Quick direct action tips from your friendly local street medics:
- Bring a buddy
- Remove contacts and tampons
- Fill out a jail support form
- Tell someone who isn't in the streets, check in if you can
- Drink water
- Use water ONLY to flush pepper spray and tear gas from eyes
I was TERRIFIED of taking student loans.
After the whole 90s when adults put the fear of god on credit card debt, I assumed I should be avoiding debt forever
And then all of a sudden, every ‘knowledgeable’ adult swore that student loan debt was way different & not a big deal
@Secretly_we We make rules and significant life decisions collectively, via consensus. I recognize our advantage here as a small system that has developed fairly solid communication, but it has done wonders for our cooperation and general morale. -LB
wrote about the obsession with dividing food into neat categories of "white" vs. "poc," "bland" vs. "seasoned," "mild" vs. "spicy," and how we're stuck performing the same spectacle about what we eat and, thus, who we are https://t.co/FBQ04PaKqP @bonappetit
@Ancommiey Make endlessly branching threads for organizing until you can't tell which ones apply to which action/organization/etc. because half of them have names like "fluffy bunny party 🔥"
Oh, and use the disappearing messages feature
@constconstruct I do not completely rule out the possibility some of these are puppet accounts of systems that do know better, but have such a frothing hatred of endogenic systems and their allies that they deliberately co-opt plural terminology in a bid to define our community out of existence.
@constconstruct I have seen such takes periodically before, but have been encountering it more recently. These are typically from newish accounts, probably by newly discovered systems, so it is plausible they are simply ignorant. That said, ignorant takes can be harmful and should be addressed.
@whyevernotso @Antimoon_ @AlexisuwuAlexis I mean no disrespect, but I disagree with this completely. What you describe sounds a lot more like the distinction between DID and OSDD on the dx side, and between fully differentiated plural systems and median systems on the social end.
PSA: "plural" does not mean "person/system with DID/OSDD". It's a long established community term for describing those who experience multiple selves (etc.) in one body. Being plural is a matter of culture and identity, it's not bound to any diagnosis or theory of multiplicity.
@afrodesiaq Hm. Two birds with one stone, I suppose. I do find some DNIs fundamentally irritating, especially when buried in a pinned thread, linked elsewhere (e.g. carrds), or motivated by bigotry. We will implement preemptive DNI blocking.
I feel a bit awkward when people whose DNIs apply to us interact with our posts. I might consider their initiative implicit consent, but not everyone checks profiles before interacting! Is it better to ignore them? Are there any commonly accepted etiquette guidelines on this? -LB
@Antimoon_ @AlexisuwuAlexis A person/system may fit the DID criteria but not have a dx, or not identify with the dx (like us). A person/system may fit the definition for plural but not identify with the term, the community, or either. So it can be represented by a Venn diagram, but I feel that is reductive.
@Antimoon_ @AlexisuwuAlexis They are not mutually exclusive, but are functionally different kinds of categories. DID is a psychiatric diagnosis with features that can be described in plural terms; plural is a self-assigned identity whose definition includes features of DID. Neither is compulsory!
@afrodesiaq I have considered just preemptively blocking anyone we encounter who had a DNI that applies to us, which would prevent any violation thereof, accidental or otherwise...
@afrodesiaq I agree for the most part, but am still concerned about cases where the other party interacted not knowing we are one of their DNIs, either because they did not read our profile or the information in question isn't in our profile (or it is but might not be easily parsed as such).