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The Lawrence

@Thelawrett

Web Developer | UI/UX Designer Helping brands build fast, modern websites Available for projects… Chelsea fc 💙

Virginia Beach, VA Katılım Kasım 2023
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The Lawrence
The Lawrence@Thelawrett·
Starting a challenge for myself to show up consistently for 30 day of November…. I’ll keep dropping designs, code, project I work on daily no matter how small it’s….. #30daysofcoding
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Alfred ‘The Great’ II
Alfred ‘The Great’ II@d_black_messiah·
Apology not accepted. You do not get to compress five centuries of sanctioned evil into a press statement and expect absolution. Your popes signed the documents. They named the ships. They blessed the chains. Over 100 million Africans died under the theological cover your institution provided. Not in war. Not in famine. In deliberate, organized, approved extraction of human beings from their continent, their families, their names, their gods. Five hundred years. Of rape, genocide, ethnic cleansing, of turning our women into sex objects and cum buckets. Of reducing human beings to cargo, to property, to footnotes in someone else’s civilization-building project. Your church did not just allow it. It licensed it. And now there is a statement. A gesture. A carefully worded expression of regret from an institution that still holds the wealth built on those bones. You want forgiveness? Return the gold, return the artifacts, return the land you still hold through proxy governments and economic doctrine dressed in the language of development. Then come back and talk. Until then, no! Sorrow without restitution is just theater. And we have watched enough of your productions.
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Pope Leo XIV issues a historic apology for the Church's role in slavery — calling it a 'wound in Christian memory' Leo acknowledged that past popes authorized the enslavement of non-Christians and failed to condemn the slave trade for centuries

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Madros Lessons
Madros Lessons@MadrosLessons·
Our Osundib program is ongoing & our students are already making waves! 🔥 And the best part? There’s even more coming. 👀
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Alfred ‘The Great’ II
Alfred ‘The Great’ II@d_black_messiah·
The First Betrayal Before the military. Before the looting. Before the endless cycle of elections that change nothing and leaders who own everything, there was a man. A man who stood at the birth of a nation and chose the wrong mother. A man I’ll leave you to mention his name yourself as a good student of history. We were taught to say his name with reverence. They put it in our textbooks. They named institutions after him. They handed us a hero and told us to be grateful. We were not taught the truth. The truth is this: Nigeria did not fail by accident. Nigeria was architected to fail. And the first architect wasn’t a soldier, wasn’t a dictator, wasn’t a foreign corporation. It was the first president. Azikiwe’s allegiance was never to this soil. It was never to the millions of people who bled under colonial boots and dared to dream that independence meant something. His allegiance belonged elsewhere, to the hands that had always pulled the strings, to the family that never truly left, only changed costume. Everything he did served them. Every decision. Every silence. Every strategic absence at the moments that mattered most. And the cruelest part? The people knew. Not in documents. Not in newspapers. In their bones. They felt it, that particular species of disappointment that comes when you realise the man at the front of the room is reading from someone else’s script. They felt it so deeply that when soldiers came with guns and tanks and coup announcements, the streets did not weep. They hoped. They hoped that maybe now, finally, the right man would rise. The one they actually believed in, the one who had looked at Nigeria and seen what it could become, would be placed where he belonged. Instead, they got another puppet. Different face. Same strings. That is the story they will never teach in school. Because the classroom was also built by the architects. The curriculum is part of the structure. You cannot learn the truth of your cage from the textbooks your jailer wrote. The first president of Nigeria is not our hero. He is part of our original wound.
Jude Bela@realJudebela

Nigeria's First President Was a Disaster. #PowerandPlunder

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Alfred ‘The Great’ II
Alfred ‘The Great’ II@d_black_messiah·
Dear Shakira, If you cannot show the beauty of Africa without making it a charity case, leave Africa the fuck alone. If you cannot show the slums of Paris, the poverty of Detroit, the forgotten corners of your own world, leave Africa the fuck alone. We are not your redemption arc. You stole a song from artists in Cameroon. Never paid them, never apologized. And you still want to speak for us? You don’t get to exploit our culture and adopt our cause. Get the fuck out!
shakira charts@ShakOnChart

The day is getting closer… 👀🔥 THE “DAI DAI” MUSIC VIDEO IS COMING!

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Marvo Sneh
Marvo Sneh@marvo_sneh_·
TikTok people too poor. See as dem just dey happy for the 1 rose wey I dey give them. 😂😂
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Marvo Sneh
Marvo Sneh@marvo_sneh_·
Elon don drop am ooo! 😂🔥🔥 W’sss
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The Lawrence
The Lawrence@Thelawrett·
@d_black_messiah This is facts. Most beginners don’t quit because they can’t learn, they quit because they feel disconnected and overwhelmed. daily.dev is honestly one of the easiest ways to stay plugged into the tech ecosystem while learning.
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Alfred ‘The Great’ II
Alfred ‘The Great’ II@d_black_messiah·
Most newbie developers are learning in the dark. They finish a tutorial, close the tab, and wait for the next thing to study. No context, no community, no pulse on what’s actually happening in tech. That’s the gap that kills momentum. daily dot dev fixes that quietly. It’s a single feed, personalized to your stack, your interests, your level, that pulls the best developer content from across the internet and puts it in front of you every morning. You don’t go looking for knowledge. Knowledge finds you. And that matters more than people admit. Because staying curious is a skill. And skills need practice. If you’re just starting out, the worst thing you can do is code in a vacuum. The best developers I know aren’t the ones who studied the hardest, they’re the ones who stayed plugged in. daily .dev keeps you plugged in. Install the extension. Make it your new tab. Let the feed do the rest. Your growth will quietly accelerate. You’ll thank yourself in 6 months. dly.to/l2eYteAlYr3
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Marvo Sneh
Marvo Sneh@marvo_sneh_·
The face. The Club
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The Lawrence@Thelawrett·
Building a brain storming personal portfolio, I’ll drop it in sections from the navigation bars to the footers so you can tell me what I can upgrade on 🫡 #techcommunity
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Alfred ‘The Great’ II
Alfred ‘The Great’ II@d_black_messiah·
Thank you! In my entire life, I have never once seen the headline: “First European to…” “First American to…” “First white man to…” Not once. But I have read, countless times… “First Black man to.” “First African to.” A whole celebration built around the soft, quiet confession that we did not expect ourselves to be there. That is not pride. That is inferiority complex! It lives deep. So deep that a man from Ikorodu will stand in a location people visit on a regular basis and announce himself as the “First Nigerian to play chess at kinikan”. with a straight face and his signature Fila. The bar was never set low. The bar was buried. And some of us are still throwing confetti over the hole.
AGUNWA IGBANI 🇳🇬🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇧🇫@Igbani27243

Can we stop with This "First African" Nonsense It gives Eurocentric Institutions so much Power over our Minds and Aspirations

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The Lawrence
The Lawrence@Thelawrett·
Created a login and sign up page where users can sign in or register and account if they are first time users, once you click register you’re directed to sign up page to create an account or create with google and Facebook @MadrosLessons and @d_black_messiah
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Madros Lessons
Madros Lessons@MadrosLessons·
Friday energy hits different when you’re designing the future!✨ Meet our UI/UX students at Madros Lessons, learning to create experiences people don’t just use, but love. From wireframes to polished interfaces, these ones are built different.
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The Lawrence
The Lawrence@Thelawrett·
Vibe coded a Flashscore template of the FA CUP FINAL match between @ChelseaFC and Manchester city…. This is pure code…. 💙If you need any club of your choice done with pure code hit me up I’ll do that for ya….. p.s it’s free
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