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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 3h

Also relevant to Bluesky for which I've lately become an evangelist 🤭

Would be nice to have more Nigerians here but I worry that this platform lacks the range to moderate African perspectives/interactions or tribal bigotry some of which is fuelled by state-influencers

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 3h

Somebody needs to write a piece on how Wikipedia figures in African inter-tribal/ethnic and inter-country spats.

The way and manner people use Wikipedia to falsely aggrandise their cultures and put others down is really something to be studied for idk the western gaze (?) is something to be

Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 3h

studied.

And it also reveals the limits of western platforms and their content moderation standards for non-western content because who am I going to explain to that the Wikipedia entry on fufu is rubbish? 😩 🤷🏿‍♀️

Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 3h

Somebody needs to write a piece on how Wikipedia figures in African inter-tribal/ethnic and inter-country spats.

The way and manner people use Wikipedia to falsely aggrandise their cultures and put others down is really something to be studied for idk the western gaze (?) is something to be

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 22h

How is he able to dissolve parliament in absentia lol

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h

BREAKING: President Andry Rajoelina dissolves Madagascar's lower house of parliament after fleeing an apparent coup attempt. His whereabouts are unknown.

Madagascar president dissolves lower house of parliament in midst of apparent coup attempt

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has dissolved the country’s lower house of parliament amid a military rebellion.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh. So I'm not the only one who makes this mistake!

I love languages so much

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

seems to blend in with all the others.

Sigh

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

this guy didn't have that accent that one would think of when one thought of a German speaking English! His was softer and more... rolling. He was also really... 🌚 personable.

And then, if I meet a group of Americans and Brits in a room, I also can't tell which the American is because the accents

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

The first time I heard a friend from SW England pronounce words with the "r" I thought he sounded very Scottish or Irish (which I know are two different accents and groups but constantly mix up). 😔

He thought it was very sad too that I thought a German guy was Scottish, which is fair but

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Nigerians get rhoticity(?). I think we just follow the English and eliminate all the rs, using the long vowel whenever there's an r - so Shoooo(r)n, instead of shorn. But we do have certain ethnicities whose speakers mix up "r" and "l" so lubber instead of rubber etc.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

😂 😂

John M Danskin @johnmdanskin.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel looking for the antichrist is like me trying to find my glasses when I am wearing them.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 2d

these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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Confessions of a Masc4masc @eljajlorbs.bsky.social · 2d

I thinks it’s because he is genuinely not religious- if you aren’t Christian and didnt grow up with it a works based theory of salvation is the only way to really understand it. faith based readings are extremely hard to comprehend without having the cultural background or personal religiosity

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 2d

It’s interesting that he has an entirely works based theory of salvation that just doesn’t consider the forgiveness of sin. Especially interesting with the flavors of Christianity that he has surrounded himself by within the admin

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway the Ugandan guy was iirc literally a game ranger and he still couldn't get a visa to attend a 21-day summer school on cognitive intelligence, something western scholars and researchers working in Africa may not struggle with to the same extent.

Absolutely incredible

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

something you see organisers of annual event like this do.

They also remunerated me for the unsuccessful visa application and flight and stuff something some other people 🙄 whose names will remain unmentioned did not.

Interestingly, my current dp was from the caelidh on the final night.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah this reminds me of how me and two other Africans got accepted for @divintelligence.bsky.social back in 2022. A Nigerian, a Ghanaian and a Ugandan. All of our visas were denied.

@divintelligence.bsky.social was kind enough to let us come again in 2023 which was really great and not

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 12d

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 4d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 4d

Also "thank you"

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I mention in this essay about rom-com tropes is how the standard spontaneous cross-continental travel surprise does not work for postcolonial. Before you get a visa to travel to the US to do the surprise thing, your love would have died.
folukeafrica.com/a-few-things...

A few things that bother me about rom-coms

On a lighter note

folukeafrica.com

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway I think the kids are running because she's strange looking and that it has sort of devolved into a bit of a weird crowd hysteria thing.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 4d

be implemented or should look like.

It's just funny. It's still western.

And ethics is not headquartered in the West. Far from it

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 4d

knowing and thinking about whiteness and non-whiteness and westernisation has been idk cornered in this part of the world.

People here, and I mean leftists, are really inflexible. They think they know everything about what is ethical and unethical and how these things and ideas and mindsets should

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 4d

people, and I really/this is why I prefer the term, people of African descent, have led lives constructed around being racial minorities, and how I grew up not seeing any white people.

It's difficult to talk frankly about these issues because it feels like the black/global south experience ways of

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