soft, tender.

When the friend of my heart sent me this book sometime in 2025, she had so many words for me. “This book holds me with so much audacity and warmth,” she said. “I hope it holds you boldly and tenderly too.” Oh, it did. It did.

@MarnORZ Congratulations

After 2 years of no job… I finally hit something lmao and so many people helped me along the way.

There is no upside to these AI witch hunts. Bad writing is bad writing. Good writing is good writing. These tell tale signs everyone points to are well used, time tested tools of writing and story telling. Not X but Y? As I wrote in a piece I published here(link in next tweet), you can find dozens of examples in books by James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, The Bible, The Hadith. Mentioning things in groups of three? A standard tool in lots of very good writing. Em dashes? Just part of the language. And where does it all come from? From writing that we have put out in the world. From our novels and stories and essays. AI did not invent any of this. I have used all of these quite often over the last 15 years. Unless you want people to actively avoid everything that could be construed to be AI, I don't see the point of this. Especially writing in groups of threes which is a fundamental rhetorical and psychological principle used by human writers for centuries. Why? Rhythm, emphasis, persuasion. That is why the tricolon (listing words or phrases in threes) works. That is also why the three act structure (setup, confrontation, resolution) works. The problem is not in the use, but in moderation and this can happen in any piece of writing, not just AI. I read a lot of weird MFA writing where you can hardly distinguish one writer from another because they all write in that self-important navel gazing way that shows that they are more interested in impressing people (read: their professors and colleagues) with sentences than in telling stories. All of the fancy MFA stories that are about nothing, say nothing, except show that the writer attended a creative writing program, is that the great writing we are protecting? Stories that live and die in literary magazines and speak to no one? There are bigger, more important questions to answer in and with literature. There are stories to be told. Emotions and phenomena to explore. Depths to be reached. None of these will be done by AI. Will (or can) AI help actual professionals and serious thinkers do their job more efficiently? Only time will tell. And trust me by the time this madness is over, you will discover that many more people than you think (or at least many more than admit) are using AI for a wide range of tasks related to story telling, and exploring ideas. I also do not think that the writers who have writing teams and assistants and interns helping to produce their books are any better just because they use humans to produce the work we praise them for. Ideas and stories will live or die based on how well they speak to those who read them, not how they are made.

@MissLELOMK1 @itslydiaowuor Congratulations!

FINALLY BROKE THE CHAINS OF A GENERATIONAL CURSE. I GOT A JOB, YOUR GIRL GOT A JOB FAM. FIRST IN MY FAMILY TO GET HIRED BTW ❤😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Colon (:) introduces something. You usually use it when what comes after is a list, or an explanation, or even a reveal. An example is “she had one rule: never apologize” or “this is a list of things you should get from the market: eggs, tomatoes…” It’s also used as the eyes in a smiley face :) Semicolon (;) connects two complete thoughts that are related but could stand alone as separate sentences. It’s stronger than a comma but softer than a full stop. An example is “Frank never apologized; he didn't think he was wrong” It’s also used as the eyes in a winking face ;)

@CurAlwaysMe Congratulations!!!!!

Hi guys, not that you care, but I just wanna tell you that I GOT THE JOB. Thank God ❤️

@shiluvankuna Congratulations

May your month ends like this 🕯️❤️

@district_ayle 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

guys i got the job 🥹🥹🥹 i'm so happy 😭

@RuggedRyan_ 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I finally did it. After around 200 applications, I finally had a job offer today. Please, clap for me.

David Maraga President 2027

These people talk as if Kenya is the only country being affected by "US-Iran war", like we're in the epicenter of that war, like the Strait of Hormuz is the Expressway, like Tehran is in Syokimau.

Yes, they experienced & no they weren’t aware so they couldn’t articulate it. It however manifested in random outbursts of anger , taking things out on you , your dad just moody for no reason and you are afraid to go to his room, reckless beating & being overly religious too

"pretentious" is the word the unambitious wield at the ambitious.

@femibro_ Let it be 🙏🏾

Dear God, please let it work out..good luck to me🙏🏼

You won’t understand how much AI has shaped your writing until you read an old piece of yours and realise how normal it was for you to use em-dashes and Oxford commas compared to how you intentionally but begrudgingly avoid them now for fear of being accused of using a machine.

@nessguerrero All the best.

Just applied for a job I’m beyond perfect for. I need you to send me all your positive energy.

There's a boy in my daughter's class who is telling her that her jokes are funny. Skiza kijana, napigana na serikali, usinisumbue😭

The onset of homa is actually worse than the homa itself. 😭

Kudos to that man that has refused blackmail on live TV. What a shameless government!