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Ceridwen Anne

@ceridwenanne.com
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Enthusiastic reader, sporadic writer. Lived 40+ years in the 55408 zip code; currently on the shores of Lake Superior. Trans rights are human rights. [She/her]

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 3h
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...
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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 30/09/2026
Calling AI Super Intelligence is dumb. I think we should start calling it Four Seasons Total Intelligence.
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026
Good point! Lord knows I have been known to abuse commas, but I'm trying to improve
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026
Boy, but Austen's commas are weird. Like I would have no commas in that sentence.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026
Drop a THREAT. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026
Word. And every year it's a huge pain in the ass to remember how
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026
you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
what’s this? an interview with China Miéville on Defector? that’s right
defector.com
China Miéville On The “Completely Defining” Book It Took 20 Years To Write | Defector
It takes an open mind to engage with China Miéville’s work. A writer for whom the already cliched phrase “genre-bending” is even more banal, Miéville has never opposed the designation of genre writer....
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026
Right??? I just hate the framing everyone uses where it's some bumbling weapon, like a Mario Kart bomb that can't help itself. It's an app! It's a program! Gah
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026
What did the test designers *tell the AI to do*? What behavior were they hoping for? How did the prompt by the test engineers end in hacking behavior if hacking behavior wasn't part of the test? Looks an awful lot like they were trying to quietly hack something, and the AI just did it loudly.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026
It makes me crazy that the headline isn't "poorly designed software test using poorly written software results in massive fraud; indictments to come" Just ffs, these are fucking *computer programs* written by these tech dipshits, not independent agents.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 19/09/2026
This is fucked
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 16/09/2026
This
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 15/09/2026
Lake 'Uge
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026
minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.
THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/09/2026
Just saving this on my timeline because it's a fucking delight, and I'm not done reading through
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 10/09/2026
I had a friend with an Arabic name -- dad was Egyptian -- and he got calls from randos in the days and weeks after 9/11 screaming all kinds of Islamophobic shit because phone books were still a thing and he was in the local one.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I give you : the Potoo
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 06/09/2026
I don't have enough heaving sigh in my body for this
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a report called "The Growing Threat of Anti-Rights Organizations in the UK". It included a number of "gender critical" organizations threatening trans people. JKR threatened to bankrupt them, so they retracted it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 31/08/2026
Definitely of a time
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 31/08/2026
For my eleventh(?) birthday we rented a VCR and maybe 3 videos from Discount Video for half a week or something? Anyway, I watched Ghostbusters on repeat for 48 hours. Do you remember their "Colorize Ted Turner" coloring book sheets?
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 31/08/2026
Def the end of 26th on 27th. St Sabrina's took over the location when they moved from next to Kinhdo (RIP) (also St Sabrina's RIP). I grew up a couple blocks up on Emerson. Loved that video store.
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 30/08/2026
I've been idly thinking about trying harder to divest myself of Google, and this made me switch my map provider. Just stupid clown shit kowtowing to a deeply unpopular lunatic.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026
I live right near a river that tons of wildlife uses as a corridor through the city, so we gets lots of bears in the fall. They tend to be very shy and easy to spook. Probably less destructive than the deer, who will eat every apple tree you plant unless you build a cage around it
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's fucking madness to me that the Democrats have put *themselves* on the defensive about being associated with a Twitch streamer when the president is associated with Jeffrey Epstein. Like what are we even doing?
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026
I know it was a bear and not raccoons because you can see puncture marks from enormous teeth in some of the trash
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026
Signs of fall I've seen on my morning walk: this pretty looking buck, my trash overturned by a bear
Six point buck with fuzzy antlers looks at the camera while walking byBlack and white dog investigates an overturned trash can with garbage strewn around
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/08/2026
If you used an allegory like this in a novel, the editor would tell you it was too much.
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/08/2026
Jesus wtf
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19/08/2026
Yup "It has become outright dangerous to even raise the possibility that AI might not be the solution to a problem, let alone be the sole focus of a company’s entire strategy." ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 16/08/2026
I showed this to my zoomer kid and he was like, he posted this on main??
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 15/08/2026
Oh my gosh, this is literally the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen. And it goes on forever!
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/08/2026
I think so! The menu seemed mostly unchanged
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/08/2026
Also Team SoB. I took the teens there last time I was up, and it's under new management. They take plastic now! It's wild!
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/08/2026
Whoa that's nuts. I remember reading somewhere a while ago that Cook County, which is the arrowhead from like Silver Bay to the Canadian border, was the bluest county in the state. Idk if that's true now, but I wonder if it's so lefty that the righties are super right? If that makes any sense?
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/08/2026
"Usually" is doing some work in that sentence
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