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I was an acolyte in church for many years before I came to ordination as a priest and to become a nun and abbess of our tiny convent.

December 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

The Square Peg and The Round Hole Problem

If the round hole is big enough, every square peg will fit into it if the peg wants to. Not wanting to fit into this hole is ok. It still may be an uncomfortably cold hole and there may be a warmer on...

December 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Anarchism Chapter 4: Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie

Continuing the discussion with my brother about the book Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C.

December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

To Every Ukrainian Fighter

This is the message that I received and have been hearing from months. Don’t ask me what it means because I haven’t a clue.

December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Ukraine: Sent to My Legislators

I’ve been trying to find the words to say how I feel about recent events in Ukraine. My dismay at the Trump/Putin demands upon a small and terribly traumatised country that can only be described as bu...

November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

I stand with Ukraine. Tomorrow we remember the victims of the Holodomor. Putin is attempting the very same genocide that Stalin did in those days of horror. I call upon all my legislators to oppose...

Charuko 茶流子 (@charuko)

November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Anarchism Chapter 3: The Production of Human Beings

Continuing the discussion with my brother about the book Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C.

November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Anarchism Chapter 2: Vernacular Order, Official Order

Continuing the discussion with my brother about the book Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C.

November 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

I found this video and it sparked an idea. If it works for children, why not adults as well?

Safe Ground

November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

The arguments against transgender women in women’s sports compare qualities of cisgender men to cisgender women and expect that those cisgender male qualities are present in transgender women. It’s an...

Transgender Athletes

November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

SNAP, EBT and Timing

I have this prediction:

November 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

I’m conversing with my brother as we review Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C.

Anarchism

November 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Remember, Remember

Remember, remember

November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

In our house, we celebrate Los Dias de Los Muertos, Samhain and Guy Faulks Day. For us, the Days of the Dead is a three day celebration of included our beloved passed with an ofrenda lain joyfully wit...

Ghosties and Ghoulies

October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

There’s a consumer strike scheduled in 25 November through 2 December where everyone is withholding their money and refusing to buy anything, nothing in the store, nothing online, nothing anywhere.

Consumer Strike

October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Shutdown Letter 28 October 2025

Dear Senator/Representative

October 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

The Trump regime is causing a lot of people to emigrate to other countries to escape the oppression of the United States. Some of us can’t. We lack the resources or we have responsibilities that we ca...

Leaving in Place

October 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

No Kings for the Seventh Generation

I’m writing this three days after the Second No Kings Rally that happened on Eighteen October Twenty Twenty Five. Yes, I spelled it out because it’s a great day of hope and the coming together of peop...

October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

I have at my bedside a copy of the Constitution of the United States of America. It’s one that was printed and distributed by the American Civil Liberties Union of which I’m a member. When I was at un...

Constitutional Evolution

September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

In this time of turmoil our population has forgotten this motto of our nation:

E Pluribus Unum

September 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

What is This Badge That You Wear?

The answer: “She who knows will not tell.

September 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Being an Angry Transgender Woman (Edited)

This morning, 27 August 2025, a transgender woman took a gun and shot into a Catholic church killing and injuring children who were at Morning Mass. it was a horrendous and unforgivable act of violenc...

August 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Dear Sharrod Brown

Dear Senator Brown

August 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM

Charuko Nakamachi 中町茶流子

@ainasdottir.bsky.social

Dear Sharrod Brown

Dear Senator Brown