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Mandisi Nkomo

@darkcow.bsky.social

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Drummer. Producer. Writer. Find my work here: https://thedarkcow.com/ Shortlisted for the Toyin Falola Prize Longlisted for the Nommo Awards Stories in, The Best of World SciFi Vol 3, The Big Book of Cyberpunk, Omenana, AfroSF

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beetlejess @thejessness.bsky.social · 2d

it’s mars volta monday

open.spotify.com/album/0CA2EV...

Deloused in the Comatorium

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 6d

Same,lol. I actually just had my phone permanently on silent until I moved to a place where the front gate calls you to let people in and I couldn't do that anymore. Also, people who don't know how to text have become the bane of my existence.

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 6d

It's such a nightmare. No matter how many numbers I block, my phone is ringing all day.

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 7d

Did some drums for my man Snotnoze Saleem on this album. Please give it a listen. Phenomenal MC and producer.
illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/a-rive...

A River Dies of Thirst, by Snotnoze Saleem

20 track album

illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 9d

youtu.be/hvL9mTMULz0?...

Norman Finkelstein: Trump plan has no connection to reality in Gaza | UpFront

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Serkent Framwell @serkentframwell.bsky.social · 12d

Idk how many times doing nothing led to something. It’s the downtime that starts the next push. The mind reflects and wanders and the next idea is born.

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 13d

If you are attacking unarmed humanitarian aid ships with water cannons and drones, while civilians starve in the city rubble -- you are not the good guys.

Anyone pretending Israel is still in the right here needs to take a long hard look at what they're supporting.

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 14d

South Africa is crazy right now. Lol.

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 21d

Anybody taking incendiary essays, highly critical of US and Israeli foreign policy, with a bit of sci fi, and Warren Gibson analysis thrown in?

Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · 27d

New Between The Buried and Me. 👀

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Ailsa @orchisailsa.bsky.social · Sep 13

This one gets quoted in my household *at least* weekly.
#StarWars #TumblrMemes #LookAtThemAnakin

LOOK AT ALL THE FUCKS I DON'T GIVE
LOOK AT THEM ANAKIN

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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · Sep 14

For the first 40 odd years of my life, I lived under state-sanctioned oppression. The reality is that a great deal of ppl are perfectly comfortable with fascism as long as it doesn't mean them.

To see blatant hate speech as "just an opinion" is the outlook of the perfectly comfortable. Same old.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · Sep 14

Important reminder

Image of a female collosis in old Greek style staring into a phone shaped object that shoots knives through her head: “Clickthrough rate” (2024), mixed media, 24 x 15 x 15 centimeters.

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · Sep 14

Somehow the world has reached a new level of decay, where a person might get killed for their political beliefs. This is unprecedented territory. No black activists have ever been assassinated. Students and workers have never been gunned down in the street by the security apparatus etc.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Sep 14

"Free speech for me,
But not for thee..."

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Ivor W. Hartmann @ivorhartmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you missed it or haven't seen it recently, I am still adding to this starter pack.

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Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · Sep 12

I actually naively thought South Africans would be more concerned about what's happening in Nepal, than that white boy bigot getting shot.

Mandisi Nkomo @darkcow.bsky.social · Sep 12

It's so strange to me. It's like murder was just invented.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · Sep 11

South African's upset over Kirk's death, totally baffled how people can be so heartless...

Also had nothing to say about the latest school shooting in the US.

Yes, murder is wrong. But if the first US murder you comment on is over a cis, white man GOP member...I am taking notes.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm fascinated by all the South Africans that are falling over themselves to declare how bad murder is after Kirk's death.

I mean, I agree, murder is wrong...which is why I was also sad after Kyle Rittenhouse went on a killing spree and these same people said...nothing.

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · Sep 9

Edited by @genni.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social and Cheryl Ntumy. With cover insert art by @destructcode.bsky.social.

@sauutiverse.bsky.social

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors!

Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.

Jan 2026.