THe Chin Checker

So many things have changed that I dunno who I am these days

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

US embassies across Africa are no longer distributing red t-shirts to local communities with solidarity hashtags about missing Nigerian children printed on them?

No one is wearing red and doing daily protests at Unity Fountain? No hijab-wearing lunatics screaming and pouring spit at TV cameras everyday? No one is pasting posters of missing schoolchildren under Falomo Bridge?

Guardian newspaper is not printing a black square with "Where are the girls?" on the top left corner of its front page everyday? American celebrities have not rediscovered their love for kidnapped Nigerian children?

How droll.

Until the 230 million tabula rasas learn to differentiate between their factual reality and the contrived, sponsored nonsense funded by the NED budget for a foreign regime change operation.

Shebi I'm just a "conspiracy theorist" and America has only ever wanted the best for you? Shebi there was no US-led regime change operation in 2015 intended to derail the development of the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world which was on track to become Africa's first trillion-dollar economy by 2024?

Shebi everything that has happened since 2015 including the loss of 65% of national GDP, the generational talent haemorrhage, the total collapse into ungoverned space, the ascension of a drug dealer from Chicago into the presidency, and the creation of a permanent US military base on Nigerian soil for the first time, are all just separate, coincidental events that have nothing to do with each other?

Don't worry, your tears have not even started yet.

You will cry hot tears for help that will never come.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

White women have been calling Black women "Shenaenae", "La'Quisha", and "ShaNiqua" in a demeaning manner since the 80's. Latinas were called "Consuela", "Guadalupe", or "Maria" and Asian women were called "Ling-Ling", but the moment ‘Karen’ became a meme criticizing entitled behavior, suddenly people wanted to talk about respect and stereotyping.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

These decisions are not being made by Nigerians. Not even Nigerians are this self-destructive.

I've said all I can possibly say anyway.

Whoever doesn't get it, shouldn't.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when you’re an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous.

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

2 Chainz celebrated his daughter Heaven graduating high school with a 4.0 GPA and being accepted into Howard University:

“Out of all the things I’ve accomplished in my lifetime, this is at the top.”

[Nora @Heal_within96]

French media confirmed that France and Ukraine are behind the terrorism and instability in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Once again, the ideology of white supremacy is infested in Africa like a parasite. They can't let us Africans be!

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Not only did the White Invaders destroy the Wall of the Benin Kingdom (in present day Nigeria), they also insisted it must never be rebuilt.

Their reason for doing so was to make sure there was no evidence of civilization in that part of the world, so that Africans of today can confidently argue with you that if it wasn’t for the white man, they would all be living in caves today.

Many of them today cannot believe that their ancestors built one of the world’s largest ever man-made structures, because Oyibo destroyed all the evidence.

It’s sad.

[dj franzia @hawillisdc]

there’s a reason our ancestors risked their lives and were murdered bc of reading + the elite are doing everything to make sure our kids are illiterate. our ancestors understood that liberation/organizing and literacy/education were synonymous.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

MacKenzie Scott divorced Jeff Bezos and got $36 billion in the divorce.

She has donated $26 billion to charity since then.

She’s now worth $42 billion, six billion MORE than when she started

TAX THE BILLIONAIRES. THEY’LL BE FINE.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The best thing you can do for yourself as a Nigerian is to use that internet connection of yours while you still can, and follow/read/watch information from a wide variety of sources from all over the world.

Your Nigerian media is a Europe-US information cage. When I say "Nigerian media", I'm not just talking about news platforms. I mean your popular social media bloggers. Your big content aggregators. Your online discussion and image boards. Everything is bought and paid for, and the money is always European or American.

Do yourself a favour and unplug.

Look for news, web content, TV series, movies and discussion forums from Asia, Latin America and other parts of Africa. Watch Brazilian TV shows. Watch Chinese documentaries. Watch Vietnamese movies. Follow social media content creators from Indonesia and Russia. Lurk on Pakistani message boards. Gain a wider picture of the world while you still have access to a relatively open internet that allows you to do so.

It's the best thing you can do for yourself.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇳🇦 BREAKING: Namibia just paid off its entire IMF debt. Zero balance. $23.8 million repaid. No new loans. No new conditions. Freedom.

While other nations drown in IMF austerity, Namibia walked out. No more structural adjustment. No more neoliberal lectures. No more foreign control over economic policy.

This is what sovereignty looks like. Paying your debts. Refusing new ones. Charting your own path.

Namibia is free. Other African nations should take notes.

Question for the timeline: Which African country should be next to tell the IMF goodbye?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

As much as we all love to bag on Gen Z, the data shows that Gen Z is statistically the generation that has rejected empire, hegemony, colonialism and forever wars.

The kids are alright after all.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Andrew Huberman described the worst morning routine in five steps. Stay in bed, recline, skip sunlight, drink coffee too early, multitask. Every one of them targets the same 30-minute neural event.

Between minute 0 and 60 after waking, your body runs the cortisol awakening response. A healthy pulse lifts cortisol by about 50%, sets a 14-to-16 hour timer for melatonin release, primes immune function, and anchors alertness for the whole day. Miss the window and your circadian clock drifts until you go back to sleep. The rest of the day runs at 70%.

Sunlight is the trigger. Light has to hit melanopsin cells at the bottom of your retina to signal the suprachiasmatic nucleus to fire cortisol. Through a glass window you need 50 times longer. A phone screen is hundreds of times too dim to count. Curtains closed plus head down means the pathway never activates. The pulse either never fires or fires weakly, with effects rippling across the next 16 hours.

Reclining kills the second lever. Studies recording directly from the locus coeruleus and the reticular activating system show alertness drops with reclining and rises with sitting forward. Those melanopsin cells sit in the bottom of your retina for a reason. They evolved to see the sun overhead. Chin down, eyes down, horizontal body: the brainstem reads this signal set as "still asleep" and keeps you in sleep-adjacent arousal for hours.

Coffee at minute 10 kills the third. Adenosine is the sleep pressure molecule cleared by that cortisol pulse. Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors before cortisol gets the chance to clear them naturally. Two to three hours later the caffeine metabolizes, uncleared adenosine floods the receptors all at once, and you crash at 11am. Drink a second cup to patch the crash and you've shifted your cortisol peak four hours late. Which means your melatonin shifts too. Which means you can't sleep that night.

Phone scrolling kills the fourth. Morning dopamine baseline is the lowest it will be all day. Ten minutes of feed delivers hundreds of micro-rewards before breakfast is ready. You've spent peak dopamine on algorithm-selected stimuli. Every real task in the workday that follows registers as a downgrade against that baseline.

Multitasking kills the fifth. The prefrontal cortex boots last after waking. Task-switching between texts, emails, and random notifications during the boot window trains the attention network to run fragmented all day. Sophie Leroy's 2009 attention residue research showed each switch leaves cognitive spillover that degrades the next task. Start the morning with 20 switches and focus is a rented asset for the next 12 hours.

Five random-looking habits, five targeted attacks on the same mechanism. Light triggers the pulse. Posture amplifies it. Caffeine cooperates with it. Dopamine protects what it builds. Focus compounds what it anchors.

20 minutes outside with your phone in the other room fixes all five at once.

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

Retired NBA star J.R. Smith is set to graduate from North Carolina A&T State University next month at the age of 40 🎓💯

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.”

—Ta-Nehisi Coates

[𝓡𝓪𝓷𝓭𝔂🪐🪄 @Iam_randy07]

god forbid i smoke weed in public while the elites eat children.

[THe Chin Checker @MasterChuckles]

@Stopbeingsheepz @Jhardman486 @RottieLyle You didnt do anything...she said she made the joke, they fact checked and said she was not the first ever but she WAS the first AA romantic lead. The second joke was implied and went ovee your head.

[HIAMHIGH @hi_amhigh]

"I don't smoke Marijuana because I'm a criminal"
-Fela Kuti

[✟ 𝔹𝕃𝔼𝕊𝕊𝕂𝕀𝔻 ✟🕳️🪐 @say_hey_to_bles]

How stoners look at each other when they’re ready to smoke at a function.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it.
Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe.

Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them.

And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced.

We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity.

And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice!

In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!