I'm a rebel, baby. I'm revolting. ------------------------------- I'm #British and #Nigerian. I work in IT, but would much rather be hanging out with my kids. I listen to far too many #podcasts so I know a little about a lot, and a lot about very little. Pronouns: He/Him Location: Berkshire, UK 🇬🇧
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Last Notes npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku If there was some kind of a rule that says that for every 10 bombs that a country drops on another country, they have to let that country drop 1 on one of their cities, rich countries would think twice about waging war abroad. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I've always felt that every group, especially minority groups, only has so much leeway to air their issues. And that's why I can't get animated about the N-word at the Baftas. It must have been a horrible, horrible moment for those actors. But I accept that the man said the word, not because he's a racist, but because his Tourette's recognised that that was the worst thing to say at that moment. I also accept that the BBC fucked up by not bleeping it. But it's most likely just human error. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Let's be honest, the thing that we find appalling about this story of a middle-aged white British woman being locked up for weeks by ICE isn't the fact that she was locked up; it's that it can happen to a white middle-aged British woman. Immigration services across the West have been cruel for a very long time¹, but just not to people who look like this or come from here. ---- ¹ ICE has got much worse recently https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/116/108/174/920/353/417/original/3f678251ae0d00eb.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku During the heat of the Covid pandemic, I thought that what we were living through was changing the world forever. On a small scale, I couldn't imagine ever shaking anyone's hand again or standing close to a stranger. On a larger scale, I couldn't imagine people congregating in large crowds or flying across the world for leisure. Looking back from 2026, it doesn't seem to me that anything has changed at all. 2026 could well be 2019. What do you think? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Doesn't it somehow make her look like she's AI-generated? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I do not have the imagination required to spend £2m at a single shop. To be clear, I do not have the money either - but it's mostly the imagination holding me back. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/972/241/731/054/752/original/e131315833b16cf2.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku OK, own up. Who bought that one ticket? I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/963/538/289/317/538/original/7b100b64bedeb583.jpeg npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I've got a problem with the porn industry. Career progression. Day One on the job and you're officially a porn star. A star? Really? On Day One? Absolutely no notes? Maybe that's why the acting is so bad - they keep blowing smoke up each others' arses (unless, of course, that's a particular kink). Sort it out, guys. I've been writing code for 25 years - and you don't see me calling myself a Code Star, do you? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I don't want to spend the morning cleaning my house. I would rather use the time to contemplate the nature of life¹ and to create new, daring art². ------ ¹ Scroll on Mastodon. ² Post on Mastodon. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Can everyone chill out a little complaining about #theforkiverse? You're sounding a little like "I'm going to build a wall around Mastodon. And I'm going to get Twitter to pay for it!" npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Are your ears part of your face? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Feeling really stressed and overwhelmed with a lot of things right now. I'll go for a quick bike ride to clear my head. Tho, knowing my luck, I'll probably slip on the ice and snap my wrist. Will you all please sign my cast when that happens? Maybe you could draw a penis or something. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku If, when the day comes and Donald Trump leaves, a Democrat takes over as President of America, how long will it take for things to return to 'normal'? #USPol #Trump npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I'm not perplexed that kids are going round saying, "6-7." What perplexes me is all the adults complaining that "it's annoying! I don't understand what it means!" That. Is. The. Whole. Point. And, moreover, that's been the point of youth slang since the dawn of time - including when you were young. If it's any consolation, it'll happen to today's youths too. As soon as they grow up. #67meme npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku My new year's resolution is to not post about politics, especially not the politics of countries that I don't even live in. It's 10PM. This is my longest lasting resolution ever. Time to break it. ---- Bloody hell, America. How can healthcare costs go up by over 100% for your poorest people and you're not all rioting on the streets?! #USpol https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98n8lrj7y6o npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Me (age 13): I'm grown up. I'm going to stay up and see in the new year. Me (age 53): I'm grown up. I'm going to bed. It'll still be the new year when I get up. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Can we all agree to get rid of this idea of stripping dual-nationality Britons of their citizenship? If they commit a crime, we should try them in court. Last time I checked, that's what the judicial system is there for. Alaa Abdel Fattah sent racist tweets in 2012. Try him. He wouldn't be the first person tried for tweeting (which I kinda disagree with anyway). But why should he lose his citizenship? It's Shemima Begum all over again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l93lx1rx3o #UKpol #ShemimaBegum npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku What were your cultural highlights of 2025? 1. Favourite movie? 2. Favourite TV show? 3. Favourite book? 4. Favourite song/album? 5. Favourite live show? 6. Favourite podcast? 7. Favourite destination? 8. Favourite video game? (You might not have answers for some questions. That's fine.) --- * Please boost. It'll be interesting to get a wide set of responses. ** One of you is going to ask if I mean book (or whatever) *released* in 2025 or *consumed* in 2025. Your choice. #culture npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku It breaks my heart to say this, but if what's going on in America teaches us anything it's that highlighting how much a politician hates minorities isn't enough to stop the majority from voting for them. #UKPOL https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/28/of-course-he-abused-pupils-ex-dulwich-teacher-speaks-out-about-farage-racism-claims npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku The book that impacted me the most this past year was Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People. I don't know enough about the area to fully interrogate his assertions, but I broadly agree that UPFs seem bad for us; as they spread across the world so does food-related illness (it seems to me). https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/792/200/624/298/555/original/109b570adfe827a2.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I do not know why my country, Nigeria, has caught Trump's eye. Obviously I'm not buying his lie that he's a crusader for Christianity, but I suspect that that might be something to do with it. The US Right has held Nigeria up as an example of the "Christian genocide" for years, so maybe he's playing to that crowd. I'm not jumping to the conclusion that it's oil. America and Nigeria produce similar oil types; in fact, Nigeria is a net importer of US oil, not exporter. #Nigeria #Trump #USpol npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Keanu Reeves is Asian-American?! npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku You see a spider in your house, crawling along the floor. It's average-size, not a monstrous facehugger or anything like that. What do you do? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidnjoku/110589862322652999 I would like to point out that I hated David Walliams *before* it was cool. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/19/david-walliams-dropped-by-publisher-over-alleged-inappropriate-behaviour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #note1hhj…32qk npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Filling out my self assessment tax return, and here's one of the questions: 'Have you used one or more tax avoidance schemes?' Is this how the HMRC plans to catch those sneaky billionaires? https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/759/390/750/640/591/original/fe89096a3e01660e.jpg npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I don't deserve this. So a few months ago I watched an 18+ movie on Amazon Prime Video, but because I'm normal I never really use Prime Video. In fact the next time I logged in was yesterday. We'd had a huge early Christmas meal and the whole larger family was sat around the TV in a food coma. "Let's watch Red One on Prime," someone said. So I logged in... ... And the whole home screen is full of recommendations for my next watch - and every one is porn. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I was chatting with a Black friend of Jamaican heritage. She was appalled that a Nigerian she'd met knew next to nothing about slavery. It's Black history! she said. It's *your* history, I explained. For Africans that sad story ended when the ships left the shore. Our schools teach us about the impact of that devastation, not what happened on the other coast. Black history is not one thing. It's not MLK. It's also Songhai and Benin. Which they don't teach here #BlackMastodon npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I'm curious as to how typical my family and I are compared to other people living in modern rich countries. Would you mind answering the following questions? How many days in a typical week would you eat at least 1 home cooked meal? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I'm listening to a podcast (Criminal, since you ask) and in it a policeman says that most people don't know their car's licence plate number. Really? Surely not. Do you know your licence plate number? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku To all the Brits¹, Europeans, Australians, Japanese and Koreans who are outraged at the new ridiculous requirements for visiting the US, I have one simple question: What the fuck do you think YOUR country has been demanding from potential African visitors for years? _____ ¹ Including me. I am a hypocrite. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/709/055/223/825/642/original/12aef7d0655236a8.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Hate to say this, but America is now fully an evil country.¹ We've entered the stage where the history books will be asking what the good citizens were doing while all of this was going on. _____ ¹ Some will argue that it always has been evil. But at least it often tried to disguise it. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Congratulations Lando Norris on becoming the #F1 World Champion. It's inspirational, watching a young man make it to the top of the world from a humble beginning as the son of a ... lemme check ... multimillionaire. Oh right. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/c8xdp1yw90qo npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku My 11 year old son wets the bed. As his parent, it's a pain in the arse. But I try not to make him feel bad about it, cos I know that it's partly genetic, passed from father to son. I used to wet the bed too, and I've told him so. Here's the strange thing. Now that he's 11, he rarely wets the bed. The only exception is at the change of the seasons. Now that we're going from autumn to winter, he's bedwetting again. Then it'll stop till winter to spring. And then spring to summer. Why's that? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku A parent who was worried about their daughter mixing with trans children sued the Girls Guides which is why the organisation no longer accepts trans kids. A baker went to court because they did not want to make a cake for a gay couple. You know what? I wish the media would stop tolerating this lie. No, it's not "a parent" or "a baker". It's well-funded lobby groups who scour the press looking for an individual use as a puppet for a fight they want to have. PS: This is also true of Rosa Parks npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku This really pisses me off. As a cis male I cannot claim to understand what it feels like to be a cis-woman or a trans woman, but even I can see that this is petty and wrong. To be fair, I am not angry at the Womens Institute or the Girls Guide. Both organisations seem very apologetic; the choice has been taken away from them by the law. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/03/womens-institute-no-longer-accept-trans-women-members-april https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7n921wyzvo https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/658/273/575/190/801/original/771c29390bd781c9.png https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/658/277/973/266/461/original/c755113ea9427654.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I value politeness. I know how that sounds. It sounds centrist; it's the opinion of a person who is happy with the status quo. But I genuinely believe that change - even radical change - can only be achieved with politeness (plus insistence, of course). I hate that we've lost politeness from today's politics. If I was American, I *would* like to discuss immigration with Trump. But when he is so rude about Somalis how can any discussion take place? (And Trump's not the only one doing it.) npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in America. I hope you're surrounded by people who love you and who you love. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Two times over the past week, white women have commented to me about how articulate I am. THINGS TO NOTE: 1. I *am* very articulate. 2. I was being articulate at the time. 3. I do not think they are aware of the racist stereotype. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Hear me out, hear me out: Replace juries with magic 8-balls. Whaddya think? #UKpol https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/581/903/933/388/237/original/68868ddb516bd651.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku What the actual fuck?! Nicki bloody Minaj is going to address the United Nations on the plight of Nigerian Christians (lemme check, oh yeah, that includes me). Dear God, please make this like the final season of Lost where we all wake up and find out that none of this actually happened cos we've all been dead for this past year. Amen. #USpol #nigeria https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/567/117/302/845/511/original/1dfa80c843338c8b.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Wow, you guys must have been there for years. I hope your folks liked it. When I visited India I was struck by how much like Nigeria it was in so many ways. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Do you remember where in Nigeria you guys lived? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I found your post really touching - especially what your mum said to you. I know exactly what she meant. And I still have that voice at the back of my mind whenever I'm standing up to occupy my rightful space. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku What parts of your life do you not post about - not because of privacy or decency or anything like that, but just because it doesn't align with your online 'brand'. To qualify, it obviously has to be something that other people post a lot about. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku In the movie Eyes Wide Shut, did Tom Cruise take his clothes off? I'm curious, but not curious enough to rewatch the film, since I remember it not being great. Cruise strikes me as someone who might be a bit of a prude. I can't imagine him getting naked on film. And now that I've asked the question, I'm going to stop wondering about it 🙂 npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku One thing that I hate about the immigration debate in the West is the idea of the "useful immigrant". We pillage the developing world for its doctors and nurses, but try to leave everyone else there to die in ill health. I just heard of something Canada is doing that is, maybe, a good halfway house. Apparently it has a deal with The Philippines to train nurses in that country in the expectation that some will move to Canada while some stay behind. #canada npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku This being Mastodon there's a good chance that I like AI more than you do. That's OK. I was recently at a meeting in which senior mgmt asked us to put cash figures on how much AI would save the business. My position: AI, at this point, won't save us any money - but we should adopt it nonetheless. Someone else said: there's a task that we don't currently do cos it costs £5m, but with AI it'll only cost £3m. "And how much profit will it make?" "No profit - but we're saving £2m!" 🤦🏿♂️ #AI npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Being part of an institution is the best way to watch demographic change. 25 years ago I was the only young person in my church in my midsize English town, surrounded by old people. And then, in 2004, Blair let in the Poles and Romanians, and my church was flooded with young families and the sound of children laughing. Then Brexit, and the youth drained out of the pews again. Fast. Yesterday, my priest told me there are plans to shut churches down. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku If ever you wanted to know how much capitalism warps our humanity, consider this: Around 800,000 people in the UK are so sick that they cannot work. And instead of being described as a health crisis, it's being called an economic crisis. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/496/423/143/747/483/original/0d16b9b7665eab41.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Whenever a Muslim anywhere on earth commits an atrocity, ordinary Muslims everywhere are asked to explain or denounce the action. Now that Donald Trump is tweeting about wanting to protect his "cherished Christians", does that mean the same rules apply? Cos I really want to know what he's going to do about the fucker who's been stealing my butter from the office fridge. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku We don't even have a single Anne. Fancy a swap? 🙂 npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I think that possibly because I live in my safe, reasonably well off world, I sometimes forget that bad things can be blunt too, and not just subtle. In the book, the white characters throw around the N-word really casually. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Just finished the audiobook of The Trees by Percival Everett. It's really good - witty, pacy, and unflinchingly brutal. It's set in Trump's America, and is about race. Call me naive, but while I knew that systemic racism exists, and I knew that white rap fans sometimes say nigga, and I knew that cops get triggerhappy around Black men, I kinda thought that the in-your-face, 1960s-style racism was mostly a thing of the past. This book taught me that it isn't. #BlackMastodon #books https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/488/137/748/330/903/original/020f9e52e9e2dcf2.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Do you have any Davids where you work? The reason I ask is that there are so many fucking Davids in my office. I'm David N. We've got a David C, David D, David F, David G, David I, David M, David N (👋 ), David T. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some. How many bloody Davids does it take to produce mediocre software?! npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Nigeria has problems. We all remember the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls & Boko Haram. These days, we talk about 'bandits' - nomadic marauders who sweep into villages at night, killing. Yes, the perpetrators are often Muslim, and the victims sometimes Christian. But I don't think it's about religion at all. It's climate change. The Sahara is eating up northern Nigeria, forcing its people further & further south. Clashes with southerners are inevitable. Their differing religions are incidental npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku It's a strange feeling logging onto the news to hear that Trump has just declared war against my country, Nigeria. On the one hand, it's scary. Cos not only is it the greatest military force in human history, it's the greatest military force in human history at the whim of a madman. But then he's got such a short attention span that next week he'll be warring against Tatooine. Nigeria is not perfect. We do have Islamic terrorists. But they kill BOTH Christians & Muslims. #nigeria #uspol https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/476/982/277/030/193/original/d18ab671426bb6fa.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku The UK govt has passed a law strengthening its ability to strip terrorists¹ of their British citizenship. It will also allow the govt stop terrorists ² from renouncing any other nationality they have (cos if they do, the UK won't be able to render them stateless). The govt says this will only affect terrorists³. Not dual citizens like, for example, Tommy Robinson who is not a terrorist⁴ ----- ¹ dual citizens ² dual citizens ³ dual citizens ⁴ he's white https://share.google/ZkIiZmWBBPpyVHu1v #ukpol npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku October is Black History Month in the UK so I'm going to speak at my daughter's school. Should I introduce Martin Luther King Junior as ... y'know, the Black Charlie Kirk? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku These photos from the Comedy Wildlife Awards made me smile. Enjoy. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/oct/23/comedy-wildlife-awards-2025-in-pictures https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/422/353/850/384/101/original/ef5b4f436a4379cb.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Sometimes when I'm chatting with friends on the Left they say something like, "The first thing Labour needs to do is get immigration back under control." And I ask: "What number of immigrants do you think will satisfy Nigel Farage and the Right? 100,000? 10,000? 10?" #UKpol npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku If you weren't you, would you follow you on Mastodon? #poll npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku You got her off WhatsApp?! How did you manage that? I hate Meta but I can't imagine giving up WhatsApp. Everyone I know is on it. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Mother-in-law isn't in your favourites?! I'm telling. You're going to get in trouble! 😀 npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku How is your significant other stored on your phone - by their full, official name, or with a term of endearment? I'm such a database developer that the thought of using anything but everyone's full name is anathema to me. My mum, my mother-in-law, my son - full name, everyone. But apparently that's weird? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Yeah, but did she stop the war between Aberbaijan and Narnia? #NobelPeacePrize #USPol #NobelPrize https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/349/513/966/088/260/original/02f40eef1b0acb06.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I don't like Donald Trump, and you don't like Donald Trump. However, putting that to one side, if he brings peace to Israel-Palestine, will he deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? #gaza #israel #palestine npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I hate how politicians can take any shit they don't personally like and declare it "un-British", when we all know that the only thing that is truly un-British is my kids waking me up before 8 o'clock on a Saturday. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/331/456/522/040/241/original/2930da025718877c.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku In case this doesn't come across from the headlines: these politicians are promising to deport 1% of this country's population. 1 out of every 100 people in this country. The hope is the other 99 will be so pleased it's not them that they'll vote for it. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku There was an arson attack at a mosque in Sussex. Unlike the attack at the Manchester synagogue, it has been described as a hate crime, rather than terrorism. What is the difference between the two? Is there a threshold that the crime needs to breach? (There was no loss of life in Sussex, unlike in Manchester.) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2dglp43xmo h/t to @npub1zjt…6a2t npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku It's mad that anyone can read the news coming out of America and think: Hmm, the one thing my country is missing is our version of ICE. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku The lesson British right-wing politicians are taking from America seems to be that performative cruelty is a vote winner. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/320/256/066/291/725/original/9693956043aae1b4.png https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/320/256/170/624/842/original/2fd63df112b296b3.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Fuck antisemites. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku TrumpRx? America used to be a country. #USPol https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/301/361/426/538/687/original/4c1f3dfe235fd9c3.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Fixed it for you, BBC. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/301/287/049/881/499/original/334de236841dffb0.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku "Me and Felix are cool now," my son said the day after his big fight. "What happened?" "Nothing. We just started playing together." There's a lesson in there for me. And for his mum too. She'd phoned Felix's mum and, from what I hear, very harsh words were said. Next time I'll butt out. Maybe it's not the kids who need a lesson in conflict resolution. They're doing just fine. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku My son came home today in tears. He said another kid had been bullying him, calling him "a girl." I'm a very laid-back guy, not given to high emotion, but I boiled with rage. It was all I could do not to hunt that fucker down and inflict severe pain on him. ........... PS: Cos this is Mastodon I probably need to say this: there's nothing wrong with being a girl. It's never the words that are spoken that are the problem, it's the intention to cause hurt. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Went to see The Importance of Being Earnest in London yesterday: starring Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell, and Olly Alexander. I'd never read it before so I didn't know what to expect. I enjoyed it very much in the moment, but don't know how I feel now that a day has passed. The actors were all great and very funny, but I'm not sure I'm a fan of Oscar Wilde's absurdist humour. #TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest #Theatre https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/239/149/895/727/964/original/ac5abc4dbc6efd2c.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Great. We're going to watch them next. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I don't think I've ever seen either of the sequels. Any good? npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Every few months I force my kids to sit down. "Watch this," I command, as I put on a movie from my youth. "You'll love it." They never do. Until today when I put on Back to the Future. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/238/615/564/320/910/original/7a92b02f197f22ce.jpg npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I know that this isn't important, but it's important to me. Israel should not be allowed in Eurovision. Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and The Netherlands are right in saying they'll withdraw if Israel isn't kicked out. And the UK are talking bullshit when they say shit like, "Eurovision is not about politics." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8jd108e3qo #eurovision #gaza npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I hadn't thought of it, but yes, Musk must be funneling a lot of money into this. And I'm sure there are others too npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku You think they might have been? I'm not so sure. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I believe the lucky should be taxed in order to provide a better base level of life for the unlucky. I believe that both sides win when you do that. Some people disagree; they think lower taxes for the rich will motivate the poor. I think they're wrong, and often I find them annoying. But I understand them. What I cannot understand is 100,000 of my fellow citizens congregating around the idea of hatred. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/13/unite-the-kingdom-far-right-rally-london-tommy-robinson-police-assaulted?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #ukpol npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Here's some interesting maths homework that my son got. Using only four 4s and whichever operators you choose, come up with sums that equal every number from 1 to 20. For example, 16 is 4 + 4 + 4 + 4. And 2 is (4/4) + (4/4). 5 is (√4 x √4) + 1. And 8 is 4 + 4 + 4 - 4. We've got answers for most of them, but are struggling with a few. Haven't got his book in front of me now, but I think we don't have an answer for 10, for example. PS: You must use all 4 fours. EDIT: 5 is (√4 x √4) + (4/4) npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I know what I'm baking this evening 🙂 npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Before we had kids, we considered adoption. We used to joke about adopting a blue-eyed, blond-haired girl and raising her Nigerian. We'd give her the most Nigerian name - Somtochukwu - and raise her to love amala ati ewedu, speaking Yoruba. We'd chuckle privately at the confused looks when we shout, "Somto, bia nga!" in Tesco and she comes over. It'd be strange, but it's what happens every day to children of colour. It's funny. Until you read stories like this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear-after-tommy-robinson-shares-video-of-black-man-with-white-granddaughters npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku There are flags flying from every lamppost on my road. Masked men, in the middle of the night, put them up. Patriotism, apparently. I don't believe that patriotism exists in a vacuum; it's always a reaction to something. Is it the World Cup? Bring out the flags. I was in New York after 9/11. Flags everywhere. But what are these flags reacting to? You don't get to say you're being patriotic without explaining the why. And I'm not anti-patriotic for asking. #ukpol https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/130/566/383/611/528/original/0303b43021acdbb6.jpg npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Sometimes I forget that race is a cultural construct, and it only seems real and irrefutable cos our culture says it is. There's this Nigerian Youtuber that I enjoy watching. He's based in China and he posts videos about life in small Chinese towns. In this video he's chatting with this drunken guy who says he had a foreign girlfriend. "She's not Black. She's white," he says. "What country?" asks the Youtuber. "Vietnam." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qb0ZAl_GH4 npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 to 10. The top (10) represents the best possible life for you and 0 is the worst. On which step would you say you're standing on at this time?¹ --- ¹ This is the question for the World Happiness Report. Scandinavian countries tend to come top; the UK and US come mid-20s; Africa performs poorly. I'm curious where Mastodon would come if it were a country 😃 #poll #boost https://data.worldhappiness.report/table?_gl=1*1dgtwsk*_gcl_au*MjAyNDUzNDA3MC4xNzU2MTk3NDAz npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I'm really surprised that the UK's Chief Scout is Black. My son is a scout and he absolutely loves it - but it's by far the whitest environment¹ I've been in. ----- ¹ whitest ≠ unfriendly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdyxm52ep5o npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku The way that Britain secretly strips its brown citizens of their citizenship is one of the most disgraceful things in our recent history. I'm not arguing that these people are angels, but aren't we supposed to be a country with a rule of law, with courts and judges? https://news.sky.com/story/im-deprived-of-my-uk-citizenship-but-im-not-a-convicted-terrorist-13415693?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=discover&utm_campaign=CCwqGAgwKg8IACoHCAowwr36BjCtxzYw14S4BDDs0u0E&utm_content=bullets #shemimabegum https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/083/896/794/746/004/original/3ab443b0f19efc78.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Question for any software developers who use AI code generation tools (Cursor, Github Copilot etc). I know that some devs like it, while some find it irritating. That's fine. However, I'm curious: what - if any - rules has your organisation put around the usage of these tools - more testing, stricter code reviews, more documentation? Something else? Nothing at all (since ultimately the developer is responsible)? #softwaredevelopment #AI #coding npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku You're right, they're all political solutions, just not the ones politicians like to reach for. They do talk about house building, but not as a solution to homelessness but as a sop to aspirational middle class voters. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I know that this should have been bleeding obvious to me, but I needed to hear it on a podcast to realise it: If there are fewer homes than people, there will be homelessness and rents will be high. There is no political solution¹ - not clearing the homeless from the streets, not rent controls - other than building new homes. -- ¹ I'm lying. Getting rid of Airbnb and empty second homes will probably help. #homelessness npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I remember reading Stephen King's Christine when I was a little too young for horror fiction. It scared the shit out of me. It was the story of a car ... driving itself. If he wrote it now, it'd be called ... Waymo. By the time a baby born in 2025 is old enough to read it, they won't understand why it's supposed to be scary. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/029/247/428/711/469/original/387ad08ab917a6dd.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku There are around 200 countries on earth. If you'd asked me to make a list of countries ranked from "most likely to meekly submit to autocracy" to least likely, I've gotta admit that I would've put America near the bottom. Shows what I know. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku I'm in Prague with my ex and the kids. We're walking down a street and we approach a couple standing together. As we near them, my ex smiles at the woman and she smiles back. "You look nice," my ex says. "So do you!" We continue on our way. What's the compliment that one man can innocently give to another man? I can't think of any. npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku Saw this headline and thought it must be something to do with Gaza. But no, it's my countrymen taking to the streets to protest the existence of brown people again. How disappointing. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/997/549/054/694/199/original/020be4b17800731a.png npub1jmc3x77c9xq7gfkc0nd6el9ttkymqdac3y3qqkkuvjcg3vd7rwdsswugn3 David Njoku What class are you (please vote below), and how do you define that class (please reply to this post)? I'm also curious if you believe you're a different class from your parents. If yes, what happened to cause that difference? #poll