Anna E. Cook
@annaecook.com
“We don’t have users with vision disabilities.”
Buddy… the user with vision disabilities is literally inside the house. 👋
(I've had a rare disorder that causes vision issues for over a year)
Buddy… the user with vision disabilities is literally inside the house. 👋
(I've had a rare disorder that causes vision issues for over a year)
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“We don’t have users with vision disabilities.”
Buddy… the user with vision disabilities is literally inside the house. 👋
(I've had a rare disorder that causes vision issues for over a year)
Buddy… the user with vision disabilities is literally inside the house. 👋
(I've had a rare disorder that causes vision issues for over a year)
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
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Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
A PSA to my peers looking for jobs right now:
Scammers are definitely aware of the job market right now, which super sucks.
Be cautious and pay attention to little details, validate before you provide personal information.
Scammers are definitely aware of the job market right now, which super sucks.
Be cautious and pay attention to little details, validate before you provide personal information.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A PSA to my peers looking for jobs right now:
Scammers are definitely aware of the job market right now, which super sucks.
Be cautious and pay attention to little details, validate before you provide personal information.
Scammers are definitely aware of the job market right now, which super sucks.
Be cautious and pay attention to little details, validate before you provide personal information.
Disney pitching AI as a way for people to make their own content and all I can think is that it seems like a lot of work.
Idk about you all but I watch TV to have someone else tell me a story. Wild I know
Idk about you all but I watch TV to have someone else tell me a story. Wild I know
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Disney pitching AI as a way for people to make their own content and all I can think is that it seems like a lot of work.
Idk about you all but I watch TV to have someone else tell me a story. Wild I know
Idk about you all but I watch TV to have someone else tell me a story. Wild I know
Really enjoyed this post by @gerireid.com
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
Can AI write accessibility specs?
I wrote a prompt to help me write accessibility specs for components. Then had an existential crisis.
gerireid.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Really enjoyed this post by @gerireid.com
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
I always wonder where big company CEOs come from. It seems like they pop out of thin air, just suddenly there and magically having 20 years of CEO experience.
It's like they're hatched in a lab.
It's like they're hatched in a lab.
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I always wonder where big company CEOs come from. It seems like they pop out of thin air, just suddenly there and magically having 20 years of CEO experience.
It's like they're hatched in a lab.
It's like they're hatched in a lab.
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"The OSA is likely driving adults into a more fragmented, less regulated ecosystem, largely because people are uneasy about handing over ID. We’re probably not going to see less engagement with porn, we’ll see different routes to it — many of them far outside the spaces the law was written for.”
‘I watch more hardcore stuff on unregulated sites’: Men on their changing porn habits post-age verification
Three months since the UK introduced age checks for NSFW content online, some men are reporting unexpected (and some totally expected) changes in consumption
www.cosmopolitan.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The OSA is likely driving adults into a more fragmented, less regulated ecosystem, largely because people are uneasy about handing over ID. We’re probably not going to see less engagement with porn, we’ll see different routes to it — many of them far outside the spaces the law was written for.”
I spend a lot of time these days giving less tech-aware people in my life tips on how to protect themselves from security, privacy, and AI related risks.
Digital literacy is not nearly as ubiquitous as we make it out to be, and its worth the 5 minutes to explain basics now and then.
Digital literacy is not nearly as ubiquitous as we make it out to be, and its worth the 5 minutes to explain basics now and then.
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I spend a lot of time these days giving less tech-aware people in my life tips on how to protect themselves from security, privacy, and AI related risks.
Digital literacy is not nearly as ubiquitous as we make it out to be, and its worth the 5 minutes to explain basics now and then.
Digital literacy is not nearly as ubiquitous as we make it out to be, and its worth the 5 minutes to explain basics now and then.
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🚨🚨🚨 Hello, I am going to take some time off over the holidays AND have a decent amount of freelance budget remaining. So if you have something you'd like to write for @ballsandstrikes.org, now is the time to pitch. Guidelines below, email me at pitches@ballsandstrikes dot org. Talk to you soon.
Submissions
Do you want to write for Balls and Strikes? Here's how to get in touch, what we pay, and what we look for in a successful story pitch.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Hello, I am going to take some time off over the holidays AND have a decent amount of freelance budget remaining. So if you have something you'd like to write for @ballsandstrikes.org, now is the time to pitch. Guidelines below, email me at pitches@ballsandstrikes dot org. Talk to you soon.
Just doing typical things like getting physically tense because a dynamic desktop background photo is too overstimulating.
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Just doing typical things like getting physically tense because a dynamic desktop background photo is too overstimulating.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
Alice Wong helped so many just by sharing and normalizing life with disability.
I’ve recommended Disability Visibility to so many people over technical accessibility books.
The technical side is meaningless without the humans we need to work with to make accessibility reality
Thank you Alice Wong
I’ve recommended Disability Visibility to so many people over technical accessibility books.
The technical side is meaningless without the humans we need to work with to make accessibility reality
Thank you Alice Wong
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Alice Wong helped so many just by sharing and normalizing life with disability.
I’ve recommended Disability Visibility to so many people over technical accessibility books.
The technical side is meaningless without the humans we need to work with to make accessibility reality
Thank you Alice Wong
I’ve recommended Disability Visibility to so many people over technical accessibility books.
The technical side is meaningless without the humans we need to work with to make accessibility reality
Thank you Alice Wong
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From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
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I would not be doing any of what I am doing in disability justice and accessibility without the light of Alice Wong, her writing and her cultivation and nuturing of disabled voices. I know so many of us feel the same.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I would not be doing any of what I am doing in disability justice and accessibility without the light of Alice Wong, her writing and her cultivation and nuturing of disabled voices. I know so many of us feel the same.
Am I huge Jack Dorsey fan? No.
Am I a fan of a Vine reboot that rejects AI? Yes, very much so.
I think businesses and organizations that actually have AI policies that default to user safety and consent are going to do better in the long run.
Am I a fan of a Vine reboot that rejects AI? Yes, very much so.
I think businesses and organizations that actually have AI policies that default to user safety and consent are going to do better in the long run.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Am I huge Jack Dorsey fan? No.
Am I a fan of a Vine reboot that rejects AI? Yes, very much so.
I think businesses and organizations that actually have AI policies that default to user safety and consent are going to do better in the long run.
Am I a fan of a Vine reboot that rejects AI? Yes, very much so.
I think businesses and organizations that actually have AI policies that default to user safety and consent are going to do better in the long run.
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I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
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I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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did you know you can quantify the amount that a community is failing to provide transit options simply by measuring how frequently its tech bros reinvent the bus?
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
did you know you can quantify the amount that a community is failing to provide transit options simply by measuring how frequently its tech bros reinvent the bus?
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SATURDAY!!! The Non-Fiction Comics Festival in Burlington, Vermont at the Fletcher Free Library from 11am-6pm www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
SATURDAY!!! The Non-Fiction Comics Festival in Burlington, Vermont at the Fletcher Free Library from 11am-6pm www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org
If you’re doing a sleep study you’re supposed to prepare for bed as you normally would.
So I am doomscrolling for the next hour or so
So I am doomscrolling for the next hour or so
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
If you’re doing a sleep study you’re supposed to prepare for bed as you normally would.
So I am doomscrolling for the next hour or so
So I am doomscrolling for the next hour or so
"I apologize I rant about accessibility for fun, my job is my special interest" and other things I say a lot
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"I apologize I rant about accessibility for fun, my job is my special interest" and other things I say a lot
This Epstein stuff is wild but I can't help but scratch my head at the supposed surprise coming from the MAGA followers/propaganda peddling news sources.
Like yeah dude Trump has been an evil man this whole time. Welcome to the sad time party I guess?
Like yeah dude Trump has been an evil man this whole time. Welcome to the sad time party I guess?
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This Epstein stuff is wild but I can't help but scratch my head at the supposed surprise coming from the MAGA followers/propaganda peddling news sources.
Like yeah dude Trump has been an evil man this whole time. Welcome to the sad time party I guess?
Like yeah dude Trump has been an evil man this whole time. Welcome to the sad time party I guess?
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JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.