Ordinary Magician
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Of course children misbehave.
They lie, talk back, lose their shit, break things, disobey, make terrible decisions, and make mistakes.
They’re children.
But something strange happens in the way we tell the story afterward. We begin with the child’s behavior, as though everything the adult did came afterward and was therefore justified.
“I got hit because I talked back.”
“I got my ass beat because I didn’t listen.”
“I deserved it. I was a bad kid.”
Notice what happened.
The child became responsible not only for their own behavior, but for the adult’s behavior too. But the child didn’t invent hitting. They didn’t invent humiliation. They didn’t invent threats, intimidation, fear, or physical pain as ways to gain compliance.
Adults brought those tools into childhood.
Then the child grew up and inherited the explanation for why those tools were necessary. That’s a big reason harmful patterns survive generations. That is why abuse continues.
The behavior gets passed down, but so does the story that makes the behavior seem justified.
Mathew Onipe retweeted
We need to talk about Zohran Mamdani's victory speech because it was EVERYTHING. He quoted Nehru. His wife beside him. His Gujarati Muslim father and Hindu mother in a saree on stage. Ended with 'Dhoom Machale' blasting. This is what representing Indian Americans actually looks like. Not Usha Vance, Kash Patel or Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Tinubu knows, INEC knows, the Judiciary knows and so do a lot of Nigerians that Tinubu did not win the Presidency, he stole it - Dele Farotimi
This truth will never die away. The story must be told and retold from ages to ages.
Mathew Onipe retweeted
The thing about the Chinese fashion manufacturing TikTok discourse is that people haven't seen what it takes to build a reputable business. Look at what independent craftspeople go through: years of training, selling to discerning buyers, building a reputation, and expansion. 🧵
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Hi Patrick! I agree, it's weird to see people flip flop on this issue. By the way, I noticed that you don't list country-of-origin info on your site, but I was still able to find your merch. It appears to be made in low wage countries. I can help you find US suppliers (for a fee)
Mathew Onipe retweeted
Hi Chad! I agree, the left can't count. But can I COUNT on YOU to hire ME to help you move your manufacturing back to the United States?
Mathew Onipe retweeted
not true. i've been wearing the same sweater every day for four months when i feed neighborhood crows. now whenever i wear the sweater, a murder of crows follows me around the block like an avian gang. they take me pretty seriously.
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Mathew Onipe retweeted
The terrorist behind the Sweden school shooting is 35-year-old WHITE man called Rickard Andersson.
Look at the picture the @BBC used.
Shame on you.
Mathew Onipe retweeted
As a software eng, it is inherently satisfying to see an open approach beat close approaches in an innovative field.
Linux is open: Windows is closed
Llama, Deepseek, Mistral are open: OpenAI+many others others closed
Closed approaches winning almost always lead to monopolies.
Mathew Onipe retweeted
Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Colombia yesterday.
Under Biden/Harris, Colombia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 just in 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. 1/
Mathew Onipe retweeted
Long before Lord of the Rings, people told stories about elves.
But these elves weren't the beautiful forest-dwellers of modern fantasy — they were something far more ancient and strange.
And they could be deadly.
Here's what elves were really like in the medieval mind… 🧵
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But it’s only because enough people were open minded and curious enough not to reject the idea outright; it’s all because of you guys and I’m so grateful to you all for engaging with my work.
Yep! 💯💯
A black lady escaped to London from Nigeria; she has now become an Oga; look who is fighting her from Nigeria: a “big man” who lives in an N21b mansion built by the “people.”
That big man has never issued statements on bandits with such clarity or anger. Kemi is his problem because Kemi referred to the Ogas in Nigeria
If Kemi called the people of Nigeria corrupt, Oga would not mind.
Who is defending that big man who is attacking Kemi? Poor folks who are struggling to pay rent in Nigeria.
Kemi said things I would never say or encourage anyone to say about any nation, but she has said it
You, the Voltron in Nigeria, are praying in church for your brother's anty cousin to invite you to the UK so you can escape what Kemi said. You are outraged, but your number one goal is to Japa
Should we praise Kemi? No. She is a politician and shows that she can't separate her emotions from policy. She is no Margaret Thatcher.
But should we listen to Kemi? And other “Kemis”, yes they are only saying what EVERYONE has said and Is saying about Nigeria
A white British man also said, “Nigerians are fantastically corrupt” There was also outrage, but was he wrong? Has the corruption not gotten worse?
I remember a quote on House of Cards: The fictional Russian President told the American First Lady, “ We (humans) prefer the lies that elevate us rather than a hundred truths.”
Mathew Onipe retweeted
There's a word for the way some people freak out at the existence of humanities scholarship. It's called anti-intellectualism. It's a severe character flaw.
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She’s still doing a million views an hour. Insane. There are people in Indonesia studying her thesis now. It’s the most downloaded research in her field for the last 100 years. Her citation count 10x-ed and her h-index is now higher than Einstein.
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I think the discourse around English PhDs reveals something uncomfortable: how deeply we’ve internalized the idea that education’s value is measured only by its market return. It’s not just disheartening—it’s dehumanizing. The humanities aren’t about utility in the way society defines it. They’re about grappling with the questions that shape us as people: What does it mean to live, to remember, to imagine?
When we reduce fields like literature or philosophy to their earning potential, it’s like trying to calculate the ROI on joy or grief. It doesn’t work because it’s not supposed to. The humanities remind us that life isn’t only about productivity; it’s about depth, connection, and the stories we share. Without them, we’re just machines chasing metrics.
But here we are, forced to defend their worth as if understanding, empathy, and imagination weren’t already the foundations of everything meaningful. The fact that this conversation even exists says more about the state of our society than it does about the humanities. We’ve let commodification creep into the spaces that should be sacred—spaces where learning transforms us, not just prepares us for a paycheck.
The humanities aren’t a luxury. They’re the bridge between who we are and who we want to become. And maybe, if we stopped asking them to justify their existence, we’d realize they’ve been justifying ours all along.
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NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/
