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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈

@annedougherty.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 Writer and professional content nerd who is passionate about film, good sound, curling, evenly spaced crochet stitches, and the Oxford comma. #butchesagainsttransphobia #contentstrategy #contentdesign

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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Just a reminder that something like half the government runs out of money in about 10 days.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just a reminder: The federal Government is only funded for another 23 days #currentaffairs #govshutdown2026
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
SHELVE YOUR SHORTSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
According to @lastweektonight.com, ICE is using footage from Star Wars in recruiting videos. Where the actual f**k is the Disney legal team now? Or do they prefer suing daycare centers that paint Mickey Mouse on their walls?
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Handy guide to your rights in DC from our friends @aclu.org - www.acludc.org/know-your-ri... #DCTakeover #knowyourrights
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Demonstrations in D.C. | ACLU of DC
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out into the streets.The First Amendm...
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I'm attending this event. Repost if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift.manyworldswriting.com
worldshift.manyworldswriting.com
Worldshift: The Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit 2025
Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@netflix.com canceled FUBAR and The Residence, and @usanetwork.bsky.social canceled Resident Alien. Do these people not understand how much we need levity right now?
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The whole use chopsticks to each snacks that Will make your fingers messy is 100% legit.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Rewatching Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania and it still bugs me that they think Scott Lang only has 6 holes
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I am generally not on the side of multibillion dollar corporations, but f**k midjourney and their theivery.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/06/2025
This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Every time I think about my upbringing as a Catholic I remember that no one has ever given me a satisfactory answer to what God would have done if Judas had exercised free will and refused to turn Jesus in the the Pharasees. Talk about not having a plan b.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Looking forward to daily boil water notices and the Cuyahoga River fires.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I've been in Italy when there's no Pope. I can say w/100% certainty the Italians are freaking the frak out right now. What I don't understand is the U.S. news media's fascination with the conclave when people are literally being starved to death in Gaza. Not starving...being starved deliberately.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'mma just leave this right here.
Four panel cartoon attributed to Mike Stanfill. Panel 1 (Upper Left Corner): A white male in a red tshirt and red baseball cap says 'Yeah, I voted for Trump but I didn't vote to kill medicaid for food stamps or sell out to Russia or make prices higher or to wreck the economy!' Panel 2 (Upper Right Corner): Same speaker continues 'Or let disease spread almost unchecked or make an enemy of Canada or wreck social security or turn this country into a virtual dictatorship!' Panel 3 (Lower Left Corner): Same speaker continues 'I didn't vote for America to become the laughing stock of the god damned world!' Panel 4 (Lower Right Corner): White, gender neutral person in glasses with brown hair wearing a blue shirt that says EFF 47 says 'Yes. Yes, you did."
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
FFS @nytimes.com just called trading and buying cryptocurrency "an industry." I have lost my ability to even.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
But in-person collaboration! www.productiveflourishing.com/p/back-to-ba...
productiveflourishing.com
Back-to-Back Meetings Harm You, Your Effectiveness, and Your Team
Even if you were a bit more efficient with back-to-back meetings, the cost still may be too high
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
On the left: Without a Content Strategist On the right: With a Content Strategist Words matter
Movie poster for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning features a picture of Tom Cruise's face looking beat up.Movie Poster for Mission Impossible 8. Features Tom Cruise's face looking beat-up. Has been altered to remove The from the subtitle changing the title of the movie to Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
If we needed more proof that 45/47 isn't a "traditional Republican" wamu.org/story/25/05/...
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Trump's VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program
The VA Servicing Purchase program has helped about 20,000 veterans avoid foreclosure. But Republicans in Congress have been critical of the program, saying it puts too much taxpayer money at risk.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Nothing says you work in an engineering driven organization more than a 60 minute webinar on code testing capabilities and strategy 🙄
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Maybe, just maybe, if anyone ever called the agency by it's full name people would understand why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are so important. FFS people, words matter.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@erinbschroeder.bsky.social Looks like we might not be getting our hate-watch documentary www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Fyre Festival 2 postponed, US media reports
The organisers of the failed 2017 Fyre Festival are reportedly looking for a new location for the reboot.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
After the election, convos at home went like this: "When we have to..." [flee], [get a gun license], etc until I asked for "If we have to..." for anxiety reduction. With 30 years' experience as an economist, she said to me, "When we have a recession in the next four years..." and I allowed it.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Poor Des Moines. Little blue dot in a sea of red reaping what the rest of the state sowed.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.
desmoinesregister.com
Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility
A statement from Whirlpool said the layoffs are the result of reduced consumer demand for products made in Amana, primarily refrigeration units.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Signal: If it's good enough to plan a war, it's good enough for your family chat about pizza night! #SayNotoWhatsApp
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
But what is POTUS doing to stop the flow of unhatched, unfertilized bird ova from Canada? (Yes, this is sarcasm) www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...
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U.S. sees large rise in border seizures of eggs, while fentanyl rate falls
President Trump cites risks from fentanyl to justify tariffs on Canada and Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says interceptions of eggs are way up, compared to 63 fentanyl cases last month.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I just started watching Con Man, which was a crowd-financed web series in 2015. Alan Tudyk is an American treasure. That is all.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 25/03/2025
What a great use of passive voice. No indication that Trump is intentionally causing this crisis for no purpose or that this crisis didn’t exist three months ago. The media is a total failure.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Spicy opinion: There is never any need for the word utilize. Just say use. It means the same thing. #plainlanguage #contentdesign
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The world is burning and I'm literally sitting here teaching a chatbot how to do my job.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Yeah, I really want these folks in charge of NASA www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
nbcnews.com
SpaceX again loses its Starship rocket on test flight after explosion during previous attempt
A little over 8 minutes into the flight, live video showed the upper-stage vehicle spinning in space before all communication was lost.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Dear @housedemocrats.bsky.social, This is how you protest. Not just by sitting in the chamber like dummies. Standing up and silently turning your backs during the speech would have made for amazing television. You remember television, the thing that put JFK over the edge with Nixon.
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Small federal agency blocks DOGE employees from entering its building
The USADF, an independent agency created by Congress and focused on African economic development, resisted letting in DOGE employees who were there to fire staff.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hi, I'm Anne. Shannon and Erin are smart and I sign on to their message.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I have come to the conclusion recently that pretty much everyone in UX who is trying to do good is really working in harm reduction.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I am 2 hours into my 40 days without chocolate and I'm already salty about it.
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Scoops @scooptown.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
With Treason Dominos :) Education leads to Revelation allowing for Revolution!
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Small point of linguistic order: If you're talking into a camera behind a microphone you are doing TV not radio. Most of these tools with "podcasts" are doing TV.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
👇 You. Yes you.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Watched The Apprentice (2024) last night. I can see what TFG would hate to admit that he stole his whole technique from Roy Cohn, the most self-hating homosexual in America. Sebastian Stan did a good job with the mouth movements but it wasn't enough to sound alike.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Posting this because I'm pretty sure if it hasn't yet, it will be gone from the CDC website soon enough. 2024 Adult Immunization Schedule (PDF) - bit.ly/AdultImmuniz...
Bit.ly QR code for URL to 2024 Adult Immunization Schedule pdf
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I'm seeing a lot of calls for economic blackouts - excepting local businesses. Do folks realize that means not using any social media platform that shows them ads? I'm thinking probably they don't.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
abcnews.go.com
Fyre Festival 2 ticket sales, details announced in reboot of infamous event
Tickets went on sale Monday for Fyre Festival 2, nearly eight years after the infamous Bahamas festival that led to its founder being convicted of wire fraud.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Legit the most #contentstrategy thing I've seen in a while.
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This happened over the weekend. Just so you know the world isn't all bad.
Pink orchid blooms against a white wall
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This 👇
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
TL;DR: Yes, you probably need a booster. Go 👏 get 👏 your 👏 MMR 👏 booster 👏 while 👏 you 👏 still 👏 can 👏 www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Do adults need a vaccine booster?
With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
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