just El

i bend water

[just El @asks_el]

Focus can be fleeting but hold onto it.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:

“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.

Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.

For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.

And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’

How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.

This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.

They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.

And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.

Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.

The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.

If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.

Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.

For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”

[just El @asks_el]

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[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep.

[Chioma Amadi @Chioma__Amadi]

The craziest thing just happened.

Apparently, LinkedIn has been harvesting our data, sharing it with Microsoft, and training AI on our entire career history without our permission.

If you have a LinkedIn account, please turn off these settings immediately:

[just El @asks_el]

😆😆😆

[just El @asks_el]

Wow, amazing read

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[just El @asks_el]

Reading the comments…. Anyone who practices architecture knows the plots doesn’t celebrate architecture as compared to law, medicine etc

[sol @mndnemuse]

why are there no architecture kdramas? we already have law, crime, med, business, even sports 😔 the plot could go so many ways

[just El @asks_el]

Someone finally said what’s on my minddddd!!!

[sol @mndnemuse]

why are there no architecture kdramas? we already have law, crime, med, business, even sports 😔 the plot could go so many ways

[Murithi Godwin @GodieMurithi]

Most GIS training is built on datasets and workflows from abroad. None of that prepares you for working with African spatial data.

You learn to work with clean, complete, well-documented data. Then you get to a Kenyan county project and discover the boundary files are from 2015, the infrastructure data does not exist, and nobody agrees on the coordinate reference system.

Orion Academy is built for this reality.

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[Gotfred Akoto Boafo @eastsportsman]

I am back. This is how I respond. I have time paaa
https://t.co/LpbdwVrb5I

[SYLVESTER @sylv_ester_]

Current state of Cape Coast to Assin Highway 💔

We have a long way to go as a country. See how a whole highway turn into a river way

[just El @asks_el]

@BFAD_Africa Imports, imports, imports

[just El @asks_el]

@ohmykoshesai lol, it’s the whole country

[Alloysius 🇬🇭 @alloysiusattah]

Looking for metal sculptors in Ghana who work with scrap and waste materials. Want to commission site-specific installations for a regenerative farm estate in the Volta Region. If you know someone doing serious work in this space, tag them below.

[just El @asks_el]

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[yellarie Velaxia @sanflawerish]

Mom will always be everything, no matter how old we get the ❤️

[yellarie Velaxia @sanflawerish]

Mom will always be everything, no matter how old we get the ❤️

[just El @asks_el]

Efo Ghana

[just El @asks_el]

Right on point

[FAYALORRRD @faya_lorrrd]

Y3n elite de3 anigye3 nkoaa o.

No meaningful contribution to funding indigenous researches in the University.
No meaningful contribution in opening research centers to boost Science and Social research in such a poverty stricken society.

Cars ak3se3 ne party ak3se3 ne aduane nkoaaa...

[just El @asks_el]

9 goals!!! Very entertaining match!

[just El @asks_el]

@soulpee How will you decide now? Everyone wants one. I want one too