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Good morning ☕ Wishing everyone a wonderful Friday.
#photography #landscape
#mountains #nature #southafrica

Patrick Rulore (South African, born 1995)
Devotion, 2024
Oil on canvas
(115 × 85 cm)
Private collection

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

US Embassy Official Told Trump’s South African Refugee Program Is For White People Only, New Report Says
Source: NewsOne

“Trump official said in email that the program was intended for whites”

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans - Reuters

Before this, every arcade cabinet required four Atari employees to operate the ghosts.

Slow-motion denialism: SA’s leaders allowing HIV response to collapse South Africa is staging a sequel to Mbeki-era denialism, only this time the science, solutions and costs are clearer.

Slow-motion denialism — our leaders are allowing the HIV response to collapse. South Africa is staging a sequel to Mbeki-era denialism, only this time the science, solutions and costs are clearer. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

South Africa’s police serve the ANC insiders, not the people: here’s how it happened Since around 2000 the South African Police Service has been used to manage internal political dynamics in the ANC.

Will bringing the police firmly under parliamentary control bring about democratic renewal in South Africa or will it remain an elusive ideal?
@fromagehomme.bsky.social

theconversation.com/south-africa...

Mouth of the Delaware

Thanks to my friend for purchasing this awesome White House American art print: buff.ly/3grUxmt

If you are interested in commissioning an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email at troy@troycap.com.

Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭

Size comparison of the 16 largest trans-Neptunian objects, including the dwarf planet Pluto and the upper left corner. Each object is represented as a colored circle, with accurate scale relative to each other. Top row: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong Middle row: Quaoar, Orcus, Sedna, Salacia, Mani, Aya Bottom row: Varda, 2013 FY27, Achlys, Ixion, Ritona This image was modified from the original by Lunathesilly on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trans-Neptunians_Size_Albedo_Color.svg

Quick aside, I'm really happy that more big TNOs/dwarf planet candidates got official names this year, 2 decades after their discovery :D

2005 RN43 → "Ritona" today
2003 AZ84 → "Achlys" on June 30
2002 AW197 → "Aya" on June 30
2002 MS4 → "Máni" on June 9

(size comparison by Lunathesilly on wiki)

Here's the new IAU Small Body Nomenclature bulletin containing 109 new names for minor planets! www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bullet...

Sitting Tall: Gay Chief Davis Mac Iyalla’s Queer Leadership in the Heart of Ghana Gay chief Davis Mac Iyalla leads with courage and tradition, defying anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in Ghana through visible, grassroots queer leadership.

While Ghana debates a harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law, a gay chief is transforming hearts from the grassroots up. Meet Chief Davis Mac Iyalla, queer leader, activist, trailblazer.

👉🏾 Read his extraordinary story below.
www.mambaonline.com/2025/06/21/s...

If I’m a foreign government right now—the one lesson that I’ve learned at this point is that there is no durable agreement to be made with this administration.

Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.

The White House just wrote a low grade version of the reference list on a wikipedia article 😂 and even included personal anecdotes. And then straight-face published it.

The US government is run by morons.

Louis Pasteur is spinning in his grave.

Looking to sell earrings. Preference on Canadian buyers. As it’s easier to ship.

Ugh. So many folks are being so fucking disgusting with these missing kids.

Showing pictures of the poverty they lived in. Calling the parents meth addicts.

So much privileged statements.

Looking down on addiction, whilst they have no problem with alcohol or prescription drugs they use.

What did they call Japanese Americans who they wanted to deport, but couldn't, easily, so they built concentration camps for their imprisonment?

What were they called?

Non-Aliens.

Ramaphosa Orders Inquiry into Apartheid-Era Justice Delays - The Africa Daily Post President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the formation of a judicial commission to investigate whether efforts were made to block or delay the prosecution of crimes committed during South Africa’s aparth...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the formation of a judicial commission to investigate whether efforts were made to block or delay the prosecution of crimes committed during South Africa’s apartheid era.

theafricadailypost.com/323707/news/...

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Container ship

Look, I'm all about fighting fascism but not if it's going to be noisy.

‘Gloves were off’: PAC facilitates ‘robust’ ANC-Afrikaner exchange | News24 The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisati...

Worrying the extent to which Afriforum and its offshoots get treated as "representatives" of Afrikaners when they are in fact a particular ideological grouping, not even cultural. South Africa is diverse, and noone should hijack a whole ethnicity for political goals

www.news24.com/politics/glo...

Good morning.

Hey USA, 'land of the free'. I am a citizen of South Africa, one of the shit-hole countries according to your president. I can freely walk outside right now, with a big Palestinian flag & protest the atrocities in Gaza. Even use the words genocide by Israel. Can you?
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Day 3 of sold out Comic Con Cape Town 2025 is officially a go!

To get you pumped for the next two days, here are a couple of our cosplay highlights from Friday's pop culture celebration.
#comicconcapetown

Collage of 12 landscape digital paintings.

My commissions are open if you need/want some #art from me.

Flier for Africa Day Solidarity Walk. Solidarity with the people of Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo, Western Sahara, Palestine and elsewhere. Saturday 24 May 2025. 9am to 3pm. Route: Mary Fitzgerald Square (Newtown) Constitution Hill (Braamforntein) Johannesburg.

Johannesburg folk take note: