Hm don't know but the internet is the only place I find British people who actually believe it's possible for the UK to rejoin the EU anytime soon, and I don't hang around Conservatives. Which isn't to say my friends/acquaintances don't want to rejoin but they don't share my excitement and hope

😂 Lol probablely is such an unserious sounding word

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This definitely hits different in the light of the news from Brighton this week. My entire life in Nigeria, I only knew two people who could swim. For many reasons, it's not just a thing for many black people, globally it seems. Once my back is fully healed I'm definitely going back so I can

Only 8 😩. I've read Jasper Fforde's Lost in a good book though, which I think counts as having read Great Expectations Sad I never managed to finish Jude the Obscure. I love Thomas Hardy so much. And on and on. Happy I've read the only two Nigerian (African?) books on the list though 💃🏿

I’ve read every single novel in the Guardian’s top 100. At least twice. And I completely agree with every single element of the choices and the rankings!

Half of a yellow sun is actually a pretty good book. I of course prefer Americanah. More relatable characters. But hoays I think is masterfully written

Alice Evans has been saying this for quite a while now. I remember her saying specifically that it could explain why birth rates are still high in Africa. There was a nyt article I think last year . Cue: collective Bluesky anger

Told Austrian TV how Russian fighters in Africa have committed atrocities while propping up juntas & how they’re weaponizing the continent as a launchpad for disinformation ops flooding Europe with lies to sow chaos and division. Africa is paying in blood. Europe in instability

Frangipani!

V. happy to see these last 2 posts from @tmbejan.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social! Have spent too much time trying to convince theorists of the value of empirics, often pushing back against the line that 'we don't care what people actually think or do... only what they SHOULD think or do'...

I think this is at the core of libertarian attitudes. Thinking of that New York Times DEI debate lady among others

"Bad things only happen to Bad People, so if something Bad happens that person deserved it." It's rarely the actual text of what people are saying, but Just World thinking underlies most struggles we have to improve the world. "Why would we help them? They deserved it."

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

If you oppose antisemitism from the left but don’t oppose antisemitism from the right, you don’t oppose antisemitism. You oppose the left.

Read a very interesting paper yesterday about explainability theatrics in explainable AI and how there's a bias towards human plausibility in the design of explainability metrics. As always I question who or what group is being referred to as human. A particular type of western expert most likely.

This post is funny because a few weeks ago I met up with friends and the conversation turned to how I couldn't bike but chose to learn swimming instead. In Nigeria, neither biking nor swimming are a thing but while I've never heard of cycling deaths drowning deaths are quite tragically sensational

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

One of my favourite things about the UK is learning about diversity and cultural differences and all that. Like learning that in the UK (and the western world generally?) dreams about teeth are really common. That's not really a Nigerian thing, teeth dreams. Now eating/running in your sleep? Yes

None of these people seem to actual like people which is hm

There's no mystery about why Farage, Trump, Boris Johnson and others of their stamp get away with things that would instantly destroy any leftwing politician: they're protected by the oligarchs they serve, who own most of the media and intimidate much of the rest.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Anyway you see this Africa-divide thing too with AI, which is probably what interests me the most at the moment. I've been spending more time on Twitter and there's been this conversation over the weekend about skilled tech workers. The conversation around data centres is seen from our perspective

Also have a bit of a shady, with also an admittedly slightly jealous tint, aside, that I see so many white people doing research in East and Southern Africa (and North Africa of course) but so few engaging with West African politics when so much of the life of the continent comes from West Africa 🤷🏿‍♀️

Sigh. Canceled my rant about why more people need to pay attention to (West) African politics because I'm genuinely tired but yes, this is a good article. A world in which *current* African lived experiences, including those that do not fit western narratives about heroes and villains, are not

Some thoughts about Mali and the Sahel. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/04/m...

You can’t say that you won’t benefit from more data centers because you refuse to use AI, you’d benefit just by streaming video, a process that is more resource intensive than you think

This Daniel and Lisa on 90 days fiancee just dey muzz me 😭

For sure. What goes around to Africa comes around to Europe... eventuarry

I told young people in Esslingen, Germany, how Russian paramilitaries operate in Africa. I explained how these mercenaries have massacred hundreds of civilians, raped dozens of girls and tortured so many boys. I warned that if we overlooked this, someday it could happen in Europe

All this talk about AI sycophancy is suddenly making me curious how users from parts of the world where sycophancy, or well a culture of appeasement towards say older, more powerful people is the norm as opposed to the Global North, which is more renowned for "straight talking" are handling things

James Murphy called it “borrowed nostalgia for the unremebered 80’s” in Losing My Edge and that his stuck with me for the last 20 years, which is why the nostalgia’s for the 90’s and 2000’s now and not the 70’s and 80’s.

Terribly humbling how I've done a complete 180 on legal pluralism 😬 In my defence, it's the idea I like rather than (some of its taken for granted and therefore) little critiqued manifestations

Being Yoruba on Twitter today is mostly about trying, struggling to maintain a balance between: 1. being proud to be Yoruba as its own identity, 2. resisting Yoruba-chauvinism and 3. resisting anti-Yoruba bigotry all at the same time 😩

Complexity ethics 🤝🏿 object oriented ontology

Lol. No one can convince me stronger not smaller isn't some sort of euphemism for "skinny but toned" sha. I'll believe it when the advocates aren't regular, skinny women who literally couldn't get skinnier without becoming dangerously ill

Tiken Jah Fakoly - Plus rien ne m'étonne

Favour 🤝🏿 constantly casting self

First malaria drug for babies is approved in ‘major public health milestone’

Where's that guy (and all the other people I've argued with over this issue) who was saying something about China not being colonial like the west something something now in the wake of Rightscon fiasco in Zambia. Lol

Lol I'm going to so pissed if my final argument is going to end up being some variant of "we need systems thinking" seeing as like 2,3 years ago I deliberately swerved away from Luhmann...

The Nigerian verb, to useless Eg I will useless you 😭😭

I want to be clear that I don’t have anything against any of their books. Publish all the books you want, but don’t market them by shitting on other people‘s work. In the midst of an unprecedented national book banning crisis, anyone calling any book unclean is carrying water for censors.

Bluesky doesn't do balloons. Still, happy birthday to me!

Torturing myself with Adagio on strings on repeat because, well, why not? This feeling must be lanced somehow.

What I find to be uncomfortable is how Chinamaxxing doesn't treat the country as a real place with real problems, it's somewhere that is everything your country isn't

Big problem with coming from a high context culture is that body language, tone of voice, general eagerness/reluctance can be deployed to communicate a difficult issue in ways that ensure no words are said. Here, everything unsaid goes unheard, including even some of the ones you say sef

“Unfortunately, ego-driven men who demand submission and threaten kids with hell don’t tend to consider hell a deterrent for their own wickedness.” – Rick Pidcock From: baptistnews.com/article/when...

I love this essay very much!!!!

African politicians, best in paying lip service to "decolonisation" on the world stage while suppressing and sabotaging democracy at home. Believe them at your own risk