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Anneke

@anneke23.bsky.social
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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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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Scientists, get your sh*t together and drum these people out of "Science." Sorry to be so harsh and direct. But, come on!
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Watching Sofia Samodelkina skate always makes me think of the CORRECT context of "I want to see women in women's sports!" YES. Women. Not broken and abused teenage girls. She looks grown and strong and thriving and so utterly joyful. This is what sports, or performance, should be.
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˗ˏˋ quinn 🩷🤍🧡 ˎˊ˗ @quintuplecasts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
many such cases
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a poll for this: (www.cato.org/blog/75-amer...)
70% of Americans say the US would be better off with more people working in factories, but only 33% want to personally work in a factory.
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thread and also: yep, it's literally the regurgitated corpse of homophobic bathroom/sports/safety rhetoric. Which is itself the zombified racist rhetoric of the same exact crap.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Motivation matters: Hard to make govt work if you don't believe in govt. Members of the civic tech movement saw themselves as pursuing prosocial goals of making govt work better, while DOGE was engaged in reactionary politics to make govt smaller and serve the owner class of Silicon Valley.
Civic tech has always focused on making government work for people: understanding community needs, delivering outcomes over outputs, prioritizing effectiveness over efficiency. DOGE and the U.S. Digital Service start from the same premise — government is failing to deliver — but diverge completely in their response. DOGE’s focus is efficiency, cost-cutting, and software modernization…It may seem pedantic, but it’s foundational. Focusing on technology centers the systems and institutions. Focusing on service centers the outcome and the people.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
YUUUUUP. Oh this is so familiar.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh COME. ON.
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Angry Baby Po from Kung Fu Panda
Alt: Angry Baby Po from Kung Fu Panda
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Ms. Respex, LCSW @respexy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Crazy to me that "cope" or "coping" have become insults online. God forbid a person is able to cope. Some of you should learn how to cope tbh.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#NepelaMemorial okay I admit I am biased as hell but I am also mad as hell, WTF was that scoring??
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would expand this to essentially every case where someone thinks DEI is the thing that lost them a job, because no, that's now how that works. The person who beat you is at least as qualified as you are, they're just *more interesting than you*.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dept. of Health employee group chats must be wild. "You'll never guess what I had to write today..."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"a lot of the newspaper people losing their jobs are, like Michelle, really good at what they do, and really care about how they do it, and now all the stories that they would have written will never get written"
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026
"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.
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I am Jane Doe and Blassey Ford @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Lol. Someone did a comment of outrage, methinks. I too hate what happened to autocorrect and grammar checkers since they removed all legit style guides and dictionaries. It was never perfect, but back in the 2000s, it was at least a little helpful for a first pass on copy editing. Now, nope.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is my solution to the "there was unity" vs. "no there wasn't" divide I am currently seeing. We talk a lot about in-group vs. out-group dynamics these days. And we can apply those to this time period too.
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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man won his primary by 30 points.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Beware...of...italics..."
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is so accurate for most public policy issues. Not all…but most. And the odds that your pet issue is an exception are not good.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The risk of someone winning such a suit is very low. But the nuisance effect, potential reputational harm, overall stress, etc, etc, etc are anything but low. So, really, don't send authors unsolicited ideas. It's not nice.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A young artist loses a bet, has a mental breakdown, and then leaves her brother's house to move in with her boyfriend.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
YES SAME HERE.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hahaha same!
The United States "where I've been" map. New York and Virginia are colored in as "lived there". PA, VT, MA, ME, CT, are colored in as "stayed a while". CA, WA, WI, IL, OH, and the rest of the East Coast except GA are colored in as "visited". WV, MI, and IN are colored in as "passed through". Everything else is colored in as "never been".
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muse ✨ @muse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
is your mood tanking? are you getting out the mental knives? before stabbing, please consider: - have you eaten? - have you hydrated? - have you taken necessary meds? - do you need to move/stretch a lil? - could you be tired??? turns out eating helped in my case. wow amazing.
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Worry Lines @worry--lines.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Surprise! Many micro tasks! #comicsky #webcomic #taskmanagement
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Everbright @everbright.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Your local union president would like to remind you that while The Union can fight for Your Issue, we cannot do it effectively without You. If you're pissed about X or Y issue, talk to the people around you and see if they agree with you, and then propose the topic at the next union meeting.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yes - CAN CONFIRM as someone who had that child and apparently was that child as well.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm in this photo and I don't like it.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hey so maybe my teenager isn't the one lacking social skills when the REASON she is having trouble getting along with her peers is our entire household is some variety of queer and said peers are spouting homophobic bullshit???? JUST SAYING.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yeah it’s like people expect sci-fi enthusiasts (especially when they’re white guys) to be unreservedly enthusiastic about this stuff. Which has always been INCORRECT!! Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” anyone?
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Me but with hockey.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/08/2026
It's a small thing, I know, but there really is a difference between "palate cleanser" and "palette cleanser," and also, while we are on the subject, "pallet cleanser," and it is worth making the distinction
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Concrete Blonde - God Is a Bullet
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Okay this is petty but SO IRRITATING: I was trying to Google a somewhat obscure fact (location of a lesser known sporting event) for a fic I'm writing. Actual Google doesn't know! Google AI gave me an answer and then told me someone I know was NOT there won at an age that is mathematically wrong.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yes, this is an important distinction.
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Goodbye Earl!
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Concert history First concert: Peter Paul and Mary Last concert: Weird Al Next concert: Not sure yet! Most seen: Rush, Indigo Girls
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I must reiterate that “Nazis bad” is a good red line to have, not merely morally but also strategically
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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
VERY MUCH this. Since I do data analysis and statistics stuff as my job, I have kind of a weird way of explaining how I look at this topic, but it makes sense to me. (Small thread to follow if you want to hear about it.)
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welcome to the glennaissance @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
in the era when i got into figure skating, a three-time US champion releasing this video would have tanked her scores both domestically and internationally and gotten her disinvited from stars on ice... it's nice to think we've made SOME progress 🥹
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
“What is needed is a program to reconstruct Washington—to rebuild the civil service into a robust driver of liberal goals and ambitions, because none of what we wish to build in the world is possible without a robust administrative state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-rebui...
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How to Rebuild a Civil Service
If we want to be the party of big government, we must become the party of good government.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’m just a woman, staring inside my fridge, begging the random ingredients to get together and make something edible.
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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nicholas Grossman
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You think "all politicians are corrupt" cynicism makes you wise, but it just makes you a mark.
Your belief is false—some politicians are very corrupt, some modestly corrupt, some squeaky clean—and your false belief leads you to accept big corruption as normal when you shouldn't.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization
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