Anneke
@anneke23.bsky.social
Name rhymes with Monica. She/her, 40something. Queer Progressive Christian, mama, hockey fan, professional research geek. Capital District, NY. From the Government and (usually) here to help, but this account does not represent my employer in any way.
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Anneke
@anneke23.bsky.social
· Nov 11
So. Since I've been talking about people picking lanes and working in them, I'm going to pin a list of mine - the skills I have, the topics I generally know enough about to be actually useful in the Current Situation, etc.
Also, I am open to being reached out to about any of these things!
Also, I am open to being reached out to about any of these things!
Great thread, up and down.
This particular bit reminds me of my beloved SCA chirurgeon mentor, who would often threaten to bring people back from the brink in the most painful ways possible as punishment for their dumbassery.
This particular bit reminds me of my beloved SCA chirurgeon mentor, who would often threaten to bring people back from the brink in the most painful ways possible as punishment for their dumbassery.
“They lost their composure and would not listen to any advice being given to them,” Fish and Game officials wrote in a press release.
Gonna lose my composure and put my boot to their asses.
Gonna lose my composure and put my boot to their asses.
December 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Great thread, up and down.
This particular bit reminds me of my beloved SCA chirurgeon mentor, who would often threaten to bring people back from the brink in the most painful ways possible as punishment for their dumbassery.
This particular bit reminds me of my beloved SCA chirurgeon mentor, who would often threaten to bring people back from the brink in the most painful ways possible as punishment for their dumbassery.
Important point.
Also, again, a reminder that "AI" is such a broad and useless marketing term that it's almost entirely useless. I can't say I will never use "AI" because it covers so much programming ground, including ground previously not under its umbrella. I can say what creative things I won't use it *for.*
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Important point.
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Please also note this is obviously the spread-bigotry-against-trans-people games.
Fuck all of this, forever.
Fuck all of this, forever.
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Please also note this is obviously the spread-bigotry-against-trans-people games.
Fuck all of this, forever.
Fuck all of this, forever.
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Yes. And in response to that Savage article, here's the NCES data on the actual racial and ethnic composition of US college faculty.
nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...
nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yes. And in response to that Savage article, here's the NCES data on the actual racial and ethnic composition of US college faculty.
nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...
nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...
Similarly I remember research about men perceiving a group that is 1/6 women as “balanced” and 1/3 women as overrepresenting women.
There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Similarly I remember research about men perceiving a group that is 1/6 women as “balanced” and 1/3 women as overrepresenting women.
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YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.
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(Please note, gender affirming care has a lower regret rate than back surgery!)
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
(Please note, gender affirming care has a lower regret rate than back surgery!)
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This is why we are on the side of sex work is work and sex workers are working class on this page. They are real ones.
Strippers are now the No. 1 donor of toys to children's hospital in Portland.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
This year, they broke their own record raising over $183,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital having a successful Tata for Toys once again.
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is why we are on the side of sex work is work and sex workers are working class on this page. They are real ones.
All of Dar Williams' Iowa really, but especially this part:
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
And you were not thinking of me
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
And you were not thinking of me
Name your fav song lyric.
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
All of Dar Williams' Iowa really, but especially this part:
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
And you were not thinking of me
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
And you were not thinking of me
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Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.
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One of the worst developments of the last ~20 years has been that in certain professions, 5% are superstars and 95% eat cat food for dinner.
Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.
Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One of the worst developments of the last ~20 years has been that in certain professions, 5% are superstars and 95% eat cat food for dinner.
Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.
Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.
The last time this was an issue?
Because the bus company kept canceling due to sick bus drivers and it was just easier to take kid to school consistently rather than deal with the random last minute cancellations that were happening several times a month, more than once a week on average.
Because the bus company kept canceling due to sick bus drivers and it was just easier to take kid to school consistently rather than deal with the random last minute cancellations that were happening several times a month, more than once a week on average.
Why the fuck is everybody dropping off their kid at school personally like a little chauffeur? Put them on the fucking bus, you're not a fuckin driver. You're not a fucking slave.
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The last time this was an issue?
Because the bus company kept canceling due to sick bus drivers and it was just easier to take kid to school consistently rather than deal with the random last minute cancellations that were happening several times a month, more than once a week on average.
Because the bus company kept canceling due to sick bus drivers and it was just easier to take kid to school consistently rather than deal with the random last minute cancellations that were happening several times a month, more than once a week on average.
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I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
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OP realized it later but if you add This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner also made arguably the best mockumentary of all time and this was all over an eight year period
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
OP realized it later but if you add This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner also made arguably the best mockumentary of all time and this was all over an eight year period
I am of that age as well and have a teenager and a recently no longer teenager and I feel this in my entire soul.
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I am of that age as well and have a teenager and a recently no longer teenager and I feel this in my entire soul.
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EVERY time SDPN drops a trade related podcast, an even bigger trade occurs
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
EVERY time SDPN drops a trade related podcast, an even bigger trade occurs
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Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
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there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
Love when you are going about your normal business and get punched in the metaphorical face by traumatic memories. Love that for me today.
Ow.
Ow.
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Love when you are going about your normal business and get punched in the metaphorical face by traumatic memories. Love that for me today.
Ow.
Ow.
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ADHD in a nutshell:
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ADHD in a nutshell:
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See the replies for interesting and informative convos.
Where did the picture of the guillotine as solely a threat to the wealthy come from?
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
See the replies for interesting and informative convos.
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IM LISTENIN TO THE FUCKIN SONG!
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
IM LISTENIN TO THE FUCKIN SONG!