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Jekanyika

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Social Media & Feminist African Citizenship| PhDing @UniofOxford,@oiioxford|Views=mine| Sometimes Writer/Poet|TEDx2016 Speaker

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 4d

It's a notoriously low-risk, high-reward crime. I attended a well-resourced, painstakingly planned police cycle theft sting operation years ago, knocking on doors at dawn. The only thieves caught were at a roadside bike rack with their stolen bikes when officers happened to stop for a comfort break

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Most critically, this: bsky.app/profile/clar...

Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 4d

Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction

They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 4d

Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction

They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 4d

- put down the damn AI.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑

"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."

Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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WhoKnowsWhatTiger @shonatiger.bsky.social · 3d

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is amazing, Ireland! //

Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Basic Income for the Arts (BIA)

The new Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme provides a basic income payment of €325 a week to 2,000 eligible artists and creative arts workers selected at random to participate.

www.citizensinformation.ie

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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 8d

My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 10d

Will do! 😊

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 10d

I will be going back * iA

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 10d

Download Link:

www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Internet Shutdowns in Africa

www.bloomsburycollections.com

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 10d

Another book you should get your hands on, and is also available for you to download and read online is this one here.

Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power

Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 10d

Now that I’m back to a school and thinking like an academic again… I’m bout to get my hands on this!

Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10d

Yay! After a turbulent rollercoaster of emotions these past days, this image brings me joy. It's finally where it should be -- orientations!
Order it for your library, read it, cite from it, critique it ...

The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial theory on my shelf. A headman and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time are placed next to the handbook.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 12d

At least three African countries that have accepted people expelled by the United States are now facing pressure from lawyers and campaigners.

Trump’s deportation diplomacy triggers domestic headaches

Campaigners and people deported to African shores are suing participating countries and demanding answers.

continent.substack.com

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13d

NoViolet Bulawayo of Zimbabwe has won the 2025 Best of the Caine Prize for African Writing award! 🎉

jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...

Zimbabwean Writer NoViolet Bulawayo Wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award - JAY Lit

The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story, "Hitting Budapest", which originally won the Pr...

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 13d

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16d

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.

Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter

Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist

www.gofundme.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

photo of paulina borsook

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 16d

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Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 16d

The dancefloor is always bigger than the DJ

Sticker on a pole that reads “the dancefloor is always bigger than the DJ”

Sticker on a pole that reads “the dancefloor is always bigger than the DJ”

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18d

Recognizing Palestine while funding Israel’s genocide is symbolism without substance. Our latest: what this recognition means, what it doesn’t, and why it’s happening now.

The recognition of Palestine: what it does, what it doesn’t do, and why now

The recognition of Palestine as a state is more of a symbolic gesture than a meaningful act, like imposing sanctions on Israel would be. Still, it shows that even Israel’s allies have been forced to…

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 16d

Guess this is what they mean when they say “Rh@desia will never die”

WhoKnowsWhatTiger @shonatiger.bsky.social · 16d

It's really straight outta Rh#desia

The couple - who have two children, Isabella, nine, and Harvey, seven - sent the rest of their belongings over in a 40ft shipping container for £8k and have now "settled in" to life in Harare. They say it has given them a "better standard of living" - with their children able to attend private school for £8,750 each per year. They said they had also sent one of their maids on a cookery course and she now cooks "most" of their meals.

Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 16d

“Expats”?

Tomboti.

Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de · 16d

British people giving the term “expat” a bad rep, Harare private school edition

WhoKnowsWhatTiger @shonatiger.bsky.social · 16d

It's really straight outta Rh#desia

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 17d

The Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office has announced the full reacquisition of Sugarloaf Mound, the last remaining Native American mound in St. Louis and the city's oldest known human-made structure.
www.newson6.com/story/68d25d...

Osage Nation reacquires Sugarloaf Mound, St. Louis' oldest Native American structure

The Osage Nation has fully reacquired Sugarloaf Mound, the oldest known Native American structure in St. Louis, after a 17-year effort. The sacred site, once part of a vast mound complex, will now be ...

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