Wande

A paradox that only holds because it pulls both ways.

[Wande @muya_joy]

📌

[Danielle Allen @dsallentess]

5/ Then there's group two: "the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from ...subdivision."

[Danielle Allen @dsallentess]

3/ "Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will... encounter" is "the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, & consequence of the offices they hold."

[Danielle Allen @dsallentess]

2/ Two groups, Hamilton said, would always fight change: those who benefit from current power and those who hope to rise by exploiting disorder.

[Jemedari @MrJemedari]

I personally feel like this would have been the right time and atmosphere for KE Music lovers to experience some Tetu Shani.
What a futuristic musical mind

[Kaluhi's_Kitchen @KaluhisKitchen]

This, along with the lab grown meat and fruits, will be a reserve for the poor (95% of the world). You can bet that the ultra rich will be eating real wheat, real meat, real milk, real fruits.

Currently we are being primed for the eventuality, but 2050/2060 ndio itashika vizuri

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

I love critical theory, I love seminars, I love reading groups, I love universities as public goods, I love historiography of disciplines and knowledge itself, I love difficulty and difficult questions, and I love the humanities being human. And that's the hill I die on.

[... @tamaranopper]

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.”

Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”

[Njeri 🇰🇪 @rtunguru]

The news is out ⚡ officially a @mozilla Fellow!
Proud to join the 2026–2027 Mozilla Fellows. I'm building Open Elections Kenya - an open-source electoral monitoring system for all Kenyans. Follow along, because the future is still ours to build.

[⋆｡𖦹° ꕤ @rakkofan]

i wake up, i cry over spilt milk, put all of my eggs in one basket, bite off more than i can chew, jump the gun, fly off the handle and then die on that hill

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Nobody has ever made the dark feel as real as old Disney did.

In these films the night isn't an absence of light. It's a color, and someone mixed it by hand…

Disney had its own paint laboratory, built by a woman named Mary Weiser, the first of its kind in animation. Its job was to invent shades that did not exist yet. In the early thirties, when the studio was still making shorts, there were around eighty shades on the shelves. By the time they finished Snow White there were fifteen hundred.

Every one of them went on by hand, cel by cel, and each cel needed hours to dry before it could be photographed.

The Ink and Paint department was almost entirely women. According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the paints were sometimes named after them, and to have a color carry your name was considered an honour.

So the dark of Bambi's forest, the lamplight in Geppetto's workshop, the blue at Cinderella's attic window: none of it is a filter or a setting or a dimmer turned down. Each is a specific colour that a specific person mixed in a jar, and some of those jars had her name on the label.

That is why these scenes still feel more alive than anything made since. We went from hands, to computers, to AI, and at every step there is a little less of the person left in it…

The author Joanna Maciejewska said it better than anyone: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

[Lorenzo Elijah, PhD @LorenzoElijah]

Just saw the Odyssey, and I am furious.

Everyone online promised me a woke slop fest about DEI Helen of Troy teaming up with transgender Achilles to piss on the grave of WESTERN CIVILISATION.

Instead I watched a masterpiece of cinema with touching performances, good pacing, and epic visuals.

WTF!?

Not a single Trump allusion; no ham-fisted climate change allegories; not even so much as a “yass Queen” from Telemachus.

1/5 stars.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

[fresils @iFresils]

please, wear your nice clothes everyday. the special occasion is being alive.

[Adelle Onyango @ADELLEO]

Child abuse is not a joke. Posting this as the country deals with specific cases such as the St. George's case is callous & disgusting.

Nairobians please introspect about the leaders you desire and deserve. I am sure it is not anyone who would do this.

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

the main quality the world requires of you now is to be brave, brave with your asks for the world, with shouting into a black hole, with effort that might go unrewarded, but also brave as in relinquishing power, admitting you’re wrong, saying pliable rather than rigid

[Equipe du Sénégal @GaindeYi]

Les Champions d’Afrique viennent d’atterrir à l’aéroport international Liberty de Newark dans le New Jersey. 🛬🇺🇸

[DataFut @DataFutebol]

O estilo da seleção da RD do Congo na chegada nos Estados Unidos! 🥶🇨🇩

[Les Flappers @Lesflappers]

Babe, French team arrivals are literally a fashion week

[Joe Lynam @JoeBLynam]

This should be the last time that America ever hosts a major international tournament - in any sport. The International Olympic committee should be watching very carefully for LA 2028

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

the foundation of a good life is very simple:
- make fewer decisions from fear
- make more decisions from love

the difficulty lies in the constant forgetting