Chep_ Kutto

Loves cute pastries, tea and trees, flowers, sunrises, sunsets, moon and stars.

[ຸ @fvckfemi_]

dw, i promise i'll disappear from your life soon. just let me gather the strength to leave quietly

[cruelty+ ♅ @portal222heaven]

went back to a girls apartment after a date and her roommate was smoking weed and watching bluey when we walked in

[Nomasiko🇸🇩🇨🇩🇵🇸노마시코 S/her @Nomaculture]

Thia is so brilliant!
What a concept man!!!🥹🥹

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.

[໊ @wynavira]

what substance do i have to abuse for this unbearable feeling of yearning and limerence to finally go away

[Raw @R4wf0ru]

if ppl can smoke knowing it destroys their lungs. what’s wrong w loving someone knowing there’s no chance

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Ndeeleh❤ @sleendeel]

I hate the concept of “we experience people different” coz what have I done for you to be horrible to me but kind to the next person??😭

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

let it hurt. let it end. let it change.

[𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔬 💋 @bgftjcypsy]

all these events have made me realize i'm not a real music listener bc people will be like " OMG!!!! two eggs in a basket are coming to Kenya " and i'm just like who tf are those 😭😭😭

[sarah @heavenbrat]

idk girl sometimes you need to crash out and be a bitch so you dont get an auto immune disease

[Asa @xAsamoahx]

I hate being around people who mistake my childlike wonder as naivety or weakness. I am simply a war general who loves to giggle.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A mosquito can smell the air you breathe out from 50 meters away, about half a football field. Your house is screaming "human" to every fly and mosquito in range, and they evolved to come find you. To a butterfly, the same house is silent.

Flies and mosquitoes evolved to follow us around. The common housefly spread across the planet from the Middle East by trailing our garbage and farm animals. Nine out of every ten flies you see indoors are this one species. Mosquitoes lock onto the carbon dioxide in your breath. A 2015 Caltech study mapped the mechanism in detail. Your body heat, your sweat, your shower steam, your trash, all of it is what these insects evolved to track down.

Butterflies went the opposite direction. They evolved to find flowers, with smell receptors tuned to flower chemistry. A kitchen full of frying bacon doesn't even register. They drink nectar through a long coiled straw called a proboscis, built for flowers and not much else you'd find in your house.

The navigation problem is bigger. Most butterflies fly only during daylight hours, steering by the position of the sun. Monarchs have a tiny brain region that tracks the sun across the sky like a built-in GPS. Inside a house, the sun disappears. Indoor lighting gives them nothing to navigate by. The compass just breaks. Any butterfly that drifts indoors loses its bearings within seconds, which is why one trapped in a sunroom bashes against the windows for hours.

Butterflies can't generate their own body heat. They are basically little solar panels, needing direct sunlight to warm their flight muscles to around 86 degrees Fahrenheit before takeoff. Most rooms never get that warm, which is why a butterfly indoors can barely fly.

And there is nothing in your house for a butterfly to do. They only lay eggs on very specific plants, like milkweed for monarchs or thistle for painted ladies. Your couch is neither, so even a butterfly that loved your living room couldn't reproduce there.

About 18,000 butterfly species share these traits. Houseflies, by contrast, are one of the most successful animal partners humans have ever had, even though nobody asked for them.

The joke is right, just for the wrong reason. Butterflies skip your house because nothing in it looks like a flower in open sunshine.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Does anyone else get sad and confused when trees get chopped down in residential areas that literally aren’t bothering anyone?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Located mainly in Tajikistan, the Pamir Plateau is known as the "Roof of the World."

It looks like something straight out of Inception

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I swear the air gets heavier around 6pm on Sundays. You can feel the Microsoft Teams energy approaching.

[Aviation @xAviation]

A Boeing 747 pilot captures an early morning Boeing 787 Dreamliner leaving contrails as it crosses 1,000 feet below.
📹: loub747

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

TIME IS NOT TREATED THE SAME EVERYWHERE:

1. Germany: Being late is disrespectful. Meetings start to the second. Punctuality here is not a habit. It is a moral standard.

2. Brazil: An invitation for seven means nine. Relationships matter more than schedules. Rigidity kills the atmosphere.

3. Japan: Trains run to the minute. A sixty second delay comes with a formal public apology. Time is a system. The system is everything.

4. India: Events begin when people arrive. The gathering defines the time. Presence matters more than precision.

5. Polynesian cultures: Time was tied to stars, seasons, and the ocean. Circular, not linear. The clock came later and from somewhere else.

6. United States: Time is money. Literally. Every hour is billable. Every minute is scheduled. Rest has to earn its place.

7. Spain: Lunch at three. Dinner at ten. The day bends around the person. Not the other way around.

8. Ethiopia: A different calendar entirely. Thirteen months. New Year in September. A different year than the rest of the world. Time here is a cultural choice, not a global agreement.

9. France: August belongs to rest. Emails go unanswered. Shops close. Nobody apologizes for this. Leisure is a right, not a reward.

10. Kenya: The clock starts at sunrise. Six in the morning is hour zero. Noon is hour six. Time is built around light, not an arbitrary number on a wall.

11. China: One time zone for the entire country. A landmass that should span five. In the far west the sun rises at ten in the morning. Unity was chosen over accuracy.

12.Australia: Aboriginal communities have always read time through seasons, animal movements, and the stars above. For over sixty thousand years the land itself served as the calendar. No clock was ever needed. Nature told them everything.

13. Mexico: Mañana means not right now. Urgency is often self-imposed. The present moment has its own demands and they are considered legitimate.

14. Greece: A guest arrives at any hour. You welcome them fully. The clock adjusts to the person. The person never adjusts to the clock.

15. Scandinavia: Months of darkness then months of endless light. The body follows seasons, not schedules. This is ancient. Science is only now catching up.

16. Nigeria: Start times are a suggestion. What matters is that everyone arrives, connects, and the evening becomes what it was meant to be. The experience always outranks the schedule.

17. Indonesia: Jam karet. Rubber time. Time stretches around mood, traffic, and social obligation. Rigidity is considered uncomfortable, not professional.

18. Russia: Eleven time zones. Vast winters. Long silences. Time here is treated with patience that outsiders often mistake for slowness.

19. Egypt: One of the first civilizations to invent a calendar. Yet modern Egyptian social time is deeply flexible. Hospitality always comes before the clock.

20. Congo: Community shapes the day more than any schedule. Time belongs to the people in the room, not the hands on the clock.

21. Philippines: Filipino time is a known and accepted reality. Six in the evening means seven or eight. Arriving before the host is ready is the real social mistake.

22. Vietnam: Built on endurance and long horizons. Planning here thinks in years and generations. Short deadlines feel foreign to a culture that measured time in struggles spanning decades.

23. Tanzania: Pole pole. Slowly slowly. A phrase that governs daily life. Rushing is not a virtue here. Moving with intention is.

24. Argentina: Dinner at ten. Parties at midnight. The night is its own world. Compressing it into earlier hours would make it something lesser.

25. Turkey: A meeting can become a meal can become a long evening. Nobody considers this a deviation. It is simply what time is for.

26. Iran: Its own solar calendar. New Year on the spring equinox. Time tied to nature, poetry, and a civilization so old that modern urgency feels like a passing trend.

[Dr. Eng. John Mativo CP³P @MativoMJohn]

The meteor shower caused by debris from Halley’s Comet—called the Eta Aquariids meteor shower will be visible on the night of May 5 -> 6.

Best viewing tips (Nairobi & surroundings)
3:00 – 4:30 AM (BEST WINDOW)
🟢 Peak viewing begins
Expect: ~10–30 meteors/hour realistically

🌅 4:30 – 5:30 AM (ABSOLUTE PEAK)
🟢🔥 Maximum activity
Radiant highest before sunrise
👉 Best chance to see the brightest meteors

🌄 After 5:45–6:15 AM
❌ Rapid drop-off due to daylight
Sky too bright

📍 Direction to look (from Nairobi)
Face east → northeast before dawn

[Chep_ Kutto @Its_Chepkemoi]

The moon looks so pretty 😍.