msquebanh

msquebanh, 15 days ago to nature

Walking through #GarryOak #meadows & wetland marshes are to the right. Small #footpath to stroll. Still some purple #camas out.

En route home & will be uploading more photos, shortly. We had the whole park to ourselves - only wildlife sharing spaces today 😊

#QuicksBottom #Wsanec #SaanichParks #WalkInThePark #GetOutside #Nature #VancouverIsland #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #NatureTrail

msquebanh, 23 days ago to Canada

FYI - I worked on 2 different #RealityTV shows in #Canada & after those lived work experiences - told everyone I could - don't agree to go on these shows. It's almost all scripted, not reality. Crews are forced to put pressure on voluntary participants - who rarely know WTF they're signing up for & producers exploit naivety. Don't chase easy fame/easy money - they both come at high personal costs. Don't agree to be traumatized on TV, for money. You'll regret it.

msquebanh, 18 days ago to random

Has anyone here taken a golf cart, made changes to it & turned it into a street legal electric vehicle?

In my dreams, last night, I was driving around roads, on an upcycled, electric golf cart with a trailer attached to back, with my cat in a backpack windowed carrier in passenger seat. We were heading to a cats cafe.

msquebanh, 26 days ago to chinese

How a thriving #ChineseCommunity was built despite #racism & #hardships.

For the #Chinese community of #Newfoundland & #Labrador it's a thriving community built in spite of racism, hardship & #discriminatory government policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7204696

#AsianMastodon #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCanadian #ChineseHistoryInCanada #ChineseImmigrants #ChinesePioneers

msquebanh, 22 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#ForgetMeNots & #Petunias in full bloom 🥰

#bloomscrolling #WhatsInMyGarden #PollinatorGarden #Zone8 #PacificNorthwest #nature #floral #Spring #BCblooms #Wsanec #Saanich #YYJ #VictoriaBC #florespondence #flowers #PNW #botanical #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #perennials #Gardening #plants

msquebanh, 30 days ago to random

@skye I'm glad you posted about what kinda boats orcas actually hit & they aren't billionaire owned ones. Actually, been talking to longtime whales specific scientists in my area of BC/PNW & none of us are very happy about how orcas are injuring themselves to death by hitting boats with their bodies. I am actually very worried because behaviour is abnormal & it has caused many whale deaths & whale disabilities - that media doesn't report about.

msquebanh, 10 days ago to random

@trishalynn how ugly awesome to see how you purposely ignore me calling your #sellout #POC ass out, as you keep posting shit to make yourself look like you have any fucking courage to stand up for what is right. Grow some fucking real #COURAGE. I'll see ya around. This isn't a big place.

msquebanh, 16 days ago to Plants

Back in our gardens.

#SoapBush - #Ceanothus - Great for #PollinatorGarden.

It's proven to be #DroughtResistant, once established. One of very few #plants proven to be resistant to air pollution too. I highly recommend this for #ClimateAction #gardening. It's a gorgeous plant too.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #WhatsInMyGarden #Saanich #Gardeners #VictoriaBC #Gardening #Zone8 #YYJ #Spring #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #botanical #PlantIdentification

msquebanh, 10 days ago to Flowers

Picked #RedWeigela #flowers & #roses to make small #fragrant #bouquet for Mom. The roses smell divine!

I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #VictoriaBC #NatureGifts #GardenGifts #YYJ #Spring #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #botanical #CutFlowers #floral #GrowItGiftIt

Bouquet of red & deep pink roses with red weigela flowers in a green & white glassbown artisan vase.

msquebanh, 28 days ago to random

REMINDER: Fediverse is global. It is NOT limited to US. Please get over your American exceptionalism shit. It's not helping you or the US. In fact, it only reinforces global communities' thoughts about Americans' arrogance & not caring about others, outside of their country.

Please refrain from US exceptionalism attitudes, if you're truly interested in doing serious decolonialism work - it's counterintuitive.

msquebanh, 30 days ago to history

There's some diaspora #Asians on Vancouver Island (and several other places in Global North) who have severe #InternalizedRacism, to the point that they're not just #indoctrinated into #colonialism & capitalism but they're so self unaware of internalized racism that they don't even know when racist white folks #tokenize them to defend/justify racism & use them to push WS beliefs on their own peoples.

I lose my fu*king shit around Asians like this. They harm us Asians who fight for human rights.

msquebanh, 10 days ago to random

3 of my beloved family members died during #TiananmenSquare uprisings. We will NEVER FORGET.

https://youtu.be/VbKroPF3W5Q?si=2tZZzZ1tYW4BIBoE

#AsianMastodon

msquebanh, 25 days ago to random

If you're a radical leftie & able to act in character - you can infiltrate far right groups without too much extra efforts. They're not too bright & they don't have as much public support as they want. They LOVE it when any POC can be #tokenized. They hate #BIPOC but will definitely exploit any BIPOC who are foolish enough to volunteer to stand beside bigots who would kill them, if they couldn't be tokenized for WS needs. I've infiltrated more than once & got several local BC fascists arrested.

msquebanh, 17 days ago to incarcerated

When #bootlickers / #CopApologists tell someone, like me, that they love men in uniform, I like to respond by agreeing & saying I also love #cops in uniform - #prisoner #uniforms.

#ACAB #CriminalsWithBadges #OneBadAppleIsACorruptPrecinct #DefundThePolice #ArrestThePolice #JailThePolice #CriminalCops #MenInUniform #FuckThePolice #CopsDontProtectUs

msquebanh, 17 days ago to random

I harvested some of our goji tree leaves earlier to make soup. Baking my homemade halibut fish cakes now. Soup is simmering.

msquebanh, 16 days ago to girlyposting

Wizard Rose #Coleus
#ForgetMeNots
#Pink #Foxgloves
Pacific Giant Blue Jay #Delphinium - #Larkspur

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGarden #WhatsInMyGarden #Saanich #Gardeners #VictoriaBC #Gardening #Zone8 #YYJ #Spring #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #botanical #BCblooms #Gardens #PlantIdentification

msquebanh, 17 days ago to breakfast

My #breakfast was #preserved #DuckEggs #congee with cut up #Chinese doughnuts.

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #food #EthnicEats #TraditionalFood #ChineseFood #AsianFood #POCfoods #MorningMeal #CulturalFood #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian

4 preserved, shell-less duck eggs on a plate.
Preserved duck eggs product box.

msquebanh, 18 days ago to Israel

I have been updated on latest #Israel #genocide attacks & am upset that there's still no sanctions & no arms embargo on Israel. Our governments are complicit in silence of condemnations against Israel's genocide on #Palestinians & some governments are still funding a terrorist, pariah, apartheid state of ongoing evil, racist violence on all Palestinians.

I don't need to see more gore images. As a war survivor, I already know what bombs do to human bodies. Please CW very graphic images of murder

msquebanh, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to TodayILearned

Start of thread of links to #learn & gain more #awareness of #AsianFetishism🧵

Why #YellowFever Isn't Flattering: A Case Against #RacialFetishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2016.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association/article/why-yellow-fever-isnt-flattering-a-case-against-racial-fetishes/96D2F19F052E8A2625968037BE756FEA

#AsianMastodon #RacialRelations #RacismStudies #Colonialism #Racism #SocialStudies #misogyny #RacialStereotypes

msquebanh, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

Any man who still believes #AsianWomen are submissive are going to find out the hard way - most of us - are not.

msquebanh, 29 days ago to food

One of my fisherman friends brought me some wild #salmon & free #corn 🙂
Cooked up for family. I'm having just a wee bit as my friend is taking me out in 2 hours.

#food #fish

4 corn on the cob, cooked

msquebanh, 30 days ago to Birds

People who complain about wild #birds singing so hard in the morning - are not my friends. I'm DELIGHTED about early morning bird songs!

Their bird calls YellTell me - We are happy in our habitat here! It's another day we are alive!

Their early morning bird songs, remind me of the importance of feeling #gratitude of being able to enjoy another morning, another day, to relish in the fact I'm still alive & able to receive many opportunities that the dead no longer have.

#Nature

msquebanh, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to TodayILearned

Observed some #FarmerAnts herding #aphids on morning walk. These farmer #ants have a special #symbiotic relationship with aphids.

#Learn more:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-and-their-aphid-herds

My video of the farmer ants, hard at work:
https://youtube.com/shorts/NqI6hVYnoPQ?si=96nXBtYyO4LjeYVc

#nature #SaanichParks #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #GorgePark #YYJ #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #Wsanec #PNW #insects #Formicidae #Hymenoptera #entomology #WorkerAnts #NatureVideos

msquebanh, 12 days ago to random

Still waiting for BC Hydro to charge me for trespassing & take me to court - so I can get their lack of environmental cleanup & their ongoing pollution of Jordan River watershed, on public records & get more public accountability. Been waiting since 2021.

I only commit acts of trespassing onto government sites & ecocidal industry sites to collect evidence of their environmental crimes that they hide from the public. I inform them that I trespassed & ask to be charged.

msquebanh, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago) to random

1st dragonboat races, happening on May 26. I have to be on location all day, as when I'm not paddling in race, will be doing drum/beat calling for races I don't paddle in. I'm also doing several other volunteer duties on our first race day so would love to create a big #music playlist for the whole day!

Please drop some high energy songs to this open for #musicRecommendations for active water sports thread!

Added to race day playlist today:

https://youtu.be/K50oa8-iw5E?si=yGF0rOWCIyP7l-9v

#JanesAddiction