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[Chepsi @chepsi_]

Valley Road itakua ni sherehe. Unavaa slippers zako za Umoja rubber, unaslide moja kwa moja. Hiyo ukuta ya hapo Integrity Center ndio itakusimamisha ikishachukua front teeth kama tax. Unaamka ukisema, "Thithi ndio Thifuna."

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Meru, najua mlikua mumeanza kuchoka kungoja. Save the date!

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Bwana walisema huku Homabay ndio kuna shiny things kumbe ni ukora tu…dust is constant

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

The near silence in the room when Prof. Hino and Prof Nyong’o spoke of corruption and wastage in government as the biggest impediments to Kenya’s progress confirms the chickens were preaching salvation to the hawks.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

First how AirTags actually work. It's more powerful than you think.

AirTags don't have GPS. They don't have cellular service. They don't have Wi-Fi.

They have Bluetooth and Apple's Ultra Wideband (UWB) chip. When an AirTag is within Bluetooth range (~30 feet) of any Apple device any iPhone, iPad, or Mac that device anonymously relays the AirTag's location to Apple's Find My network.

There are over 2 billion active Apple devices worldwide. Each one is a node in the tracking network. Your AirTag doesn't need its own connection. It piggybacks on the devices of every Apple user who walks past it.

In a city: your AirTag is pinged by hundreds of devices per hour. Location updates every few minutes. Accuracy within 10-30 feet.

In a rural area: fewer devices, less frequent pings. But even one iPhone driving past on a highway updates the location.

Precision Finding (iPhone 15+): when you're within UWB range, your phone shows an arrow pointing directly to the AirTag with distance in feet. Not "somewhere in the living room." Exactly "4.2 feet to the left, behind the couch cushion." Down to inches.

The entire network runs silently. No Apple user knows their phone helped locate your lost bag. The process is end-to-end encrypted. Anonymous. Automatic.

[Dominic WALUBENGO @waluwande]

It is an old Roman custom. A convicted man was given time to go home and commit suicide. That way his family could take over his property. If the state executed him, all his property would go to the state.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

12% - Average possession between Anthony Gordon's opener and Lautaro Martínez's winner (55th to 92nd minute):

12% - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
88% - 🇦🇷 Argentina

Trapped.

[Pauline Njoroge @paulinenjoroge]

Linus Kaikai described yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast as one of the most heartless gathering in Kenya’s history.

The speakers of the day, and those leading prayers went ahead with their business without a single mention of Utumishi Girls Academy. They even cracked jokes without care, on one of Kenya’s darkest days in recent history.

[Sara @piousdeenn]

Arabic has 14 words for love. Each one describes a different stage. And here's what got me. Each one comes from a root that has nothing to do with love. Until you see the connection. And then you can't unsee it.

All 14. Let me walk you through them.

[autumn @adrusi]

when i was a kid, my dad (formerly a physics grad student) was shittalking the romans for building these giant aqueducts when the greeks understood centuries earlier that water would go back up a hill

i asked him how they would have held the pressure and he was like "huh."

[Sports Illustrated FC @SI_FootballClub]

Football is simpler when the front three are inevitable.

[descriptive display name that is way too long and @mrgracemugabe]

A guy today said to me he likes how Mazdas are red and he hasn’t seen that exact shade in any other car and I got to smile and explain that Soul Red™️ is patented by the Mazda Motor Corporation of Fuchu, Japan.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You drink 8 glasses of water for clear skin and the only thing that got clearer is your pee. Your body already had enough water and just flushed the extra.

Your kidneys filter about 47 gallons of fluid a day. Around 350 water bottles worth. But only about half a gallon actually leaves as pee. The rest, 99% of it, goes right back into your blood. When you chug water past what your body needs, your kidneys don't reroute it to your face. They dump it. Clear pee is your kidneys saying "we're good, lose it."

A 2018 review from Charité University in Berlin looked at every published study on drinking water and skin. They found 216 papers. Only 6 had strong enough methods to count as real evidence. The conclusion: no solid proof that drinking more water improves your skin if you're already getting a normal amount.

One study that did find something (49 women in Portugal, 30 days, 2 extra liters daily) showed better skin moisture. But the gains came almost entirely from women who were barely drinking any water before the study started. If you were already drinking normally, the difference was tiny. Your body has a priority list for water: brain first, then heart, then kidneys. Skin gets whatever is left.

Researchers in Korea tested this head-to-head in 2024. One group drank extra water. The other just applied moisturizer. Moisturizer won. Skin dries out because moisture leaks outward through the surface. A $6 cream that seals that surface does more than 10 glasses of water your kidneys will flush by tonight.

I think the whole "water for skin" thing is a distraction from what the science says actually works. A trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that cutting sugar and processed carbs reduced acne. High-sugar diets raise your breakout risk by 20 to 30%. Skim milk is tied to acne too because it spikes a hormone that tells your oil glands to pump out more of the oily stuff that clogs pores.

The stuff your skin actually wants: fatty fish like salmon, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin C, and sunscreen. Not glass number eight. Your skin would rather you ate salmon and wore sunscreen.

[✦ @redfxb]

Arne Slot’s periodization: GPS loads, individualized plans via Ruben Peeters.

Light pre-match sessions (often 15-20 mins) with recovery prioritized over heavy overload.

Sold as "injury-proof."

Smart load management, not “lightweight” gym work.

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist noticed in 1907 that Bulgarian peasants were living past 100 at unusually high rates. His explanation: they ate yogurt every day. His name was Élie Metchnikoff, and he ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

His lecture made front-page news. Parisians lined up to buy Bulgarian curdled milk. Drugstores across Europe and the US started selling Lactobacilline tablets, basically the world’s first probiotics. But his original theory was partially wrong. The specific bacteria in yogurt (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) don’t actually survive in the human gut. A Yale researcher proved that in 1921.

Should’ve been case closed. It wasn’t.

In 2021, Stanford ran a clinical trial published in Cell with 36 healthy adults over 10 weeks. One group ate about 6 daily servings of fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha). The other ate high-fiber foods. The fermented food group saw their gut bacterial diversity increase, which is one of the strongest predictors of overall health, and 19 inflammatory proteins in their blood dropped. Including interleukin-6, a protein tied to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress. The high-fiber group? Zero of those 19 proteins decreased.

That same year, a Keio University and Broad Institute team studied 160 Japanese centenarians (average age: 107) and published in Nature. These centenarians had gut bacteria producing a bile acid called isoallolithocholic acid, basically a natural antibiotic so new to science it had never been described. It kills drug-resistant bacteria, including C. difficile, a gut infection that hits roughly 500,000 Americans a year.

A 2023 Nature Aging study of 1,575 people in China, 297 of them centenarians, found the oldest participants had gut microbiomes that looked younger than people decades below them. More bacterial diversity, more beneficial species, fewer harmful ones.

The yogurt meta-analysis data across 12 cohort studies: each additional daily serving is linked to 7% lower all-cause mortality and 14% lower risk of dying from heart disease.

Metchnikoff called it 119 years ago. Fermented foods reshape your entire gut ecosystem, increasing the diversity of bacteria living in your intestines, lowering chronic inflammation, and building a biochemical environment where your body fights off disease on its own.

[Ohta Ryota 🇸🇬 @Ohta_Ryota]

A responsible Government with scientific information on amount of rainfall expected yesterday would have released a statement asking all Nairobians and especially employers and schools to release their staff at 1pm to allow them get home before rains fall...sio kungojea politician akufe wapatiane public holiday

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.

Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.

Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.

Now compare the alternatives.

Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.

US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.

Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.

The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.

That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.

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[jonte gach @jonte_gach]

@grok @pillappan @mog_russEN @grok The receptionist assaulted the lady first and then, by retaliation, the man assaulted the lady receptionist. Why is it that you think the first act was not assault while the second action was assault?

[Matatu Industry Reborn @matatuindustry]

Hua mnathani nawapima nikisema umo ni mtaa ya 6ks na 7ks 😂huko D najua 10k haitakosa but wanasema inaenda lopha .. iweke 8k huko

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Thank You Kitengela. Inspite of all the harassment, intimidation and violence from this morning you showed up. They first destroyed our dais and sound equipment in the morning, the state goons have now teargassed a peaceful assembly and brought it to an abrupt end. We shall not relent.