MiMi Aye
@meemalee.bsky.social
One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this).
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
https://linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MandalayBook
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
https://linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MandalayBook
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MiMi Aye
@meemalee.bsky.social
· May 4
Takeover: MiMi Aye
One of 'the coolest woman in food' and author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen
open.substack.com
SUNDAY READING:
Anna Jones invited me to take over her newsletter to talk about my beloved Mandalay, give my recommendations for what to watch, read, buy and more, and to share my recipe for the irresistible Burmese charred tomato salsa known as Pan Htway Pyaw 🇲🇲❤️
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Anna Jones invited me to take over her newsletter to talk about my beloved Mandalay, give my recommendations for what to watch, read, buy and more, and to share my recipe for the irresistible Burmese charred tomato salsa known as Pan Htway Pyaw 🇲🇲❤️
open.substack.com/pub/annajone...
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Great piece on Tortoise’s matinee gig at the Barbican by John Mulvey.
Kind of wish I’d gone to both shows now!
Kind of wish I’d gone to both shows now!
I wrote about a couple of excellent gigs by Tortoise and SML @intlanthem.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Tortoise Live In London Review: Genre-Defying Explorers Return
Chicago’s post-everything masters reassert their powers at first London show in nine years, while LA quintet SML show how much they’ve learned from them.
www.mojo4music.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Great piece on Tortoise’s matinee gig at the Barbican by John Mulvey.
Kind of wish I’d gone to both shows now!
Kind of wish I’d gone to both shows now!
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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I contain (musical) multitudes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I contain (musical) multitudes.
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I totally love this! Absolutely delighted for you.
Saw the Tortoise matinee show on Saturday and it was almost as good as your duck egg curry recipe. Almost 😋
Saw the Tortoise matinee show on Saturday and it was almost as good as your duck egg curry recipe. Almost 😋
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I totally love this! Absolutely delighted for you.
Saw the Tortoise matinee show on Saturday and it was almost as good as your duck egg curry recipe. Almost 😋
Saw the Tortoise matinee show on Saturday and it was almost as good as your duck egg curry recipe. Almost 😋
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Happiest thing though:
I got to give a copy of #MandalayBook to @johnherndon.bsky.social 🥰
We’ve been online pals for over a decade now, but I wrote Mandalay after the last time I saw Tortoise - and I acknowledged them in the book!
I drew him a little tortoise of course 🐢
I got to give a copy of #MandalayBook to @johnherndon.bsky.social 🥰
We’ve been online pals for over a decade now, but I wrote Mandalay after the last time I saw Tortoise - and I acknowledged them in the book!
I drew him a little tortoise of course 🐢
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happiest thing though:
I got to give a copy of #MandalayBook to @johnherndon.bsky.social 🥰
We’ve been online pals for over a decade now, but I wrote Mandalay after the last time I saw Tortoise - and I acknowledged them in the book!
I drew him a little tortoise of course 🐢
I got to give a copy of #MandalayBook to @johnherndon.bsky.social 🥰
We’ve been online pals for over a decade now, but I wrote Mandalay after the last time I saw Tortoise - and I acknowledged them in the book!
I drew him a little tortoise of course 🐢
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Marta Sofia Honer and Jeremiah Chiu provided excellent support to Tortoise last night, with a beautiful, dreamy set ✨
@intlanthem.bsky.social
@intlanthem.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Marta Sofia Honer and Jeremiah Chiu provided excellent support to Tortoise last night, with a beautiful, dreamy set ✨
@intlanthem.bsky.social
@intlanthem.bsky.social
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The kind of show worth waiting (nearly) a decade for.
Tortoise at the Barbican, playing tracks from their stunning new album Touch, as well as beloved songs from their back catalogue.
Tortoise are the best live band I have *ever* seen and I have been to a *lot* of gigs.
@intlanthem.bsky.social
Tortoise at the Barbican, playing tracks from their stunning new album Touch, as well as beloved songs from their back catalogue.
Tortoise are the best live band I have *ever* seen and I have been to a *lot* of gigs.
@intlanthem.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The kind of show worth waiting (nearly) a decade for.
Tortoise at the Barbican, playing tracks from their stunning new album Touch, as well as beloved songs from their back catalogue.
Tortoise are the best live band I have *ever* seen and I have been to a *lot* of gigs.
@intlanthem.bsky.social
Tortoise at the Barbican, playing tracks from their stunning new album Touch, as well as beloved songs from their back catalogue.
Tortoise are the best live band I have *ever* seen and I have been to a *lot* of gigs.
@intlanthem.bsky.social
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just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
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sorry, did we all already know that luis guzman has a line of maple lemonade drinks called Guz Jus?
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
sorry, did we all already know that luis guzman has a line of maple lemonade drinks called Guz Jus?
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this was miss norway in the “national costume” portion of the miss universe pageant and pleased as i am that miss mexico won i may need a recount
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
this was miss norway in the “national costume” portion of the miss universe pageant and pleased as i am that miss mexico won i may need a recount
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During my tween/early-teen magic phase, I went to see a Penn and Teller show and chatted with them after. I asked their advice about being a magician.
Teller gave me a long, thoughtful answer about study and perseverance.
Penn said if I was interested in girls, quit magic and learn guitar.
Teller gave me a long, thoughtful answer about study and perseverance.
Penn said if I was interested in girls, quit magic and learn guitar.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
During my tween/early-teen magic phase, I went to see a Penn and Teller show and chatted with them after. I asked their advice about being a magician.
Teller gave me a long, thoughtful answer about study and perseverance.
Penn said if I was interested in girls, quit magic and learn guitar.
Teller gave me a long, thoughtful answer about study and perseverance.
Penn said if I was interested in girls, quit magic and learn guitar.
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This has been where I'm at lately also. It's getting harder to tell what is and isn't AI (sometimes) and it sucks having to meet every new with mistrust rather than the joy of discovery.
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This has been where I'm at lately also. It's getting harder to tell what is and isn't AI (sometimes) and it sucks having to meet every new with mistrust rather than the joy of discovery.
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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In two weeks is the 36th anniversary of the day a man walked into an engineering school at a Canadian university and slaughtered 14 people because they had the audacity of "giving his spot" to a woman.
Fuck your feelings, fellas.
Fuck your feelings, fellas.
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In two weeks is the 36th anniversary of the day a man walked into an engineering school at a Canadian university and slaughtered 14 people because they had the audacity of "giving his spot" to a woman.
Fuck your feelings, fellas.
Fuck your feelings, fellas.
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I saw tortoise in a tent in Belgium having never heard of them and spaced out*. It was incredible.
* I don't think I was passively smoking weed, although it was a music festival near the Netherlands so I cannot guarantee it 🤣
* I don't think I was passively smoking weed, although it was a music festival near the Netherlands so I cannot guarantee it 🤣
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I saw tortoise in a tent in Belgium having never heard of them and spaced out*. It was incredible.
* I don't think I was passively smoking weed, although it was a music festival near the Netherlands so I cannot guarantee it 🤣
* I don't think I was passively smoking weed, although it was a music festival near the Netherlands so I cannot guarantee it 🤣
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Youth pastor voice: You know who else is never gonna give you up?
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinkin' of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinkin' of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Youth pastor voice: You know who else is never gonna give you up?
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On Myanmar itself "Mohinga Matters" published a strong piece that condemns the silence of many over the targeting of Rohingya by the Arakan Army & calls for principled approach to human rights violations by all who work towards a federal democracy.
mohingamatters.com/2025/11/22/s...
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mohingamatters.com/2025/11/22/s...
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Standing against Genocide… conditionally – Mohinga Matters
mohingamatters.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
On Myanmar itself "Mohinga Matters" published a strong piece that condemns the silence of many over the targeting of Rohingya by the Arakan Army & calls for principled approach to human rights violations by all who work towards a federal democracy.
mohingamatters.com/2025/11/22/s...
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mohingamatters.com/2025/11/22/s...
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chocolate banana bread baby bundt, anyone? *squee*
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
chocolate banana bread baby bundt, anyone? *squee*
I contain (musical) multitudes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I contain (musical) multitudes.
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This reminds me: I also had a (mini) stroke a few years back, and one incident increases the odds other being another. So, please keep an eye out for these warning signs with me (or anyone else you might know know): www.cdc.gov/stroke/signs...
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This reminds me: I also had a (mini) stroke a few years back, and one incident increases the odds other being another. So, please keep an eye out for these warning signs with me (or anyone else you might know know): www.cdc.gov/stroke/signs...
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Watched Total Recall for the first time in a while. Remember when every actor in a movie had a face?
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Watched Total Recall for the first time in a while. Remember when every actor in a movie had a face?
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People know exactly what‘s going on.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
People know exactly what‘s going on.
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Maybe this is more a British thing but I’m late Gen X and most of my peers agreed with Ben.
I actually liked the Beatles as well as Pixies and got mocked for it.
I actually liked the Beatles as well as Pixies and got mocked for it.
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Maybe this is more a British thing but I’m late Gen X and most of my peers agreed with Ben.
I actually liked the Beatles as well as Pixies and got mocked for it.
I actually liked the Beatles as well as Pixies and got mocked for it.