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Anne, Cranky Cat Crone

@anned13.bsky.social

Love is love. Trans rights are human rights. ABOLISH ICE. ACAB. Blog for my artsy-craftsy stuff & other shiny things: https://anne-d.dreamwidth.org/ Icon thingy is my work - Venus Arising from the Cabbages with Attendant Bunnies.

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Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 10h ago

If you are a dem willing to throw trans people under the bus BEFORE THE PRIMARIES EVEN HAPPEN, you are NOT an ally, you are NOT a good person, you are a walking talking self interest and unwelcome here. LGBTQIA+ with the T. Emphatically. Forever.

Karla Monterroso@karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3h ago

Sincerely believe autoimmune disease would be so much more understood if a) they weren’t so populated by women. B) if medical research on women hadn’t only started in 1993!

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3h ago

chronic fatigue (now ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome,, now long covid many of these predominant in women so many illnesses that could have been treated, studied, and offered people relief earlier if propaganda hadn't convinced everyone they were fake.

Yell In a War@jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 9h ago

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 11h ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 4h ago

Sweet bleeding Mithras y'all, I get being an unhinged Astarion fan, that is one messed up guy, I like him and I don't usually have time for vampires. But you do realize that he's, like, pretend?? And that someone can have a different take on who he is or his story, right?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h ago

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work. On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen. "As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. "You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens." Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 9h ago

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

Micro SF/F by O. Westin@microsff.com · 7h ago

Dr. Dastard pressed the button. Nothing happened. "I cut the wires," Captain Clever said, "you won't rain death and destruction on the world today." "What? My rockets were going to fetch ice asteroids to crash them into the moon." "Why?" "To make an ocean, to let the moon experience tides too."

Daniel Dockery@dandock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Velociraptors are funny because people are like "They weren't actually that scary because in real life, they were about the size of a goose" and my friend, have you ever been AROUND a goose? That just makes it worse!

Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 10h ago

Lemme explain why Jensen Huang said he doesn't know his address and thus struggled at a gas pump to use a credit card which required a zip code! If you have multiple homes and a team of assistants, it's *hard* to remember where your credit card statement (and thus zip code) goes to. Oh... u poor?

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 11h ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Anne, Cranky Cat Crone@anned13.bsky.social · 8h ago

I did the stupid exercises. I’m having trouble focusing on any one thing today. But I did get started laying out the new crochet wrap bracelet. I think my brain is worn out now so I’m going to eat lunch and then take a nap.

Grey bead board with an assortment of eye beads and charms for a bracelet in progress. The last crochet wrap bracelet I made is in a heap at the top. I’m using it to gauge the length of the new one.
Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 10h ago

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 9h ago

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last yr.

The dosage and timing for pre-vaccination is EITHER: - 50mg diphenhydramine (Benadryl) OR 50mg promethazine (Phenergan) 15 minutes before the shot OR - 20mg cetirizine OR 20mg loratidine 2-3 hours before the shot Only take one of those (ie, don't take Benadryl AND cetirizine).

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 10h ago

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ ASC@kikidoodle.bsky.social · 10h ago

I still have about 7-8 slots left on this round of YCH (your cat here). Thanks, everyone, for the current support! Looking forward to working on these once cats and humans have gotten breakfast and coffee (well, just humans get coffee, obviously).