🐾 A_ma_ZiNG 🐾 🐥 @Zingfaze

@Onica_MC 👌🏾 Movies vs. Reality 😁😀

@Onica_MC This time, it will be different!🤞🏾🤞🏾

@Onica_MC 🙄 bye bye..I'll be here after the UCL finals...

@Thembis28171593 Praying it turns out positive Thembi.

😂😂

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

a month ago

Repeat after me: I will not allow my father's errors to define me.

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Earth Day shouldn’t just be a celebration—it should be a checkpoint. Are we conserving ecosystems with communities or around them? Are we building awareness or real change? Conservation works best when people are part of the solution. 🌍 #earthhour2026

Yes.

Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369

2 months ago

Be totally honest. Has prayer ever truly worked in your life?

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The day my son came home from kindergarten with a black eye, something in me snapped. I was already reaching for my phone, ready to call the school, ready to show up and demand answers. But before I could take a step, he stopped me. “Wait, Mom. Listen first.” So I did, and what he told me shifted everything. He explained that the boy who hit him wasn’t just being “bad.” His dad had just gone to jail, and ever since, he’d been acting out, yelling, pushing, hurting. My son said he had gone up to him, asked if he was okay…

@TiisetsoLephoto

@remimah What is the CONTEXT of your tweet?

@Theoladeledada 😃😃 @Zingfaze

Motivational thread. BUT framing AI as a “lock in now or you’re failing” moment ignores context AI literacy WILL matter Domain expertise + AI > AI alone Urgency is good. Panic framing isn’t If argument depends on pressure & FOMO, it’s probably not as inevitable as you think

Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo

3 months ago

If you have time on your hands and you are not locked in on AI or some skill of the future, then you are doing yourself a great disservice. Time is an essential factor that many people do not have. People are locked in on their jobs, trying to make a living. If you are in a

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@ItsGlayaBruh

My wife calls me, panicked. The call is from her number, and her voice is unmistakable- that’s my wife. ‘Babe, our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. I’m at the emergency room but they won’t take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me 3000 dollars as soon as you can, he’s really not doing well.’ Me- ‘Wow, that’s scary. Tell me our passphrase and then I’ll send the money.’ Her (it) - ‘What? What passphrase? This is your wife, our son is hurt. Send the money now!!’ Me- ‘I’ll call you back. I don’t believe that this is my wife. If it is, I’m sorry, but we discussed this.’ The number? Spoofed. Easy to do and there’s no way to tell if a phone number is being spoofed aside from hanging up and calling back to confirm. The voice? AI generated. Easily done. A few seconds of audio is all it takes to create a realistic audio deepfake. What can you do? 1) Create a family safe word or passphrase. Ours is definitely not ‘Keep Going’ although we considered it. Discuss the passphrase far away from phones or any recording device. This is as analog as possible. Don’t forget that the trigger for the passphrase is just as important as the phrase itself. So instead of asking ‘what’s the safe word?’ have a separate triggering question. For example, you could say ‘I’m eating banana cream pie’ and this would trigger your spouse to respond ‘purple velvet pillows’ if that’s the safe word. Make it fun, silly, and easy to remember. And DON’T WRITE IT DOWN. 2) Cognitive security is an essential skill in 2026. Assume every image and video you see online is fake until proven otherwise. Expect scams and spammers, and be pleasantly surprised when it’s not. 3) Figure out a backup communication option with people who you absolutely need to be able to reach. Don’t just rely on a phone number for communication. Have redundant, ideally encrypted methods of communication with family. What did I miss? I think (hope) Nikita is wrong on the timeframe- agentic bots like Claude bot are impressive but not quite ready to flood the phone lines in just 90 days. But I think it’s going to be a huge problem by the end of the year. I already get dozens of increasingly realistic spam calls and texts daily- it’s only going to get more annoying. Have a plan to keep your family and your finances safe!

Nikita Bier @nikitabier

4 months ago

Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.

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I worked as a cop in one of the most violent cities for 7 years. What I saw changed my life… Here are 7 safety hacks I swear by (to keep my family safe):

Your dream is valid. "The time is always right to do what is right" - MLK

Yep.

Kosasi Nakamoto @KOSASI_NAKAMOTO

5 months ago

Be completely honest. Has prayer ever genuinely 'worked' for you?

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This!! 👌🏾📍

Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo

6 months ago

After a few years of writing on South Africa’s economic and social stagnation, I’ve learned something: people don’t want to know why things happen. They want to know who is responsible. For example, when I wrote about how Eskom’s problems stem from its commercialisation in the

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I get this question a lot, especially from people who expect me as a writer to say no. My answer is an emphatic YES! With every bone in my body I believe audiobooks are books, and someone can say they read a book if what they did was listen to it. Allow me to explain. People consume and process language differently. For many readers, words arrive as images as they move through a page. For others, mental imagery is faint or absent, yet meaning still lands with precision and depth. And for some, language settles more fully when it is heard rather than seen. None of this diminishes the seriousness of the encounter. It simply reflects the range of human cognition. Listening to a text is not a lesser form of engagement. It is a different one. This matters even more when we remember that many literary and intellectual traditions were shaped long before silent, private reading became widespread. In much of Africa, knowledge has long been carried by voice, through listening, repetition, and performance, sometimes alongside written forms. Stories, histories, poetry, law, ethics, and memory itself have been learned in rhythm and breath, in community, in the public air. The Qur’an is a useful example here. Stay with me for a bit on this. Long before it existed as a complete compiled book, it was transmitted primarily through recitation and memorisation, with written materials also used. The Qur’an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over roughly twenty-three years (traditionally dated c. 610–632 CE). In the well-known Sunni account, after the Prophet’s death, an early compilation was undertaken under Abu Bakr, prompted by fears that Qur’anic reciters and memorisers were dying in battle. That project relied on what people had memorised and what had been written down, with verification and cross-checking. To suggest that those early believers did not truly know the Qur’an because they first encountered it through sound rather than page would be absurd. Audiobooks sit comfortably within this lineage. They are not shortcuts. They still require time, attention, and openness. You can half-listen to an audiobook and learn nothing, just as you can skim a page and retain nothing. Meaning still has to be processed, interpreted, and remembered. And yes, distraction ruins both formats. So when someone says they read three books this month and what they mean is that they listened to them, I accept that without hesitation. They spent hours with language. They followed an argument, a narrative, a voice. The words entered them. That, to me, is what reading is. To insist otherwise is to confuse the container for the content, and to treat a relatively recent habit of reading silently as the only legitimate way literature can be encountered. Especially for those of us shaped by cultures where the spoken word has always mattered, that insistence feels not principled, but narrow. Books are made of words, which long before they were written, were heard. Words do not belong exclusively to the page. Words have always travelled. Sometimes they walk. Sometimes they sing. Sometimes they arrive through a pair of headphones while you are stuck in traffic, trying to get home. They are no less words for that.

Ms. Multi-Creative @EniolaShitta

6 months ago

@elnathan_john Do you consider audiobooks to be "real books"? Like when someone says "I read 3 books this month" and it was that they listened to the audio versions?

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