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[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Tatsuro Kiuchi - "The Woman in the Black Dress" (2025)

[sedanodifango @234dico]

@zayallcaps No makeup is so good wym???

[Ian Umeh @ianumeh_]

I became a library and people filled me with their untold stories (UNHEARD)
#ianumeh

[Jontanium-bluesky (Adopts and comms available) @Jontanium]

I thought they were grilling up bobby hill

[sbm @latinapolpot]

Nothing u can rly say about shit like this other than knock it off man

[Chichi @chibzyyyy]

You cannot out-hustle a failed government.

You cannot out-pray a failed government.

[sedanodifango @234dico]

@chelssufferer Almost tore a knee ligament trying to sell it lmao

[nnn @nnnfact]

@ojuuaoo

[maneesha @ManeeshaSem]

yes. and there’s also a correlation between survival mode and not wanting to dress well, adorn yourself, do self care, do your hair, nourish yourself. you just don’t have energy to care about beauty and sensuality because your nervous system is busy keeping you safe.

[Casper @CasperOnChain]

Thierry Henry reveals Messi's free kicks used to hit the wall every single day in training

"I saw the beginning of the free kicks. I used to come in training, I think it was my second year, and the free kicks were not great at the beginning. So I'm like, I don't think that's something you will ever master"

"But my point is, repetition is key even for the best. There is a gift, yes, but you have to work it"

"This guy was coming taking free kicks hitting the wall day after and then the day after, and then now more often than not his free kicks are a goal or hit the crossbar or the post"

[F2P @Flair2Play]

I need Messi to fuck around for just one game before his retirement and pull all the step-overs, elastico, and flicks imaginable. Please man, just one game and idc if you mess them up.

[chief sọm @chisomholic]

But bro, why's it so difficult for y'all to leave people alone? Is it a do or die affair? 🤷‍♀️

[ヤ @MatekoBenzaX]

When they google it and you are wrong

[Danielic 🇭🇷 @General_D__]

God wey deliver westeros from Bola Aemond Tinubu go remember us for Nigeria. iyayitipoju

[Oxóssi 🏹🌿 @LordOxossi]

“Who he really is”

[sedanodifango @234dico]

@its_hipolita 😂😂😂

[Chisom Agbafor @ChisomAgbafor]

One thing poverty stole from a lot of people is the ability to make mistakes.

Every decision has to work.

[Yewande @LionessAtEase]

My mum owns a primary and secondary school somewhere in Akeja, Ogun Sate. There is this man, Papilo, a supplier who handles FMCG products in that area. He comes Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Sundays are for my mum and other school owners stocking up for students during break.
He is not the only one. They are everywhere like that.

One thing I know is that most of these sellers don’t pay him immediately, They pay on the next supply day or after a week. Sometimes it stretches to 3 supplies before payment clears.

I've watched him argue back and forth with customers who say no money yet. He still gives them all or little. I've seen this for over 15 years growing up. This is the practice across every informal market in Nigeria. This is Africa’s informal supply chain.

Papilo knows all his customers. He knows their children’s names. He argues, negotiates, and finds a middle ground. No App or AI can replicate this.
Papilo now runs plenty of small kekes distributed all over Akeja and beyond.

In African businesses, relationships aren’t just nice-to-haves. They are part of the infrastructure. And this is where the majority of our builders get it wrong.

A techie once went to get bread at a store and stumbles on a sole distributor supplying them wines. He thinks “so this is how these get their stocks” he goes home to google the numbers and sees millions of retailers, no central database, orders on phone call, cash payments, manual records. He sees the classic Manufacturer → Distributor → Wholesaler → Retailer chain and he goes “yes! This is a gap. This is untapped. I can build this on an app”.
Actually, he is right. But here is what he missed;

The supplier extends credit
The wholesaler knows who always pays at each time.
The sales rep knows whose child just got admitted into university.
The delivery driver knows which shop opens late or earlier
None of this can fit in an app database because they are the everyday circumstantial reality of Nigerian business owners. Your app can’t document this.

A retailer doesn’t always buy from who is cheaper. She buys from who’s delivered consistently for years. The one who lets her pay next week. The one who picks up the phone immediately there is a problem.

See your app can calculate credit just fine. But the distributor knows Mama Olomi missed payment because her shop flooded last week. That context is the business in this part of the world.

You will think funding fixes this but marketForce had $42M and still died. Sendy had $27M, Medsaf had $7M.

Your investors will push you to the usual playbook; free delivery, discounts, cashback, promotions, etc and growth will look incredible at first but the moment the subsidies disappear, you will start to compete with relationships using economics alone.

Then you’d realize your capital didn't buy survival, it brought speed to a broken model. Somebody say Reality!

Now let’s look at the ones who didn’t die. They simply mutated.
Sabi moved into traceability/export infra. OmniRetail leaned into embedded finance.
Sendy’s co-founder built TABB on trade credit data.

Rather than say we’re replacing distributors, they became the operating system behind the distributors helping them;
📍 Manage inventory
📍 Collect payment
📍 Access financing
📍 Discover retailers
📍 Forecast demand
📍 Coordinate logistics

This is the lesson for anyone building in African informal market.

Don’t ask How do i remove the middleman

Ask, what valuable job is the middleman doing that technology can make easier?

Don’t compete with the market woman, equip her. Build the layer she can’t build herself (credit history, verified supply chains, payment infrastructure, etc).

This is because Africa’s distribution problem was never about apps vs humans. It’s about who controls the trust layer. Build that, not the marketplace.

@blocstreets

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

you suffocate when you consume more than you create. your chest tightens when you see muses because your own expression is waiting. daily expression keeps you from idolizing others too much

[Rasheed @shankorashidi]

You're not young, you can't know what works better for us.

We've seen your generation's "I know better" ideas before and how braindead they usually are.