Akin Akintayo
@forakin.bsky.social
Person, observer, blogger 21🌞, gay, end-user computing 35🌞, experienced cancer twice, living well, Christian, GB/Ng, European, and hitched.
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Yuletide Pilferer, present
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His face was presented on camera as he nicked Christmas presents, and he is presently in a police cell.
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His face was presented on camera as he nicked Christmas presents, and he is presently in a police cell.
Yuletide Pilferer, present
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December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yuletide Pilferer, present
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His face was presented on camera as he nicked Christmas presents, and he is presently in a police cell.
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His face was presented on camera as he nicked Christmas presents, and he is presently in a police cell.
The UK: What You Get At 60
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With the help of AI and some editing, here is a list of entitlements, benefits, concessions, and perks we automatically get.
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With the help of AI and some editing, here is a list of entitlements, benefits, concessions, and perks we automatically get.
The UK: What You Get At 60
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December 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The UK: What You Get At 60
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With the help of AI and some editing, here is a list of entitlements, benefits, concessions, and perks we automatically get.
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With the help of AI and some editing, here is a list of entitlements, benefits, concessions, and perks we automatically get.
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This Christmas the real Scrooges are corporations that raked in record profits this year and paid their CEOs millions of dollars but still deny workers a living wage and benefits.
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This Christmas the real Scrooges are corporations that raked in record profits this year and paid their CEOs millions of dollars but still deny workers a living wage and benefits.
Cultural Insights: The Agbada
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A foreigner's perspective and review of the agbádá.
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A foreigner's perspective and review of the agbádá.
Cultural Insights: The Agbada
I enjoy getting to learn and understand things about different people and their cultures. I got to learn about the Agbada outfit, which is...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cultural Insights: The Agbada
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A foreigner's perspective and review of the agbádá.
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A foreigner's perspective and review of the agbádá.
A Curmudgeon's Christmas Eve
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As I trundled through another ghastly Christmas market, I had travelled by train as officially senior, but unofficially ignored.
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As I trundled through another ghastly Christmas market, I had travelled by train as officially senior, but unofficially ignored.
A Curmudgeon's Christmas Eve
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December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A Curmudgeon's Christmas Eve
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As I trundled through another ghastly Christmas market, I had travelled by train as officially senior, but unofficially ignored.
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As I trundled through another ghastly Christmas market, I had travelled by train as officially senior, but unofficially ignored.
Turning 60: Finding the Light Switch
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As you turn 60, and begin to wonder what 60-pluses do, get, need, or have in the UK, just out of the good fortune of reaching that age? A Senior Railcard, for starters, so I got mine.
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As you turn 60, and begin to wonder what 60-pluses do, get, need, or have in the UK, just out of the good fortune of reaching that age? A Senior Railcard, for starters, so I got mine.
Turning 60: Finding the Light Switch
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December 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Turning 60: Finding the Light Switch
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As you turn 60, and begin to wonder what 60-pluses do, get, need, or have in the UK, just out of the good fortune of reaching that age? A Senior Railcard, for starters, so I got mine.
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As you turn 60, and begin to wonder what 60-pluses do, get, need, or have in the UK, just out of the good fortune of reaching that age? A Senior Railcard, for starters, so I got mine.
My Dear Boy: Turning Sixty
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In all the birthday greetings I received, one stood out, my father's, writing from the memory of the past to the recognition of the passage of time.
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In all the birthday greetings I received, one stood out, my father's, writing from the memory of the past to the recognition of the passage of time.
My Dear Boy: Turning Sixty
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December 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My Dear Boy: Turning Sixty
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In all the birthday greetings I received, one stood out, my father's, writing from the memory of the past to the recognition of the passage of time.
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In all the birthday greetings I received, one stood out, my father's, writing from the memory of the past to the recognition of the passage of time.
Sixty and not tiring to retire
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Another obligatory birthday blog from a newly minted sexagenarian.
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Another obligatory birthday blog from a newly minted sexagenarian.
Sixty and not tiring to retire
Akin Akintayo on human rights, politics, religion, Nigeria and other concerns.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Sixty and not tiring to retire
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Another obligatory birthday blog from a newly minted sexagenarian.
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Another obligatory birthday blog from a newly minted sexagenarian.
Thought Picnic: Adversity Reveals True Love
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We should love no less, even if we do not feel loved.
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We should love no less, even if we do not feel loved.
Thought Picnic: Adversity Reveals True Love
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December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Thought Picnic: Adversity Reveals True Love
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We should love no less, even if we do not feel loved.
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We should love no less, even if we do not feel loved.
Our Stories, Beautifully Written by Brian
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When you meet someone who thinks the world of you and writes beautifully about the love you share.
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When you meet someone who thinks the world of you and writes beautifully about the love you share.
Our Stories, Beautifully Written by Brian
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December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Our Stories, Beautifully Written by Brian
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When you meet someone who thinks the world of you and writes beautifully about the love you share.
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When you meet someone who thinks the world of you and writes beautifully about the love you share.
Essential Snobbery 101: Playing truant at The Scrooge School of Corporate Christmas
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One Christmas party I did not attend was one where my gradual conversion to misanthropy would have been completed.
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One Christmas party I did not attend was one where my gradual conversion to misanthropy would have been completed.
Essential Snobbery 101: Playing truant at The Scrooge School of Corporate Christmas
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December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Essential Snobbery 101: Playing truant at The Scrooge School of Corporate Christmas
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One Christmas party I did not attend was one where my gradual conversion to misanthropy would have been completed.
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One Christmas party I did not attend was one where my gradual conversion to misanthropy would have been completed.
Fentanyl Appearing for Pain, Pills, and Policy
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I hope the opioid crisis and politics around Fentanyl do not impose more suffering on those who genuinely need pain management.
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I hope the opioid crisis and politics around Fentanyl do not impose more suffering on those who genuinely need pain management.
Fentanyl Appearing for Pain, Pills, and Policy
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December 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Fentanyl Appearing for Pain, Pills, and Policy
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I hope the opioid crisis and politics around Fentanyl do not impose more suffering on those who genuinely need pain management.
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I hope the opioid crisis and politics around Fentanyl do not impose more suffering on those who genuinely need pain management.
Insomnia, Libraries, and Loose Ends
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Breaking away for annual leave is so very hard to do when you have mandatory training obligations to fulfil.
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Breaking away for annual leave is so very hard to do when you have mandatory training obligations to fulfil.
Insomnia, Libraries, and Loose Ends
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December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Insomnia, Libraries, and Loose Ends
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Breaking away for annual leave is so very hard to do when you have mandatory training obligations to fulfil.
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Breaking away for annual leave is so very hard to do when you have mandatory training obligations to fulfil.
Strength to Endure: A Year of Recovery, Work, and Gratitude
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
Strength to Endure: A Year of Recovery, Work, and Gratitude
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December 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Strength to Endure: A Year of Recovery, Work, and Gratitude
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
When Technical Debate Meets Workplace Dysfunction
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
When Technical Debate Meets Workplace Dysfunction
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December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
When Technical Debate Meets Workplace Dysfunction
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
Essential Snobbery 101: Revisiting discretion and how we share
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
Essential Snobbery 101: Revisiting discretion and how we share
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December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Essential Snobbery 101: Revisiting discretion and how we share
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
Thought Picnic: Are We Protecting Them or Ourselves?
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
Thought Picnic: Are We Protecting Them or Ourselves?
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December 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Thought Picnic: Are We Protecting Them or Ourselves?
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
To be bedecked in Yoruba attire
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
To be bedecked in Yoruba attire
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December 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To be bedecked in Yoruba attire
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
Blessed and fortunate is who I am
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
Blessed and fortunate is who I am
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December 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blessed and fortunate is who I am
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
Thought Picnic: Getting inspiration from within
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
Thought Picnic: Getting inspiration from within
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December 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Thought Picnic: Getting inspiration from within
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
Living the breeze of Cape Town
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
Living the breeze of Cape Town
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December 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Living the breeze of Cape Town
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
The prescient December clues
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
The prescient December clues
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December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The prescient December clues
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
Mastering the interest in interesting
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
Mastering the interest in interesting
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December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Mastering the interest in interesting
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
Twenty-Two years of blogging
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
Twenty-Two years of blogging
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December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Twenty-Two years of blogging
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
How I do religion
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
How I do religion
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December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
How I do religion
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.