j.o.n.a.h🍻

Hear me out!!?

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

One child. One smile. One moment. One difference. ❤️
CancerDoesNotDefineUs
https://t.co/rkO28egcTU
#AllForLoveCancer
#26thSeptemberCharity
@AllForLoveCancer
@BCFUganda
@UgandaCancerIns

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

One child. One smile. One moment. One difference. ❤️
CancerDoesNotDefineUs
https://t.co/rkO28egcTU
#AllForLoveCancer
#26thSeptemberCharity
@AllForLoveCancer
@BCFUganda
@UgandaCancerIns

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

Love, hope, and the power of community to Mikisa Cancer Care Home for our Annual Sports Day Charity Edition on 26th September 2026 from 12 PM. 🏃🏾‍♀️❤️
#AllForLoveCancerCharity
#26thSeptemberCharity
@AllForLoveCancer
@BCFUganda
@UgandaCancerIns

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

Love, hope, and the power of community to Mikisa Cancer Care Home for our Annual Sports Day Charity Edition on 26th September 2026 from 12 PM. 🏃🏾‍♀️❤️
#AllForLoveCancerCharity
#26thSeptemberCharity
@AllForLoveCancer
@BCFUganda
@UgandaCancerIns

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

The field is set. The kids are ready. Where will YOU be?
#AllForLoveCancerCharity #26thSeptemberCharity
@All4LoveCancer @BCFUganda @SU2C @AmericanCancer

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

26th September we pull up with love, leave with memories. BE THERE!
#AllForLoveCancerCharity #26thSeptemberCharity
@BCFUganda @SU2C @AmericanCancer @UCCF_Official

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

We don't play for trophies. We play for brave little hearts fighting cancer. ⚽️❤️
#AllForLoveCancerCharity #26thSeptmeberCharity

[j.o.n.a.h🍻 @jonathanamenu02]

Cancer is tough, but our kids are tougher.
We’re bringing the playground to them — Sports Edition style!
#26thSeptemberCharity
#AllForLoveCancerCharity

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Most engineers learn fast in years 1–5.
Then growth slows dramatically.
Not because the job gets easier, but because the learning loop breaks.

Here's why it happens and how to fix it:

WHY THE PLATEAU HAPPENS

You stop encountering new failure modes.
In your first years, everything fails in ways you've never seen. You learn by being wrong.
By year 5, you've solved most problems in your domain. You stop being wrong as often.
Less failure = less learning.

You stop reading outside your field.
Civil engineers stop reading mechanical engineering papers.
Software engineers stop reading manufacturing research.
The best ideas in your field are often translations from adjacent ones.

You optimise for delivery, not understanding.
Experienced engineers know how to solve the problem without fully understanding why the solution works.
Fast delivery is valuable. But it's the enemy of depth.

HOW TO BREAK THE PLATEAU

1. Take on projects where you're the least experienced person in the room.
Deliberately uncomfortable. Deliberately unfamiliar domain.
The fastest learning always comes from being the person who doesn't know.

2. Teach what you know to someone junior.
Teaching reveals the gaps in your understanding faster than any other method.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't fully understand it.

3. Read the original papers, not the summaries.
The textbook compresses 20 years of argument into one settled answer.
The original paper shows you the uncertainty, the dead ends, and the assumptions.
That's where the real understanding lives.

4. Do a project in an adjacent field once a year.
Structural engineer? Learn one concept from geotechnical. Software engineer? Read one manufacturing process paper.
Cross-pollination is where innovation happens.

5. Track your own predictions.
Before a project starts, write down what you think will be the hardest part.
After it ends, compare.
Engineers who track their own predictive accuracy improve faster than those who don't.

The plateau isn't inevitable.
It's a sign that the learning environment needs redesigning.

[Groove Media @groovestudios__]

Finale merchandise 📸for @Machando04

#ThefinalistRelease
#Nobuntubukye
#UpTheMerchant

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

The Politics of Kulabiisa: When Governance Becomes Performance.
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Dear Hon. @BalaamBarugahar et al, let me begin fairly. Before joining politics, Balaam was a successful captain of industry. He built enterprises, created jobs, took risks and learnt that results come from work rather than slogans. He is not the familiar political gambler whose only enterprise is politics itself and whose greatest productive asset is a microphone. His instinct should therefore be to defend the legitimacy of hard work, lawful effort and democratic accountability. His concerns about corruption, waste and poor service delivery are real.

But now comes the danger. The private-sector instinct to walk into a workplace, summon the responsible officer and demand immediate answers does not translate neatly into government. A company may have one captain. A state is supposed to have institutions, laws, budgets, contracts, auditors, technical professionals and chains of responsibility. When a minister becomes the investigator, auditor, engineer, prosecutor and public-relations officer in one roadside performance, governance has crossed into kulabiisa.

The problems being “discovered” are hardly new. Five years of unaccounted money did not accumulate in a country without ministers, internal auditors, accounting officers, parliamentary committees and oversight agencies. Hospitals did not suddenly run out of medicine on the morning a minister entered the ward. Delayed road projects did not become distressed only when a convoy arrived. We are often watching government publicly rediscover what government has privately known for years.

The construction sector exposes the contradiction most clearly. A minister visits a struggling project, rebukes the contractor and orders the Project Manager to deliver. Yet government may owe the same contractor, delay approvals, withhold possession of site, sit on variations and fail to resolve land or utility problems. A Project Manager cannot command performance into existence when the Employer has weakened the contract. Workers are not paid by speeches, suppliers do not release materials after watching TikTok, and machinery does not run on patriotic anger.

This is where the principle of clean hands matters. Government must demand quality, accountability and value for money, but it must also account for its own obligations. Accountability that travels only downwards is not justice; it is power performing morality for an audience.

Balaam is therefore not the problem, and neither is any one new minister. They are entering a political culture that rewards visibility more than institutional repair. Cameras make anger visible; they do not make systems functional. Years of frustration with corruption, poor service delivery and unfulfilled promises have understandably created a public appetite for visible accountability. Citizens who have suffered for so long naturally cheer public confrontations, arrests and humiliation because they feel, at last, that someone is acting. Politicians quickly learn that a dramatic inspection attracts more applause than a procurement reform, a forensic audit or a strengthened institution. The politics of kulabiisa is therefore sustained by both leaders and citizens: one side performs accountability, the other applauds the performance. Yet when the cameras leave, the hospital still needs medicines, the contractor still needs payment, the engineer still needs technical independence and the institution still needs reform. Real governance is quieter. It is paying on time, investigating competently, enforcing contracts fairly, strengthening institutions and correcting failure before a ministerial convoy is required. That is the harder work, and it produces far fewer dramatic videos.

The test of leadership is not how many officials are humiliated on camera. It is how many problems no longer need a camera at all.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

⚪️🔵🇦🇷 Leo Messi with Enzo Fernández. 🫂

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🤩🇦🇷 Leo Messi’s reaction after becoming World Cup top scorer ever. 👊🏼

[Mod @CFCMods]

You all thought I was joking, Lionel Messi is a sick man😂

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Workdays SHOULD be 10am-3pm or 9am-2pm. There's no reason for people to spend most of their lives at work.
Let people go home and have time for their families, partners, friends, and rest. That's why everyone is so miserable today.

[PIRATES RUGBY @piratesrugbyUG]

You can’t live everyday of your life with fear that you won’t come back ~ Sydney Gongodyo 2026.

Well sailed Sydney 🕊️🕯️

COME ON YOU PIRATES 🏴‍☠️

#StanbicPirates ll #RokeWithPirates ll #VisitKPA ll #PiratesStrong

[Spike⚡ @SpikeTweets_14]

"My husband isn't picking up my calls, he is probably with another Woman rn"

The husband with the boys:

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

Kampala buildings just received a gentle reminder from the earth.
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake, reportedly centered around the Nakasongola area, was felt across the city. For many residents, it was a brief moment of surprise. For engineers, it was a reminder that gravity is not the only force a building may one day have to resist.

Earthquakes are fascinating because they do not create weaknesses in structures. They reveal the weaknesses that already exist.

What many people do not realize is that one of the most vulnerable moments in the life of a building is not when it is old. It is when it is under construction.

Structural engineers design buildings assuming that concrete will achieve its required strength, beams and slabs will act together, walls will be completed, and the structure will function as an integrated system. During construction, however, that system is still being assembled.

Concrete may be only a few days old. Temporary supports may still be carrying significant loads. Materials may be stockpiled unevenly on slabs. Some structural elements may be complete while others are still missing. Construction activities themselves can create load patterns that the finished building will never experience again.

In simple terms, a building under construction often behaves differently from the building shown in the engineer's calculations.

This is why construction engineering matters. A good engineer is not only concerned with whether a building will stand when completed. They are equally concerned with whether it will safely survive every stage between excavation and occupation.

Fortunately, tonight's tremor appears to have been modest. However, it raises an important question for every developer and property owner.

Who is managing the risks while your building is being built?

Many people buy drawings. Some buy supervision. The wisest invest in engineering oversight throughout the entire construction process because structures rarely fail after the ribbon-cutting ceremony. They usually fail during the shortcuts, assumptions, and compromises made before it.

Tonight, General Tremor paid Kampala a courtesy visit.

Thankfully, he came carrying an inspection form rather than an enforcement notice.

[Bless a Child Foundation @BCFUganda]

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Reach out to learn how you can visit or support our mission.
Leave a ❤️ to thank our amazing visitors.
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[Nicholas Bamulanzeki @bamulanzeki]

Following the events that happened at NUP’s party president @HEBobiwine’s home last night , his wife Barbra Kyagulanyi who is currently admitted at Nsambya hospital narrates what happened @observerug