FLORENCE KAYEMBA

Random Reflector. Global Security. Global Politics.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Number of years it took each product to gain 50 million users:

Airlines: 68 years
Cars: 62 years
Telephones: 50 years
Credit Card: 28 years
TV: 22 years
Computers: 14 years
Internet: 7 years
PayPal: 5 years
YouTube: 4 years
Facebook: 3 years
Twitter: 2 years
WeChat: 1 year
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PornHub: 19 days

[Wafa Ali Mustafa @WafaMustafa9]

Today is my father's birthday. If he's still alive in #Assad prisons, he turns 61. Living in a limbo of waiting for a decade, I realized I've lived as a shadow of my dad.
Today, I brought him a cake, sang Happy Birthday with a broken heart & cried.

“Happy” birthday, Dad..❤️

[Nyaboth Paska @NyabothAkwoch]

Here is a summary🧵 of my experience in Khartoum #Sudan and beyond when the conflict erupted on 15 April!

- I Arrived Khartoum on 10th April, to take up a new role. I went to office on Tues, Wed and Thurs. Fri & Sat is weekend. Sunday is first day of the week and work.

[Wafa Ali Mustafa @WafaMustafa9]

In her last interview with @CNN, Journalist #MarieColvin (reporting from #homs, #syria) said: “The words on everybody’s lips are: Why have we been abandoned?”.

12 years later we learned that we’ve been abandoned bc the “intl community”, the UN & the whole world are complicit..

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Boeing lawyers argue that March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 737 MAX crash victims didn't have time to feel pain as plane slammed into the ground. SMH
https://t.co/lVnJa2Hmyd

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Emotionally immature people cannot tolerate differences within people. They push their own perspective and shame those who disagree. Part of maturing is understanding that (for many reasons) people won't always see things the way that you do.

[Chris Kwaja @c_kwaja]

Who ever emerges President of Nigeria is going to presided over a deeply divided country. Reconciliation and healing are the required balms. It will take good leadership to do this.

[African Philanthropy Network @InfoAPN]

Africa Philanthropy Network (APN) invites you to a virtual Stakeholders Validation Workshop of the Philanthropy Support Actors (PSAs) study on the 23rd February 2023, from 4pm EAT.

Please find the zoom link to the meeting
https://t.co/jIFwAKmiQW

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

We glorify an illusion of this perfect mother putting her own needs last that's able to "do it all."

This creates a lot of deep suffering in our society.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

The cultural mother wound involves a core belief that mothers are to be: completely selfless, put everyone else first, and to wear self neglect and betrayal as a badge of honor.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Mother's can carry their own unresolved generational trauma that stems from: abuse or neglect from their own parents, cultural conditioning, and wounding that came from their lived experiences.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

The mother wound is a generational trauma passed down from a mother to her children.

It can impact so many parts of our lives:

[Will Todman @WillTodman]

Some more of my thoughts on this in @ishaantharoor's piece: https://t.co/mOiu06kYw1

[Will Todman @WillTodman]

My friend said that stories of similar aid diversion are spreading rapidly on social media even among pro-regime circles. He was far more critical of the regime over the phone to me than I’ve ever heard him, expressing palpable disgust.

[Will Todman @WillTodman]

He said that the aid he had taken was seized at a government checkpoint and soldiers were heavily restricting who could receive it. This was a big shock for him as he’s lived in Damascus throughout the conflict and said he had never witnessed such behavior for himself.

[Will Todman @WillTodman]

I just had a striking conversation with a friend in Damascus about aid in (regime held) Syria after the earthquake. His relative had traveled to Aleppo to volunteer for a few days but left in disgust at what he saw after just 24 hours.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Victor Hugo is most famous for writing beloved novels like Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

But he was also one of the greatest painters of the 19th century.

And Hugo's art, kept secret until after his death, is unlike anything you've seen before...

[Defense News Nigeria @DefenseNigeria]

Nigeria's layered Maritime Domain Awareness Architecture is the most advanced in Africa. Comprising of an Air (manned and unmanned) Land and Sea triad, all integrated to deliver actionable intelligence to decision makers.

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

My old professor’s advice for those in their 20s: “ten years from now, you need to be able to say that this is the life you chose, not one you settled for.”

A future that is created intentionally is more pleasant than one that is scrapped together by avoidance-driven choices.

[Phil Collins @PhilCollinsFeed]

A very happy Phil Collins at the #GRAMMYs in 1986, where he won the prestigious Album of the Year trophy for 'No Jacket Required', as well as Best Pop Vocal Performance and Producer of the Year.