Salym Senyonga 🍉

Software Engineer, Madridista, Tennis junkie and Tifosi.

[Salym Senyonga 🍉 @_salym_]

@abiiranathan @nickopiyo @ntvuganda It sounds a lot like Fareed Zakaria's voice.

[Jorge Manrubia @jorgemanru]

Getting Lexxy more robust, one release at a time. Millions of users in BC5 are helping us with this effort 😅. And a bunch of accessibility improvements from @brunoprietog will land soon, including much better keyboard-only support. Stay tuned.

At this point, I am certain Rails now has the best WYSIWYG editor out there. And nicely packaged for everyone to use (including non-Rails users).

https://t.co/AgP0sHObmf

[King Melvin @melvinnasasira]

In May 2013, the government of Uganda sent armed police to shut down the country’s biggest independent newspaper because it printed something the regime insisted was a lie. Thirteen years later, the man at the centre of that so-called lie has gone on Twitter countless times, unprompted, to tell us it was all true.

Let me take you back, because the story is almost too neat.

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[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

This platform would be so much more fun if people had an earnest interest in things abroad instead of just constantly shitting on other countries and cultures. It's so tiring.

[Salym Senyonga 🍉 @_salym_]

@dhh @Trakpal_net Do you honestly believe that everyone from a country classified as "Third World" is vile and not worthy of walking on the same streets as you do?

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

Abductions are NOT arrests. In case you find yourself second-guessing, here is a simple guide.

What happened to Lukwago was an ABDUCTION. Remember that just like it did to Benedicto Kiwanuka & Frank Kalimuzo in 1972, the state CAN ABDUCT its own citizens, in the same way the state can engage in extrajudicial killings.

#FreeUganda
#FreeEriasLukwago

[Xavier Noria @fxn]

Writing code comments is an art.

You need a radar for "I have context about why this is done this way, and a maintainer will struggle without it".

Honestly, I think not everyone can do it. Not everyone has that level of self-awareness + empathy for future maintainers.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The problem with the "if it works who cares what the code looks like" mindset for agentic work is that it assumes the agent has a perfect understanding of "works." Realistically, things are underspecified, agents make bad assumptions, etc.

To be fair, agents are pretty good at unit test coverage. They're pretty bad at designing human experiences (API, CLI flags, etc.), especially cohesive ones for future roadmap plans they may not have visibility into (unless your backlog is perfect and vision fully laid out, which I doubt). They're bad at knowing where performance matters and what type (CPU vs memory tradeoffs). They're bad at where compatibility matters and where it doesn't (and tend to err on the side of preserving it without further guidance). Etc.

Unless you have this ALL specified, you can't possibly claim "it works" without taking a look and thinking about it.

[Nicholas Opiyo (Pronouns He/Him) @nickopiyo]

We’ll not reshare the torture images of @EriasLukwago, as to do so would be to further the interest of the folks carrying out the unlawful actions and to perpetuate his undignified and humiliating treatment.

We’ll say, though, that such actions are a daylight manifestation of the state of our country, captive to the shallow interest of a small clique to whom the law is a suggestion, rather than a command.

You humiliate the man, torture him, but you’ll never match the power of his ideas; the high moral grounds on which he stands will be a summit you will only glance from afar.

We’d demand that he be set free or taken to court through a lawful process if he has committed any crime, but i doubt you’ll heed to such calls. It is out of your grapes. So we will only ask that when you have satisfied your cheap desires, leave him alive to return to his family, cause, and country. He’ll meet and vanquish you in the arena of ideas, law, and morality.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Netanyahu asks Lebanese if they remember the days when Lebanon was called the “Pearl of the Middle East.”

We do.

We also remember who invaded Lebanon in 1982, besieged Beirut, occupied the south for nearly two decades, bombed our cities, carried out massacres, assassinations & repeated wars.

Interesting how Hezbollah is blamed for everything, including Lebanon’s decline, while the Israeli invasion, occupation & destruction that predated Hezbollah’s very existence are simply erased from the story.

Hezbollah did not invade Lebanon. Israel did.

Hezbollah did not create the occupation. Hezbollah emerged because of it.

You also speak as though Hezbollah is not Lebanese. Whether one supports it or opposes it, Hezbollah represents a significant segment of Lebanese society. It has MPs in parliament, ministers in government, & a constituency that cannot simply be wished out of existence. Millions of Lebanese cannot be erased because that makes for a more convenient Israeli political narrative.

The arrogance of telling Lebanese to “free themselves” from other Lebanese while Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory & Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese airspace daily is difficult to miss.

You speak as though Lebanon’s problems began with Hezbollah & Iran. That is historically illiterate at best & deliberately dishonest at worst.

Lebanon has suffered from corruption, sectarianism, foreign intervention & political failure. But it has also endured repeated Israeli invasions, occupations, bombardments, assassinations & wars long before Hezbollah became a major force.

And now the man whose military has spent months bombing Lebanese towns, flattening homes, killing civilians, displacing entire communities & threatening the country with “another Gaza” wants to present himself as a concerned friend of the Lebanese people.

The audacity is staggering. It would be impressive were it not so grotesque. The historical revisionism is even worse.

You must be getting desperate if this is the story you are trying to sell.

[F. Golooba-Mutebi @FGoloobaMutebi]

Children & religion. A thread.

I believe in God but I am not into institutionalised religion. I very rarely go to church. When I do, which is not often, it’s usually for weddings & funerals. I have never told my children what to believe or what religion to belong to, or even to

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Using phrasing like "Iran-backed Houthi rebels" — but not "US-backed Zionist settlers" when describing Israel is the hallmark of a biased, imperialist rag.

Forget politics — just from a linguistic viewpoint, what a bloody mouthful. Who wants to read that nonsense?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

There you go: the FT confirms that not only is the NSA using Anthropic's AI "for offensive cyber operations" against "nations such as China or Iran" but Anthropic is actively helping them in that effort.

As per the article, Anthropic "installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide the use of the technology and customise models for specific applications."

It confirms two things. First: the United States is the most aggressive state actor in cyberspace, by far. It offensively infiltrates other nations' networks, and is now supercharging that capability with AI. Heck that is literally one of the core mission statements of the NSA, one of the largest security agencies of the US government.

Second, that Anthropic's carefully cultivated image as the ethical, safety-first AI company that "partners with the church" is a fiction. In reality, it is the most deeply embedded AI company in the US security state. Instead of building guardrails, they're literally weaponizing their own AI inside the NSA.

Src: https://t.co/sWmXvPSUy4

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The genocide seems unstoppable,
Necrocapitalism seems invincible- but they are not!

All we need is UNITY. COORDINATION. PERSEVERANCE.

Keep Protesting. Striking. Boycotting. Litigating.

Not just once.
All the times needed till the Apartheid ends and the system which fed it too.

[Dr. Christon A.K Rweshakyira @Dr_Chris_Twine]

As a Senior Consultant, the reason I haven't raised my voice is simple:
When the interns are gone, I will gladly show up at 5AM, clerk 80 patients, draw the blood, and run the night calls myself.
I am superhuman. Obviously.

As a Senior Nursing Officer, the reason I am silent is obvious:
I have no problem running three wards alone, fixing lines, tracking vitals, delivering babies, doing the paperwork.
I don't need hands. I have dedication.

As a Policymaker, the reason I haven't spoken is elegant:
The interns are a budget problem I solved by terming the students.
My children are not doing internship in Uganda, after all.

As a Patient, the reason I haven't complained is clear:
Even if the doctor cutting me open has worked 36 hours without food, just cut me open and take the baby out.
Hunger sharpens the hands. Everyone knows this.

As a Citizen, the reason I am unbothered is rational:
None of my children is a medic.
I have my pastor.
The system runs on miracles. Always has.

This policy is brilliant.
Let's all stay quiet and watch the magic happen.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

It's a myth Germans didn't know the Holocaust was happening. They may have not known the details, but they knew Jews were being sent to their death

Likewise, decades from now you'll hear people say that Israelis "didn't know" about the genocide in Gaza. That is also a lie

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

On 20 February 1939, thousands of Nazi supporters rallied in New York City, waving German flags and Nazi symbols, and cheering Nazi speakers, as a Nazi genocide raged in Europe.

On 31 May 2026, thousands of Zionist supporters rallied in New York City, waving Israeli flags and Zionist symbols, and cheering Zionist speakers, as a Zionist genocide rages in Palestine.

If you can condemn the former, but not the latter, it’s time to consider your own racist complicity in the Holocaust of our time.

[Salym Senyonga 🍉 @_salym_]

“Honestly, today I can say no, I don’t miss it because I know that’s no longer my place,” he affirmed. “That chapter is well and truly closed. I have great memories of it, but I don’t live with those memories every day, I say that with total honesty...” - https://t.co/TIHeQUultY

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

It's an honor to have made Israel's enemies list. I'm very proud to have fought against their genocide.

The mighty United Kingdom is afraid of speech that shows you who's responsible for those war crimes. But no amount of censorship will get us to stop telling the truth.

[Maximilian 🪁🐝 @m4xim1l1an]

In his lecture on writing 1929: Year Zero, historian Hillel Cohen described finding four lines in a Palestinian scholar's lexicon, Mustafa al-Dabbagh's geographical history of Palestine: a Jewish policeman entered an Arab home in Jaffa in 1929 and killed the entire family in cold blood.

Cohen had a PhD on the Mandate period. He thought he knew 1929. His reaction: if this were true, why hadn't he heard of it? He photocopied the page, put it in a drawer, and moved on.

Two years later, in the Hagana Archive, he found a Hagana officer's testimony confirming the killing, and adding that Hagana members bribed the British prosecutor to save the man, Simcha Hinkis, from the death sentence imposed on him. The Palestinian source had been accurate the whole time.

Then Cohen stopped and named what had just happened to him.
Palestinian source: can't be true, put to drawer. Jewish source: must be true, investigate.
He called this "not a very good thing" about himself. A trained professional historian, decades in the archive, and still.

This is not an anecdote about one historian's blind spot.

The same hierarchy runs through journalism, law, politics, every institutional forum where Palestinian accounts need Jewish or Western corroboration before they're treated as evidence.

Cohen at least noticed.