

They don’t know it yet, but these are the best days of their lives.

[Thandeka Mali @Tea_Mali]

💯 open models for Gen Ai are essential.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Bex102 ♥️🌹 @GudGirlLucy1]

😂😂😂😂 I miss Kuli Roberts 😭😭
Nonhle: I couldn’t have genuine friends because people became fans
Kuli: Sies Nonhle, who became your fan?

😂😂😂😂😂

[𝙖𝙮 @jvicwills]

i'm sorry but this is INSANEE

[CertifiedEcoTourismDoyenne @ms_tourist]

I’m now convinced that we are a compromised country with no intelligence. We honestly can’t continue in this manner.. I’m dumbfounded

[shapeshifter @ELLAYELICHSTAN]

This is a profoundly beautiful description

[carter🌚 @carter8f]

“My dad was kidnapped for the second time just before Nigeria’s 2018 World Cup game against Argentina.😳The first time, I paid a huge ransom and still went out to play without telling anyone. Roman Abramovich later told me, ‘Just say the word and I’ll get your dad out in less than 24 hours.’ I asked him, ‘How?’”

— John Obi Mikel

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Looking at France lose to Spain and realizing how powerful Cabo Verde was

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Un tipo compro WiFi para ver el Argentina vs Egipto en el avion

Y los 187 pasajeros terminaron arrimandose para escuhar el partido en vivo

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

It's 9pm local time in London, everyone in the Royal Box has left the building, and the camera pans to the one person who stayed to watch the last match of the day...

Roger Federer, the winningest men's champion in Wimbledon history.

Cinema.