Hempstone Maroria

Provider. Protector. Problem Solver. An Eagle, I fly with my kind. 🦅

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: The six nominees for the Men's PFA Players' Player of the Year have been revealed 🚨

The nominees include: Rayan Cherki, Bruno Fernandes, Erling Haaland, David Raya, Gabriel, and Declan Rice 🏆

[Jaber is Jaber @NimuKiarie]

@tucheze_com are sponsoring the final watch party at BND Kiambu Road this Sunday ⚽🔥
It’s gonna be fun, so pull up guys and let’s enjoy the games together 🙌🏽

[African @ali_naka]

Meanwhile Trump is in China to beg for access to Chinese Markets! These are some of the members of his delegation

– Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
– Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
– Tim Cook, Apple CEO
– Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO
– Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO
– Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO
– Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO
– Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO
– Larry Culp, General Electric CEO
– David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO
– Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO
– Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO

China is a Super Power

[Julians Amboko @AmbokoJH]

On the Dangote led Refinery in East Africa:

· Location will be determined following research being undertaken by Dangote. Mombasa, Lamu or Tanga are lead contenders

· Project expected to cost anything between US$16.0 billion & US$20.0 billion

· Kenya's newly set up National Infrastructure Fund will co-invest in the refinery, deployment not disclosed

· The National Infrastructure Fund currently has US$1.0 billion (Kenya Pipeline proceeds). In another two or so months, ~ US$2.0 billion is expected (Safaricom Plc partial divestiture proceeds)

· GOK believes that with ~ US$3.0 billion worth of seed capital, it can build the fund to ~ US$30.0 billion (10:1) crowd in factor

· National Infrastructure Fund to invest 20.0% (~ US$300.0 Million) in the planned new Nairobi Airport

[Hempstone Maroria @OneMaroria]

🙏🙏🙏

[Eric Jackson @Jayriq]

This weekend was a literal dream come true!

3 years ago, we set out on a mission to prove one thing: Women’s football in Kenya can be professional & commercial.

Huge shoutout to Pwani Oil Products and the Ushindi brand for seeing the @KayoleStarlets vision and believing in our "crazy dream."

But this is just the kickoff, stay tuned for what’s next! 🚀

[Hempstone Maroria @OneMaroria]

You know it’s bad when you play a video of the president in public and people start laughing before he even says 5 words 😅

That’s not just jokes… that’s a shift in public mood

#KOT

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING:

🇺🇸 Historic protests against Trump across the United States

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

8 million Americans demonstrated against Trump today. The biggest demonstration in US history.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Optimus

[Hempstone Maroria @OneMaroria]

Classic

[Pearl🫧 @Pearlwontmiss]

I mean how?🤯

[Hempstone Maroria @OneMaroria]

Wild night

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇷 Iran just hit 9 countries in a single night, including 7 of the wealthiest nations on earth

This was Tehran's answer to Israel striking the South Pars gas field, the world's largest, earlier today.

The most intense retaliatory barrage of the entire war, and Iran is now the only country on the planet simultaneously attacking seven of the richest nations by GDP per capita:

🇮🇱 Israel: Ballistic missiles and cluster munitions over central Israel. Two killed in Ramat Gan. Four Palestinian women killed in the West Bank by an Iranian missile.

🇶🇦 Qatar ($110K GDP per capita): 14 ballistic missiles fired. Ras Laffan LNG hub suffered "extensive damage" confirmed by QatarEnergy.

🇦🇪 UAE ($100K): 13 ballistic missiles and 27 attack drones intercepted. Iran threatening imminent strikes on energy facilities.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia ($35K): Evacuation orders issued for Samref Refinery and Jubail Petrochemical Complex. Waves of missiles intercepted over Riyadh.

🇰🇼 Kuwait ($75K): Ballistic missiles intercepted. U.S. facilities targeted again.

🇧🇭 Bahrain ($65K): U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters under continued assault throughout the war.

🇴🇲 Oman ($32K): Drone strikes on industrial zones. Workers killed. The last neutral Gulf state is now taking fire.

🇯🇴 Jordan: U.S. bases struck as part of the widening multi-front campaign.

🇮🇶 Iraq: U.S. Embassy in Baghdad under nightly drone siege.

Combined GDP per capita of the Gulf states under attack: over $417,000.

These are some of the most prosperous, developed nations on earth, and Iran is hitting all of them simultaneously while its own economy collapses.

This is Operation Madman at full throttle: torch the region's wealth until the world demands the war stops.

Source: @rami_hashimi / Reuters / @itswpceo

[Hempstone Maroria @OneMaroria]

Mnasema Love is for poor people 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[PreacherKid 🇰🇪🇬🇧 @ItsGregy_]

Politicians don't marry randomly; they marry strategically. Look at the late Johana Ng'eno, married from the influential Ole Ntutu family, he cemented a bridge between the Kalenjin and Maasai political elites. It’s never just about love, it’s about consolidating influence.

[PreacherKid 🇰🇪🇬🇧 @ItsGregy_]

Politicians don't marry randomly; they marry strategically. Look at the late Johana Ng'eno, married from the influential Ole Ntutu family, he cemented a bridge between the Kalenjin and Maasai political elites. It’s never just about love, it’s about consolidating influence.

[Okara @askOkara]

1/ AI has made building products easier than ever.

With tools like Cursor and Claude Code, teams can go from idea to product in weeks.

But one thing didn't get easier: Distribution.

[Emirates Support @EmiratesSupport]

All flights to and from Dubai have been temporarily suspended.

Please do not go to the airport.

Emirates will share updates when available. We would like to thank our customers for their understanding and patience.

The safety of our passengers and crew is our highest priority and will not be compromised.

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

TRAFFIC POLICE TRAINING IN OTHER COUNTRIES VS BACK HOME 😂😂😂

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to an Iraqi port official, two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi fuel oil were attacked within the territorial waters of Iraq within the last hour, causing both to catch fire in the Persian Gulf. A total of 25 crewmembers onboard the vessels have been evacuated so far by authorities in Iraq.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Iran just struck Microsoft data centers in the Gulf. Not Amazon. Not a generic cloud provider. Microsoft — whose Azure platform runs the operational backbone of NATO, the US Department of Defense, and every major Western financial institution that has expanded into the Gulf over the last five years.

This is categorically different from the AWS strikes earlier in the war.

Microsoft Azure is not simply a commercial cloud product. It is a defense-grade infrastructure platform operating under FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5 and 6 authorizations, the highest security classifications available to a commercial provider. Azure GovCloud runs classified US government workloads. Azure for Operators runs 5G military communications infrastructure. The Gulf Azure availability zones, built under billions of dollars of sovereign cloud commitments to UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, sit at the intersection of commercial enterprise and military-adjacent operations in a way no other cloud platform does. When Iran fires missiles at Microsoft data centers in the Gulf, it is not attacking a commercial storage facility. It is attacking the digital connective tissue between American defense architecture and Gulf sovereign AI ambitions.

The mechanism Iran is applying across every domain of this war is now operating at the infrastructure layer of the global digital economy. Hormuz for maritime insurance. BAPCO and Ras Tanura for oil infrastructure insurance. Manama hotels for corporate presence insurance. AWS for basic cloud insurability. Microsoft for the tier of cloud infrastructure that carries defense-adjacent and government workloads. Each successive target has moved one layer deeper into the critical infrastructure stack.

Microsoft has not yet confirmed the extent of damage or the impact on service continuity. That silence is itself data. When AWS facilities were struck earlier in the war, the company posted status updates within hours. The Microsoft situation is being handled with a different communication posture, which is consistent with facilities that carry sovereign and defense-adjacent contractual obligations that restrict what can be publicly disclosed about operational status.

The Gulf was supposed to be the proving ground for the sovereign AI thesis. Every major hyperscaler made the bet simultaneously: Gulf governments want their data onshore, under their own regulatory frameworks, close to their own populations, contributing to their own AI capability development. Microsoft, Google, AWS, Oracle, all committed multi-billion dollar buildouts to that thesis in the last three years. The thesis assumed physical security. The thesis assumed the Gulf was a stable operating environment for long-term digital infrastructure. That assumption was always geopolitically contingent. It is now empirically falsified.

Every CTO and every procurement officer running a sovereign cloud negotiation anywhere in the world is looking at the Microsoft strike footage right now and running the same calculation: if the Gulf is a ballistic missile target range, where does the sovereign AI buildout go instead?

Iran cannot win this war militarily. But it is methodically repricing every assumption the American-aligned economic order made about the Gulf as a safe jurisdiction for permanent infrastructure.

The missiles hitting Microsoft data centers today are not attacking cloud storage. They are attacking the confidence interval on a decade of digital infrastructure investment.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8