Dark avocado

grandeur,optimist, pisces ,introvert, proud African

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 @zhao_dashuai]

IT'S YOUR PERFUME.

I've seen this many times. A foreigner or in this case a black person goes to China or East Asia, and they are greeted with covered noses and mouths.

They think to themselves, I smell good, I applied perfume before leaving, why are they doing this? This must be racism.

Chinese and East Asians do not have body odor, ~95% of us carry a variant in the ABCC11 gene causing us to produce no smell after sweating.

You can't even find deodorants supermarkets in China, people just don't need it. So our sense of smell is not used to strong perfumes, and when you enter a confined space with your perfume, people literally find the smell stinging our noses.

[dr. mohammed hamad - Gaza @Medo198518]

Faculty of Science and Technology #KhanYounis 💔

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Westerners come to Tokyo and say: "The Japanese are so clean! They pick up trash out of pure civic virtue!"

No, we do not.

We pick up trash because of terror.

Tokyo has almost zero public trash cans. You carry an empty coffee cup in your backpack for seven hours not out of love for the planet, but because if anyone in your neighborhood sees you leave it on a bench, your social standing is permanently liquidated.

Japan is not powered by morals. Japan is powered by mutual assured surveillance.

Everyone is watching everyone. Everyone is taking silent mental notes. The punishment for breaking the rule is not a fine. It is the unspoken consensus that you are now untouchable.

You think we leave streets spotless because we are angels.

We leave them spotless because we are terrified of each other.

[Dark avocado @donald_siele]

@amenya_nelson Si wange sensor El ‘Chapo’ pia😒

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

OVERNIGHT: Prominent Kenyan editor abducted by gun-wielding men after series of newspaper stories critical of President Ruto and his government.

Journalism is not a crime

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

MP Marianne Kitany: Maraga cannot dictate the President’s schedule or compel him to release the police reform report

Gituku: You do know that Maraga actually met the President and handed over the report, right? So, which gap are you waiting for to publish it?

Kitany: Once the President has the report, he schedules among his diary when to publish it.

Gituku: Three years later, hasn't he found time?

Kitany: I don't control the President's diary, so I wouldn't know

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

Ruto friend Hemedti

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

The corpse of your previous self is the necessary stepping stone to higher callings.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Kenyatta National Hospital cut down trees with active bird nests over the weekend. Some died and more were injured. KNH then issued a public statement claiming they are "working with authorities" on the welfare of the injured birds which is a lie.

No authority responded. The birds were rescued and are being cared for by a wildlife rescuer, at their own expense, while KNH takes credit in a press statement for work they did not do. They have not contributed at all to the welfare of the birds and this speaks to a deeper problem.

They did it on a weekend when NEMA and KFS offices are closed, when there is no one to inspect, no one to stop the chainsaws, and no one to hold anyone accountable.

Weekend tree cutting has become a familiar tactic in Kenya precisely because enforcement disappears on Saturdays and Sundays.

Did KNH have a valid permit to cut these trees? If so, who issued it, NEMA or KFS, and did they inspect the trees beforehand?

Nesting activity is visible. Active nests are not hard to spot. If a permit was issued despite that, someone signed off on this knowing birds were there.

If a permit did exist, NEMA and KFS owe the public an explanation for how it was approved without any environmental or ecological check on active nesting sites.

KNH does not get to issue a statement claiming welfare action it did not take, while a private individual absorbs the actual cost and labour of caring for the birds their tree felling harmed.

Did KNH hold a valid tree cutting permit and if so they should make it public.
Which agency issued it, and on what basis?

Will KNH now cover the costs of caring for the birds their actions harmed?

[James @MrJamesKe]

If Jalang'o gets the Senate seat, I'll fully believe Nairobi is home to some of the most intellectually challenged voters in the country.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Let’s address the elephant in the room because I feel like many people don’t want to have this conversation😳

So the plan is to vote for Sifuna simply because he can help get Ruto out? As long as Ruto is gone, then we’re good? Haven’t we been here before? Isn’t that exactly how Ruto benefited from the anger against Uhuru&Raila ?
And before that, wasn’t Uhuru’s victory also driven in part by a wave of sympathy over the ICC cases and the feeling among many supporters that it was time to stand with him and push back against those they believed were targeting him? Look at how Uhuru’s administration left this country? Haven’t we already seen where voting out of anger or emotion, instead of demanding better leadership, leaves this country?

The next election cannot just be about who is most likely to defeat Ruto. It has to be about who has a clear plan to deal with corruption, protect the Constitution, end abductions and extrajudicial killings, fix our broken healthcare system, reform education, create jobs, reduce the cost of living, tackle public debt, restore independent institutions and ensure there is real accountability in government.

I understand the thinking. The common enemy is Ruto, and the enemy of my enemy quickly becomes a friend. But I refuse to believe that after everything this country has been through, Kenyans are ready to settle for people with serious questions hanging over them simply because they are the fastest route to removing one man from power. A perfect example, Aisha Jumwa😂

We cannot keep voting against someone. At some point, we have to start voting for something. Otherwise, we’ll keep changing faces while the system that keeps failing Kenyans remains exactly the same.

[Dark avocado @donald_siele]

@kimaiyo The enemy of your enemy is your friend

[Sheila Mwanyigha @MissMwanyigha]

Cyanide tomatoes????
Seriously!!!! 🤬🤬🤬

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Ruto just spent 40 minutes trying to create a false equivalence between our national values set out in the constitution and his so called “development”. Kenyans, please trust me when i tell you there is a reason the Preamble comes before Article 43. You don’t get to the “development “ clauses until and unless you have taken into account the reasons we passed this constitution in the first place. Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom, Equality, Rule of Law and Social Justice.

[The Only Cedric @musikucedric]

Wewe tulia ikifika part ya wendawazimu tutakuita

[Lepokisi @Bhokisi_]

You wear someone else’s hair for a full month

[Eric @amerix]

Never kill a woman because she has refused to abort an untimed pregnancy.

Once the sperm leaves your urethra, it becomes the property of the state.

Be careful.

CHANGE or PERISH.

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

I watched a video done by a cancer researcher on why one shouldn’t spray their perfumes on the neck and it was worth it. The neck is one of the highest blood flow on the body. Its skin is very thin which means fragrances and chemicals get absorbed faster and deeper. She explains most of the perfumes and cosmetic products have endocrine disruptors which mimic or block our hormones. Most studies link them to infertility, respiratory problems and cancer.

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

Melania was a nude model. Michelle Obama is a Harvard-educated lawyer.

[Shaya Rhymes ✍🏾 @ShayaRhymes]

Hardest part about being raised like this is watching the family fall apart as your grandparents pass away