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HKA 🦋

@hermona613

7 months

Taken at the last protest in Ottawa: “You can’t brainwash this generation.”

Lella Yasmine • لِلآ يَاسمِين 🍊

@YasmineJibril

7 months

This headline has ms FLOORED.

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Idk what this mess is but here’s a better representation of habesha cuisine, best food you’ll ever have in your life

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6 months

ethiopian is the best food because it looks like this

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6 months

Timeline cleanse. My favourite photo of my grandmother.

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𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚

@beyoncegarden

6 months

name a time a celebrity gagged their interviewer😭

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Idk what she’s saying in Somali but I understood “Abiy Ahmed down!” perfectly. Queen.

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@hermona613

1 year

The flag + the face 🤟🏾

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@hermona613

7 months

Anderson Cooper fucked up big time in this clip. If you’re a journalist/journalism student/journalism professor and you don’t immediately see exactly where he fucked up, you will likely in some way contribute to this problem (if you haven’t already).

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@hermona613

6 months

Gena (Orthodox Christmas in Ethiopia) has already passed but this video is so beautiful I have to share. Celebration at Lalibela.

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@hermona613

1 year

My best revenge will be relocating to Addis and living the life our mothers and aunts would have lived if our families weren’t chased out of 🇪🇹 in the nineties. Big house, full of kids, and a few seratengyas. It’s gonna be poppin’ so pls keep your eye peeled for the content.

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@hermona613

1 year

Who in Ethiopia really benefited from ethnic federalism? Whatever the root justification for this model of governance might have been in ‘94, the implementation failed. Evidence is the last three decades. Identity politics on steroids.

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@hermona613

1 year

For how many decades did Eritrean refugees have their identity stolen while staying in camps in the Tigray region? People may be too scared to speak about it on the record but that’s the question reporters should be asking, that’s the story that needs to be written.

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@hermona613

2 years

Word to the diaspora: being Eritrean is dope. Don’t let anyone make you feel otherwise. Dopest history, dopest culture and the most resilient people you will ever meet. I’ve peeped how these days expressing any pride in our roots can leave people feeling some type of way.

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@hermona613

1 year

“Give them two years and they will take over Ethiopia.” Textbook dog-whistle politics from Plaut and Abdi meant to provoke distrust of Eritreans in Ethiopia aka “the enemy within.” I’m getting déjà vu.

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@hermona613

1 year

Vibes were right tonight.

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@hermona613

2 months

“We know that you can crush grain but not crush human beings with tanks like the Ethiopians did in She’eb. If they can do such brutal acts it’s because other nations kept silent. Because of this complicity our land is burning, our trees and grass, even the rocks are melting

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@hermona613

1 year

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@hermona613

1 year

Finally about to get some injera in my body 😭

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@hermona613

10 months

This video is actually from an Eritrean wedding in Dallas, not Ethiopian. Eritrean culture >>>

Don Salmon

@dijoni

10 months

Ethiopia its culture. One of the oldest country in the world . It was the only one that was never colonized by the Europeans .

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@hermona613

1 year

Timeline cleanse: today at Barcelona’s Park Güell 🌸

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@hermona613

10 months

Cool breeze, high sun, no complaints. If you’re in Ottawa come through to the Merhaba Festival @ Terry Fox Athletics Center and watch the kids play some soccer 🙏🏾

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@hermona613

1 year

This Barbie is unbothered in Barcelona.

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10 months

Braids are out, the day is a wrap and the mood is gratitude.

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@hermona613

1 year

Timeline cleanse: my (paternal) great-aunt Imbafrash Gebrehiwot. Divorced her husband, opened a bar in Asmara, used the money she made to support the EPLF, got caught and was placed under house arrest for a few years. And check that pose — a woman who knows she’s an icon.

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@hermona613

2 months

Here to announce that the Nigerians won the jollof war.

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@hermona613

2 years

Rocking my mother’s zuria at a childhood friend’s wedding. A full circle moment 🙏🏾

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@hermona613

5 months

Pushing 100 and still sharp as a knife. May he live for another one hundred years. 💕

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@hermona613

5 months

My mother’s face, my grandmother’s eyes.

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@hermona613

10 months

The Prime Minister of Ethiopia was accused of plagiarizing 60% of his PhD and I don’t think we talk about it enough. Everybody collectively just went “Oh.” and moved on.

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@hermona613

6 months

Everyone should read Eritrean history. Name me one other anti-colonial liberation struggle that waged a decades long protracted war with minimal outside support — the Soviets, Cubans and U.S. had all at various points decided that 🇪🇹 was key to their interests — and actually won.

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@hermona613

10 months

Today accidentally turned into a “treat yourself” day ✨

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@hermona613

1 year

From Lisbon (not Dublin), with love.

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@thetrillgent

1 month

a beat or a groove you wish you could live in?

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1 year

Ruhus Beal Natsnet 🇪🇷

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2 months

2day.

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@hermona613

5 months

Copy/Paste.

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@hermona613

10 months

Been training myself to find joy in the little things. Tonight it was red wine, nachos and a good conversation.✨

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@hermona613

8 months

Jazzboy,Esq✯

@jazzboyxr

8 months

Trust men or show your Face card

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@hermona613

1 year

I belong underneath the African sun, that North American life really ain’t it for me. Live in the cold for what???? Survive through winter for who??? For WHY??????? Marrakesh, je t’aime.

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@hermona613

4 months

Our book club just finished reading Berhane Abrehe’s “Eritrea, My Nation” and I can’t recommend it enough! We’ll be discussing the first half of Eritrea at a Crossroads by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis on March 24 — please hit me up if you’re interested in joining 🙏🏾

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@hermona613

1 year

Got about 30 minutes before this party starts to practice my shim-shim. Pray I don’t let the aunties down when I hit the dance-floor.🤞🏾

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@hermona613

7 months

From my Asmara archives. Meeting my grandfather for the first time + my first visit to Eritrea. In hindsight, four days was far from enough.

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@hermona613

1 year

I truly just want peace and prosperity for Eritrea + Ethiopia. I know this seems like such a nothing statement (isn’t peace and prosperity what we all want?), but when you think about how the people of both countries have never really known peace it really just breaks your heart.

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@hermona613

8 months

This city has so much potential. It doesn’t need to look like this.

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@hermona613

1 year

Call me shikorina or don’t call me anything at all.

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@hermona613

7 months

What’s happening to the Amhara barely gets any attention but massacres have been ongoing since November 2020. Worth reading this update.

Active Genocide Alert - Ethiopia in Amhara Region - Update 1

10 December 2023

www.lemkininstitute.com

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@hermona613

7 months

We made it to the end of a packed day. Praise be 🤲🏾

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@hermona613

1 year

Tigrinya is the sexiest language my ears have ever heard. I said it, I mean it, and I’ll stand on it. Don’t @ me because I’m going to bed now.

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@hermona613

2 years

…and here it is in print 🙏🏾

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@hermona613

2 years

Check out my op-ed in the Globe and Mail on why (and how) the international community can do more to support refugees facing long asylum wait times. As a second generation Canadian whose entire family came to this country as refugees, it's a topic close to my heart.

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@hermona613

1 year

Will forever be side-eyeing Eritreans who have not said a word about TDF’s attacks on, and rapes of, Eritrean refugees throughout the war. Will also forever be side-eyeing all of y’all who have hailed TDF as heroes despite knowing of their attacks on Eritrean refugees.

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@hermona613

1 month

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@hermona613

1 year

I like my kitfo raw, straight up tire. None of that leb-leb or yebesele. That’s the only way to eat it.

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@EthioTsi1

1 year

Unpopular opinions about Ethiopian food that will put you in this position?

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@hermona613

9 months

A government that shuts down the internet only does so when it understands how fundamentally weak, tenuous, and unjustifiable its position is. Information is power. Information is accountability. Access to information is a human right. #ReconnectAmhara

Access Now

@accessnow

9 months

Reconnect Amhara now! No more #InternetShutdowns !

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@hermona613

4 months

A clip from an old ABC News segment on Ethiopia’s bombing of Massawa in 1990. Thinking about Fatna Ari’s words at the end: “America is strong. America is a big power. It can help us if it wants. Why is America not doing something to save us from these atrocities?”

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@hermona613

10 days

The African sun will melt the makeup right off your face but it has healing properties so balances out in the end ✌🏾

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@hermona613

1 year

I got it from my mama (literally my face is a copy and paste of my mother’s).

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@ssc_zhith

1 year

Let me see your face cards.

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@hermona613

4 months

Not one news report covering the BnH attacks on Eritrean community events has reported on how the leaders of this movement are calling themselves “Tigray Defence Forces dressed in civilian clothes.” Not one. It’s an important detail.

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@hermona613

6 months

This video brought me joy today.

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@hermona613

7 months

A reminder that the best dancers in the world come from Eritrea.

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@hermona613

5 months

Found my old phone and a stash of photos from The Before Times (pre-tattoo era).

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@hermona613

1 month

Imagine falling in love with an Eritrean man and then you find out he spends his time fighting women on this app from an alt account.

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@hermona613

1 year

Woke up to so many comments like this. My family were raised in Ethiopia so despite the TPLF-led government’s decision to deport tens of thousands of its own citizens in 1998, we reserve the right to comment on Ethiopia. Which makes some of y’all sick, I know.

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@hermona613 Aren’t you Eritrean??? Why is it your concern

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@hermona613

1 year

This is Woyane Gen. Tsadkan Gebretensae, head of the Tigray militia that systematically massacred and raped thousands of Amhara and Afar civilians as well as Eritrean refugees, accepting an award from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the man Woyane spent two years accusing of genocide.

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@hermona613

1 year

Me and whose son? My aunties want to know

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@hermona613

1 year

Eritrean refugees are not spies working to destabilize Ethiopia, they’re a vulnerable population and deserve to be treated as such. Whenever I read something like this, I get hit with a sense of deja vu. Everything changes yet everything stays the same.

Lolaasaa

@Lolaasaa

1 year

I don't get why #Eritrean migrants are such privileged in #Ethiopia in first place. They enjoy every life even better than our own citizens yet they spy on us & work to destabilize us tirelessly. They have to be deported back to their home or keept in refuge camps!

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@hermona613

5 months

Tonight. Went dancing, met a few Queens and thought to myself, “Oh, we are soooooooo back.” I am blessed and highly favoured.

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@hermona613

1 year

Today I ate well, drank well, and caught a little bit of that Portuguese sun.🌞

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@hermona613

1 year

I want to point out that saying “Amhara are thieves, Amhara are killers” in the Amhara language is next level irony. Why not in Tigrinya if you hate them so much?

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@hermona613

1 year

Sometimes living your best life means taking a leave of absence from grad school and fleeing to Europe to reset. Say Mashallah.

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@hermona613

9 months

People coming out in support of Palestinians are campus student groups and community organizers. People coming out in support of Israel are CEOs, celebrities, news media and world leaders. Just let that imbalance sink in.

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@hermona613

11 months

The richest + dopest culture.

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@hermona613

3 months

Ott ➡️ Mtl

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@hermona613

10 months

Went into the office today to catch up with an old friend/colleague and was reminded that we humans are not meant to exist in isolation. WFH suits me well since I’m not a fan of losing hours of my day to commuting but today it was definitely worth it.

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@hermona613

4 months

In about ✌🏾 month’s time ya girl will be on a ✈️ heading out of country again, this time for almost four months. This’ll be the last chapter in what’s turning out to be a trilogy of sorts. Counting down the days. ✨

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@hermona613

1 year

I don’t hate but I have such a profound dislike for the woyane diaspora, can’t even put it into words. But without fail, what goes around will always come back around.

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@hermona613

4 months

My old phone really is a time capsule. A sm👁️ze somewhere in the woods, circa 2020.

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@hermona613

1 year

Can’t argue with a diaspora who wants your heart to bleed only for their own and reverts to insults when you refuse to bow to their ethnic logic. Amhara and Afar have also suffered and been killed by the thousands. And don’t get me started on the situation of Eritrean refugees.

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@hermona613

8 months

Everyone should watch this documentary on the Tantura massacre that took place during the ‘98 Nakba.

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@hermona613

1 year

Timeline cleanse: yours truly, live from Lisbon. Putting the brakes on the writing and dedicating the next few days to sightseeing. 🙏🏾

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@hermona613

5 months

All the pretty girls come from a lil Red Sea country called Eritrea, tell ya friends

Black Anthony Bourdain 🍉

@badgualriri

5 months

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@hermona613

11 months

I now understand why the application for an Eritrean ID card requires you to list your maternal and paternal grandfathers’ ancestry four generations back through the male line. I thought y’all were crazy the first time I saw one of those forms.

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@hermona613

9 months

Mood: TGIF

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@hermona613

1 year

Currently in 🇵🇹. Practicing rest, practicing Tigrinya and finally getting around to doing a little bit of writing.

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@hermona613

10 months

I should’ve probably just stayed in Africa the last time I went. This is what I woke up to every morning in Addis Ababa.

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@hermona613

6 months

We had us a time. G’night.

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@hermona613

1 year

“Did the Eritreans in Addis Ababa have anything to do with what was happening in Badme? Yet, you and your ilk defended Meles when he threw Eritreans into internment camps left and right. Hell, you people even called the police on your Eritrean neighbours and friends.”

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@TeweldeMedhen

1 year

Did the Tigreans in Addis Ababa had anything to do with what was happening in Tigray? Yet, you and your ilk defended Abiy when he threw Tigreans into concentration camps left and right. Hell, you people even called the police on your Tegaru neighbours and friends.

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@hermona613

1 year

Fully aware that I’ll have to return to real life eventually but tonight was such a vibe, I can’t even begin to explain it. Another day of feeling utterly blessed. Cheers from Lisbon 🥂

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@hermona613

11 months

“As a Black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” — Angela Yvonne Davis

Mel | ሕሰብ

@GoatThatShitOn

11 months

I be in a hurry to see hermona stories and its politics . Man i need to see your eyes not what angela davis said

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@hermona613

6 months

New Year’s breakfast, the aunties delivered 😍

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@hermona613

11 months

There’s been very little attention given by news media to Amhara who’ve been slaughtered in conflicts taking place across Ethiopia. In almost all the coverage, they’ve been an afterthought. Not the “popular” position to assume at the moment but hard not to notice this.

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@hermona613

1 year

I do not want to be receiving “what are you doing” texts at midnight, not at my big age. Because wdym what am I doing?? I’m moisturized, in bed, with my alarm clock set, my shash on and ready to catch my 9am flight, either propose or go away

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@hermona613

1 year

Diaspora Eritreans who entered into a marriage of convenience with diaspora weyane supporters — y’all don’t ever feel gross? Your skin doesn’t crawl? You don’t feel the need to shower twice? If you have to pick a side, why is *this* the side you’ve picked? What makes it worth it?

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1 year

One more reason to hope that things could get better, if only we work harder. Welcome home our heroes and heroines. Thank you #Derartu and the Fed Govt officials who made this happen!

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@hermona613

11 months

The theme tonight was ‘shrooms 🍄

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@hermona613

1 year

Today at Peña Palace. Windy af but the views, like everywhere else I’ve been to in Portugal, were beautiful 👌🏾

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@hermona613

4 months

This video brought me joy today. Pure melody.

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@hermona613

1 year

Going through video recordings of conversations with my grandfather last year in Asmara has me feeling very nostalgic right now. The swaggiest ninety-six year old you’ll ever meet in your life and his mind is still very sharp.

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@hermona613

2 months

Got temporarily locked out of this likkle bird app but we’re back ✌🏾

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@hermona613

11 months

Channelling your energy towards destroying community spaces is so weird to me especially when that same energy can be redirected towards building alternative spaces. You’re not winning any hearts or changing any minds by engaging in this kind of destruction.

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SVENSKA POLISEN, DEN SOM SKA SKYDDA TILLÅTER LAGLÖSA MISSHANDLA OSS OCH VÅRA RÄTTIGHETER @polisen_sthlm @SvD @Aftonbladet @sverigesregering

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@hermona613

1 year

Guess who just tumbled off a quad bike in the Palmeraie Desert and saw her life flash before her eyes!!

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@hermona613

4 months

Shutting down universities because the CIA might infiltrate. Shutting down newspapers because the CIA might infiltrate. Shutting down independent thought because the CIA might infiltrate. Monitoring and surveilling the diaspora because the CIA might infiltrate.

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@hermona613

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ርሑስ ልደት / መልካም ገና! Straight outta my grandma’s chicken 🤤

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