Why has eating with your hands become such a centrepiece of racist discourse now? They just find the most pedestal things to feel superior about. Mtchew

Huey Long on the Billionaire class: “the greed of a few men is such that they think it is necessary that they own everything, and their pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses, and in their possessing things they cannot use…casting darkness and despair on everyone else” 1934 = 2025

Presumably there are some Nigerian tailors here in the UK who can sew trad but my understanding is that you need to get measurements taken?? All the ones I'm seeing na so-so boubou, agbada for the same prices you'd expect to pay for church/party/formal trad. SMH

I really like object-oriented ontology and it has even more critiques of Actor Network Theory than I was previously familiar with

Is today the day I return to the office to work? It's looking increasingly unlikely though I was really looking forward to that group discussion. But I feel so lazy and tired

Reminder: I have two blogposts trying to help with this. The worse (at LEAST less popular) one, aimed at people who think they've found or made sentient AI joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/09/sens... The better one, aimed at everyone trying to use AI well: joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene...

Nobody is coming because they think the UK is more generous than any other EU country. From a Nigerian perspective, people are coming because they have this, maybe rosy and now patently false belief, that the British are stern but fair. That if you work hard and prove yourself you will be treated,

Lol so all these platforms want us to start paying to not see ads?? I don't understand

As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.

I was once at a dinner where Lord Bingham was the keynote speaker. I'm questions he was asked if he was a liberal judge. "Well, I wouldn't want to be an illiberal one."

Oh this is like Nigerians nicknaming ourselves Machiavelli, or well some variant of it, 'Makaveli', 'Makiaveli' because we don't know who he was but know enough to know that he was... badass. Or less negative, but still cringe, "The Mayor of <insert nigerian town>". We don't have mayors in Nigeria.

They often really think they're better than everybody else (esp the Americans, which really isn't any kind of high bar) in terms of ethics, politics, values. usually amusing to read on here as a third party, but no so much this time. anyway, i think it's a colonial legacy

What a world we live in where Gulf countries, places before this year I privately determined to never visit due to the abuse of African domestic workers, are reforming, whereas the so-called bastions of democracy are tripping over their feet to cook up the most deranged immigration policies. 🌚

I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...

And then they'll come and be complaining about lack of integration. Integration into what? What's the point of building any sort of community and not just sending all my money back home where I'd be able to lead a very comfortable life, exchange rates are no joke?

Xenophobia as campaign fuel 😩

Me I'm just tired of this cruelty theatre that these people keep putting on

These people are so duplicitous. You know, they know, we all know that a visa is more than just, if it can even be considered, a contractual agreement to stay somewhere for a couple of years. Nobody is uprooting themselves and their kids merely to work in a hostile, unfriendly environment for the

Keys the Prince's Left Right > Gele mehn

Ah well perhaps you should not have left if you did not wish me to grieve

I don't even think ChatGPT is capable of making up new words. Might be wrong on this actually. Haven't checked to see.

You know, sometimes I just want to let out my inner Lewis Carroll, (and those annoyingly hard to read French theorists who I suspect benefit from their European proximity to the UK with how celebrated their needlessly impenetrable, English as a second language diction is) my (not so inner) verbose

But how do you get better at stuff without being cringy in the beginning hm? 🤷🏿‍♀️

Lol God I've sent so many cringe emails and texts in my life 😩 Sigh sigh

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

This is interesting when you think about how Africans were forcefully conscripted to fight in the first and second world war for the British

Really like how this video talks about the need for leaders of multicultural spaces to be culturally competent. And a key one I know I struggle with, is leaders in these spaces not knowing to check if an employee is timid/ignorant or just waiting to be called on www.instagram.com/reel/DPyZhyC...

Lol Nigerians 🤝🏿 making unhinged remarks 😭 We're such an unserious group of people

The powers that be just haven't yet found a way to corner the market on renewables or recoup their oil and gas investments is my working theory

I applied for this visa in early May so I could go for thing in October and when October came around I was so angry with myself because I regretted not applying in early April because I needed a document, I couldn't get in time. Anyway look now. It's late October so it probably wouldn't have made

So a coup has been been foiled in Nigeria. Just absolutely gutted at the state of Nigeria and our leaders mehn

It kinda looks like you're not actually disputing anything he said and instead the word "performative" just has your feathers ruffled.

And increased vaccine hesitancy in Africa too

When people talk about authenticity they're usually referring to something raw and unpolished but that's one of the more internally contradictory things about authenticity, that you draw a thing, an identity, your real self from deep within but still have it be unrefined, pure and prestine,

Authenticity is such a key western value that the mere suggestion that someone might not be striving for 100% sincerity (which is ironically a totally different mode of identity) gets people here really riled up. This is in contrast to say, "saving face cultures" which are extremely hierarchical

This says something important that OP misses: message discipline feels authentic *when it comes from charisma*. If you don't find a person charismatic, you'll find their constant return to a few topics incredibly inauthentic. If you doubt this, consider that many people consider Trump authentic.

genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal

An actual, real life, nuanced discussion about Brexit!!

Oh dear. Some striking parallels here to Nigerian "mountain theology" which might actually come from these people anyway. Who knows where these things kúkú come from

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Hei Jesus 😭

Tinubu, the current Nigerian president, had so many zingers. We made and shared so many memes mocking him. Awa/Yoruba lokan - It is our turn/the turn of the Yoruba. Balablu Eba, garri, rice, agbado Eleyi His opponent, the younger, more capable, less corrupt Peter Obi was less... memeable.

A lot of performance technique comes from acting, which is sort of inherently dishonest, the same way a lot of effective persuasion technique comes from advertising and sales. That doesn't mean these techniques are not useful or necessary for someone being honest and not selling something!

Seeing a lot of negative response to the initial post along the lines of "you don't need to know how to perform if you're saying something you actually believe in" and I strongly disagree with this idea and think that it's a dangerous myth to believe!

It's beyond that. Rehearsing your message until it becomes second nature frees up cognitive load to focus on your performance and audience instead of thinking about what you're going to say next, which allows you to appear more authentic. It's not fakery even though its similar in process to acting

To illustrate what I mean, among many, many examples, this is what the opposite of a tangible, easy to understand policy proposal looks like:

1) Know your values, frame the debate 2) Repetition is key to persuasion 3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

One thing I've found in my qualitative research is that authenticity is that value everyone loves or claims to love but continue to define in contrary, contradictory ways. A vibes-based value

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,