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XianJaneway
@xianjaneway.bsky.social
#ADHD patient advocate, #woodworker, #reseller, & thrifting expert. Former conservative #Evangelical complementarian, abuse survivor, & not Kate Mulgrew. Married ~20yrs, mother of queer kids, she/her
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My NYT obit on Aldrich Ames, CIA turncoat for the Russians. I interviewed him in the county lockup after his arrest in 1994, then by telephone for eight hours. Deluded, deeply alcoholic, he thought he could lift up the hood of history and tinker with the engine.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
Aldrich Ames, C.I.A. Turncoat Who Helped the Soviets, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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That's easy. If Mike Johnson sees his shadow, it's six more weeks of recess.
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Good point.
Do they have any problem w/ the fact that the president started a war without them?
I was told that Congress was finally back in session today.

How, exactly, are we going to be able to tell?
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
At current prices, this means your average nickel has 1¢ worth of copper, & 1¢ worth of nickel.

The money is still worth more.
NICKEL SURGES MORE THAN 9% ON LME, MOST SINCE DEC 2022
January 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Americans were offered a choose-your-own-adventure story of the attempted government throw of January 6, 2021. It was the ultimate victory for the country's right-wing propaganda machine.

Truly a stunning thing to behold.

badfaithtimes.com/insurrection...
Insurrection Or Non-Event? It's Up To You.
The history of January 6 cannot be muddled. We saw what happened and we won’t be gaslighted.
badfaithtimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Also CSAM isn't 'inappropriate' (taking issue with headline here...)
I’m trying to imagine the discourse if George Soros owned companies that produced both CSAM and cars that go rogue and kill people.
What is the point of having laws if nobody will enforce them?
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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More media with space dogfights needs an equivalent of the Death Blossom.

You have all three dimensions, for the love of galactic peace *use them* once in a while.
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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I don’t think people should be asked to choose a favorite between cats and dogs or between the mountains and the beach. They’re all good.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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this is not a moral way to think
genuinely wild how like, this is just a step away from even worse things being suggested
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Gah, I ADORED The Last Starfighter as a kid. 😍
January 6, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Best way to get 6 months of free rent: give your friend a tiny house if you win it!!!!
And of course if by chance I have inherited my dad’s bizarre luck at winning completely random sweepstakes, you can have it! 😹
January 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Help me win a tiny house--by entering to win the same tiny house!

Yes, it's true: if you use my link to enter to win, I get more entries too!

contest.bunkielife.com/ref/6959b27a...
I just entered to win the Alcove 160 Bunkie with Loft! (a $24,495 value!)
contest.bunkielife.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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I don’t find Zohran uniquely charismatic as much as I find him authentically caring and authentically optimistic and those qualities mirror his political agenda, and the great thing about him not being uniquely charismatic is that you can have a version of it in a thousand places
January 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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France, perhaps the most prominent example of a social democracy, has no expensive fashion brands. The Champps-Elyees is famously lined with Dollar Trees and TJ Maxx.
January 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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They think democratic socialist countries and social democratic societies don’t have nice things which is in fact that historically stated reasoning behind moving to create those societies
New York Post looks normal
January 1, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.

Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”

Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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If you still for some reason post your art on Twitter - they added "edit" button to every image, which opens AI prompt letting anybody to modify it and post as their own.
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Izzy: got Ed an ADHD evaluation.
Ed: got Izzy a massage & a card apologizing for forgetting a present last year
what did ed and izzy get each other for christmas? :)
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The kids are squealing, "Christmas is tomorrow!!!"
And all I'm thinking is, "All the presents are hidden in the bus with a crap-ton of tools, & I hope to God in heaven I got enough."
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Don't blame Canada.
🍁
It’s impossible to overstate what a big deal this is for this legendary Kentucky brand. The last time Jim Beam closed down like this was during Prohibition. Trump’s tariffs & fight with Canada are surely to blame.

www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I could be Canadian!
Thanks to the new change in their laws, my Great-Grandmother makes me eligible for Canadian Citizenship!
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Same organization that allowed a pedophile rapist to go completely unchallenged for DECADES in USA Gymnastics.
People to victims: "Why didn't you tell someone!?"
Victims: "We did!!!!"
In the Epstein files: Maria Farmer reported Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's activities to the FBI in 1996.

Read the FBI report:
December 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM