Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@aphrosociety The acting is just top tier, “It’s so shit it’s good.” type shit

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@Garyaqaan494668 Nah, fam. If SL is ever properly recognized, do you know how baller it is for our ethnic group to have two countries in the UN named after it? Whilst being the ruling class of another (Djibouti) and a prominent business class in yet another (Kenya).

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@SaharanMujahida Mashallah. Will make your baby stronk

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

It’s not so much the castle but the lands it commands. Curse aside, anyone who controls it automatically has some of the richest farmlands in Westeros and a solid vantage point geographically between the Crownlands and the rest of the Riverlands.

To give you some idea, one of the greatest tourneys in Westerosi history, the one where Rhaegar met Lyanna, was hosted by House Whent of Harrenhal and they were noted to be richer than their Tully liege lords precisely because of the castle and the lands it presides over. So, if you don’t take the curse seriously it’s quite the prize.

Tbh, if a house could hold it and its lands well enough for long they could probably slowly angle for the Tully’s position as Lords Paramount of the Trident. The Whents were a young house but thanks to Harrenhal quickly rose to enough prominence to prompt a marriage between them and the Tullys. Cateyln Stark’s mother was a Whent.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@Alemnatay Reminds me of the stuff my mama would cook up when I was growing up. 🙏🏾

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@basedganyu Nah. 180cm and above basically has the same effect as 6ft in Europe and the rest of the world, from what I’ve noticed.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

You can’t argue with data. What I described confused me as well but it’s plainly true. Every study finds pretty much identical results as do all the commercial tests. The only outliers tend to be recently admixed people who will plainly admit they have some foreign grandparent or something to that effect.

And that “diversity” you describe exists in a single family. My now deceased mother was a light yellowish color whereas I can become almost as dark as coal. My father is a medium brown with almost straight hair while my mother and I have tighter curls. My father’s full blood sister has my mother’s complexion and one of his brothers has mine. Do you think full blood siblings and a parent and their child are genetically diverse?

We are a mix of prehistoric MENA and SSA so yeah, we manifest those ancestries a little differently from person to person but most Somalis honestly look incredibly alike in terms of facial features. Don’t pretend you can’t see a Somali from a mile away.

Also, your geography point is nonsensical. There were less than 1 million Somalis all across what is now Somaliweyn a couple of centuries ago. Meaning all 30 million or so Somalis today trace themselves to less than 1 million people from fairly recently. It’s not some massive gene pool. Not Ashkenazi Jews small but not large by any stretch either.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

Somalis are homogenous. Unless you have a recent Xabash or Yemeni ancestor or something like that, virtually everyone has the exact same admixture levels. This has remained consistent across several sampled populations in studies and thousands of people sampled commercially across Somaliweyn. We are not a diverse people.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@CityDNAxSully @K6734Mo Relax, walaal. All shits and giggles. I wouldn’t wanna be anything but what I am.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@Alemnatay @saho_eritrea He looks stereotypical. Like, I’d have him in a textbook as an example of his people. “Above you can see a representative Egyptian type”

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@Alemnatay But this is in my interest as a dark skinned man. Jk jk

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@OneCheekyChicky @StepOnThemQuee1 Let us be rigorous and employ the correct nomenclature.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

What you say about traditional gender roles reminds me of a funny moment between me and two older girl cousins about a decade ago. We were in a conversation about women’s rights and I wrapped up the discussion by saying, “I’m all for it. Y’all deserve all the same rights as us and are our equals. Now, go make me a sandwich.”

One of them immediately hit me and they both started laughing, then she did in fact go make me a sandwich. 🥹

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@zadokism

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@Alemnatay If I live to see the day my first daughter will be named after my beloved and now deceased mother (الله يرحها). My wife can name every other child as she sees fit in exchange.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@RozofIran I knew a guy who once bluntly said, “I have no convictions. I’ll believe whatever it takes to get laid.” 😭

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@aphrosociety Yeah, doesn’t make much sense to me either. Either one parent is essentially irreligious and doesn’t mind the kids adopting the other parent’s faith or you’re likely just going to confuse your kids.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@nafsascension Your future old man self lacking in injuries and aches will thank you.

[Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي @Awiabdi]

@Alemnatay Ani Arushite?