Rob Forbes
@robforbes.bsky.social
Broadcaster of 20+ years. Humanist. "Gives the best hugs".
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Rob Forbes
@robforbes.bsky.social
· Jan 28
Hi ZA friends
I've put a list of South African news organisations that are on here together, if you 're looking for one.
Will update as more outlets arrive #SouthAfrica #News
bsky.app/profile/did:...
I've put a list of South African news organisations that are on here together, if you 're looking for one.
Will update as more outlets arrive #SouthAfrica #News
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
This is MURDER.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is MURDER.
In "early Christian times"? Is that the benchmark for what the modern world should look like?
Fucking stupid Tory dickheads.
Fucking stupid Tory dickheads.
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In "early Christian times"? Is that the benchmark for what the modern world should look like?
Fucking stupid Tory dickheads.
Fucking stupid Tory dickheads.
Eating blue cheese and figs after dinner with my wife, while Ray LaMontagne sings "you are the best thing" in the background. Life sometimes 😮💨👌
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Eating blue cheese and figs after dinner with my wife, while Ray LaMontagne sings "you are the best thing" in the background. Life sometimes 😮💨👌
Slot chose the replacements. This form is squarely on him. He's gotta go.
Last season: Liverpool replace a beloved manager, squad doesn't change, team stays good
This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse
Clearly the manager is the issue here
This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse
Clearly the manager is the issue here
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Slot chose the replacements. This form is squarely on him. He's gotta go.
I only recently discovered that if you're watching YT on a laptop/computer, you can click and drag the subtitles to put them wherever you want in the frame.
I just accidentally hit play on a song on Spotify, hit "back" and it returned me to the song I had been playing.
YouTube now has a button that allows you to remove the suggestions that pop up before the end of the video.
platforms improving the user experience! Can't remember the last time
YouTube now has a button that allows you to remove the suggestions that pop up before the end of the video.
platforms improving the user experience! Can't remember the last time
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I only recently discovered that if you're watching YT on a laptop/computer, you can click and drag the subtitles to put them wherever you want in the frame.
I too have my TV in a "wooden" frame to look like arts, and have it standing on a TV stand, between speakers, just like the art galleries do.
You’re buying a Frame TV? It’s okay to cheap out a little
If you must get an art TV, get The Frame
It’s a TV that works best when it isn’t a TV.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I too have my TV in a "wooden" frame to look like arts, and have it standing on a TV stand, between speakers, just like the art galleries do.
Trump has declared South Africa is apparently "not invited" to next year's G20 in Miami. That's how badly we embarrassed him lmao.
You don't get to decide whether we come or not. We're members, and there's nothing you can do about it. You stupid peanut brain.
You don't get to decide whether we come or not. We're members, and there's nothing you can do about it. You stupid peanut brain.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trump has declared South Africa is apparently "not invited" to next year's G20 in Miami. That's how badly we embarrassed him lmao.
You don't get to decide whether we come or not. We're members, and there's nothing you can do about it. You stupid peanut brain.
You don't get to decide whether we come or not. We're members, and there's nothing you can do about it. You stupid peanut brain.
No football team in the world is at Arsenal's level at the moment.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
No football team in the world is at Arsenal's level at the moment.
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
ARSENAL!
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That depends. Are AI companies going to keep stealing my published work without permission or compensation to train their models?
Should I be allowed to go into your house and steal what’s most valuable to you in order to enrich myself then throw a fit when you don’t welcome me with open arms?
Should I be allowed to go into your house and steal what’s most valuable to you in order to enrich myself then throw a fit when you don’t welcome me with open arms?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
That depends. Are AI companies going to keep stealing my published work without permission or compensation to train their models?
Should I be allowed to go into your house and steal what’s most valuable to you in order to enrich myself then throw a fit when you don’t welcome me with open arms?
Should I be allowed to go into your house and steal what’s most valuable to you in order to enrich myself then throw a fit when you don’t welcome me with open arms?
This thread is a reminder of how disconnected from reality the AI lot are. They simply cannot fathom why people are against theft, and somehow imagine that a machine reproducing other peoples' actual creativity is actually them being creative.
Yuck.
Yuck.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This thread is a reminder of how disconnected from reality the AI lot are. They simply cannot fathom why people are against theft, and somehow imagine that a machine reproducing other peoples' actual creativity is actually them being creative.
Yuck.
Yuck.
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Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
T'publican? Is Trump from Yorkshire?
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
T'publican? Is Trump from Yorkshire?
Meawhile my country doesn't even have public libraries smdh
My university library has kindles for students, faculty, and staff to check out. We will also buy any kindle book that costs $25 or less for them to read on them.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Meawhile my country doesn't even have public libraries smdh
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A healthcare system where we hope someone wants our autograph
James Van Der Beek is selling autographed and unsigned 'Varsity Blues' jerseys to raise money for his cancer treatment and to support for other families: 'Endlessly grateful for all of you.'
James Van Der Beek dons 'Varsity Blues' jersey to raise money for cancer treatment: 'Endlessly grateful for all of you'
James Van Der Beek is selling autographed and unsigned 'Varsity Blues' jerseys to raise money for his cancer treatment and to support for other families: 'Endlessly grateful for all of you.'
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A healthcare system where we hope someone wants our autograph
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
Not gonna lie - a meal of turkey, mac and cheese, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on them, a "green bean casserole" (wtf), and the abomination that is a pumpkin pie, sounds utterly terrible.
I'd be very annoyed if that was my holiday food.
I'd be very annoyed if that was my holiday food.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Not gonna lie - a meal of turkey, mac and cheese, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on them, a "green bean casserole" (wtf), and the abomination that is a pumpkin pie, sounds utterly terrible.
I'd be very annoyed if that was my holiday food.
I'd be very annoyed if that was my holiday food.
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Barcelona would genuinely struggle to make the top 10 in the PL. Rubbish.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Barcelona would genuinely struggle to make the top 10 in the PL. Rubbish.
Sorry.
The "Erotic Adventures" of Zorro (1972)?
The "Erotic Adventures" of Zorro (1972)?
Recent films watched. You know how in "Idiocracy" they watch a film called "Butt" (or maybe "Ass")? That's close to "Cheeky."
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Sorry.
The "Erotic Adventures" of Zorro (1972)?
The "Erotic Adventures" of Zorro (1972)?
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
!!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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The power of Ian Wright
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The power of Ian Wright
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a man wearing a red jersey with the number 10 on the back
ALT: a man wearing a red jersey with the number 10 on the back
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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