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Gavin Chait;

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I am a data scientist, researcher, engineer, sometime-traveler, and African SFF author. I am fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis. I also drink a great deal of coffee.

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Il a fait la blague 🥲 @unpied.bsky.social

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The last time so many people had to be evacuated from one place was in 1940, for Dunkirk. Conducted against us by our environment, the climate crisis is a war we've imposed on ourselves. The next century will be full of pointless suffering

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Ever read a take so stupid that you feel like it's just punched you in the face?

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Literally:

This Is Fine MemeALT: This Is Fine Memestatic.klipy.comRTÉ News

A French foreign minister has urged tourists not to cancel their travel plans despite unprecedented wildfires in the country's southwest

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yeah I don't think you get to "oops, my bad" the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people - and counting! - because you got "carried away"

Bobby Kogan

let he who hasn’t ever gotten so carried away illegally impounding federal funds that they killed hundreds of thousands of people cast the first stone

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In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...

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Pounding Yam Is Not The Will Of God This is seventy-nine percent of a true story on the ungodly and self-destructive exercise of yam pounding — by Mofoluwawo O. Mojolaoluwa t.ly/lcSXx

Pounding Yam Is Not The Will Of GodA seventy-nine percent of a true story on the ungodly and self destructive exercise of yam pounding — by Mof’Oluwawo O MojolaOluwat.ly
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The internet’s blessed me by reminding me of Stéphan Gladieu’s insanely hard photos of costumes made by Young Congolese artists from all the shit we dump there I don’t want to ever see another leather jacket wearing billy idol clone in a cyberpunk setting again www.stephangladieu.fr/homo-detritus/

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It’s one of the great ironies that people across the world who’ve spent years and years whipping up hate and dividing countries are now complaining that people hate them.

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First trailer for "Le Corset", directed by Louis Clichy ("Asterix") at Eddy Cinema studio. One of my favorite movies of 2026 so far. Coming in French theaters on October 14. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-07...

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Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his deathThe University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.www.wantedinmilan.com
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I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.

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There are about as many intersex people in the world as there are redheads— ~1.7% of the world's population. So claiming there are only two biological sexes is like claiming there are only two hair colors: Brown & Yellow. Now consider how you'd regard someone who loudly & repeatedly insisted that…

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A sad, hate-filled day in South Africa

Thousands take part in day of anti-migrant protests across South AfricaPolice were braced for unrest as the clocked ticked down on a deadline set by anti-migrant groups for illegal immigrants to be deported, or leave.www.yahoo.com
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In South Africa, vigilante mobs are doing what similar mobs have done in Europe & what ICE does here. Xenophobia is a global epidemic. The carriers are right-wing & nationalist political activists.

GroundUp News

Hundreds of people waiting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town faced a cold night on Saturday. Read groundup.org.za/article/zimb... by Matthew Hirsch

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Rest in Power, maestro Abdullah Ibrahim. Here is a fine NPR Music obit by Martin Johnson.

Abdullah Ibrahim, quiet giant of the jazz piano, has died at 91The South African musician's "Mannenberg" was often called his country's unofficial anthem during the final years of apartheid.www.npr.org
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Everyday We Stray Further From God's Light

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