Pheven Dereje

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You will never meet a successful person who has time for resentment and receipt-keeping. Drama happens with people who lack purpose and who have too much free time. Work on more ambitious goals, raise your kids properly, work on yourself with more self-respect; peace of mind is the reward for being focused on your own life and on the things that matter.

[Alex Friedman 🤠 @heyalexfriedman]

One of the most freeing realizations in life is that you can just… not care about certain things.

Spilled something? Whatever, clean it up.
Get rejected? Oh well, onto the next.
Travel plans get screwed up? Annoying, but we’ll get there.

There’s a level of detachment that’s incredible once you realize you don’t have to give a shit about everything.

[blue @bluewmist]

i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and always from periods of intense humility (i.e. your ego finally relenting)

[‎Wojak Codes @wojakcodes]

one day you’ll realise that nobody was actually watching and you could have done what you wanted.

[Ajoke @Beetaheer]

Whatever you do, pray for the ability to see your own sins, your own hypocrisy, and your own shortcomings. Never lose sight of that — never get so carried away pointing fingers that you forget you, too, have abscesses that need tending.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The world's (second) oldest Christian country is not in the Middle East or Europe — it's Ethiopia.

There are centuries-old churches there that most people don't know about.

These were not "built", but carved directly into the rock… (thread) 🧵

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

The biggest loser of this debate? @CNN. How do you allow lies to be told and not correct them for everyone watching?

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

A US president just turned “Palestinian” into a slur to attack another US president. “Palestinian” was used as a slur against the person funding and enabling the genocide of the Palestinian People…. Ok

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Bro I don't know if I can watch this anymore

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

My memory is toooooo good

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

#TigrayGenocide, the worst genocide of the 21st century, has been the single most disturbing event in my lifetime. Not only the genocide, but the ease with which people deny it, and the anger towards those who even mention the genocide.

https://t.co/Qd5eXbyrKp

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

I love that extreme heat you feel when you get in your car in the summer

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

Jk jk seafood boils are kind of barbaric

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

Just had my first seafood boil ever. Wowowow. I’m not a fortune teller but I’m pretty sure this is what we’ll be serving at my wedding.

[Mufti Menk @muftimenk]

Should the world become desensitized to the horrific events in the last few days? How much longer will we allow this genocide to carry on? Are we a world of humans without humanity?
#alleyesonRafah

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

What a twisted twisted world we live in

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

Do you know how sick you have to be to keep repeating “Hamas uses civilians as human shields” as an excuse??

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

Omg I thought I forgot how to dougie. False alarm, just checked in the mirror and I still got it. Please check yourselves people, summer is around the corner!

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

My problem is that I run into people randomly allll the time and I always think it’s a sign

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

But I can still eat jalapeños / Ethiopian food / hot sauce etc. but that darn ketchup got a kick to it these days?????

[Pheven Dereje @thatsopheven]

Something really changed after that solar eclipse because now ketchup is lowwwwwkeeeyyyyyy spicy for me some days