Ms. Que Banh

Family Caregiver. Eco/Social Justice Activist. Disability Advocate. Decolonizer. Accessibility Consultant. Eldercare Liason. Death Doula. Photographer.
Teochew Chinese & Indigenous Vietnamese.
War & Polio Survivor.
ND, AuDHD.
Cat lover. Gardener. Water/Forest protector.
GenX.
AnarchoSocialist.
Radical disabled leftie.
Yeller, at corrupt government, cops & corporations.

Vancouver Island, BC.

#AsianMastodon #StopEcocide #BeTheChange #ACAB #StopAbleism #DiversityInclusion #CovidSafety #DoxNazis

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2026-08-04 00:42:55 UTC

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I just want to say that addictions directly related to traumas don't usually follow this smooth line to recovery. Most of us wish it would but addiction is pretty irrational for the most part. Understanding that reality includes growing our own education, empathy & compassion for folks who struggle more than we do. I actually consider it a privilege that I'm only struggling with trying to quit cigarettes & not something much harsher. I do my best to not judge people struggling with bigger addictions & personal traumas.

2026-08-03 22:31:04 UTC

"People don't change."
That's a lie. I'm definitely not the same person that I was, 10 years ago. I don't even like the same stuff anymore; like pro sports, firearms, and even like different foods than a decade ago. I barely recognize my old self from my current self because of vast inner & outer changes.

2026-08-03 21:26:36 UTC

I have one personal self-medicating vice that I'd like some Fedi-friends supportive help with this year. When my Dad died & antimasking cops trespassed our home, in June of 2023, I started smoking cigarettes again, out of trauma response stress. I want to start another personal journey to quit smoking cigarettes again, this Autumn. I have chosen my start date of November 11th for very personal reasons (nothing to do with Remembrance Day).
To start to prepare for this, I'm being open about my personal struggle to quit cigarettes, again & make it stick, this time around. I would be open to hearing from others who have also started smoking again after a traumatic experience & have quit.

2026-05-12 02:33:08 UTC

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Please drop a link so I can read up on it. Thank you. We need to be able to talk about this kind of patriarchal bigotry, openly & honestly.
@npub1eqs…v0v9

2026-05-11 22:17:25 UTC

I am highly allergic to cowardly men, from all/every background. I especially have zero respect for cowardly white men, who grew up with many privileges that were never open to women like me. I'm angrier at non-white, cowardly men - who should/often do know better but still choose to not use their male privileges to do anything much to help non-white women/children who suffer under patriarchal crap. I'm angrier at them because they choose to protect their personal privileges over doing better for non-white folks with lesser privileges.
Men - it's your job to teach other men to brave the hell up, much more. They dismiss voices of women, almost all the time.
#patriarchy #misogyny #MalePrivilege #injustice #NoCowardMen #BraveUp #DoBetterMen

2026-05-08 17:15:47 UTC

If your form of anarchy excludes #PeopleWithDisabilities - I'd say you're not really an #anarchist at all.
#AntiAbleism

2026-04-17 03:21:56 UTC

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Thank you. Praying for the same.

2026-04-16 23:11:49 UTC

I've been tracking some rats since late last night. & found their lair, 3 houses away. It's by a disorderly compost area in backyard of a longtime group home. It's the same place I had helped to clear out 6 years ago, when they had exactly same problems with not managing their compost area & all surrounding backyards had rats coming in our yards. I left a note with a worker there about needing to talk to the group home manager to get this rat problem dealt with before it becomes a huge neighbourhood problem again. In 2020, it took month of trapping & compost area cleanup & setting up a couple of ultrasonic deterrent devices to get rid of the rats. It will probably take similar amount of time, this year. I have support from other neighbours & hoping the new group home manager will be easy to deal with 🤞🏻🐀
Mom was diagnosed with liver disease. I've been stressed out about that too. Been mostly offline, working on my food gardening stuff as a productive distraction.

2026-04-05 01:18:23 UTC

Jada's here! Taking off now. Gonna seed bomb some colonial lawn shit, on our way to downtown studio ✌️💚

2026-03-31 20:41:14 UTC

I wish there was a taco truck that drove around neighbourhoods, making stops in residential areas, while playing Mexican music. Like ice cream trucks.
I eat more tacos than ice cream.
🌮🌮🌮

2026-03-31 16:08:58 UTC

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I booped its wee head through the digital screen.

2026-03-28 03:00:53 UTC

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Last time Mario & I saw each other was 2022 -> we were chasing Justin Trudeau around BC Leg, trapped BC MLAs inside; they had to leave their cars & be snuck into chauffered cars through side doors. Then, Trudeau's private driver called cops on me - for standing 10 feet away, saying absolutely nothing & just mean glaring at her 🤣
Cops told her to just move the vehicle because I broke no laws by just glaring.
Horgan & Trudeau had to move their meeting room 3 times that evening 😅 Every time we found the room they were in, we gathered outside & by doors - making a ton of noise. They kept running from one meeting room to another, like cockroaches when light is shined upon them. It was pretty hilarious how much cops they sent to try to get us to stop making noise & chasing dirty politicians inside. Absolutely ridiculous how terrified politicians are when citizens demand public transparency, public accountability & to stop being colonial capitalist wankerbutternoodles.
#Anarchists #Comrades #BCpoli #CDNpoli
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2026-03-28 00:49:21 UTC

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Happy random reunion with fellow #anarchist #friend - Mario 😊
He worked the #AnarchistNetwork of #VancouverIsland table with another volunteer. They'll be at the Food Not Bombs community connecting event at Red Cedar Cafe, tomorrow afternoon. I'll be attending that with Ella, representing LifeCycles.
#comrades
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2026-03-25 23:37:44 UTC

Remember when I was going to my first appointment to get all teeth extracted before getting immediate dentures(2 years ago).
This is from that scary day!
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2026-03-19 19:15:25 UTC

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I also laugh, right in the faces, of white privileged muthafuckers a lot. Like dudes - ya think someone like me, born under war fire/bombs, been arrested more than 100X in Canada for civil disobedience, has punched a cop in the face & not in jail for that because that cop has huge history of racial violence, challenging local cops for 25+ years, putting 3 yards of manure at legislative buildings & refusing to stop dissent against ongoing government corruption - is going to stop because you sent cops to me, again. NO. I will shout at the cops & they'll do same walk of shame, to their cars & have nothing substantial to charge me on.
I know the law better than numbskull cops.

2026-03-18 06:19:49 UTC

It's 11:18 pm. I've been air-horning & calling out a local KKK/Nazi in Langford, for 30 minutes. The cops are coming soon. We will make a fast exit & leave cat poop on the KKK property.

2026-03-14 23:05:24 UTC

Asher loves hiding under this table. He emerged when I came home.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #CatLovers #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatContent #FediCats
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2026-03-13 16:18:26 UTC

#USMarineCorps #MilitaryVeteran - Brian McGinnis, whose wife is Palestinian, ‘has strong feelings’ about the Middle East.
Andre Antunes does a #metal #music tribute:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqnTkKSQwA&pp=iggCQAE%3D
#USpol #geopolitics #USOutOfMiddleEast #NoWarsForIsrael #BoycottUSA #SanctionUSA #BoycottIsrael #SanctionIsrael #WarCrimes #USMC #TerroristBFFs

2026-03-13 14:25:31 UTC

Just about to head out for work. I had a nice breakfast with Mom. We chatted about our shared PTSD triggers(including some of my Aunts/Uncles) that have been going off more often since the start of this year with increased US/Israel attacks on multiple sovereign nations in ME, how to take care of each other more with emotional overload times & sharing our feelings to unload/not be too repressed.
We do wish that folks with more social status/social privileges would speak out louder & take more direct actions to fight back against their governments. Until more privileged folks choose to do that, status quo won't change much. The marginalized/the vulnerable in society have been shouting & fighting back hard for a long time; for generations. History has proven that things tend to stay stagnant until the privileged become so uncomfortable, they're unable to stay still/silent & hit the streets to fight back too.
Between life & death, there's fields of personal choices.

2026-03-11 03:02:35 UTC

USA parents with kids who are of age to be drafted - please fight back & if needed, look to get your kids into hiding to avoid being drafted.
Please, US folks - help your fellow citizens from agreeing to be deployed to commit war crimes for Trump/Netanyahu. I am BEGGING, please do everything you can 🙏
#USpol #Resist #DoNotComply #WarSurvivorsForPeace #StopWar #SayNO

2026-03-06 20:12:03 UTC

The poor have always given more to those in need, despite struggling themselves. That's been the case ever since money entered human society. It's even more so now, with wider social class divides.
The poor may not have much in finances. The poor are far richer in humanity than those with heaps of finances & no compassion for others with much lesser than.
There is no shame in being poor. Only a super sick society tries to shame poor folks without trying to help out.
#StopWarsOnThePoor #ClassWar

2026-03-04 02:30:48 UTC

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I know! I appreciate that you & some others understand my ire!

2026-02-23 02:05:49 UTC

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False turkey tails ✌️

2026-02-14 02:29:10 UTC

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Without all the enablers/defenders - none of these abusers would have got away with assaulting so many different people. They're complicit & deserve to be arrested/imprisoned too.

2026-02-14 01:20:34 UTC

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Maybe this will help more people understand the mindsets of SA survivors better so we aren't bullied so much in the future. I want more justice for all SA victims & more support for survivors who try to get justice.

2026-02-14 00:48:52 UTC

I need to vent about the #EpsteinFiles as a teen survivor of SA, who never got to see justice delivered. The guy who raped me died last year without ever being put in prison. He SAed multiple teens & young women, after assaulting me when I was 15 yrs old. He had more social status power than I had. So many people protected him instead of supporting me & others that he SAed & physically beat up. I found out over a decade after he SAed me that he was friends with many corrupt cops & they aided/abetted his multiple crimes over 3 decades. Us teens who were victimized by the same guy didn't have much of a chance - even if we had courage + solid support, to go more public back when we were teens.
Corrupt government run system protect the predators over victims. We supported each other in private to try to recover from SA inflicted traumas.
Those SA traumas never fully leave you...
You just learn how to deal with it a bit better, over time or else it can drown you with heavy emotions & block you from taking back some of your brutally stolen personal power.
I'm very pissed off about people harshly judging the victims/survivors of Epstein's(and his shitty cohorts) sex crimes. People who have never been SAed don't get that it can take many years for people to speak up about what happened to them & some people take their unspoken trauma experiences to their graves. It took tremendous courage for Epstein survivors to speak out in public. I hate people who don't understand how difficult it is to talk about SA traumas in public in the first place - much less do so when the perpetrators are super rich, very powerful public figures. It took me 15 years to speak up in public about what happened to me as a teen.
#BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors

2026-01-23 19:44:08 UTC

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I have some leftover paint & ink on my hands because before heading to Alert Bay - stopped at some ecocidal companies in Campbell River & Port McNeill to revamp their signs so they're more factual about killing our ecosystems for fast bucks & being inhumane assbuckets.

2026-01-23 18:59:38 UTC

#FlashbackFriday
My 49th birthday getaway in #AlertBay - #Namgis territory. I got some #Indigenous art gifts 😊
My 51st birthday is February 3rd ✌️
#AsianMastodon #GenX #PeopleWithDisabilities
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2026-01-07 03:39:46 UTC

This is a good #documentary to watch to learn more about how the evil #USA has lied/manipulated geopolitics to exploit #LatinAmerica for decades.
[This is the story of how an exotic berry in Jamaica built a multinational empire: the United Fruit Company, El Pulpo, The Octopus, a corporation so powerful it could make and break nations.
How a need for cheap bananas led a private company to gain control of land, ports, railways, electricity, dictators… and then call in the world’s most powerful military to destroy a democracy that threatened its profits.
It’s a story of plantations run like prisons, of psychological warfare, of villages burned in the name of “freedom” and of how the model built here was exported across Latin America, creating decades of dictatorships, death squads, and disappearances a machinery of terror so refined that, decades later, the world would see the same techniques used by US soldiers on the other side of the world.
This isn’t a story about fruit.
It’s about who is allowed to have a future and who is not.]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9xlQrcbx0
#SanctionUSA #BoycottUSA #USWarCrimes #EvilEmpire #Geopolitics #CIA #Capitalism #imperialism #SouthAmerica #Guatemala #Cuba #Colombia #USTerrorism #DocFilm #Coup #WarCriminals #BananaRepublic #PuppetRegimes #USpol #GlobalSouth #CrimesAgainstHumanity

2025-09-19 19:19:13 UTC

Today, I was given this #Pentax #35mm #FilmCamera to test out/experiment with 📷
#Camera #Analogue #BelieveInFilm #Photographer #Photography #GenX #Retro #monochrome #BWphoto
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2025-09-13 00:39:57 UTC

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The ER was packed when I left around 10:30pm last night - lots of unmasked folks with hacking coughs. It was packed with similar numbers of unmasked coughers - early this morning, when I arrived back at the hospital.

2025-09-13 00:35:29 UTC

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I saw 10 different paramedics today & not a single one wore a mask 💩

2025-09-08 01:53:54 UTC

I got into rap/hip-hop first via Public Enemy. I discovered Eric B & Rakim along my urban music discovery journey. This song was the track that I used to end my first DJ shows with. I used to launch a bunch of Monopoly money out of an air cannon as my last beats played out. It drove the crowds wild ❤️‍🔥
Music video by Eric B. & Rakim performing Paid In Full, 1987.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ&pp=ygUQZXJpYyBiIGFuZCByYWtpbQ%3D%3D

2025-06-20 23:25:15 UTC

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I was a young teenager at the time. I'm more radicalized at age 50.
@npub1u46…hgjz

2025-05-29 15:57:47 UTC

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I'm not surprised that they refused conflict resolution attempts.
I've also witnessed obliviousness happening to others. The last time was within this month.
I've never thought autistic folks are a monolith. We definitely have many similarities but we also have differences. I've been able to pick up when people aren't being authentic with me, almost all the time. It irritates because I know they're not being honest with me.

2025-04-28 19:18:10 UTC

There's at least 12 people stress eating #pasta on my timeline today. Due to the federal #election in #Canada.
#CDNpoli #NeverVoteConservative #ConservativesAreNazis

2025-04-16 20:23:55 UTC

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Thanks, friend 💞 I've waited almost 5 years for someone compatible. Patience is a valuable thing that often rewards in best, unexpected ways 🥰

2025-04-16 18:32:00 UTC

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I'm incredibly #grateful that honing my patience & being unwilling to date anyone who didn't meet my basic quality companion standards for years, has finally paid off.
I'd been devalued, dehumanized & traumatized by NT white guy partners (and their super colonial/bigoted family members) in the past & didn't want to make same personal choice errors for companionship in my present life. Especially after recovering from those past relationship traumas, regaining my self worth & promising to myself that I'd never discount myself for anyone, ever again. I promised myself that I'd wait & be open to a new intimate companionship, only if the person met my basic standards, is an open & honest communicator, isn't an ableist, respects who I am fully & completely & understands/supports my lifelong commitment to being an active humanitarian - with deep needs to contribute to community works.
I feel my patience & personal adherence to my core values, has rewarded me with an amazing connection to a fellow creative & big hearted NT mixed Indigenous man, who always tells me how much he appreciates my presence in his life & how he loves all my quirks/oddities. I feel truly valued, just for who I am, quirks n all 💗
I am glowing with joyful feelings 🥰

2025-04-16 15:40:46 UTC

This is the first time I have ever had a fellow #AuDHD as a kindred companion & it feels amazing. The mutual understanding & spiritual bond we share has brightened up both of our lives. I have never felt this level of naturally flowing, deeply profound, intimate connection with anyone else before.
I treasure this unexpected, sacred blessing. I am immensely grateful 🙌 💞
#Gratitude #MatureLove #Companionship #Neurodiversity #Kindreds #ActuallyAutistic

2025-03-28 19:38:57 UTC

Greetings, comrades.
A #BananaPhone is untrackable 🍌📞
#ProTips #Communications
#LaughterIsMedicine #Fruity
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2025-02-17 23:02:01 UTC

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The #Zhuang people are the largest #EthnicMinority in #China and most live in #Guangxi. #PreservedLemons feature in their diet and are usually eaten with congee (rice porridge). They feature in duck & fish recipes & can also be served as a relish & they are related to the Vietnamese Chanh muối.
Zhuang Preserved Lemons + The Hirshon Nanjing Lemon Duck.
https://www.thefooddictator.com/zhuang-preserved-lemons-%E9%85%B8%E6%9F%A0%E6%AA%AC-the-hirshon-nanjing-lemon-duck/
#AsianMastodon #ChineseFood #AsianFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #POCfoods #food #cooking #IndigenousChinese #ChineseCuisine

2025-02-17 20:51:19 UTC

Chicken with Preserved Lemon Soup.
A delectable #Khmer ethnic dish known for its aromatic flavors. This traditional comfort soup features chicken & preserved lemons.
https://cambodiarecipe.com/recipe/chicken-with-preserved-lemon-soup
#AsianMastodon #Cambodian #AsianFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #POCfoods #Cooking #Recipes #AsianCooking #SouthEastAsianFood #TootSEA

2025-02-16 21:12:46 UTC

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I love lemon pound cake. I really like the taste of lemons.

2025-01-26 15:04:25 UTC

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It's a better thing than NYE fireworks. I do not like fireworks.
@npub1r5f…8vy9

2025-01-25 16:00:32 UTC

I'm upset my long streak of not having any cold/flu/covid for over 6 years is broken & I'm sick with something. Testing today & again in 24 hrs & again in 48 hrs. I've likely caught something while at work or from one of the medical waiting rooms where people are unmasked. I'm upset majority of folks stopped masking & don't care about disabled people like me.
I really hope the tests are all negative results. Have to take time off work to recover from whatever I'm sick with & can't afford to miss too much work; financial insecurity anxieties are stressful. I've canceled all plans for a week & will probably have to cancel my birthday plans too. I'm contacting some colleagues to see if anyone can help me with client support work until I recover from sickness.
I'm super bummed out, feel like shit & an gonna go cry like a baby now. I'm quite upset.

2025-01-21 21:50:12 UTC

Delayed #FunSocks with #cats update.
For @npub1pr2…j95v 😊
#Socks #CatLovers
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2025-01-16 15:14:03 UTC

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I've run into some former friends offline, who had obviously fell for a lot of disinformation on FB. They've slid into maple maga mindsets & it's gross.

2024-12-02 22:04:06 UTC

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Vietnam was a war munitions & biowarfare experimental expo, just like Gaza is a modern day war munitions & biowarfare experimental expo. It is so sick, atrocious & inhumane. The main war profiteers/warmongers (Israel & US & all nations still funding genocide & proxy wars) never stopped killing POC in foreign places with their untested violent mass murdering shit.

2024-11-24 21:57:06 UTC

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My Teochew ancestors had to suffer that imperialism. Having a long brain was signs of warrior strengths in not just our primitive Teochew communities but also in many Indigenous communities, worldwide. We were violently displaced. My ancestors in China were executed by imperial courts with no trials.
My family in Vietnam was 2 different communities. Almost everyone in rural joined the the resistance forces to survive after USA killed everyone in their families. My big Auntie only joined resistance forces after watching US invaders mass murder many family members & literally assassinated her remaining colleagues in front of her. She joined resistance army then.

2024-11-24 21:45:17 UTC

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Caveat: I am a NOT an aspiring serial killer. I do want you to give me envelopes of your hair & your family's hair. For art & DNA art testing work.

2024-11-24 21:14:59 UTC

I have a very strange/weirdo #art brain idea.
I want to collect hairs from hairbrushes all around my community & make hair filled maps of our areas here & place mini info markers all around #VictoriaBC - markers indicating what ethnic backgrounds the hairs came from.

2024-11-20 04:21:45 UTC

We have a #legal system, not a #justice system.
Cartoon credit: Dan Piraro
#Political #cartoon #PoliticalComic
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2024-10-20 21:27:58 UTC

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That has always bothered me too.

2024-10-20 20:50:28 UTC

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I dislike when we repeat shitty history.

2024-09-28 16:21:53 UTC

I'll be with the LifeCycles crew at #CommunitySharing day at #WellandCommunityOrchard today 🍏🍎🍐🍑🍇
Our annual Community Sharing Day is our way to celebrate the urban orchard, as well as distribute extra fruit at the peak of the season! We will have activities including tasting heritage apple varieties, a scavenger hunt, orchard tours, cider pressing, asking a fruit tree expert and of course there will be fruit to take home.
#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #FreeEvents #CommunityFood #LegacyPark #VictoriaBC #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodTrees #FoodSecurity #FruitHarvest #CommunityWork #Harvest #YYJ #CiderPressing
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2024-08-07 22:03:41 UTC

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Seriously - I was like - WTAF? He's calling lychee - dragonfruit?? I almost punched my screen.

2024-07-20 13:52:07 UTC

When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.
Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”
The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.
Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/fearmongering-about-drug-dens-is-making-canadas-crisis-worse/article_3cb43484-444e-11ef-90b0-a7fbb265a168.html
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #BreakTheStigma #AddictionEducation #Fearmongering #StopStigmatizingAddiction #Health #Medical #HealthPolicies #MediaManipulation #BreakStatusQuo #FundTreatmentServices #FundHealthCare #FundMedicalServices #CommunityHealth

2024-07-17 02:48:59 UTC

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ended faster this time with zero physical assaults

2024-07-11 22:00:47 UTC

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I don't want that kinda power over anyone. I just want fucking justice & equity, for ALL! I will keep on doing my personal actions & hope more folks will step up & take actions, wherever they are too.

2024-07-11 21:58:14 UTC

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I'm banned from 12 bank properties. I'm going back. Fuck em.

2024-07-11 21:54:18 UTC

I just got kicked outta Mayfair Mall✊️. For plastering #StopIsraeliApartheid stickers on #Starbucks windows & on bus stop windows beside mall. I'm now banned from Mayfair Mall. This is the 2nd local mall I'm banned from. I'm going back to slap more stickers on, when mall is closed. Fuck em. I ain't gonna stop.

2024-07-11 20:08:16 UTC

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There's 2 Oregon snowpeas plants which have produced huge peas this year!

2024-07-11 20:02:44 UTC

Picked some more big ass Oregon #snowpeas this afternoon 😊
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2024-07-10 00:00:21 UTC

Came home to find Asher, splayed out on living room rug, enjoying the cooling fan 😹
#CatsOfMastodon #CaturdayEveryday #CatLovers #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatContent #FediCats
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2024-07-09 22:26:41 UTC

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Yellow #cedar #trees & mossy #roots.
#VancouverIsland #nature #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #arbor #TreeHugger #TreeFamily #RootSystems
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2024-07-09 04:41:36 UTC

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I'm testing out a night vision cam tonight. We are also bringing our frog zappers, nets & buckets - to remove invasive frogs from the lake we are bat watching from.

2024-07-09 04:17:29 UTC

Heading out, for bat watch monitoring night shift.
Have a peaceful night 🙂

2024-07-09 04:10:18 UTC

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Calling cops on POC for salty political posts online is a death threat to us. I won't forgive folks complicit. I won't trust enablers either.

2024-07-09 03:18:10 UTC

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💗✌️

2024-07-09 03:05:47 UTC

I'm an anarchist & if that makes you squirmy - you should remove me.
Thanks ✌️

2024-07-09 02:22:23 UTC

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Yes, I love that they have purpose on them! I didn't forget to update you, with fun socks 🥰

2024-07-09 02:20:06 UTC

@npub1pr2…j95v I'm wearing my Capital City Comic Con #FunSocks today 😊
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2024-07-09 02:06:07 UTC

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Beautiful shot 😊

2024-07-09 02:05:36 UTC

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You're welcome. I am a huge plants nerd 🤓

2024-07-09 02:01:10 UTC

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Big money corrupts all government systems. Trump would be in prison, if it were any other country than USA. The fact a felon is still able to run for POTUS makes US a joke, to rest of the world. I don't like the no real choice arena that Americans are placed in. DNC are complicit in enabling this entire shitshow. Almost everyone, globally, knows how evil GOP is. Almost everyone, except for Americans, saw this shitshow coming from over a decade ago. Trump is just a poster turd. GOP & their foreign funders have manipulated the American public so much that they keep focusing on the turd & not the entire corrupted system that let such a turd get into POTUS office even once. They're likely to get the turd back because folks are still focused one shitass man. Playing right into their fascist strategy. It's gross to witness from outside USA.

2024-07-09 01:33:09 UTC

I'm sweet, salty, spicy & outspoken, by nature. How you perceive me, depends on your own levels of perspective. How you choose to treat me, affects if you're gonna get sweet, salty or spicy responses from me.
I may not always be right. In fact, I appreciate being corrected, if I err - if you're not being a narcissistic asshat about correcting me. I tend to be quite just, in how I respond to strangers. I'm not really known for being unfair to folks. I'm known for being quite just, in my dealings - online & offline.

2024-07-09 01:24:31 UTC

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That fucking racist Zionist doesn't seem to understand that war survivors like me - won't buy his weakass, ignorant BS. We ain't gonna be nice about his bigotry either. He can pound/eat sand, until he gains some fucking humanity & stops being a myopic POS.

2024-07-09 01:20:29 UTC

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WTG, on getting blocked by that racist, genocidal defending Zionist instance. Their main admin, Serge, is fucking bonkers & a total inhumane zealot.

2024-07-09 01:17:13 UTC

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Blocking the babka instance helped me avoid the worst of Zionist justifying BS too.

2024-07-09 00:52:36 UTC

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the yellow flowers are hairy arnicas 🙂

2024-07-09 00:50:29 UTC

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I've loved jumpsuits since my baby onesie years 🤣💗

2024-07-09 00:35:00 UTC

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UGH! I feel bad for you. We had some racist jerkwad, antimasker neighbours for awhile here. I told folks about the shit we dealt with for almost a year on my old instance. They shot fireworks at my brother's dog, on purpose & used to yell racial slurs at me. I lost my shit & yelled at them & the fuckers called the cops on me. I sent the cops over to them & they got a warning. Then, about a week after, they started shit up again. That time, they shot fireworks at our house & at some Sikh neighbours home. It ended up in violent shuffles with them, me & our Sikh neighbours. Cops came. Arrested two of the racists. They were evicted shortly after! We have much better neighbours in that rental house behind our backyard now! It was a freaking living nightmare when the racists lived there.

2024-07-09 00:26:58 UTC

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Yes, she is - inside & out 🥰

2024-07-09 00:16:20 UTC

Our scarlett #AsiaticLilies are going off with si many blooms! My first #CaliforniaPoppy has bloomed today too ☺️ #RoseCampion blooms all Summer, into Fall.
#bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGarden #WhatsInMyGarden #Saanich #Gardeners #GardeningMastodon #Zone8 #YYJ #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #Flowers #PlantFlowers #plants #nature #PNW #botanical #PlantLovers #Wsanec #perennials #SimpleJoys #DisabledGardeners #DisabledPhotographers #photography #YYJphotographers
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2024-07-09 00:01:58 UTC

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Photos my Mom took of me, after I took photos of her 💗 Wearing one of my fave floral #jumpsuits. I love jumpsuits & have several different ones.
#AsianMastodon #PeopleWithDisabilities #Teochew #Gaginang #WarSurvivor #PolioSurvivor #PostPolioSyndrome #DisabledActivist #FamilyPhotos
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2024-07-08 23:55:10 UTC

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I enjoy taking photos of people & things I love ❤️

2024-07-08 23:54:32 UTC

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Mom isn't feeling too well today but she looks fantastic 💗 Once she gets her nap & digests foods, she'll feel much better 🙌

2024-07-08 23:50:03 UTC

Photos of my #Mom in front #gardens - took these before we went to our medical appointments, today 🥰
My Mom is almost 70 yrs old & she's beautiful 💗
#AsianMastodon #MyMother #Teochew #Gaginang #MixedAsian #IndigenousVietnamese #WarSurvivor #FamilyPhotos #Saanich #AsianDiaspora #ILoveMyMom
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2024-07-08 23:29:01 UTC

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No, government security removed it that night. It was up for several hours though. I need to superglue something to it, next time. I was also thinking of putting a robe on it, marked with bold peace activism words too.

2024-07-08 22:49:32 UTC

We finished our medical appointments.
I got some x-rays done on my elbows after the denturist appointment too. Dentures adjustments were done on both lower & upper parts. They aren't rubbing & cutting into some parts of my mouth now. I'll be back at denturist, on as needed basis for next few weeks/months.
Mom had quite a bit of blood taken today. She is quite lightheaded now so she's eating & taking a nap after.
I changed my plans to hang out with a galpal to Wednesday. I have to go to Island Mediquip to get replacement key for my mobility scooter. I lost my keys for it, sometime last week. The shop isn't too far away so going to boot there & back home.
It's super hot out. I want to relax in the shade with some ice cream 🍨
#AsianMastodon #Teochew #MomAndDaughter #FamilySelfie #Gaginang #WarSurvivors #PeopleWithDisabilities
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2024-07-08 16:42:00 UTC

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Very fresh. Picked within last 30 minutes.

2024-07-08 16:34:43 UTC

Morning #FoodGarden #harvest of buttercrunch #lettuce & some big Oregon #snowpeas.
#Saanich #Zone8 #GrowItEatIt #GrowFood #FoodSecurity
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2024-07-08 16:11:27 UTC

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No. It's for this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie%E2%80%93Papineau_Battalion
However, the statue is known as a symbol of peace so it suits having a protest sign on it.

2024-07-08 16:02:34 UTC

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Yeah, stuck the sign up there, after attending a protest & rally in support of Palestinians.

2024-07-08 16:01:46 UTC

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I have re-read several of his works - at different stages of my life. Some books are worth reading, multiple times.

2024-07-08 15:56:59 UTC

#MonochromeMonday
We put a #CeasefireNow #ProtestSign in hands of #Peace #statue beside BC legislature buildings, in April. On the #monument to the #MackenziePapineauBattalion in #VictoriaBC on #VancouverIsland in #BritishColumbia #Canada.
#WarSurvivorsForCeasefire #StopAllWars #StopGenocide #BoycottIsraeliApartheid #HumanRights #StopWarMongers #ArrestWarCriminals #WarSurvivorsForPeace #ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael #AsianMastodon #USVietnamInvasionSurvivor #HelpRefugees #VietnamWarSurvivors #SocialJustice #VeteransForPeace #StopTheViolence #YYJ #DivestFromArmsCompanies #StopFundingWarMachines #ActivistArt #Photography #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #WorldInMyEyes #Activism #TakeAction #monochrome #BWphoto
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2024-07-08 15:04:39 UTC

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Pro sports events are heavily sponsored by big banks who invest in ecocide/fossil fuels 🤑💩

2024-07-08 14:57:18 UTC

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I loathe the : "We plant trees & the forest will grow back" - ignorant BS line, used by ecocidal maniacs & their enablers.
They don't understand forest science. No human is capable of regrowing ancient forest ecosystems. The ancient forests & mycelium networks below ground were created by nature, after the last ice age thaws here. They're truly irreplaceable, once clearcut. Humans are so damn greedy, foolish & selfishly short-sighted.
These ancient forests are massive carbon sinks. We lose that precious storage too, once the old growth stands are decimated.
When I was in my teens & starting to fight on frontlines to save old growth forests, I believed that when I grew up, people & government would know & do better. That past, youthful idealism was fully shattered over the years. They did not ever start to do better. They've become worse with their ecocidal crimes against humanity. With big machinery - they can be even more disconnected from nature, as they 'follow orders' to mass murder nature.

2024-07-08 14:33:43 UTC

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I started with East of Eden. I got the book as part of a $2 shoebox of paperbacks from a garage sale 🙂

2024-07-08 14:21:36 UTC

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I read every John Steinbeck book. I went through a period in my late teens & early 20s where I had to find & read every book he wrote.