Abdallah El-Falou

Moonshot must be quickkkk. Fable’s been out for what, a few weeks?

Did they forget his teeth?

The drain is real 😞

I want to scream. I don’t know what to write. I have no idea how words could ever describe what I’m feeling or the shock I’m in. How… how can the funeral of someone who was killed just three hours earlier be targeted? How can a person be targeted even after death? Aren’t funerals sacred in every religion and every human tradition? How can saying goodbye to the dead turn into another massacre? I couldn’t bear looking at the photo. Ten people were walking in the funeral of their friend and relative, and minutes later, they too were among the dead. I can’t comprehend what I saw, and I can’t find any words to explain it. What is happening in Gaza has become beyond human comprehension. These are scenes I don’t think anyone anywhere in the world could ever imagine witnessing, yet they have become part of our daily lives. I’ve been in a state of shock for the past three hours, unable to even write a single sentence. I’m exhausted from writing. I’m exhausted from posting. I’m exhausted from screaming into the void every single day with nothing changing. I’m exhausted from living a life where our only goal is to survive until tomorrow. Were we created just to spend every day trying to escape death? And what breaks my heart even more is this: how has the world watched these scenes and then simply carried on as if nothing happened? How can so much death and so much suffering pass before the world’s eyes without shaking its conscience?

This is why the vertical apps are still valuable. We hear this from customers often. “Your devs* just get it.” Not because they’re smart (they are) but because they soak up the domain. Our engineers are all product engineers. They work directly with customers daily. They understand the problem space as much as they do tech. Vs other teams where analyst meets customer meets dev loops back repeat x10.

girlfriend overheard me and started yelling at me asking me “who the fuck is kimmy” “why the fuck are you talking about chinese models”

I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family. I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist. I was looking for my family. My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved. I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed. I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church. Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened. It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record. The realization stayed with me. Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering. I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time. It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.

@Ncrw_1XP Thanks Samiro. I’ve messaged @EtihadHelp and will DM you now.

@AbdallahFalou Hi , We're sorry to hear about your experience. Please send us a direct message with your booking number, full name, email address, and phone number so we can look into this and assist you further. Thank you.

3 delays later, we finally board 14 hrs late. Missed important family time and a critical meeting. Don’t know if I’ll ever fly @etihad again.

@EtihadHelp Reached in DM. I understand shit happens, but there wasn’t even a courteous email. No options to reroute. No compensation for the extra 14 hrs spent away from home. Called CS and all I got were bots. Same with online chat.

@AbdallahFalou Hello Abdallah, sorry to hear that, we totally understand that the delay doesn't sound ideal for you, but its duo to operational reasons out of our control, Please Join us via DM with the booking reference, so we can assist you further regarding this point. *Rey

Learning over and over how important simplicity is in sales. As a mentor said, "write it out for people with double-digit IQ". Less is more.

@handotdev Odd take and poor analogy.. marathon runners are not smiling _during the marathon_, but I sure hope they’re smiling in life.

@aalhayalii Bro why you gotta call me out like that

@AbdallahFalou Who’s your suit supplier

Big things coming 👨🏻‍💻

@provisionalidea @_one334 Amen. Been planning to go.

@_one334 nah but the 'Canadians doing a tour of duty in the Valley' thing is real

now that moots can see posts again we are moving to SF and looking for a place, hmu if you know of anything

TIL Mira Murati can sing too.

@saleh_digital Happy birthday broski!

alhamdullilah ❤️

@DLoesch So you’re saying West Bank is akin to a detention facility? We’re on the same page then.

Absolute idiot. Imagine a French lawmaker going to an ICE facility at the southern border and demanding entry. Ro Khanna is a despicable drama queen.

@Afo3 @aliasaria What does housing have to do with culture..? Yes immigration contributed significantly to housing prices. Nothing to do with Fahd or Ali’s takes on assimilation, culture etc.

@aliasaria @fahdananta I don’t think it is crazy for him to say “we might need to talk about this red line and who is in it, what expectations we have and how much of this the existing population will tolerate”

If Canada has one defining feature, it’s our view on immigration: come as you are, we’re better for it. That's why @fahdananta's tweet about "immigration without assimilation is invasion" needs a check. He is an important leader in the Canadian tech community, but Twitter is terrible because people can just say spicy things without having to actually discuss them. The audience learns absolutely nothing from one-off statements like this; it just polarizes. If we tell people they must assimilate, we’re saying "we don’t accept you as you are, you must change." Naturally, you have to ask: change to what? "Canadian values"? What are those? Usually, they just happen to be European norms. Or, in this case, just not doing things in a public park that Fahd -- a wealthy tech insider -- feels are beneath him or make his experience less magical. Do all people born in Canada share these norms? A lot of the white Canadians born here that I grew up around would annoy Fahd even more than whatever he saw today, but he doesn't see their behavior as an outsider threat. He only places that burden on outsiders. Fahd has plenty of known views that people would say come from outside and offend mainstream Canada. He’s a vocal proponent of Palestine, he has some anti-LGBTQ views, and he openly talks about Islam. These are all things he brought with him from his home country that others could easily accuse of being an "invasion" that needs assimilating. He fails to explain the implications of what he says. There are tradeoffs to building a cultural mosaic. We have to ask everyone to accommodate each other more, and yeah, that’s hard. But just because one path has tradeoffs doesn't make it bad, unless you're also willing to discuss the heavy tradeoffs of forced assimilation. In its deepest irony, Fahd is advocating against the ONE thing that makes Canada, Canada. Asking people to assimilate is the actual outsider, invasive view here. If anyone is being asked to assimilate, it should be on this exact view. Often, the things that make us hate the "other" aren't even about cultural practices, it's classism. I can only guess what Fahd didn't like about the people of different colors and languages that made him unhappy at the park, but we can guess it wasn't strictly "brown people behavior," but rather perceived "lower class brown people behavior." We don't judge lower class white behavior the same way. Racism is accepting the absolute worst behavior from your local, dominant groups, but using those exact same flaws as proof to condemn the other. I'm not defending whatever behavior offended Fahd at the park. I'm just saying his default reaction could have been, "I wish my neighbors had better manners," rather than jumping straight to, "go back to where you came from."

@RaymondDuke @celestialbe1ng No trust me it’s the food too

@celestialbe1ng It's more about the act of feeding her than the drink itself. Women need three things from a man for him to make her happy and doing things for her is one of them (attention). The other two are money and sex.

When a girl is being cranky, it’s a clear sign she needs salt and sugar. Feed your girl a salty OJ or a salty caramel café latte or any tasty salty sugary treat w/o seed oils. Crankiness subsides within 5 minutes. Trust me on this one.