James Mwangi 🇰🇪

Silence is a true friend who never betrays

[waikwa @waikwawanyoike]

We do not celebrate the Maina Kiai's decision - that established that "results at the polling station are final" - enough.

[Abu Iman @Mr_Guantai]

I had to scrub two chapters of my work where I clearly argued that there is no possibility of reforming the police FORCE as it is today. It is a chronically broken institution that cannot be mended. To truly fix things, we have to start from scratch.

[Muthoni wa Muthomo @GlitteringAnge]

June 25th will eventually be made into a public holiday.
It is our Saba Saba.
It's a day that will never be forgotten. Imagine telling your kids that you were being paid to minimise it

[Aleckie Ronald @SirAlexas]

If you saw events of what happened 2 years ago but still somehow went on to fuck with this government, Mbwa wewe....

[Abu Iman @Mr_Guantai]

Also on this 25th June, we refuse to forget the role that Safaricom played in the abductions and eventual deaths of our friends. One day, you too will be held to account. We also refuse to forget those who fake abducted themselves and those who hosted the butcher on Spaces.

[The Boy @gufydox]

Sasa sema bila kutoa bubbles is something crazy to tell a dictator president. We thank the promulgated 2010 constitution 👌🏾

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

The amount of respect you command is a direct byproduct of how high functioning you are, for high stress tolerance commands respect where low stress tolerance undermines it.

In simple terms: if you can outwardly handle stress with greater composure than others, you will naturally command more respect than they do. Respect thus accrues not as a conscious decision, but as an instinctive response to your conduct.

People will subconsciously evaluate your competence, placing you into one of two categories: asset or liability. If you are consistently steady under pressure and difficult to unsettle, you are deemed an operational asset, but if you collapse emotionally, offend easily, or routinely punish others for telling hard or sensitive truths, you will flag as a liability.

Respect and authority flows to those who are deemed assets. Would you want a leader with poor stress tolerance who is prone to outbursts, collapse or destabilisation? Of course not. That would unsettle you. You would prefer someone who remains poised under pressure, because you would feel safer with someone with an exceptional capacity to metabolise stress even beyond what is objectively healthy or humane. Leadership as such gravitates to those who are able to bear more than their fair share of stress, not to those who impose their emotional turbulence on to others the very moment they are subjected to it.

You seek someone unnaturally strong, who is capable of carrying not just their own burdens, but likewise yours. But you are neither unique or alone in holding that preference, for it is the underlying mechanism which determines how people intuitively designate leaders. To desire authority over others whilst being a source of emotional turbulence is thus not just naive, but incredibly immature. Authority necessarily then gravitates to those who serve the most stabilising function, because when it is given to the incapable, it results in dysfunction and tyranny.

High functioning individuals inspire trust, because they manage destabilising, urgent, or sensitive information without unravelling. Low functioning individuals erode trust, because they amplify chaos, crumble under pressure, and turn urgent or sensitive matters into liabilities, thereby imposing burdens which others are forced to carry in their place.

This is why if you want a relationship built on full and clear mutual transparency, you must be able to bear the costs of what you ask for. Both sides must be capable of absorbing shocks, disappointments, conflicts, and unpleasant truths without collapsing into hysteria or destructive anarchy. Respect simply is not owed, but earned. You are not entitled to what you have not proven you can endure, for it is the weight you are unable to carry that will define the limits of what others can trust you with.

[Adams 🇦🇷🇦🇷 @_adamseey]

Kikuyu choir be like " mwathani wakwa jakaniria tawa nyumitwo thutha ni nduma nene" lmao

Ndukiinuke tene wamaitha.

[Marcus Olang' @marcusolang]

They're carrying batons so that they can beat the site of the fire, to teach other possible fires a lesson against having an unlawful assembly.

[B @ngwata_]

Auntie is really transitioning KDF into the modern age; diversified to Ubers, Workshops, Planting Trees, Golf and Hearses.
Splendid stewardship indeed.

[Kimemia 🎹🌊 @its_kimemia]

this is what Wangari Maathai fought for

[June 25th @Jasiri_Sierra]

We are mad.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

You don’t love anybody you’re not willing to be hated by, because to love them properly is to tell them things they will not like or immediately appreciate, but will genuinely benefit from hearing. The lag between your insight, and their realisation of your rightness is the tax you pay in loss of favour, ingratitude and increased tension until you realign.

So when a person says "give me the brutal truth, I don't want you to sugarcoat anything"

They are, actually, in a very non-obvious way, asking you to love them. Because they want you to care enough for them to give them precisely what they need, whilst risking contempt and a loss of favour.

They are asking you to make a bet on them, and take a risk - that they can handle what you say, and won't punish you or otherwise become your enemy for having done so - for having told them things that may be genuinely upsetting for them, or destabilising to them. And that even if they can't handle it and will react poorly, that they are worth taking that level of abuse from simply to convey to them intimate truths they really need to hear.

They are, essentially, asking you to put their self-interest above your own sociopolitical gain. And why would you do that for someone you don't at least, on one level or another, have some love for? Why would they and their mess be worth the risk and the effort and bother for you? Why not just tell them what they want to hear, so you can get what you want from them without dealing with the hassle of them?

Precisely.

They want you to love them. To indulge them is to do so.

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

Walitoka Nairobi wakaenda mpaka Kisumu. Wakapata mtu na family yake. Wakamweka kwa gari wakaenda kumuua kwa cell Nairobi alafu wakajaribu ku dump mwili hospitali usiku wakisema aligongesha kichwa kwa ukuta ya cell. Murderers. Ndio maana niko kadi.

[Ademba Allans @Ademba_47]

Thank you to all those who showed up.

Thanks to those who provided food and water.

Most importantly thanks to 641 people who turned up today to register.

Hi kitu haitaki planning mingi, we simply want to register as voters.

Data na wifi for online mobilisation is enough.

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

Sugoi appointments be like, "Wacheni wakora wote waje kwangu. Kwa maana ufalme wa wizi ni wao."

[Dr. C @chao_mbogho]

We are witnessing levels of greed that would put the other six deadly sins to shame.

[Dr. Ho Yinsen @kinjeketile]

Hata elites hawasamehewi. Very nice.
Wimbo wa Wantam lazima upate msukumo zaidi ndio tuweze kupata matokeo chanya.

[Dr. C @chao_mbogho]

From all these official statements , the position about the floods is 'be careful out there'.

Because Kenyans went out of their way to scavenge for floods and disturb it in its natural habitat.