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MiMi Aye
@meemalee.bsky.social
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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
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · May 4
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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Takeover: MiMi Aye
One of 'the coolest woman in food' and author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen
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geoliminal.bsky.social
need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...
"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)
YouTube video by Archive Media Vault
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November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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lizzslockeroom.bsky.social
Remembering Chadwick Boseman on his birthday (November 29, 1976– August 28, 2020)💙🕊️
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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cabel.panic.com
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"
an ad for the new series “welcome to derry” with the tagline “go back to where IT all began“, except somehow, they highlighted the word “to“ instead of “it“
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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dansolomon.com
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
roryblank.bsky.social Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 7h
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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ladyjenpool.bsky.social
Did you know that letters mailed to Santa go on the USPS Operation Santa page where you can read them, adopt one and send them their wished for gift? (Anonymity is protected all around) www.uspsoperationsanta.com
USPS Operation Santa® Program
Adopt a child's letter to Santa this holiday season with the USPS Operation Santa® program. Spread holiday cheer and help make a child's holiday wish come true.
www.uspsoperationsanta.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
Newspaper headline saying “White comedy man gets 15th 2nd chance” next to a picture of a white man looking like He’s Really Learnt His Lesson This Time
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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justiceformyanmar.org
“Governments lending any credibility to these polls would signal a complete lack of support for rights-respecting civilian democratic rule in Myanmar.” 🎙️ @elainepearson.bsky.social @hrw.org

#RejectShamElection ✊🏽 #Myanmar
Myanmar: Elections a Fraudulent Claim for Credibility
Foreign governments should reject the Myanmar junta’s plans to hold elections from late December 2025 through January 2026 because they will not be free, fair, or inclusive.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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justiceformyanmar.org
Whoever you are, wherever you are, join the fight to end impunity. 🪧✊🏽

❌ Boycott biz tied to military
💰 Pressure companies to cut ties
🏦 Call on banks & pension funds to divest from military linked biz
✈️ Demand gov'ts impose targeted sanctions

Together, we can dismantle the #Myanmar military cartel
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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priver.dev
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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riversidewings.bsky.social
There's a lot of "so wild you'd think it's fake" factoids to come out of the late Edo period in Japan, but one of my favorites is that the first English biographer of Yoshida Shōin, teacher of many future Meiji oligarchs, was Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island.
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
incredible quote lol
When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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bwianair.bsky.social
On a Bourdain kick for a bit, reading the reissue of Les Halles Cookbook and watching the Myanmar episode of Parts Unknown where he's listening to people. Always brings me back to @meemalee.bsky.social 's piece about him after he died.

london.eater.com/2018/6/15/17...
What Anthony Bourdain Meant for Cuisines Othered by So Many
“Here was someone who had made an effort to understand what was going on around him.”
london.eater.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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dorothy-porker.com
Are there a lot of other recipes I want to make from @meemalee.bsky.social 's Mandalay? Yes! Am I making the aubergine pansticker curry again? Also yes!

A version of the recipe exists online: chetnamakan.co.uk/aubergine-pa...
Aubergine Pan-Sticker Curry – Chetna Makan
chetnamakan.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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jaywillis.net
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
Lopez Belloza made it through security but was stopped as she was about to board the plane, Pomerleau said. "They wouldn't tell her why she was being detained. She didn't understand it at all," Pomerleau said. She was then taken to the Burlington ICE field office, then flown to Texas, Pomerleau said. The Department of Homeland Security and Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents' house and called her father.
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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feenavan2099.bsky.social
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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chrismohney.bsky.social
really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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mtacalendar.bsky.social
Lastly... We see the Trump admin has announced not extending Temporary Protected Status for Myanmar refugees (& Haitians) & blocking entry to new arrivals (from many countries)

Myanmar allies have this petition up:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

& our solidarity with all effected
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Tell President Trump to extend protections for Burmese refugees
Burmese refugees deserve our protection
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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mtacalendar.bsky.social
Then Myanmar Diaspora held another protest earlier this week, Here is a video snippet of part of one of the speeches.
"We stand with the oppressed. We stand for democracy. We stand for a free Myanmar"
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November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
meemalee.bsky.social
Today was hard, but also lovely 🤍
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social
Anyway, it's Friday so have a video of Sweep singing a bit of Mulder and Scully by Catatonia from the old Harry Hill show:
November 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Y’ALL.

You should celebrate by buying a special bundle of AMERICA, MSG and BEANS from Pit Magazine!

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A bundle of 3 issues of Pit Magazine for the bargain price of £20 - MSG, America and Beans The America issue of Pit Magazine guest-edited by Tim Anderson and Anna Ansari A tweet from Nigella Lawson @Nigella_Lawson: I absolutely love this special MSG issue of @PitmagazineUK guest-edited by the MSG Queen herself @meemalee. And congratulations to the art director/designer and all contributors too. Truly a collector's piece. A post in a Facebook group called ‘This is violently American’ which shows a photo of a hand holding a packet of Ajinomoto MSG labelled ‘Product of USA’ over a pile of crispy streaky bacon buried in lots of MSG. The caption to the photo says ‘I like to put LOTS of MSG on good thick bacon. And somehow it feels fucking *patriotic*!!!’ Someone has quoted this post saying ‘Surely this is cultural appropriation’.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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strongmisgiving.bsky.social
I do not, in any way, believe this is one of the first things you learn as a child in Italy
One of the first things you learn as a child in Italy is that you’re supposed to let some air into a moka pot – pressing down the coffee grounds creates the opposite effect. The coffee sometimes spills out with Hamad’s method, but when I make coffee that doesn’t happen, which shows you my technique is the right one.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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reactiveashley.bsky.social
1/🧵 My friends in Hong Kong are furious about reports suggesting that bamboo scaffolding contributed to the massive fire there. One of them, a well-connected lobbyist, has even been messaging journalists to request corrections and has publicly called the coverage orientalist.
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM