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annec

@queencityac.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer, Vermonter, ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 ally 🐈 she/her website: coldereye.beehiiv.com

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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I 💓 Brother of the More Famous Jack: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Constant Rediscovery of the Cult Novelist Barbara Trapido
Like other perfect but not extremely famous novels, “Brother of the More Famous Jack” has mostly been passed from people who adore it to people who have never heard of it. Now its author is considerin...
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Neighbor cat:
A gray and black cat with an interesting pattern of stripes, sitting at the edge of a dewy green garden.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Bonus Hapsburg content: Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette
Marianne Faithfull as Empress Maria Theresa from Marie Antoinette (2006)Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette from the same production
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Having watched Maximilian, I can add: 4. Maximilian I
Jannis Niewöhner as Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I happened to watch Maximilian this week and it was really rousing and good. It was amusing to get such a palpable, strategic sense of why Maximilian and Marie de Bourgogne needed to hook up: www.imdb.com/title/tt5833...
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Double cat
A black cat and her black shadow forming a "Y"
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
have been feeling the second verse of this song very strongly of late: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHOe...
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The Police - Spirits In The Material World (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/09/2026
Kaptur loses the support of a local LGBTQ group
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Saw these in a gift shop and was tempted!:
Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams (the lead actors from *Heated Rivalry*) on votive candles.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We need to start investing billions in Irish children’s books now or Irish kids could cause the apocalypse before the end of the century. If we don’t get them reading good books (like mine) soon, it could all be too late. #SpeirGorm
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love this because it calls out the billionaires shutting down free speech (also 🤣 at "Ed Sheeran folded like an origami swan"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbOw...
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With friends like Ed Sheeran, who needs enemies? The Ed Sheeran and Macklemore tour controversy has
YouTube video by Isittherightword
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
i will know that nature is healing when apple tv releases the jessica chastain series about domestic terrorism
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Actually the end goal is to redefine feminism as sex-based rights, whatever the fuck those are. Feminism is equal rights. Feminism is autonomy over your own body - like what trans people are asking for. The goal of propaganda is to suck all the meaning out of politically motivating concepts.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I tend to see the Talarico/trans rights issue more in terms of long term damage to the party. As I say, anti-trans legislation is *already* targeting ALL of girls sports, and it would be super freaking dumb for the Democratic party to come out against girls sports, no?
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sunflowers in my neighborhood:
Sunflowers by a pale blue and purple house.Sunflowers by a fire hydrant.
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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: The minds of the British right wing as they try to process this.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Talarico is being advised by Lis Smith. The lady who tried to mount a defense for Andrew Cuomo.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did not have Trump calling for a united Ireland on my bingo card. The gobsmacked response from his natural allies in the north & UK: priceless.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is this a froggy witch?:
A green figure with witch hat and cauldron, under a crescent moon, with flying bat.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think we got lucky that reserves have cushioned the effects of this unnecessary war, but I think that luck is about to run out. Apart from Houthi advances in the Red Sea and the East-West pipeline being on fire, China is back in the market, possibly indicating their reserves are dwindling.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2026
welp www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
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Iran-backed Houthis take full control of Red Sea coastline, tightening grip on crucial shipping lane
The rebels were reported Friday to have captured Perim, an island vital to controlling the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We may be in the midst of an historic realignment. The 50 year (stupid) consensus that Rs are better for the economy is buckling. Why accept GOP framing on a single fucking thing?
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11/09/2026
it's a new 30 years, war folks. remember the 30 years war? people are talking about it more and more. it was just tremendous. gustavus adolphus. you dont hear that name so much but it's coming back very strongly. wallenstein. wallen-shtein. he's another one. we're looking into austria very strongly.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
fuck all the dems throwing trans people under the bus
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this song really holds up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIKp...
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The House of Love - Christine
YouTube video by martin venator
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
trump take creemee: www.sevendaysvt.com/food-drink/f...
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Vermont Creemee Supply Disrupted by Immigration Enforcement | Seven Days
Kingdom Creamery, the state’s largest maker of creemee base, is suffering "a severe labor shortage” after worker detentions, leaving customers to scramble.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"I get it." - popular opening line from guy who, for a living, doesn't get it
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm thinking about Gloria Steinem's op-ed about Trump shortly after his first victory, which correctly cast him as an avatar of gender-based violence. His presidency generally functioning like the violence of the abusive husband who goes on a rampage when the wife tries to leave him.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture yesterday and I was struck by the design of the museum, how you follow the history starting deep underground and work your way up on a winding road - just to get to ground level.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is starting to feel like a very limited rapture where all the Good celebrities are taken and the rest of us are left here to deal with All Of This
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
all the people saying Rocky Horror saved their lives 😭
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are already seeing a mass popular uprising against data centers. Public sentiment has swung against them remarkably fast & politics has followed. If we ever get to a point where an employment apocalypse seems possible, that mass of ppls response is gonna be "the fuck you're killing all our jobs"
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm staying at an Irish country hotel where there is a large party of Americans. At breakfast the first day, I was served a small, individual cup of coffee. Today, on the fourth day, I was given a large tumbler of coffee and a dedicated coffeepot - which I assume is a response to popular demand.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Natalie Harp story is giving Countess de Portes vibes
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Note to self, do not make Mariä Himmelfahrt joke
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I just happened on this photo, which is labeled, "l-r Sidney Jones, chairman of West Lancs council, Mr A Hare and Colin Pickthall MP in 2000."
Two British politicians with a giant rabbit in between.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I love love love the song "Did I hurt you?" by Eleanor McEvoy. In the intro here she talks about how unusual it is for her to write a song from the perspective of the heartbreaker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllH...
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Did I hurt you? (Eleanor McEvoy)
YouTube video by waynerichmond
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Had some thoughts about Gracie Abrams. I've been seeing mixed/negative reviews of her latest album, which I don't have strong feelings about. But I have also noticed some commentary that she doesn't have a strong identity - in contrast to, say, Olivia Rodrigo - and I don't think that's true.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
pushing it with my 3rd iced coffee of the day
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Well, here's an exciting thing ... I have a new short essay live today on @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's excellent Welcome to Hell World: www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...
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Who goes transphobe?
by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
it really bears repeating over and over and over that the child who allegedly had her collarbone broken by her congressman dad is the granddaughter of SENATOR bernie moreno who has refused to stand up for her, or for his daughter who was allegedly abused, too. what a sick fuck.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I don't know about you, but I've been watching guys like this talk about how weird the oil market is (and this is from a month ago): www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqo8...
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Stockpiles of Oil Near Danger Zone
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sure is a great time for the Trump admin to be trying to kill every single green energy job that they can
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I guess the question in oil markets is whether China is covering shortfalls by releasing from its strategic reserves or genuinely reducing its demand for oil. I suppose it is likely doing both, and the issue is which is happening faster?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/08/2026
trump can juice the stock market all he wants and try to juice the oil market all he wants, but inventories are actual real numbers and they’re falling very fast no matter what he tries to tell everyone
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It seems a bit funny to me that anyone is quibbling about the DSA's view of capital at a time when capital has chewed through all the restraints imposed upon it post-2008 AND the political system itself, making it impossible to rein it in before some major crash.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This time I suggest we appoint a committee of people whose childhood homes were foreclosed on circa 2008 to oversee criminal prosecutions/new financial regulation. With a dollop of millennials who graduated college in 2008/2009, into that abysmal job market.
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annec @queencityac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
One of the defining qualities of this era is that a lot of economic indicators feel off, and observable activity doesn't make a lot of sense. Right now there's the ? fact that the whole financial system seems to rest on companies with no revenue. But I suspect gravity will return with a vengeance.
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