karenm @karenm@librem.one
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- picture of a trashcan in a corner. it has a badly deteriorated diy sign that's hand written in black ink on white paper and clear taped on the lid. it reads "Feminine WASTE ONLY" with the rest peeling and being illegible.
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- landscape photo including the "Fraser river", it's beach and trees lining the "Fraser canyon". there's two people on the beach in the foreground
I like qubes, lineagos, pinephone, sub.media , manjaro, debian, mobian, rust (game, but fuck that gerry guy, and all ceos actually), ark: survival evolved, waiting for my librem5 unicorn (mythical creature)... omg it arrived! welding, auto mechanics, dresses, shoes, apc-s lenses, short film, harm reduction, acab, land back, blm, rebel spell...
Joined Jul 2019
@michael
There's also the problem of (if my memory serves me well) that the symptoms they were taking about sounded similar to what smashing morphine xr is. So it definitely presents an additional challenge..
Also now even tho sometimes we're reversing the opioids, the other stuff is preventing people from coming back (benzos) and also xylazine had a similar side effect, so folks who are trying to get unsick are not going to nlx and risk losing their medicine/fix
@michael
Yeah,
there's a pamphlet going around, about never using alone (https://neverusealone.com/) and now at least two apps. One that can even monitor your vitals for you.
The hard part is for the peers that need lower barrier access to services. Like even yesterday another person died in the shelter due to prohibition type rules at the shelters.
*sigh* - thanks for the yt boost / im sorry i am doing a documentary on this. I wish we lived in a world where ppl didnt have to fight to exist
@michael
Ftp anyways
@michael
At the last training I went to the instructor talked about what the symptoms of too much opioids feels like in the hope some might administer nlx to themselves.
Two peers talked about giving nlx to themselves after that.
I'll try and document it and post a new video next time the training happens
In the meantime here's a 1 minute portion of a proposal for a documentary that I'm applying for funding to do.
Like share yadda yadda
I made a thing and would certainly appreciate if you can like and share this around. This is a part of a grant application and hopefully the start of a film career for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJa6mXn4VMM
There's a peertube video as well, but I'd prefer if you hit the YouTube one this time please. Feel free to download and watch it on kolektiva as well, but the youtube hits are the only one the grant probably matter for as they wouldn't even let me submit a peertube link for my grant application
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I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.
They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.
Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.
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"You want zero trust? Yeah, I've been hurt before."
@Anarchopology@kolektiva.social
We were doing the work anyway, as volunteers, but now we can pay the peers stipends and even last week got a bunch CPR/first aid training for responding to poisoned and unregulated drugs. I think 13 got certificates.
I still love that message, and wanted to re-boost it. Still makes me laugh (o:
@Anarchopology@kolektiva.social
Our group (UNDU) did get some grants, which will give us like ~$345,000 over 3 years.
This is directly funding peers working at outreach distributing harm reduction supplies like sterile needles, pipes, foil, etc.. (30-90 kits a day, with IV supplies, and smoking supplies)
I'm also working on a grant app to document the story. Here's a clip
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/4i9vFro31wGPPs8oQ7bWde
Apply, but do the work while you wait. It's a huge surprise when it comes through and enables a lot more good.
@EmZaid
On the upside, now that people have to have a separate app for private conversations, I just ask them all to element/synapse servers instead. Decentralize (o:
As a bonus because not all my contacts can afford a phone number, it has a much lower barrier to use it and you can create an account without any other credentials/linking it to anything else.
It sure was convenient the way Signal was before though. I did accidentally send unencrypted messages sometimes though too *shrug*
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Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230129.html #APOD
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Hi all, as you may remember, I broke my leg this summer and was out of commission for three months. Unfortunately my day job is outdoors and mostly takes place during those months and I'm now paying medical bills and debts and just incredibly broke and without steady work. I don't have enough money to cover all my expenses this month: if you could help it would mean the world. Cash app: $VickySurge1312 Venmo: Vicky-surge
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Actually, this deserves its own point:
ChatGPT used Kenyan workers for content moderation and paid them at a rate of TWO DOLLARS AN HOUR:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers
Like… we all know the mental health harms of content moderation processes, right? So to put that level of harm onto undervalued already-exploited workers is just… morally disgusting.
Which might improve the devices in the future, (better chips and more resources) I'm (at) karen.m:matrix (dot) org if you'd like to ask me anything more specific about pinephones, or I can reply here...
Ordered my librem5 in July 2019, still waiting for it... So i got nothing on that one yet, PP only took about 2 months.
@atomicpoet
And finally, without the ppkb the pp is lucky to get 3-4 hours per charge. It's a battery hog if you use it for anything other than just text and phone, as it's essentially a very tiny under powered, under resourced (ram and disk space) laptop, with bad/broken UI and tons of bugs.
Im glad to have it though, im still going to mess around with xen in a qubes inspired way. hope good programmers contribute more towards Linux phones to help improve them and in the end improve uptake
PP, and installating multiple mirageos VMs to try and compartmentalize and minimize the resources needed to run each "app". For me fediverse and newpipe ended up being problems, cause I dont know what to replace them with. Fluffychat, axolotl (signal), seemed like the best candidates for the rest. I've had best luck with mobian on phosh (gnome) and postmarketos. Manjaro is my daily driver OS's on most of my PCs/laptops, but not pp because they focus on KDE/plasma and I dont like it
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- picture of a trashcan in a corner. it has a badly deteriorated diy sign that's hand written in black ink on white paper and clear taped on the lid. it reads "Feminine WASTE ONLY" with the rest peeling and being illegible.
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- landscape photo including the "Fraser river", it's beach and trees lining the "Fraser canyon". there's two people on the beach in the foreground
I like qubes, lineagos, pinephone, sub.media , manjaro, debian, mobian, rust (game, but fuck that gerry guy, and all ceos actually), ark: survival evolved, waiting for my librem5 unicorn (mythical creature)... omg it arrived! welding, auto mechanics, dresses, shoes, apc-s lenses, short film, harm reduction, acab, land back, blm, rebel spell...
Joined Jul 2019
