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[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

This is like the third israeli that has praised kendrick.

[kendrick Lyrics @WordFromKdot]

“You see his ‘geniosity,’ both as a musician, as a person who moves and as a political figure. Every time I watch this video, ‘Untitled 08’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and I’ve shown it to many, many people, I just feel like this is genius work.”

— Psychologist Orna Guralnik on Kendrick Lamar via @nytimes

[Apoliteia @jungerslop]

Ernst Jünger on Africa and the World before Technology.

“Technology has spoiled everything, including War.”

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

WAKOFA

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

by far, my most anticipated film of the year

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER’, starring Mahershala Ali, Tramell Tillman and Giancarlo Esposito.

The film follows a religious hitman who struggles to balance work, faith & fatherhood.

In theaters on October 9.

[dj short @_DJShort]

Miles Davis was born 100 years ago today

these are my favorite photos of him, captured by Tadayuki Naitoh in 1976

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

I'm curious to see the Chinese response to I love boosters

[DiaBia @mommabiia]

Naomi Ackie my IT girl

[Kaffiyeh @yihiia1]

Arafah, 2026.

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

This but in blue for the Somali Parliament.

[lusso @luusssso]

The blood red interior of Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy designed by Carlo Mollino in 1973

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

@City_Xtra When's a journalist going to be brave enough to ask him how he feels about the UAE bankrolling the crisis in Sudan?

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

@sharkeyflor The J Cole of movies is clearly Silver Linings Playbook.

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

@gothamhiphop FICO should've been nominated. The best song on the album.

[Gale Na @poisonjr]

Hijacking the entire planet's economy to run a technology that destroys general credibility of videos, pictures, and information forever, so that if the videos surface of them hurting kids, they have plausible deniability

[Ирис @saltwatermp3]

Do it scared and do it alone You walked out of the ocean for this

[db @dbessner]

can anyone explain why Epstein's emails are so strangely written? weird spacing, innumerable spelling errors, random capitalizations. what is going on there

[Aaboom16🇸🇴 @aaboom16]

Somali classic

[i am @notbarkhadabdi]

@Nabadwanag Ethiopia's foreign policy towards us is destabilization. Somaliland MOU, backing Jubaland against FGS, occupying Gedo, damming our rivers, ethnically cleansing the Ogaden region, etc. There's a difference between having relations and being needlessly deferential.