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Austinite Algerian Texan ⵣ polyglot globetrotter first pancake TCK #CountryOverParty 🕊️|🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇫🇷

Oran,DZ - Austin,TX
Joined February 2009
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Andrew Tate went from having 33 cars and zero boyfriends to having zero cars and 33 boyfriends. His new Bugatti will be a cellmate named Bogdan.
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Alger la blanche “White Algiers” seen from the Mediterranean Sea. 📷 #Algiers #Algeria
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@BalkanmemesTr Tombili, Istanbul’s chubby cat, has a statue. 🇹🇷
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@GWANJEZ @Charles14045 “When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.” -Desmond Tutu
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@gol_peri @Amazigh_Soldier Sorry but no. North Africa is not the Middle East. There’s a reason the region is referred to as MENA or Middle East and North Africa.
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#Omicron or #Deltacron or whatever they throw at us next may just end up flattening the curve…
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#TexasHeat right now…
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Jane Fonda through the years…
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Vocabulary lesson of the day: #militia : #OregonUnderAttack
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@RashmiSudiwala @MattSmethurst @Sativa888 Or a newborn baby on an airplane traveling between internationally defined time zones? What then? Where do you draw the line?
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@CNBC I don’t get all the faux outrage. Does the same happen when Mercedes or Lexus constantly run ads with cars presented as Christmas gifts with big red bows that cost astronomically more than an overpriced stationary bike?
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@Wynterloren @NBCPhiladelphia The name “White Settlement” is the name the Indian tribes gave the area since it was the only village of white pioneers in the Fort Worth area in the Texas Republic territory at the time (~1840s).
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@spectatorindex With five of these countries being some of the most dangerous places to visit in the world.
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@MsKellyMHayes @RaychelTania @YEPBusiness @AP Have you watched the Netflix documentary "The 13th"? Great documentary:
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@Whataburger Is that mum for Big Tex?
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6 years
@realDonaldTrump @POTUS Oh pull up a map, Mr. President! The Golan Heights are and have always been a part of #Syria ! I can’t believe I voted for you; you’ve done everything in your power to divide people for your own personal gain since you’ve taken office. Shame on you.
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@derektmuller @K_ar_im Do you know who else wrote a fantastic book while “in quarantine“? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. She wrote that classic novel secluded and self-quarantined herself during an epic storm on Lake Geneva because of a volcanic eruption half a world away (Krakatoa). Fight me on that.
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Celebrities with #Syrian roots; Jewish, Christian & Muslim blood. We're in this together. #IAmSyrian #Syria #Syrie
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@FreakyFrog44 Moe reminds me of a younger Zico when he’d get knocked out... @elledgr8 , do you have similar photos of #LiluDallas sleeping?
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Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Alger/Algiers, #Algeria Photo credit: Farouk Toumi 📷 @kouraftoumi on Instagram
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How politics works at the moment:
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A few more photos of downed tree branches around the area. In good news, our neighborhood peacock, Kevin, has found refuge in a neighbor’s garage before sneaking into their home. Sneaky bastard! 😂 #Austin #TexasFreeze
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My neighbor just had three of his large front yard trees keel over from the weight of the ice. 😞 The damage around the neighborhood is severe. Seems every couple of minutes I hear a thud. Fortunately, the power is still on. #TexasFreeze
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@Angry_Staffer Wait until they find out how Kyiv/Kiev is really pronounced. Hint: it is supposed to rhyme with sleeve.
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@premierleague At this point, referees should get red and yellow cards too. 😂
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@mikedrake178 @SenRickScott @TheJusticeDept Coming from someone who got a COVID-19 shot before everyone else in Florida. This shyte just writes itself and keeps on giving.
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@CannotReality @umrvision His name will confuse a lot of people as well. The “Issa” in Al-Issa means Jesus in Arabic. Some of you seem to forget Jesus was from the Middle East and that the Bible was in Aramaic, Arabic and Hebrew long before it was translated for the rest of you.
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UAE out here trying to start World War Z. 😂
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Il y’a très longtemps je suis née au milieu de Texas. J’ai vécu deux guerre, deux tremblement de terre et le terrorisme en Algérie et ailleurs. J’ai traversée 5 continent mais j’ai pu retourner à Oran pour un peu de melfouf. Je crois que je me suis pas trop mal débrouillée. 😉
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I dug up Algerian artifacts yesterday night. Which museum should I send these to?
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@marcus1320 @CBSNews This isn’t a left vs. right issue. Federal ethics regulations concerning the “use of office for private gain” prohibit White House employees from using their position or any authority associated with their public office to endorse “any product, service or enterprise”.
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There's only one heaven but there are MANY hells. If you kill innocents, God help you! | #JeSuisCharlie #NotInMyName http://t.co/QlIMAD1PIe
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#RedefineGiving is taking the shirt off your own back to cover someone in need when you know full well you have thirty more in the closet but now they have two.
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6 years
Some photos from today’s peaceful protests in Algiers #Algeria . Protesters are marching to voice their disapproval of a fifth presidential term for #Bouteflika (in power since 1999). Bouteflika has been wheelchair bound and largely missing from the public view. #Mandat5 #Alg érie
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@EstoneyWan @screencrushnews Shhhhhh! 🤫 She’s going to come back and haunt you. May she RIP 🙏🏻.
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Rouggag, or as my Serbian friend calls it… “delicious tissue stew” 🤣🤣🤣. Please don’t make fun of my pot; it’s a 45 year old warhorse of a gedra passed down over generations that has been used on three continents!
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@Whataburger 10 Million @Whataburger fries you say? Here are your three packs of ketchup.
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@capable_cripple @michelleg717 @TheAPJournalist Look up the definition of “endorse” and rethink what you just wrote. And while you are at it, try to understand why people in public office shouldn’t promote and support one company simply because said company’s CEO sycophantically heaped praise on @POTUS .
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@CAF_Online @FIFAcom What modesty! A rare quality these days. Thank you Sadio Mané and thank you #Senegal ! He’s a true African legend and in my eyes that supersedes any crown. Much love from #Algeria ! ❤️ ⚽️ 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽
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The best video I’ve seen so far this week but I wish I knew the source, this guy is impressively creative…
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Do they even know what “zabi” means in Arabic? 🤣🤣🤣
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@BrownNaila @DrGaborMate @DanielBMate Here’s the interview with Dr. Gabor Maté and it’s well worth the watch:
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Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté describes the Israel 🇮🇱 Palestine 🇵🇸 conflict as the longest ethnic cleansing operation of the 20th 21st centuries… Please watch…🔊
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Cant stop laughing at this, @saltaf01
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@Stonekettle @ACTBrigitte Hell, a friend did two tours in Afghanistan before he turned 20 then lost his life at 21 in Fort Wainwright, Alaska from “friendly fire”. RIP Spc. Zachary New.
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@CSMFHT Vlad The Impaler
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@TracesofTexas My favorite Willie @WillieNelson story is when he played chess against Ray Charles. 😂
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#Texas story of the day. That one time Ray Charles beat Willie Nelson at chess in the dark… three times in a row in a hotel in Austin. And y’all know Ray Charles was blind. 😎 Story as narrated by @WillieNelson :
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@patriottakes Wake me up when this happens…
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@aliu_driton I don’t doubt that at all but I didn’t want to make that assumption. Reminds me of how many of the cartel drug lords lived lavishly inside “prison” in the series ‘Narcos’.
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I’ve really tried to watch the Tamil Village Cooking Channel but I can’t quite bring myself to stick through it without wanting to do this:
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In early July, Village Cooking Channel crossed the 10 million subscribers mark on #YouTube -- a rare feat for a cookery channel, that too in a regional language.
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#Ra ï done right. Je reste fidèle à mes origines. #missingOran #Wahran #Alg érie
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#Algerians are something else! 😂 Vive l’ #Alg érie! ¡Que viva Argelia! 🇩🇿
@sarushette
𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 ♪
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@creapills . @asteris translation from French. Arya has always been talented with the handling of a “knife”. | #GameofThrones #BattleofWinterfell
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My father turned 81 yesterday. A parachutist, a judo master, a quadrilingual petroleum engineer who has worked on three continents and travelled to more. Happy birthday Papa! We don’t always see eye to eye but you’re the rockstar who inspired me.
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@TracesofTexas We need a second marker for Margaret Wilbarger simply for the feat of rolling up to Austin on horseback with her feather mattress.
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@CP24 Jealous American right here. Our money is not nearly as colorful, easily destroyable (good luck having a US dollar bill survive a rip and crumble let alone a wash cycle) and we are still very far from featuring any minorities. Well done #Canada ! 🇨🇦 #NotFair
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@chrismknapp @IdesKat315 @chrissyteigen I learned something new today and had to finish up an article on the topic. That was definitely an honorable gesture, especially since he did it quietly unlike so much of the fanfare many philanthropists love nowadays. Thanks for sharing that tidbit!
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My favorite building- take a wild guess where this is…
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@MikeNiccoABC7 North Carolina gets earthquakes? Kudos to anyone who had that on their 2020 bingo card.
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@EvilMopacATX Why does it look like someone replaced the text; almost like it was Wited-Out.
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Y’all! #Algeria plays #Tunisia in the #FIFArabCup   final early tomorrow morning. Please wish us luck but may the best team win. Just wish my Zico was still around and by my side to watch the match. He loved jumping up and down whenever I’d cheer for Algeria. | #ALGTUN 🇩🇿 🇹🇳
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@breezedagreat @RandaHabib It’s more complicated than that. There’s also the issue of hygiene and sanitation. I was a lifeguard in #Saudi and I had the right to refuse entry to women wearing anything other than swimsuits. This was in a women’s only pool. I can only imagine it would be more strict elsewhere
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@BalkanmemesTr Portugal as honorary Balkan had me crying, @Ecos_Epithet @josephus77 .
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Since no one else on Twitter is saying “Happy Birthday Leila” I will do so myself. Happy Birthday to ME! Joyeux anniversaire… 😂
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@EvilMopacATX That tree really should have done a better job.
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@TasteAtlas Player three has entered the game: Albania 🇦🇱
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@RedTheOne @Twitter A four year-old saying “the one percent”? 😂
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Asterix vs Tintin au pays des soviets. #FRABEL #FranceBelgique 🇫🇷🇧🇪
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@sabaaa____ @willConnolly__ William Connolly’s twitter account has been suspended. Another case of #Twitter not knowing right from wrong. I don’t and will never condone violence but a little egging never killed anyone. | #Eggboy #FraserAnning #ChristchurchTerrorAttack
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The Algerian Cillian Murphy has been found. 😂
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wtf on dirait Cillian Murphy 😯😯😯😯
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@KXAN_News Oh look, another drag queen!
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@Rene_gadeCowboy Not exactly sure but it drank all your beer.
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@mikepompeo
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Tonight, we’re freely worshiping Jesus Christ and drinking Australian wine — two things that the CCP does not allow #FightForFreedom
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@colormejorge @EvilMopacATX “What? These guys are tripping out at Burning Man meanwhile I’m over here stranded at the Fyre Festival”. 🤣
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So true…
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"What I learned from the internet this week". | #MattTaylor http://t.co/eVK7vRrRmw
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@asherxloren Also, Selma Hayek is Arab-Latina; Lebanese-Mexican to be specific.
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Wrong guesses only…
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#Algerians are like the #Brazilians of football. We love football way too much, it invades every aspect of our culture and we are just as diverse as Brazil but that beautiful game unites us all. Same stuff but different continent: ⚽️ ❤️ | #Algeria #Brasil (photos are all Algeria)
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#OTD in 1990 we lost Stevie Ray Vaughan; one of the absolute guitar greats. #SRV only played for seven years but left a music legacy that will live on with us forever. #StevieRayVaughan performing Voodoo Child in #Austin , #Texas on October 10, 1989:
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@TheRealDeclanK1 @LoveIsland The best part is when she says “au français”; it should be “en français”. Gotta love it when people show off their own ignorance.
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@vixxsaranghaeyo @breezedagreat @RandaHabib Not necessarily. There are only a few materials that limit the transfer of bacteria and viruses. Oftentimes the companies that make burkinis only consider the coverage, and do not use the same anti-transmissive materials needed in a small area like a pool where germs are rampant.
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Bentley vs. Citroën 🤣🤣🤣
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L'équipe d'Algérie qui a battu l'Allemagne (RFA) en 1963. But marqué par Mahi, l'avant centre du GCMascara. @bylka613_
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@AmberM73626911 @LittleMissFlint Peanuts don’t grow anywhere in the Middle East.
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