Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果

Queer, mad, biracial anarchist street medic(s) from Taiwan. Plural system, collectively they/them/tamen

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

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

[Muting/Blocking = Self Care @QueeringPsych]

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

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@HollowPuff I admire your acceptance and gentleness with yourself, but may it be unnecessary in this case all the same. -LB

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@HollowPuff That sounds exhausting! I really hope it helps you handle it better next month ❤️‍🩹

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@BraydenSylva Honestly, I think it's because they're singlets

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@afrodesiaq @AnnaSpiegs This sounds utterly delightful! My body is ready.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@thatstorahbabe Mazel tov!

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@afrodesiaq "Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it!"

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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

[jenny @jennygzhang]

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

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@sml4747 What an excellent comrade! -LB

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

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.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

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

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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.

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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!

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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...

[Always Carry A Bandage ❤️‍🩹 言必信 行必果 @Synthesystem]

@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).