Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
I could have written thousands more words on this. I highly recommend the book - as a history and understanding of something you take for granted everyday
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Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
We mock 🇳🇬s who move to the west and dump Christianity, we mock those who move and stick with.
The man, The son and their donkey.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
Big ups to Botswana 🇧🇼 for deleting homophobic laws. – at Botswana
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
Land opportunities with whom? Those who run organizations where people are paid to do 9-5 and are better off than you are or just from fellow hustlers?
We need to start saying the truth about entrepreneurship and stop glorifying nonsense. Not earning regularly is uncertainty and it is worse than having a regular job where you learn and grow.
My biggest mistake in life was starting entrepreneurship too early at 22. My uncle was right that I should have worked for more years. Please don't listen to people like this. Your 20s are when you should work hard to learn and not to earn.
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Brian's Point of View. : When Words Are Already Clear brianjenkins07.blogspot.com/…
Some truths do not need unpacking.
They need stillness, attention, and eyes willing to see.
If some standing there truly saw the Kingdom, what does that say about where we stand today?
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
This is a must read for every true Christian. If not for yourself, but to learn how you can help the person right next to you.
Held in Tension: Sexuality and Spirituality
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Any God worth worshipping is big enough to handle our complexity; the question is whether we're brave enough to accept ourselves.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”
The message came in at 11 PM:
“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”
Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.
New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”
She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.
Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.
I stopped the interview and said:
“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”
Her eyes filled with tears.
We hired her.
She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.
Why?
Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.
Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.
Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.
If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.
You’re filtering for privilege.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
Seven years ago, you walked into my life and quietly changed everything.
Your words remind me why choosing you, every single day, is the easiest decision I’ve ever made.
Thank you for loving me so boldly, so faithfully, and so completely.
Happy 7 years, my love. Always you. 🤍✨
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
"The Roman elite fiddled while Rome burned; our elites livestream the fire & monetize the smoke."
👉Looking for an inspiring lecture series for the Solstice/New Year? I highly recommend these 4 lectures to fire up your moral ambition & chart a meaningful course for 2026: ⬇️☀️
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
Turning sixty does not cancel curiosity, charm, or excellent conversation. If anything, it upgrades them. Happy birthday @forakin 🎉🥂 ✨
#OfficialBirthday
#GrowingBetter #StillCurious
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It is deeply revealing how casually Nigerians say things like “X (a private citizen) arrested Y”—as though it were normal, even acceptable, for private individuals to deploy the police as personal enforcers. Hardly anyone pauses to ask how, in a so-called democracy, a person can be abducted and detained by armed agents of the state simply for saying something offensive, when clear legal remedies for libel and slander already exist. That silence tells you everything.
The Nigerian Police is not a law-enforcement institution in any meaningful sense. It functions largely as a marketplace for coercion—thugs for hire, available to whoever can pay or threaten enough. A society policed this way cannot develop. It cannot mature. It cannot be trusted to protect anything fragile: dissent, minorities, truth, or even basic fairness.
What makes this worse is the moral incoherence of the public outrage that occasionally erupts. Nigeria’s violence is not merely institutional; it is cultural. Many who protest injustice do so only because they are on the receiving end of it—not because they believe in dignity as a principle, or equality as a value, or restraint as a civic virtue. They do not oppose cruelty; they simply resent being its targets.
I learned this the hard way. I once joined others in calling for the release of a man unlawfully detained by a politician in Kaduna. Months after his release, I came across his tweets calling for violence against gay people—describing them as disgusting and deserving of harm. The same man we had defended. The same man invoking rights when power turned against him, and brutality when it did not.
This is the country as it is. Nigerians do not yet want justice; they want advantage. They do not yet want dignity for all; they want immunity for themselves. When Nigerians truly desire equality, restraint, and a humane public order, they will organise, resist, and demand it—consistently, even when it protects people they dislike. Until then, the present reality is not an accident. It is the outcome of collective choices, rehearsed daily and defended loudly.
For now, Nigerians deserve each other.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
.@elnathan_john is by all measures, a talented writer.
If he belonged to the Achebe, Soyinka, Ngugi etc. generation of African writers, he would have been financially secure.
That was then, this is now. We now live in desperate, difficult times - and few things are more precarious than earning a living as a writer.
Many people have asked me to "write" - but after putting in a tremendous amount of effort to be paid a pittance (often 2 - 3 months late, or never). I have lost a lot of enthusiasm for "writing" - I have other, money-making skills.
I will only write when I can, or when I feel like.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
After the Nuremberg Trials, one of the most unsettling conclusions did not come from the courtroom, but from the psychiatrist tasked with evaluating the defendants.
Dr. Douglas Kelley, the U.S. Army psychiatrist assigned to assess many of the senior Nazi officials, expected to find monsters people fundamentally different from the rest of humanity. He did not.
What disturbed him most was how ordinary they were.
They were not raving madmen. They were not obvious sociopaths. They were intelligent, educated, and often convinced they were simply doing their duty, following orders, or serving a higher cause. Kelley warned that this was the real danger: evil does not always look abnormal. It often presents itself as competence, obedience, and institutional loyalty.
His central warning was deeply uncomfortable there are people with morally vacant or destructive tendencies everywhere. In every society. In every era. What determines the outcome is whether systems elevate those people, shield them from accountability, and normalize their behavior, and whether ordinary citizens are willing to question authority when it matters most.
Modern bureaucracies and institutions are powerful precisely because they diffuse responsibility. Decisions are broken into policies, protocols, committees, and “best practices.” Harm is rarely framed as harm; it is reframed as necessity, risk management, or compliance. Individuals are encouraged not to think morally, but procedurally.
This is how ordinary people become capable of extraordinary wrongdoing by outsourcing conscience to institutions and convincing themselves that accountability lies somewhere else.
The lesson of Nuremberg is not that “those people were different.” It is that they were not.
That is why vigilance matters. That is why blind trust in authority is dangerous. And that is why a healthy society must protect dissent, accountability, and moral courage especially when it is inconvenient.
History does not repeat itself because people forget facts. It repeats itself when people convince themselves, “It could never happen here.”
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⚡️The “DoorDash lifestyle” is an artifact of three massive structural shifts older generations don’t see because they didn’t grow up inside them.
Let’s break the illusion.
1. The marginal cost of money changed for Gen Z
For older adults, spending thirty dollars feels like spending thirty dollars.
For kids today, the psychological cost is closer to:
“three microtransactions worth of friction”
Because their financial environment is built on:
•instant digital payments
•low-commitment gig incomes
•parents transferring money fluidly
•side hustles paid in irregular small bursts
•stimulus-era normalization of cash flow volatility
Teenagers today often have:
•$30 now
•$0 tomorrow
•$50 on Friday
•$15 in crypto
•$70 in Cash App from someone they did homework for
•a $20 Venmo from grandma
•$60 from a weekend shift
There is no “budget.”
There is flow.
And in a flow economy, a $30 DoorDash order is not a “luxury”.
It is just another digital outflow in a stream of constant micro inflows.
2. Consumption is now social currency
Older generations spent money to solve problems.
Gen Z spends money to signal identity, reduce friction, and avoid emotional drag.
DoorDash is not about food.
It is about:
•eliminating effort
•eliminating planning
•eliminating discomfort
•eliminating logistics
•eliminating decision fatigue
This generation pays premiums to remove negative psychic load.
Food delivery is an anxiety-management subscription.
And they learned this from:
•Amazon Prime
•Uber
•TikTok dopamine tuning
•frictionless apps
•the collapse of effort-based value signals
Convenience is the default baseline now.
3. The middle class collapsed, but lifestyle costs decoupled from income
This is the part most boomers and Gen X don’t understand.
Kids aren’t behaving like they’re poor.
They’re behaving like people living in a post-middle-class economy where:
•ownership is dead
•savings are pointless
•buying a home is impossible
•college is a debt sentence
•inflation destroys the dollar
•wages do not map to adult milestones
•upward mobility is gone
So what happens?
They shift to a present-maximization mindset.
If the future is unaffordable anyway,
why not buy the burrito now?
Younger people are not reckless.
They are rational inside a broken incentive system.
The real truth
DoorDash is a symptom.
A society where:
•future stability is gone
•wages stagnate
•housing is unattainable
•attention is fragmented
•convenience is normalized
•friction feels archaic
•everything is mediated digitally
…will produce kids who treat $30 like a tap on a screen, not a financial decision.
They’re not “funding a lifestyle.”
They’re surviving inside the economy they were handed.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
For decades, this small West African country was the example. No coups since 1972. Peaceful transfers of power. A working democracy in a region where strongmen ruled.
Then, in December 2025, gunshots cracked through the capital. A group of mutinous soldiers stormed the state TV and declared a new era. They said the government had failed them. That their brothers were dying in the north, fighting jihadists, while politicians in the south rewrote the constitution.
By noon, it was over. Loyal forces crushed the coup. Nigeria sent jets. The president, Patrice Talon, appeared on camera looking calm. Crisis averted. Democracy saved?
Not exactly. Here's what they are not telling you about the coup in Benin Republic.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
rnicrosoft, that was a quite sneaky trick… easy to miss at a quick glance.
Akin Akíntáyọ̀ 🏳️🌈 #European retweeted
Also ebi is not Lagos culture, it's Yoruba culture.
1. This is not Lagos fashion, it's Yoruba fashion trends..
2. The years and trends attached are grossly wrong and misleading.
3. If you are going to put such narratives together detailing socio cultural fashion trends, do proper research, hire Lagos Yoruba indegenes or fashion consultants for accurate representation and facts.
4. It is always sad and unfortunate when non Yoruba people dive into Yoruba fashion and culture and end up bungling and misrepresenting the Yoruba people and their culture.
5. There's nothing like Lagos fashion or trends when it comes to Yoruba culture, fashion trends and lifestyle, it's Yoruba culture and fashion, period.
6. Stop LagosWashing Yoruba culture and if you cannot accurately purvey cultural facts and acknowledge Yoruba fashion and trends, why bother? There are other issues to dive into.
7. What is the meaning of Lagos fashion especially after showing us nothing but Yoruba fashion and culture?
8. There are Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Igbo, Igala, Tiv people and others in Lagos so why not just show Hausa people's fashion and slap Lagos fashion non it.
Where is the sense and wisdom in labeling Yoruba fashion Lagos fashion?
Makes no sense.
