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Aimai

@aimaiami.bsky.social
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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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🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 3h
They just don't care.
Drawing of a woman standing - head bowed -  in front of a row of men - behind a long desk with papers in front of them.
One man is saying: "It's not that we don't believe your story, it's that we don't care."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1h
I don’t like where this is headed. Hegseth thinks war is a fucking game.
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Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 47m
Flight of ideas, it’s called.
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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 2h
Cornell University’s TimTok page is brutal There are 40k comments on their page. And MAGA CULT SLAYER just posted this one 🤣
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 4h
Grasshopper Figure carved hematite c. 1800-1700 BC Old Babylonian culture Babylon #handmade #carved #hematite #grasshopper #art #sculpture #ancientsculpture #ancientart #Babylonia #culture #Babylon #EuphratesRiver #nature #beauty #ancientBabylonia #fertility #omen #astrology #locusts #foodsource
In ancient Babylonia and the broader Mesopotamian culture, grasshoppers (and their swarming phase, locusts) held a multi-layered, dual meaning. They represented both a positive symbol of fertility and abundance and a destructive force of nature used in divination and dietary sustenance.
In their solitary, non-destructive form, grasshoppers were viewed by Babylonians as symbols of the natural cycle, fertility, and abundance. Because they appeared in large numbers during agricultural cycles, they were tied to the life-giving forces of the earth.
This famous example is a beautifully detailed, nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian stone weight carved from hematite in the shape of a grasshopper (c. 1800–1700 BCE). Used in markets for fair trade transactions, the grasshopper shape on the weight likely invoked blessings of agricultural prosperity and nature.
When solitary grasshoppers crowded together and transformed into swarming locusts, their meaning shifted drastically. To the Babylonians, a locust swarm was a catastrophic event that could strip fields bare and cause widespread famine.
Babylonians were deeply invested in astrology and divination. Grasshopper and locust behavior was carefully documented in cuneiform omen series (such as the Šumma Ālu). A swarm of grasshoppers appearing in a specific city or flying in a particular direction was interpreted as a direct message or warning from the gods, usually predicting economic ruin, military invasion, or divine displeasure.
Despite the threat they posed to crops, grasshoppers were heavily utilized by Babylonians in daily practical life.
Babylonians actively harvested locusts and grasshoppers for food. Cuneiform records show that mass amounts of these insects were caught, preserved in brine, and transported over hundreds of kilometers to be eaten as a protein-rich delicacy or everyday staple.
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Shannon Minter @shannonminter5.bsky.social · 8h
Light dawns slowly over the whole
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13h
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · 11h
Last night was biscuit week on the #BakeOff, so we had to take a look through the collections portal to see if we could find any biscuits, and we weren't disappointed! This Biddenden cake is a 103-year-old biscuit featuring Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, a pair of conjoined twins from the 1100s. #GBBO
Three once identical rectangular biscuits featuring a raised design of two women standing side-by-side in Elizabethan dresses. Above them are the words "ELIS AND MARY" and "CHULKHURST", whilst "BIDDENDEN" appears below.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 8h
Experimental when it's time to pay taxes.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h
A disabled Downey resident was detained Tuesday shortly before 10 a.m. by masked individuals during what appeared to be a federal immigration operation near Smallwood Avenue and 4th Street.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
Please read this piece from @lyz.bsky.social.
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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 13h
What Was in Your Pocket When You Died? What do a pierced coin, a lock of human hair, a saint worn smooth from touch, a lover’s name carved into silver and a lucky charm carried into war have in common? Someone once refused to leave home without them.
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What Was in Your Pocket When You Died?
Love, Luck, God, Grief and the Tiny Things We Refused to Leave Behind
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Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 7h
Horrifying and enraging. I can’t believe the exceptions that are made for white women (and men) engaged in dangerous practices like selling raw milk. The excuses, the avoidance of fines or criminal liability, are just astounding.
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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 7h
These New England immigrants arrived legally. Now, thousands will lose Medicaid benefits. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/m...
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These New England immigrants arrived legally. Now, thousands will lose Medicaid benefits. - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts alone, 7,300 people are expected to lose access to full Medicaid coverage Thursday.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 11h
"Reading literature enables you to enter the depths of another human being." Han Kang recd. the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." 1st Asian woman to win this prestigious literary award. #books
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h
Go For It Ladies.......
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 20h
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has proposed 12 new public toilets throughout Seattle so people have to confidence to go out and play in this beautiful city in comfort. It's going to make the streets cleaner as well. Good job, Katie! Two big thumbs up from this Seattle native!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
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Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15h
"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
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Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 10h
This Zapotec ceramic artifact features a face split longitudinally to represent life and death. It encapsulates the ancient Mesoamerican concept of duality: life-death, day-night, rain-dry; not necessarily conflict, but complementary balance. The piece was found in Soyaltepec, Oaxaca, 500-800 CE.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10h
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10h
THE POLICE GAVE UP At 5am this morning, after over 150 arrests on terrorism charges and a stand off that lasted over 16 hours, Mersey Police left a group of eight people outside the Labour Party Conference still displaying their “terrorist” signs. defendourjuries.net/press-releases (27/09/26)
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Send him in crate. We are the shithole nation. Us.
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 19h
you had one job, heroin. One. Motherfucking. Job.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wow they really got him
Senate Republicans account: UNEARTHED AUDIO: Abdul El-Sayed fought to protect illegals over Michiganders during COVID:

"Undocumented people are among the most vulnerable in our society, particularly during this pandemic... this pandemic has hit undocumented Americans hard."
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GeorgiaBlue @georgiablue.bsky.social · 20h
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roses, peonies, passion flower & more in a glass vase, plus ladybug crawling up table. And butterfly. All by Carstian Luyckx. It's been his day.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23h
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 23h
Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.
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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 22h
Cambridge educators rally for better pay, city council defers to school committee The sticking point for the teachers' union is starting pay for paraprofessionals. It hoped to see the FY27 budget amended....
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Cambridge educators rally for better pay, city council defers to school committee
The sticking point for the teachers' union is starting pay for paraprofessionals. It hoped to see the FY27 budget amended.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 29/09/2026
A group of local Seattle artists and cultural workers have drafted a letter to Mayor Wilson requesting that the city divert funds away from SPD and redirect it towards the arts. The main argument? Arts activations and cultural programming should be considered a form of public safety infrastructure.
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Why Can’t Seattle Fund the Arts Like It’s FIFA Every Year? - The Stranger
There’s a draft of an open letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council that’s been making the rounds on social media and racking up signatures over the past few days. The request: divert $8 million from SPD’s $68 million proposed budget increase and give that money to the arts. The reasoning? Art […]
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're announcing the arrest of Suleman Nasimi, a Queens dentist who stole over $300,000 from Medicaid by billing for hundreds of dental procedures he never performed. My office won't tolerate bad actors who put personal greed before patients.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23h
RFK Jr. alleges that he wants to focus on chronic disease and sideline infectious disease research, but the big dummy doesn’t care about the interplay between the two. A new study estimates that 12% of all cancer cases in 2024 were caused by infections, including H. pylori, HPV, HBV, and EBV.
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Global burden of cancer attributable to infections in 2024: a worldwide incidence analysis
Our findings highlight the importance of infection control to achieve cancer prevention. Scientifically proven, but often underused, approaches include HPV and HBV vaccination; testing and treatment o...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Multiply this by thousands
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Aimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the way. This is the only way, in fact. The right of female and female identifying and all other students to be safe from assault on campus or off campus needs to be taken seriously by the University.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🖌️ Paul Evans “Autumn Evening,” 2024 #art #painting #artist
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For decades we have been saying: maybe Democrats should run ads that simply quote Republicans saying horrible things about their own constituents. But Democratic consultants convinced Democrats that that would be too effective. So, this is validating to watch. Also, always hated false civility.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The people's occupation of Puerta del Sol in Madrid continues to grow in size and ferocity. They know the real invaders are not working class immigrants or people of color, but vulture funds, landlord parasites and transnational capitalists who drive workers from homes and suppress wages.
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