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MiMi Aye
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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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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 15h
Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.
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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 11h
I love my local offy. You already feel drunk before you even step into the premises.
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 23h
This Saturday!

Come say hello and if you bring or buy a copy of #MandalayBook I’ll draw you a picture too! x
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 13d
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!

I'm taking part in a panel with other women food writers for this year's South East London BookFest.

Come join us at 2pm on Sat 18 Oct!

l'll be alongside Romy Gill,
Pary Baban from Nandine, @foodstories.bsky.social and
The Flygerians!

Free tickets here! 🎟️ tiny.cc/food
A collage of the bright yellow cover of my book ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’, me in a burgundy ‘Original Beef of Chicagoland’ T-shirt (from the tv show The Bear), holding a plate full of Tokyo Disneyland cakes, the poster for the SE London BookFest, and the area around Corner Corner (between Canada Water and Surrey Quays) which is where our panel will be.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 13h
RIP legendary illustrator Drew Struzan.
US one sheet: The Thing US one sheet: Back to the Future US one sheet: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom US one sheet: Return of the Jedi
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 13h
You’ve sold out already! 🥰
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Chris Roberts @oneeyegrey.bsky.social · 23h
good luck with that I'm doing walk around Peckham Rye Park earlier in day.
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The South-East London BookFest
The South-East London BookFest – About the festival The SE London BookFest is a book festival in south-east London which supports local food banks.  There are 3...
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 23h
Love it!
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 23h
Your new profile picture is excellent
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 23h
This Saturday!

Come say hello and if you bring or buy a copy of #MandalayBook I’ll draw you a picture too! x
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 13d
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!

I'm taking part in a panel with other women food writers for this year's South East London BookFest.

Come join us at 2pm on Sat 18 Oct!

l'll be alongside Romy Gill,
Pary Baban from Nandine, @foodstories.bsky.social and
The Flygerians!

Free tickets here! 🎟️ tiny.cc/food
A collage of the bright yellow cover of my book ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’, me in a burgundy ‘Original Beef of Chicagoland’ T-shirt (from the tv show The Bear), holding a plate full of Tokyo Disneyland cakes, the poster for the SE London BookFest, and the area around Corner Corner (between Canada Water and Surrey Quays) which is where our panel will be.
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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d
I mean, he needs to be one of the people in the photo who brought ’peace’ to the Middle East. Otherwise the only thing he’s going to be remembered for are images of children dismembered by Western bombs or starved to death, alongside the clip of him saying ‘Israel has that right’.
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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d
Between this and Trump’s master bitch move of forgetting his name in front of everyone, even the one thing he liked is yanked away from him. Hope it was all worth it, Son Of Toolmaker!
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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not a new observation that the only bit of being PM Kieth likes is the photo ops on the world stage, looking like the big man etc. it is incredibly funny that they won’t even give him that now, just humiliating him, grinding him into dust in front of the press.
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M @kansappa.bsky.social · 1d
It's like where's the wally
Picture of world leaders stood in a line behind a huge sign that reads peace 2025, starmers head is barely visible poking up at the back
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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23
Using ChatGPT
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Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 3d
and I feel fine
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jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 4d
Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015
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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 3d
Get one of these beauties
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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 2d
While junta intensifies attacks ahead of its sham election, Myanmar’s people—backed by local civil society groups—continue building a just, federal democracy from the ground up.

Intl community must reject junta sham election & support people-led change.✊

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Resilience in the Face of Tyranny - Progressive Voice
While the Myanmar military junta relentlessly attacks civilians in pursuit of gaining territorial and administrative control, the people remain steadfast in their determination to pursue a peaceful po...
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 2d
the worst thing about protests is you're reminded of this guy's existence as he torturously tries to categorise a Big Bird costume as a dastardly antifa weapon
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d
“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”
Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 2d
I actually wrote about the David and Goliath dynamic in Myanmar here.

It’s why you can’t really call it a civil war - it’s still so imbalanced.

time.com/5953413/myan...

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Quote from the piece I wrote for TIME entitled “Revolutions Are Built on Hope. That’s Why I Believe Myanmar’s Protesters Will Succeed”: One slogan of the Civil Disobedience Movement is “You Messed with the Wrong Generation” and this feels like a truth. Whenever the Tatmadaw strikes, the people rise again like the traditional Burmese balance doll, the Pyit Tine Htaung, another symbol of the movement. The Tatmadaw is a twisted and archaic Goliath and, despite their lack of firepower I do believe that this time the Burmese people—who, like David, are literally armed with catapults—will win and topple the dictatorship once and for all.
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 2d
Yep, the catapult a traditional weapon which everyone grew up with in Burma/Myanmar and has been used by the resistance against the firepower of the military junta
A group of Burmese people about to fire catapults - image from the on the ground resistance in Myanmar
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 2d
Looking at this in daylight - whoops, that’s meant to be a sheaf of paddy (rice), not padauk.

Appeared on previous iterations of the Burmese flag - Myanmar used to the ricebowl of Asia.

Video says it’s a tribute to the hardworking farmers who feed the nation.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 2d
It’s the standard weapon of choice, so crops up in a lot of folk tales.
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 2d
Mainly a farm tool, though the hammer and sickle was briefly used on the flag of an anti-colonial, nationalist group in the 1930s.
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 2d
I actually wrote about the David and Goliath dynamic in Myanmar here.

It’s why you can’t really call it a civil war - it’s still so imbalanced.

time.com/5953413/myan...

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Quote from the piece I wrote for TIME entitled “Revolutions Are Built on Hope. That’s Why I Believe Myanmar’s Protesters Will Succeed”: One slogan of the Civil Disobedience Movement is “You Messed with the Wrong Generation” and this feels like a truth. Whenever the Tatmadaw strikes, the people rise again like the traditional Burmese balance doll, the Pyit Tine Htaung, another symbol of the movement. The Tatmadaw is a twisted and archaic Goliath and, despite their lack of firepower I do believe that this time the Burmese people—who, like David, are literally armed with catapults—will win and topple the dictatorship once and for all.
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