Maintainnin

[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]

Down syndrome can be extremely severe bro. The economic burden is not the main issue since the state provides plenty of financial and medical aid, even in America. There are actually lesser known and far more detrimental consequences. I knew an aunt whose daughter had the condition. She could not talk, had tons of health problems, needed *literal* 24/7 supervision, and was at times violent. Her mother essentially had no social life and the other children were naturally neglected. Her eldest even died of an overdose. Eventually the daughter became strong enough to overpower her aging mother and beat her badly enough to send her to the hospital. After that the daughter was institutionalized. It's easy to judge from the outside but this is not like Aspergers or something. It can be especially severe. Knowing what I know, if I had to choose between a child with down syndrome or infertility, I would choose infertility 100% of the time.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

The worst offenders when it comes to GDP manipulation are African countries that artificially value their currencies.

You'll see a country drop its GDP in half just because it was forced to free-float its currency as a condition for an IMF bailout. Just absurd Willy Wonka shit.

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

Ireland is a good contender for having the fakest GDP in the world

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

We gotta turn back the clock to at least 4 years ago when this was a niche topic with enough of an entry barrier that only proper nerds would commit to it.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

The proliferation of online population genetics and its unfortunate consequences.

[knowledge✍🏾 🌴🦒 @Knowledge_iii]

Somalis have much higher Natufian DNA than modern Arabs.

The 40% was accidentally discovered when young Somalis living in Europe took part in a DNA challenge. If someone goes to Somalia to do DNA on the native population they will discover much higher up to 70% to 80%.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

An Old Kingdom Egyptian buried at Nuwayrat between 2500-3000 BCE was found to have about 10% Ancestral East African ancestry. This sub-Saharan African component later decreased as later Egyptians acquired significant admixture from West Asian populations such as the Hyksos. https://t.co/u0IAMK2Bw3

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Eid al-Adha celebration in Kismayo, Somalia.

Photographed by Diana Powell-Cotton on March 26, 1934.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@recordmanCF The average Northeast African in America correctly identifies as Black. You ana-Arab larpers only exist online, go outside and touch grass.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

The proliferation of online population genetics and the amateur use of G25 and qpAdm has lowkey one shotted so many East Africans.

The typical Somali who believes they’re genetically 100% Black is ironically preferable to whatever this embarrassing, self-hating drivel is.

[Arab Horner @ArabHorner]

According to SCIENCE, we are literally ETHNIC Arabs. The 70% Eurasian DNA in Somalis autosomally match to Southern Arabs (in components and proportions). The most prevalent Somali haplogroups are also computed to have migrated from the Arabian Peninsula. Ya Ahlul Somal, wake up!ض

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@wazir2026 What's with the quotes on halal? Don't tell me your one of those people bro.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@FergieBallFan Probably have close to 10% Southern Arabian with that percentage. I'm only at 1%

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@FergieBallFan's agenda going mainstream.

[⛦ المجهول⛦ @Alibin238binAli]

الزاغروسي اللي عطب جينات العرب

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@FergieBallFan What percentage?

[unknown @thetipofthehorn]

Somali: Qalcad (Fort, Fortress, Castle, Fortified Storehouse)

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

@SiadBarrejr This ain't debate class bro, I'm just correcting a factual error of yours. You claimed that no historian ever considered the Somali peninsula as part of Al-Habasha, Al-Umari is a 14th century historian who literally did just that. I simply provided evidence to the contrary.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Calm down nigga I'm not here to have a sparring match. All I pointed out was that Al-Habasha was at times used to describe Northeast Africa as a region.

Btw, that Al-Qalqashandi snippet I shared was a critique of Al-Umari’s geographic description of the region, and it was noted that Al-Umari missed Muqdisho.

Also, what would you consider Somali polities like Awfat and Bar Sa'ad Din that occupied well into the Ethiopian highlands? Want to see if you have the cognitive ability to consider edge cases.

[HA📚 @hornaristocrat]

While sailing along the coast of Madagascar, the Portuguese captain Bartolomeu Lopes reported ships from Barawa and Muqdisho regularly visiting small ports set up at various places along the island, where Muslim sheikhs procured around 3500 enslaved natives each year to convert to Islam. He described this as a grave danger and a disgrace to Christianity, and urged the Portuguese Crown to send an army from India to put an end to it.

[Maintainnin @maintainnin]

Crimes like this should result in automatic capital punishment. Absolute plagues on society. Life imprisonment just provides them free housing and food at the expense of the public.

[Kate❤️‍🔥💕 @katee_K1]

A completely innocent 29-year-old man chased down and stabbed to death in broad daylight because some teenage gang members (Stokey16) got a text telling them to put “notches on your blade” or get kicked out. Random target. No reason. Just pure evil for clout.
The part where Joshua collides with the little girl on roller skates while running for his life, then actually pauses to check if she’s okay before they catch up and stab him… that’s heartbreaking. He was trying to get into a shop for safety and still showed basic human decency in his final moments.
Theo Momodu (who admitted it), Taylar Isaac, and David Kerrigan all got life sentences. Good. But it doesn’t bring Joshua back, and it doesn’t fix the broken culture that turns kids into killers over gang nonsense.
Senseless waste of life. Rest in peace to Joshua White. This kind of street garbage needs to stop.

[Somali Visuals ☆ @somalivisuals]

Puntland, Somalia