The threat made by Dane Baptiste against a woman on IG wasn’t vague & cannot be justified. It was targeted & dangerous. Driven (imo) by antisemitism & misogyny.
I refuse to look the other way & stay silent while only Jewish friends speak up. Hatred & racism like this has to end.

Josh Glancy Marcus Brigstocke, to his credit has called this out.

This is an extraordinarily shocking threat made by a comedian to kill a female colleague, and has had remarkably little response

Nobody knows Actually he's in contempt of a court order. You know all those laws you shout about brown people having to obey? White people have to obey them too.

Adrian Littlejohn 💙 🇺🇦 And if I'd known this when I bought my house, I'd never have bought it. Because I'm now prevented from placing a patio, garden building or any structure there, in the middle of the garden, in case TW ever need access to it, even though nobody knew it was there until today.

Adrian Littlejohn 💙 🇺🇦 I just thought I'd come back and update this, in view of what's been going on in my garden.

Apparently there is a sewer pipe running across my garden, not on any maps, discovered by chance. And I have to have it uncovered as it is a key access point. But it's not on any maps.

The cost of “physically mapping the network was considered prohibitive”.

Yep. Thames and Southern Water don't actually know where 30-40% of their sewers are. Which maybe makes it a little difficult to maintain them?

Never mind. It's cheaper than way...
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Truth

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
what doesn't shrink you makes you longer.

Or something.

8. Ultimately, from my knowledge seeking, floods were not as much of a disaster compared to droughts to most of the African communities. Seems like not settling in swamps or building near rivers was the in thing back then though 🙊

7. Not sure whether this is applicable, but during heavy rains, people simply stayed indoors. Unless it was an emergency case of having to look for a midwife.
Any West African story of before colonization always mentions this btw. The period of simply sitting still and waiting

6. History

One of the ways to prepare for disasters is to understand the history of that land and pass it on through the next generation. Something Africans did beautifully through tales and songs.
This history is what informed the next generation when settling and building

5b) To give you a real life example of this, google the Lake Boys, the lake that exploded in Cameroon in 1986. The original community there was not majorly affected because they were told by their forefathers to never settle right next to the lake.

Leading me to the next point.

5a) This meant that water sites were protected. And also not settled at. What we call riparian lands today, were simply communally shared land where people met to use the water, but not to settle.

(Saving them of course during floods)

5. Respect for water.

This is going to be a long one, but for starters, I don't know any African community that didn't give water its due respect. Just look at the sacred sites of almost all communities, it's either a water tower, somewhere with springs etc ..

4. Disaster preparedness.

To give you a recorded example of this, this pokot guy explains how each family would have a hiding spot high up in the mountain caves, for unknown future calamities. With nonperishable foodstuffs

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3. Most communities had different grounds they could move to depending on the season. Like in my community, there were lands full of pasture to move to during dry lands, while those near rivers always had higher ground to move to during the rainy season

2.. They had ways of forecasting the weather..but most importantly, they respected whatever their rainmakers or weatherman said. Sometimes this involved not selling their surplus food if a drought is coming or moving to higher grounds..leading me to the next point

I've just seen a TikTok where the person was talking about how Africans had already figured out eco-friendly ways of existing with nature, and thriving while at it.

And in the context of these floods, here are a few things that most communities practiced that helped them..1/🧵

This is 'safety' and 'free speech' at Dartmouth 🌲: former director of Jewish studies and history professor Annelise Orleck thrown to the ground by cops while engaged in nonviolent protest. Her 'crime'--emphatic speech. Shame.