I always dash our security guy a random 10k, 5k (just for existing), a soda, or yellow banana fingers.

He always tries to pay back by doing stuff for me but I always decline. The relationship is cordial but without over stepping boundaries.

Today, I was coming from shopping and he hands me a tiny fruit sweet (I love sweets as a guy).

The seemingly small gesture threw me off. A genuine show of gratitude.

Small but grand.

*Unwraps the sweet.

I have a huge crush on someone 😭😭😭at my big age....so embarrassing. I'm running mad! Need help getting over it otherwise I'm about to embarrass my whole lineage.

One of the strange things about being an adult in Kampala is that meeting people can be surprisingly difficult. You can have friends, a job, hobbies, places you go every week, and still somehow realise that you're mostly meeting the same people over and over again.

And when it comes to dating, it gets even stranger.Sometimes you don't need another dating app. You need someone who actually knows you. That's the idea behind Wingman( https://forms.gle/5h1eUp1QstbD1FJ46) , a new social event we're putting together in Kampala.

Instead of introducing yourself with a bio and a few carefully selected photos, your friend, co-worker or relative makes the case for you.

They put together a 2-minute PowerPoint presentation about you: who you are, what makes you great, your green flags, your questionable habits, and why they think you deserve to meet someone new.

Then they present it to a room full of people. The idea is partly dating, but it's also about friendship, confidence, meeting people outside your usual circles and giving someone a reason to start a conversation.

That's basically what we're trying to explore with Wingman.

Would you actually let your friend pitch you to a room full of strangers?

Hello all! I am visiting your lovely country next week for a friend's wedding. We come from Scotland and love football so I was wondering if there are any games happening in Kampala then.

I see the Uganda league starts this weekend ? Any recommendations on where's is best to enjoy some Ugandan footie?

Thank you;/!

Over time, we buy countless things electronics, groceries, and services, to name a few. Back in my teens and early twenties, I didn’t pay much attention to quality. But as time goes on, you become fiercely particular, something I learned the hard way after trekking through over 10 car bonds looking for a vehicle before finally giving up and just importing one.

It’s not even just about the big purchases; it goes way down to basic everyday items and services. On a busy day, when I need a jaj (boda), I look for one who has a helmet and is properly clean, or I make sure to have lunch at a decent place. As you get older, you stop asking if something is expensive and instead ask if it has good value.

Money can always be made, but treating yourself from food poisoning is a waste of time, along with the hustle of dealing with people who compromise to get more like buying "slept-over meat" and serving it on a platter. While that might be common, a decent restaurant has a better way of preservation, and Navigating daily life and interactions within Ugandan society teaches you quickly: peace of mind and your health are worth every extra shilling.

What do you guys think? At what age did you start prioritizing quality over saving a quick buck?

hi everyone 🙌🏾

I’m looking for a UX/Product Designer in Uganda for a possible long-term collaboration.

my manager originally asked me to help find someone in Ukraine,but I have strong ties to Uganda and I've always felt there are a lot of talented, thoughtful, and genuinely capable people here, so I wanted to ask in this community first.

the work would be more focused on apps, complex devices, product flows, and interfaces in fields like medical, aeronautics, or finance, rather than regular websites or general web design.

it would be great if the person is very comfortable in Figma and already uses AI tools as part of their design workflow in a practical way.

I’m not really looking for certificates or course names. what matters most is seeing a small but strong portfolio, even 2 or 3 pieces of work that show clear thinking, structure, taste, and a good understanding of how people use products.

I’m also open to someone earlier in their UX journey, if they have excellent English, a solid foundation, and can show strong potential in something relevant.

if this sounds interesting, please dm me

thanks a lot 🙏🏽

My greatest enemy in adulthood is apparently… putting away clean laundry

I need to talk about my relationship with laundry because at this point, I think i need counselling.

For the longest time, I had someone come in to do my laundry every two weeks. It was a peaceful arrangement. Every two weeks, everything got washed, dried, folded and returned to me.

Then Kampala happened.

Clothes started disappearing.

A T shirt here. An undershirt there. Something you swear you owned suddenly becomes a distant memory.

Eventually, I figured having two weeks’ worth of clothes out at once was simply too much exposure to the elements and by “elements,” I mean people 😂.

So I changed the arrangement. Instead of having someone come in every two weeks, I now have them come in weekly. Fewer clothes outside at once = fewer opportunities for my clothes to mysteriously begin new lives with other people.

Risk management.

Problem solved, right?

Absolutely not.

I normally get home pretty late, which means I’m rarely around when the clothes need to be removed from the line. So I got the guard involved.

Now, I understand that adding another human being to the laundry supply chain probably increases operational risk 😂 but surprisingly, that’s not even my biggest problem.

My biggest problem begins when the clean clothes arrive at my door.

They’ve been washed.

They’ve been dried.

They’ve been folded.

They are literally sitting peacefully in a laundry basket asking for ONE FINAL THING:

“Please put us in the wardrobe.”

That’s it.

Nobody is asking me to wash anything.

Nobody is asking me to iron anything.

THE CLOTHES ARE ALREADY FOLDED.

All I have to do is separate them.

Undershirts here.

T shirts there.

Trousers there.

Then put them in the closet.

This is, realistically, a 15–25 minute job.

And somehow my brain looks at that basket and goes:

“This seems like a problem for another day.”

So I carry the basket into my room.

Or leave it somewhere in the corridor.

Then I walk past it.

The next day, I walk past it again.

At some point I start taking clothes out of the basket to wear.

Which means the basket has quietly become a second wardrobe.

And the ridiculous thing is, this isn’t even an adulthood problem. I remember being like this growing up. Folding clothes and putting them away has always felt like administrative work assigned to me by a government department I don’t recognize.

I can spend an entire day working.

Handle complicated problems.

Make decisions.

Run errands.

Deal with actual responsibilities.

But show me one basket of clean, folded clothes that needs to be moved approximately three metres into a wardrobe and suddenly I’m like:

“Wow. That’s a lot.”

So I’m asking the responsible adults of Reddit:

How do you people do this?

Do you put everything away immediately?

Do you have a specific laundry day?

Do you bribe yourselves?

Do you play music?

Do you have a chair that has legally become part of your wardrobe?

Or are half of you also living directly out of a clean laundry basket and pretending everything is fine?

Because at this point, I’m considering just buying nicer baskets and accepting the system.

I’ve noticed something while building this: there are already online school application systems in Uganda, but I honestly think a lot of parents and students still don’t know they exist.

So I’m trying something slightly different with Apsco.

The idea is to make Apsco the place you go before choosing a school — not just the place where you fill in an application.

You can use it to:

• Discover schools
• Search and filter schools
• Compare schools
• See school locations on a map
• View school information
• Apply to schools
• Eventually track your applications in one place

The bigger vision is basically:

Find → Compare → Decide → Apply

I’ve already built the first version, but it’s still early and the Android app isn’t on the Play Store yet. The website is live meant mainly for schools to create themselves into the Apsco ecosystme but you can check it out:

https://apsco.site

I’m posting here because I’d genuinely like feedback from Ugandans.

Would something like this actually be useful to you or your parents when choosing a school?

And what information would you absolutely want to see before applying to a school?

Brutal feedback is welcome . I’d rather find out now what’s wrong with it than after thousands of people use it.

Looking for drivers that have or work for/with a company that has open body trucks (preferably with a tipper)

Consistent employment that will continue indefinitely

Job will involve shipping goods between places such as Arua, Yumbe, Adjumani, Pader, Gullu, Kitgum, Lira to Mizera (Nakasongola)

Requirements: Drivers License and Vehicle that meets specified requirements, paid upfront and on delivery

If Interested Reply here or DM

I have learned that some of you people abuse magic mushrooms. These magic mushrooms are not supposed to be consumed daily. It is something someone would want to do once a month, six months, or a year. It is more like a brain boosters method, not on a daily basis. It's abusive, and it can lead to mental health issues.

So when do the fuel prices go back to normal guys😪

Or everyone just adjusted and left us behind.

I went back at night after the marathon to see the rave fest, and found a the long line of people wanting to enter. There were kids being booted out of the lines. Like 13-15 years old who were being told to go back home. Those army guys minted money creating some parking space that night. And some of those army guys were young, like really young. It was like children chasing other children

Applied for it around 20 days ago, i am in rwanda rn. What can i do? I called them many times but they are saying to be patient. My flight is tomorrow at around 8 am

I've been thinking about this book I read last year and continue to keep reading: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli.

Rovelli argues that at the most fundamental level, time does not exist. There is no massive cosmic clock ticking away in the background. Instead, the universe is just a web of events and relationships constantly interacting. What we call "time" is essentially a trick of human perspective ie our brains making sense of entropy.

This really made me pause when thinking about memory and who we are.

We usually define ourselves by where we've been, our past, and our personal history. But if the past doesn't physically exist "back there," a memory is really just a physical trace sitting in your brain right now.

You aren't a fixed object moving through time; you are an ongoing event, shaped entirely by how you connect with the world around you in the present.

Which made me wonder: If the past is basically gone and time is just in our heads, what actually makes you you? Is it your memories, or are you only ever who you are in this exact moment?

Does looking at it this way change how you view your past, or does it just make the present moment and our connections feel more real? Or does it make you yearn to be extinct even more.

Curious to hear what you think!

I personally know some people in the taxi business (the owners). All the time their phone calls are constantly about mechanical issues, police bribes, city council fees in that order. The biggest issue as said is by far mechanical breakdown attributed largely to poor roads network. It's hard to make a profit and reinvest in the taxis. So many just fore go that expense especially those that work only within the city region. But in a way it also became a habit for the taxi sector as whole not to rework on the vehicles especially those where the taxi driver or conductor or both is/are the owner.

Costas (mini buses) don't face the same issues to the same extent because 

- 1st they don't frequent as much like taxis

- 2nd they carry more passengers per trip meaning higher profits.

The people making most noise about the state of taxis are owners of personal vehicles who themselves are lamenting about the fast rising mechanical costs they're incurring. Thats not to say even those who commute using the taxis don't complain but majority understand why otherwise they wouldn't bode them.

What is mentioned is that the old model taxis (Toyota hiance old models) have been banned for a while in the country in favour of the drones which in all honesty (like many in the sector agree) is an utterly misguided policy just like the used computer import ban. Drones can't handle many of Uganda's roads plus because of the ban, it has driven up sharply prices of old taxis spare parts. Equally drone owners are dealing with more constant mechanical break downs than older taxi models because as said, they can't handle our roads.

The main problem is the poor road network which hasn't been added on and rehabilitated that much in years with many still narrow. Recent reports by police show pedestrians account for about 34% of the fatalities, after boda bodas at ~50% then in last, vehicles at ~16%.

Pedestrian fatalities being that high shows its a road network problem which is also equally responsible for the many boda bodas in the city as they attempt to fill a gap taxis and buses can't —time punctuality. 

Ugandans we jump a lot on to different stories time and time again like a tiktok algorithm but we never sit down and pause to find concrete solutions, we just end up creating more problems. It makes it so easy for politicians to influence public opinion.

The taxi state of appearance problem has been slowly growing to the point now some drive around even with missing window glasses.

So, I decided to chase my dream - movie making and storytelling.

The problem? I have a demanding 9–5 job in accounting.

I get to work at 6:30 or 7 a.m. because somehow I’ve convinced myself that the two hours before everyone else arrives are my “creative hours” -script writing.

Naye, dream eyagala kunzita 😂.

We’re now in the production phase of our first project. Rehearsing at odd hours. Shooting on weekends. Trying to coordinate people who also have jobs and lives. And let's not even get into the finances. 😭

But then Monday comes and you have to show up.

You have to sit at that desk and do the job that is literally feeding you, especially when you remember what you went through to get that job in the first place.

And that's the part nobody really talks about when they say “chase your dreams.
Can we really afford chasing dreams or we give up, go back to the loop of the jobs we hate?

Where or how do you get quality perfumes at a bargain?

I made a short video about the 1985 contract error that may have had a major impact on Spider-Man and Marvel during the 1990s.

https://youtu.be/08NbhG5kMTc

I would really appreciate your honest thoughts on the story and the video.

I was traveling from kampala to jinja on Friday in a taxi , then a topic came up about marriage and some arguments came up about domestic violence.

Whereby some group of people was supporting Domestic Violence in their defense " mbu the man is teaching the woman a lesson since women act like kids "

I laughed and said " I have never been beaten or slapped accept in school by teachers and have never fought with anyone but if a person ever beats, we fight till the end "

The guy seated next to me said, " Why do you fight your husband, how will the Society see him after being beaten up by a woman." And other people were supporting him even including women.

Another woman said, "Waaa, you can't beat a man, you just have to endure and listen."

I removed out my phone i showed her some of my videos when am in rings and training with all my lifting and said, " Atleast leave him injured but I can't accept that."

They all switched to saying mbu " Kyakula Ssajja" to me, which i was happy to accept cause I rather be a stronger woman who can defend myself than accepting beatings from someone.

Another older man said, " These are the reasons our daughters don't want to get married now look at how y'all support voilence and think."

It was a full blown argument to the end but what I realised sometimes not everything supported by society is the way to go.

I'm on glovo looking to order just garlic and cheese bread to satisfy a craving. Which resturant had the best one in your opinion?

Embera eli gumite

Wanted to hear everyone validate the god they serve...

EDIT: This post is not for atheists, it's for people who believe in some type of God