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[Yehgha @yaygha]

During that Christland school girl saga, one of my tweets was mass reported. Twitter then restricted my account and gave me the option to delete the 'offending' tweet to regain access.

I had chaotic internal deliberations over it for some time and in the end, I deleted it.

Immediately after, I felt myself losing virtue

I felt gagged
I felt like a coward
felt I had betrayed myself
felt I had cowered in the face of consequence
felt my illustrious slave owning ancestors look down on me in disappointment regret and contempt.

Couldn't shake the feeling, so I asked myself

"What's the worst thing that can happen if I make that same tweet again"

"You lose an account with 14k followers"

Was the answer

Small price to pay

So I made the tweet again.

A couple hours later, the account got suspended.

Saw the pop up notification on the bottom right corner of my screen while working and swelled with pride

Because I had redeemed myself, regained my dignity and the respect of my ancestors

I had stood on business until the very end - the business here being going against concensus and saying what I believe to be true irrespective of how much it costs me.

Moral of the story:

Those who say they want a better Nigeria

Those who admonish others to get their pvc, have refused to realise that the Nigeria they want will not happen via the ballot box.

We have been trying that channel for decades across republics. It doesn't work

So the Nigeria they want - or more realistically, the version of Nigeria they want - whatever name it is called, will have to be payed for in blood

A lot of it

2027 will come, Tinubu will 'win' - Whatever 'win' means

And we will either tweet about it over a weekend, and resume work on the Monday that follows

Or we will make the country ungovernable until he steps down. Shots will ring out, blood will spill, mothers will cry but that is the only way

If we are not willing or able to do that; to suffer, to sacrifice, to bleed, then we do not want a country that works

Our desire for a better Nigeria, is in a fundamental sense, like my belief in the freedom of speech:

It is only as meaningful as the price we are willing to pay for it.

If we are not willing to suffer for it, we do not want it.

Desire without sacrifice is wishful thinking

and if wishes were horses...

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@dzhng @duetchat Duet is an incredible tool, will there be a time a user is allowed to bring his own key from open source models like ollama?

[Get Involved @getinvolved9ja_]

Why is no one talking about the Ekiti State governorship election coming up on 20th of this month. Does #NDC have a candidate? Help https://t.co/MQSEzuVrds know about the candidates vying for a position in your State & Lga. GetInvolved today!!! #getinvolved9ja #election

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

Instead of doomscrolling all day, spend your day learning end-to-end Nigerian History from the 9000s to date.

The Sokoto Caliphate is not the earliest documented existence of Nigeria, nor is the Oyo Empire.

Spend your day here: https://t.co/1EXFx3V47M

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@adedayoagarau Your work is waking a lot of Nigerians up.

@getinvolved9ja_ is building a database of the 2027 aspirants from all state and local govt so the people can know who is representing them and under which party

[Get Involved @getinvolved9ja_]

Before you vote, know who wants to represent you.

Get Involved is helping Nigerians access information about election candidates in one place.

Visit: https://t.co/64mikpcbnR

#GetInvolvedNaija #KnowYourCandidates #NigeriaDecides

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@hackSultan Awesome @getinvolved9ja_ is also building something similar. https://t.co/w93ARbE0sC An archive that allows the public know who is contesting, for what position and under what party in every state

It’s a public archive created and managed by Nigerians

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@hackSultan Awesome @getinvolved9ja_ is also building something similar. https://t.co/w93ARbE0sC An archive that allows the public know who is contesting, for what position and under what party in every state

It’s a public archive created and managed by Nigerians

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@vitaliidodonov Mrr

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@eric_gugua posterity will be kind to you.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

NUT have mandated teachers in Oyo state to withdraw their services. Parents are also advised to keep their children at home.

Shocking that it took this long.

More shocking that this isn't a national standing order.

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@39billion Your twitter earning from this engagements is enough to keep sustaining this bet.

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@klintoncod Preach!

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

It seems people are ready for this election.

Good to see everyone is learning politics by force

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@afrisagacity Giant of Africa

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

/grill-me makes validating an Idea so easy. Thank you @mattpocockuk

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.

Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.

You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/IdZR0T1F5I

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

@grok @dotpem @xlab_os @shiri_shh @grok answer him

[SOTA @capt_salazer]

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[SOTA @capt_salazer]

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[Raytar @Raytar]

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