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Let me get this straight, an Austrian doomer tells you to leave your home because… reasons?
People need to apply critical thinking.
Maybe I’m getting older but I’ve been having dreams in which I’m not only a father but I’m a girl Dad.
Not too sure what my subconscious is trying to tell me.
Genuinely, fuck you.
25 women and girls.
That’s how many were killed 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮 in conflict zones in 2025.
#Peace must mean safety for women and girls.
🔗 More on the @UN Secretary-General's report on #WomenPeaceSecurity: unwomen.org/en/news-stories/…
#ForAllWomenAndGirls
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
According to the same UN report, women and girls accounted for one in four of over 37,000 civilian deaths in 2025. Men and boys were the remaining three-quarters. The report notes men are still likelier to be killed.
unwomen.org/en/articles/fa…
Never, ever make the mistake of blurring the lines between staff and family. Your maid should always be treated with decency and respect, but she too must recognize her role and never overstep her boundaries.
This is a mistake I’ve seen too many times.
No dog in this fight, but as I understand it, the concern is that the majority (who are Christians) are increasingly (and rightly) wary of the creeping Islamization of everyday life from benign Halaal food labels, to foreign policy choices in SA.
Halal food is not being ‘forced’ on South Africans, despite viral claims
brnw.ch/21x6DD6
I have a particularly rich background having grown up and lived in Muslim communities since I was a child so I see this as a storm in a tea cup, however I am sympathetic to the instinct to affirm one’s culture if/when cultural erasure occurs or is perceived to.
In my opinion KG is more of a Wayne Rooney type. He’ll have a stellar career, basically generational, but for a multitude of (off-field & consistency) reasons there’s this slight feeling he didn’t quite meet his potential to be the best ever.
Fantastic with the new ball.
This is the real reason why my worst fear in life is being referred to as a “real man” on Twitter.
Look at this shit. Like, really, have a look at it.
And just like that Marine Le Pen wins a massive mandate to lead.
Police have clashed with protesters across France.
At least 400 people have now been arrested at the protests, according to France's interior minister.
Sky's @AliBunkallSKY was in Paris to witness the unrest.
People seem to confuse “progressive” with progress, when oftentimes the principle of Chesterton’s Fence can explain why the fuck a mother shouldn’t be fucking advertising their child’s e-prostitution.
Victorian peasants prostituted their daughters, but in 2019 this was woke. 🤷♂️
This child of mine has this thing going. Please subscribe! #CoochieForACause yes, I’m retweeting under duress🤷🏽♀️
I am willing to do an insane amount of on the ground propaganda in order for the DA to get over the hump.
It’s time for Mayor Helen Zillé!
1/3 How the DA needs to perform among black voters in JHB
After an insane amount of work, and some help, I have now managed to capture party support by race, down to VD level – using the voters roll! (and not the general census data – although that still gives you a strong read).
This is the gold standard!
However, because it is so much work, I have stopped at 2016. So, I have 2016 (LGE), 2019 (NPE), 2021 (LGE) and 2024 (NPE). This is a nice comparative data set: two LGEs (soon to be three) and two NPEs.
And, as luck would have it, 2016 and 2021 are two of the best data sets to have from an opposition point of view: as they represent the peak and trough of opposition LGE performances respectively.
Black voters comprise a significant majority of all voters in JHB (around 73% in 2021), so it worth looking at the DA’s performance among them.
This graph shows that. The light blue line is the DA’s 2016 performance, the dark blue line the DA’s 2021 performance. The two grey lines – its 2019 and 2024 performance – are just there for reference, it’s the LGEs we concerned with.
Along the bottom, from left to right, are all JHB’s VDs and, as you move from left to right, the percentage of black voters in those VDs increases. So the far right is basically 100% homogenous black VDs.
Significantly, on the far right is also where the majority of VDs fall (around 67% of all JHB VDs are 75%-100% black).
On the vertical axis is the DA’s support.
Every greyed out dot represents a VD in a given election, the higher that dot, the better the DA did in it, the further to the right that dot, the higher the percentage of black voters in it.
The first thing you can see, is how much better the party performed in 2016: that light blue line is way, way above the dark blue line.
