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this account is a public journal.

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

I recently learnt that when we lack the vocabulary to frame how we truly feel, we subconsciously use words that unconsciously reveal our true selves. Language is a window into people’s internal state.

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

you're not stuck, you just need to go around the barrier

[Anibijuwon @PeeGeeMax]

This mentality of ise kekere owo nla must die if Nigeria is to get better.
Everybody wants to make it big off just one deal and that deal must be their very first.
By 6.30 this morning all Petrol stations in Ilorin had adjusted their meter to 1230 and 1235 from 1135 yesterday. Yet, when prices dropped last week, they were apparently not informed.
The Nigeria we have is because of the Nigerians we are.

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

not me tho. entered the gym primarily because my legs were unhealthily skinny, and i needed my thighs thick and full. plus leg day is the best day ever.

[0nly1_Vic @Victor_Ude19]

Gym newbies are often obsessed with building their chest.😅

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Periodic reminder that I'm not enlightened, I make no claim to it, I don't believe in a permanent state of any of the 60-odd versions of it that exist in people's minds, and it's not my spiritual telos.

I believe in a constant, ongoing process of understanding and integration that is never finished. This is one way in which I am not a proper Buddhist, but simply a contemplative and mystic who was found good friends in that religion and great wisdom in the Dharmas of the entire Indian subcontinent.

I believe in a kind of God that is beyond any human ability to cognize and that is constituted in some mystical way by this world itself.

What I help people with, via counseling and through Nameless Mountain, is ego strength, integrity and closeness to reality. I am as much a Western psychologist as an Eastern practitioner. I don't think reckless psychonaut activity, or treating everything in existence as provisional or meaningless, is wise or healthy.

I was a radical liberal in my youth, I have not changed my views, and I am now considered "disturbingly" conservative by the young and by my unprincipled peers who have simply let themselves be tossed about on the waves of history.

I once mistakenly believed I had attained enlightenment and life quickly kicked my ass for it. It was horrible, humbling and, now, is hilarious.

If you have any questions, I'm an open book.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Breathing deeply isn't supposed to solve all of our problems (& isn't even always the thing to do when we're struggly). But we do have to communicate to our nervous system that we're not drowning or suffocating-- that oxygen is available & we get to tap as much of it as needed.

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

it's rare for someone to get this much clarity

[aether @bluewdrift]

In order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. Not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. You cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you've created.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

If you want a calm life, protect the ordinary things. Like sleep. Meals. Walks. Rest. Solitude. Who you let close. It all adds up.

[Nehemiah Danjuma @nehemiahdan19]

July 2014 July 2026
JSS3 Mama Lawyer

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

hi. trying to send a dm but i can’t. do you still have the oraimo freepods for sale? i am interested in getting it.

[David Deco @davidmobilenews]

@RasheedatGee Yes , they are it depends on your budget
But these 2 I update is 29k for each of them

[Ada mbano⬜ ❤️ A Realist @Jacynthaekeh3]

Even if it takes two centuries
I will always cut okra with my hands

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

@davidmobilenews hi, do you still have these for sale?

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

@iTsYB_ america, after all, is truly the greatest nation. i only read the republic when my friend posts. checked out the continent, i like this one more. currently looking through some posts i find interesting.

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

@Substack, if paying a tiny fee to read one article is too much, then at the very least, offer dynamic pricing. not all of your users live in america! democratise knowledge! save the world! please!

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

substack business model no really favour africans. they have really good articles locked behind paywalls 😭

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

@iTsYB_ @Substack thank you for the detailed explanation. never really thought about it like this. i guess we are too poor for all that stress 😩 (olodo uprising will be here a long time 😅)

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

i believed this nonsense not too long ago

[Дофаминовый тип @na_creatine]

А я еще раз повторяю. От жима лежа грудные не вырастут. Ну да если жать 200 то как то вырастут, но вместе с ними и все остальное включая пузо. Горизонтальный жим это упражнение пауэрлифтеров. Буквально худшее упражнение для гипертрофии грудных.

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

@iTsYB_ @Substack forgive my ignorance, but is there no possibility for substack to build and manage dynamic and one-time payments on their end, and to offer it as an option in the settings for each publication?

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

https://t.co/YTpvLii7UC

[Na me biko @SIREradical]

@TorontoLinda, please do something. convince the team.