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Ed Sheeran announces that he has left Warner Music after 15 years together: “My life is hugely different now to what it was when I was a teenager, and I’ve been feeling in my gut for a long time that a lot of things in my professional life need to change. I am, underneath it all, a singer-songwriter who plays pub gigs. And I’ve sorta morphed into this pop star who plays stadiums over 15 years; it’s a super amazing thing to have happened but also a lot to get your head around […] I leave the company with SO much love and gratitude for everything we have achieved together. This isn’t a ‘disgruntled artist leaves record label’ type situation. This is a boy who started as a teenager on the company with different priorities, to the father-of-two man who exists now, who feels like he needs a shift and change in the way he does things professionally.”

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Fun Fact: I started my ig as a food blog when I was broke so I could eat for free but then my music blew up 🤪

why do i have to wait for a manager to finish their meeting to get a cafe’s wifi password? smh

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language isn't just for talking; for oral cultures like ours, it’s the archive. names like "ojuelegba" or "ibadan" hold the exact history of how those spaces were founded. because our ancestors codified history in words rather than books, losing a language means erasing their legacy. look at river niger. losing its original name allowed mungo park to claim he "discovered" it. look at our ancient immunization practices; all wiped out & western-labeled because we lost the vocabulary. minimal languages mean maximum erasure. fyi: ojú-Ìbọ ẹlẹ́gba, meaning "the spot of the worship for ẹlẹ́gba. the area was a sacred grove dedicated to the deity of fate/the crossroads. ìbàdàn is from ẹ̀bá ọ̀dàn, meaning "the junction of the savanna & the forest." the name is a literally geographic map explaining the exact ecological zone where the empire was founded. for every language we lose, we lose the story/legacy of everything that once existed or emanated from there.

This is actually a brilliant observation that deserves a proper answer. You are not wrong about what you are seeing. But what you are describing is exactly how languages disappear without anyone noticing. Adamawa alone has over 40 documented languages. Bura, Vere, Chamba, Gaanda, Lala, Bacchama, Bata, Marghi and more and no they are not variations as you pointed out. But most of them are slowly being swallowed by Hausa and Fulani because those are the languages of trade, mobility and survival. So yes, your Borno security guard speaks Shuwa Arabic and your Sokoto okada man speaks Hausa and they understand each other perfectly. That does not mean only one language exists. It means one language won the economic argument. This is what linguists call language assimilation. The dominant language does not erase the others overnight. It just makes them less useful for daily survival until the younger generation stops learning them entirely. Now here are the facts. Ethnologue, which is the world's most authoritative database on languages, currently documents 520 living indigenous languages in Nigeria alone. Not dialects. Languages. Nigeria has also already lost 12 indigenous languages or more to extinction. Gone forever. The Middle Belt is where this becomes undeniable. Plateau State alone has over 50 distinct languages. Keyword "Dinstinct". Benue has Tiv, Idoma, Igede and more. Taraba has communities that cannot understand their neighbours two villages away without a translator. Your Yoruba example actually proves the point perfectly. The fact that a Yoruba person can move across the Southwest and be understood is evidence of one dominant language absorbing regional variations over centuries. That process happened. It is still happening everywhere else in Nigeria right now. Now I am willing to bet you have never heard of Hyam, Ngas, Mwaghavul, Berom, Amo, Buji, Sura, Anaguta, or Irigwe from Plateau State. Or Kilba, Huba, Bura-Pabir, and Chibok from Borno. Or Mumuye, Jenjo, Yukuben, and Wurkum from Taraba. Or Tur, Nyandang, Kugama and Taram further into the riverine communities nobody talks about. Or what about Igala, Ebira, Bassange, Bassa-Nge, Kakanda and Oworo from Kogi alone. I have not even touched Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, or Nasarawa yet. You want to know exactly where each of these is spoken? You will have to tour Nigeria for that. And I promise you, this country will humble you in ways no map ever could. The 500 languages are not cap. Most of them are just quietly dying (Bura has an estimated 11,000 speakers with most young Bura people now not able to speak the language) while we debate whether they exist. And that is the real conversation Nigeria should be having.

@elnathan_john i think he hinted at it when he said “i get a lot of printed emails. they’ll say you got to take a look at this”

I am surprised the interviewer did not press this point further. It is certainly not true that he does not use email. He just has people do it for him. To say he does not use email is like saying a meat eater has never killed an animal even though the person eats buffalo wings every night. It is a statement that is at best meaningless and at worst dishonest. If I had dozens of people working for me and millions of dollars I too would swear off email. This has nothing to do with any special insight but a lot of privilege and resources. It means someone books his flights, deals with bureaucracy (much of which happens by email) pays for the things he buys or orders, deals with the paperwork (much of which happens by email). If he had to look for a job, or work in any office, or apply for a visa he would not be able to say this. It is irritating to see a journalist completely fall for this as if it was some sign of virtue. Which major celebrity is typing emails themselves?

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@AaronBastani Born to close Hormuz, forced to park the bus.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

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@haphazardlyyyyy I reached out to someone who gave one of my movies a poor review, not because they gave a poor review but because they called me white.

You can tell who has never built anything by how casually they speak about destroying things.

Adding geologist to my CV after hitting rock bottom>>>>

starting to run in your 30’s is a great way to meet new people. today i met two paramedics, one nurse and almost God.

Everyone is smart after the fact Elsa took a chance on herself, bet on a bigger stage and maybe it did not land the way she envisioned and there is nothing wrong with stepping off a bus that is not moving and taking a familiar route or finding a new one The mockery is for people who never left the bus stop

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