Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي

@notorious_pun Bariis iyo baasto.

Somali sailor in his 50s and his physique is lean asf . How did we go from this to fat fucking slobs in 80 years?

@malandroggb Qore's Cushiticness grows stronger everyday. Great find.

In the HEC language Kambatta, 'king' could be 'sangak'ooro' - combination of 'sanga' 'cattle' from which Sanga cattle breed gets its name, and 'k'ooro' 'chief' could be cognate with Meroitic 'qore', Somali 'boqor'. Their word for king is 'cattle-chief', or 'cattle-king'. Big fan.

I agree. But I do think the modern world makes it unnecessarily difficult on people. Ultra-processed food quite seriously engineered to be addictive everywhere, sedentary work lives, confusing and varied messaging in the health and fitness world that's often dominated by PED users misleading everyone. But people are indeed culpable as well. No one's stopping them from doing some serious research, pushing through all the noise, getting some help if they are addicted to things like sugar, and finding a solution that works long-term. I know 9-5s are tiring and you wanna spend what little free-time you have with your loved ones or just "unwinding" but this is your life; have a care. There is absolutely an element of lazy complacency feeding into it.

@Awiabdi No. They deserve contempt.

The leading cause of injury in middle aged men is having spent their youth comfortable. You know, all the 30 y.o. guys around you with a bit of belly and pointy tits who sometime in their late 40s decide to start lifting and running to "get in shape"...

Pretty much always has been my mentality, even when the woman I was with was understanding about it. You should at minimum be able to cover half the bills and not be a financial negative in her life. I could never understand the occassional chap I’d meet who’d tell me their girl pays all the bills cos they’re “in a rut” that’s apparently been goong on for 2 years. Madness.

No shade if you can’t provide financially for a woman, you shouldn’t even be thinking of dating/marriage idc

This was and sometimes still is my go-to quick meal. Put me through a time-consuming Master’s where I didn’t have much time to cook. 12 eggs, 1lb of ground beef (or any other meat you like) and some butter (salt if you want, but I didn’t tend to add any). You cook the meat first and when it appears ready you scramble the dozen eggs and pour them on top, go to high heat and evenly scramble the meat and eggs together until the eggs begins to solidify but the top should still look a little fluffy and not fully solid. Then you just flip it onto a bowl and enjoy. Make sure your pot or pan is non-stick. Would often fill me up quite good for the entire day and I’d not need to eat anything else. Felt like a machine and it kept me functioning good for a STEM degree and I was able to hit the gym every other day and do compound lifts as well.

The average person: - Thinks a three-egg omelette is pushing it - Orders egg whites because the yolk is "where all the fat is" - Buys the 5% ground beef and feels quietly responsible about it - Sees the red label on the 20% ground beef and mentally files it under "occasional treat" - Trims the fat off their steak before it hits the pan - Drains the fat out of the pan after cooking because it "can't be good for you" - Switches to skimmed milk because full-fat "has more calories" - Uses spray oil instead of butter because it feels like the sensible option - Snacks at 10:30am because breakfast didn't hold them - Has been overweight, tired, and inflamed for a decade and assumes this is just getting older Don't be average.

@nomorehemloc Indeed. No pork.

I believe they also do not eat pork.

I’ve seen the genomic results of Maay speaking Rahanweyns. They have no outside influence. They are genetically identical to other Somalis whether northern or southern. I should know, I trace partial descent to them and my results are no different from any “Somalilander”. I’ve heard talk that some few might sometimes have a slight pull toward Oromos or Habeshas but haven’t even seen that quite confirmed yet. The only truly genetically distinct ones are “Somali Bantus” who are a different ethnicity altogether and an ethnic minority in the south. Somalis are a very homogenous ethnic group genetically. We don’t really have the variance many other ethnic groups do based on geography. For example, if I recall correctly, eastern Germans will have a noticeable pull toward Poles and more western Germans might have a bit of a pull toward the neighboring French. But this isn’t the case with Somalis. I’ve been seeing our results for the last 15 years and as far back as 15 years ago we’d be dumbfounded that someone from deep in Koonfur (the south) and someone from Awdal, Bari or even near Harar in Ethiopia would all cluster tightly and look identical. We clearly trace descent to a small ancestral pool that simply blew up into the current population size over time. The only exceptions I’ve ever so far seen are some few rural Kenyan Somalis who had mildly mixed with Borana Oromos but were otherwise still extremely close to other Somalis. Beyond that the only other exceptions tend to be rare outliers who have recent foreign admixture often known in their family like a Yemeni, Habesha, Oromo or Bantu grandparent. I have no interest in the whole Somalia vs Somaliland debate but it’s obvious what people who try to act like Somalis are some diverse ethnic group are trying to do when they make posts like this. It’s just an attempt to justify secessionism. Which is honestly a gross tactic they can do better than. Should make your secessionist argument based simply on political, meritocratic and practical grounds rather than resorting to teenaged racism like, “Dey part Bantu and I not so give me country.”

They are all Somali, basically. All ethnic groups around the globe include also some mixture. Northern Somalis have more Arabic influence. Southern Somalis have more influence from neighbouring African groubs. Still, the basis for all Somalis is the same (and is similar to the one of other speakers of cushitic languages...). Your attempt to give your particular political identity (Somalilander) an ethnic underpinning is illogical and misguided.

Both Cushitic but different people like Arabs and Jews. He is Somaliland, she is Maay ethnic group, who were falsely identified as "Somali". They speak their own language similar to Borana and Rendille. Maayland Somaliland

@aphrosociety Strange people. Taking time out of one’s day for such a thing.

@Awiabdi It tends to be a passive aggressive move in my experience.

Anyone who comes on my page just to skip all my tweets & only like a bunch of my retweets is getting blocked. Enough is enough!

@SooyaalKaabe @rozpersian An uncle of mine went to the US to study and when he got back everyone was acting like he was khatar and my gramps apparently scoffed after assessing him for a while and said, “It appears all the gaalo taught him is kibir and English.” 😭

@Awiabdi @rozpersian This is why the ones who 'come back' after studying have not learned anything beyond getting more expensive tastes!

Ah yes standard pahlavist behaviour to threaten someone with death because you don’t like their tweets

Btw I’m determined to learn how to make this in time for my birthday

@Alemnatay @arsenalfccg 😂👊🏾

@arsenalfccg In that case I’m FAKE

This is a REAL woman. And this is what REAL partnership looks like.

@C554807 @Zoya_ki_batein I mean whether or not he’s truly sincere is up for debate but it is indeed shocking how many people don’t seem to get the context he is saying all of this in.

@Zoya_ki_batein WTF IS WRONG WITH YALL ILLITERATE A** PEOPLE? THE MAN IS CLEARLY SAYING HE IS ASHAMED OF WHO HE WAS. AND, HE IS ASHAMED OF MEN THAT TREAT WOMEN THIS WAY. IT IS ABOUT HIS GROWTH. HE IS NOT THAT MAN ANYMORE.

"I robbed some women of their baby-making years...they built me up. Look at me now and look at them" - Jidenna

@omar_dddg I had an uncle once joke about finding me four wives and I still remember my dad, who was right there, looking up at me, smiling and saying, "If he can be good to one wife I'll be more than happy with that."

Marriage is an incredible responsibility and challenge. This is why only unmarried men see polygyny as a sexual fantasy. Also in 3/4 of the major Madhabs, monogamy is seen as the Mandoub (preferred and natual) position, not Polygyny.

The Gondar castles and the Aksumtie palaces are not comparable. Aksumite architecture actually seems very local. It’s nothing at all like anything found in Yemen and instead strongly resembles early stonework found across the Horn and Sudan. Seems very much like a later perfection of a longtime Cushitic obsession with drystone constructions. Meanwhile, there’s an entire book on how the Gondar castles are verbatim Portuguese architecture. google.com/books/edition/…

Every culture outside of uncontacted tribes will have some degree of foreign influence, it comes naturally with trade and human interaction, really we're just arguing about the extent of that foreign influence. The Aksumite palaces drew enough from local architectural tradition that you can consider them unique to their historical and geographic context.

The Gondar Castles show obvious foreign influence and therefore aren't the best examples to use against detractors. Better examples would be the Aksumite palaces, the Lalibela churches, or the castle of Yohannes, all of which are more indigenous in architecture.

@mahamad_ibrah Aight. Time to learn Faransiis.

Welcome to Greater Djibouti. The blessed land of the noble Cissé clan. A history, a pride, a legacy that endures. 🇩🇯

@AmbRubac @Gojosbreastmilk

@Gojosbreastmilk Your family needs daqan celis

I know this is not true but what do you actually call it in Somali?

@loveparisa @PahlaviReza

@PahlaviReza You ahrimanic cūñț. I fûcķîñğ despise you and your whole lajan family, I hope you and the rest of your descendants attain the same fäte as your siblings did. You have no shame otherwise you would have ALIREZA’D yourself years ago.

خطاب به ارتشیان ایران: شما میراث‌دار سرداران میهن‌پرست و خوش‌نام این سرزمین‌اید؛ از آریوبرزن و بهرام چوبین و سورنا، تا بابک خرمدین و یعقوب لیث و مازیار، تا جهانبانی و خسروداد و رحیمی. چگونه می‌توانید در برابر جولان و رجزخوانی عوامل بیگانه و جنایتکار وابسته به جمهوری اسلامی در خیابان‌های ایران، از حشدالشعبی و حزب‌الله لبنان، تا تروریست‌های افغانی و پاکستانی، سکوت و بی‌عملی پیشه کنید؟ جمهوری اسلامی و سپاه تروریستی و سرکوبگرش، در برابر دیدگان‌تان ده‌ها هزار تن از پاک‌ترین و شجاع‌ترین فرزندان این کشور را سلاخی کردند، و هر روز شماری دیگر را به کام مرگ می‌فرستند. این اشغالگرانِ خاک ایران، با جنون ویرانگر و آخرالزمانی، کشور را در آستانه نابودی قرار داده‌اند. چگونه چشم بر این واقعیت‌ها بسته‌اید و از ایفای نقش در دفاع از مُلک و ملت کناره گرفته‌اید؟ تاریخ و نسل‌های آینده ایران‌، چگونه درباره شما داوری خواهند کرد؟ پیمان و تعهد ملی و میهنی خود را به‌یاد آورید. به میدان بیایید. از شرافت و اعتبار ارتش ملی ایران در برابر جمهوری اسلامی و مزدوران بیگانه‌اش دفاع کنید. و خطاب به شما ملت بزرگ ایران: با صدای رسا، خواستار ایفای نقش ملی ارتش شوید. از آنها بخواهید به وظیفه خود در قبال میهن و ملت عمل کنند. تا بیش از این دیر نشده، در کنار ملت بایستند و ایران را نجات دهند. پاینده ایران، رضا پهلوی