Read AS Byatt's Possession over the weekend and I think I'm finally getting over my book hangover enough to just feel really annoyed at Christabel Lamotte.
All these self-martyring women annoy me😭
It's technically not, I guess but I've not met many male Favours. Maybe 2 or 3.
I've known a few male Faiths, Hopes, Peace(s), Joys etc. I guess because virtues are sort of feminised, people rarely name their male children after virtues
Abi o 😩
Lovely. Wonder where this one fits into the conversation about African farmer-controlled cocoa prices, oil palm discourse and of course, Israel as a whole. www.ft.com/content/ea36...
The gentrification of "abeg" is well underway. I don't even recognise or resonate with this new "I beg" so yeah
India has exported more than 320 million unapproved synthetic opioid pills to West Africa in just three years. Trade data shows over 1,400 shipments of tapentadol — a potent painkiller — were sent to a region already facing an opioid crisis. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...
Dr. Wendy Okolo, a Black woman in a blue NASA jumpsuit, smiles for a portrait; next to it, she stands outdoors with two people in spacesuits, celebrating her achievements in aerospace engineering.
Dr. Wendy Okolo making Black HERstory. 🙌✨
toilet on the altar of AI skepticism 👏🏿
Just spoke to someone today who told me their partner made a contribution at a work meeting and a colleague said something para "That's nice but we can do better than ChatGPT."
Both the person and the partner are African migrants so good job everybody on flushing workplace inclusion down the
Not a single person captures so well the humdrum of "non-corporate" Nigerian legal practice. The frustrating clients, the ambulance chasing, bribery etc. And he's not afraid to portray himself as a bit... dumb.
I love Layi so much
Somebody needs to write an article on the minor jurisprudence of layi wasabi. Me, maybe, someday
The APC WhatsApp group talking point playbook
Reminder: The 12th Anniversary Commemoration of the Abduction of the Chibok Girls is happening tomorrow.
April 14, 2026
5:00 PM – 8:30 PM (EST) | 10:00 PM – 1:30 AM (WAT)
Hybrid event (Brooklyn + Zoom)
In-person: forms.gle/mpkmyfMGngHq...
Virtual: bit.ly/4m6dQ2u
#BringBackOurGirls #ChibokGirls
And people wonder why people anthropomorphise llms
My precious daughter is a woman at NASA. COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF HER! She is a wonderful caring smart human..✌️💙🦋
Look at the women at NASA.
They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.
And they are doing it all with joy.👇
🤔 The Yoruba words farabalẹ̀ and fọkànbalẹ̀ are often translated "calm down"/"slow down" or "relax" in English - but broken down in Yoruba - fi ara balẹ̀/fi ọkàn balẹ̀ more accurately mean "touch your body/mind to the ground".
To calm down in Yoruba is to find/regain your connection to the earth
Gah. Just seen that the original post has now been deleted
even in the absence of that, platform architecture functions as a regulator an affordance state and non-state actors can exploit.
Sorry I keep confusingly referring to everything as law because I (now) like legal pluralism
Yeah I definitely do not disagree. In a way I sort of think that's what the code is law is about too.
That despite what the cyberlibertarians thought, it's actually not possible to escape regulation, whether because there are still legal questions tied to hardware and software and people or that
Some scholars have tried to operationalize it though. Like Laurence Diver for instance edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digispr...
that deters or encourages or enable certain types of interaction on platforms, just like regular law with or without a conscious desire to adhere any formal (or informal) law.
It's more about the regulatory function so to speak than governance as a whole I guess, at least originally.
Huh. I never actually wondered why/how engineers might struggle with the analogy.
My own understanding of code as/is law is that it was coined specifically to rebut claims that online spaces were law-free spaces by helping people see how software code functions as a regulator
Is this that most people have no idea legal theory exists or is a thing thing again?
Law and technology scholars have been saying "code is law" (at least) since Lessig wrote The Law of the Horse in 1999? I'm not sure what's so offensive about the analogy
Burgeoning aka the Global North is finally taking notice
Yeah it's crazy how we've had quite a few constitutions and they still haven't let this particular provision go.
Women can now travel internationally and renew their passports without their husbands' permission though 🌚
😅 Favour is a pretty common Nigerian name. Too common and low brow according to some people.
The UK (and the global north) is the first place I've been where lots of people genuinely like my name and seem intrigued by it, which is nice. A nice feeling to have 🤗
Oh wow. I wanted to add something about how Nigeria has this weird rule where Nigerian women can't - what's the word? - transfer (?) Nigerian citizenship to their husbands?
Only men can!
not to use the internet and accepting the consequences of this decision and having meaningful, quality access to the internet not even be an option no matter how hard you try
