Koot Pieterse
grootkoot.bsky.social
Koot Pieterse
@grootkoot.bsky.social
Lecturer, science teacher. Support Ukraine and DA politics in South Africa. Sad for the America that I have lost.
It appears to me that, occasionally, the thin veneer of civilisation and goodness that we have cultured so carefully over centuries, wears through and our basic barbarism shines through.

Hopefully we recover after seeing ourselves more clearly.
February 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Please let the UK step up into the moral gap left open by the US.
🇬🇧 The UK sanctions 6 individuals & 3 entities alongside Canada in response to Belarus’s rigged election. Targets include human rights violators & defense firms backing Russia’s war.

www.gov.uk/government/n...
UK applies fresh sanctions following sham election in Belarus
The UK has sanctioned 9 individuals and defence sector entities in Belarus in coordination with Canada.
www.gov.uk
January 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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you can't stop the gays from carrying on. 😂
December 3, 2024 at 2:43 PM
People don’t. People follow assholes.
According to ‘The Hill,’
AOC is considering a 2028 run for president.

God strongly supports @aoc.bsky.social for president in 2028. She is brilliant and has the courage of her convictions. People follow courage.
November 30, 2024 at 4:57 AM
It sickens me when people try to lay the blame for the outcome of the election on the Democratic campaign.

It was a campaign of hope, of inclusion and joy. The blame is on the type of people that make up the majority of the American electorate.

In the end a black woman was just to much for them.
November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Why have so few South African journalists moved to Bluesky? Where are the Daily Maverick, the Mail &Guardian and their brilliant journalists?

Surely they don’t all support X, for Musk’s sake?
November 24, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Who can I follow to keep up with news from Ukraine?
November 18, 2024 at 8:45 AM
I have just landed here from X.

I’m looking forward to the exchange of ideas in a non-toxic environment.

I’m a retired academic and now teach science. I love music, poetry and science. I hate fascism and totalitarianism.

I despair for the new realities that dumb people are imposing on us.
November 17, 2024 at 6:54 PM