Maria

@thismaria.bsky.social

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🍂 Writes, acts 🍂 Easily distracted, overly interested 🍂 Cape Town, mostly; Birmingham, occasionally

Photo of a shopfront. The sign above the window reads 'Doom & Gloom'.
Front page of the Metro bearing the headline 'Welcome home... there've been a few changes' next to pictures of Kane and Bellingham with their bronze medals.
Frame from World Cup final pre-show with Robbie Williams in a sparkly blue shellsuit in front of the Canadian, US, Mexican, South African, and Czech flags.
BBC Sport chart showing the altitudes of Wembley (44m), the Hawthorns (168m), and Ben Nevis (1,345m) relative to the Azteca (2,240m)... or 1,114 Dan Burns.
Screenshot of comedian Fred Macaulay pointing at the camera whilst shouting, "Fuckin'... BOOOOOOO!".
Photograph of an intent Tyrone Mings grabbing Mason Greenwood's shirt during a friendly.
Description from Wikipedia of the evolution of the lyrics to the South African anthem.
Poster for Louis Viljoen's play 'The Killing of a Union Leader', 12 to 13 May at the Artscape in Cape Town. The design features the silhouettes of two men facing each other and images of a man and woman facing ahead.
Black and white photograph of three children watching the moon landing on television.
Madueke's Instagram post tagged in Wolverhampton with text 'Everything about this place is sh*t'.
Wide shot of the Roman amphitheatre in Verona bathed in blue during the closing ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Screengrab of two South African delegates at the Winter Olympics waving at the camera. The man on the right is wearing Olympic ring glasses in the colours of the South African flag.
An elaborate Olympic flame is lit at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
A screenshot taken during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, where an Italian woman bites her hand to illustrate being upset.
Members of the South African team, wearing white track suits and waving the SA flag, walk in during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Protesters holding placards gathered outside the South African parliament buildings in Cape Town. Mountain and blue sky in the background.
Screenshot of the cover of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, episode 13 (The South Africa Connection).
Aston Villa fans hold up a banner showing John McGinn's face and the words 'Our Meatball'.
A photo of the South African men's 4x400m relay team draped in the national flag after their third-place finish in Tokyo.
Screenshot from X/Twitter posted to Facebook that starts: "Emiliano Martinez blows a kiss to the away end as they sing his name." The first suggested question to ask Meta AI is "Why did Martinez kiss the player?"
Photograph of a poetry reading in a bookshop.
Screenshot of a post announcing the death of James Dobson, and a follow-up that reads, '... More than 1,000 quote-skeets on this, and I've never seen so many ways to celebrate'.
Screenshot of Guardian headline that reads "'I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you,' quips Ramaphosa in bid to get chaotic Oval Office meeting back on track".
Frame of Unai Emery looking extremely happy during an interview in front of a wall of sponsors.
A photo of two Aston Villa shirts.
A photo of an empty DHL Stadium in Cape Town. Clouds are visible above.
Text against a dark background and a picture of a bus next to a metro train: A service update about disruptions to a Gautrain line after someone misjudged a new borehole.
A photo of a sandy beach under a blue sky.
A hand holds a bottle of red wine (Koelenbosch Shiraz 2022) against a retro Aston Villa shirt with claret and blue stripes and a badge displaying a rampant lion above the motto 'Prepared'.
A TV screen displaying the SuperSport logo and the message 'We apologise for the loss in transmission'.
A child holds aloft an Aston Villa scarf with 'Morgan Rogers' embroidered on it whilst looking out over Villa Park during a match.
An athlete stands on the podium with her gold medal and phryge plushie.
A concert programme with the words 'Kazuki Conducts Mozart & Mussorgsky' on the cover below a photograph of a man in evening dress. In the background, a blurry concert hall.
Four photos of the South African men's 4x100m track relay team after their second-place finish at Paris 2024.