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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 11h

Actually quite pleased to see this and generally agree with the spoiled assessment. It's of course part of why people in the Global South are super receptive towards AI - we don't have functional public services. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

Its possible to make a transactional self-interested case for temporary churn migration: they can do something useful for us + go back home to keep numbers down This transactional case lacks bridging appeal that "how do people become us" integration can have for liberals, balancers + conservatives

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nigerians on reparations and fuel subsidy cuts

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest on usaid I haven't seen anyone talk about here (but may just have missed it) is that the US is going around various African countries offering USAID for extractive agreements to African health (and other) data. Apparently Kenya, and the giant of Africa iykyk, has signed.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And bring down the visa and health surcharge fee too! £4000 for a 3-year graduate visa is rubbish

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The AfD and CDU in Heidenau want to place the town's Holocaust memorial at the cemetery. Many cities have BOTH, i.e., a memorial at the Jewish cemetery and Stolpersteine. By choosing only a memorial at a cemetery, it literally removes the memory of the Holocaust from the urban landscape.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mehn it's very hard to square the progressivism I see on this app with my own lived experience in this country. Because among me and the migrants I know (who moved to this country as adults especially) our working assumption is that we will never be English but can become British

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know what this post is trying to say but as someone who is super interested in AI and Global South perspectives on it, but whose country (Nigeria) along with many other Global South ones has been barred from applying for visas to the US, I'm reading this very differently.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Isn't he? Imo, the real (better) question is "why can't a woman play God?" not "why can't a woman play a talking lion?" because this is a *religious* misogyny issue. Think people will keep talking past each other if they don't understand how different groups are reading/making sense of things.

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saying that labor-saving technology doesn't really save labor is an argument that you can only make when you're living in a world driven by technology that you don't even notice any of it anymore

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

More people need to talk about this limits of social constructivist critique of technology sha because there's a weird way it simply becomes tech (and cultural) determinism again

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sigh. Not this American guy (almost) single-handedly carrying Nigerian tourism on his back 😭 Props to him abeg because... before now my own is not more than to discourage non-Nigerians from travelling to Nigeria especially *alone* www.instagram.com/reel/DdO2quf...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The calls for participatory democracy which are oblivious to the substance of politics and merely recommend new forms of transaction are pointless and will remain inconsequential. One may as well call for participation in pocket calculators”

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

separately i think those organizations are clearly not up to this, but one of the reasons they are not up to this is that their belief in AI alignment risks are essentially theological beliefs that are conveyed to them via strong social bonds and emotionally compelling writing

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This bears unpacking, as the Cold War doesn't really end until the end of apartheid, and the way apartheid ended (peacefully w/ transitional justice mechanisms) arguably did more to shape the liberal international order and the golden age of "happy" globalization than the postcommunist transition.

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just love postphenomenological analysis. I mean I really like object oriented ontology and ANT too but there's a specific emphasis on working hard to construct positive alternatives and not give in to ennui that shines through in Ihde and Verbeek's writing

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #swordtember⚔️

Ink drawing- a woman sits in a tree with a sword on her hip. She is eating an apple from the tree. There's a face in the tree!! Woah!

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This entire week on the limits of social constructivism apparently

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What can you actually buy for 50 pence that is a filling meal

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've finally, after endless weeks of putting it off/shifting goalposts-ing it as something to reward myself with when x happens or survive the month etc., seen The Odyssey. And I don't know what how I feel about it. If I had to, I'd probably score it somewhere between 69-80.

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Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What’s crazy is Hannah Mitchell said the same thing like 75 years prior: ‘I soon found that a lot of the Socialist talk about freedom was only talk and these Socialist young men expected Sunday dinners and huge teas with home-made cakes, potted meat and pies, exactly like their reactionary fellows’

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All this stuff is just "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect" in action. Balaclava-clad white xenophobes are not considered bad or designated terrorists because their agitations are (considered) legitimate

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not... if you have good taste 🌚

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sex and the city is now available on Prime. I never managed to watch the entire show to the end so of course I'm leaving JD and Scrubs behind at S3e6 😬

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Stumbled on this map which shows what percentage of the population of each country is a child. I've known the median age in Nigeria and Africa to be between 17-19 for years but seeing it visualised like this is something different.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Almost certainly the best photograph I have ever taken from an Iron Age hillfort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.

The sun setting over the Severn Estuary, as viewed from the top of Uley Bury, Gloucestershire.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Managed to get a Yoruba woman from Lagos. What are the odds? Extremely unlikely she'd have ever walked to Cameroon though. Badagry is on the border between Nigeria and Benin Republic, so that would be more likely. They literally speak Yoruba there too. Dahomey was part of the Oyo empire

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stumbled onto criticism of RF Kuang and a few of the comments by Chinese people perfectly describe my feelings reading the writing of a particular Nigerian-American author's "Nigerian-inspired" fantasy series. And it's not only that author. www.reddit.com/r/books/s/pD...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Still scarcely any mainstream coverage of this massive story, despite the new and separate scandal involving James Orr. This is not just double standards. I'm struggling to detect any standards at all.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of those things I'll never understand about this country on local Facebook groups

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Maybe the one thing standing between Britain and fascism right now is how geriatric many of the fascists are

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And even gan, if you've discovered that the only Africans turning up to your EDI-themed projects are the rich ones, why aren't you registering it as a failure to get in contact with hard-to-reach populations? Why's this taken as proof that African migrants are generally well off?

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The bookish life of nina hill is maybe the first, because I can't think of any others, book that has held up so well on a reread years apart. Love Lettering too but I think TBLoNH reads even better than when I first read it

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed just dropped the best political ad of the year.

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This idea that African migrants in the UK are mostly wealthy is super pervasive even in the places you'd least expect it. I'm just concerned about how this narrative obscures the hordes of people I know, some of whom I went to school with in Nigeria, working in care in this country.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Adult convert, convert-ing. Mehn I have so many thoughts about this lol. For some reason I doubt these people's conceptualisation of a Christian Britain has ever grappled with the fact that there are tons of Africans (and PoC) who are like super religious, super conservative, super conservative.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aka average guy's dating history vs girl average guy wants (imagined) dating history

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah, so it's people that are watching anime dub like this 😩

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ugh legal positivists/positivism 👎🏿

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don't... I don't think that's how it works? That it's the doing of "God's work" that brings the end times 😩

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