construis-moi la mer dit le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Jumpei Mitsui, Katsushika Hokusai, Great Wave Of Kanagawa, 1830, LEGO
tags : frêles embarcations dans une mer déchaînée, #sea #lego #wave #painting

I went to a talk lately that was mostly about something else, but the speaker came out with:

“If you only remember one thing from this talk, remember this. Everyone in this room who likes helping people, raise your hand.”

Every hand, or nearly every hand, went up.

“If you like asking other people for help, keep your hand up.”

Almost every hand went back down.

“As you can see, people like helping you. When you ask for help, you’re making them feel good, even if you don’t like asking.”

I’ve genuinely forgotten the rest of the presentation but I won’t forget that.

yep yep yep

from @glyph
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

Okay. I need to follow up on something.

https://lgbtqia.space/@AeonCypher/113863338363825355

I was a street medic for years. I could give all kinds of advice about all sorts of things, but here is one about tear gas and paper spray.

LAW (Liquid Antacid and Water at a 50/50 mix) is safe and effective for treating both CS Gas and to pepper spray.

I have personally had my eyes flushed with it and have treated other people with it. I have also experienced this with water. It is orders of magnitude more effective than water.

Proper application is to use a squirt bottle and start at the inner corner of the eye and work outwards. Typically this requires one or two flushings.

This was developed by EMTs during the Anti-Globalization movement of the late 90's and early 00's (which I was a part of).

I was trained as a street medic by the Black Cross Medical Collective which was made up of radical leftist EMTs, Doctors, and Nurses in Oreogon. They ran experiements by literally pepper spraying each other and testing differnt methods and mixes. Nothing was more effective.

I am dismayed by the lost knowledge in the intervening years. I wonder how many activists like me just left because of the atmosphere.

I don't know what other tips I can share, but feel free to ask how we solved problems in those days and take what's useful for your fights now.

be unapologetically weird.

the wrong people will leave.
the right people will stick around.