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msquebanh

@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org

Family Caregiver.
Eco/Social Justice Activist. Disability Advocate. Decolonizer. Accessibility Consultant. Eldercare Liason.
Teochew Chinese. War & Polio Survivor.
Neurodivergent. Nature lover. Cat lover. Photographer. Avid gardener. Water & forest protector. Moss toucher. Tree hugger. Bird watcher. GenX. Anti-capitalist.
Vancouver Island, BC.

https://ko-fi.com/phoenixserenity
http://linktr.ee/msquebanh
https://youtube.com/@PhoenixSerenity

#AsianMastodon #BIPOC #StopEcocide #BeTheChange

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msquebanh,
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Ready to head out for friends' date night. Patio appies & arts/creatives event, in downtown Victoria. My town n country outfit.

msquebanh,
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@nrmacdonald Thank you. It's my first galpals' night out, downtown in over 2 years 😀

msquebanh, to nature
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First #yellowjacket #wasp seen this season.

#insects #pollinators #nature #Saanich #YYJ #VancouverIsland #PNW

msquebanh, to Mushrooms
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#mushrooms sprouted from deadwood in soil. I leave them for squirrels & rats - they eat a few different #WildMushrooms.

#Fungi #Saanich #YYJgardeners #VancouverIsland #PNW

3 tan coloured mushrooms.

msquebanh, to pnw
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Rats dug up 5 of my snow pea plants. Peanut butter baited traps are going back out in specific spots - tonight.
I tied some remaining snow pea plants up. More snow peas will be transplanted in 2 weeks.
My other plant seedlings are slowly growing in one small DIY greenhouse.

#Wsanec #Zone8 #Saanich #EdibleGarden #VictoriaBC #YYJgardeners #VancouverIsland #PNW #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #botanical #FoodPlants #GrowFood

Snow pea seedlings.
Tomato, cucumber & cantaloupe seedlings.

msquebanh, to Bloomscrolling
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Pink purple #DamesRockets are blooming, all around our gardens. Often mistaken with phlox. Phlox has 5 flower petals. Dames rockets have 4. It's an established invasive on Vancouver Island. I leave it as it's not choking out other plants & pollinators love them. I remove many other invasives.

#Wsanec #Zone8 #Saanich #bloomscrolling #VictoriaBC #YYJgardeners #VancouverIsland #PNW #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #botanical #flowers #perennials #SelfSeeding

Dames rocket pink purple flowers & buds. 4 petals on flowers.

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

4 corn on the cob, cooked

msquebanh,
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Salmon was caught near Maple Bay - Cowichan area waters.

msquebanh,
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@Jon_Kramer Wild salmon population is dropping due to ongoing ecocide & open net salmon farming. I volunteer with wild salmon alliance here. We do stream keeping, watershed cleanups, wild salmon stocking & fish monitoring. Almost all salmon sold in restaurants & stores here are farmed. Jim Pattison, BC billionaire owns stocks in open net salmon farms & all his grocery stores sell farmed salmon. Don't buy or eat farmed salmon!

msquebanh,
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@Jon_Kramer Cowichan is on Vancouver Island. It's about 45 minutes drive, up island.

msquebanh,
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@Jon_Kramer Don't buy anymore! I've been part of a large grassroots coalition here to try & get all open net fish farms & their toxic hatcheries with frankenfish removed from BC waters. Almost all the fish farms here are owned by Norwegian companies & they have a lobbyist group in Canada that bribes our politicians & threaten any who try to stop their greedy ecocide.

Please look at eating other fish if you can't buy any wild.

msquebanh,
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@Jon_Kramer please see my past vids on trespassing into MOWI fish farms hatchery. I told DFO & MOWI to charge me with trespassing & take me to court because I want to show more evidence & have it go on public record. Neither have responded to my emails & phone calls. I literally said - Arrest me. I trespassed. - in my communications.

https://youtube.com/shorts/OLrDLY2Lffk?si=uejSp_94RNqiAnxT

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y5WEoOnoe1I?si=72KBUFapWeWGJ_SQ

msquebanh,
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@Jon_Kramer Thank you. I'd really like for more folks to #BoycottFarmedSalmon.

The open net salmon farms here have killed multiple marine mammals. It's killed land mammals & birds too because they do illegal toxic shallow pit dumps in pure wilderness. I've seen countless wildlife die at these dump sites via drones because they block access to all public. They don't want ppl to see their environmental crimes.

JimmyB, to Bloomscrolling
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It’s a week of firsts, like everyone who’s got a single pot or more in the northern hemisphere in May

#bloomscrolling #gardening

The first allium bloom in my garden
The first sweet pea bloom in my garden
The first foxglove bloom in my garden

msquebanh,
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@JimmyB The wee white flowers look like valerian.

msquebanh,
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@JimmyB Great medicinal plant & pollinators love their flowers. Win-win 😊

msquebanh,
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@JimmyB https://theherbalacademy.com/blog/9-ways-to-use-valerian-valeriana-officinalis/

msquebanh, to animals
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Asher, contemplating the meaning of life.

msquebanh,
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@justafrog Or how naps contribute to kitty wellness. Or where to hide stolen hair ties. So many kitty thoughts.

msquebanh, to legal
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Mom's settlement cheque arrived. A whole $5.86 - after $2 processing fee 😏

"The website says the lawsuit occurred after the personal information, including health card numbers, of 8.6 million customers was stolen.

Payments are much smaller than what was originally promised on the settlement approval notice, which was compensation of $50 to $150."

https://nowtoronto.com/news/canadians-feel-jipped-after-receiving-less-than-8-in-lifelabs-class-action-lawsuit

msquebanh,
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@rlstone4dems
Of greater concerns:

"Other Canadians are concerned about American medical lab giant Quest Diagnostics purchasing Life Labs Inc., as it also recently underwent a class-action lawsuit."

black_intellect, to random
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Cherokee Nation medical school graduates its first class - https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/16/medical-school-cherokee-nation-native-american-doctors/

msquebanh,
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@black_intellect This is #GoodNews 👏

stephanie, to Ottawa
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Hmm... Is that normal? Huge raccoon is broad daylight at our neighbour's 😳

msquebanh,
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@stephanie There's a few huge ones near the lake & river here & it's not too rare to spot them during daytime hours in Spring & Summer months.

Catlynn, to random
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There’s a strange bloom in the bottle brush tree 🤗

msquebanh,
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@Catlynn @MaJ1 Peek-a-boo squirrel 🐿

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msquebanh,
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@rticks @CP93 Not surprisingly, the folks who not just believe cops but also defend & try to justify systematic racism by cops - post things like: Racism goes both ways & Blue lives matter.

msquebanh,
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@rticks @CP93 They only like POC cops who beat up on POC peoples.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Geez. The Crow (1994) is 30 years old.

That'll do, Time. That'll do.

msquebanh,
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@SallyStrange @Adam_Cadmon1 Weird to see it mixed with those other magazines.

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