Spelling Bee, / ˈspɛl ɪŋ bi / noun: a contest in which competitors are eliminated as soon as they misspell a word. A tradition of over 97 years and counting. Started in America, and now a global literacy phenomenon. Spelling Bee in Uganda, a thread... @enjuba1 @SpellingAfrica

Why are you pulling out a tripod at someone’s funeral?

The contentification of our lives: a thesis.

— Sylvia Plath

🚨BRITISH POLICE HAVE THE ABILITY TO DOWNLOAD DATA FROM YOUR PHONE WITHOUT A PASSWORD In the next stage of authoritarian hell we are to endure British Police are proud to show just how easy they can see everything on your phone without login details Privacy has gone

Someone who treats you like they’ve waited their whole life to find you >>>>>

Someone just told me “micro joys are how you survive macro grief” and WOW did I need to hear that

i’m going to delete linkedin and focus on what really matters this year. learning how to crochet. memorizing poems. attempting to befriend a crow. writing a kids story. going on walks. and doing yoga

life really does get better when you get back into your nerdy interests again

🔐 Taxation unfairness; The International rules based order needs a global tax reform where multinationals pay their fair share of taxes in countries they make their most profit

my mum wanted to ride with me this morning, so i told her to go wear her shoes… and i drove off. i did it for all of us 😭

every time someone hears my expertise is in queer Shakespeare they’re like, “oh so he was gay?” first of all, Shakespeare doesn’t need to be queer for his plays to be queer—or for us to read & interpret his plays queerly. second of all, yes. yes he was.

Speaking from experience: if you fuck up a good relationship and sacrifice it on the altar of success, you will pay for it lol.

Being intentional is great but I have found that being intentional is also a trap, people love intentional people but do not know how to be intentional with them in return. People enjoy the benefits of a labouring heart but seldomly want to labour for others.

As a childless adult it is my duty to embrace hobbies and pastimes that my peers cannot, as they have sacrificed their free time to maintain the population. I must vibe and chill, and do fun things, in their honour

A notable Nigerian chef claimed that there is no fine dining restaurant in Lagos. I agree, but the diagnosis of why such void exists is faulty. In this video, I argue against the “symbolic violence” of the claim and the “I pass my neighbor psyche” behind it.

Once you realize you don't need a special occasion to buy a cake, the second part of your life begins

The past few months have been a rude awakening for this continent here called Africa. A civil war on its soil was mediated in Qatar & resolved in the US, another civil war is being mediated by Saudi Arabia. Israel projected power by recognizing Somaliland and AU was hapless

People are too binary about credentials. My mental model of a PhD is that it's like having a black belt. It means you likely trained for years under a particular master, who also had a black belt, and on a certain day you were judged worthy by that master. It would be absurd

The “-ification” essay pandemic.

I have a pre-LLM era answer! Not sure how long it will be, so it is a thread👇