Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

So how do you become a street medic?

There honestly isn't a simple answer to that.

You're a little bit more free in how you can obtain training and become qualified. You can go the formal route like I did, and you can take it even farther and go to nursing school, paramedic school, whatever. You can also go to informal classes and pick the brains of other street medics or people who have acted in a medical capacity during protests, riots, autonomous zones, w/e.

However you choose to get your training, two things are monumentously important here.

1. Be aware of yourself, your knowledge, your skills, and your limitations. Constantly learn and get better in a practical way, and only do medical procedures you are very comfortable with doing.

2. You will have to sell yourself. This may make formal training helpful here. Having a CPR card, a nursing/medical assistant degree, EMT/medic license may make people within your activist roles take you more seriously as someone who can handle medical emergencies.**

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Street Medic Hip Pocket Class

Introduction/Pre-class.

Hi everyone, my name is Rayne. I am a licensed EMT in the state of Ohio, a long time activist, anarchist, and a nonbinary transgender woman who uses they/she pronouns.

Because of a fun conversation I had with another person on the Fedi about this topic, I became interested in possibly doing like a regular "hip pocket class" (a slang term used in the military for informal classes done during downtime) on "street medic" stuff. I did a poll and people seem to want this so here I am!

Today I'm going to be covering some basics, and this more serves as a "pre class". I have a plan to do class #1 next week, which is going to cover considerations and procedures that focus on what happens before patient contact is made.

But today I just want to go over what a "street medic" is, what functions do they serve, and some considerations if you so choose to be one or be in auxillary to one. Even if you just want to help with emergencies that may occur while doing activism, I think this class will be useful.

Please feel free to reply to me with questions and feedback at anytime.

So let's dive in!

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I know, I didn't need any more tech, but there were Boxing Day sales and epic deals, so...what can I say, I caved...looking forward to streaming from my brand new gaming laptop tonight on Twitch from 10pm UK-time.

#Laptop #Sale #Silly #Wood #Wooden #Chalkboard #Magnetic #MagneticLetters #Toy #Lidl #MiddleOfLidl #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #UKStreamer #WelshStreamer #VarietyStreamer #WeAreTeamXO

A planet and two stars 📷
An exoplanet 10 times the mass of Jupiter (lower right) is revealed with its sun and a background star. It's 100 times the distance from its star that Jupiter is from the Sun. https://go.nasa.gov/3Wyq7z0
#NASAExoplanets

Having never been super into astronomy and star gazing, I have to say seeing Mars and Jupiter (and two of its moons!) tonight with the kids had me giddily excited.

👏 Normalize adding a sentence or paragraph to your methods section that describes what program or coding language you used to perform your work.

Yes, I see your equations. I also took calculus. But if I want to replicate your approach, I need to know how you got your results.

Supplying only the equations and results is the equivalent of saying that you traveled from point A to point B without indicating your mode of travel or which route you took.

Interesting arXiv paper of the day: an amateur astronomer has written a summary paper of his discoveries in an effort to highlight how such contributions can benefit the scientific field.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12543

I am begging literally every website in 2023 to get rid of your damn pop-ups.

No, I don't want to get notifications in my browser.
No, I don't want to sign up for your newsletter.
No, I don't care about a different page than the one I'm reading.

STOP RUINING READING!

Recently joined FSF associate member, Elias, tells us, "I simply want to collaborate with the fsf since I have been using free software for many years and I would like to contribute my little grain of sand now that I can." #FreedomToShare https://u.fsf.org/3v7

I wrote up some of the tricks and tools and tips I've picked up that have made Mastodon more useful, and which people seem to appreciate when I share with them: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/29/some-tricks-to-making-mastodon-way-more-useful/

Can we please stop throwing legit tech under the bus just because cryptocurrency scammers have hijacked those terms?

Examples:

1. P2P - BitTorrent is legit
2. Crypto - cryptography is legit!
3. Metaverse - VR is legit!
4. Token - OAuth is legit!
5. Ledger - spreadsheets are legit!

i'm not soccer guy. i'm 6'5" and played hoops. but i grew up in the 70's and soccer wasn't really a thing here yet. it's cause of pele that it is. if anyone tells you any different they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. #RIPPele #blackmastodon