Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡

Alien in Nairobi. Co-founder & CTO @UTUtrust $UTU and @MM_Nrb.

Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Author Sakwah Ongoma @CSakwah]

PresidenyWilliam Ruto: If God has decided that I serve a second term, I will.

A Kenyan: God is not a registered voter in Kenya.

🤣🤣🤣

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

Still no power from @KenyaPower_Care or response by the way, 2 days later. I‘ve *977# too but „System Error“.

[Gicheru @martingicheru]

@databu Using *977# works, at least for me. I used it and they were on site within an hour. They called me before visiting.

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

I DMed @KenyaPower_Care last night about a power cut. No response so far. Reporting in app not working, says to use website. Website has no provision to report cut.
Today we’re installing solar.
Enough is enough.

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

Our power is going constantly on-and-off. Not good for devices @KenyaPower_Care

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@Bobo_Samantha @ArebaHSC @moneyacademyKE If people don’t want to pay the higher price, local suppliers can’t compete with the higher international prices. So the fuel that’s available goes to other countries where buyers pay more.

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

Are you at least a little bit ashamed @KRACare for creating such a chaos at JKIA customs? About 1 hour queuing time and still insisting on scanning everyone. And the 2nd machine not in use 🤦‍♂️The worst „welcoming“ experience in any airport that I know of.

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@Lufthansa_DE Sie lasses es sich jetzt bezahlen, beim Check-in den Sitz zu ändern, und setzen meine Familie mit Kind in die Mitte statt ans Fenster.Sie wissen sicher,dass Kinder meist am Fenster sitzen wollen. Machen Sie das mit Absicht, damit die ganze Familie extra zahlen muss?

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

Even more and longer outages than (shamefully) usual seem to be reported to @KenyaPower_Care these days, what’s going on?

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@KenyaPower_Care @lynn_lysh It would be great if not only reporting but also the solution could be quick.
I‘ve reported low power (<180V) in our road each morning and evening for 3 years, using the app. Twice a technician called and said they would come the next day. No one ever came. 92106229567

[Space Society of Kenya @spacesocietyke]

1:24 am Kenyan Time, we're flying humans around the moon!!

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@AlienIBM @spacesocietyke I wish 🤣🤣🤣

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

Hi @KenyaPower_Care are you at least a little bit ashamed that after all these years, you still haven’t figured out how to protect your equipment against rain?

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

Why is Spotlight performance degenerating so much as to be mostly unusable since a few years @Apple @AppleSupport ? It seems to be constantly catching up (re)building indexes; often not finishing before a new macOS version comes which then seems to start building again. Useless.

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@SSulisuli @KenyanSays @wamboe2 Making a telescope is not an easy feat. Importing a telescope of this size easily costs >150k Ksh. But there’s demand, just needs to be more affordable. This one isn’t perfect (yet) but can get there with reasonable effort. Francis is working on it. https://t.co/RjbvSqJ7Kg

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@mungaikihanya @KRB_Kenya Some people say it's already outdated, that some roads have deteriorated since the data was collected.

[Phares Kariuki @kaboro]

Political Economy in Kenya https://t.co/gnbqewqLWQ

[Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡 @databu]

@StandardKenya Where is this place? I can find neither the hotel nor Logechel on Google Maps.

[Space Society of Kenya @spacesocietyke]

Turkana , Kenya...

@databu

[space & chill 🌔🪐☄️ @astro_bram]

Most of you have been wondering what space looks like from Kenya , so here’s a post by Bastian @databu, an amateur astronomer and passionate astrophotographer, taken right here in Kenya.

curious about what you’re seeing?
read along this stargazing adventure titled:
Olorgesailie III: Return of the Stargazers

In this entry, Bastian shares another catch-up post from a visit to the Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site..;
https://t.co/e7oWQic3O0

You can join @spacesocietyke and be part of this adventures..

[space & chill 🌔🪐☄️ @astro_bram]

For those who've never seen a comet imaged from Kenyan soil, feast your eyes on this!
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), captured right here in Thogoto by the talented @databu. Over a 30-minute sequence, watch the comet streak across the star field like it owns the sky.

The western horizon was washed out by those annoying security lights (the nemesis of every astrophotographer), but @databu still pulled it off using my Olympus E-M5 II on a 65 mm f/6.5 refractor: 60 × 10 s at ISO 1600.
He even spotted it visually: just the faint coma in 10×50 binoculars, then more coma and a subtle tail hint in his 10-inch Dob.

Kenya’s astrophotography game is leveling up fast and nights like this prove it. The future out here? Absolutely electric. 🌠🇰🇪
@spacesocietyke