#Roof of Africa

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[joscus09]

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[loveisinthebat]

Lil’ Fuzzy Baby

[ian-galagher]

[side-eyes reboots] go back to your corner!

for your followers: africa spoilers, close your eyes.

today's movie: beauty and the beast (1991).

- ian, back in chicago:

- ian annoying everyone and their mother with photography & mickey milkovich.

- ian setting out to africa.

- how africa feels to ian.

- ian having his hopes crushed and burned on day one.

- ian: lies. nandi / inyoni: oh, ian is seeing someone. mickey:

- inyoni bringing ian food on day two.

- ian taking mickey's portrait ("don't move a muscle.")

- jan and gerrit trying to get one up on mickey.

- them in the city.

- "keep it." / "what?" / "the gear, keep it. it's yours."

- ian x mickey vs the horrors. ("do the thing?" / "sometimes we talk. mostly we just hang out. and sometimes […] sometimes, you fight the demons for me.")

- there's NOTHING to see down the hill, apart from creepy silhouettes and figures.

- "you're so fuckin' perfect." / "you deserve so much better."

- them holding hands in the theatre.

- i can't explain WHAT, exactly, but the whole kiss debacle right after the movie in one gif.

- ian finding mickey's secret paperwork prior to his call with fiona.

- mickey and mandy planning the braai.

- "there's a joy in him that wasn't there before," inyoni said quietly.

bonus: jan [grinds teeth].

[pulls out megaphone] we're searching for our trusty full time screamer / part time waitress @francesrose3. if you spot her, please don't spook her, but immediately escort her to this post.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST MY BELOVED???? 😭😭😭😭🥹🧡

okay but this HAS to be my favorite of all the Disney films so you chose well Nosho!!! 🥹🧡

I MEAN 😭 THAT FIRST ONE INSTANTLY KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARK 😭 SO ACCURATE ALREADY

Ian with his nose in the books 😂 AND THE LITTLE SHEEP IS MICKEY 😭😂

THE MOUNTAINS!!!!!! Ian is off to Africa 😭 I always forget just how absolutely beautiful these animations are, just look at that detail, those landscapes, the colours oohhhh man.... 🧡 melting!!!

HIS HOPES CRUSHED 😭

MICKEY AS THE GRUMPY BEAST!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂 your galaxy brain Nosho, it's impressive

THE TEAPOT = INYONI 😭😭😭

the portrait of mickey 😂 with all the birds on his arms!!! PERRRRYYYYY 😭😭😭

Jan & Gerrit are here 😂 power couple! 😂😂😂

THE SNOWBALL FIGHT 😭😭😭 this movie really had it all 🧡

THE MIRROR / GEAR & KEEP IT 😭😭😭 I did genuinely think about that library scene when writing that 😂 there's always a gift of some sorts, for Belle it was books, what's Ian's biggest dream here, gear! 😂

THEM FIGHTING THE HORRORS 😭😭😭 AND the silhouette!!!

MICKEY BEING SO INSECURE 😭😭😭 "IAN IS JUST SO- AND IM SO-" 😭😭😭

HAND HOLDING--- IM 💀 this post officially killed me

100% agree with that gif being exactly what happened after the kiss stuff, 100%

THE FORBIDDEN WING IAN WENT INTO THE FORBIDDEN WING🚨

omg "i wanna do something for her but what" 😂 okay this is now officially a call out post, I copied this entire movie didn't I 😂 BUT IT'S SO GOOD 😂 I bet we have different endings though 😂 the ending is ALL Shameless style again 😂 you don't get that in Disney movies!

*sings* there's just something there that wasn't there before 🥰🧡

*the full gang descends on this post to come devour it* 🧡💖💚💙@francesrose3 @juliakayyy

NOSHOOOO you are the BEST for these and I will treasure these posts FOREVER! 🥰🧡💚

[artcallednaturalviews]

In Tha Code My roof I wanted in Morse code Land beam take all up The household Not a Gaza Ukraine That bowl in the code My feet I land in Worldly affairs Air sea laser in obliteration The home landscape So not That bowl in the codes My eyes glazed in donuts The world is round it’s really 3D That center they left out My Earth is flat Irregardless I live in my city I don’t watch a Worldly Not Gaza Ukraine That bowl in code So not That bowl in the codes What Riddle? Go be co medic! Stoop that bleeding Before the happenings Roof tiles made before agro for painting My knee pops for sound A refrigerator speaks In tha code Oh laying pretty short haired My reflection in the window Oh ah seer held breathes in smoldering airs In tha code My not my so my not go in My not my so my not go in My not my so my not go in My not my so my not go in Aug that plastic written underneath is or may not be acceptable The receptacle only wants A doomed or all domed Rump T holds to dumpty’s The code The code In tha code Oily oh I love Non as did spores Presidentially former Spoon Surgeon Find a fish My not my so my not go in To release back into wild This artcalled landed Find a fish My not my so my not go in To release back into wild This artcalled landed See from tops The codes See from tops The codes Apply there? My not my so my not go in No need to mix when American It maybe a twist off Kershaw speed safe The codes hold know matter! The beaten rods you feel Cap for free the mind thinks less Pay here Due tell hear la duchess Me ladies never had to My cavity needs cleansing Douche Tha douche Toiletten Flush a has been, leave more without breathing light In tha codes!? Coolest is near! Babe clear I found a code in caps Non capped little less than “cheers” What side you on? In tha codes! Those French lay me Codex They fries love me as Codixian Within a code My not my so my not go in

[greencproductions]

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[thetorturedbolter]

1, 22 & 24 for the ask game! <3

1. my comfort characters are percy jackson (no surprise there), loki laufeyson, will graham, and dean winchester. i think that probably says something about me, but i’m not gonna think about it too hard.

22. this is gonna sound like such a cop-out answer, but i’m not really sure what type of person i am. a good one, hopefully, but i think that’s subjective. like, i know my mbti and enneagram types but that doesn’t really answer the question. i guess i’m the type of person who spends too much time thinking about other things to be really aware of myself, if that makes sense? idk, but i’m probably gonna spend a lot of time thinking about this now lol.

24. if we were together on a rooftop, right now, we’d be watching the stars and the moon reflecting off of the ocean (it’s nighttime here and we have an amazing view, i’m actually obsessed ) and talking about a bunch of different things, because rooftop conversations just hit different. there’s something about sitting on the roof with someone that just makes it so easy to talk and talk for hours without a care in the world. almost all of the most fun, or deep and memorable conversations i’ve had were on a rooftop. or we could have a picnic!!

[benjaminwatchworld]

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If you have contacts in Nigeria you must most likely think Peter Obi is going to win the election this weekend. The youth think he is their man because he is in his early 60s and the youngest out of the 18 presidential candidates of which only 1 is female in Africa’s most populous country. If we are to go by the regional theory in the sense of Nigeria we can’t have anyone getting 50%+1 in the…

[joscus09]

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[janameerman]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Do you have a list of good sex ed books to read?

BOY DO I

please bear in mind that some of these books are a little old (10+ years) by research standards now, and that even the newer ones are all flawed in some way. the thing about research on human beings, and especially research on something as nebulous and huge as sex, is that people are Always going to miss something or fail to account for every possible experience, and that's just something that we have to accept in good faith. I think all of these books have something interesting to say, but that doesn't mean any of them are the only book you'll ever need.

related to that: it's been A While since I've read some of these so sorry if anything in them has aged poorly (I don't THINK SO but like, I was not as discerning a reader when I was 19) but I am still including them as books that have been important to my personal journey as a sex educator.

additionally, a caveat that very few of these books are, like, instructional sex ed books in the sense of like "here's how the penis works, here's where the clit is, etc." those books exist and they're great but they're also not very interesting to me; my studies on sex are much more in the social aspect (shout out to my sociology degree) and the way people learn to think about sex and societal factors that shape those trends. these books reflect that. I would genuinely love to have the time to check out some 101 books to see how they fare, but alas - sex ed is not my day job and I don't have the time to dedicate to that, so it happens slowly when it happens at all. I've been meaning to read Dr. Gunter's Vagina Bible since it came out in 2019, for fucks sake.

and finally an acknowledgement that this is a fairly white list, which has as much to do with biases with academia and publishing as my own unchecked biases especially early in my academic career and the limitations of my university library.

ANYWAY here's some books about sex that have been influential/informative to me in one way or another:

The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Michael Warner, 1999)

Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences (Laura M. Carpenter, 2005)

Virgin: The Untouched History (Hanne Blank, 2007)

Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education Before the 1960s (Susan K. Freeman, 2008)

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Mary Roach, 2008)

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Revised Edition) (Susan Stryker, 2008)

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Jessica Valenti, 2009)

Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex (Amy T. Schalet, 2011)

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Hanne Blank, 2012)

Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships (Meg-John Barker, 2013)

The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Realities (Rachel Hills, 2015)

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Tranform Your Sex Life (Emily Nagoski, 2015)

Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (Jane Ward, 2015)

Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Jonathan Zimmerman, 2015)

American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus (Lisa Wade, 2017)

Histories of the Transgender Child (Jules Gill-Peterson, 2018)

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (Juno Mac and Molly Smith, 2018)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Angela Chen, 2020)

Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (Kim Gallon, 2020)

A Curious History of Sex (Kate Lister, 2020)

Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity (Peggy Orenstein, 2020)

Black Women, Black Love: America's War on Africa American Marriage (Dianne M. Stewart, 2020)

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Jane Ward, 2020)

Hurts So Good: The Science and Pleasure of Pain on Purpose (Leigh Cowart, 2021)

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs (Ina Park, 2021)

The Right to Sex: Feminist in the Twenty-First Century (Amia Srinivasan, 2021)

Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (Eric C. Wat, 2021)

Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Arielle Greenberg, 2023)

[reasonsforhope]

African poverty is partly a consequence of energy poverty. In every other continent the vast majority of people have access to electricity. In Africa 600m people, 43% of the total, cannot readily light their homes or charge their phones. And those who nominally have grid electricity find it as reliable as a Scottish summer. More than three-quarters of African firms experience outages; two-fifths say electricity is the main constraint on their business.

If other sub-Saharan African countries had enjoyed power as reliable as South Africa’s from 1995 to 2007, then the continent’s rate of real GDP growth per person would have been two percentage points higher, more than doubling the actual rate, according to one academic paper. Since then South Africa has also had erratic electricity. So-called “load-shedding” is probably the main reason why the economy has shrunk in four of the past eight quarters.

Solar power is increasingly seen as the solution. Last year Africa installed a record amount of photovoltaic (PV) capacity (though this still made up just 1% of the total added worldwide), notes the African Solar Industry Association (AFSIA), a trade group. Globally most solar PV is built by utilities, but in Africa 65% of new capacity over the past two years has come from large firms contracting directly with developers. These deals are part of a decentralised revolution that could be of huge benefit to African economies.

Ground zero for the revolution is South Africa. Last year saw a record number of blackouts imposed by Eskom, the state-run utility, whose dysfunctional coal-fired power stations regularly break down or operate at far below capacity. Fortunately, as load-shedding was peaking, the costs of solar systems were plummeting.

Between 2019 and 2023 the cost of panels fell by 15%, having already declined by almost 90% in the 2010s. Meanwhile battery storage systems now cost about half as much as five years ago. Industrial users pay 20-40% less per unit when buying electricity from private project developers than on the cheapest Eskom tariff.

In the past two calendar years the amount of solar capacity in South Africa rose from 2.8GW to 7.8GW, notes AFSIA, excluding that installed on the roofs of suburban homes. All together South Africa’s solar capacity could now be almost a fifth of that of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations (albeit those still have a higher “capacity factor”, or ability to produce electricity around the clock). The growth of solar is a key reason why there has been less load-shedding in 2024...

Over the past decade the number of startups providing “distributed renewable energy” (DRE) has grown at a clip. Industry estimates suggest that more than 400m Africans get electricity from solar home systems and that more than ten times as many “mini-grids”, most of which use solar, were built in 2016-20 than in the preceding five years. In Kenya DRE firms employ more than six times as many people as the largest utility. In Nigeria they have created almost as many jobs as the oil and gas industry.

“The future is an extremely distributed system to an extent that people haven’t fully grasped,” argues Matthew Tilleard of CrossBoundary Group, a firm whose customers range from large businesses to hitherto unconnected consumers. “It’s going to happen here in Africa first and most consequentially.”

Ignite, which operates in nine African countries, has products that include a basic panel that powers three light bulbs and a phone charger, as well as solar-powered irrigation pumps, stoves and internet routers, and industrial systems. Customers use mobile money to “unlock” a pay-as-you-go meter.

Yariv Cohen, Ignite’s CEO, reckons that the typical $3 per month spent by consumers is less than what they previously paid for kerosene and at phone-charging kiosks. He describes how farmers are more productive because they do not have to get home before dark and children are getting better test scores because they study under bulbs. One family in Rwanda used to keep their two cows in their house because they feared rustlers might come in the dark; now the cattle snooze al fresco under an outside lamp and the family gets more sleep.

...That is one eye-catching aspect of Africa’s solar revolution. But most of the continent is undergoing a more subtle—and significant—experiment in decentralised, commercially driven solar power. It is a trend that could both transform African economies and offer lessons to the rest of the world."

-via The Economist, June 18, 2024. Paragraph breaks added.