xanadian
Seventeen Tribbles in a Starfleet uniform. They/them.
Binational 🇨🇦🇺🇸 bisexual 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ non-binaural 🦻🏼
Believe wherever you go
There'll be enough music to feed your soul
--Johnny Amish
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- Reposted by xanadianMy actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.
- Wirehead Bluesky Poaster Your Score: 66% Engagement Brain LOW Discourse Participation HIGH Reply Guy Energy HIGH Platform Evangelism HIGH Posting Through It LOW Chronically Online HIGH Touch Grass Aversion HIGH Drama Appreciation HIGH Main Character Syndrome HIGH
- Reposted by xanadianSTOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates: Walz is PERSONABLE Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED AOC is CHARISMATIC Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL Newsom Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
- Reposted by xanadianNEW: @rokhanna.bsky.social is calling for Congress to haul in every person who emailed Epstein about visiting his island. He says he won’t rest until those who committed these crimes are held accountable. #EpsteinFiles
- Reposted by xanadianA large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026
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- Reposted by xanadianThis is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
- What's happening with the Catholics right now! (thread, various details)
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- Reposted by xanadianWorth noting that Demand 5 is an end to Kavanaugh Stops
- Reposted by xanadianI'm impressed at how logistically, Sabrina Carpenter is like the perfect height to host the Muppets
- Reposted by xanadianSo there was just a very loud and sustained "Fuck ICE" chant during a pro wrestling show on live primetime television, if you wanna get a sense of the vibe shift. (One of the wrestlers, Brody King, is an outspoken prigressive and wore an "Abolish ICE" shirt at a Mexico show in June.)
- Reposted by xanadianThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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- Reposted by xanadianThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by xanadianmuch depends on legislative language but if you want to put some sand in the gears of ICE this is what it would look like
- Reposted by xanadianin real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
- Reposted by xanadianNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by xanadianNEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
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- Reposted by xanadianGroundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/
- Reposted by xanadianGiven that they are not winning, and in fact probably cannot win, the goal needs to be stopping them, as quickly and permanently as possible, so that we have to rebuild less in the aftermath
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- Reposted by xanadianMost of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
- Reposted by xanadianOnly 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.
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- Reposted by xanadian*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS NEW CALIFORNIA VOTING MAP FOR MIDTERMS
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- Reposted by xanadianNEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY. Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
- Reposted by xanadianSome years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
- Reposted by xanadianFebruary the month that started on Sunday. It's Tuesday.
- Reposted by xanadianI think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
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- Reposted by xanadianIve watched this about 100 times. This is why the internet was invented. Right here. Peak content.
