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A screenshot from Google of something on threads: Mohammed bin Salman is 183 cm (6 ft) tall... and is taller than "6'2", 223 Ib" Donald Trum... 13 May,2025 — Mohammed bin Salman is 183 cm (6 ft) tall... and is taller than "6'2", 223 Ib" Donald Trump, while walking next to him in flat, thin soled
In the Year of Our Lady christine mungai, incoming editor-in-chief LYDIA NAMUBIRU described my replacing her as editor-in-chief as a peaceful transition of power. That’s accurate. But I couldn’t resist behaving like every respectable African leader and immediately issuing an executive order. Everything published before this issue is now officially BC: Before Chris. We have entered a new era. I titled my planning folder for this transition In the Year of Our Lady, and while The Continent’s publisher Sipho Kings politely declined to recognise it as the newspaper’s new calendar, I remain hopeful that history will vindicate me. Nine years ago, Sipho and I arrived in Boston for our Nieman Fellowship. We were two African journalists trying to make sense of a profession that seemed beset by bewildering forces – Brexit, Trump, digital disruption, a world that no longer made sense. It got worse. Six years ago, a pandemic hit, but also gave rise to The Continent: a gloriously improbable idea in African journalism. A weekly PDF newspaper, sharp on wit, scepticism and intellectual rigour, passed from phone to phone, built not on algorithms but on generosity. One share at a time. Our friend Dustin Dwyer, who was in our Nieman cohort, once said journalism is a prayer. We offer stories without any guarantee they will change the world, or even make an “impact”. But prayer (like journalism) isn’t a simple technology for unlocking blessings. The act itself matters. The hope and the discipline matters. Our readers rarely tell us we’ve changed history – although we sometimes do. More often, they tell us that The Continent is delightful, a joy to receive every weekend, a conversation starter and a guide. That itself is an act of resistance in a world that is working overtime to fragment, brutalise, and enshittify. In the words of Ta-Nehisi Coates, this work, to me, is the beautiful struggle.
A glossy, iridescent blue-green bird with an orange eye, perched on a balcony rail. There's some vegetation next to it, and the background is overexposed but you can see a red brick building.
A video from Instagram about testing of menstrual pads
A photo of the drained Reflecting Pool, with the following post: John Bourscheid @bourscheid X.com BREAKING: The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump's vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. He ruined his own project, then lied and blamed the citizens who paid for it. 6:56 AM • 7/14/26 • 125K Views
A video on Instagram, at this link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dad3FUAvE-o/?igsh=M2p2bm9sdmcyZzdt It shows a new US passport with Trump in it and stuff
Original caption on Instagram: In this image, Malawian migrants desperate to leave South Africa are jammed up against a metal gate at a makeshift IDP camp in Pietermaritzburg as they wait to get on buses to the border.
A Kindle and a Boox side by side on a grey blankie
A screenshot from X. Text says: Brigitte Gabriel • @ACTBrigitte X.com Zohran Mamdani, the Ugandan-born radical, has the audacity to lecture Americans on what America is, while surrounding George Washington's desk with foreigners. This is not America. This is an invasion. Qasim Rashid, Esq. O @QasimRashid X.com You're literally a foreigner and immigrant from Lebanon with a thick accent named Hanan Qawaly. You changed your name to Brigitte Gabriel because you're ashamed of who you are. You hate Zohran Kwame Mamdani because he knows who he is and is more successful as his authentic self than you will ever be as your fake persona. Mamdani is who makes America great. Cope.
The same candy as in the OP: Whoppers, Milk Duds and Junior Mints, plus Butterfinger Minis. Background is a grey furry blankie.
A very sunburnt and frazzled-looking reporter on the BBC about the heatwave in Europe
Book cover: Nicholas Westcott's Imperialism & Development: The East African Groundnut Scheme. Black and white image of a groundnut field with a large tree on the right.
Applied resin on a sticky coaster that I painted a while ago, and now it's so pretty and shiny
Screenshot from X. "Minnow Y @Phila Mino X.com Hahaha, brothers will always be brothers, even if one is the Pope of Rome. [Last month, Leo mentioned to Mr. Lovera that his brother, John Prevost, still called the pontiff from Chicago for I.T. support. "And Roberto says, 'John, I'm the pope," Mr. Lovera recalled. ''Oh, sorry, pope," the pope's brother responded, according to Mr. Lovera. "'My computer is broken.'"]
A post about a family of ducks? that says: TwoPipe @twopipe.bsky.social • 5h This family decided to cross the "highway" in front of us. Plenty of room between them and me as I spotted them from a distance and slowed down. Pulled over to capture the picture as they were off the road and waddling away Above a post that says: Mongabay@mongabay.com • 1h • Bluesky Elder A new wildlife corridor in Sydney is reconnecting two national parks across one of Australia's busiest highways. Designed around animal behavior, it features rope crossings and vegetated
Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is now Zimbabwe, the child of a mechanic and a radiology technician, Ray fled with his family to South Africa during the Zimbabwean War of Lib-eration. He remembers the journey there in 1980 in a convoy of armored cars. As the sun blazed down, a soldier taught 8-year-old Ray how to fire a machine gun. But his mother kept having to stop. She didn't feel well.
No I don't think so, usually hantaviruses are not as transmissible person-to-person as coronaviruses, but it's another reminder of the risk of global infections emerging due to climate change, globalization, and why it's reckless to defund @WHO @CDCgov • Shawn Steadham @bichonsandabc • 35m @PeterHotez do you think this hantavirus may get out of control & become the next covid? This is concerning that a person flew home & now a flight attendant is hospitalized with mild symptoms. Thanks x.com/turbinetravele...
The sun rising, just peeking over a canopy of trees. The sky is orange and there are some grey clouds.
I am now described everywhere as an "activist." Nothing angers me more. The word flattens me. Worse still, it implies a version of me who was not already shattered by a life of exile, refuge, and resistance. As if this began with something I did. I did not advocate for Palestine because I wanted to be active. I advocate because I have no choice. From the moment I was born Palestinian, my existence was political. What choice does a Palestinian refugee, deprived of basic rights, have but to resist the forces that seek to erase him?
Bellarmine being deported
In the moments following the arrest of a man who opened fire in the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was taking place, Donald Trump issued a statement that could double as a tagline for his entire presidency: "LET THE SHOW GO ON." Cooler heads prevailed and the remainder of the dinner was canceled. But the show? Oh, the show went on. The show always goes on. And it always has the same host. Thanktully, everyone inside the Hilton survived the evening. So did a key metaphor for our era: At an event that was attended by hundreds of members of the media, Trump was still the one breaking all the news; from what happened, to the arrest, to the first photo of the attacker, to updates on when the event (that he wasn't hosting) would be rescheduled. Even in a situation when he's being grabbed by Secret Service personnel and rushed from a hotel, Trump still manages to drive the news cycle, and after nearly a term and a half of his presidency, the media hasn't figured out a way to change that dynamic. He's the news-maker, the news-deliverer, the news-distorter, and the news-critic in an all-hours, all-medium show that never ends.
Your Indie band name is: Your favourite fruit + the last reason you took painkillers
NIGERIA Batting for the environment Nigerian scientist Iroro Tanshi has won the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting endangered bats in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, the BBC reports. In Nigeria, as in many other countries, bats are often feared and threatened. Tanshi began a community effort to prevent wildfires that destroy bats' habitat after she discovered the short-tailed roundleaf bat. She works with local fire brigades to stop major fires and educate people on the roles bats play in our ecosystem, including dispersing seeds and pollinating plants.
Other names African dog Mutina dog Khoekhoe dog Xhosa dog Tswana dog Sotho dog Zulu Dog Katali Bhoki Kutu Mukehe Bobby Simba Sibbi Lokasie-hond Spoti Bosco (Kenyan slang name)
Shakuntala Devi is interviewed by Denis Tuohy of the BBC
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Edward the robot is [dancing?] [doing martial arts?] in a living room
... was scheduled in August to have his spleen removed in a minimally invasive (laparoscopic) procedure. But instead, Shaknovsky opened Bryan’s abdominal cavity, severed his largest vein with a surgical stapling device—which led to his death—and cut his healthy liver from his body as he bled out, according to an investigation by the state health department.
A view of a living room. A guy is watching TV and his cat walks towards the coat stand near the door. Things fall, as they do around cats; the cat is spooked and flees, another cat (invisible before this) flies through the air, and the guy gets up asking wtf just happened. So does a dog (also invisible before this) on the couch next to him.
"diplomacy with the Palestinians. "In theory, a weapon like Iron Dome could be used only defensively. But in practice it doesn't work that way," analyst Nathan Thrall told Jewish Currents. "Iron Dome facilitates greater Israeli offensive measures, because it lowers the perceived cost to Israel of escalating or extending or initiating attacks." In other words, while the Iron Dome may prevent the deaths of Israeli non-combatants, it has made it easier for Israel to engage in deadly operations that take Palestinian lives. Indeed, Menendez's formulation is backwards: Rather than preserving space for diplomacy, Iron Dome enables Israel's commitment to the status quo of permanent occupation. Its ultimate function is to entrench an already asymmetrical conflict into a state of ongoing bloodshed, dispossession, and devastation for the Palestinians of Gaza."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! 8 ReTruths 33 Likes 4/7/26, 8:06 AM
SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIECE BUT WE ARE OF 4 OUNCE PATTIES. WE ONLY HAVE 2 OUNCIE PATTIES AT THIS TIME WE CAN SELL ALL SMALLER BURGUER EXCEPT BOUBLE STACKS . THERE IS A MEAT SHORTAGE.
A video of a Parthenon candle burning and when everything is done you'll find statues you can pack away in a British Museum crate
Seems to be air traffic control tower recording
A stop-motion video showing people at a bus stop giving up and lying down on the ground
A table showing fuel price changes in the SADC region between Jan-March 2026, from ZimLive on X. Ranges from 2% to 6% increase in most countries (no change in Botswana) but is 39.1% in Zimbabwe.
A photo of a bottle of Nivea "regenerating" micellar water against a grey fleece blanket
A large flower with six white petals, golden streaks in the center of each, and three smaller violet-colored petals in the centre
This is a photo from the shed at work. These are the nests that the mud bees build. Usually they are brown because of the mud. This one is grey because the bees are using fucking concrete dust from the bags we have in there and it is basically an Indestructible concrete bee fortress.
Jim Bianco • @biancoresearch • 23h Looking at Goldman Sachs Research gives a good timeline for thinking about the Strait of Hormuz * March 4, Hormuz flows would recover in 5 days. * March 9, they pushed that to 10 days * March 11, they extended it again to 21 days of very low flows before a 30-day gradual recovery. Goldman's thinking was similar to mine. On March 4th, I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait. Between March 4th and March 11th, my thinking (like Goldman's) evolved when we both realized they either had the wrong plan or no plan and are currently struggling to figure out what to do.
A Ugandan woman is strong a business where she beats men
Two peppers on a plant, one green and the other turning red
A numbers stencil made from a cereal box. Photo is taken from above: the stencil is on a cutting mat with a craft knife, a pair of scissors and a steel ruler.
An orange cat fast asleep on a grey fleece blanket, with a cute little face and cute little paws
A CNN instastory about Larry the Cat
A Lindt "Teddy"
A ruling pen and a glass dipping pen against brown paper I've been doodling and stamping on. There are two handmade cola pens above.
Video says "They are beating men, are you interested? Me: " A woman in African dress is carrying a board and running towards (or with) the camera.
Two successive posts, first about kids in immigration detention in the US: Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com Maria is one of hundreds of children, who - like Liam Ramos - have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they're served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. (NBC link) And then a post from UNICEF: UNICEF Press Office @unicefmedia.bsky.social The conflicts and crises across the Middle East and North Africa are experiencing ongoing flashpoints that are altering children's lives, often irreparably. (link)
A green pepper growing, lots of leaves around it
No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn't it. It's one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn't have a single redeeming quality. I'm not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.
A black man does a skit as two characters trying to get each other to do something
A reel of Noem being caught in a lie, from Insta
Part of an essay: Why it is important to be honest It is important to be honest to build trust in a family or a group of friends. If you are not honest your family or your group of friends will not believe or trust you anymore. If you are always honest people greet you and trust you more and more. Trust reaches a point [where] a whole country and community [entrust] their lives too you and vote for you to become the chief of the community and become president of a country. ...
Open pages of a sketchbook showing a completed doodle page
A page of floral doodles with thick gold lines between them that I'm currently filling in with black in the interstices
The clipped open pages of a sketchbook showing an abstract painting that's predominantly dark green, with cream from the page, painted areas of pink and white, and Kraft paper collage. The notebook is on a collaged sheet that's on a green cutting mat.
Impossible to describe, but... A young woman in a sweatshirt and a skirt kind of acting out the lyrics of the song. She appears to be on the verandah of a house that's a mix of modern and traditional.
A video of faculty recreating a dancing meme video
Statement Joint Forces Command of the Coalition Joint Media Center Statement by the Official Spokesperson of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen Major General Turki Al-Malki: Further to the statement issued by the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition on January 7th, 2026 regarding the circumstances of the escape of Aidarus Al-Zoubaidi to an unknown location, reliable intelligence indicate that Aidarus Al-Zoubaidi and others have escaped in the dead of night aboard the vessel (BAMEDHAF) IMO: (8101393) which has departed the Port of Aden heading towards (Somaliland Province) in the Federal Republic of Somalia after midnight of January 7th, as they turned off the vessels identification systems heading to the (port of Berbera) arriving at (1200) noon. During that time, it was found that Aidarus has reached out to an officer nicknamed (Abu Saeed), who was revealed to be (Major General Awad Saeed Bin Musleh Al Ahbabi) Commander of the Joint Operations in the UAE Armed Forces, informing him that they have "arrived". Waiting for them was an Ilyushin (I- 76) flight number (MZB-9102), which took off without defining a departure destination. Onboard was Aidarus and the ones accompanying him under supervision of UAE officers. The airplane landed at (Mogadishu) Airport at (1515). waited at the airport for approximately an hour, then took off at (1617) heading towards the Arabian Gulf through the Arabian Sea without defining a departure destination. The airplane turned off its identification systems over the Gulf of Oman, then turned it back on ten minutes prior to arrival at (Al Reef) military airport in Abu Dhabi at (2047) Kingdom Time. It has been transpired that this type of airplanes is frequently used in conflict zones on the routes of the countries of (Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia). By reviewing the registration of the vessel (BAMEDHAF), it is shown to be sailing under the flag of (Saint Kitts and Nevis) the same flag of the vessel (GREENLAND) that carried..