msquebanh

msquebanh, 11 months ago to random

#PortOfNanaimo is the first stop for hundreds of new #ElectricVehicles built in Vietnam .
More than 750 #VinFast #VF8 vehicles arrived in #Nanaimo May 16; part of initial shipment of 1,879 vehicles exported to #NorthAmerica according to Port of Nanaimo press release. VinFast is a newly #Canadian sale-certified #manufacturer with its production based in #HaiPhong #Vietnam

https://www.saanichnews.com/business/vietnamese-made-electric-cars-arrive-at-port-of-nanaimo-for-sale-in-canada

#AsianMastodon #EVnews #VietnameseMade #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada

msquebanh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

How many times have you been arrested or detained by #police ?

msquebanh, 1 year ago to music

https://youtu.be/pv37awxUBDg
#Fuck #PoliceBrutality #AntiFlag #punk #music

msquebanh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to music

Personal #MusicTherapy (thread)

#TearsForFears
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
https://youtu.be/i851svNezFw

#music #SelfCare #MusicHelps #MusicHeals #MusicSoothes

msquebanh, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to KindActions

GOAL REACHED!

Getting another molar pulled on Wednesday. I'll need dentures this year & need #MutualAid help to pay for them - no medical coverage for dentures. I have only few molars left.

My #medical #fundraiser update -
$730 raised of $4,205 goal • 14 donations total.

https://gofund.me/ccdeb731

Thanks to everyone who can help me with paying for a set of #dentures 🙏❤️🦷🤲

msquebanh, 7 months ago to random

I interact with folks here, daily. If you're following me & choose to never interact - ever - I'm going to remove you. I'm not into collecting a bunch of passive followers & have zero desires to be an influencer - unless I'm inspiring you to stop feeding craptalism shit ppl & learning to rage hard against those asshats.

msquebanh, 9 months ago to random

Do you have frugal 5 ingredients or less recipes to share; that I can print out for a friend who has just moved into a tiny home & living almost fully off-grid? She's a senior on fixed income.

msquebanh, 1 year ago to random

Dad's back in his fave spot in living room this afternoon. He's been bedridden for past few days. We got his new antibiotics today & hoping he stays stabilized as he recovers over the next few weeks.
Mom's levels have balanced out & she's regaining lost strength. I'm going to take a good long nap after this update.

Dad, Asher & me on living couch. Monochrome photo.

msquebanh, 22 days ago to random

Part of the mutual aid activism training I did with many new activists, over 3 decades, sometimes solo teach-ins & sometimes collab teach-ins - always included training several folks to work in relay teams to spot/document possible state agents/agent provocateurs & how to kettle & remove them from crowded protests & active large blockades. It's ESSENTIAL proactive training. There's always state agents & also right wingnuts who try to infiltrate big activist movements.

msquebanh, 6 months ago to random

Separate citizens from governments, that don't usually represent their own citizens' voices or best interests.
Don't buy into government propaganda.
Question authority.
Don't be OK with low bar level politicians & never put any public office person on pedestals. Pedestals are for statues. Not human beings.
Utilize critical thinking.
Fact check your sources.
Retain your humanity, in a world that seeks to destroy it.

msquebanh, 29 days ago to random

I am rescheduling my afternoon taxes appointment.

Not feeling good. Not feeling like I'll be able to keep my shit together, if I have to deal with any random public today. I'm having one of those super difficult, overly emotional days. When I feel that I could either start crying or start screaming, at the slightest provocation.

I avoid all public encounters when feeling like this. I don't want to misdirect sadness/anger/frustration. I listen to my internal orange flags & heed them. Self-care.

msquebanh, 2 months ago to indonesia

My #Dad, aged 27, at #RefugeeCamp in #Indonesia - 1979. Photo was taken by humanitarian aid workers to help #VietnamWar #refugees get sponsored to go to Europe, Canada, USA & Australia, under asylum.

My Dad passed away June 9, 2023.
He went through hell & back, several times. He beat almost all odds. Until #covid infection in hospital in 2022. #LongCovid killed him last year.

I miss him very much😪❤️‍🩹💗❤

#AsianMastodon #Family #MyFather #Teochew #WarSurvivor #Chinese #OurFamilyHistory #portrait

msquebanh, 8 months ago to chinese

Preparing for another family ceremony day, to honour 100 days since Dad's life passing.
It is today. I start ringing ceremonial gong at noon.

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #Taoist #InMemoryOfDad #CaringForAncestors #RespectForMyFather #HonouringDad #LoveIsEternal #FamilyDevotion #NeverForgotten #ChineseMemorialCeremonies #CeremonyIsImportant #ChineseFood #ChineseCooking #ChineseCulture

msquebanh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

I remember being frozen & terrified in elementary school, jr high & high school years - whenever they did fire or emergency drills involving really loud alarms going off. In elementary school, I was abandoned during drills & ppl only came to rescue me - after all other kids were back in classes. I was still left alone, terrified, by myself, in dark & empty area. The alarm noises terrified me because I still had war traumas & I ran away from school & hid under a cement deck on first drills.

msquebanh, 6 months ago to random

I'm upset at my youngest brother, who just told me he doesn't want to get #covid booster because he's heard this newest one has too many side effects. I'm wearing my masks at home & going to protest against my own brother, in shared family home.
I just told him that my domestic protest begins today & will continue until he gets his booster. I am marking my N95 masks with protest words this morning.

#FamilyFight

msquebanh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Israel

"How can we believe #HAMAS ?"

"How can we believe #Israel ?"

Both are pulling #terrorism attacks on innocent civilians.

If you can't see how both have commited #atrocities - you've already been #indoctrinated by govts & MSM.

I've been removing/blocking ppl who want more violence on either side.

As a living war survivor, I can't support more bloodshed.

I don't care what your status is, what religion you believe in, what politicians you support. If you support more war - FUCK YOU.

msquebanh, 6 months ago to random

I still remember the 2 refugees camps that my family lived at, after fleeing Vietnam. I only have strong memories of 2nd Indonesian one because our family was only at 1st Malaysian one for a short time before we were moved to the Indonesian refugees camp. I want to go & pay respects to an Uncle who died & is buried there. My cousin, Bill, was born in field hospital at Palang refugee camp.

1st camp:
https://youtu.be/FiWuQRoXwMo?si=htqCOFxu1HsXo-E-

2nd camp:
https://youtu.be/BK9ly7tOPrk?si=3MMPuHQvtP8eQhJG

msquebanh, 2 months ago to random

#DearWhiteFolks - who call yourselves a #BIPOC ally:

Please don't forge ahead with trying to create mutual aid offline communities, with pleas to public about how it helps BIPOC - without talking to or asking for input from us, first.

Please don't ever speak for us, when you haven't even made efforts to speak TO US, first. This is about respect for #POCvoices. I feel the same about disability rights fights - nothing without us; you need to remember to talk to us, first.

msquebanh, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

This #poll is for me to gauge how others think about a sensitive social issue.

I have taken a strong personal stance on it myself & suffered some backlash from a small number of people who believe blood is more important than anything else.

Would you keep on defending close family members who have raped & abused multiple women? When there's no question they're serial abusers/rapists of women? (And you're a woman, yourself)

msquebanh, 8 months ago to random

A former friend, who works in schools, tried downplaying covid & didn't think mask mandates should be put back into schools is now sick from covid & so is her whole household.
It's now the 3rd time they've been infected & this time - she's being hospitalized & put on a respirator. I hope this will be a huge wakeup call for her & her family because they acted like covid was over. They were irresponsible & reckless with not masking up & travelling out of country with a child.

#CovidIsNotOver

msquebanh, 7 months ago to random

I'd be burning a lot more stuff down in colonial Canada if it wasn't for my family needing me to not be jailed. That's why I help wherever possible from home now. I can't go back to active frontlines for awhile & that frustrates me because I'm strongest at active frontlines & it's where I have the most experience at fighting against colonial abusive systems.

I'm doing my best from where I'm at now.

msquebanh, 6 months ago to radiohead

#MusicTherapy thread without much personal interaction.

#Radiohead
https://youtu.be/Y7WCdYFqz5g

msquebanh, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Israel

#VictoriaBC #YYJ #LekwungenTerritory #Wsanec #VancouverIsland

Please come out to join me, my friends & several other local humanitarian citizens for Saturday, March 2 - #MillionsMarchForPalestine - #GlobalSolidarity calling for permanent #Ceasefire for #Gaza & also calling for our government to enact an #ArmsEmbargo on #Israel

I'll be speaking shortly after 1pm. Please come & chat before or after & signup to volunteer for my upcoming community art for #Palestine #solidarity event ✌️🎨🇵🇸🍉💗

#PNW

msquebanh, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

I'd like to take some time to discuss #consent when dealing with #DisabledPeoples & am open to others sharing their lived & witnessed experiences & related thoughts.

First off, for folks who don't know me well - I'm a 48 yr old polio survivor, who is now living w/PPS, scoliosis & osteoporosis. I walk daily w/2 full leg braces & wooden cane. I have a mobility scooter & electric wheelchair for my really bad pain days(I live w/daily chronic pain).

I don't ask for too much from general public (1)

msquebanh, 1 month ago to random

Back at dentist & I'm full of anxieties.
Getting rest of molars out today.

https://youtube.com/shorts/jdAqP-syraw?si=3_HrGjmnD87l4H1a

#AsianMastodon #dentist #anxiety #nervous