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  Just realised that the woman's voice at the start of Michael Jackson's 40 year old song Liberian Girl is singing the words "nakupenda pia" which means "I love you." In the East African language, Swahili. Liberia is in West Africa. That's really pissed me off. Africa. Is. Not. A. Country. Please follow me for other up-to-the-minute scandals.

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  Do you smoke (cigarettes, pipes, vapes, weed, whatever)? Apparently around 13% of UK adults smoke. I'm curious if Mastodon is around that level too. (Please boost and all that. Not that it makes a difference; once around 50 people have voted the percentage doesn't change much. Don't believe me? Boost it and see)

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  What's the small, ubiquitous, land animal where you are? I remember moving to Nigeria as a child and having my mind blown by the little lizards all over the place. I then lived in Nigeria long enough to forget that we've got squirrels everywhere in the UK, and having them blow my mind when I came back over.

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  Every time I hear a Hello Fresh or an M&S food ad, the meals are described with 4 or 5 adjectives, and with every ingredient and cooking process getting a starring role. ... slow-cooked, smoke-infused, lemon, avocado pasta with extra virgin olive oil from the hills of Bologna... Dear white people, is that how you people really speak? The other day a colleague asked me what I'd brought in for lunch "Rice," I replied. They looked at me expectantly, so I added: "... fro...

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  I'm watching Reacher on Prime. Good show, satisfyingly violent. But since when did the good guys stop saying something witty every time they kill someone? I miss that.

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  Look at these two images and guess at which of these gatherings the police thought it was necessary to make arrests: - one is a gathering of people dancing to soca music and eating jerk chicken - the other is a group of masked men dressed in black, disrupting one of the nation's major ports. However the police judged it a "spontaneous protest." Must be embarrassing to get up in the morning, independently put on nazi gear - and then find that everyone else is coincidentally dre...

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  The United Nations passed a resolution urging countries to adopt a world map that shows the correct size of continents (most maps shrink Africa). Only one country voted against this. No, it wasn't North Korea. It was America. I guess it was too DEI for them. With every passing day, America is becoming more and more like a moustache-twirling comic book villain - both laughable and terrifying. #uspol https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce30vp55dnlo

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  Question for extroverts: don't you get tired, going around extroverting all over the place like a bloody bluebottle? Give it a rest; you're not impressing anyone.

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  @aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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  When you adopt a country, how much of its history do you adopt with it? If, for example, you're a first- or second-generation American, do you get to be proud of the Constitution? And, if yes, what about what happened to the native population? If you're British, do you get to celebrate 1966? And should you apologise for the massacre at Amritsar?

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  Talking about being Black with Black people is always different from talking about being Black to white people. Cos every conversation about blackness to white people is really just a conversation about whiteness. Do they feel guilty, resentful, entitled? I can empathise, though. Every conversation I have with women about womanhood is really about my relationship with manhood. Same thing when I speak to queer people, and trans too.

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  @jmopp@masto.ai That's a shame. It's weird the way that the circle with politics works - something in society gives rise to racist politicians, and then those racist politicians embolden society to be more racist.

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  I remember back in the day when Bryan Adams' Everything i do was number one forever, and when Rihanna's Umbrella was number one forever, and Boyz II Men was number one forever. I heard those songs so much that my ears started to bleed. Olivia Dean and some guy have now been number one for even longer, and I don't think I've ever heard the song once. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8r2p27lzo

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  Would you take a guaranteed £50,000 or flip a coin for a chance to win £1m? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0njd4e2evo

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  Sometimes we all need a reminder that race is a cultural construct. And every culture will construct something slightly different. I was watching the Australian version of the sitcom Ghosts and was shocked to hear the main character described as Black. Black? That woman is white to me. But then, I'm not Australian. #australia #blackmastodon

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  Spent a really long day interviewing for an entry-level developer - ten interviewees, back to back, whittled down from 300 applications. I overheard one of them compliment the receptionist as she showed her to the interview room: "That's such a nice dress. You brighten up the building." I'm offering her the job.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/117004599684541292 I bet Uber will soon start doing ambulances in America. They'd make a - pardon the pun - killing.

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  NOTE: I do not understand money. Keep that in mind. Musk bought Twitter for $44B. Instagram and Tiktok are worth billions too. All based off the backs of thousands of content creators toiling for free for hours every day. Many of us toil for h̶o̶u̶r̶s̶ minutes every day creating content for Mastodon. So where does its billions in value lie? Not with the server hosts - they're paying for the privilege too. So where? #Mastodon

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  The United States of America is at war. And so it makes complete sense to me that its news outlets would report the (very sad) death of US soldiers while making no mention of the fact that Iran has lost soldiers too. Being fair and balanced takes on a slightly different tint when your country is at war - even if it's a war you disagree with. My question is this: why does the British press do the same thing when Britain is NOT at war? Cos America is our ally? #ukpol #uspol

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  Here's a dilemma you have as a person from two different cultures: how do you pronounce the names of people who mispronounce their own names? For example, English football is full of players of Nigerian heritage - Saka, Madueke, Eze - and everyone mispronounces their names. So should I anglicise their names too? Feels weird in my mouth tho. Same thing when I met British-Nigerians in real life. Example: if you're British and you meet an American called Craig or Graham, what do you ca...

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  Random question: If someone fires a gun in front of your face, would you be able to actually see the bullet?

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  I don't know enough to have an opinion on whether Saudi Arabia should be allowed to enrich uranium or not, but since when did one country - America - have the right to give them permission? Isn't that the kind of thing the United Nations used to handle? What if, tomorrow, Russia says they've given North Korea permission to fuck around with uranium? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/us/politics/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal.html

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  Growing up in Northern #Nigeria, I knew lots of kids of Lebanese heritage. I don't know their history but many had been in Nigeria for generations; they spoke better Hausa and Pidgin than me, but were never considered truly Nigerian. The best ones grew up and left. The unrecognised strength of countries like Britain and America is that you *can* become British, become American. We keep our best. It hurts me that we take it for granted, and so many people want to get rid of it. #UKpol #USp...

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  I wish Mastodon apps would redesign their UI to deprioritise the Like button and emphasise the Boost button. They are n͟o͟t͟ of equal importance in social media that does not have an algorithm. #mastodon

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  The longer this game goes on the more I want Argentina to lose #worldcup

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  What's the number¹ of tattoos that a person would have that they're almost guaranteed to get another one? (That is, if you've got 1 are you almost sure to get a 2nd? Or is it when you've got 3 that you're almost sure to get a 4th?) I don't have tatts, but I've heard they're addictive and I'm a bit curious. ______ ¹ lowest number #tattoo #tattoos

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  Everyone's saying The Odyssey is great cos it's the tale of a man taking 10 years to get home. Pah, that's nothing. Football's been coming home for 60 years and it's still not here. #worldcup

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  Discussing Trump with my American mother, who says she really dislikes him but... you've got to admit he's a great businessman and he's really brought up his kids well and Iran is horrible and the killing of their schoolchildren was an unfortunate mistake so holding it against Trump would be unfair. I'm beginning to get the impression my mum doesn't dislike Trump as much as she thinks.

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  Heard this crazy story of American "justice" on the Criminal podcast. A man is arrested for a crime cos the police used AI facial recognition. The man has a solid alibi: he was in hospital cos his child was being born. 6 months later, he pleads guilty. Why? He's been locked up all this time, awaiting trial. The only way he gets to go home to his new baby is to admit to a crime he didn't commit. This is that craziness @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io keeps telling us about. http...

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