Rob Stokes ⚡

#Africa #Education #Tech #Entrepreneurs

[greg @greg16676935420]

I bet the other 24 letters are pissed

[Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes]

@RubyGold Why?

[nvk 🌞 @nvk]

Do people even know that we won't have fish in the sea anymore because of China?

[Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes]

Vegan NIMBYs in a spin over this

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology.

That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Tando @tando_me]

We’ve been on a side-quest, and we have good news from the other side! 40 million Kenyans now have a bitcoin Lightning Address! They didn’t need to sign up for one because they had it this entire time, attached to the phone number in their pocket!

Try it: send bitcoin to [email protected] (254 is optional). The BTC arrives as KES in their M-Pesa. ⚡ EVERY M-Pesa number works. All 40,000,000.

Wallets with LUD-09 support give you a nice clickable link to see your M-Pesa receipt. For example: https://t.co/OK0R62jNWt

[lungile @IamLungile_]

Until black people vote for DA and Vf+ so they can scrap the minimum wage and BEE, there will be no jobs created for young people in South Africa!
Minimum wage makes inexperienced people too expensive to hire and train. The actual learning for a job happens in the work place

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If your country requires digital ID verification to use social media, then you don't live in a free country anymore.

If your country want to regulate or ban VPNs, you don't live in a free country anymore.

[John Ennis @johnennis]

Elon’s decision to make likes private here on X has probably done more to shift the Overton window than any other single action in world history

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Yes.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

The palisades fire being an act of left wing terrorism is not being discussed nearly enough.

[Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes]

Not a coincidence that 1971 is when the world officially abandoned the gold standard. This change gave governments the ability to print money out of thin air and give it to their friends. This monetary expansion, Cantillon Effect and subsequent asset price inflation make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The only solution is to separate money and state.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Dear every website: instead of blocking bots, please just request $0.01 x402 payment

Thanks

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:

[Grant Melson, CFA @grant_melson]

Can’t believe this guy’s goal is to hoard a $10T net worth.

I would think with all that wealth, he would use it to help people more.

Like ending deaths in car accidents, or providing affordable transport for everyone, or offering internet to isolated people groups or something.

[Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes]

@WarrenRcomedian @codetalkio So they don’t have a state mandated minimum wage then…

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The people who just killed an airline by blocking capitalism and free markets, also want to "fix" our healthcare and housing in the same way.