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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired

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Updates for the Prison Blog of Xial, serving a 15 year sentence in Florida for a crime they did not commit. https://concertinawired.com/intro/ Managed by @fox.pet

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Nov 14

Hey, hi, I'm Jayel! I'm a justice-impacted BIPOC enby held hostage by the Department of Corrections in Florida. For now, this feed references my blog, Concertinawired.com, where I talk about prison and reforms.

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 1d

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial muses about suspected piracy and the removal of music distributed by CDBaby and DistroKid from the Securus media store.
This includes the removal of music by @peppercoyote.bsky.social and Bucktown Tiger.

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30 - Bye, Bye, No CDBaby Pie - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 3d

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses the ongoing government shutdown, the governments refusal to release funds for SNAP, and how this is possibly impacting former prison friend and "little brother" JJ on the outside.

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27 - Government Shutdowns, SNAP benefits, and My Little Brother - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 10d

$25.80 if I want a print copy of a letter from PEN America. Their book, "The Sentences That Create Us" is banned in FL Prisons, and is NOT available on Edovo.
Somehow, this isn't criminal.

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20 - The Banned Books That Create Us - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 14d

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses a message Securus sent to all tablet users recently advertising new features and offers that she thinks would be great to have. Unfortunately it's only for facilities operated by the Arkansas DoC...

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14 - Securus' services to Arkansas are better than Florida - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 18d

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial responds to a complaint of mine and explains why you need to be a registered visitor to send money to inmates in Florida.
/!\ Content warning for references to the various types of abuses that can happen in prison.

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 25d

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial talks excessively long counts, disrupted families, over-sentencing and how money can make all the difference to a sentence.

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04 - Feigned Surprise? - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · 25d

The Assistant Warden said something that bruised me in a way that I hadn't quite felt in a while.
She called me a human, which actually started tears in my eyes.
To have someone HERE acknowledge that being here is not just being a number, that I'm still a person?
Yeah, it bruised, but it was okay.

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 29

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial describes the complex, counter-intuitive and exploitative process of writing to a prison inmate, and how just directly giving the Prison Industrial Complex money to do so may be the least-bad option.

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27 - Counterintuition - Writing a Prisoner - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 24

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial recounts a brief moment of absurdity between fellow inmates whilst waiting for dinner to show.

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24 - Trololo, Prison Edition - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 22

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses how inmates with certain convictions are locked out of rehabilitation and education programs. She also suggests what changes she'd make in an ideal world to fix this.

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20 - Sentenced to Warehousing - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 17

In this series of Concertina Wired shorts, Xial muses about MMO Whales and Power-Levelled Players, Compares Prison to HOAs, and discusses how she'd go about building a shipping-container home.

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17 - A Number of Realizations - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 11

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial again decries the state of food services at her facility. In particular how things get even worse during lockdowns for everyone, but especially those with special diets.

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09 - Lockdowns are a time of meal deprivation - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 10

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial reviews @liu-cixin.bsky.social's sci-fi novel "Three Body Problem"... or she would have, if the Florida DoC had not banned it from being sent to prisons in the state...

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07 - A Very Short Book Review - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 7

Cellie played SNES Donkey Kong Country for the 1st time. He kept dying to these spiked tires. He got frustrated with it and abandoned game, went back to playing Color Explosive Blocks. Tried to explain multiple buttons pressed together, but he was DONE done. :( Sad times.

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 5

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses "Internet Deprivation" inside prisons and how the lack of even limited access to the Internet is detrimental to inmate education and rehabilitation.

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04 - Could Internet Deprivation... - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Sep 1

Yesterday, the 31st of August, my little brother from another mother graduated from the prison yard to the real world yard.
Be safe out there, Joshua. You've got this.

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01 - He left for home yesterday - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 27

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial cheers for JJ, a fellow inmate she's been guiding through prison and advising about release, as his release date rapidly approaches. She, however, mourns that she will not be there for him anymore.

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26 - He's almost to the finish line - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 22

In this Concertina Wired short, Xial laments the loss of the print edition of the IKEA Catalog.

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19 - No More IKEA Catalogs by Mail - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 22

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial discusses the failings of the learning technology available at her facility, what's expected of inmates in learning, and possible solutions to said failings.

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18 - Seeking Donations... - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 20

Staring at a book like it's done me wrong. "Young Man, Be Strong!"
/tableflip!
But I have to, ugh, be strong and do this book for 30 elective hours in this program. "Old Fox, Be Stronger."

Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 20

Just said to my li'l bro, JJ, who EOSes in < 2 weeks (YAY!): "You're going to Macca's, getting a Big Mac, go get some mac 'n cheese, put that on the sandwich and EAT IT. Big Mac and Cheese." Got a laugh out of him. :3

Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 14

In this issue of Concertina Wired, Xial reports on yet another commissary price hike at her facility, discrimination against foreign visitors, and ongoing food service failures.

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12 - Another behind the wires price hike! - Concertina Wired

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Aug 10

"Another number of gentles here tells me their mothers are aging (70s to 80s in age), and the weekly check-ins they were doing going away hurts them deeply."
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17 - The Will of the Incarcerated Many - Concertina Wired

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · Aug 10

“Making incarcerated people pay for communication has a regressive effect on their well-being, on their improvement in prison, and after they are released,” says Wanda Betram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.

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Priced Out of Phone Calls Home

The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

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Xial Lunashine - ConcertinaWired @concertinawired.com · Jul 26

In this Concertina Wired Short, Xial directly comments on Daily Tech News Show's (@dtnsshow.bsky.social) Episode 5067 "Remote Working From Prison" with her own experiences and thanks them for the episode.

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