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Annalise Ase
@ananas-tea.bsky.social
she/they
librarian, linguaphile, fangirl
human rights
spooky season

[profile image is a close-up of a hand holding a white mug with a ghost face on it. banner is a close-up of purple and blue hydrangeas]
I do not want to go back to when only BIPOC and poor and disabled folks were treated this way. I want to become a country where no one is treated this way.
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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FFS. ICE is targeting Native Americans!
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."

(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation. https://to.pbs.org/4q8aZXX
U.S. will leave 66 international organizations as Trump further retreats from global cooperation
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establi...
www.pbs.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 AM
WTF?!
some toolbag is going around deleting voice actors' IMDB credits including mine, well fun fact actually, the most accurate up-to-date list of all my credits is the one i update on tumblr, this literally has everything i've ever been in prozdvoices.tumblr.com/post/1099756...
prozdvoices.tumblr.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now.

You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.
December 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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These evil monsters CANNOT and WILL NOT win. Demand your goddamn reps defend trans people and their rights - ALL trans people, everywhere. Zero excuses.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Translation is a human art. The translator is an artist. Only a human with working knowledge of how the two languages work can do it. AI can approximate the words of the original in another language, but it can't make it readable & beautiful in another language.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Good books in one language deserve good translation into other languages by another artist who takes care with the nuance of words. It's serious disrespect to the original work to take a human out of translation.
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Waisn.org is redesigned and live! Nearly a decade into building a powerful, immigrant-led movement, we finally have a digital home that reflects our bold, welcoming community. Explore resources, find events, take action—then share!
#WAISN #NewWebsite
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The problem is people think they can learn languages without other people. They have themselves thinking they know languages they've never had a conversation in & wouldn't be able to. You need communication with other humans in a language to learn it & keep it up. Americans like shortcuts.
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Read @nicolefoy.bsky.social's investigation that prompted the congressional probe.

We found that agents had detained >170 Americans this year. More than 20 citizens said they were held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their loved ones.
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Destroy ICE and prosecute them all as terrorists.
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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America will always be "white America," America is a white supremacist settler project, white supremacy is the sacred flame tended at the center of America. Gotta be kidding me if you're unfamiliar with all America's history & where we are now under the absolute rule of a racist implementing racism.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I've seen so many people online using the government shutdown as an opportunity to demonize people who receive SNAP benefits, WIC and any kind of government assistance.

Here's the thing:

I agree with those people.

We need to end the WHITE welfare state

BECAUSE welfare works.

A thread:
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM