David Mpanga

One morning she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. By that afternoon, she couldn’t remember her own name. And the industry that had made her famous? It replaced her before she could walk again. September 2001. Sharon Stone was behind a sofa in her San Francisco home when a sudden impact threw her over the couch onto the coffee table. Everything went dark. It wasn’t stress. It wasn’t exhaustion. It was a massive brain hemorrhage — her brain bled for nine days. Doctors gave her a one percent chance of survival. She was forty-three. At the peak of her career. Wealthy, famous, admired. Then, in a single afternoon, everything she knew about herself disappeared. She couldn’t walk without help. She couldn’t read a sentence. She struggled to speak coherently. At times, she didn’t even remember her own name. The world had associated her with beauty, intelligence, and power. She spent years relearning how to move, think, and interact with life itself. “I came out of the hospital looking like teeth on a stick,” she later said. “I lost 18 percent of my body mass in nine days.” Hollywood paused for no one. Roles vanished. Invitations stopped. Her bank account had been emptied while she fought to survive. “I had $18 million saved. But it was all gone,” she recalled. For seven years, her life became therapy: physical therapy to walk, speech therapy to speak, cognitive rehabilitation to think. Her senses shifted; everything felt altered. "My sight, touch, smell — everything changed," she said. She lost her marriage. Custody battles. Friends vanished. Her career evaporated. Then, gradually, clarity emerged. She saw that the loyalty around her had been transactional. “What remained after everything burned away mattered infinitely more,” she said. A Buddhist monk reminded her: “You were reincarnated into your same body.” She decided to stay present. To live for joy and purpose. Later, she returned to acting on her own terms. And during the pandemic, she rediscovered painting, spending hours daily exploring the world her rewired brain now perceived. At sixty-seven, Sharon Stone is alive. Creating. Honest. She survived the stroke, the erasure, and the loss of identity. And in that loss, she found herself.

Have had a fun ride in the 14yrs…never a dull moment on these s-tweets/x-tweets! Heres to another 14 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥂

I am grateful to God for blessing me and Maama Janet with a family, and for enabling us to have children even during very challenging times when Uganda was in turmoil. I am thankful to have lived to see my children grow up, start their own families, and now I am grateful to God to see my grandchild - Sasi Karugire, the daughter of Edwin and Natasha Karugire, getting married. It teaches me that when you do God’s work, He will do yours.

@MAAIF_Uganda @Rwakakamba @MAAIF_Uganda i too need to be included in your alert system. What do I do

@Rwakakamba Greetings @Rwakakamba . Based on the photo that you shared, it is likely that your plant is being attacked by the "Tailed caterpillar." Please send farm location details and contacts for inclusion in our alert to your area Agricultural Extension Office to carry out on-farm checks

.@MAAIF_Uganda , there is this kakoko (ka insect or something) poking holes in my 4 months old coffee plants. How do I manage it?

Happy Tuesday morning to all my wonderful, stupendous, highly intelligent, patriotic friends out there. Summer is fast approaching and soon it will be BBQ season. Make sure what you eat is really what its supposed to be. 🤣🤣🤣🙏🇺🇸☕️

Pete Davidson is on pace to spend $660K removing his tattoos, and the reason it costs that much is genuinely one of the weirdest things happening inside the human body. Tattoos are permanent because your immune system is actively holding the ink in place. White blood cells called macrophages swarm the ink, try to eat it like bacteria, fail because ink is chemically indestructible, and then just refuse to let go. They sit in your skin with the pigment trapped inside them, for life. The tattoo you see is a grid of immune cells frozen in the middle of trying to destroy something they can't. It gets weirder. When one of those cells finally dies of old age, a nearby macrophage grabs the released ink before it can drain. Then that one dies and passes it to the next one. The tattoo is a relay race of immune cells handing off the same ink particles for 50 years. Lasers are not erasers. They fire pulses so fast (one trillionth of a second) that they create tiny shockwaves that blow the ink into smaller pieces. The laser doesn't remove anything. It just shatters. Here's the cruel part. The second the laser shatters the ink, fresh macrophages sprint in and swallow the pieces before your body can wash them away. You are paying a laser specialist $500 a session to break ink apart faster than your immune system can re-eat it. And where does the ink that actually escapes go? Your lymph nodes. It piles up there. Women with tattoos have ink in their armpit lymph nodes. It shows up on mammograms. Surgeons have mistaken it for cancer. Pete has 200+ tattoos. Each one needs 10-12 sessions because each session only wins a tiny fraction of the war. He's not buying tattoo removal. He's buying a decade-long siege against his own immune system, paid in installments of $500 shockwave blasts, while white blood cells inside his body sprint back and forth trying to eat their own ammo. $660K to starve the cells that refuse to let him forget who he used to be.

@kasujja @UgandaMediaCent I think i have something unique i can give you, Drone shots of one of the most unique islands in the world found in uganda. Chose only one.

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President @KagutaMuseveni Leads MPs in Shooting Drill, Emphasises Discipline, National Defence and Anti-Corruption at @NaliKyankwanzi Retreat Close.

@AstroVicGlover @NASA @csa_asc Super proud of you and your mates, @AstroVicGlover 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu, following a scientific assessment by our CBRN team, I have written to Matongo Wood Works Company confirming that traditional wooden food containers made from omunyama (mahogany) and omusisa (albizia) are safe and durable. I have directed support for this initiative so that we free ourselves from the colonial habit of relying on fragile and unsafe ebyatika (the breakables). Our indigenous knowledge systems served our people well for generations. It is time to consciously revive and promote them as part of building a self-reliant and modern Ugandan economy.

This is British values - Robert Fisk is a real reporter and he’s spot on here …..

Yesterday was a proud day for Uganda! Our very own ClimCam — a climate monitoring camera built right here with Ugandan engineers — launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, in partnership with Kenya and Egypt. This AI-powered eye in the sky will pass over East Africa up to four times a day, giving us accurate, high-resolution images to better predict floods, droughts, and weather patterns. No more guessing when the rains will come or when disaster might strike. Farmers will plan better, communities will prepare earlier, and our government can respond faster to protect lives and livelihoods. This is exactly what #STIWorksUg is about — turning science and innovation into real solutions that help our people and build a more resilient Uganda. From our lecture rooms to space... we're not just watching the future, we're building it.

BREAKING: Court documents reveal that Australian government war crimes investigators do not even have the NAMES of two individuals Ben Roberts-Smith is alleged to have killed in Afghanistan almost 20 years ago. Nobody has managed to identify these alleged victims - even after $300 million was spent on war crimes investigations over five years. Australian Office of Special Investigations director Ross Barnett already revealed that investigators have: - No crime scenes - No access to the deceased - No bodies - No post-mortem report - No official cause of death - No recovery of projectiles to link to weapons that might have been carried by members of the ADF - No photographs - No site plans - No measurements - No recovery of projectiles - No blood spatter Now we know that after nearly $300 million and 5 years of investigation, they do not even have the NAMES of two alleged victims. If there is no name, no identification, no body - how do we even know they were killed? Does anybody actually think this is fair? Does anybody actually think that a criminal conviction - proved to a criminal standard, beyond reasonable doubt - is remotely possible in these circumstances? Daily Mail: ''Two of the five men Ben Roberts-Smith is accused of murdering while serving with the Special Air Service in Afghanistan have never been identified by war crimes investigators. Court documents seen by the Daily Mail show one of the Victoria Cross recipient's alleged victims is described only as 'Person Under Control 1', or alternatively 'Enemy Killed in Action 3'.''

I feel like I should note, I had a great flight with @UG_Airlines yesterday from Johannesburg to Entebbe. Flight on time, really good food, great service and allow professional. Considering we are quick to tweet when things go bad, might as well do when things go great. #UGFirst

Check out the Ugandan team behind this great innovation 🇺🇬 While the world watches Falcon 9 launch ClimCam to the ISS, let’s shine light on our own people who made it happen. Four brilliant Ugandan engineers — Gerald Kisangala (Soroti University), Zaina Kalyankolo (Mbarara University of Science and Technology), Rosemary Nalwanga (embedded systems specialist), and Christopher Ongom Adoko (Kyambogo University) — went through intensive training in Egypt and helped design and build this AI-powered climate camera. #STIWorksUg

Liftoff of Falcon 9 to the International Space Station — and our ClimCam payload is on board! 🇺🇬🚀 Our farmers feed this nation, but floods, droughts and unpredictable weather have been punishing us for years. ClimCam is going to give us accurate, timely information straight from above — so we can plan better for agriculture, protect communities from disasters, and manage our environment smarter. This is space technology working for ordinary Ugandans, not just for show. #STIWorksUg

My father owns a produce brokerage company. He sells +$10m a year in onions a year with a phone, fax machine, and file cabinet. TLDR: - he calls farmers and will buy two or three truckloads of onions - then organizes a truck for pick up - sells the onions to Walmart or some other chain like that. I made a video about it when I was at his office, and on Instagram it got like 3 million views in a week. He was so pumped. And no, he doesn't make $10m/year. The margins are tiny. But its just him + 1 person in office. Put me through college debt free and has always driven a fat Mercedes! Originally, he worked in a grocery store in the produce section. Then had fruit stand on the side of the road. Then did the white collar move and started a brokerage. I was in 4th grade. It was funny because he started the business in summertime, and the AC of the office was expensive, so he used to work barefooted without a shirt and his Docker shorts. It's been like 25 years now, and he's sold over a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of onions. His CRM is a binder. He has two phones, a file cabinet, and everything is done with checks. There's a computer on his desk, but to be honest, it's for when he uses Facebook, YouTube and visiting The Chive. And there's a baby playpen in the office so his co-worker, who he has hired, can bring her baby to work. The video was only 60 seconds long and people loved it because they were shocked that you can build a really good lifestyle with simplicity.