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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.

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#AsianMastodon #BIPOC #StopEcocide #BeTheChange

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msquebanh, to Birds
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People who complain about wild 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 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.

msquebanh,
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@fmhilton It is a myth that roos only scream at first light. Some will crow off, all day! Roosters/chickens are domesticated though. I was talking more about folks who complain that wild birds wake them up & how they hate them.

msquebanh,
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@GreenRoc I love those birds too!

msquebanh,
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@fmhilton Most likely. We ate a rooster who tried to kill every other chicken in flock. Efforts made for over a year to rehab him but some roos aren't able to get along with any others.

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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Sometimes you just have to stop and let your cat apply savage headbutts to your face because otherwise she'll cut you...

msquebanh, (edited )
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@AnarchoNinaWrites Or they will do forehead exfoliations on your forehead, face & any other open for scratchy cat licks, human skin spaces.

Actually, some folks(like me) may enjoy this kind of feline home spa exfoliation treatment.

Please remember to wash your entire face with some good antibacterial soap after, if this is your preferred way of getting personal home spa facial exfoliation treatments.

miclgael, to auspol
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“Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?”
—NIN (2005)

#AusPol

msquebanh,
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@miclgael Some music lyrics are tragically timeless.

Heliograph, to random
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good morning mastonauts :ablobwavereverse: :ablobcatcoffee: second best day of the week coming up :awesome: #sunrise #thursday

msquebanh,
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@Heliograph Have an outstanding day!

msquebanh,
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@Heliograph That is the way!!

msquebanh,
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@Heliograph This is so awesome!

msquebanh, to history
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There's some diaspora on Vancouver Island (and several other places in Global North) who have severe , to the point that they're not just into & capitalism but they're so self unaware of internalized racism that they don't even know when racist white folks 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, (edited )
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I'm speaking from both personal & 3rd party witnessed experiences. I have extended family members who suffer from internalized racism. I have had several Asian friends in past, with internalized racism. I have had to work with several Asian coworkers with internalized racism.

I don't go in depth or do long threads about any subjects that I don't have lived experiences with. Most folks figure that fact out, pretty fast. I've refused to talk in depth about subjects I'm inexperienced with.

msquebanh,
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I'm doing my best, to deal with problematic folks in my own POC communities. I ask that you please do your personal best to do similar work with problematic folks in your own communities too.

It takes a village - applies to a lot more than just raising children.

msquebanh,
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@Snowshadow I'll keep trying & hope others will try too 👐

msquebanh,
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It's not about trying to convert anyone either. Although it'd be welcomed if more folks invested more efforts into decolonializing their own minds. It's more about having or gaining courage to have multiple different, meaningful conversations with folks in your community with internalized racism issues. They may not be aware of their own internalized racism. There's always risks that you'll be treated badly because you're challenging their WS indoctrination but it's a risk I'll keep taking.

msquebanh, (edited )
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When POC people who suffer from internalized racism attack me for trying to point out that is self & community harm - I try to keep in mind that no true growth happens for any living being without some levels of discomfort. If you're always comfy, you're likely not growing much at all.

Props to PLANTS - because they've shown me this is a biological fact, from seed to living plant 🌿💗

msquebanh,
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@Snowshadow I wish that would be a societal trend!!! It would be very helpful to move us all forward, into healthy coexistence status quos instead of the shit we have now👐

msquebanh,
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I have experiences with cops/RCMP sending sellout soul Asian officers to deal with me. I have experiences with cops/RCMP sending sellout soul Indigenous to deal with my Indigenous land defenders/water protectors on their own unceded lands too.

All ongoing WS colonialism driven evils. One Chinese RCMP guy was so heavily whitewashed - he's a fanboy of one of the most racist & violent COs in RCMP modern history. An Indigenous DLT RCMP guy was sent to tell natives to leave their own lands.

msquebanh,
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I just told the sellouts exactly what I thought of them. Both were so freaking uncomfortable around me. Both serve evil entities. Both violate & disrespect their own ancestors. Both got scared when I started doing regular night time drum & fire ceremonies. None of them knew what I was singing or talking about because Teochew is a relatively unknown language here. They thought I was an Asian witch.

msquebanh,
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@paninid A feature in all imperialism & colonialism systems.

msquebanh,
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@NadiaPurge I get called a witch by the lowest of racists! I consider it a compliment 🥰

These low brain cell cops don't know how to deal with women like me because we aren't scared of them & we are quicker in wit & we don't behave like activists they're used to dealing with. I actually got told/threatened by 2 different RCMP COs - they got dossier on me & I should watch my back. I said - That's a threat, you cowards. You, watch your fuxking backs. You're the ones ppl hate!

RustyBertrand, to random
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I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

  • Beryl Markham, West with the Night
msquebanh,
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@RustyBertrand I learned it late, more than once.

msquebanh,
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@VeroniqueB99 @RustyBertrand We are far from alone in making that poor personal decision, more than once!

Yeargh, to fujifilm
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Took a trip out to the Pacific Ocean. Went to Second beach at low tide, it was awesome!

msquebanh,
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@Yeargh I know this spot.

blogdiva, to random
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DO NOT WHITEMANSPLAIN TO ME POLITICS

go fucking put your body on the line and protest and fight the injustice of having to choose the bad politics of the fascist lite politician.

then go vote for the fascist lite politician and continue to protest him until we can have actual real democracy defending politicians.

FUCK YOU AND YOUR WHITE PRIVILEGE. i hope everything you take for granted is taken from you. EVERYTHING; because that's a day ending in y for the rest of us Black & Brown folks.

msquebanh,
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@chriswho @blogdiva @stephanie Same vein. Many adults can pay rent & also meet equally those average adult responsibilities. That doesn't mean they've developed critical thinking skills to be able to deal with self imposed ignorance. There is no age limits for bigotry.

msquebanh,
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@blogdiva @stephanie FYI - that white guy blocked me for saying he should think about how he uses certain words 😬

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

msquebanh,
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@sundogplanets I have been keenly following this thread! Thanks, for the updates!

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