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Barcelona’s Superblocks are one of the world’s most influential urban transformations. In a city where cars take 20% of trips but 60% of public space, they offer a radical proposition: what if streets were designed not as conduits for traffic but as extensions of living rooms?🧵
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Bola Tinubu before 2023 election: "I inherited great real estate; I turned the values around."
Bola Tinubu before 2027 election: "When I first arrived in the United States as a young man, I drove a taxi to earn money for my education. I even had to postpone starting school for several months to save enough."
If you're going to lie to the people, at least be smart enough to not get caught😊.
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Ayer, la sociedad estadounidense votó contra las políticas que solo empobrecen. Contra el odio. Contra el machismo. Contra el negacionismo climático y contra los privilegios de las élites.
Ocurrió en Brasil.
Acaba de ocurrir en EEUU.
Y ocurrirá pronto en España.
La ola ultra a la que pretenden subirse Feijóo y Abascal ya no crece: se desmorona.
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Gimme three months and his golf buddies in Florida wouldn’t even vote for him.
I’ll smoke him by 7. Bet on it.
🚨BREAKING: Republicans' odds to flipping the Michigan US Senate seat JUMP OVERNIGHT.
Michigan - 2026 US Senate
🟥Mike Rogers 44.3% (+3.7)
🟦Abdul El-Sayed 40.6%
Polling average via Pollsmax.com.
Abdul El-Sayed has become the Democratic frontrunner, and compared to his primary opponents—Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens—he performs by far the worst against Mike Rogers.
If El-Sayed ends up being the nominee, Republicans will be the heavy favorites to flip Michigan's US Senate seat later this year.
lol 🤣
For Talarico to win Texas, he would need to convert at least 12% of Trump 2024 voters to vote him (and twice as many Paxton voters as well), while winning independents by over 30 points.
He would also have to lose white voters by less than 25% margins (because he is always going to lose whites).
Bear in mind that the lowest Republican margin of that group in any statewide race since 1990 was 31 points.
So none of this is happening.
I’m here to break down the numbers, patterns, environment, and demographics for you so you don’t just go by what you see here.
Tf! Adam was such an inspirational founder.
✈️ PALM BEACH PLANE CRASH | ADAM ROBINSON
Adam Robinson, the tech entrepreneur behind Retention.com and GetEmails, was reportedly among the victims of the tragic Learjet 60 plane crash in Palm Beach County, Florida.
In this clip, Robinson discusses the technology behind his business, which helps companies identify email addresses associated with anonymous website visitors—even when they haven’t submitted a form.
“Everyone who hears this is going to think it’s illegal,” Robinson explained, before discussing the differences between U.S. email marketing regulations and Europe’s GDPR.
The video offers a glimpse into Robinson’s entrepreneurial mindset and the business he built.
Our condolences go out to his family, friends, and everyone affected by this tragedy.
#AdamRobinson #PalmBeachPlaneCrash #RetentionCom #RB2B #TechEntrepreneur
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We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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This cannot be life mehn! This fucking country needs to work.
Just to encourage someone.
When we came, on a student visa (almost 2 decades ago) the route to ILR, for so many, was 10 years. Getting any company to sponsor you if you weren't in the health sector (Dr,nurse,etc) was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
When our student visa ran out,my husband jumped on the post-study work visa(he was the last set before they discontinued it for a while).
The difference btw then and now is that the 10years route then wasn't straightforward. While you are just applying to renew on the same visa category you are already on, then we had to find what visa to jump onto once the one you were on was running out.
So after the post-study work ran out, we had to jump on the entrepreneur visa. We did that for another three years and it ran out.
After that we had to jump again into a student visa(payinginternationalschool fees for another two years). It was while on this visa that we qualified for ILR.
You can imagine how much in fees we had to part with for our family. I don't even want to mention how much that entrepreneur visa cost us.
But,in the end,we got there. And we are recovering.
All the years we spent working for visa fees,we have our passport now and we are recovering.
I know it look gloomy now but 10years will come and it'll go and you will achieve the goal that brought you,then you'll begin to recover.
It's heartbreaking, I know, but as long as they don't change the rules again in the coming years,there's a silver lining.
You'll all be fine.
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Pretty much sums it up
This piece by @clairecm is a must read. These are not ideological objections...
“I feel like one of the Democrats’ main topics in every election is for minorities, for immigrants,” he said. “I feel like their thing is to hit this niche group and get all their votes.”
nytimes.com/2026/11/02/upsho…
All the shelter in place notices looking more real
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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One of Africa's most exciting fintech companies, OPay, suddenly terminated a listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This is after founder Zhou Yahui had rung the NYSE bell. Rather curious affair so I tried to dig for info.
1. OPay is a behemoth but its underbelly is a bit more fragile than I thought.
2. Turns out the payment app is almost a side show. It is mainly a consumer lender funded by retail savings. (BTW, it retains about 0.0385% of the gargantuan transaction volumes, which is not uncommon in the payments space.)
3. The IPO was meant to address three issues:
A/ about $1bn of preferred shares can be cashed in by investors if there is no listing worth at least $5bn by end of 2027
B/ the IPO cash proceeds were to form a cushion under its loan book, which has tripled in a year &
C/ there is a need for a New York perch before tough new Nigerian central bank (CBN) rules on consumer lending arrive.
4. About 61% of H1 2026 revenue came from loan & investment interest in naira
5. The lending business is funded by customer savings of $978.9m but $847.5m can be withdrawn at any time.
6. Cost of capital for that gig is high: for e.g. in August and September, OPay ran a campaign offering savers 27 per cent per annum (policy rate in Nigeria: 23.00%.)
7. Which makes OPay's loans expensive: anything from 36.5% to as high as 360%.
8. Credit-loss expense = $118.4m, more than the $90.9m net profit. Write-offs = $113.2m in six months, against $70m for all of 2025. 27.4% of the $415.3m loan book was past due.
9. As things get tough in Nigeria, a high-cost lender will feel the squeeze.
10. Liquidity coverage: Cash ($385.8m) plus short-term investments ($532.9m) cover about 94% of customer savings, before counting ordinary wallet balances.
11. With the IPO terminated, the $1bn preference share obligation stays and grows by about $60m a year.
12. Luckily, though, some key preference creditors are insiders, like founder Zhou.
(13. It is curious that JP Morgan that had been mentioned as the Lead Bank in March and repeated in May left by August.)
14. Of the adverse regulatory trends, the most critical are:
A/ Nigeria's central bank (CBN) decreed in June 2026 that any financial group with more than 25% of card issuing may hold no more than 15% of merchant acquiring (payment terminals), and vice versa. Compliance is due by 31 December 2026. OPay has 27% of payment terminals and 50m wallet users. Keeping card issuing under 15% would be a stretch.
B/ CBN also requires Nigerian payment data to stay in Nigeria from 1 January 2027, treats remote access from abroad as cross-border, and requires ultimate owners to be disclosed.
C/ In April 2024, 43 of the 105 fintech accounts frozen by court order in an FX and money-laundering probe were OPay's.
15. Meanwhile the wider group also needs cash in light of challenges in members like Kunlun, which lost $217m in the first 9 months of this year.
16. OPay says it terminated the IPO due to regulatory issues in a market that is immaterial to its business. Markets where it is regulatorily exposed but doesn't have much business are Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, and South Africa (Nigeria = ~90% of revenue).
17. Analysts noted that the shares were priced at $19 at the IPO but the ADS (American depositary shares) were being indicatively priced at $16.25 and $16.75 ahead of opening. The market was already pointing to a first-day loss.
18. The pause to address the regulatory notice would have thus led to the book being emptied, and the underwriters left holding shares at $19.
19. A polite agreement to terminate made sense on all sides. But it also means that Standard Bank’s separate investment of <$200 million can't happen either, as it was contingent on the IPO closing.
20. That, in fact, is Zhou and OPay's biggest headache. So much was hinged on the NYSE debut.
Night king is sending me 🤣
Ezemuo you need to update your vocabulary on X
OS = Olosho
White snow ball - Fufu
Cheese soup - Egusi.
Micheal faraday - Charging vendor
Umbrella Academy= Jehovah Witness
Tony Stark HQ= iron condemn
Ancestor Buffet= Sacrifice
Fortune Site= Sporty, Bet9ja
Floating Berries = Groundnut
Dorathki Rider =Bike Man
Crusted Smoked Protein = Suya
Dr. Strange = Bablawo
Hair Surgeon - Barber
School portal - Porn site.
Night king - Tinubu
Vin Diesel - Uber/Bolt
Vibranium - Metal scrap
Hybrid Zobo - Skoochies
Pharmaceutical socks - Condom
Casterly Rock - Lekki
Underground juice - Fuel
Online Church program - Chudai
Glucose Guardian - Sugar Daddy
Underground juice - Petrol




































