msquebanh

msquebanh, 10 months ago to britishcolumbia

I have a few #Indigenous in #BritishColumbia friends trying to migrate to Mastodon this week. I don't have capacity to write up a beginner's guide for #NativePeoples seeking to migrate over right now - I'm out of spoons today. Putting this out there to #NativeMastodon & #IndigenousMastodon - if you have a beginner's link for our #NativeFriends - post reply here. I'll share this with my native pals in migration process.

Please retoot & boost to help my native friends moving over.

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, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

If you're not physically #disabled, with mobility issues & have friends who are, please try to keep these things in mind, before you take us out anywhere.

• is parking close to where trail starts
• bathrooms - are there any available & are they accessible?
• A short walk for you may mean a long one for us. Please don't say, it's around the corner - if it's not because we have to know distances & elevation changes to gauge if we can do it or not

msquebanh, 8 months ago to random

Mom just saw Jehovah's Witnesses doing door to door recruiting outside & laughed when they looked at our house & skipped knocking on it. Mom's howling with laughter & telling me I should go ring my gong a couple times to see if they'll jump/run back to car. Last time JWs came to our door & wouldn't accept 'We're Taoists & not interested' answer - I stopped talking. Grabbed my gong, banged it & chanted 'Leave Now' in #Teochew, until they got scared & left. They never came back👍

#AsianMastodon

msquebanh, 7 months ago to pnw

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This is over 1000 years old. It is a magnificent natural monument.

#WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #ClayoquotSound #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Treehugger #Nature #TreeLover #TreesOverGreed #BigTrees #BritishColumbia #Canada #StopDeforestation #forest #GrandTree #cedar #OldGrowth #AncientTree #MegaTreesInBC

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

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

msquebanh, 12 days ago to random

I will be starting to create home #exercise vids for fellow #PhysicallyDisabledFolks, starting this month. Exercises will be as #inclusive & #accessible as possible.

Several of them will be done in a chair. Some standing & others are laying down. I don't see many exercise vids made by & for #disabled folks available online. I got frustrated, trying to find exercise vids, made by fellow disabled folks.

So, I'm going to stop complaining about lack of them. I'll start to create them, myself.

msquebanh, 7 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 (edited 7 months ago) to random

My family are #WarSurvivors . My parents never knew what no war felt like until we came to Canada as war refugees - they lived through wars for their whole lives til we fled. I was conceived in a bomb shelter. Born while active shelling was happening.
No one really wants to flee only homes they ever knew with only basic supplies. As war survivors, we never wanted revenge. We wanted peace. We wanted safety to live simple daily life. As victims of violent war, we only wanted the violence to end.

msquebanh, 8 months ago to britishcolumbia

Please #SupportNativeSmallBusinesses
This is the crew at #DecolonialClothingCo based in #Burnaby #BritishColumbia #Canada - you can shop online or at their warehouse store. If you like their wares, please tell your family/friends 👍

#IndigenousOwned #NativeOwned #DecolonizeYourCloset #BuyDirectFromNativeArtists #BCNativeBusiness #ShopLocal #YVRshopping #Vancouver #PNW

msquebanh, 1 month ago to random

You will all be fully disabled - one day.
Stop treating us, presently disabled, like our lives do not matter.

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, 7 months ago to random

Every human being becomes weaker & disabled, if they have the privilege of getting older. Please think long & hard about that.

msquebanh, 7 months ago to pnw

This #OldGrowth #cedar #tree wants to defend or fight you - depending on what kind of human you are. This tree is over 500 yrs old.

#WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #ClayoquotSound #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Treehugger #Nature #TreeLover #TreesOverGreed #BigTrees #BritishColumbia #Canada #StopDeforestation #forest #GrandTree

msquebanh, 2 months ago to fishing

(After the tragic death of Yusra’s older brother, and an unfortunate accident that renders her fisherman father #paralyzed and in a #wheelchair, it is up 15-year-old Yusra to step forward and help provide for her small family. She repairs her father’s #fishing boat and takes it out to sea, becoming Gaza’s first fisher woman at the age of 15. Inspired by a true story, this novel will warm the hearts of its’ readers and shine a light of hope in them.)

https://alsalwabooks.com/en/shop/arabic-childrens-books/teen-books/against-the-tide

Please boost!

#Gaza

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, 1 month ago to medical

Still zero new donations & my #Medical #fundraiser to be able to get #dentures is stuck at $280. Need close to $4,000 more. Please boost/share on your socials.

Need dentures asap for medical reasons related to my osteoporosis. Have only coverage & funds to cover all extractions I need. I need dentures to be able to eat. I'm now begging for financial help needed because BC govt won't help me get dentures. I'm disabled & unable to work FT now. I don't know what to do.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/disabled-woman-needs-full-dentures

msquebanh, 1 month ago to random

I see - a fish, in dish(soap).

#DoYouSeeWhatISee #ActiveImagination #WorldInMyEyes #dishsoap #FishLike

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, 1 month ago to random

I've lived with post-polio for over a decade after being paralyzed by polio in 1976. I know more about how long covid works than average person because it's similar to how post-polio strikes past polio survivors, decades after initial infection & diagnosis. We're fucked because long covid isn't treated seriously by society & majority of medical professionals. AIDS had similar societal reactions & longterm health consequences for those lucky enough to survive & not die.

msquebanh, 21 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, 7 months ago to random

I find it both hilarious & shitty that the only question any #Saanich councillor had when seeing my multiple vids of their #antimasker #police was - How many people have seen these videos?

That confirms for me, my family & friends here that their council doesn't give a shit about their cops violating our #HumanRights but they're concerned about #BadPR 👎

Bunch of weak wankerdoodles in public office 🤡🤑😡

#CovidIsNotOver #PublicPaidWankers

msquebanh, 2 months ago to random

I have made 3 new, local, offline #CovidSafe friends & am happy about that ☺️ They had same issues with losing friends who weren't willing to take extra covid safety precautions around us and/or exposed themselves as antivax & antimaskers.

It's been very hard for me to meet new covid safe friends offline because I can't attend most public social events - since almost all are not covid safe/indoors & high risk for me.

I wanted to share some good news because there's a lot of bad news, everywhere

msquebanh, 56 minutes ago (edited 50 minutes ago) to random

We had the entire patio to ourselves 🙂
At Brown's Social in downtown #VictoriaBC with my friend, Natalie. She's a horticulturalist, living in Deep Cove. We had some eats & drinks before going across street for PechaKucha Night VOL. 20.

They played #GenX tunes, the whole time we were there. We lucked out on getting street parking, one block away. Then lucked out on empty patio, on arrival. We had our own fire table 🥰

#FriendsDate #Friendship

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