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@QalifQaqow Ask this Somali @AlinurMohamed_ he is the one who taught Betty Kyallo such habits.

Bro Bantus are in pits like wtf

@neocollision @bbambied @_omalicha__ All true, the idea just as the totally rejected ideas of eugenics is still pervasive. So what she noted as a perception of people based on looks is a real attitude and Lombroso's theory is one of the sources of such sentiments.

@svorgud @bbambied @_omalicha__ Lombroso had no cientific proof whatsoever, also the study was based in racism, prejudice and eugenics (and facism). He is even considered outdated

i raise you people think ugly people ARE bad people

To be fair there is no poetry or mathematics on strategically displayed bums and boobs. They say all that has to be said and on offer.

@ihtesham2005 Eratosthenes calculated circumference of the Earth in Egypt. A "Greek" born in Libya educated and living in Egypt. If he had an Arabic name I guess he would have been part of your example. Islam and Christianity both vandalized knowledge and ushered in ignorance.

An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later. I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it. His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics." The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages. Here is the story almost nobody tells you. He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it. Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years. Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science. Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment." That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance. The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation. He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes. The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics. The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught. Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework. Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham. The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him. He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

@ihtesham2005 Islamic world despite destroying vast amounts of books (just as the Catholic chutch) did well to build on and PRESERVE knowledge from others from antiquity All the same the sheer amount of vandalism by dogmatic religious fanatics both Muslim and Christian was cause of dark ages

@ihtesham2005 Knowledge from all over the world was studied and improved upon in Egypt, Turkey and Persia before, during and after the Roman Empire as part and parcel of the Greek intellectual tradition. Translating it into Arabic and building on it does not make it an isolated innovation.

@Wafunya That is a note to yourself? People are intentionally singing that Malebo song that was last not stale in 1996 na wewe unataka kujifanya referee of what is hip and fresh?

The Met Ngara jokes and memes were funny in 2015. Not in 2026 unless you are extremely new to this app.

@waxiskufal You are a Yemeni refugee.

An oromo pest calling me a refugee on my own land. Si afadhali nikufe tu

@OleMepukori Mr. bandit from failed state pretending to be a Kenyan, you can go back to your stateless, lawless country identify with whatever you want. You can even identify with your shawl as your ID. Just make sure your delusions match reality when you get out the door of your hut.

Because Kenya is a colonial construct. Communities were here before Kenya. Identifying with Kenya is acceptance of continued colonialism. It is an act of resistance.

@BONFACE70127657 @ChaliKisogo @ArapTilingi @IanECox This story is far serious than I thought. Uganda just deported some. youtu.be/qMMpUIDGh0M?si…

@BONFACE70127657 @ChaliKisogo @ArapTilingi @IanECox I guess we partially have the answer.for some of them. US is dumping those who worked for them in Africa. Crazy x.com/i/status/20513…

Who is this mzungu guy selling tea and Mandazi around Iten town? I hope he has a work permit to do this.

@OrevaZSN @RamzZy_ One thing though even though things were pathetic late 1990s ironically we have less value for money, more counterfits now and gap/lifestyle between middle class and the very poor was not as starkly different as now. e.g. even the very poor could afford a newspaper once a week.

@OrevaZSN @RamzZy_ Late 1990s was far messier than now, but from 2002 to 2012 there was genuine palpable change and opportunities all over. Things got better very fast We took for granted things will just keep getting better as they obviously began to get worse First mistake was election of Uhuru

The reason millennials are so nostalgic is that they got a brief taste of a world that wasn’t entirely controlled by the stupidest people who’ve ever lived.

@Kenyans He sold the pipeline in Kenya to fund government majority owned refineries and projects in Uganda and Tanzania. Uganda will own it's own refinery and Kenya's pipeline. Hesabu za abunwasi. Yaani tunauza chupi na sindiria tuko nayo pekee tununulie jirani kofia, tutembee uchi😂

Ruto Gives Timeline for Revival of 100-Year Old Railway Linking Kenya & Tanzania read.kenyans.co.ke/MRnZ0

@Kenyans Mbona amechoka/kakonda kama uchumi ya Kenya?

If the wealthiest people in your society are politicians, that society is fundamentally corrupt.

@Gustavo__254 @GathogoBMwangi Miujiza ya injili na maombi pia haipeani cabbage Australia? Umejaribu kuwasha candles na kuomba yesu mkate na samaki? Umejaza kasumba ya dini kwa kichwa sana kama bangi. Punguza

@GathogoBMwangi Vita ya nini rafiki?

Kwa nini tuweke, kwani tulimuoa pamoja

@epcogal @ItsJeffreyJeff Hata women rep ule amenona uso Linet Toto? Hamna huruma😂

98% of kalenjin MPs and governors are going home . All of them . Women rep too

@waxiskufal Just on twitter with imaginary narratives. Somali are statistically proven to be shit. Your identity is shit and Somalia is proof. x.com/i/status/18759…

@waxiskufal Your identity as far as world is concerned is terrorism, tribalism, failed state, welfare fraud, laziness, violence, female genital mutilation, disabled children due to incestuous marriages Somali statics for 3 generations of immigrants shows you are shit x.com/i/status/20268…

Kenyans are bragging with a history not even 60 years old, they have no identity, a community literally stitched together by the white man, right down to the flag. Nothing rooted, nothing inherited… just a colonial invention walking around chest out.