Maestro

Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

Reason’s the only currency here. Trade yours, if you’ve got it. 📚

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble 🧙‍♀️

This turbulent cauldron of star formation, N159, resides about 161,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting our Milky Way.

https://t.co/qJTDi5noN0

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

That's CAF's World Giving Report, built from an online poll of about a thousand people per country. It counts charities, religious causes and strangers in need. Money to your own friends and family is left out on purpose.

For a Kenyan that skips the obvious stuff. A cousin's school fees, an uncle's hospital bill, a relative's burial harambee. None of it is in the 2.13%.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Locals on Corvo in the Azores are protecting Cory's shearwaters from disorientating light pollution. Photographer Andrea Zanenga learned how the remote community rescues and releases young birds https://t.co/vUfR9b83iB

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

Why would they do anything else? Uganda paid 16.9% on 20-year paper at the 7 October auction, with inflation at 4.6%. About 12 points real from the government.

Try pitching a fund manager an SME deal against that. Until the state borrows less at home, new money keeps flowing into bonds.

[BusinessDayNG @BusinessDayNg]

Shares of Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) rose nearly 19 percent in two trading sessions on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, adding KSh30.71 billion to its market value after Aliko Dangote confirmed his acquisition of a 24.76 per cent stake in the company...

https://t.co/WCgH0Hsoz6

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

Aldrich's bill died. Democrats put opposing it in their 1912 platform, ended up holding the White House and both houses, and the 1913 Act came out of Glass and Owen.

Fair to say a lot of the technical design survived from Jekyll. But Aldrich let the banks pick part of the top board. Wilson insisted on a board named by the President and confirmed by the Senate, none of it chosen by banks, and the Aldrich camp fought that bill hard.

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

They dug one the moment it mattered. Pyrrhus showed up outside Sparta in 272 BC and they trenched the approach overnight, with the women and old men digging a third of it.

Aristotle had already counted under a thousand citizens decades before that. Not much of a wall of men left by then.

[Sci Nature News @SciNatureNews]

The surface of the Sun seen in unprecedented detail!

[NASA @NASA]

We are not slowing down. 🚀

Our Artemis III mission will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit next year to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings https://t.co/G5CkHbQhFR and we’re accelerating efforts to ensure the success of Artemis IV, the first Artemis mission on the lunar surface https://t.co/zEDKEcLpXY.

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

@abuga_makori Credit for the speed. KDF had it up in just over 100 days for about Sh900 million, roughly Sh90,000 a seat.

What matters now is a fixture list. KDF is supervising 20-odd more county stadiums, and each needs matches most weekends or it's a Madaraka Day venue that sits empty.

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

That Ethiopia figure is pre-float. After the birr was let go in 2024, the IMF has Ethiopia at about $126 billion for 2025, behind Kenya at $136 billion. Kenya is seventh and Ethiopia drops off this list.

Mind you, Ethiopia grew 9.2% in real terms last year to Kenya's 4.6%. Kenya won this one on the exchange rate.

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

@ConstantCap @MihrThakar Eastleigh is where that attitude ends up. City Hall never approved the plans and NEMA never issued an EIA licence, yet work ran from June 2025 until the day it came down.

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

Sandra Kimokoti: From Sh12,000 pay to Nairobi City Thunder juggernaut https://t.co/moAzizefdk

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

1G fell over its last clause. Parliament told IEBC to livestream polling-station results, then said the stream was for public information only and could never be the basis of a declaration. Mwita's point in 2018 was that one process can't produce two results, and the Court of Appeal kept that in October 2023.

The courts threw out a stream that doesn't count. Putting it back without that clause is a one-line amendment.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

An experiment has produced nanoflares similar to those seen on the sun, and shown that they can help explain why the outer layers of the solar atmosphere are so hot https://t.co/QzkFG3lh2X

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

@MwangoCapital @Safaricom_Care @SafaricomPLC @DangoteGroup Kenyans are paying about 4% over the Lagos price for a slice of Dangote's refinery, custody fee on top.

Ours at Changamwe hasn't refined a drop since September 2013. It's a fuel storage depot now.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The beautiful planet Saturn taken by James Webb Telescope 🔭

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

How did a man with Ebola travel from DR Congo through Uganda to Kenya undiagnosed and could screening gaps put East Africa at risk?
Kenya has confirmed nine cases linked to him. A doctors’ union warns of understaffed border crossings.

https://t.co/yFBmUjDIh7

[Maestro @MaestroAxiom]

@KTNNewsKE NCA registered this project on 30 July 2025. Its own checklist wants approved architectural and structural drawings and county permits before it registers anything, and City Hall says it rejected these plans in November 2024.

So what approval did NCA accept?

[Hubble @NASAHubble]

Even galaxies need to vent.

Because of a prior gravitational interaction with a neighboring galaxy, M82 undergoes super intense star formation.

This image shows its "exhaust system" in action, regulating the galaxy's growth by venting gas outwards. ⬇️