Felix Asena

Amateur Sociologist

[Tchatchoezamayi @LydiaAsena]

@SafaricomFDN financing infrustcture upgrade at Bugengi Comprehensive school in Busia and first order of business is cutting down decades old trees @Safaricom_Care @safaricomplc

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@SomoinaKapeen 40 days of makumbusho after burial 👀

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@smileycherry2 @MuchiriH Failing successfully

[AI Panda @AIPandaX]

I Come back to this speech every once in a while…

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

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[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

your body runs on an internal clock (circadian rhythm) meaning your body has a 24 hr biological clock controlled by the brain (the hypothalamus)... it controls body temperature, hormones, immune system activity, hunger, mood and even alertness

so at night , this system switches into recovery + low alert mode and that changes how everything feels.

why sickness feels worse at night is because of lower cortisol at night, cortisol is a hormone that reduces inflammation and pain. high in the morning and very low at night

so at night, pain feels stronger, fever feels worse, coughing increases, asthma attacks are more common... the sickness isn’t worse, the body’s anti-inflammatory system is weaker.

there are also several reasons why many deaths happen at night; the body is in maintenance mode, heart rate slows, blood pressure drops and brain alertness drops... so if someone is very sick, the body has less reserve power to fight failure

why you feel more hungry at midnight or at night is because leptin (fullness hormone) drops, ghrelin (hunger hormone) rises, blood sugar tends to dip, brain craves fast energy (sugar/carbs)... also your brain is tired, so willpower is weaker and cravings feel stronger.

the raeson why depression and dark thoughts hit at night, this is BIG... at night there is no noise, no tasks, no social interaction so your mind turns inward and ruminates.

brain chemistry changes, serotonin drops at night, melatonin rises (makes you sleepy but emotionally sensitive), dopamine (motivation) is lower... the brain becomes more reflective, emotional and vulnerable.

there’s also an evolutionary reason that humans evolved to be alert to danger at night, so the brain naturally scans for threats and negative possibilities.

why everything feels more intense at night (general effect) at night: less sensory input > brain amplifies internal sensations, body is tired > pain and emotions feel stronger, logical thinking decreases > emotional thinking increases... this is why breakups feel worse at night, anxiety spikes at night, memories hit harder at night, overthinking peaks at night

there’s also a psychological illusion, when it’s quiet and dark, your brain has nothing external to focus on, so pain feels louder, hunger feels louder, thoughts feel louder, loneliness feels louder... the night acts like an emotional amplifier.

a fun fact, crazy but true, doctors and psychologists say: never make big life decisions at night because your brain is chemically more pessimistic and emotionally biased after dark

learn something. 👍

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@kimaiyo Also you it's unfair to downplay other people's traumatic experiences.

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@georgediano There's no tension in the country bana

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@waymoflydenu Hiding weapons of asstraction

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@SomoinaKapeen Been there. Truly beautiful.

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@SomoinaKapeen Ni wapi please. Can't tell.

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@SomoinaKapeen I see you 👍

[Felix Asena @sanklair]

@HackHiii Izza man 💔

[Kenya Meteorological Service Authority @MeteoKenya]

🌧️ HEAVY RAINFALL ALERT! 🚨

🔹 Update No.: 1 | Advisory No.: 01/2025
🔹 Validity: March 9 (3 PM) – March 11 (9 PM)
🔹 Urgency: Expected | Severity: Low–Moderate | Certainty: 33–66%

🌍 Areas Affected:

Heavy rainfall of more than 20mm in 24 hours is expected in:
✅ March 9: Parts of Lake Victoria Basin, Rift Valley, Highlands (East & West), Nairobi, and SE Lowlands.
✅ March 10: Rainfall intensifies to more than 30mm in 24 hours and spreads to Northwestern Kenya.
✅ March 11: Gradual reduction in intensity.

📍 Counties Affected:

Narok, Kericho, Bomet, Homa Bay, Siaya, Migori, Busia, Kisumu, Kisii, Nyamira, Nandi, Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma, Baringo, Nakuru, Trans-Nzoia, Uasin Gishu, Elgeyo-Marakwet, West Pokot, Turkana, Marsabit, Nyandarua, Laikipia, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Murang’a, Kiambu, Nairobi, Machakos, Kajiado.

⚠️ Stay Safe!

🚨 Be on alert for floods, flash floods & poor visibility.
⚡ Avoid sheltering under trees or near grilled windows (lightning risk).
🚗 Drivers: Watch out for slippery roads & reduced visibility.

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[John Mutongoi @johnmtongoi]

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[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Dear Police officers,
Welcome back from the day’s labour and anxiety. We understand the pain you must be enduring internally, having to arrest young boys and girls your children’s age - whom you clearly know are innocent. While you have to take the orders, deep within you you are conflicted and wounded. The pain could be read on some of your faces, even when you had to pretend for your bosses to see you working. I know many of you are aware that you too are victims of this corruption and extravagance of leaders that has eaten away our country to the core.

You wish to find and afford good healthcare. You wish to take your children to good schools too. You have dreams too, not to retire when you can only show your children and grand children elegant photos in uniform. A uniform that may also painfully remind you, of how you obediently served to protect those who will have retired with square miles of land, buildings, palaces, children educated in the world’s best schools, and enough investments for the chronic illnesses of old age.

It pains you I know, going back home today, after arresting young boys and girls, who are only demanding for a more decent country for all of us; demanding for a country where all our pains matter. That’s their crime, for which they are remanded until 30th July. You may quietly shed a tear, as you remove your sweaty uniform, to hang it on a rusty nail in your miserable shelter, where you will sleep like a vagabond - as those you laboured to protect all day rest their important heads on imported soft fibre pillows upon kingsize beds. I hope you will be able to sleep, as your children yawn under your beds, turning in-between utensils, and as your boots release the sweat of the long day in your direction.

I can imagine your pain, as you chew on your posho and beans; while they are somewhere in Kololo toasting expensive wine glasses to an Anti-Corruption March gone. I hope you sustained no injuries. You know, since you are the ones we encounter on the streets, we may very easily imagine you to be the problem. Our frustrations meet and we clash, like cows on a butcher’s truck. If they really cared, the monies they steal and generously spend on themselves could make all our lives better. But they chose to prioritise their importance. They positioned themselves right below angels in the hierarchy of importance of beings. From the hard-earned monies they squeeze from all of us in taxes, plus what they borrow, with us and our children as their securities, they reward themselves with palatial luxury.

I know it pains you traffic officer too, who takes the sun’s burning all day, plus rain and car fumes. We share the pain - including with those who might be deluded to get excited with the little powers functionally thrown at them to compensate for their existential miseries when real life knocks at their doors. Sometimes the leader of prisoners may forget that he/she is a prisoner too, and perhaps get comfortable in prison.

You know Afande, while we may count years, it’s too short a time we spend down here on this little planet. You’re living this minute, next minute you are gone. We soon get equalised into nothingness, with nothing surviving but perhaps a soul. All our muscles rot. So I often wonder, how we try to live as though we’re immortal. The most meaningful thing we can do with our short time here, is to increase each other’s happiness.

I don’t know how it feels, going back home, leaving someone else’s innocent child locked up in a tiny congested room. I know you cry. I know that the humanity in you is not entirely dead, though terribly diminished. We cry too, seeing you getting turned into brutes. I hope that some day, we shall be able to sit together and talk about these pains as fellow human beings. I keep the hope, for such a time. I increasingly doubt that I will be able to witness it, but I wish it for my children and yours. May we not labour and die in vain. Be strong. May we find love.