Kobla

citizen of the world, bumbling dad, aspiring adventure seeker, still working on my tennis game.

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@bartlettdaron @KiryowaKk The upside to fuel price hikes is it'll be harder to penalize/criminalize "walk to work".

[vicky mochama @vmochama]

if you’re afraid to answer a question from the media, how are you fit to govern?

[MUHAMMAD ONYANGO @Moha001_Onyango]

Still on Uber leaving Nigeria listen to this study from Trevor Noah 😂😂😂

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@mkiboneka In the Karate Kid, Ralf Macchiao is put through a series of wax on/wax off exercises that he later discovers improve his block reaction. Maybe this is one of those drills whose muscle memory kicks in later under fire??

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@MordecaiMuriisa @JanetMuseveni One can be devout to their religion and cruel at the same time. Think Joseph Kony.

[DJ @DjCheshier]

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@SpireJim She should've considered "Netflixing & chilling" way more entertaining and costs nothing in comparison.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This man needs a standing ovation 👏🏾 the way he intellectually articulates himself. This is what they fear

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

In February 2007, Andrew Mwenda @AndrewMwenda resigned from Monitor and KFM due to editorial interference with free journalism, including freedom to criticise Mr Museveni and his family. Here are some excerpts from his awesome resignation letter:

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@ubctvuganda How long is the presidential convoy?

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@NadaAndersen All over a Rolls Royce? Should’ve got a Bentley.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

[Damnglad @damnglad5]

@Daractenus @cardon_brian One of the best explanations I’ve seen

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Imagine writing a book so bad the reader returns it directly to the author

A guy hands JD Vance his own book and asks for a refund

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

When the going gets tough, Trumper Ford takes 102 day vacation. D'Mello, "Where you snowmobiling on Saturday in cottage country while Ottawa was under siege, as you say?"
Ford, "Let me tell you Colin, I was at the cottage and I went out on my snowmobile."

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@wekesa_amos Love what you do, never work a day in your life! Go Amos, your drive and enthusiasm are infectious!

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@wekesa_amos @BMerish Indeed, positioning our opportunities is necessary, but govt is stuck in the mud. The only notable attempts I can recall were the CNN campaigns in ‘05 and ‘24. More needs to be done. The Pearl of Africa won’t simply sell itself.

[🇨🇦CoffeyTimeNews🇨🇦 @CoffeyTimeNews]

He’s still mad about this.

[Kobla @koblasebs]

@LarryMadowo @LarryMadowo it's the per diem!