!Thanks sdf!
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agk's phlog 
9 Mar 2021 @ 2249
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written on COMmode with x61 
while roommate watches Oprah's 
interview with Meghan Markle 
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It was a pleasure talking with jasmaz and peron 
tonight on sdf's OpenVOIP. Thank you publius for 
bringing it back! We enjoyed each other's voices 
across UTC offsets and international borders.

In Port au Prince, Haiti, after the 2010 
earthquake made everything fall down, in a 
Petionville tent camp of people displaced from 
their pancaked homes, a family set up a little 
cinema in their shelter of bedsheets draped over 
sticks.

They hung a hand-written sign on a scrap of 
paperboard outside that said "No Stress Ciné." 
I think they were playing the same film 
(Shottas) every time I visited. 

No Stress Ciné was low-tech, convivial, tiny, 
a relief from the concrete dust, devastation, 
intense heat, and powerless anger of the day. 
During disaster it feels very good to give. 
It is hard to rest.

During this year of plague and recession, ice 
storms, fires, and floods, sdf has been my No 
Stress Ciné. Gopher helps me write, let go of 
the day, and sleep well. I chat on com, listen 
to anonradio, and laugh.

The Place Boyer Camp No Stress Ciné would have 
been stressful run by a big NGO who required an 
ID card to enter, US 82nd Airborne gunners on 
the walls, infantry "guarding" the equipment. 

This is how everything else was: food distro, 
orthopedic hospitals, morgues. My imaginary 
Beaucoup Stress Ciné might show blockbuster 
Marvel movies or Wonder Woman 1984 on a large 
screen, air-conditioned, with potable water on 
tap. It would suck like Zoom sucks. 

No stress comes when we do it together, for each 
other--low-tech, informal, international, and 
accessible. I like this server and the community 
we share very much.