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To our Oracle, our deeply loved mother, Rest in rest, my love. 🤍🕊️🪽🕯️💔

Rail, in my opinion, is one of the best ways to revolutionize mass transport. Intracity rail to be more specific

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@brendawambui @MediaMK 🤣😭

My fave Kenyan one: The babe who said AAR have finally built a hospital (along Kiambu Road) with the proceeds of diagnosing everyone with H. Pylori 😂😂😂 I can't drive past that hospital without thinking of that tweet and laughing 😂😂😂

@gina_din ❤️

Five years. Still hard to believe. Lorna, you were kind, thoughtful, and steady in ways that mattered. I miss you deeply. Grateful for the time, the sparring, the conversations that gave our work depth. My friend, my colleague. Keep resting in eternal peace

Langston Hughes

Miringa, a Kenyan boy creating a ‘People’s IEBC’ to prevent any form of rigging, has come up with a way for Kenyans to beat the government at its own game if it tries to switch off the internet!

Seeing your siblings doing well is a top tier feeling.

“We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Cancer patients suffer at KNH as State focuses on Nairobi Hospital zurl.co/nitG2

Bloomberg on a potential Kenyan fuel crisis: —Kenya consumes ~100k b/d of fuel and imports virtually all of it, with just ~21 days of stock vs a ~90-day benchmark. —Supply is heavily concentrated, with imports primarily from the UAE, Oman, and India, leaving the country highly exposed as suppliers begin rationing and stockouts emerge outside major urban centres.

God, I love Substack. The writers are writing. The thinkers are thinking. The yearners are yearning. The teachers are teaching! A whole lot of intellectual hope in an era that threatens critical thought.

SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!! Eva Ramón Gallegos successfully eliminates HPV

She is Daisy Buyanzi AKA Yanzi Arts 👏🔥

Shout out the Buddha and everyone before and after him who has taught on this. Do not build monuments to your suffering. Do not seek out gratuitous suffering. It’s a small, boring way to live. There is nothing special about it. Find something better to do with yourself.

Senegal have refused to return the 2025 AFCON trophy and medals, stating that they will never consider doing so.

The Seated, 2019, by Kenyan born artist Wangechi Mutu who has become the first artist to fill the New York Museum of Art’s alcoves with four female sculptures #WomensArt

Gen Zs are now getting it. This is the way to go. Gen Zs please chukueni kura. This is now content 🔥

Tumefika almost 300 registrations na people still in the line. Na kuna people still coming