Aimai
@aimaiami.bsky.social
Social worker, therapist, all around sardonic person. Largely unknown but I take up a lot of space in my own mind.
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Aimai
@aimaiami.bsky.social
· Jan 3
The Melians protested…[and] the Athenian general replied: ‘you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.’
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Love these small country houses from the train window 🥹
#watercolor #aquarell #watercolorart #watercolorsketch #artshare #artsky #traditionalart #painting #watercolorpainting #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketchers #aquarelle #aquarela #art #winter #acuarela #landscape #travel #travelsketch
#watercolor #aquarell #watercolorart #watercolorsketch #artshare #artsky #traditionalart #painting #watercolorpainting #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketchers #aquarelle #aquarela #art #winter #acuarela #landscape #travel #travelsketch
February 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Love these small country houses from the train window 🥹
#watercolor #aquarell #watercolorart #watercolorsketch #artshare #artsky #traditionalart #painting #watercolorpainting #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketchers #aquarelle #aquarela #art #winter #acuarela #landscape #travel #travelsketch
#watercolor #aquarell #watercolorart #watercolorsketch #artshare #artsky #traditionalart #painting #watercolorpainting #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketchers #aquarelle #aquarela #art #winter #acuarela #landscape #travel #travelsketch
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This is the part that gets me too.
Incompetent white men with decent vocabularies talk WILD to folks of actual skill and craft.
The hostility alleged adults have towards expertise is astonishing to behold.
These folks really hate knowledge that we have and they don't.
Incompetent white men with decent vocabularies talk WILD to folks of actual skill and craft.
The hostility alleged adults have towards expertise is astonishing to behold.
These folks really hate knowledge that we have and they don't.
I see on a regular basis how white hetcis men are championed for being geniuses for saying things that sound complicated or hard to understand and how Black people, especially Black women, are treated like we are totally incompetent when we talk about complex things and ask people to sit and think
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
This is the part that gets me too.
Incompetent white men with decent vocabularies talk WILD to folks of actual skill and craft.
The hostility alleged adults have towards expertise is astonishing to behold.
These folks really hate knowledge that we have and they don't.
Incompetent white men with decent vocabularies talk WILD to folks of actual skill and craft.
The hostility alleged adults have towards expertise is astonishing to behold.
These folks really hate knowledge that we have and they don't.
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Tyranny at its purest evil
Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison
Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to more than seven more years in prison, as Tehran's foreign minister strikes a hard-line tone against U.S. threats of military force.
www.latimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Tyranny at its purest evil
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We are surrounded by criminals, and too many of them are old, rich guys who’ve never faced consequences.
Power has insulated them for decades, and they’re counting on each other to keep it that way.
Impunity isn’t accidental.
It’s designed.
Power has insulated them for decades, and they’re counting on each other to keep it that way.
Impunity isn’t accidental.
It’s designed.
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
We are surrounded by criminals, and too many of them are old, rich guys who’ve never faced consequences.
Power has insulated them for decades, and they’re counting on each other to keep it that way.
Impunity isn’t accidental.
It’s designed.
Power has insulated them for decades, and they’re counting on each other to keep it that way.
Impunity isn’t accidental.
It’s designed.
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This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
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OPINION: "Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1932 at age 68. More than eight decades later, the New York Times included her in its “Overlooked” obit series on historical figures whose deaths had gone unreported by the Times," Richard Campbell writes.
Opinion | Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Richard Campbell writes about how Ida B. Wells paved the way for civil-rights activists who came after her.
buff.ly
February 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
OPINION: "Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1932 at age 68. More than eight decades later, the New York Times included her in its “Overlooked” obit series on historical figures whose deaths had gone unreported by the Times," Richard Campbell writes.
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Take the less than five minutes to do this. If not for all the nurses out there, than do it for yourself because you’re going to need one at some point whether you want to or not.
In December, I told you about how Trump’s Department of Education is stripping nurses of our professional status and making school more expensive.
From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
February 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Take the less than five minutes to do this. If not for all the nurses out there, than do it for yourself because you’re going to need one at some point whether you want to or not.
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One of my favorite novels and movies, the movie is cool and you should watch it partly because Herbie Hancock did the soundtrack. The novel is great for one of the most visceral passages I’ve seen written about the exploitation of Black people as seen through pawn shops later targeted in an uprising
If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
One of my favorite novels and movies, the movie is cool and you should watch it partly because Herbie Hancock did the soundtrack. The novel is great for one of the most visceral passages I’ve seen written about the exploitation of Black people as seen through pawn shops later targeted in an uprising
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Spot on, from @petridishes.bsky.social: "For a while...we, as a nation, thought to ourselves: Life is too short for everyone to inspect their own food. Let the government handle this. But then along came the Trump administration to wonder: What if we didn’t?"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Spot on, from @petridishes.bsky.social: "For a while...we, as a nation, thought to ourselves: Life is too short for everyone to inspect their own food. Let the government handle this. But then along came the Trump administration to wonder: What if we didn’t?"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Daisy Turner died #OTD in 1988 at age 104. Daughter of freed slaves, she became famous late in life for her oral recordings of her family's history.
An amazing storyteller, here she recounts stories about her father, born a slave on a Virginia plantation: exchange.prx.org/series/16101... #BHM
An amazing storyteller, here she recounts stories about her father, born a slave on a Virginia plantation: exchange.prx.org/series/16101... #BHM
February 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Daisy Turner died #OTD in 1988 at age 104. Daughter of freed slaves, she became famous late in life for her oral recordings of her family's history.
An amazing storyteller, here she recounts stories about her father, born a slave on a Virginia plantation: exchange.prx.org/series/16101... #BHM
An amazing storyteller, here she recounts stories about her father, born a slave on a Virginia plantation: exchange.prx.org/series/16101... #BHM
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Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
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Pam Bondage Is Chump's
Ghislane Maxwell.......
Ghislane Maxwell.......
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Pam Bondage Is Chump's
Ghislane Maxwell.......
Ghislane Maxwell.......
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McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
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Key legislative elections are happening in Maine and Pennsylvania later this month. In both states, Democrats hold razor-thin majorities in the state Houses, and GOP upsets would affect the balance of power. Learn more:
The 20 Elections to Watch This February - Bolts
Democrats hold the narrowest of majorities in Maine and Pennsylvania’s state Houses. They now need to defend vacant seats to retain their edge in each through the end of the... Read More
boltsmag.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Key legislative elections are happening in Maine and Pennsylvania later this month. In both states, Democrats hold razor-thin majorities in the state Houses, and GOP upsets would affect the balance of power. Learn more:
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Poem for your Sunday 💕
The Lovers
Timothy Liu
—I was always afraid of the next card/
Forgive me
for not knowing how we were
every card in the deck.
The Lovers
Timothy Liu
—I was always afraid of the next card/
Forgive me
for not knowing how we were
every card in the deck.
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Poem for your Sunday 💕
The Lovers
Timothy Liu
—I was always afraid of the next card/
Forgive me
for not knowing how we were
every card in the deck.
The Lovers
Timothy Liu
—I was always afraid of the next card/
Forgive me
for not knowing how we were
every card in the deck.
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In deep-red Texas students organized a disciplined, courageous walkout against ICE. What unfolded was not chaos, but civic education in motion—teenagers asserting constitutional rights and solidarity in the face of institutional threats and political cruelty..
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/n...
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/n...
Students across North Texas walk out over ICE as state threatens consequences for districts
School leaders say they're navigating discipline, free‑speech rights, and new pressure from state officials.
www.cbsnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM
In deep-red Texas students organized a disciplined, courageous walkout against ICE. What unfolded was not chaos, but civic education in motion—teenagers asserting constitutional rights and solidarity in the face of institutional threats and political cruelty..
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/n...
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/n...
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#LiuYuning rumoured to sing the theme OST for upcoming drama #LoveBeyondTheGrave, starring #Dilraba and #ChenFeiyu.
He's also rumoured to attend #HelloSaturday, with both actors, on February 9th to record a promotional episode for the #cdrama.
He's also rumoured to attend #HelloSaturday, with both actors, on February 9th to record a promotional episode for the #cdrama.
February 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
#LiuYuning rumoured to sing the theme OST for upcoming drama #LoveBeyondTheGrave, starring #Dilraba and #ChenFeiyu.
He's also rumoured to attend #HelloSaturday, with both actors, on February 9th to record a promotional episode for the #cdrama.
He's also rumoured to attend #HelloSaturday, with both actors, on February 9th to record a promotional episode for the #cdrama.
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I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
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The mood in Minneapolis blended open defiance with unbridled compassion — the same sentiments I’ve encountered throughout Ukraine during four years of war. And as Putin learned about Ukrainians, Trump has discovered that Minnesotans will oppose the invaders and love their own with equal ferocity.
Welcome to Minneapolis, Ukraine
Under siege from invading forces, Minnesotans have shown a resolve best described as Ukrainian
martinkuz.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The mood in Minneapolis blended open defiance with unbridled compassion — the same sentiments I’ve encountered throughout Ukraine during four years of war. And as Putin learned about Ukrainians, Trump has discovered that Minnesotans will oppose the invaders and love their own with equal ferocity.
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I am not a lawyer, but arresting people for profanity on a sign seems like quite a flagrant violation of the First Amendment
Anti-ICE protesters arrested in Pearl River over use of profanity, resisting officers
Pearl River protesters debated whether curse words were protected by the First Amendment before they were arrested for using profanities at motorists and obstructing traffic.
www.nola.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:51 AM
I am not a lawyer, but arresting people for profanity on a sign seems like quite a flagrant violation of the First Amendment