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Liquid Earth — Vol. 1 A collection of 4K mobile wallpapers shot from above. 4 1 images. Minimal. Calm. Intentional. Made as a simple way to bring my work into everyday spaces. Instant download: selar.com/6vc2626u64
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They probably love him because his name has Gun in it.
A goal made by Migration @ICEgov
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Ogbu mma anaghị ekwe ka mma gaa ya n'azụ.
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Accra has a traffic problem. Over the past 2 months we’ve been digging for secrets on how Accra got into this mess, and more importantly how we dig ourself out. and we’re finally ready to share it. Our first explainer - Accra, the City that Can’t Move, premieres on YouTube today at 6pm. see you thereee.
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The 2026 World Cup is being hosted by a country that has spent decades trying to convince the world it belongs in football. It doesn't. Not yet. Here's why this tournament feels different from anything we've seen before. 🧵
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Fodome Bamboo Grove, Fodome, Volta Region❤️🇬🇭 [📸: The Heritage Chronicle]
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Ghana's swift and responsible intervention should now be better appreciated by the critics who accused us of overreacting and moving in too quickly to save our citizens. The Mahama Administration does not gamble with the precious lives of Ghanaians. We convey our deepest and sincerest condolences to the Government and people of Mozambique on the loss of five of their nationals due to the ongoing xenophobic attacks as confirmed by the Mozambican Government. No African should ever be killed by fellow Africans on African soil. May these condemnable acts never quench our Pan-African resolve for true African unity, full integration, free movement, common market and significant intra-African trade as Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah pioneered and sacrificed greatly for.
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If you see a well constructed rammed earth building anywhere in Africa, there is a strong chance a Ghanaian architect or engineer had something to do with it. Ghana has long proven how serious she is with this material. The Falcon Cinema is the latest proof. Berekuso, Ghana. Studio NEiDA. Commissioned by film curator Jacqueline Nsiah. Expected completion 2027. A purpose built cinema and cultural archive dedicated entirely to African film. Four buildings arranged around a courtyard drawn from Asante compound architecture. Earth materials throughout. Thatched palm leaf roof. A roof assembly that channels rainwater into the central courtyard and allows hot air to escape without mechanical cooling. The main cinema is an outdoor planted amphitheatre. Construction waste will be repurposed into the courtyard seating landscape. 250 and 150 seat screening rooms. A restaurant. An archive. An education hub. An outdoor cinema. Future filmmaker residencies planned. A cinema of this scale generates consistent employment, attracts filmmakers, scholars, and tourists, and creates a market for local businesses around it. African film reels are currently scattered across institutions around the world, many never seen on the continent they came from. This building brings them home and builds the industry pipeline to train the next generation of African filmmakers on African soil. Studio NEiDA | The Falcon Cinema | Berekuso, Ghana | Expected 2027 Commissioned by Jacqueline Nsiah
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took some time off this app. i needed it. time to refocus on what i love most. making films. telling stories. so i went to Morocco and drove around the country with a local i met in the desert. currently finishing a short film from the trip. here are some frames
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another year around the sun 🌞 🎂
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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”
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I swear imma make It and when I do, they're gunna show this tweet lol
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Good morning from your Premier League champions 👋
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Champions 🏆
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I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s. Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph. You too can connect the dots: 1000reasons.vote/looters
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This list means well. However, here's an African upgrade with every item replaced with something that hits harder, works deeper, and our ancestors already knew about. 1. Oats → Ogi (fermented corn porridge) Prebiotic, easier to digest, feeds gut bacteria that regulate belly fat
FOODS THAT FLATTEN YOUR BELLY NATURALLY: 1. Oats – 1 bowl daily 2. Eggs – 2 daily 3. Green tea – 2 cups daily 4. Yogurt – 1 cup daily 5. Cucumbers – 1 cup daily 6. Leafy greens – 2 cups daily 7. Berries – 1 cup daily 8. Ginger – 1 tsp daily 9. Olive oil – 1 tbsp daily 10. Apple cider vinegar – 1 tbsp daily
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"I am a stubborn politician." words only the devil should have the ability to string together.
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STILLS FROM GBARAMATU 📸
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