Keegan Leech
@keeganleech.co.za
I'm Keegan Leech!
Researcher @africacheck.org. South African. You can follow me on some of the other websites too. Mutuals please feel free to DM me for Signal username/to chat anytime. ✌🏻
Personal site: https://keeganleech.co.za/
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Researcher @africacheck.org. South African. You can follow me on some of the other websites too. Mutuals please feel free to DM me for Signal username/to chat anytime. ✌🏻
Personal site: https://keeganleech.co.za/
he/him
Pinned
sprout season!
every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
Creamy brussels sprout gratin with walnuts
This creamy brussels sprout gratin recipe is guaranteed to convert sprout resisters into fans. An easy Christmas side dish for 6.
www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk
The problem is, I'm going to bookmark this (even though it's not sprout season here in the southern hemisphere) and forget about it in six months time.
So what I'm saying is, can someone remind me to make this when May rolls around?
So what I'm saying is, can someone remind me to make this when May rolls around?
Everyone can (and should) read @readlux.bsky.social online. I've yet to encounter a dull article. But I'm also here to inform you all that if you pay for a subscription you get to see some of the most fantastic magazine layouts that you can find anywhere.
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Everyone can (and should) read @readlux.bsky.social online. I've yet to encounter a dull article. But I'm also here to inform you all that if you pay for a subscription you get to see some of the most fantastic magazine layouts that you can find anywhere.
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Today is #WorldAIDSDay
With Lenacapavir or LEN, a new drug WHO recommends to protect people at risk of #HIV instead of taking daily pills, people can now get injections every 6 months.
At the time where funding for HIV is limited, this new drug could mean fewer new infections & more lives saved.
With Lenacapavir or LEN, a new drug WHO recommends to protect people at risk of #HIV instead of taking daily pills, people can now get injections every 6 months.
At the time where funding for HIV is limited, this new drug could mean fewer new infections & more lives saved.
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Today is #WorldAIDSDay
With Lenacapavir or LEN, a new drug WHO recommends to protect people at risk of #HIV instead of taking daily pills, people can now get injections every 6 months.
At the time where funding for HIV is limited, this new drug could mean fewer new infections & more lives saved.
With Lenacapavir or LEN, a new drug WHO recommends to protect people at risk of #HIV instead of taking daily pills, people can now get injections every 6 months.
At the time where funding for HIV is limited, this new drug could mean fewer new infections & more lives saved.
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BREAKING: Post ICP gag order, Open Secrets reveals UAE armoured vehicles may be SA-designed and built — even as the UAE backs factions in Sudan’s genocide
🚨 READ HERE: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-27-fake-it-till-you-make-it-how-an-sa-arms-company-built-uae-armoured-vehicles/
🚨 READ HERE: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-27-fake-it-till-you-make-it-how-an-sa-arms-company-built-uae-armoured-vehicles/
Fake it ’till you make it: How an SA arms company built UAE armoured vehicles | Daily Maverick
<p>The UAE is selling well-equipped armoured vehicles to African states under a ‘Made in Emirates’ label. But documents from a whistleblower show that these are South African-designed vehicles built by the staff of Integrated Convoy Protection, a South African company. The vehicles were built in the UAE by ICP staff using parts exported from South Africa. Whether the exports took place with all necessary legal approvals is disputed and is being investigated by the police. All this takes place...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
BREAKING: Post ICP gag order, Open Secrets reveals UAE armoured vehicles may be SA-designed and built — even as the UAE backs factions in Sudan’s genocide
🚨 READ HERE: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-27-fake-it-till-you-make-it-how-an-sa-arms-company-built-uae-armoured-vehicles/
🚨 READ HERE: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-27-fake-it-till-you-make-it-how-an-sa-arms-company-built-uae-armoured-vehicles/
Okay, but does Part 3 also have bamboo?
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Okay, but does Part 3 also have bamboo?
Top 20 baybeeee! 🥳
Not enough to win the lottery, but probably enough to have a couple of really magical days.
Not enough to win the lottery, but probably enough to have a couple of really magical days.
the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Top 20 baybeeee! 🥳
Not enough to win the lottery, but probably enough to have a couple of really magical days.
Not enough to win the lottery, but probably enough to have a couple of really magical days.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
A little surprising to learn just how much Meta makes from scams/fraudulent advertising (as much as $16bn in 2024!) but this article sure explains A LOT about the company's behaviour.
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A little surprising to learn just how much Meta makes from scams/fraudulent advertising (as much as $16bn in 2024!) but this article sure explains A LOT about the company's behaviour.
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You will never guess what this is in reference to.
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Happy Birthday, Alexander Siddig.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Happy Birthday, Alexander Siddig.
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LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
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This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
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Ah, nuts, the silicon chip inside my head got switched to "overload". I hate it when that happens.
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ah, nuts, the silicon chip inside my head got switched to "overload". I hate it when that happens.
Cloudflare is telling me I need to take a break, make a cup of tea, touch grass... 😌
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Cloudflare is telling me I need to take a break, make a cup of tea, touch grass... 😌
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its a good magazine please give them some dollars haha im totally not biased by being a contributor haha what are you talking about (jokes aside! Ive been reading cw since i was like fifteen, and it has consistently delivered. its a good place to throw a coffee's worth of dollars at per month :3)
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
its a good magazine please give them some dollars haha im totally not biased by being a contributor haha what are you talking about (jokes aside! Ive been reading cw since i was like fifteen, and it has consistently delivered. its a good place to throw a coffee's worth of dollars at per month :3)
Really excellent work by @garbageday.email covering the latest Epstein emails, the apparent extent of his influence over global politics, and how the Clinton blowjob memes have served to "flood the zone with shit".
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Epstein Helped Build MAGA. Has He Blown It?
Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, Bubba, and the end of democracy
www.garbageday.email
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Really excellent work by @garbageday.email covering the latest Epstein emails, the apparent extent of his influence over global politics, and how the Clinton blowjob memes have served to "flood the zone with shit".
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
This is such nonsense for so many reason, but among them: Sally Rooney's latest novel is centred on two brothers! They are PoV characters, and Rooney details their inner lives with the same skill and brilliance as any of her women. There's also male PoV characters in her two previous novels!
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is such nonsense for so many reason, but among them: Sally Rooney's latest novel is centred on two brothers! They are PoV characters, and Rooney details their inner lives with the same skill and brilliance as any of her women. There's also male PoV characters in her two previous novels!
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
There is a character in the 1929 novel The Well of Loneliness who is exactly like this, and was apparently based on Noël Coward.
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There is a character in the 1929 novel The Well of Loneliness who is exactly like this, and was apparently based on Noël Coward.
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
Not the same because he's doing it out of spite, but the only Tom Hanks role my dad will acknowledge voluntarily is Woody from Toy Story.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Not the same because he's doing it out of spite, but the only Tom Hanks role my dad will acknowledge voluntarily is Woody from Toy Story.
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This @groundup.org.za editorial does a fine job of articulating just how outrageous the gag order against @opensecrets.org.za is. We don't know who gagged them, on what grounds, in which court, or by which judge's ruling. groundup.org.za/article/anon...
Unknown judge in unknown court gags Open Secrets from saying …
This appears to be the most draconian prepublication interdict we have come across
groundup.org.za
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This @groundup.org.za editorial does a fine job of articulating just how outrageous the gag order against @opensecrets.org.za is. We don't know who gagged them, on what grounds, in which court, or by which judge's ruling. groundup.org.za/article/anon...
Already? The year goes by so fast!
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate!
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Already? The year goes by so fast!
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50 years ago today
Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975.
#punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975.
#punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
50 years ago today
Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975.
#punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975.
#punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd