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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15h

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.
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A few things that bother me about rom-coms

On a lighter note

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15h

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...

A few things that bother me about rom-coms

On a lighter note

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 17h

If only the university sector - one of the engines of our entire economy - had the same political clout as the fishing industry.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 23h

A thing I recommend you do tonight is take a nice shower, then do your whole skincare routine, exfoliation and all, give yourself a good lotioning (don't forget the elbows and heels!), put on your coziest pajamas, and tuck yourself right into bed. You deserve it.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 21h

Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Aug 28

This essay was a response to the idea that all African nationalist identities have ancient histories. Nigeria did not exist at the time of colonisation by the British, and therefore "Nigeria" was not colonised but animated from the destruction of preexisting nations.
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‘Nigeria’ was never colonised

Flag of Nigeria (1914-1960)

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Jul 3

A colleague and I were discussing the genius of this song and its utility for research. If you can find no further information about the thing you are researching, just write "no one else was in the room where it happened... "

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The Room Where it Happens - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]

YouTube video by Asaki Takaya

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful Nubia

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

Manifesto for when I rule the world: All humans must take CPD-like courses all through life called Continuing Human Development.
Courses include:
how to human properly
we all matter
racism is bad
greed is bad
destroying the planet also bad

Other suggestions on what the curriculum should include?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Freedom, liberty and justice are lofty ideals; there are often declarations that they've been achieved or supported. But what matters is what happens the day after the declaration. Are freedom, liberty and justice actually exercised or experienced then?

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The Day After

Or When Freedom Really Happens

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't manage to make it past a few tries.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Lagos.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

I remember spending hours on one!

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Freedom, liberty and justice are lofty ideals; there are often declarations that they've been achieved or supported. But what matters is what happens the day after the declaration. Are freedom, liberty and justice actually exercised or experienced then?

folukeafrica.com/the-day-after/

The Day After

Or When Freedom Really Happens

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when Prezi was going to be the next big thing in lecturing and conferencing. What happened?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

Toni Morrison, profound as always. Thank you so much for sharing this quote.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, if this place explodes, here is my linktree

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African woman, lawyer, teacher, poet. Singer of songs, writer of words

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

This essay on the movie "Detroit" [2017] asks if it is possible to tell stories of racism that do more than retraumatise the already brutalised. Can this wretched earth, suffused as it is in an atmosphere of violence [Fanon], learn freedom again? What do you think?
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The Movie ‘Detroit’: Telling Tales of a Wretched Night

Fanon and Depicting the Wretched

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!"

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

Manifesto for when I rule the world: All humans must take CPD-like courses all through life called Continuing Human Development.
Courses include:
how to human properly
we all matter
racism is bad
greed is bad
destroying the planet also bad

Other suggestions on what the curriculum should include?

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