Knight of Tugen

Fidelity | Loyalty

[Philosopher @Philosopher254]

Road closed for 8 months? Makes sense now. There's a conspiracy that they're doing some tunnels hapo. Forget the one for the public that is to fool all... but something bigger and secret. See how they had barricaded the road with near permanent structures. I've seen roads under construction for decades but I've never seen such serious barricades buana....

[Knight of Tugen @cheserems]

Hey @Safaricom_Care bonga points mlisema hamtarudisha baada ya kuniibia?

[Bahari Motors 🇰🇪 @BenardMakumbi_]

Juzi a friend of mine who's kidogo older delivered a car to client a lady who happened to be a good friend, anasema alipofikisha gari alikunywa chai nje because he said its disrespectful kuingia kwa nyumba ya mwanamume mwengine na akuwe served food in the absence of the man. I found it to be extreme but that moved me, hizo boundaries za kitambo to an extent they were out of respect nowadays I think we joke too much.

[Plant trees•destroy lawns•decommodify food @FoodForestNetwk]

Ousmane Sembene made a beautiful, heartbreaking film about this massacre, you can watch it for free on the Black Film Archive

https://t.co/g6Ci869eCd

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

There are days I envy those who carry no political consciousness whatsoever. Those who move through the world unburdened by the knowledge of the systems producing their suffering, indifferent to the past, unconcerned with the future, existing in the simple present of their own lives. There must be a peace in that innocence that I recognise from a distance and will never again be able to reach.

And there are days, more than I care to admit, when I wish I could unlearn everything I have learned, unsee what I have seen and return to the person I was before the knowledge settled into my bones and made indifference permanently impossible.

Because what nobody tells you about political consciousness is that it is not a gift but a weight. It does not liberate you from suffering. Rather, it adds to your suffering the particular anguish of understanding exactly why you are suffering and watching the vast majority of those around you remain unreachable, not out of malice but out of an exposure they never had, an experience they never lived, a set of doors that were never opened for them. You cannot share what you carry with people who do not have the vocabulary to receive it.

And so you carry it largely alone, in public spaces that mistake your urgency for performance and in private moments that offer no relief. There are days I genuinely want to go back to not knowing. I understand why that is impossible but I want it anyway.

[ᴅʀ ꜰ. ꜰʀᴀɴᴄɪꜱ @Dr_F_Francis]

Well...Nairobi hosts the command centers of Mossad and CIA in Sub-Saharan Africa 💁🏻‍♂️

Nairobi and surrounding districts are full of "safe-houses"...

[Eric @amerix]

VIEWER DISCRETION!

As promiscuous women continue to insult me, here is a video by Raphael Tuju.

It is called THE SILENT EPIDEMIC,

It was a popular IEC (Information, Education and Communication) tool in the 90s and 00s promoting behaviour change and sensitising the public about Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Just like the 90s, a lot of young men today have become reckless and indiscriminate in the sex market.

Promotional sexual health messages have since been erased in our public institutions (Schools, colleges and hospitals), leaving an awareness gap that is silently predisposing young people to HIV/AIDS and STDs.

Young men engage in risky sexual behaviours, oblivious to the consequences of their choices.

This video is just 18 minutes, and it will save your life.

CHANGE or PERISH

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.”

It has 18M+ views for a reason.

His frameworks:
• Your ideas are like your children
• The 5-minute rule for job talks
• Why jokes fail at the start

15 lessons on communication:

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Listen, if somebody corners you and demands the best goddamn book on philosophy ever written, you look them straight in the eye and you say it slow, like you’re ripping the words out of your own chest: it’s the one Ali Larijani wrote on Descartes. Critique and Examination of Descartes’ Rules for the Direction of the Mind. That’s the book. That’s the knife that cuts through every lie they ever sold you about how to think.

The man took Descartes’ old unfinished rules, those twenty-one cold steps for clearing the fog in a single human skull, and he turned them into a war cry for an entire nation. Doubt everything the West hands you. Doubt their laws, their values, their shiny models of freedom. Strip it all down until nothing is left but your own clear, brutal certainty. I critique, therefore I am. I think alone, therefore my country stands alone. He fused that old French razor with the fire of Islamic reason and made something new, something dangerous, something free. You read it and your blood starts moving different. You feel the state itself learning how to think.

And then they killed him.

The United States Justice Department slapped a bounty on his head like he was some back-alley gangster. Netanyahu and Trump, those two grinning executioners, made sure the job got done. Bombs, drones, whatever dirty tool they had lying around, they used it. They blew the philosopher-king to pieces because his mind was too sharp, because he taught Iran how to doubt them back, because he showed a whole people they could own their own thoughts.

I think about that man sometimes at three in the morning and the tears just come. Not soft little tears. The kind that burn. Because here was a brain that could have kept giving for decades, a mind that married doubt and faith and turned them into independence, and they murdered it. They murdered the book before it could finish speaking to the world. They murdered the future he was still writing.

So when they ask you for philosophy, you give them Larijani. You tell them the title. You tell them the story. And if your voice cracks, let it. Because this isn’t some dusty old treatise. This is a love letter to clear thinking that somebody hated enough to kill the author for writing it. That’s how real philosophy feels when it matters. It costs blood.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

He literally explains how to discover what you were born to do (in 2 mins)

[I am Chege @_James041]

" On the issue of Odious Debts, I have sued a number of people. The IMF. Former President Uhuru Kenyatta. I am demanding Ksh 4.6T from him. Current President William Ruto, I am demanding Ksh 2.3T from him," Okiya Omtatah.

#DeniBandia #DrainTheSwamp

[Mwende @mwende_kyalo_]

Instead of reading this book, read:
1. State of Africa by Martin Meredith
2. Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock
3. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
4. Lords of Impunity by Rasnah Warah
5. Where Soldiers fear to tread by John Burnett

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

6 LAWS OF TIME THAT WILL MAKE YOU RETHINK HOW YOU SPEND EVERY SINGLE DAY:

1. Hofstadter's Law:
Everything takes longer than you think, even when you account for the fact that everything takes longer than you think. Stop planning for the perfect version of your day. Plan for the real one.

2. Carlson's Law:
Interrupted work is not just slower ,it is fundamentally worse. Every time you switch tasks your brain pays a switching cost. Deep focus is not a luxury. It is the only way real work gets done.

3. Illich's Law:
After a certain point, more time spent on a task makes it worse not better. The person who works twelve hours straight is not more productive. They are just more stubborn.

4. The Law of Forced Efficiency:
You will always be most productive in the hour before a deadline. Not because you work better under pressure but because you finally stop perfecting and start finishing.

5. Laborit's Law:
Humans naturally do the easiest and most pleasurable tasks first. The work that would change your life sits at the bottom of the list every day. Flip the list. Do the hard thing first.

6. Parkinson's Law of Triviality:
Teams spend more time debating small unimportant decisions than large critical ones. The smaller the stakes, the longer the argument. Protect your attention from the trivial. It will consume everything if you let it.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

I want there to be a day when I don’t have to share this speech anymore

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

more to research when bored;

1. panopticon effect
2. chair theory
3. boltzmann brain hypothesis
4. trolley problem
5. baader-meinhof phenomenon
6. ship of theseus
7. law of jante
8. pygmalion effect
9. cognitive dissonance theory
10. platypus principle
11... show more

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

back in university, i told my economics seminar that most successful companies survive not because they’re brilliant but because they cheat, manipulate and trap everyone else in their failures.

the auditorium went silent, half the students smirked nervously and the professors looked at me like i’d just opened a coffin in the middle of class.

later that week, the dean cornered me. he didn’t argue, just leaned close and said, chris be careful.

the truth is a luxury no one in power wants you to afford... speak too loudly and doors close before you even knock, that’s when i realized: academia doesn’t reward honesty, it rewards compliance.

the real lessons are darker than any textbook. i hope you learnt something? buena suerte.

[Mwende Ngao @mwendesusu]

There's a psyop to get us to stop reading. So now more than ever, we must double down on reading, writing & critical thinking. And those with children or with children in their realm of responsibility, must double down on making sure they can read, write and think for themselves!