Reposted by Ceridwen AnneCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 3hI 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. 12570127
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneCrawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...cidrap.umn.eduMeasles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years 13418
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41119413103
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026John 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. 24138591001
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It'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. 171766318
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 30/09/2026Calling AI Super Intelligence is dumb. I think we should start calling it Four Seasons Total Intelligence. 021
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads. 541916162
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026Good point! Lord knows I have been known to abuse commas, but I'm trying to improve 010
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026Boy, but Austen's commas are weird. Like I would have no commas in that sentence. 110
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026Drop 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." 120
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Russell 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.comRussel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grantsPending move comes over the objections of the NIH director. 39735294
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 22/09/2026Word. And every year it's a huge pain in the ass to remember how 110
Reposted by Ceridwen Annee.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem? 2936841015
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026what’s this? an interview with China Miéville on Defector? that’s rightdefector.comChina Miéville On The “Completely Defining” Book It Took 20 Years To Write | DefectorIt 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.... 1237647
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026Right??? 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 051
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026What 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. 073
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026It 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. 311141
Reposted by Ceridwen Anneashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026minnesota: 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. 422588
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/09/2026Just saving this on my timeline because it's a fucking delight, and I'm not done reading through 140
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 10/09/2026I 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. 030
Reposted by Ceridwen Annejenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026welcome 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 9778993172
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I give you : the Potoo 328244271319
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173914953
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As 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.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201169886
Reposted by Ceridwen Annerahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Amnesty 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...dropbox.com 4320166
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 31/08/2026For 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? 120
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 31/08/2026Def 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. 120
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x 14436126
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 30/08/2026I'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. 000
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026I 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 010
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneSpooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It'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? 79619
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026I know it was a bear and not raccoons because you can see puncture marks from enormous teeth in some of the trash 120
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026Signs of fall I've seen on my morning walk: this pretty looking buck, my trash overturned by a bear 150
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/08/2026If you used an allegory like this in a novel, the editor would tell you it was too much. 211383483
Reposted by Ceridwen AnneKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19/08/2026Yup "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...ludic.mataroa.blogAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity 415034
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 16/08/2026I showed this to my zoomer kid and he was like, he posted this on main?? 010
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 15/08/2026Oh my gosh, this is literally the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen. And it goes on forever! 110
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/08/2026Also 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! 110
Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/08/2026Whoa 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? 210