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[Tinashe Ngirandi @TinasheNgirandi]

I am just a boy from Shurugwi, a rural part of Zimbabwe.

We never imagined we’d shake hands with some of the people we once only saw from afar.

We dreamed. We remained optimistic. We kept going.

No one is coming for us. We are going for what we want.

Tot Facienda Parum Factum

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

- Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski is pointing to a common human failure. People spend their emotional energy on small daily irritations and stay almost indifferent to the slow wasting of their own lives.

A traffic jam or a petty argument can produce instant rage. A life being thrown away happens quietly and is easy to miss. The difference is simple: minor frustrations give you something immediate to blame. Facing a wasted life means looking inward, and most people would rather stay busy with the small stuff.

[CIA @CIA]

We heard some of you were looking for Spies, Black Ties, & Mango Pies – well we found a copy in our library!

CIA's 1997 cookbook features recipes like "Hamburger Pie," "Party Potatoes," and "Fail-Safe Chocolate Chip Cookies" – just what we all need for the holiday weekend 🇺🇸

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

- Dostoevsky

Solomon's Paradox is the tendency to reason more wisely about other people's problems than our own.

It's named after the biblical King Solomon — famous for his wise judgments, but who in his later years is depicted as making increasingly poor choices in his own personal and political life.

The term was introduced in 2014 by psychologists Igor Grossmann and Ethan Kross. In their studies on relationship conflicts, they found that people were better at taking multiple viewpoints into account, acknowledging what they didn't know, and looking for compromise when they were thinking about someone else's problem instead of their own.

They also found a way to counteract it: self-distancing. If you look at your own situation as an outside observer would, or ask yourself, "What would I tell a friend to do if they were in this exact position?" it becomes easier to think more clearly and objectively.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

I find it shocking that the Trump administration unilaterally blocked a G20 member and democracy, South Africa, from participating in the G20 finance meeting. This petty bullying will come back to haunt us. What goes around comes around.

[Bongekile Macupe @BongeMacupe]

I took this video. It was a Fees Must Fall protest and the president at the time was Jacob Zuma.

[spirit_of_sankofa @SpiritOfSankofa]

“The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary…..but for me that is not all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle… the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet …but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country”.

~Chris Hani~

[🇿🇦 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐘 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒 @enockay]

This Gen Z makoti comes with her own marriage textbook😂🤣😂

Leadership Dlamini hartbeespoort dam ma'am moleya ANC #VoteANC2026 Tito Lucas Moripe Stadium Riverside mpesa Ramaphosa

[Vlad Dubchak @vladdubchak_x]

We open-sourced our entire marketing team.

Introducing Marketing OS for Grok Bot by Maxfusion.

A full marketing department. Each employee gets a job.

Each gets its own computer, and your logins.

They work while you sleep, no days off or sick leaves.

🖤 Head of Marketing - the mastermind
🟢 Analyst · site audits scored 0-100
🟪 SEO Lead · rankings, GEO, llms.txt
🔷 Copywriter · copy graded before you see it
⚪️ Creative Strategist · Ai ads generated with Maxfusion
🔺Media Buyer · fatigue vs dead audience, kill calls
🔵 Email Marketer · sequences written in full, schedule
🟡 Social Manager · posts that survive the feed
🟥 Launch Manager · Product Hunt, hour by hour
🟤 Pricing Strategist · tiers, offers, what to charge & why
🟩 Competitor Analyst · what they run on Meta
🟣 ASO Specialist · App Store and Play listings
🟦 Data Analyst · dashboards, A/B tests, educated answers
🔶 Editor · cuts the AI slop before anything ships

And they hand work to each other:

Competitor Analyst finds the winning angle → Creative Strategist makes 10 ads → Email Marketer launches the campaign → SEO Lead fixes the site → Analyst grades the result.

One link. Install in Grok Bot.

Comment "BOT" and I'll send it to you.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

We're in the middle of the second renaissance where proof of work replaces the resume, an audience replaces the employer, and taste replaces credentials.

[NYDARSA @NYDARSA]

GWACA Enterprise is calling on 50 unemployed youth aged between 18 - 35 in Limpopo to apply for training in New Venture Creation and Innovation Skills.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Completed Matric with Maths & Science, OR

• University/TVET graduate, OR

• Qualified artisan

• STEM-related fields: Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Boilermaking, IT, Electronics & more

BENEFITS:

• You will gain support to start and grow your own small business.

Email your certified ID and qualification to [email protected].

Use reference NVCSP30603 in your subject line

Enquiries: 068 778 3810

#Training #Limpopo #NewVentureCreation #Innovation #ApplyNow #SouthAfrica

[kopanodesigns @kopanodesigns]

"the vital importance of recognising, preserving, and translating traditional medicinal knowledge into scientifically validated and commercially viable health solutions."

[University of Limpopo @ULvarsity]

𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐲

Director of the Indigenous Knowledge
Systems (Health) Lead Programme at the University of the Free State, where he also
heads the African Medicines Innovations and Technology Development (AMITD) platform delivers the Keynote address under the theme: Presentation title:”From Grassroots Knowledge to Application through Science - Traditional
Medicine Product Development”.

The keynote explored the intersection between indigenous knowledge systems and contemporary scientific innovation. The speaker underscored the vital importance of recognising, preserving, and translating traditional medicinal knowledge into scientifically validated and commercially viable health solutions.

In a compelling address, the keynote illustrated how locally rooted knowledge, often passed down through generations, can serve as the foundation for cutting-edge pharmaceutical and therapeutic innovations. This discourse not only aligned with the event’s broader theme of integrating science, innovation, and entrepreneurship, but also challenged scholars to bridge the gap between community-based practices and formal research methodologies.
The address set a powerful tone for the day’s proceedings, inviting participants to reimagine research as a vehicle for social relevance, economic development, and cultural preservation.

📺 Be part of the conversation by tuning into the live proceedings on our official YouTube Channel: https://t.co/AW0OMaIJ13

#PostgraduateInnovation #FSAResearch #LabToMarket #FindingSolutionsforAfrica
#FSAREsearchDay2025 #ChooseUL #ULEvents2025
#IAmUL

[Ipsos in South Africa @Ipsos_SA]

The SRD grant, introduced in May 2020 as emergency relief during Covid-19, has become the primary form of social assistance for young South Africans. https://t.co/tkVQaYQyYY

[kopanodesigns @kopanodesigns]

@grok please make thise logo hi HD quality

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

A young Nigerian built AI smart glasses that help blind people walk without a cane or a guide dog.

Here's how it works. The glasses use AI, sensors, and a camera to detect obstacles in real time.

If something is in the way, they vibrate and trigger an alarm before the user reaches it.

The clever part built-in GPS tracking. If the user gets lost, their exact location is sent to their caregiver's phone via WhatsApp or Email.

He built the whole thing with an ESP32 microcontroller. Handmade. From Kano, Nigeria.

Now he's adding AI voice so the glasses can describe surroundings out loud not just detect obstacles but explain what's around them.

His name is Khalifa Aminu. @inventorkhalifa

[Amanda Orson @amandaorson]

Purchased a small farm during the lockdown era (w/o a rural background).

My 2¢ on the good/ the bad/ the surprises (long list):

The Good:
- Owning a farm is a forcing function that will increase your baseline activity (and thus health, fitness) by magnitudes of order.
- We don't go out to eat, at all, so the quality of the food is superior b/c it is local, non-industrial, non-processed by default.
- You will begin develop your senses and begin to read signs, see things you did not notice before. Cloud patterns will mean "rain" or "wind." You'll know the difference between fox and coyote sign. Etc.
- You'll also appreciate migrating birds you may not have noticed before; when fox kits litter in the Spring, why bucks are in one part of the acreage at a certain time of the year, etc. You'll be much more in tune with nature (for good and bad!)
- Seasons become operational calendars, not scenery. Spring is repair-and-planting season; summer is a race against heat, weeds, and trying to keep the pastures / fencelines relative trim; fall is fencing, winterization; winter is a break when you "catch up" on all the things you didn't get to that can be done in the house or garage between snow clearing, of course.
- You'll develop real, practical skills by necessity. You can't take every piece of equipment that breaks to someone else, so you'll begin to learn how to patch your own tires, repair small engines. You're going to get equipment stuck - so you'll learn how to tow and use a winch. You'll eventually develop some Macgyver-ish ways of doing tasks smarter, not harder (like using a t-post puller to extract the broken remnant of a fence post.)
- You'll also become biased toward self-sufficiency, which makes you and your home more resilient in the event of power outages, weather events, etc.
- Over time this compounds into confidence. You will solve problems you've never seen before with such regularity that don't intimidate or surprise you anymore.
- Your daily view is something many people would pay good money to vacation at. Your air and water is cleaner than anything within 100 miles of a major city. And if you want to blast off fireworks or use your back 5 for a rifle range or stock your own pond, for the most part, there's no one stopping you.

The Bad:
- You have no idea what you're doing and on the internet that's mostly embarrassing but harmless and in the real world, driving a tractor or wielding a chainsaw, it can be deadly. Go slow, practice a lot, assume you're an idiot and drive accordingly - and get outside training if you can.
- IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE, not less, than living in an average suburban home. Esp in years 0-5.
-- Infrastructure eats the budget before the fun projects begin. Fencing, electrical work, outbuildings, maintaining or creating road access is not IG worthy but where you're going to spend most of your first dollars.
- Nothing is ever “done.” Everything has a maintenance obligation: fences need to be painted, barns need to be cleaned, garden beds need to be weeded, machinery needs fuel, fluids, batteries, tires etc x ꝏ
- This is a 24/7 lifestyle - much moreso than a startup. At the end of a day at your startup you can binge Netflix and order doordash. On a homestead you are turning animals in or out around sunrise and sunset every day of the year rain or shine and that comes before you feed yourself and certainly before TV. And you're going to make your own dinner.
- Everything is default inconvenient and manual.
- IG focuses on bucolic greenery, but you're going to be in muddy, dusty environments at least as often as you see beautiful landscapes.
- There are no days off. Seriously. Freezing rain in the dark? 20" of snow? Weekends, travel, illness, or holidays? Animals still need water, feed, and shelter. Grass (or whatever you're growing) still needs to be trimmed/ weeded/ managed.

Surprises:
- Owning chickens is in no way cheaper than just buying $12 eggs. They are a lot of fun though.
- You will spend an absurd amount of time mitigating pests and rodents, esp if you have feed. h/t @BowTiedBroke he's exactly right about this.
- Your local SPCA's spay and neuter program is probably cheaper and better (more practice!) than your vets by a wide margin.
- You're going to see a lot more death, and life!, than you ever would have imagined. Its fragility will go from being abstract to very real in a short time.
- Neighbors will either be a tremendous asset or a source of great frustration. Even with acres between you. Good neighbors are a force multiplier. Someone with a post-driver, bigger HP tractor, or 20 years of equipment repair knowledge will save you months of trial and error
- Buying the animal is the inexpensive part. Feed, bedding, shelter, fencing, veterinary care, replacements, processing, losses, and your time are the actual economics.
- You'll basically develop two wardrobes: "farm" clothes (which are beat to hell) and everything else. Over time the everything else wardrobe becomes smaller and smaller.

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***TL;DR***

This life is for you if…
- You can tolerate repetitive, unglamorous work: hauling water, fixing fence, moving feed, cleaning mud.
- You find satisfaction in doing and maintaining things, not just acquiring them.
- You can afford for the farm to be a lifestyle investment rather than a profitable enterprise, esp at first.
- You value autonomy enough to accept responsibility at 5 a.m., during holidays, and in bad weather.
- You are willing to suck at a lot of things for a long time to practice them long enough to gain competence.

It is NOT for you if
- You need weekends, vacations, evenings, and holidays free.
- You dislike maintenance, mess, mud, insects, odors, rodents, and occasionally finding dead things.
- You want animals mainly for the aesthetic but not the daily care, feces, predators, and end-of-life realities.
- You can't afford it. This is much more expensive than you think it is; bare minimum maintenance costs alone will probably be >2X,XXX for anything over 10 acres with outbuildings and fencing.
- You'd rather outsource every repair, because rural labor and specialized service is scarce, slow, expensive or all 3.

Do I regret our farm purchase? No. I like the daily activity forcing function for practical fitness, to be a part of the world around me not merely a visitor to it, and I prefer uncomfortable, inconvenient self-sufficiency to convenient dependence.

But I'll be the first to say this is not for everyone, and even for someone reasonably aware of what they were getting into - the learning and adaptation curve was (is!) steep.

https://t.co/wQ30cNtFfA

[SABC News @SABCNews]

LIVE | KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has raised concerns about tender processes, arguing that outsourcing remains a key factor contributing to crime.

[MagicAI @magic_ai_skill]

지도를 작품처럼 그려주는 오픈소스를 찾음!!
우리 동네를 감성 있는 지도 포스터로 만들어 줌

장소명이나 지도 스크린샷만 있으면 끝,
도로, 건물, 공원, 물길까지 예쁘게 표현해줌

단순히 AI로 만든 지도보다 이런 감성이 훨씬 잘 먹히죠
콘텐츠 만드는 사람이라면 일단 꼭 공유 & 북마크!

https://t.co/08V1CZ41QD

제작자: marceloprates

[Saw’bona buti..ngiyathemba uyaphila. @Nomonde_sky]

Saw’bona buti….🥹