My bf, laying in bed & reading a piece I’ve been working on: “aha! romanticism! …sometimes I read something you’ve written and I can just hear our conversations in it”
Anyways, having a partner who you can actually engage with on an intellectual level is really cool and everyone should get one
BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.
Israeli strikes, including on declared ‘safe zones,’ kill 63 in Gaza despite announced pauses, as hunger worsens and six more Palestinians, including two children, die from malnutrition aje.io/67etrz
A second Kenyan blogger has died in police custody.
I can’t sleep. Might as well just get a head start on work.
Met a guy with locs who interlocks a piece of every girl he’s ever dated hair into his loc.
I ran.
Black and white photo of a little white girl kneeling on grass outdoors next to a toy wagon with “Gail Ann” stencil painted on it. She is smiling and hugging a big shorthaired tuxedo tabby cat who looks very happy standing beside her.
Photo from my collection, the back says “Gail and landlord’s cat”. No other info/date.
The sexiest thing my bf does is make a perfect cup of tea.
Doctors in Gaza warn of a ‘silent catastrophe’ as formula milk runs out and starving mothers can’t breastfeed due to Israel’s blockade, threatening thousands of Palestinian babies.
The news i need to wake up tomorrow need to be the dissolution of the state of israel so help me god.
Flight 171 was bound for Gatwick Airport, authorities in London confirmed, as search and rescue teams deployed.
#Kenyans are back on the streets today to protest Ojwang’s murder by the police. Meanwhile, police bosses are being questioned in parliament over the incident. Later, the finance minister will be hosted by the same parliament to present the budget, which sparked massive protests last year.
It is 10pm. My neighbour is on her balcony talking on the phone loud enough for all of us on this block to follow the conversation.
BREAKING: At least 20 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid near the Netzarim Corridor, south of Gaza City, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing al-Quds Hospital.
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Today I am grateful for the fact that my mother and I can have difficult conversations without annihilating each other. To have a parent truly see you? A remarkable gift.
ALBERT OJWANG WE CONDEMN EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS #JusticeForAlbertOjwang
Remember that every single person who was killed during the anti finance bill protests in Kenya was killed by the police.
#Kenya police have arrested and killed yet another young Kenyan man. His crime? Insulting a “senior person” on twitter.
Justice for Albert Ojwang’.
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I’m having the worst time. The worst.
ME, DYING AFTER DOING TOO MUCH: Never ever ever do that again
ME, 2 DAYS LATER: Agains
Might truly be time to face my front and stop distracting myself with perpetual side quests.
The generational gap between Gen X, millennial Kenyans and Gen Z Kenyans is so clear in protest. Rose Njeri’s mother was pleading with the government to release her as if she was on the wrong. Njeri herself came out of jail and read a defiant statement telling the state “bring it”.
That said, I hope Netflix paid Arlette a lot of money to repackage her show.
Also they had a queer episode which was good!
Unpopular opinion: pop the balloon Netflix is better than YouTube because Yvonne is a better host. I laugh a lot watching her and she really brings out the personalities of the participants.
Donnacemwangi We Shall not be Silenced! MY NAME IS BONIFACE MWANGI. I am a Pan-Africanist, author, award-winning photojouralist, husband, father, and citizen of the Republic of Kenya, one of the member states of the East African Community. Agather and I are sharing our story to defy our torturers, who are cowards who wanted to silence us. As a member of East Africa, I have the right to free movement across the East African Community and exercised this right by legally entering Tanzania. On 18th May, I arrived in Dar es Salaam to attend Tundu Lissu's court case. Tundu had been arrested and detained on trumped-up 'treason' charges, the penalty for which is death in Tanzania. I didn't lie or misrepresent why I was entering the country. As friends of Tundu, as well as being pro-democracy and human rights defenders, Agather, myself, and other activists, lawyers and friends from Tanzania and across East Africa travelled to join him in solidarity, and to witness the scheduled court proceedings. There were eight of us on the same flight, and five of us were let through, while three others, Martha Karua, Lynn Ngugi, and Gloria Kimani were denied entry and later deported. BONIFACE: MWANGI >>> Page 1 of 9
vonnacemwang I went straight to my room at Serena Hotel and settled in for the night. At around midnight, I received a phone call from the reception informing me that some officers were there to see me. I didn't go. They called three more times, but I refused to leave my room. At around 12:15 am, armed men in civilian clothes came and violently knocked on my door, asking to see me. They had been escorted to my room by the hotel's security after claiming to be police officers conducting a routine inspection. I refused to open the door. I was afraid to because of the reports that had been made by Tanzanian activists about enforced disappearances. After they threatened to take me by force, I posted on social media at around 12:30 am that my life was in danger. I also contacted Tanzanian activists and they told me they would send a lawyer. The lawyer arrived at 3:30 am. He informed me the men who had come to my door were police officers, and I should go meet with them downstairs. Being alone and aware of the dangerous Tanzanian police, I was suspicious about why they had arrived in the middle of the night, so I refused to leave my room. I was afraid and concerned for my life and that is why I demanded to know the identities of the persons who intended to see me in the middle of the night without my invitation. I told the lawyer I would see them in the morning. I didn't sleep, however. I packed my bags and sat on my bed waiting for dawn to break. When morning came, I called Agather to come pick my bags and keep them in her room since I had to check out as I had an evening flight to Uganda to attend Kizza Besigye's trial the next day. She was staying an extra night in Tanzania. I joined my colleagues downstairs for breakfast, and Agather took my bags to BONIFACE: MWANGI Page 2 of 9
her room. At the restaurant, I decided to use the bathroom. When I exited the washroom, there were over a dozen men, in uniform and civilian clothes, waiting for me. I rushed back to my table screaming, to attract attention so that my fellow activists would know that I was about to be arrested. The officers were led by Commissioner Samwel Mahirane of the Tanzania Immigration Department. He informed the President of the Tanganyika Law Society, Boniface Mwabukusi, that I wasn't under arrest but they were taking me away for some questioning. I was driven away in Mahirane's car accompanied by a lawyer of the Tanganyika Law Society. We arrived at immigration, where I was interrogated about what I was doing in the country, and then recorded a statement. I was also fingerprinted and photographed. They then demanded that I produce my phone and laptop. I told them I didn't have my phone and had left it. At around 1:30 pm, I was taken back to the hotel. Serena Hotel's management provided CCTV footage to police showing Agather entering my room and leaving with my bag, which became the reason for her arrest, torture, rape, and illegal detention. We were taken to her room and it was searched. My bag was found, minus the phone and the laptop. That's when the threats of violence by the police officers started. They started saying how they would beat me if I did not produce the phone I used to record and post the video I had shared online during the raid. They also confiscated Agather's phone. We were both taken back to immigration. Agather was interrogated for approximately two hours, with no presence of a lawyer, despite 3 lawyers being within the vicinity. They were BONIFACE: MWANGI Page 3 of 9
ordered to keep off. At around 6:00 pm, my lawyer received a phone call from the Kenyan Ambassador to TZ, Isaac Njenga, who asked to speak to me. He told me I would be released and deported. My flight to Nairobi was at 8:00pm. Within 5 minutes, another man came in, who I later learnt was from the State security, and he started referring to me as "mfungwa" (prisoner). He started beating me, in the presence of Agather and the three lawyers. He ordered me to remove my belt and emptied all my pockets. I later came to leam that it was around the same time that the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, was quoted as saying that foreign activists from neighboring countries should not be allowed in Tanzania because they disrupt peace. At around 7:00 pm, we were taken to the Central Police Station. A man who I later came to know was Faustine Jackson Mafwele (Assistant Commissioner of police, with numerous allegations of being the lead coordinator and implementer behind extra judicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances) started making serious allegations against me. He said he had information that Thad helped bum Kenya's parliament last year, and I was a member of an illegal gang in Kenya. He also threatened to rape me. He levelled false accusations against me about things that could only have been fed to him by someone from the Kenya authorities. The man who was from State security continued slapping and punching me in the presence of the lawyers, Agather, and other officers gathered at the police station. He said I would forever remember his face, even if I never saw him again. The lawyers were threatened and told they would be investigated for not BONIFACE: MWANGI >> Page 4 of 9
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi has issued a statement regarding his torture and unjust detention at the hands of Tanzanian security officials (Tw sexual assault, violence).
"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research
Your brain lies and they aren't perfect in there, it just glosses over the rough parts. Never expect the version that comes out of your fingers to be the same as the one in your brain. But one that comes out of your fingers can be differently great. Work on it.
“If you have to be the winner, that means your partner has to be the loser. And who wants to be with a continual loser?” - Supernova Momma
I know we’re at peak podcast but give Lupita’s a chance. It really is quite good.
Anyway, as the courier insisted the error (daylight robbery) was not on their end, I contacted the seller and they’ve refunded me. Still, wild.
