Skipper

A Tout at heart, bougee in deeds.

Actively living, creating value and learning. No stress. God's Child.

[Peter G @PeterGazdik]

@ComfortablySmug

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Or we can just push back on dynamic pricing.

[Jaxon @jaxoncoder]

9:10 PM: Check Uber. Ride is $22.
9:12 PM: Text friends back. Re-open app. Ride is $38.
9:14 PM: Refresh map twice. Ride jumps to $54.

Uber Screen: "Fares are higher due to increased demand."

Rider: Opens iPhone Settings and turns off Precise Location for Uber. Drops the pickup pin two blocks off the main street and walks to that corner. Force closes Uber and opens Lyft for 2 minutes.

9:17 PM...

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

@kilonpop Carry oooon. When you're 80 and the knees are unsure, remind it of days like this when they moved the world.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Chike market no go ever fail.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

@ChiemelaPeace @SomiEkhasomhi Yoooooo i saw it too and i was just laughing.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

@OgbeniBlackbear Project hail mary??? Other than the name i dont see the link. Cause they were several astronauts sent in also the alien and staying back in its planet seems unconnected. correct me if I'm missing something.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Definitely not missing anything. FoMo is all in your head. There's nothing outside

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Out in this club and all i can think about is how many seasons of slowhorses i for don watch finish.

[Father Jim Sichko @JimSichko]

I have to admit, I always wondered what this part of Psalm 23 meant. I thought “He anoints my head with oil” was figurative language for God keeping the Psalmist healthy. I never knew this parallel.

Anoint my head with oil

“Sheep can get their head caught in briers and die trying to get untangled. There are horrid little flies that like to torment sheep by laying eggs in their nostrils which turn into worms and drive the sheep to beat their head against a rock, sometimes to death. Their ears and eyes are also susceptible to tormenting insects. So the shepherd anoints their whole head with oil. Then there is peace. That oil forms a barrier of protection against the evil that tries to destroy the sheep. Do you have times of mental torment? Do the worrisome thoughts invade your mind over and over? Do you beat your head against a wall trying to stop them? Have you ever asked God to anoint your head with oil? He has an endless supply! His oil protects and makes it possible for you to fix your heart, mind, and eyes on Him today and always! There is peace in the valley! May our good good Father anoint your head with oil today so that your cup overflows with blessings! God is good and He is faithful!!”

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Our God who is beauty.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

This guy is just too good. But honestly you guys should stop picking on Ed and focus on Kraft. Or you just wont say his name???

[Munya Chawawa @munyachawawa]

Ed Sheeran opening his tour tonight 👀 #edsheeran

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Blessed are those who,
with a noble and generous heart,
take the word of God to themselves
and yield a harvest through their perseverance.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

@Cuntosaur I will say the lawyer fee was cheaper than the debt she got for not getting the right representation. Also some savings from her catering gig could have helped. Finally if all failed i guess maybe go home before it all fell apart.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Vdm presidential aspirant edition

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

Yesterday, a senior management official at @UBAGroup reached out to me regarding my views on the treatment of the young woman in UBA’s Graduate Management Accelerated Programme (GMAP) who addressed @TonyOElumelu by his first name.

I made it clear that, in my view, this was not a “culture clash”; it was a class war, a reflection of the deeply entrenched hierarchy and class consciousness that too often determines who is considered entitled to demand deference and who is expected to provide it.

I gave a simple example, if Tony @TonyOElumelu son or daughter addressed the family gateman or driver by his first name, hardly any Nigerian would bat an eyelid.

In fact, many of the same people outraged by this young woman calling him “Tony” would probably expect the gateman or driver to address Elumelu’s children with exaggerated deference. That tells you immediately that this argument is not really about “African culture” or respect. It is about class, status, wealth and power, about who society permits to speak casually to whom.

More importantly, I specifically requested that, given the enormous public opprobrium, ridicule, and attacks this young woman has been subjected to, UBA must immediately provide her with appropriate psychosocial support.

Whatever anyone thinks about how she addressed @TonyOElumelu, no young employee or trainee should be left alone to absorb the psychological consequences of suddenly becoming the target of a massive public controversy.

She should not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate hierarchy or social-media outrage. Her dignity, welfare and mental well-being must come first. Let the poor breathe!

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

Maybe one day a.i will go rogue and we'll need to turn off all the electricity in the whole world. The impossibility of it without any 'God' factor intervention is why it'll never happen and we'll just keep living.

[Mr. Láyí @layiwasabi]

always express your discomfort to people you do not want to resent

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I was rereading Exodus this morning, and there is a quietly absurd detail during the plagues that made me laugh before it made me think.

The immediate answer of Egypt’s magicians to every national catastrophe was simply to duplicate it.

Twice, nearly verbatim, the text notes the routine. When YHWH made the Nile run thick with blood, cutting off the empire’s fresh water, Pharaoh’s sorcerers rushed forward to produce more blood:

“But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.” (Exodus 7:22)

When YHWH made the frogs choke the fields and the bedrooms, they similarly hurried to summon more frogs:

“But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 8:7)

Pharaoh looked at the spectacle and hardened his heart because his court had matched the trick, entirely indifferent to the reality that the water remained undrinkable and dead amphibians were piling up in the streets.

Think about the sheer vanity of that response.

This is the exact modus operandi of counterfeit power. It is strictly imitative and relentlessly additive.

It can mimic the mechanics of judgment, but it possesses no capacity to reverse them. It inflates the disaster while presenting the duplication as proof of parity.

Egypts magicians could stage the ruin, but they could not redeem an inch of ground from it.

By the third plague, their technique collapsed entirely. When the magicians tried to produce gnats from the dust, they hit a hard wall and were forced to concede to their king: “This is the finger of God.” (Exodus 8:19)

By the sixth, they were physically incapacitated by the very boils they claimed the authority to ward off:

“The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.” (Exodus 9:11). From imitation to total humiliation.

By the eighth, Pharaoh’s own inner council was openly pleading with him to concede that Egypt was already finished.

God could have shut down the contest from the opening encounter. When Aaron threw down his staff, God could have paralyzed the sorcerers so their serpents never appeared at all. But He permitted the stage because the contest was designed to expose a fundamental asymmetry.

YHWH did not merely possess superior initiative power, creating life and commanding nature in ways Egypt’s pantheon could never fathom. He possessed the singular power of reversal, undoing the destruction their gods could not even begin to heal.

By allowing false power to exhaust every move in its arsenal, God turned the court inside out.

He did not simply crush the opposition from without; He conscripted the resistance into evidence, leaving the very men hired to defend the empire to stand as the prime witnesses to its collapse.

[Skipper @Somtochukwu__]

One thing that annoys me is that the cost of this comes back tonthe tax payer. Honestly its exhausting working so hard for someone to be this bad at their job. The car plate should be the very first thing to be confirmed but ok.

[Regulator🇺🇸 @Revolutioig9]

Woodridge Illinois ~ Cops stop a black man that apparently match suspect description.

Moments later, instant regret.

[Diẹkọlọla @YeyeOba001]

#Missing

My husband believed so much in this country, He said No place like home, I begged him to let us stay back but he insisted. I followed him back home and He chose Ibadan, My husband said Ibadan is peaceful and safe.

People of Ibadan please help me look for my husband. Esanu mi🙏
He is gentle and calm.

It's day 3 already🙏

#copied

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

“Father I keep confessing the same sins”

I promise you, God is not looking for originality from you here.