Giovanni's Room

Politics | History | Culture | Software Engineering. I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

Highlights from alumni weekend at my old university residence. A time was had. #CIUP

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

If only....

[Dandaro Online @DandaroOnline]

#dandarostreets A 69-year-old former Chinese city official has been sentenced to death after being convicted of taking bribes worth US$325 million.

Yang Youlin was also found guilty of embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering following a corruption investigation into his decades in public office.

The case is among China's biggest anti-corruption convictions in recent years.

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[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

The worst thing that colonialism did was to capture the minds of African people. So many of us can't even conceptualize the world outside of colonial frameworks.

[The Lion That Concerns Itself @Kombo_Ren]

Sin begets sin begets sin & we are all the poorer for it.

[ⴰⵀⴰⵣ 🇩🇿 @jesuistouareg]

Note she’s only panicking bc her comments were so vile that Macron condemned them, her own government condemned them, and the FFF (French football team) is filing a lawsuit. Turns out being a racist mf behind a phone screen can have actual consequences

[Wholesome @wholesome_X_]

Life is more beautiful when you have friends who know how to be friends.

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

I'm here learning High Valyrian so that the next season I won't need the subtitles 😂😂😂 #hotd

[Joy @JoyyUnSpeakable]

I literally watch shit about Old Valyria on YouTube like it’s real history

[Joy @JoyyUnSpeakable]

I literally watch shit about Old Valyria on YouTube like it’s real history

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

They didn't know this before 30 June? 😂😂😂

Liyachaza maSouth Africans shem

[Dr Koena Moabelo🇿🇦 @RealKoenaza]

I want my South African Brothers and Sisters to know that this job can make them 3k a week 👏🏾👏🏾.

Let’s occupy spaces.🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

You conflate the South African ppl with their gvt. That same gvt has extended time & time again permits for Zimbos when they had no legal obligation to do so. Same gvt has lectured citizens against what is happening now. What more can they do without committing political suicide?

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

The age of virtue signalling has produced a peculiar spectacle. South Africans march beneath Palestinian flags, pin Palestinian badges to their lapels and social media accounts and cheer as Pretoria prosecutes the Palestinian cause on the world stage. Remember how this was celebrated ?? Yet, almost in the same breath, displaced Zimbabweans are hounded from South African streets by xenophobic mobs, while the government proves incapable of guaranteeing their safety and humanity.

If Pretoria claims the moral high ground abroad, it ought first to secure it at home.

The irony deepens. Jordan and Egypt have borne the overwhelming regional burden of the Palestinian question for decades. Jordan granted citizenship to large numbers of Palestinians, by large I mean over 2m, while Egypt has long hosted Palestinians and afforded them refuge and protection. They’re not deemed illegals. They absorbed the human consequences directly, yet neither country sought to make its case principally through the International Court of Justice.

How, then, does a government so eager to lecture the world on human rights tolerate recurring waves of xenophobic violence within its own borders? A state that cannot protect vulnerable foreigners living under its own jurisdiction risks sounding less like a moral authority than a government seeking virtue abroad while failing its most immediate responsibilities at home.

It all points to an uncomfortable reality maybe both the march on March protestors and SA government may just be hired guns. Hapana principle apa!!

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

It's precisely because the gold & diamond mines can be serviced with starving, dying workers & still create wealth for the nation (aka the elite) that is the problem.

[𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕮𝖍𝖏𝖑𝖉🕊 @NdimloUnathi]

Zimbabwe has everything it needs to thrive. From its people to its natural resources, Zimbabwe can definitely rise again. Only problem is we being led nemisatanyoko yega yega🚮

[Laurence (Larry) Boorstein @LarryBoorstein]

DOGE showed they were morons with a series of gotcha moments:
- DOGE claimed to have discovered USAID was paying for condoms for Gaza which they joked was for "gay Hamas." It turned out the condoms were HIV/AIDS prevention for Gaza, Mozambique.
- DOGE claimed that USAID was paying for BBC. It turned out USAID was donating to BBC Media Action, a charity. BBC is funded by licenses in the UK.
- DOGE claimed there were 120+year old "vampires" as DOGE called them on Social Security. It turned out that a dummy date like 00/00/1900 was used in COBOL for records to be deleted and no benefits checks were going to the dummy names.

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

That went straight over your head didn't it 😂😂😂😂

[Boogie Brewess🇷🇺🇧🇫🇨🇳🇳🇬🇮🇷⛓️‍💥🇺🇸 @BoogieBrewess]

@nonduduzo_ncube Bit h fuque you. This is an AMERICAN app. You don’t wanna SEE our AFRICAN AMERICAN posts ? Then GTF off of OUR app. Go make your own. I DARE you. YFABADABGTFOHUAH

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

Cersei: "Suicide before you see this tear fall down my eyes."

[best of GOT @bestofGOT___]

Who comes out crying first?

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

I am impressed by this. Not by their climbing or bypassing security. But to be such a specific kind of crazy, that requires not just bravado but also great skill, and to find someone exactly as crazy, as skilful, as willing, who even happens to look like you and to have them be in love with you... few people will ever be so lucky, few people will ever live life so fully. To be lucky to find this, you don't need to live 80 or 90 years. They have already lived a hundred lives.

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

Kanti what happened to Gilmore.... The timeline used to be full of him and then crickets

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

@NyoniTom @CrimeWatchZW Tens of thousands just for the hospital bill, and at least a hundred thousand for the emotional distress, missed work and the humiliation of having the video shared on SM.

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

After seeing how our aunties cook and handle food at village weddings, I am convinced most of the stories of witchcraft were severe food poisoning....

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

After seeing how our parents handled leftovers, I'm convinced most of the "stomach flu" we had as kids was actually mild food poisoning.

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

If a white British guy said exactly the same thing about South Africans in the UK, South Africans would be screaming bloody murder, racism and invoking the legacy of Mandela.

But when the object of hate is a black person it's okay. It's patriotism.

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

“They say we’re xenophobic. No, we’re not. We’re protecting our country. Nigerians have the audacity to tell us we’re xenophobic, yet their own country is falling apart while they’re busy slaugh7ering harmless kids. They are very useless and harsh when it comes to their own people. We’re patriotic. We don’t want our country to fall apart.”

— South African woman speaks as South Africans march in an anti-immigration protest against foreign Africans.

[Giovanni's Room @_zikhali_]

Elon Musk's silence on what's going on in South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 is deafening. Maybe it's because it's black and brown lives on the line. Maybe it's lives he doesn't care about, whose intrinsic worth he refuses to acknowledge.

His silence is more revealing than all his outbursts.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Football (read: sports) is so important for straight men, because how many other places are men allowed to show emotion, touch each other non-sexually, hugging, kissing, slapping each other one the ass, crying real snotty tears and still not be mocked for being weak?