TIL Berlin still hasn't recovered its pre-World War 2 population [source, comments]

Vulkane stossen mehr CO₂ aus als Menschen? Warum diese Behauptung Quatsch ist https://www.watson.ch/!747495329

Song of the day ⚔🥁: https://open.spotify.com/track/0j1VVFif10Ib9s3U59adli?si=kefozfblROCB3LfdvMHMOA

Song of the day 💃🏽💦: https://open.spotify.com/track/1kQqiC1rS1FiuVpeBKN0QN?si=HBg4MHN7TPmDN2k6mpOQkw

Never forget: https://youtu.be/_fEzEJnQrg0?feature=shared

ESHU, GOD OF FATE

Eshu turns right into wrong, wrong into right.
When he is angry, he hits a stone until it bleeds.
When he is angry, he sits on the skin of an ant.
When he is angry, he weeps tears of blood.
Eshu slept in the house -
But the house was too small for him:
Eshu slept on the verandah -
But the verandah was too small for him:
Eshu slept in a nut -
At last he could stretch himself!
Eshu walked through the groundnut farm.
The tuft of his hair was just visible:
If it had not been for his huge size,
He would not be visible at all.
Lying down, his head hits the roof:
Standing up, he cannot look into the cooking pot.
He throws a stone today
And kills a bird yesterday!

~Yoruba Poetry (1970),
ed. Professor Ulli Beier

#Poems #Nigeria #Yoruba #Africa

ENGAI •

Engai (also called Múrungu, Ngai or Enkai) is the monolithic Supreme God in the spirituality of the Kikuyu (or Gikuyu) and the closely related Embu, Meru and Kamba groups of Kenya, and the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania.Ngai is the creator of the universe and all in it. Regarded as the omnipotent God, the #Kikuyu, #Embu, #Meru, #Kamba and the Maasai of Kenya worshiped Ngai facing the Mt. Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya) while prayers and goat sacrificial rituals were performed under the sacred Mugumo tree (a fig tree species). Occasions which may warrant sacrifice or libation include times of drought; epidemics; during planting and harvesting; and human life stages such as birth, marriage and death.

#Maasai #Kenya #Tanzania #Africa

GZA likes this "meme": https://news.1rj.ru/str/MYTHHOUSE/1225

Today is the birthday of Kuwasi Balagoon—Black Panther, Black Liberation Army fighter, and anarchist. It's a good day to read some of the writing he left us.

You could start with this collection:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kuwasi-balagoon-a-soldier-s-story

Or this biography:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/akinyele-k-umoja-maroon-kuwasi-balagoon-and-the-evolution-of-revolutionary-new-afrikan-anarchis