Ajimah

"Oh, but think of all the wonderful things you could do...for your country, for the world...you have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations." ---EverAfter

2026-06-27 15:51:56 UTC

"Our world is held together by agreements and our conversations about those agreements. If we want to live in a different world, we need to have different conversations." --- Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith via Envy McKee

2026-06-22 03:40:42 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/ec40cbd40c55f59bcb88d7bc1b7ea40fade370fab3a2e7af5d752a0962c7f022.jpg

2026-06-22 03:24:38 UTC

me: "I look like my mom"
@nprofile…79lj: "more like a wood fairy"
https://blossom.primal.net/118b0eeb322757f64f18691d5dcab9a9fdeda04ca214cf402fff2fc3f4d3109b.jpg

2026-06-15 23:51:50 UTC

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2026-06-07 21:45:05 UTC

"The gracious gift of God in philosophic knowledge, without which integral and final truth cannot be attained, cannot be a method of philosophy: it can be only a gift sent in recompense for the creative deed of knowing." -- Nicolas Berdyaev, The Meaning of the Creative Act

2026-06-03 03:16:10 UTC

@nprofile…ezph loved your facilitated discussion on race and population health at #fatschickenandwaffles. I will pick wildflowers for you any day. ❤️
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2026-05-30 22:17:41 UTC

"May the spirits of every pertinent direction take notice of their hearts' desire.
May the forces below pump strength into their feet --- that they walk the walk of their life, the walk that heals the wounded truth of their bellies and keeps the eyes of their memory open so they can grow
ni yang maru.
May the ancestral fuel burn in their spiritual veins and animate their souls with vision so they can hold hands ni yang maru.
As they walk toward their future,
May they wake up fast to the dialogue between the soul and the spirit.
And may they labor to clean the world from its paralyzing epidemic of soul-barrenness so that tomorrow our children can sing together in peace."
---Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community

2026-05-26 01:58:13 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/eac56b84c0295ded5573842213f9663c93375585b902a363d8106a45ec51bf79.webp

2026-05-26 01:57:54 UTC

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2026-05-26 01:56:49 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/03319c20e4336d6421716a66702fae04f3e882f844f73c702223131decbc491c.webp

2026-05-26 01:56:10 UTC

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2026-05-23 18:28:02 UTC

@nprofile…79lj you are awesome. I appreciate you. Thank you for this joy.
https://blossom.primal.net/0789602f8061529494673f650d53e6fe59545a42fac393fe475f7fe21ea9466f.jpg

2026-05-18 22:01:26 UTC

The future is bright. Today I learned from the youngins a bit of their genius: "touch grass."

2026-05-16 21:50:07 UTC

In the stillness (of things)
lies the expression of self
the echo from within
that's not about giving in
but breathing, knowing, feelin'
without reeling, to realize you're
all you'll ever need; it's a simple creed
and where love begins

2026-05-09 17:29:07 UTC

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/dbf8a138-aaf9-47e5-ad10-5c74ae95a8d2/episodes/a91d5e2b-4dc1-4d51-b4f5-b6452292b9b8/BEYOND-UX-DESIGNTHE-EXECUTION-TRAP-NOBODY-WARNS-YOU-ABOUT-WITH-CAT-LO

2026-04-29 22:55:54 UTC

"Playing is winning." -- Aditya

2026-04-25 23:19:18 UTC

"The work of saving the world and saving your soul are not two separate projects." -- Erica Williams Simon

2026-04-17 00:16:23 UTC

just beeee (yes, I know it's a wasp)
https://blossom.primal.net/b38adb9ad375a7fef8ef97d78d402148ef44552a33e88e27c43f02af2a5971de.mp4

2026-03-14 20:57:13 UTC

"It is a long long way
If you listen to your mind
It is a short short way
If you listen to your heart."
-- Mirko Udzenija

2026-03-06 00:54:07 UTC

"The important thing is not the fall, but the ability to get up boldly upon realizing that one has fallen." -- Malidoma Patrice Somé

2026-03-03 12:40:03 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/b1de36d152ad592fb9e9ec32334fb7ce82c60e0da3f9b6b9d14c8b4d54006754.mp4

2026-03-03 04:48:11 UTC

"May the joy, love, compassion, and equanimity of your healing heart bring peace and health to all sentient beings." -- Honshin

2026-02-26 15:44:34 UTC

#food #justice #dignity
Food, Justice, and Dignity: Move away from loss prevention to care
Retail and grocery stores in Seattle need a different approach to loss prevention. Policies and practices must shift from a deficit-model of preventing loss to creative approaches that prioritize food, justice, and dignity. This paradigm shift would center practices to ensure the freedom of movement, access, and acquisition of food and toiletries to facilitate the transformation of people’s health and well-being.
I’ve been racially profiled in retail and grocery stores in Seattle several times. I can attest that existing practices reproduce aspects of the prison industrial complex. There are overlapping layers of physical and tech-enabled surveillance. Employees become de facto food police, separate from third party security staff. In one instance, an employee reported me to on-site security as soon as I walked into the grocery store; a coordinated effort which resulted in security staff following, watching, and standing behind me as I waited in line to make a purchase. Another notable experience involved a person dressed in plain clothes, presumably staff from a contracted security firm. This person used the grocery store shopping cart to egregiously invade my personal space as I shopped and proceeded to follow me to other spaces in the store. To this day, I remain disturbed by this person’s actions.
Treating food and toiletries as assets that must be protected and prevented from being “lost” is damaging. It's a harmful application of capitalistic logic. What are we truly solving for when we live, work, and shop in the context of practices predicated on a scarcity mindset legitimized through dehumanizing surveillance? In the same way scholars and advocates argue violence begets violence, loss prevention predicated on racial profiling begets and perpetuates structural racism. In 2020, the American Public Health Association declared structural racism a public health crisis, noting the impact on Black communities, and that structural racism manifests in all our institutions. Retail and grocery stores are no exception. Criminologist Dr. Shaun Gabbidon published a study, Shopping While Black, calling out the understudied phenomena of consumer racial profiling and the harmful consequences of this practice.
Consider how we gradually chip away at our humanity when we center loss prevention and racially-biased practices. We should be inspired to care, not disrupt nor destroy people’s sense of dignity, worth, and psychological well-being. Here are three solutions to spark creative discussion and action. First, build relationships with your customers. Engage them, don’t surveil nor rely on tech to tell you who people are. Get to know the people that walk into stores, this includes contracted security staff; they shouldn’t be idle literal gate keepers.
Second, establish an economy of care. This means a) producing care in the form of in-house donation programs where customers can round up the cost of their retail and/or grocery bill to contribute to store “petty cash” or collective fund to subsidize or fully pay for others; b) initiate a conscious-shopping program where price labels for goods are affixed with a label that indicates whether a food or toiletry item purchase will add to a store’s collective fund to help others; c) create foodstuffs and toiletry packages that can be picked up weekly. The cost of these can be offset by shifting, in the spirit of equity, money spent on private security. A customer matching program could also help fund this; d) establish a mechanism for consuming care where people can come during specific hours/days of week to shop subsidized items and build a relationship with staff and private security; and finally, e) call in care where community members can contribute to the functioning and sustainability of care-based programs. Third, use restorative justice to respond to transgressions.
Food is a basic human right, as are toiletries for personal hygiene. Consumer racial profiling is harmful to those who do it, experience it, and witness it. It separates us from each other and our humanity. Everyone deserves frictionless access to food and toiletries and without having their dignity compromised. We’re all in this together and we need each other. That goes for everyone involved: staff, patrons, and contracted security personnel. We’re all people in need of a more dignified, loving system. Let’s do better and do right by each other, especially for those of us most in need.
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2026-02-21 04:57:30 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/aVfU0wljJbA

2026-02-14 01:14:44 UTC

"Becoming better lovers requires engaging with destructive emotions, rather than running from them." -- Tucker J. Gregor
https://theconversation.com/more-than-a-feeling-thinking-about-love-as-a-virtue-can-change-how-we-respond-to-hate-272330

2026-02-12 03:53:55 UTC

Food, Justice, Dignity.
You see someone who needs to be thwarted; I see someone who needs to eat.
You see someone who needs to be intimidated; I see someone who needs to maintain their hygiene (and perhaps that of others).
You see someone who needs to be surveilled; I see someone who needs energy to fuel their bodies or barter to meet other basic needs.
You see a thief, a nuisance; I see the living, walking, breathing manifestation of multidimensional poverty, asking to be recognized and loved and not for what they might take, but for the hope that they might eat.

2026-02-09 04:10:28 UTC

Bad Bunny @ 2026 Superbowl: The only thing more powerful than hate is LOVE.

2026-02-08 01:04:02 UTC

#TheyDrift | Carlos Aguilar
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2026-02-08 00:59:09 UTC

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2026-02-07 19:14:20 UTC

"people are hungry for truth...and this hunger for truth unites us." -- bell hooks
https://youtu.be/g2bmnwehlpA

2026-02-05 02:36:14 UTC

https://youtu.be/YYaArJpmpLU?si=Cr7Le2RW6G7fXFgO

2026-02-04 03:54:49 UTC

You are deeply and unconditionally loved

2026-02-01 21:22:57 UTC

- reply

And then there's this:
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2026-01-27 00:40:05 UTC

"Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you." -- David Whyte, Sweet Darkness

2026-01-26 03:04:15 UTC

Me to me: Have the courage and confidence to transform [ x ] through/by love -- activating love, being love. It's all love.

2026-01-25 02:36:57 UTC

"Language...is an instrument of distance from meaning, an unfortunate necessity that we can't live without but that is so hard to live with." -- Malidoma Patrice Somé, The Healing Wisdom of Africa

2026-01-24 23:05:25 UTC

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?" -- Mary Oliver

2026-01-23 04:06:10 UTC

"We should not scorn nor fear emotion. The challenge we face is to encourage an emotional richness and the feeling of sympathy as a base for a truly human education." -- Hiroyuki Itsuki, Tariki

2026-01-18 02:04:59 UTC

"We are a people who value the intellect more than feeling, worldly effectiveness more than personal relatedness, the capacity to make money more than the capacity to heal." --John A. Sanford, The Kingdom Within

2026-01-16 04:59:00 UTC

I must:
"So hold your head high. If you are feeling disheartened, that you are somehow not enough...set your heart ablaze. Dry your eyes and look ahead...the flow of time waits for no one" -- Rengoku, Demon Slayer, Mugen Train Arc

2026-01-16 00:07:22 UTC

Choices.
I cannot save every living, breathing thing
And for that, I feel such wretched guilt
But that knowing is also my salvation
Because I'm not meant to be a utility,
But beautiful.
And doesn't love ultimately save every living, breathing thing

2026-01-13 03:27:59 UTC

"Once we recognize our thoughts and feelings for what they are, they are no longer 'in the heart' but are brought out into the open." --John A. Sanford, The Kingdom Within

2026-01-11 22:39:58 UTC

...
when we are loved we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
--Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival (excerpt)

2026-01-11 22:34:22 UTC

"However once you find your voice you know that you can never be passively silent again. Your spur to creation is the desire to communicate. To have a meaningful exchange with other people in order to develop yourself and therefore your work even further." --Maud Sulter, A Portrait of the Artist as Poor, Black and a Woman

2026-01-08 04:11:08 UTC

A preface: "You could write your own. What a democratic idea. Each of us could write our own poem, our own proposal for peace, our own aphoristic meditation at the un-national monument, our own consolation, manifesto, blessing." -Kim Stafford

2026-01-06 02:55:13 UTC

Forgiveness can help close the loop (Mróz & Kaleta, 2023)

2026-01-04 22:08:47 UTC

"If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star..." -William Stafford, A Ritual to Read Each Other

2026-01-03 04:30:25 UTC

"... design patterns that introduce pause and reflection into digital interaction..." James O'Sullivan: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

2026-01-01 04:57:19 UTC

2025 NYE Reflection: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman, Luminous Darkness

2026-01-01 02:55:56 UTC

I know nostr = notes and other stuff transmitted by relays, but I like to think of it as nostr = north star. 😸