I'm Cape Nature's biggest stan. Software marketer by profession. Fan of Cape Jazz, lo-fi house and wilderness camping.
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Kirsten's ambition is to complete a Masters in Jazz Piano at the Manhattan School Of Music in 2026.
She's set up this BackaBudy page to raise funds and make it possible backabuddy.co.za/campaign/he… – at Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town-born pianist and composer Kirsten Skippers is steadily carving her place on the global stage. A UCT graduate, she’s already graced stages at festivals like Joy of Jazz and Makhanda and this year she takes an exciting next step: heading to the Manhattan School of Music in New York! #ExpressoShow
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This website has all these detailed articles about things like amapiano and rooibos. But the info in the music article seems to be fabricated. First thing that tipped me off is it says there's a vinyl record factory in Paarl. – at Cape Town, South Africa
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This chap is South African, he matriculated from the same high school I did in Uitenhage (now Kariega) in the Eastern Cape.
The environment of suspicion, cruelty and hate created by these groups, and the way it is growing into multiple typical forms of Western stereotypes is shocking. I do not have any recollection of SA having an Islamophobic problem.
We are on the brink of US-like Islamophobia, incredible that anyone still thinks that any of this hate is organic considering the US-Israel culture of hatred against the Muslim community and its genocide in the Middle-East.
Homes are being raided to look for foreign nafionals, people are being profiled based on their skin colour, people are being profiled based on their religions. Are we on the brink of a Nazi culture?
We should all condemn the attacks on this individual, whether it’s from Zionists or the idiots who think every 1 in 2 people in SA is a foreign national.
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Been thinking about tomorrow’s xenophobic march and remembered this beautiful, heartbreaking ad by @OddNumber_ for @Brand_SA in 2019.
Wish we had something similar now that would give people some perspective and humanity.
vimeo.com/433908199?share=co…
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Reading from @G1NO 's research dropbox about how Abdullah Ibrahim 's fellow musicians only wanted to sound American – at Cape Town, South Africa
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Abdullah Ibrahim was a difficult man to interview. He spoke in parable. In metaphor. In metaphysics. You could not pin him down. I later found he was a very difficult. Period. The first time I bumped into him walking anonymously on Plein street circa 2003 he literally growled.
Hearing Tyla sing but not seeing her face, got me thinking about how I hear your voice in my head but it's been too long since I saw you live... – at Cape Town, South Africa
I've never heard her sing such low notes or in Afrikaans before, and then the rude camera man only shows her once 😕 – at Cape Town, South Africa
The iNaturalist #CityNatureChallenge 2026 is on this weekend! Download the app, take photos of local plants and creatures then upload it. Cape Town last won this global challenge in 2019. Get out there and snap before tomorrow's rain! – at Cape Town, South Africa
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I've always thought the central tension of LLMs are a) many people want an LLM to generate text for them but b) virtually no one wants to read LLM-generated text that someone else prompted.
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows bbc.in/4aCqtyj
A lovely @mylitnet interview with Dr Chaudhari, lecturer in Afrikaans at CPUT. She speaks about her career and academic interests
youtu.be/V_ahCgJhCcQ?si=uBBi… – at Cape Town, South Africa
This is beautiful. Imagine being told you are malignant, and that it's indeed factual. South Africa is alive with posibilities 💚 – at Cape Town, South Africa
🔒Description of Renaldo Gouws as ‘malignant echo chamber’ factual – Press Ombud news24.com/investigations/de… via @news24
Fun fact for South Africans: The "women and children" protocol gained widespread currency after the steam frigate Birkenhead wrecked at Danger Point near Gansbaai in 1852. This is the part of our coastline now popular for shark cage diving. – at Langa, South Africa
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Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.
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Who was it that said "if you live in a 15 minute city but your barista has an hour-long commute you don't live in a city; you live in an amusement park"
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Temu Terreblanche is sensational
I see ‘Temu Terreblanche’ is at it again! 🙄
South Africa will never be truly prosperous unless each person has at least a modicum of dignified living, and the hope that life can get better. In Cape Town, we are trying to demonstrate just that.
We still have lots of problems, but we’re working, growing and steadily succeeding. 🇿🇦💪