Son of Saartjie

Be unapologetically yourself. Never sell-out for nickels and dimes. Read extensively. Learn more than one language. Don't idolise any human. Be kind.

[Sara Al-sharif @ros_sara2002]

لا تتوقف عن نشر جرائم الدعم السريع في السودان

[T @Uncle_Thaps]

Not smelters, foundries, or refineries?

[Sara Al-sharif @ros_sara2002]

Sudan is bleeding, why are we silent?

[La Catrina Norteña @catrina_nortena]

#ULTIMAHORA
🚨 ESTUDIANTES TOMAN LA SECRETARÍA DE EDUCACIÓN EN ARGENTINA

Le exigen al Libertario Come Burros @JMilei que cumpla, igual que en Francia, la Ley de Financiamiento Universitario...

[Allie_Saffa 🇿🇦 @Saffa_GenXer]

🇿🇦 My fellow South Africans we are getting ripped off thoroughly at the fuel pumps ⛽️ 🙈😡
#Gatvol

[Eye on Pakistan @eyeonpakistan_]

BREAKING: ALL EYES ON PAKISTAN 🇵🇰

A sea of flash lights as a pro-democracy march heads toward Islamabad, with demonstrators demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

[Silas Portugal @SilasPortugalR1]

Se você tem o maior respeito e admiração pelos milhares de estudante que tomaram as ruas do rio de janeiro para dizer não ao Flávio Bolsonaro, deixa aqui o seu boa noite!

[Dr. Gumani Tshimomola @TshimomolaGK]

This is senseless. A governing party, @MYANC, which deployed a Minister of Finance to lead @Treasury_RSA, is issuing a statement under the auspices of a parliamentary study group, calling on a government department to act. Why not simply convene an urgent joint meeting, ask the hard questions, and send them off with clear orders to fix this mess? They hold the keys to the Treasury, yet they stand outside its gates begging in press statements. This is not oversight. This is theatre. A party pleading with itself in public is a party that has no interest in governing. None whatsoever!

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The workers of the world are rising up and it’s a beautiful thing to see. A better world is possible!

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Pep Guardiola on Lionel Messi saying his legs could no longer give him more:

“The problem with Lionel Messi getting older is that he has declined into still being the best player on the pitch.

So people don’t believe him.

I watched his farewell game.

One goal. Two assists. At 39 years old.

Afterwards somebody showed me the clip where Leo ran chasing a ball and people were saying, ‘This is the same man who says his legs cannot give him anymore?’

I said, ‘Yes. That is exactly what he means.’

Because you are comparing Messi with the other players on the pitch.

Leo is comparing Messi with Messi.

Those are two completely different standards.

I remember once at Barcelona, after training, one of my staff said to me, ‘Pep, he was unbelievable today.’

I asked, ‘Who?’

He looked at me like I was stupid.

‘Leo.’

I said, ‘No. Today was normal.’

He laughed.

I wasn’t joking.

That was one of the strangest things about coaching Messi. Something would happen in training that would stop everybody else, and after a while we stopped reacting.

Three players around him?

Normal.

Four?

Normal.

He receives the ball, turns and suddenly everybody is running towards their own goal?

Normal.

One day I remember telling Xavi, ‘We have a problem.’

He asked, ‘What?’

‘He is making us think these things are normal.’

Xavi smiled.

‘Then wait until he leaves.’

That sentence stayed with me.

Because I think a generation is experiencing the same problem now, just backwards.

They are meeting Lionel Messi at the end and thinking this is Lionel Messi.

They watch him at 39, see him create two goals and score another and say, ‘What legs has he lost?’

My friend, you arrived at the cinema during the final ten minutes.

You have no idea what happened before you sat down.

Imagine a boy watching this game with his father.

He asks, ‘Dad, I don’t understand. Messi is still the best player. Why is he retiring?’

His father should not show him another match from 2026.

Show him 2011.

Show him 2012.

Show him 2015.

Then tell the boy, ‘The man you are watching now used to do all of this with legs that could do whatever his brain requested.’

That is the difference.

Today Leo sees the pass before you.

Back then he saw the pass before you, played it, then arrived somewhere else before you understood what had happened.

Today he can still beat you with his mind.

At his peak, unfortunately, the mind had the body with it.

That was unfair.

I remember defenders looking towards our bench sometimes after Leo did something as though I could help them.

What did they want me to do?

Substitute him?

I was trying to win too.

And this is why I believe Leo when he says his legs cannot give him what they once did.

Of course they cannot.

He knows because he remembers what they used to give him.

We see a 39-year-old man and think, ‘Still magnificent.’

He feels something different.

A ball rolls towards the touchline and his mind says, ‘Go.’

For twenty years, his legs answered immediately.

Now sometimes they say, ‘No, Leo. Not this one.’

For us, that is one lost ball.

For him, maybe that is thirty years of football speaking to him.

That must be a very strange conversation for a genius to have with his own body.

But perhaps that is also the perfect explanation of Lionel Messi.

Even now, with the legs he says can no longer give him everything, he can play his farewell game, score once, create two more and leave people asking:

‘If this is Messi declining, what exactly was Messi at his best?’

I can answer that.

We spent four years at Barcelona trying to find the correct word.

We never did.”

[Temu Specialist @Nomaswazi_11]

The reason why the fuel reserve tax is so high is because your fav and his friends sold the fuel reserves of the country.

😊

[Rick Sanchez @RickSanchezTV]

Scott Ritter: MbS might be toppled within the next five months.

As the war escalates, footage shows Aramco facilities taking repeated hits from Houthi strikes.

Ritter says bin Salman trapped himself in a nightmare by launching the war against Ansar Allah.

“The Saudi Arabian government is at risk of collapsing.”

Full interview on Sanchez Effect.

[Vatiswa Ndara @theVati_Can]

#7October #unfilteredbooks

[Olamzy @madebyolah]

SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS CAR DEALERS, BUT THIS PRACTICE IS INSANE.

My neighbor bought a new car last week.

It came equipped with heated leather seats, remote start, and lane-assist software.

Two days later, he got an alert on his dashboard screen:

"Your 30-day complimentary trial for Heated Seats and Remote Start has expired. Subscribe for $18/month to maintain access."

THE PHYSICAL HEATING ELEMENTS ARE ALREADY INSIDE THE SEAT.

THE WIRING IS ALREADY INSTALLED.

YOU PAID FOR THE HARDWARE WHEN YOU BOUGHT THE CAR.

Now the manufacturer wants a monthly subscription fee to send a digital signal that turns on a heater you already own?

THAT IS NOT INNOVATION.

THAT IS HARDWARE RENT-SEEKING INSIDE A PERSONAL ASSET.

[Modese @Ramulondo_DR]

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[Fighter 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @NalediChirwa]

You’re inviting us a for a fight @UPTuks Deregistering the EFF Youth Command as a society because you’re anti our efforts to stand in solidarity with Palestine will not be tolerated.

If you ate Israel money, vomit it now.

[music data @music__data]

R&B Legend Freddie Jackson has died age age 70.

[Man’s NOT Barry Roux @AdvoBarryRoux]

If this appears on your timeline kindly repost until this guy who hit the Kwid from behind is found. You run into someone’s car and you think running away will make things better! Who is this person?

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Zinedine Zidane on Michael Olise’s performance against Belgium:

“Michael was sitting on the bench wrapped in a blanket while we were losing 1–0.

I looked at him a few times.

Nothing.

No frustration. No walking up and down. No looking at me every thirty seconds hoping I would notice him.

Just sitting there like somebody waiting for a bus.

At half-time, I walked past him and said, ‘Michael, are you comfortable?’

He said, ‘Yes, coach.’

I said, ‘That’s actually beginning to annoy me.’

He laughed.

I told him, ‘We are losing.’

He said, ‘I know.’

‘And you’re sitting here looking like you’re watching television.’

He looked at me and said, ‘You haven’t asked me to do anything yet.’

That answer stayed in my head.

Because some players spend the whole game trying to convince the manager that they are ready.

Michael behaves like the manager already knows.

Around the 55th minute I told him and Rayan Cherki to get ready.

Michael finally removed the blanket.

I said, ‘Ah, so you do remember you’re a footballer.’

He smiled.

Before he went on, I stopped him.

I said, ‘Michael, we don’t need you to rescue France. Just change the game.’

He looked at the scoreboard, looked back at me and said, ‘What’s the difference?’

I should have known then.

He comes on in the 60th minute.

Seventeen minutes later, Désiré equalises.

Then Michael creates Rayan’s goal.

2–1.

I’m celebrating and Michael is already walking back towards the halfway line.

That is something about him that makes me laugh.

Sometimes he produces something ridiculous and celebrates like somebody has just completed paperwork.

Then the 88th minute comes.

Michael scores.

3–1.

Now I’m thinking, ‘Good. Finished.’

Apparently Michael wasn’t.

Three minutes later he scores again.

4–1.

I looked towards the bench and one of my assistants said, ‘You could have brought him on earlier.’

I said, ‘That is exactly why I didn’t.’

He looked confused.

I told him, ‘If I bring him on at half-time, perhaps Belgium have enough time to understand what is happening.’

After the match Michael walked past me.

I said, ‘Two goals, one assist in thirty minutes.’

He nodded.

That was it.

So I asked him, ‘Do you have anything to say?’

He said, ‘You told me to change the game.’

I said, ‘Yes, Michael. I didn’t tell you to destroy their evening.’

He smiled and started walking away.

Then I remembered our conversation from half-time.

I shouted, ‘Michael.’

He turned around.

I said, ‘Was the blanket comfortable?’

He said, ‘Very.’

I told him, ‘Good. Keep it. At this rate, we might need it again.’

People will see two goals and an assist and start talking about the Ballon d’Or. They’ll compare him with Yamal, Saka, whoever they want.

I see something slightly different.

I see a player who can sit there for an hour while his country is losing and somehow look like the least worried person in the stadium.

Not because he doesn’t care.

Because he believes that if his moment comes, he will do something with it.

There is a difference between arrogance and certainty.

Michael has that strange certainty.

He doesn’t need ninety minutes to convince you he was important to the match.

Tonight France were losing when he stood up from that bench.

Thirty minutes later, Belgium probably wished I had left him under the blanket.”

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

If money wasn’t a problem, I’d probably spend my whole life studying.

A master’s in philosophy, then astrophysics, physics, ancient history, psychology… Whatever makes me understand this weird existence a little better.

Not for a career, not for a degree.

Just because there’s so much to know and one lifetime already feels too short.