Favour Borokini
@favourboroks.bsky.social
Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
Because they're not interested in the truth. UK politicians are too used to exploiting immigration to undercut labour and using it as a way to prove they're a work government.
And for the ethnic minorities in power, they're too busy being worried about being associated with the "newcomers" to be
And for the ethnic minorities in power, they're too busy being worried about being associated with the "newcomers" to be
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Because they're not interested in the truth. UK politicians are too used to exploiting immigration to undercut labour and using it as a way to prove they're a work government.
And for the ethnic minorities in power, they're too busy being worried about being associated with the "newcomers" to be
And for the ethnic minorities in power, they're too busy being worried about being associated with the "newcomers" to be
Hm. I think there's been research showing that humans are able to perceive the difference and respond differently to exercise/neutral sweat and fear/horror-induced sweat.
In Nigeria, where people are *really* spiritual and believe in the existence of demons
🤷🏿♀️
In Nigeria, where people are *really* spiritual and believe in the existence of demons
🤷🏿♀️
The Skeptic Who Fled a Haunted House | The Ghost Geek
That time I was overwhelmed by a sudden sense of doom one summer day in Avebury
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#StandingStones #HauntedHouses #Ghosts #Psychology
That time I was overwhelmed by a sudden sense of doom one summer day in Avebury
www.theghostgeek.com/p/the-skepti...
#StandingStones #HauntedHouses #Ghosts #Psychology
The Skeptic Who Fled a Haunted House
That time I was overwhelmed by a sense of doom one Summer day in Avebury...
www.theghostgeek.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hm. I think there's been research showing that humans are able to perceive the difference and respond differently to exercise/neutral sweat and fear/horror-induced sweat.
In Nigeria, where people are *really* spiritual and believe in the existence of demons
🤷🏿♀️
In Nigeria, where people are *really* spiritual and believe in the existence of demons
🤷🏿♀️
Very interesting the way Nigerian is becoming shorthand for West African/African these days
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Very interesting the way Nigerian is becoming shorthand for West African/African these days
Mehn not another West African coup
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Mehn not another West African coup
Keep needing to sleep but I also feel too afraid to sleep because I won't get any work done.
Do I get any work done while awake??? Yes. Lots of micro tasks
Do I get any work done while awake??? Yes. Lots of micro tasks
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Keep needing to sleep but I also feel too afraid to sleep because I won't get any work done.
Do I get any work done while awake??? Yes. Lots of micro tasks
Do I get any work done while awake??? Yes. Lots of micro tasks
The water tastes weird even after boiling and cooling.
Perhaps I shouldn't even use the boiled water for tea/cereal make I no go encounter disease wey I no know
Perhaps I shouldn't even use the boiled water for tea/cereal make I no go encounter disease wey I no know
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The water tastes weird even after boiling and cooling.
Perhaps I shouldn't even use the boiled water for tea/cereal make I no go encounter disease wey I no know
Perhaps I shouldn't even use the boiled water for tea/cereal make I no go encounter disease wey I no know
Where's the root of this fight I'm seeing on this app abeg
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Where's the root of this fight I'm seeing on this app abeg
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I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
And when will I find the time read Benjamin Walter's account of objects and technology and art and authenticity? 😩
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
And when will I find the time read Benjamin Walter's account of objects and technology and art and authenticity? 😩
Friend of mine in Ireland has been selected to take part in a programme as part of a cohort and yesterday he told me one of the persons affiliated with the program took him aside and said to him away from the hearing of others, 'We've had issues with people of your skin colour in the past.'
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Friend of mine in Ireland has been selected to take part in a programme as part of a cohort and yesterday he told me one of the persons affiliated with the program took him aside and said to him away from the hearing of others, 'We've had issues with people of your skin colour in the past.'
I carry my hoarding tendencies into the digital world and download content that my 128gb phone, can't believe I thought this was going sufficient, can't keep up with, so every quarter I transfer more and more stuff, my own photos, the important stuff to an external hard drive.
Can't wait to get a
Can't wait to get a
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I carry my hoarding tendencies into the digital world and download content that my 128gb phone, can't believe I thought this was going sufficient, can't keep up with, so every quarter I transfer more and more stuff, my own photos, the important stuff to an external hard drive.
Can't wait to get a
Can't wait to get a
If we can have Latourian litanies, why can't we have Obahiagbon-esque... Idk grandiloquence, something with an O sha
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If we can have Latourian litanies, why can't we have Obahiagbon-esque... Idk grandiloquence, something with an O sha
'The prime minister and the chancellor are uncannily alike in their communicative deficiency, stilted and reticent in a way that pushes audiences away instead of drawing them in'
Hm. Sounds like what's needed is APC, Tinubu and an online hype army of, as Patrick Obahiagbon put it, hallelujah boys
Hm. Sounds like what's needed is APC, Tinubu and an online hype army of, as Patrick Obahiagbon put it, hallelujah boys
Fantastic column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social this:
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
'The prime minister and the chancellor are uncannily alike in their communicative deficiency, stilted and reticent in a way that pushes audiences away instead of drawing them in'
Hm. Sounds like what's needed is APC, Tinubu and an online hype army of, as Patrick Obahiagbon put it, hallelujah boys
Hm. Sounds like what's needed is APC, Tinubu and an online hype army of, as Patrick Obahiagbon put it, hallelujah boys
Hm how long till antivaccers link this up with idk falling birth rates or something
“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
#vaccinationsaveslives
#vaccinationsaveslives
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hm how long till antivaccers link this up with idk falling birth rates or something
Always try to do too many things at once then everything gets lodged in a bottleneck and then I have a mini mental breakdown.
Try to do it all again with the same results and then finally start teasing things out slowly
Try to do it all again with the same results and then finally start teasing things out slowly
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Always try to do too many things at once then everything gets lodged in a bottleneck and then I have a mini mental breakdown.
Try to do it all again with the same results and then finally start teasing things out slowly
Try to do it all again with the same results and then finally start teasing things out slowly
Hm, so it's no longer Greta Thunberg. Or maybe we're all the antichrist
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hm, so it's no longer Greta Thunberg. Or maybe we're all the antichrist
Can be very annoying how you can never really know how much you've read/know about a subject till you start writing what you know
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Can be very annoying how you can never really know how much you've read/know about a subject till you start writing what you know
Mehn Meta is *really* pushing to make WhatsAppFacebookInstagram the omni app sha because what is this latest update.
I just refuse to reshare WhatsApp status updates, to repost them to Instagram from from WhatsApp.
In 2019, when I was rabid about building my Instagram followership, I'd have loved
I just refuse to reshare WhatsApp status updates, to repost them to Instagram from from WhatsApp.
In 2019, when I was rabid about building my Instagram followership, I'd have loved
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Mehn Meta is *really* pushing to make WhatsAppFacebookInstagram the omni app sha because what is this latest update.
I just refuse to reshare WhatsApp status updates, to repost them to Instagram from from WhatsApp.
In 2019, when I was rabid about building my Instagram followership, I'd have loved
I just refuse to reshare WhatsApp status updates, to repost them to Instagram from from WhatsApp.
In 2019, when I was rabid about building my Instagram followership, I'd have loved
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I'm biased because I basically hate the entire concept of breaking down political ideology into "left" vs. "right" but... it's even worse when we start saying certain activities are "coded" along that very limited political spectrum.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I'm biased because I basically hate the entire concept of breaking down political ideology into "left" vs. "right" but... it's even worse when we start saying certain activities are "coded" along that very limited political spectrum.
Mehn I hope someone writes a piece humanising the ethnic minority Christians in Northern Nigeria whose indigenous languages are dying, who lose farmland, whose daughters are kidnapped and forcefully converted, who are subjected to pogroms, whose businesses, churches and physical bodies are razed, so
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Mehn I hope someone writes a piece humanising the ethnic minority Christians in Northern Nigeria whose indigenous languages are dying, who lose farmland, whose daughters are kidnapped and forcefully converted, who are subjected to pogroms, whose businesses, churches and physical bodies are razed, so
Trying and failing to get a Goldilocks desk, laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse chair setup
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Trying and failing to get a Goldilocks desk, laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse chair setup
If I talk now about the differences being a black British person and an African migrant... 🌚
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
If I talk now about the differences being a black British person and an African migrant... 🌚
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Why are Latino parents being afraid to walk the streets being framed as a good thing???
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Why are Latino parents being afraid to walk the streets being framed as a good thing???
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So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
This is why Nigerians are huge adopters of crypto currency sha.
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is why Nigerians are huge adopters of crypto currency sha.
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag