M_oyo

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

#JusticeForKianjokomaBrothers #JusticeforEmmanuelandBenson 🕊🕊🕊

[NFR Podcast @nfr_podcast]

Mac Miller - TINY DESK CONCERT 🎙️

8 years ago today…

[Futurist🇿🇼 @WaltJackman]

Moments like these remind us that the internet isn’t all bad. 😅🔥

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

We haven’t fulfilled vision 2030 so let’s make another one. Clown on stilts. A failure!

[Formerly Brace Face @jwangombe]

😂😂😂😂😂

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

This man talks too much. You can’t quote a constitution that you do not follow. You talked your way to the first term (still shocked after your disaster 10 years as DP) and broke every promise. Try a new gimmick

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

@CoinStokes @Jasiri_Sierra Show me the wins, please. Other than for him and his cronies. He has been a disaster for Kenya

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

@CoinStokes @Jasiri_Sierra Because the clown in the current seat did or does? Failed in Education, Failed in Agriculture, Failed as Deputy President and has been a disaster as President. Anything is better than this failure

[Nicole ✨ @BombshellCole]

Baby, Ms Rachel is on IG cutting up!

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

Shaquille O'Neal broke down his biggest regret about his relationship with Kobe Bryant:

Shaq: "My son came up crying and said Kobe died in a helicopter crash. I thought it was a hoax. I called my guy at the sheriff's department, and he said it was true. I just started crying."

Shaq: "People think we hated each other, but after my first championship, who jumped in my arms first? We argued like brothers, but there was always respect. We pushed each other to win three titles."

Shaq: "The only thing I regret is I could’ve just hollered. It takes no time to text 'Hey man, what's happening?' I never did it, he never did it, and that’s what hurts me the most."

Two legends won three straight rings together, but let pride and distance keep them from sending a simple text before it was too late.

Is holding onto petty grudges and waiting for the other person to call first the single dumbest mistake people make in life?

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

@Abiola_Usman Man! I was so excited. Sigh!

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

INEOS have made a few mistakes but this transfer window…they are cooking. First time in a long time we feel complete in midfield. A decent LB next please

[Arsenal Papers @PapersArsenal]

🚨 EXCL: Manchester United have reached agreement with #RMFC to sign France midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni; package worth over €80m. Now finalising paperwork before signing #MUFC happy with midfield signings now moving in other positions. @TheAthleticFC

https://t.co/sVyMqkPpTq

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

@Askumo254 Hahaha I got clowned a good one

[Rеvеn @RevenRV]

Lo de la Masia no tiene ningún sentido, mira como la toca este renacuajo.

[M_oyo @m_oyo]

First time I’m hearing Saudi talk about Palestine is when Trump is messing with their sovereignty. That doesn’t sit well with me but we have learnt a lot, in the last 12-months, about the hypocrisy behind the older institutions and old order

[🇸🇦Abdulsalam Saleh @abdulslam2017]

Your Excellency, the President of the United States,
In response to your post a few hours ago on Truth Social, we would like to inform you that you have miscalculated, and we invite you to review the terms of the officially signed contract between the Ministries of Energy of both countries, which is entirely devoid of these newly introduced conditions you are now bringing up.
Your attempt to link these agreements to normalization conditions at this specific timing is nothing more than a blatant investment in Netanyahu and a failed attempt to downsize and diminish Saudi sovereignty. Today, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is leading a historic international coalition—having mobilized the nations of the world for it—to do justice to the grievances of the Palestinian people, revive the two-state solution track, and recognize the Palestinian state. This is a supreme, deeply rooted goal in Riyadh’s conscience, and its strategic constants in supporting the Palestinian cause are a million times more precious than any technical or nuclear agreement.
Saudi Arabia's policy is not managed by the logic of cheap quid-pro-quos nor does it bow to dictations. The Kingdom's constants are crystal clear, and under no circumstances will it ever compromise or reduce its monumental efforts into fleeting deals.
🦅🇸🇦

[Julians Amboko @AmbokoJH]

The Ol Kalou Price Index is taking shape

[Adelle Onyango @ADELLEO]

Never ever forget that @WilliamsRuto's response, to Kenyans demanding better governance, was to kill them and order them be shot in the legs. Unfit for office, fit for jail.

[Aleckie Ronald @SirAlexas]

Friends and Family are looking for Tugi. If you have any information you can call 0726 930 930 or 0720 487 002. RT