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Tilting at windmills, chasing echoes of forgotten dreams. 🌬️ Stubbornly quixotic, mildly philosophical, and perpetually lost between data pipelines and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.africa/@junglegeorge, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I was born here, where the mountain meets the veld and time forgets to move. I left many years ago, but the quiet beauty of this place still makes me wonder if we ever stop carrying the shape of the place we first called home. 🌍

The Waterberg mountains in warm afternoon light, their sandstone faces glowing amber against a blue sky. In the foreground, open savannah grassland stretches toward the base of the cliffs, dotted with green trees and shrubs.

A vivid sunset over the Waterberg mountains. The sky glows in layers of orange, pink, and gold while the dark silhouette of flat-topped cliffs rises above an open veld of tall grass.

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 2d

My therapist asked me to name three things I'm grateful for and I said "free next day delivery, noise cancelling headphones, and the sweet embrace of the void" and apparently that's concerning but two out of three aint bad

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Gavin has had it up to here... I hear 🤔

Screenshot of an email with the subject “Automatic Reply: OOO.” The sender, Gavin Fernand, writes humorously that he is out of the office enjoying his life, hopes the workplace burns down in his absence, and says that unless he finds a giant pile of money, he’ll return on 9/16 to deal with “whatever bullshit” the email is about.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 6d

So here's a tech nightmare nobody's talking about:

Google's rolling out their new developer verification rules for Android starting in September 2026. Every app then needs to be registered with Google, even if you're sideloading or using alternative app stores like Samsung's Galaxy Store. 📱 […]

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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו @hnygd.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 7d

#deltapark #johannesburg #jacaranda #gauteng #southafrica

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 7d

To the ire of any #french speaker 🇫🇷

A proud orange-and-white cat struts in front of the Eiffel Tower, paired with the caption “Me when I pronounce ‘croissant’ like quâssòń.”

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@malmorrow hope you feel better soon! 🥺

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 8d

😅😅😅 It's true... 🍟

A Tom and Jerry meme showing language differences: in the US “fries” vs “chips,” in the UK “chips” vs “crisps,” while South Africa calls both “chips.”

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Got a bit of leave days so took today off. Just some errands and general mental health. Work's been a lot lately. Had breakfast in Linden (apparently ranked 17th on Time Out's list of the Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World 2025). Not too shabby for a morning […]

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Northern suburb of Linden in Johannesburg, with Johannesburg city silhouette seen in the distance. This is the retail centre with flats in the centre of this upper class housing suburb.

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@martincostello.com I guess its better than having it happen on a Monday morning 🙈

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@andycarolan sending all the Tylenol!!! 📬

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Anybody know of a #gotosocial instance accepting new registrations? 🤔

#superseriousbusiness

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13d

“Challenge people with more power than you, defend people with less power than you.”

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Woke up to a roaring thunderstorm (first proper one for the season) and now it's raining cats and dogs 🐶😺⛈️ My favourite kind of weather 😊

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Its a big day for South African opera! Cape Town Opera's stunning Afrofuturist take on Verdi's Aida is hitting cinemas today and it's the first ever locally-produced opera to make the leap to the big screen!

This isn't your grandmother's opera (though she'd […]

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Ethereal figure in white with long flowing hair and metallic collar, surrounded by dancers in pale blue robes with face coverings

Dramatic opera scene with performers in geometric orange costumes arranged in formation on steps, with blue architectural elements and a red sun backdrop

Three opera singers on stage - one in green robes, one in golden costume with elaborate headdress, and one in blue patterned clothing

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14d

@leoncowle assuming it'll also get the liquid glass treatment? Unless that is the liquid glass and I was just hoping for more liquidy... glassy-ness... 🙈

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Grant_H @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

A spring morning in #Hermanus, about 200km south east of #capetown. This time of the year, you can have all four seasons in one day. Sun and rain here, about 500m apart.

#photography

Original:
https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1246081112

Looking out over some weathered rocks to a bay. Between two rollers, there is a large area of white foam. A long cloud looms overhead on the upper right. Mountains in the far distance.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Just as a disclaimer this is an oversimplification and just a "brain fart". I am aware that US foreign policy is complex with many motivating factors beyond just ideological inconsistency.

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17d

An analogy between personal psychology and geopolitics

You know how there's a pattern where some of the most vocally homophobic people turn out to be struggling with their own sexuality. They experienced attraction as something to suppress rather than accept, they assume sexual orientation is […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Finally got access to Perplexity's #comet browser. Still invite only, if you're curious check it out, here's some invites. I only got four invites its first come first serve:

https://perplexity.ai/browser/claim/G0KKNQPJSJ […]

[Original post on mastodon.africa]

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Why are all the evangelicals still here and not raptured? I haven't felt this let down since realising my emergency contact was probably a coffee shop 🥲

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 18d

🫙 "no don't throw it away, we could use it"

- me, every time somebody bins a glass jar or container

Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20d

When your phone battery dies on you mid public transport...

A person on a bus wearing sunglasses reading the back of a spray bottle (might be a cleaning product). The bus is full of people sitting and standing.

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Fedora Project @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Windows 10 support ends on October 14.

Help the people around continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them.

Follow @Endof10 for success stories and resources for how to help people switch! […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 23d

So #zorin seems to be getting ready to release version 18 tomorrow... teasing some interesting apps pinned there... 👀