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@Ade_Goke_Ade @thebeaksart Great

The more I look at The Beaks, the more I keep noticing new details and getting increasingly intrigued. The dotted textures, peculiar expressions, surreal outfits, and dream-like scenes make every piece feel alive and spirited. Nothing about it comes across as attention-seeking. A brief scan and you can just sense a world that has been carefully and patiently built over years. The fact that Dima Kashtalyan has over two decades of experience in painting murals and creating editorial art makes the collection even more compelling. That history is visible in the work itself. Every character looks intentional; no excess, no eccentricity that seems forced or misplaced. It’s as though, even before any external interpretation, it already has its own fully formed visual language and mythology. I initially wondered why Dima chose to bring this style onchain rather than keep it within galleries or traditional art spaces. It seemed, at least initially, better suited to those environments. But on reflection, this is exactly the kind of practice the space benefits from: work not chasing trends but expanding what “digital-native art” can be. And when you factor in that TheBeaks is a Genesis collection of 1111 pieces, the sheer logic in the decision strikes even deeper. It feels like an extension of a long-standing practice entering a new medium, where work with a strong identity naturally stands out. All in all, it’s striking to see grounded, experience-driven work getting attention in this space again. In an environment that often moves fast, something like this slows things down in a necessary way. I’m glad Dima brought it into this form. A new era of onchain art, perhaps. @thebeaksart @DKashtalyan

@OxSpecialgift @thebeaksart @DKashtalyan You should have taught me literature in high school. See how you weaved words together😭😭

I THOUGHT PICASSO WAS THE LAST PEAK OF ART. The day Picasso died, the world was certain it had witnessed the final peak of artistic genius. People genuinely believed humanity would never again produce a mind capable of redefining art at that level. For decades, nobody seriously challenged that belief. Not even in today’s era where machines can generate images in seconds and imitation has become effortless. I believed it too until I came across the work of @DKashtalyan. For the first time in years, I looked at a piece of art and genuinely struggled to understand how a human being could create something so detailed, intentional, and emotionally precise by hand. In an age where AI can replicate almost anything, his work still feels impossible to reproduce. What stunned me most was not even the central figure, but the background details. The textures hidden inside shadows, the discipline behind every dot, and the strange feeling that the image was somehow more alive the longer I stared at it. It makes complete sense that his work has appeared in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Taipei, Barcelona, and London. And now he is bringing that world onchain, as a natural extension of everything he has already been building. For the first time in a very long time, digital art will feel truly human to me again. @thebeaksart @DKashtalyan

@dhe_empire @getblockio @solana Wow. You should have been my high school teacher. This is very educative

Every serious Solana trader has had this moment. You see the opportunity You fire the transaction You wait And then you watch someone else take exactly what you were going for Same chain. Same moment. Different outcome And almost nobody figures out the real reason why 🧵

@dhe_empire I learned a lot from this

The biggest threat to your data isn't someone breaking in. It's the fact that the door was never locked in the first place. Most people think data breaches happen because of hackers. They don't. This changes everything you thought you knew about data in the first place. 🧵

@dhe_empire great write up

Unpopular opinion: Crypto was never actually private. Anyone with a browser can paste your wallet and see your exact balance, every transaction and address you've touched. That's not freedom. That's a public diary with your life savings in it. Aptos just shipped a fix. 🧵

@dhe_empire @bynomofun This is absolutely endearing

Most trading platforms are built to look impressive but not to actually work for you. Cluttered dashboards. Buried mechanics. By the fifth tooltip, you realize it was built for demos, not traders. I almost dismissed @bynomofun the same way. Almost. 🧵

Despite my admiration for Laporta's shrewdness and his proven administrative acumen, I'd have loved for Font to emerge the winner. For the way he dragged Messi through the mud, even if inevitable as he argued, I'd always abhor Laporta for it.

@BoluwatifeMobo1 @igit003 This one sure me die

@igit003 Jeun ooo You fit Dey count ceiling by 1:30am

moti mu water melon yo, ikun mi wa ri rondo. ipade di sari.

@lay_con2 @Bybit_Official @BybitAfrica @Bybit_Official @BybitAfrica You really should promptly look into this!

Hello @Bybit_Official @BybitAfrica, I noticed someone had hacked and attempted to access my account through my email, so I deactivated it immediately to protect my funds. I’m already in contact with support, but I just received an email that my Google Authenticator was unbound. Please confirm this is part of the recovery process and kindly help me look into it as soon as possible. Thank you @Bybit_Official @BybitAfrica

This is a mind-bogglingly ignorant take, and what that self-proclaimed Imam wrote does not align with the Islamic position on who gets to educate others in Islam, as stated in Qur’an 49:13. Islam reached Africa before it reached even Madina, the second holiest city in Islam. That may sound absurd at first, but it is historically accurate. Islam arrived in Africa in 615 on the Julian calendar and reached Madina (Medina) in 622 CE. Islam reached Africa through the first hijrah, the migration to Abyssinia, when followers of the Prophet were being persecuted in Makkah (Mecca) and sought refuge on the African continent. The group of exiles were hosted and protected by the king of the Aksum Kingdom, present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea, known as the Negus or Najashi. This hospitality allowed for the open practice of Islam in the christian kingdom and led to conversions, and there are documented accounts that the king himself, known in Arabic sources as Ashama ibn Abjar, secretly accepted Islam. So, yes, Islam was present in Africa long before the place known today as the UAE. It is also worth mentioning that the first Muslim to call the prayer was a black man named Bilal ibn Rabah, who was a freed slave from Abyssinia. The claim that geographical location confers primacy, supremacy, or qualification to teach Islam is therefore absolute nonsense. The Qur’anic verse mentioned above, which is an acknowledgment of our creations as nations and tribes, declared, with no ambiguity, that the most noble in the sight of Allah are the most righteous, not the Arabs, not the Africans, not the Caucasians, not the rich, and certainly not the Emiratis. We learn Islam from the most knowledgeable, whether black or white, Arab or African. Educated Africans have been teaching Islam to Arabs since the earliest days of the faith, which is precisely why Bilal, a black African, and not an Arab, was honoured as the first muezzin in Islam. You can counter extremism or preach moderation without repeatedly bending history or pandering to a racist Arab, a charlatan of the textbook kind, whose prejudice towardS your own kind, evident in his post, I am surprised you failed to see.

Lol.

If FIFA succeeds in its machinations to stage this generational clash, lives will be lost in hundreds and I am not even exaggerating Every shot on target will literally shoot up people's BPs. It'd be the most damning world catastrophe after WWII

@thesophiebrand All things being equal, it simply means the person is not interested in the conversation any more. Again, ceteris paribus.

This is the keeper of the flame. He doesn't shout. He doesn't rush. My @ritualnet siggy. He simply watches, to ensure every part of the system works together in harmony. The light around him is the promise that everything here is built to last, that every piece can be trusted. He is the calm at the center of the storm. He is the reason the foundation is solid. He is the guardian of the ritual, and his presence means the work is true.

Araujo has simply been the bane of Barca's competitiveness in UCL for as long as I can remember. The most infuriating part is that he never owns up to his on-field ruinous misdeeds. Gundogan complained about same thing that time and they sent him packing.