Twitter itself had problems — and neither X or Bluesky are good right now for me

it's partly the platforms, and partly increasingly angry, fractured, populations I guess

I'm pretty isolated right now, so I'm online more than is healthy or ideal for me anyway

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I've watched these spaces homogenise in Kenya over the past ten years, with growing franchises, to a simplified and effectively international standard operating model — like McDonalds or airports

Also the perennially brilliantly pithy @billmckibben.bsky.social made this pronouncement: "Really, however, there’s only one truly vital strategic asset in Greenland, one thing that could change the world. And that’s the ice that covers almost all its landmass."

4th new word of 2026:

✨ 'filoplume' ✨

a feather is a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude 🤯

“There is no manufacturing technology that can come close to a feather”
— David Lentink

I'm sure you're both lovely and well meaning, but I lost my parents because of racist immigration laws, I've been on a Homeland Security watchlist since Obama, AND most importantly I've worked a lot with the Somali community and refugees in Kenya

they have gone through unbelievable shit already ❤️‍🩹

lord, I see what you do for all the other idiots…

you're not doing this here, go and rant somewhere else