Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈

Just a reminder that something like half the government runs out of money in about 10 days.

Legacy media abandoned all credibility in 2016 when, instead of exposing Trump for the liar, tax fraud, bill and draft dodger that he is they treated his campaign for President like entertainment.

Surprise! We were always the bad guys.

I'm curious, do you have to get clearance when you name a brand in your published work?

I miss you soooo much

Just a reminder: The federal Government is only funded for another 23 days

#currentaffairs
#govshutdown2026

Overhead view of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 12th edition sitting ob a wood table

Good news! My family knows me well.

Hope healing comes fast!

"Menopause does not mark the end of a woman's sexuality but for too long, medicine has treated it that way,"

No, but apparently age 65 does <bangs head against desk>

I have so much envy right now. I'm hoping for one of these for the holidays

SHELVE YOUR SHORTSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.

A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.

Gender and sex aren't the same. We make up gender so the number is infinite

According to @lastweektonight.com, ICE is using footage from Star Wars in recruiting videos. Where the actual f**k is the Disney legal team now? Or do they prefer suing daycare centers that paint Mickey Mouse on their walls?

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All of us can't be as amazing as you, Micheal 😍

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@netflix.com canceled FUBAR and The Residence, and @usanetwork.bsky.social canceled Resident Alien. Do these people not understand how much we need levity right now?

Dealing with urban heat islands often directly contradicts a city's desire to increase the tax base. The neighborhood I live in used to have a lot of greenspace, and we were still one of the hottest in the city. Now that we have so much "infill" housing, it's only getting worse.

The whole use chopsticks to each snacks that Will make your fingers messy is 100% legit.

Rewatching Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania and it still bugs me that they think Scott Lang only has 6 holes

I am generally not on the side of multibillion dollar corporations, but f**k midjourney and their theivery.

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

I read a romance novel (palate cleanser) that was 20ish into the series with the same character. It was abundantly clear the author, or their assistant, had used AI to write much of the book. None of the characters sounded right. The whole thing was just flat. We are in for some crappy books.

Musk, who insisted that Tesla factory workers return to the plant during the height of COVID in 2020, has been remotely attending meetings.

And am old enough to be following all this news and thinking, "Wait, didn't Carter sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)?"

Yes, and no one believes me that they are violent (ala: The Emperor's New Clothes)

100% agree.

Those that control the language control the narrative.

Every time I think about my upbringing as a Catholic I remember that no one has ever given me a satisfactory answer to what God would have done if Judas had exercised free will and refused to turn Jesus in the the Pharasees.

Talk about not having a plan b.

I really miss physical tickets. That screenshot of the Ticketmaster app that gets uploaded to your cloud is not the same.