Not a fan of coupists. 👎🏿 Their MO is almost always the same, in periods of great electorate dissatisfaction oust democratically elected (in admittedly typically ailing democracies) unpopular Presidents, dissolve all arms of government, suspend the constitution and rule by Ordinances and Decrees,

British.

Lol mehn visa discrimination is just the pits and so easy to hide under "your application is well within processing times." European/North American passport holders get approved in a month or two meanwhile yours is taking twice this amount and nobody is able to comment on what is happening or why

How isn't having sex with your spouse when you're exhausted because you see it as a necessary, weekly top up, so he doesn't stray and/or so your marriage doesn't break down because you're ashamed of having a failed marriage not emotional labour? Or problematic? And how consensual is this really?

Why is this literally the reverse of the parable of the Good Samaritan? 😩

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

Attended this Shakespeare retreat (I have no money but I was a fellow at the venue it took) where we read the Merry Wives of Windsor and there were just so many parallels between Falstaff and... 🌚 certain politicians today but more interesting to me was the genuine confusion as to why Falstaff and

This interesting article in Conversation about the likelihood of BAME grandmothers to provide child care doesn't seem to at all factor into consideration that immigrants, despite what Kemi Badenoch says, don't typically have retired, grandparents hanging around *within* the country to do childcare

listen... you do not have to be smarter than your intimate partner you dont have to make more than them or have a greater social status The purpose of the relationship is not to reinforce your ego The purpose of the relationship is care

Also relevant to Bluesky for which I've lately become an evangelist 🤭 Would be nice to have more Nigerians here but I worry that this platform lacks the range to moderate African perspectives/interactions or tribal bigotry some of which is fuelled by state-influencers 🤷🏿‍♀️

Somebody needs to write a piece on how Wikipedia figures in African inter-tribal/ethnic and inter-country spats. The way and manner people use Wikipedia to falsely aggrandise their cultures and put others down is really something to be studied for idk the western gaze (?) is something to be

How is he able to dissolve parliament in absentia lol

😂 😂

these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

I thinks it’s because he is genuinely not religious- if you aren’t Christian and didnt grow up with it a works based theory of salvation is the only way to really understand it. faith based readings are extremely hard to comprehend without having the cultural background or personal religiosity

It’s interesting that he has an entirely works based theory of salvation that just doesn’t consider the forgiveness of sin. Especially interesting with the flavors of Christianity that he has surrounded himself by within the admin

Oh yeah this reminds me of how me and two other Africans got accepted for @divintelligence.bsky.social back in 2022. A Nigerian, a Ghanaian and a Ugandan. All of our visas were denied. @divintelligence.bsky.social was kind enough to let us come again in 2023 which was really great and not

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

One thing I mention in this essay about rom-com tropes is how the standard spontaneous cross-continental travel surprise does not work for postcolonial. Before you get a visa to travel to the US to do the surprise thing, your love would have died. folukeafrica.com/a-few-things...

There's a video making the rounds on reddit of a white lady who went to a school in Laos and all the little children are sort of like terrified and running around and the comments are ranging from "Who taught them racism" to "You too would run from the people who bombed your grandparents" to "white

The way WhatsApp is going with all these their new features, the status-related ones that fly under the radar for Global North users who I've noticed tend not to use the status feature, the ones that allow you crosspost to Instagram and Facebook, the business catalogue ones etc. it feels like

Need WhatsApp to give us that gif profile picture functionality expeditiously abeg

Okay this is a good headline

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.” Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

We Africans have this weird, bravado/toxic self awareness act we put on as a coping mechanism for poor treatment on the international stage. As is the case when eg Nigerians in Nigeria nod approvingly in reaction to Nigerians experiencing xenophobia/immigration discrimination abroad, the ones in

The values that we grew up with being no rights for non-indigenes, sexual minorities and religious/social conservativism 🤗

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I? The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us. Folks - want a better country? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Western AI ethics 🤝🏿 western feminism

Yo maybe I can take this? Still remember feeling exhausted constantly from like August 2023(!) throughout last year. <redacted> iron and vitamin D seem to have really helped and the GPs were like oh your iron is low but you're not like deficient or anything so we won't prescribe you iron.

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

This is part of why it's important to fight human right injustice wherever they are institutionalised because if not they become normal and people start pointing to them as examples of "system that work"

People say this but the Detroit: Become Human guy was very clear in interviews that he means the story completely literally and not as an analogy for human civil rights. I suspect many sci-fi authors would tell you similar. kotaku.com/despite-poli...

The State was Strong in the sense that it could Do and Take what it wanted, not Strong in the sense that it would guarantee Welfare/consistent state services/nationalise industry - they were, after all, actively opposed to socialism/communism.

And what is so wild about it? 🤷🏿‍♀️ Is it so hard to believe a famed, well-respected author found readership across the political divide??? Or is it people feeling offended (on behalf of Pratchett) that someone they find objectionable enjoys the stuff they like

But yeah, I wonder what other parts of her personality are better understand as a Nigerian response to life abroad, and by Nigerians (or other migrants even), than it would be to a British person trying to understand why legal migrants throw others other migrants under the bus or embrace

Just remembering Panashe Chigumadzi's 2019 article, Why I Am No Longer Talking to Nigerians About Race and really smh about unknown the Nigerian psyche is to the British because as a group, we are not as well known as we are to other Africans. www.theelephant.info/analysis/201...

The next thing would of course be to bully African countries into buying them 🌚

Sometimes I read this stuff and I think it must be hard for British people/media/journalists (as it would be with any country really) to critique annoying people like KB, for their annoyingness rather than traits like ethnic background etc. But it can be very hard to know which is which if you're

Oh no. RIP Jilly Cooper

Lol, I'm writing a thing and I have Grammarly on and it's correcting my punctuation and urging me to replace my commas with the em-dash. After the em-dash of the past year, I'm unlikely to accept this recommendation because even if I do think it's more polished, the risk that the stuff I've

Are the people saying/drawing attention to the fact that there's something not quite right about relating with/speaking about computers in ways that mirror existing exclusionary language or actions against real people the ones who desire computers to be sentient or is this a conflated strawman?

Sha sha, I think that ironically despite espousing anti-anthropomorphising sentiments towards AI, people end up relating to it in a way that makes it a sort of un-thing/un-person, a kind of other. And as an othered person here "in the abroad"/on this site, I can't say my old woman isn't growing

I wanna see the UK greens eclipse Reform. Zach is a very effective communicator & I’m really rooting for them! #nzpol

Definitely used to be a thing back in 2020/21/22 that one thing people were concerned re:Alexa and co was that children weren't learning to say please and thank you and that it was engendering values about female submission and how to treat women since these bots were often designed to be female,

The luddites destroyed machinery, not people* and they didn't sabotage them in ways that singled out people who bought cheap clothing or even the low-skilled weavers brought in to take their place please. Some of this stuff is just so weird. Except that one guy.

I was saying last year how much of a lack of self-introspection it shows when people, who aren't racial minorities or anything, do their very best to break chatbots into spouting slurs to make a point about how chatbots bad are, seemingly forgetting themselves that LLMs aren't living things.

Yes! I've actually given up on the anthropomorphisation is problematic fight. Humans can't resist anthropomorphising things. It's why we've always had idols (the religious ones, as in objects of veneration not celebs) and name our dolls and laptops

Lol this woman is very unserious