Peter Bulimo

I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home. Nothing in that system is standing still. The Moon is moving. The Earth is moving. Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here. Adjust here. Come back here. And unlike nepa light, it infact works. There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side. I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything. But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...

I don’t rate people who’re willing to live like this for years enough to queue with them for an election!

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Nairobi is overcrowded, underplanned and ungoverned. Opening up the country is one way of restoring balance

This post has been circulating on social media. Someone shared that working as a Registered Nurse (RN) in California they earn the equivalent of Ksh 20 million a year-about $160,000. First, congratulations. A stable job in America, especially one that requires licensing, exams, continuing education and emotional stamina, is earned. It is not stumbled into. There is dignity in that. But numbers, especially when converted into shillings, can distort reality. At $160,000, the figure feels cinematic back home. Multiply it by the exchange rate and it begins to sound like a victory parade. It sounds like “kuomoka.” It feels like Wamala telling Tinka in the book the Burdens: “tear up the tatters, pull down the hovel….” But California does not pay in conversion rates. It pays in gross income-and then it subtracts. For a single filer earning $160,000 in 2026, federal income tax after the standard deduction will land somewhere around $30,000. Social Security takes 6.2 percent-roughly $9,920. Medicare takes 1.45 percent-about $2,320. California state income tax at that income level can easily approach $12,000. Before you see the money, you are already near $54,000 in taxes. The $160,000 becomes closer to $106,000 take-home. This is still strong. Still respectable. But no longer mythic. Now place that number inside California and the life there. A modest apartment in many decent neighborhoods costs $3,300 to $3,800 a month. At $3,500, that is $42,000 a year. If you add a car note, $500 a month. Insurance, which in California is rarely gentle-perhaps $2,500 annually. Gas and maintenance-another $3,500. Utilities and internet-about $4,000 a year. And one must eat! Groceries $8,000 to $10,000, depending on household size. If the nurse carries student loans-and many do-payments might range from $500 to $1,000 per month. If there is a child, childcare can exceed $1,500 a month. That is $18,000 annually. Now if you are a single mother, you see how that $160,000 quickly gets eaten up. And for many in the diaspora, there is another column that does not show up on tax forms: remittances back home. School fees for a sibling. Hospital bills for a parent. Contributions to build something small back home. That can quietly reach $5,000 to $10,000 a year. And this assumes no social life. No meeting friends over dinner or a drink. An Uber ride one way from Long Beach to say West Hollywood, will cost about $80. So a round trip is about $200. You have not eaten, you have not blessed the ancestors. Isitoshe, By the time the arithmetic settles, the number that once sounded like Ksh 20 million begins to feel like something else entirely: a hardworking middle-class life in an expensive state. You have not invested yet. Or saved for a rainy day. And then there is the part that cannot be itemized. To earn $160,000 as a registered nurse often means overtime. Night shifts. Rotating schedules that disturb the body’s clock. Missing Christmas dinner because you are in the ICU. Sleeping at 10 a.m. while the rest of the neighborhood begins its day. Standing for 12 hours. Lifting patients. Drinking coffee at 3 a.m. so you do not miss a subtle change in someone’s breathing. Money is not just income, it is exchanged time. It is exchanged energy. Sometimes it is exchanged presence. There are nurses who have not attended a football or basketball match in years. Not because they do not love the games-but because when they are finally off duty, they are exhausted. None of this diminishes the achievement. It clarifies it. See, sometimes our diaspora conversations become theatrical, as if the purpose is not to educate but to signal. To reassure ourselves that the migration was justified. To prove that the struggle has yielded visible fruit. The lesson was not about cars. It was about confidence. True wealth understands that income is only one part of the story. There is health. There is time. There is peace. May the day break!

They knew his tweets before they knew his face. Frankie Theuri @frankiethebrand went from a fan tweeting on every single show on Homeboyz radio to running social media for their shows that trended #1 for three straight weeks. No connections. Just consistency.

I hear you on valuing pure research! Worth noting this isn’t replacing ALL dissertations—it’s creating an option for applied fields. Physics theorists will still write papers. But for engineering/tech programs, asking “does this solve a real problem?” alongside “is this novel?” seems reasonable. MIT and Stanford have had project-based dissertations for decades in certain departments. The question isn’t theory vs. practice—it’s whether we need both pathways.

Good thing or bad thing?

@Vantrahq @naval That statement is like a public good-non-excludable

@naval And this is not about literal tribes. Work in a team with people who share the same goals and the same level of energy you have, and you will outperform someone working alone.

People who don’t organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do.

I don’t think car companies know their cars can do that. 😂

This is a very interesting perspective, one I’ve always explored. I’m mostly torn between if it’s just toxic positivity or just a coping mechanism. You should definitely take time to watch this thoroughly.

Justice delayed is justice denied. #JusticeForBillKaunda

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@LemayianLeiyan I share in this thought, not out of spite, but out of realization that things can actually, easily be better, but they ain’t. It’s frustrating!

If kina Shaffie Weru were serious with their county jobs they would have synchronized the fireworks from the various tall buildings, instead of just attending meetings after meetings organizing a non popular festival

@LemayianLeiyan @KatheuNzyimi I know right The coordination kinda wasn’t it But good show overall

@KatheuNzyimi 😂😂we could have done better though, i'll raise the issue when we resume... but yeah we are much better

You guys need to go read the comments on this video😂😂😂😂😂 vm.tiktok.com/ZMDjhsPEP/

@lewis_ngunyi So sorry brother. Glad you are safe! Wishing yall quick recovery!

We survived that. God is good. Everyone in the car is badly bruised, in severe pain, but alive and no broken bones. Always have your seat belts on.

@DrWhiteW The Crowd.

I look at some replies under this post and I arrive at a conclusion that if you are the only high IQ fellow, the only sober and reasonable person among a multitude of fools ; it is a curse. The idiots will make stupid decisions over and over and you share in the consequences. It further guides my understanding of why there is a high prevalent of certain communicable diseases even with simple and clear guidelines on how to protect oneself from infection. Simply put; among a multitude of fools, stupid decisions and consensus of longterm dire consequences are encouraged.

@xysist @ntsa_kenya @KeNHAKenya Ndugu, you are doing well!

Good morning @ntsa_kenya @KeNHAKenya let’s enforce the underride protection please. Let’s save lives this is a simple compliance issue

@xysist Popcaan is a good student- agreed Outperforming the master? Not quite, not even close!

What about TNS Riddim? Popcaan was quite good. He gave us ‘ She want hood’ but what did Vybz do? He gave us 1. show me your lip glass 2. Dweet we a dweet in the same Riddim. I can go on and on. All I can say is that Popcaan is a good student.

He’s good but not close. You should have existed circa 2007-2013 Vybz was something else I mean look at V6 Riddim. Popcaan was very good with head bad but Vybz gave us tell you seh and Duppy know. He did this consistently on several Riddims