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Anne Hjortshøj
@annesaurus.bsky.social
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The slang-term-to-headline-usage cycle for the phrase "isn't beating the allegations" and its variants is complete, everyone can move on.
January 5, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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This Portland Press Herald review of a boutique listed on a NY Times “best of” list is a masterclass in polite Maine evisceration. So many levels of shade.

(For the uninitiated, “Connecticut” is shorthand for…a lot.)

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December 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I don't think people comprehend how badly Jamaica is about to be hit, Kingston in particular.
Photo of giant whirling red hurricane about to hit Jamaica. From post by Meteorologist Dylan Federico: Wow. I can’t believe this is happening again. It feels like every year it’s the new normal to have at least one catastrophic hurricane that changes a community forever. This year that storm will be Melissa. This will be a deadly and historic hurricane strike for Jamaica — which has never experienced a Category 5 hurricane. Its slow movement is a worst case scenario for Jamaica. This means multiple days of damaging hurricane force winds & heavy rain. The result will be catastrophic flooding and numerous mudslides. Roads & bridges washed away by the flooding will isolate communities for long periods of time. The core of destructive winds will cause extensive damage to infrastructure — which means long duration power outages and communications failure across the island. Additionally, life threatening storm surge will cause further destruction along the coast when Melissa makes landfall Monday night into Tuesday morning. Kingston is particularly at risk being on the southern facing side of the island. On a human level, my heart hurts for the people of Jamaica because I know what’s coming. I’ve seen this first hand with Katrina and Ian. Both storms, especially Ian scared me for life and really changed my perspective of these deadly storms. These are real people and their communities, homes, schools, businesses, memories are going to be changed forever. Our friends in Jamaica will need all the humanitarian help they can get once Melissa has moved away. If a local organization is bringing food & water down there don’t hesitate to donate. I will be. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jamaica. Check back here for frequent updates on Melissa.
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I have to say, I agree with the author's take, as far as a solution. Do not work with this firm. I mean, with numbers like these...why would you?
Mothership allegedly has a political efficiency rate of ~1.6% of funds reaching candidates. Miserably bad, in other words.
August 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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This right here is the core of the problem. data4democracy.substack.com/i/169971521/...
August 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Excellent, succinct case study, which should be required reading for any Democratic campaign org. bsky.app/profile/espi...
You can’t run a Zohran Mamdani in every district in America, but you can run a Zohran Mamdani–style campaign almost everywhere. These are the lessons centrist Democrats in purple areas could stand to learn. Both the electorate and the media environment are changing quickly, and Democrats need to adapt to a new way of doing business.
June 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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@dartadams.bsky.social in the screenshot of the year. Great parting words, as well.
Dart Adams receives a “Dart Adams Way” street sign from mayor Michelle Wu
June 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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From Boston.
Snow accumulation, early February, 2015. Snow is five feet deep.
January 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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No, “lame duck” is very specifically not that. He can do a lot in his second term, remember.
January 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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This quote, from Bloomberg’s epic dissection of Nike’s troubles, is not something I’d ever expected to read in a tech-friendly publication. “Data-driven” is typically gospel. The article also discusses Bain’s cultural influence on the company. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
September 14, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Here’s the new one
The new Medium logo, which is a partial screengrab of the wordmark?
September 2, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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Periodic reminder that you are never required to have a take.
July 14, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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What is this crap AI illustration, Boston Globe? Beyond it being the usual overworked, lurid mess, did anyone bother to count the irises?
June 3, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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The Medium logo was done by a vendor, as far as I can tell (I am not going to name and shame them here, I'm not a jerk, and people can do their own research). Apparently this one gets re-used a lot, though.

Here's yet another version, apparently from the Bank of St. Petersburg?
Another (ahem) "riff" on the Yoshimura logo, this time for the Bank St. Petersburg
May 29, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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There's this really cool resource called Logo Archive, that I've become familiar with via its Substack.

Today I saw, in passing, a Rei Yoshimura logo for Japan Tobacco Inc., circa 1975. And it looked familiar! Why?

Because it was used for a different platform, more recently (but flipped).
Japan Tobacco Inc. logo system by Rei Yoshimura Medium's "new" logo, circa 2020
May 29, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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This is how advances work.
Penguin Random House US has guidelines for who gets what advance: Category 1: Lead titles with a sales goal of 75,000 units and up Advance: $500,000 and up Category 2: Titles with a sales goal of 25,000-75,000 units Advance: $150,000-$500,000 Category 3: Titles with a sales goal of 10,000-25,000 units Advance: $50,000- $150,000 Category 4: Titles with a sales goal of 5,000 to 10,000 units Advance: $50,000 or less Is anyone else alarmed that the top tier is book sales of 75,000 units and up? One post on Substack could get more views than that…..
April 23, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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I'll screenshot the big takeaways. First up: large social media followings mean bigger advances.
These big advances, the authors have quite a bit of their own infrastructure with them. They have their own publicists. They have their own social media people. They have their own newsletters. So they actually are able—we are able to offload a good amount of the work, not all the time, but that is actually a factor in why we sometimes pay these big advances, because the authors are actually capable of helping us a lot. — Jonathan Karp, CEO, Simon & Schuster
April 23, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Ever since I started auto-blocking screenshotted reposts from The Bad Places, I’ve started noticing which accounts I follow are mostly that. I love George Takei, but I don’t need this in my feed constantly. Bye, George.
A screenshot of a skeet by George Takei, where he’s reposted a Tweet via screenshot.
April 21, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Welcome to the best day of the year in Boston! Can’t wait to walk around a bit later to see the later runners come in, the magnolias (peaking or-near-peak today, perfectly), the daffodils in pots all around the Back Bay, & all the day drinkers enjoying their day off. Love you, Boston. Happy spring.
A TV showing the men’s Boston Marathon winner coming in to the finish line in Boston’s Back Bay, on a perfect spring day.
April 15, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Thelma Golden on Black History Month, in the most recent New Yorker. The art world needs more of this. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
February 5, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Interesting article in Tablet Magazine: surveys have long concluded that educated people are less anti-semitic, but it's likely that they've learned to game surveys (ie, to lie). I assume that the same applies to levels of racism and misogyny among educated people. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...
A large problem with this widely held belief—which has dominated the American Jewish community’s approach to combatting hatred since the days of Louis Brandeis—is that it depends on survey questions that probably fail to capture anti-Semitism among the well-educated. For the most part, these studies measure anti-Semitism simply by asking respondents how they feel about Jews, or by asking whether they agree with blatantly anti-Semitic stereotypes. But educated people, being experienced test takers, know these to be “wrong” answers.
January 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Good summary of the big problem with AI hype, from Cory Doctorow (from locusmag.com/2023/12/comm...)
January 8, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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Can we not do this, Boston Globe?
January 5, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Coda to the earlier thread I posted, regarding Penn's treatment of Katalin Karikó: it's worse than I thought.
October 5, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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Reasonable people: "Teachers are underpaid and stretched to the limit."

Boston Magazine:
September 2, 2023 at 8:27 PM