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[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Chronology of Local Coinage Production in the Horn of Africa.

• Aksumite Empire: Coinage was minted from around 270 to 620 AD—a span of roughly 350 years.

• Sultanate of Mogadishu: Coinage was minted from approximately 1300 to 1700 AD—a span of 400 years.

• Awdal Sultanate (Bar Sa'ad Din): Coinage production likely coincided with the relocation of its capital to Harar in 1520—if not shortly after—and lasted until 1647, after which Harar broke off and formed the Emirate of Harar.

• Emirate of Harar: Coinage continued to be minted from 1647 to 1887, a period of 240 years.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@Kulubnarti Ethiopia’s governments from Meles onwards have lowkey been very ambitious, which is rare for Africa in general.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Interesting video on Ethiopia’s electric car transition. The country banned the import of gas and diesel cars in 2024, hoping to save on fuel import costs and protect its rapidly dwindling hard currency reserves.

The government is also using tariff incentives to kickstart a domestic auto manufacturing industry. Fully assembled cars face a 15% tariff, while disassembled kits enter duty-free for local assembly.

[Blue Paradise 🇸🇴 @Blueparadise252]

You know what’s funny, the fabric is known as Subaya in Comorian -> derived from Subeeciyad, the Somali name, which in turn comes from Subeec, the Somali word for the Clanculus pharaonius sea shell, which Comorians have no name for. Their own Tourist officials admit its imported.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Ethnics don't believe (or can't understand) that wealth is positive sum in modernity, this is why they're obsessed with reparations, rent seeking, and socialism.

[Aaboom16🇸🇴 @aaboom16]

They discussing Ilkacase in the White House 😭

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Photo below is from Menz, Amhara region of Ethiopia . Anyone who sees it will colloquially refer to them as mud huts.

Objectively speaking, Somali regions from the 12th century onward were vastly more economically developed and urbanized, and had significantly greater trade intensity than Abyssinia. Feudalism is also one step removed from slavery and is an inferior way of life compared to pastoralism. Make peace with it.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Nigga is out in the boonies herding camels living a 5th-millennium BC lifestyle but somehow has a smartphone with 5G data to upload TikTok videos. This is the paradox that is Somalia.

[møss lol 𐒑𐒙𐒈𐒈 🪬 Ibn Merina/ 𓆩✧𓆪𓆣🇧🇷 @acidnegroe]

Somali geeljire(camel herders) are so unique looking wdf

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@Zkrii__ This is a fob stirring shit for elon bucks. Actually tried to police some of these socially underdeveloped retards but it's pointless swimming against the current after a certain point.

[HA📚 @hornaristocrat]

While in Barawa in 1976, Neville Chittick took these pictures of a Somali man weaving the alindi cloth.

[The Puntland Vault 🗄 @PuntlandVault]

The Great Somali invasion of the Tana Oromo [1887]

In 1887, German writers recorded that 3,000 mostly Majeerteen and Warsangeli Somali warriors fell upon the Tana Oromo:

"The raid was mainly carried out by the Kablalla tribe, joined by about 40 younger Somalis from Kismayo.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

I'm basing my hypothetical purely on indigenous capabilities. Most of Africa has practically all of its modern equipment, even the most modest of things, imported.

For example, there is no semiconductor/wafer fab in Africa, so no modern radar, LEDs, electronics, or optical sensors can be commercially produced locally on the continent.

As for the engines needed to propel armored vehicles, tanks, or aircraft, the only African company I could find with its own clean-sheet, indigenous design and manufacturing capability is a white South African company.

This is without even getting into the fact that the USSR had a much larger munitions-production capacity than all of Africa combined today. We can't even outproduce the USSR on the very thing needed to fight a war, bullets and bombs.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

😭😭

[عليُّ @sionsonoist]

@aphrosociety I fail to understand why they did not learn their lesson after the Mahdi’s soldiers beheaded their fucking emperor back in 1889.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@vernmali Only a fob would be sick enough to do this.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

This TikTok account has millions of likes posting before and after pics and it's literally all AI slop. The future is bleak for humanity dawg the skynet class has won.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@HangingByA It's worse because they have no financial incentive to cause mass shooting events and gun down random bystanders. They literally do it for clout and one upping each other. They're actual subhuman savages, a bunch of drill music caabuds who wanna larp.

[The Puntland Vault 🗄 @PuntlandVault]

Bardhere was a frontier city bordered by expansionist pagan Oromo on one side and 3000 Somali Kablallah on the other, who protected it under an elected, non hereditary Sultan, chosen because he had killed the most Oromo and was considered to be the most religious man in the tribe

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Can't believe I'm up at 3am watching this shit.....get the tf on with it bruh.

[Formula 1 @F1]

🚨 RACE CONTROL: The starting procedure has been suspended

The drivers return to the pits

#F1 #BahrainGP

[Gaboose @Guntigaab]

Gadabuursi Are Back in Harar, Holding Senior Positions

H.E. Muhiyadin Ahmed Hasen Obsiiye holds a senior position in the Harari Regional State as the Speaker of the Harari National Council, the region’s legislative body.

As Speaker, he occupies one of the three highest senior leadership positions in the regional government.

He is a Harari Gadabuursi descent, from the Jibriil Yoonis clan.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Ngl this company's obsession with stripping out equipment to save on Bill of Materials costs will become its Achilles heel. Camera-only autonomy will never be as good as radar + camera + lidar. Redundancy is necessary.

Eventually competitors like Rivian will catch up to FSD, and Tesla will have to concede and switch to that approach while previous Teslas get left behind, just like they're already doing with cars equipped with older autonomy hardware.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Robotaxi operating hours moved from 10pm to 11pm.

The main thing we’re trying to solve is making sure that we don’t run over pets when they’re hard to see at night. Literally trying to avoid grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark.