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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wintour‘s statement frames the show as “postponed.”

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Stellar photo editing in today's Guardian (and best of luck to Count Binface). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

From “oh no” to “extremely Boston” in two paragraphs

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Akrobatik is playing Titus Sparrow Park on Weds? Yes please.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

So apparently the "boom" everyone heard was potentially a meteor? I don't like reposting Twitter stuff, but this is where a friend saw the explanation and passed it along. See alt text for original link.

Reports of an explosion hears around Boston I believe are going to be a rather significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere. Very large "flash" detected by GOES-19 GLM that does not correlate with active thunderstorms. https://x.com/nstewwx/status/2060791009353617469?s=46

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The term "private credit" is about to show up in public discourse. When paired with "special-purpose vehicle" (SPV), it's a loan type that doesn't show up on the borrower's books...and is backed by your 401k, IRA, or life insurance plan. bsky.app/profile/just...

But the name's a little bit funny, it shouldn't be called private credit because it's actually a lot of their investors are your 401k, your IRA, your life insurance plan. If your parents have a pension, that's where a lot of that money gets invested, and so it has a public impact. So when you think about Facebook, we hear a lot about their big Louisiana data center, the Meta Data Center. That is a $27 billion facility that is not on Facebook's books. It is not a loan that they took out. It's not money that they're paying directly. It is a special purpose vehicle, an SPV, so a distinct LLC that receives money from a private credit loan.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The slang-term-to-headline-usage cycle for the phrase "isn't beating the allegations" and its variants is complete, everyone can move on.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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.) archive.is/UVH0l

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

This right here is the core of the problem. data4democracy.substack.com/i/169971521/...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

@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

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

No, “lame duck” is very specifically not that. He can do a lot in his second term, remember.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

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...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

Periodic reminder that you are never required to have a take.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

What is this crap AI illustration, Boston Globe? Beyond it being the usual overworked, lurid mess, did anyone bother to count the irises?

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

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?

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

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).

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

I'll screenshot the big takeaways. First up: large social media followings mean bigger advances.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

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.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

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.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Thelma Golden on Black History Month, in the most recent New Yorker. The art world needs more of this. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

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.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Good summary of the big problem with AI hype, from Cory Doctorow (from locusmag.com/2023/12/comm...)

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Can we not do this, Boston Globe?

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Coda to the earlier thread I posted, regarding Penn's treatment of Katalin Karikó: it's worse than I thought.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Reasonable people: "Teachers are underpaid and stretched to the limit." Boston Magazine:

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

See also their treatise on good flags and bad flags. Or, to be strictly accurate, "GOOD" flags and "BAD" flags. s3.amazonaws.com/ClubExpressClubFil…

A book cover, which shows a group of flags, and the title "GOOD" FLAG, "BAD" FLAG

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