Bastian Blankenburg 🤝 🛡

Hi @KenyaPower_Care are you at least a little bit ashamed that after all these years, you still haven’t figured out how to protect your equipment against rain?

Why is Spotlight performance degenerating so much as to be mostly unusable since a few years @Apple @AppleSupport ? It seems to be constantly catching up (re)building indexes; often not finishing before a new macOS version comes which then seems to start building again. Useless.

@SSulisuli @KenyanSays @wamboe2 Making a telescope is not an easy feat. Importing a telescope of this size easily costs >150k Ksh. But there’s demand, just needs to be more affordable. This one isn’t perfect (yet) but can get there with reasonable effort. Francis is working on it. night.ke/2025/03/29/the…

@KenyanSays @wamboe2 Halafu? It was made by a Turkana so what? Tell us what we are doing with the existing telescopes. Tell us what the Turkish telescope will additionally do.

This massive telescope was made by a Kenyan from Turkana County.

@mungaikihanya @KRB_Kenya Some people say it's already outdated, that some roads have deteriorated since the data was collected.

This is probably the most important road map of Kenya: maps.krb.go.ke/kenya-roads-bo… It shows all the roads and their condition. Great work @KRB_Kenya 👏👏👏 Keep tit up!

Political Economy in Kenya kaboro.substack.com/p/political-ec…

@StandardKenya Where is this place? I can find neither the hotel nor Logechel on Google Maps.

Turkana County has officially launched its first-ever buggy and quad ride experiences, a move aimed at positioning the region as a competitive adventure tourism destination while reducing the need for locals to seek similar experiences abroad. Speaking during the launch at Etau Cradle Hotel in Logechel, Lake Turkana, Deputy Governor Dr. John Erus said the initiative is intended to showcase the county’s untapped tourism potential. Photos by Bakari Angela

Turkana , Kenya... @databu

Most of you have been wondering what space looks like from Kenya , so here’s a post by Bastian @databu, an amateur astronomer and passionate astrophotographer, taken right here in Kenya. curious about what you’re seeing? read along this stargazing adventure titled: Olorgesailie III: Return of the Stargazers In this entry, Bastian shares another catch-up post from a visit to the Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site..; night.ke/2025/10/26/olo… You can join @spacesocietyke and be part of this adventures..

For those who've never seen a comet imaged from Kenyan soil, feast your eyes on this! C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), captured right here in Thogoto by the talented @databu. Over a 30-minute sequence, watch the comet streak across the star field like it owns the sky. The western horizon was washed out by those annoying security lights (the nemesis of every astrophotographer), but @databu still pulled it off using my Olympus E-M5 II on a 65 mm f/6.5 refractor: 60 × 10 s at ISO 1600. He even spotted it visually: just the faint coma in 10×50 binoculars, then more coma and a subtle tail hint in his 10-inch Dob. Kenya’s astrophotography game is leveling up fast and nights like this prove it. The future out here? Absolutely electric. 🌠🇰🇪 @spacesocietyke

yesterday's election was a neon signal to crypto making the bed with fascists is a clear losing, industry killing strategy. if this is what we associate with, the backlash will be extreme, regardless of the technology let us show the world this is a small corrupt minority only

Meet Frank, a dedicated member of the Space Society of Kenya. He has been doing outstanding work by building telescopes from scratch in Turkana. Let’s take a moment to celebrate and appreciate Frank for this remarkable innovation—right in Turkana, DM for Frank's Contact...

Customer support of @boltapp wants to know your mpesa balance. Not professional.

Please check out my friends review of the Turkanascope I posted earlier on this platform..... such an insightful thread for a telescope crafted in Kenya...

I wanna be that dad that let's his kids look through the telescope all the time from a young age so they get into astronomy.

@ntsa_kenya I want to renew my smart driving license, but the drop-down to choose the Biometrics Center is broken. Whenever I select "NTSA MVI, Likoni Road", it sets "GPO Huduma Center" instead. How can I apply so that I can go to NTSA MVI, Likoni Road instead?

@TK_HelpDesk More useless conversation. You just don't read what I write.

@databu I've contacted you via DM. Please check your inbox. ^Buse

Your app’s seat selection is completely broken @TurkishAirlines .

@TK_HelpDesk Just an update here for anyone interested, TK's help desk is among the most useless and basically telling me that having to pay EUR 11880 for changing my economy seat it totally normal.

@databu Hello, sorry to hear this. Can you send me a private message with more details about your issue? ^Berna bit.ly/TK_DM

I knew this would be another Chanuka bus story - where somehow the Jewish children would be blamed. This is evidence from independent witness