Lekan A

Trained to save lives but I nuke people for a living | Nigerian expat in the UK

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@ancientmind @Dentalgiorgio Congrats Chief 👏🏽

[PS @dostoevesque]

There is something slightly irritating about how youngsters today seem obsessed with diagnosing an entire generation of their parents using therapy language they picked up from reels and threads. We are effectively criticizing them for failing a test they didn't even know they were taking, using vocabulary that didn't exist in their world.

It is easy to call your own father a narcissist when you have grown up listening to podcasts that explain attachment theory and emotional patterns. It is harder to imagine what it meant to be a twenty five year old parent in the nineteen eighties with no language for feelings, no examples to follow, no online spaces to learn from, no therapy culture, only responsibility and pressure.

Instead of extending the empathy we have learned through this new vocabulary to those who never had access to it, we often turn that language into a weapon against them. Social media encourages this because anger feels powerful and validating. A label like narcissist or toxic neatly explains the pain and gives it a clear target.

By framing their behavior through complex diagnostic labels they cannot define, you strip them of the ability to defend themselves or explain their perspective. They retreat into silence because they literally do not have the words to counter your argument. It allows you to dominate the interaction not because you are morally right, but because you possess a vocabulary that makes them feel stupid and inferior.

[Aditi Choudhary @AditiRajasthan]

I recently heard someone say:

"The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them."

I can't see it any other way now.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

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[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@Morris_Monye Senator Gbenga Aluko of Ekiti state became Director of Government Affairs at Chevron Nigeria after leaving the Senate. There are very few of them but they exist.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@yomisteve More like tech unc 😝

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@DrAbioye Quite likely the supervisor is also not a comms expert, or they are too blinded by sentiments to do the right thing.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@RinouMonay Congrats!

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@harkandae @Sai_Ishaya_ The test has not been a waste cos local staging has been done at the very least and presumably, you want to know that before going in. Colonoscopy for direct visualisation and biopsy, if clinically tolerable, will give the diagnosis.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@harkandae @Sai_Ishaya_ CT is not a magic wand. A caecal pole tumour, appendiceal ca and a bad appendicitis can look very similar but history and biochemical markers may suggest the most likely diagnosis.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

These guys have to be tone deaf!🤦🏽‍♂️

[Tahir Ali MP @TahirAliMP]

This week, I attended a press conference ordained by Mohammed Yasin MP, where 20 cross-party British Parliamentarians requested for an international airport in Mirpur.

There has been a long-standing promise for an international airport in Mirpur, which has yet to be met. This causes significant issues to a number of my constituents, who are having to drive over three hours to get to the nearest airport in Pakistan.

I will continue to push for this cause, and pursue this issue until permission is granted for a new airport.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@realoneahmed @RCRadiologists Congrats bro!

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@moldina ☺️☺️☺️

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@FreddyNOTJason1 @ogheneme1 Maybe the new 30 but surely not 20.

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

I feel like an ancestor 😭

[𝔸b𝕒𝕫𝕫 @abazwhyllzz]

Pure water was never 5 naira make una calm down

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@moldina It wasn’t even that long ago😭

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@FreddyNOTJason1 @ogheneme1 Tah! You even bought a bottle of coke for 10 naira at some point 😀

[Lekan A @laeksyde]

@Ms_FaithV 😭😭😭