Jhn

Code technician

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The idea that Arsenal became a cultural phenomenon because it signed Black players is too simplistic.

Like much of London, Arsenal positioned itself as a club that extended belonging towards the margins. Not racial margins alone, but the margins of football's imagination.

Kanu arrived after heart surgery that could have ended his career. Bergkamp arrived carrying the weight of a disappointing spell at Inter. Henry arrived as a talented but unsettled player still searching for his place. Kolo Touré was potential before proof. Arteta arrived as a midfielder many thought was entering decline, only to be entrusted with the captaincy. Wenger himself was a foreign manager challenging the assumptions of English football.

The pattern was not diversity for its own sake. It was recognition before validation.

Arsenal repeatedly seemed willing to see people not simply as they were, but as they could become. It trusted before consensus arrived. It built a reputation for offering a second chance, a fresh start, or a path to fulfilment where others saw limitation, uncertainty, or decline.

That is why former players, injured players, and out-of-contract players so often found their way back to Arsenal. The club developed a reputation for treating people as more than their immediate utility.

Representation matters. But recognition creates loyalty.

People did not just see players who looked like them. They saw an institution that appeared willing to enlarge its definition of who belonged.

[Eme Ka @Eme_Ka__]

If you’re trying to set up an LPG plant in any major Nigerian city, please don’t.

I can help you spend same budget on LPG, but with better margins and daily cash flow for guaranteed 10 years minimum.

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

Chester Bennington
Chris Daughtry

[YouTube Music @youtubemusic]

name the artist you’ll always be thankful for 🫂

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

@GPhilcz Use the skills I've been building to transition fully into a Cloud/DevOps role.

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

I strongly feel Nelly Furtado would’ve made a great rock artiste. Her early songs — especially “All Good Things” — were tugging in that direction. Then Timbaland came in and yanked her onto a whole different path 😂. Honestly, such a missed opportunity.

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

A bit unrelated to the subject matter but no one truly knows their age.

What we know is what we’ve been told, by parents, guardians, hospitals, or whoever first held the pen that recorded our arrival. We accept it because it’s written, because it has a date stamped beside our names.

But what if it’s wrong? What if that number we celebrate each year, that number that defines our milestones and measures our lives, is nothing but an inherited assumption? A documented lie, passed down with love and certainty? If that is the case, can we ever truly know how old we are, or do we only know what we’ve been told to believe?

It’s a haunting thought: that even something as personal and definitive as “how old am I?” might be a story we were told, not a truth we ever truly owned.

[Eme Ka @Eme_Ka__]

In this variance, therefore, lies a test of authenticity: The religion that manages to keep all its congregants behaving same way across all cultural borders is closer to the truth.

If there be a true god, I’d like to think that’s how he’d operate. 2/End

[Mr. Possible @Mrpossidez]

I’m not a pessimist in the general sense, but I have a fantastic relationship with worst-case scenarios.

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

I'm just glad it survived the re-entry despite the damage.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Aft skirt taking damage

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Live views brought to you by @Starlink

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

A flaw I carry, if flaw is the right word, is that I understand people too quickly. You’d think this should be a gift, almost a blessing, but it isn’t always. Because the moment I understand people, they stop feeling the need to understand me. It’s as if my understanding them has already settled the debt, as if by stepping into their skin and reading their silences, I have done them a favor so large that they feel no obligation to return it. They become comfortable in the glow of being seen, and comfort, as always, breeds complacency.

I notice it most with women. Because I grasp them first, their fears, their rhythms, the subtle fractures behind their laughter, they assume the contract is sealed. They bask in being known and then grow careless about knowing me. And when I cut off such bonds, as I inevitably do, it shocks them. They wonder how someone who once understood them so deeply could withdraw so suddenly. They do not see that what I couldn’t stomach was their refusal, or perhaps their indifference, to understand me too.

For me, understanding is not a charity. It is not parasitic. It is a covenant. A two-way street. A tango requires two dancers, not one twirling alone until exhaustion. And yet, when I walk away, they often wear the victim’s vest, as though I had committed some cruelty, blind to the fact that their lack of reciprocity is what forced my hand.

I cannot stop understanding people—it’s as involuntary as breathing now. But I will not abandon my standard: everyone has a window to know me, to try, to reach. And when that window closes, it closes forever. Because if you needed that much time just to attempt understanding me, then I already know how much longer you’ll need to truly see me. And I will not spend my life waiting.

[Mhlonishwa @Tayo_555]

Life is tough bro

The least you can do for yourself is to have a beautiful girlfriend.

[The Fanii @The_Fanii]

I hate condolence messages or visits; I never know what to say. The usual words feel too basic for the gravity of death and loss.

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

@reallyezra You see am ba? 😂

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

Apparently, drenching people in water in a bid to revivie them is universal

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

Some of the scenarios this fire/emergency response guy reenacts are just ridiculous.

What do you mean you funneled condensed milk to raise a friend's sugar level?

[Jhn @_johnWasTaken]

Some of the scenarios this fire/emergency response guy reenacts are just ridiculous.

What do you mean you funneled condensed milk to raise a friend's sugar level?

[initiativeleniyan @Eleniyanoluwa]

I feel life should notify us like "you're falling in love" "do you wish to continue?"