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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Sep 10

What I need ppl to understand about this situation, along with the mass data breaches, is that there is such a thing as a settler fugitive class. And they benefit every time they invent structures that are vulnerable to fraud and delegate to bad faith actors.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Sep 10

Settlers historically have ruined everything with fraud.
When they adopted wampum from Natives they had to stop cuz ppl were manufacturing fake shells. During colonization "squ*w (slur) men" were condemned for doing all kinds of illegal land grabs. It never ends.

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Sep 10

Again I point to how corrupt a system is that so many bad faith workers can just scam ppl or deny ppl of care. It's like bad man clause needs to be invoked all over again.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Nov 16

Screencap from the linked patreon :

"The Cotton Belt and Square Dancing

Below, I've included various sources advertising "the squ*w dress" for square dancing, showing how the evolution of the cotton industry and the coinciding fashion fads had impact on socialization in the United States.
There was an Aire of respectability when it came to the formal fashion expression in square dance spaces to recognize as well; especially when considering how dominant culture criminalized other counterculture dance movements like jazz. Whether or not intentional, material production ultimately impacted the flow of cultural exchange.
Another element of respectability reflected in square dance clothes and spaces, was also the expressed encouragement of traditional marriage roles. One can see in the sources below the references to couples coordinating their dress and treating square dancing as a couple's activity. The same source also shared how quickly square-dancing attire became accessible with the opening of western style stores and the technique of stitching on trim."

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 2h

Me practicing the rhythm guitar part to “Hangout @ the Halal Food Truck,” the next custom song in my queue

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 2h

Oh yeah the TIRFs and klansfems rule the roost there, it's BAD

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imp (they/she) @imp3tuz.blacksky.app · 17h

You should probably listen to this. Legit the qwhites of white spaces on the web 😭

RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 18h

Dear Black people: don't sign up for Mastodon. The racism there makes Twitter look like a beach day, I'm telling you.

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RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 2h

"KKK racism" is a funny term too lol, you're clearly trying to whitewash POC's actual words about our experiences of racism within queer and trans communities

Puchainus McBussy @namitomoon.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen in some left-leaning circles a weird obsession of labelling white trans people as racists or saying there's a huge epidemic of KKK racism among the trans community and can't help but think is basically this but with transphobia

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RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 2h

I love when people of color go "gosh I hate racism from white people" and white people go "oh so you want all [insert white people with a specific marginalization that doesn't erase their whiteness] to die then"

Y'all are just disingenuous racists smh

Puchainus McBussy @namitomoon.bsky.social · 1d

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

why is this a "major decision"? who the fuck cares about hillary clinton chatting with mike pompeo?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 7h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 5d

This years #PlayingIndian PSA nestled threads
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhN9Jyv/

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 2h

(from the #playingindian post)
bsky.app/profile/xoda...

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 5d

This years #PlayingIndian PSA nestled threads
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhN9Jyv/

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 2h

"Knowing the derogatory history behind the slur "sq*w" can give insight into the patriarchal gender norms that were projected onto Native culture symbols with these "Indian suits" that were marketed as costumes for various events and occasions."

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 2h

Noticing the use of the sq*w slur in costumes as well. #settlercolloquialisms

Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 3h

I did the Native costume search so you won't have to.

Here's the good, the bad, and the absolutely ugly.

CW: Anti Native racism, cultural appropriation, slurs

open.substack.com/pub/francesm...

Oh look it's Native costume time. Again.

CW: Anti Native racism, cultural appropriation, slurs

open.substack.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8h

*cackles in accountability* #KendrickLamar #Drake

A winner with his wins

Kendrick Lamar holding four Grammys ina Canadian tuxedo

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Chocolate Giddy-Up’s Cousin @jocklaflair.bsky.social · 9h

Had to bring this Goldie back.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h

Plumes of smoke from Israeli attacks were seen rising over Gaza hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire plan, brokered by Donald Trump.

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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 18h

www.kxii.com/2025/10/06/d...

Durant High School senior addresses school board after being denied to wear tribal regalia in yearbook photo

In a packed room on Monday, Jordan Davenport stood before the Durant school board with hopes that he would be allowed to wear his tribal regalia in his senior yearbook photo. Jordan and his family are...

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RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 18h

Dear Black people: don't sign up for Mastodon. The racism there makes Twitter look like a beach day, I'm telling you.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 1d

Thanks for everything this month, y'all. Everyone is grateful, even amidst the turmoil.

Now at:

$380/1200 💕💸

#disabledashell #disability #mutualaid

cash.app/$bellad0nna

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erika 🖤 yharnam szn 💀🎃 @skankmar.bsky.social · 2d

i dunno man, you can't announce a whole ass women's tag division and then suddenly vanish most of that side of the roster. sure, there were promos but like i want to see them wrestle

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erika 🖤 yharnam szn 💀🎃 @skankmar.bsky.social · 2d

frankly, this was bullshit you can't tell me they couldn't find time for any other women's match on a long ass homecoming dynamite

Tony Miller @beardedrogue.bsky.social · 2d

My only complaint is that there was only a single women’s match in 2.5 hours… #AEE

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David (D.j.m) @deltajulietmike.bsky.social · 2d

#AEWDynamite

People watching AEW trying to justify everyone's actions STFU it's not about who's a good person it's about who's your favorite war criminal

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erika 🖤 yharnam szn 💀🎃 @skankmar.bsky.social · 2d

jack should have brought his knife to the ring to stab the young bucks

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