Reportedly "an avid reader, a high-up muckity-muck... and an all-round fascinating character." Also @effectuator@mastodonapp.uk
Joined November 2008
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[OUT NOW] The new 2025 edition of the @OECD #ModelTaxConvention, a key publication for governments and businesses to ensure #tax systems keep pace with #economic change.
Read more🔗brnw.ch/21x63OH
#OECDtax
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Here’s a fun fact as Women’s Month draws to a close: Lillian Ngoyi & Helen Joseph are buried in the same plot. They’d made a pact that they would continue fighting for women’s liberation in every lifetime until said liberation is achieved.
📸: Peter Magubane; Helen Joseph papers
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School device use links with lower test scores and distractions abound. But reversing the entrenched pandemic pivot to screens will be hard.
sciencenews.org/article/scie…
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@JHBWater there is water pouring out of the pavement at 37 Fricker Road, Illovo. Closest corner is Harries Road and it’s next to the Illovo Water Reservoir and Towers.
Reference No: JWAPP-40136082.
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New research: assessment on how MNEs are responding to the #GlobalMinimumTax offers early evidence on the impact of co-ordinated international tax reform.
Read the #OECD working paper🔗brnw.ch/21x49EJ
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On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded:
“Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
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Four months after George Orwell published 1984, his former teacher sent him a letter.
Aldous Huxley had one message: you described the wrong dystopia. 🧵
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I believe in truth in #advertising. And I found this on socials and it feels increasingly more relevant as time passes.
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Having present, supportive, honest and kind parents is a privilege and a blessing that becomes more and more apparent, the older you get.
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⚡[STATEMENT] City Power’s “new” communication drive is a deflection from failure and accountability. Issued by Cllr Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku – DA Johannesburg Caucus Leader.
Read full statement here: dagauteng.org.za/2026/01/cit…
#BelieveinJoburg
#Zille4Mayor
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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell
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I think it’s time that whoever labeled “Social Media” got it wrong. It’s Corporate Media.
This accuracy in labelling may help us all to interact with it more appropriate to our well-being.
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Variolation (immunity due to exposure to lower doses of live virus) likely played a role early in the Covid epidemic. See: Face masking and COVID-19: potential effects of variolation on transmission dynamics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3550…
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Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally, and enter into authentic relationships with others. Recognizing and safeguarding what characterizes the human person and guarantees their balanced growth is essential for establishing an adequate framework to manage the consequences of artificial intelligence.
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…