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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈
@annedougherty.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 Writer and professional content nerd who is passionate about film, good sound, evenly spaced crochet stitches, and the Oxford comma. #butchesagainsttransphobia #contentstrategy #contentdesign
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Anne Dougherty (she/her | xe/xet) 🏳️‍🌈 @annedougherty.bsky.social · Feb 27
Posting this because I'm pretty sure if it hasn't yet, it will be gone from the CDC website soon enough.

2024 Adult Immunization Schedule (PDF) - bit.ly/AdultImmuniz...
Bit.ly QR code for URL to 2024 Adult Immunization Schedule pdf
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orcspiration.bsky.social
SHELVE YOUR SHORTSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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orcspiration.bsky.social
A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
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?
August 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Handy guide to your rights in DC from our friends @aclu.org - www.acludc.org/know-your-ri...

#DCTakeover
#knowyourrights
Demonstrations in D.C. | ACLU of DC
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out into the streets.The First Amendm...
www.acludc.org
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
I'm attending this event. Repost if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift.manyworldswriting.com
Worldshift: The Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit 2025
Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit
worldshift.manyworldswriting.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
@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?
August 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
The whole use chopsticks to each snacks that Will make your fingers messy is 100% legit.
July 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Rewatching Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania and it still bugs me that they think Scott Lang only has 6 holes
July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
I am generally not on the side of multibillion dollar corporations, but f**k midjourney and their theivery.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jun 11
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
June 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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edzitron.com
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
Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works: Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright? No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it. See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
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.
May 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Looking forward to daily boil water notices and the Cuyahoga River fires.
May 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
I've been in Italy when there's no Pope. I can say w/100% certainty the Italians are freaking the frak out right now.

What I don't understand is the U.S. news media's fascination with the conclave when people are literally being starved to death in Gaza.

Not starving...being starved deliberately.
May 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
I'mma just leave this right here.
Four panel cartoon attributed to Mike Stanfill. Panel 1 (Upper Left Corner): A white male in a red tshirt and red baseball cap says 'Yeah, I voted for Trump but I didn't vote to kill medicaid for food stamps or sell out to Russia or make prices higher or to wreck the economy!' Panel 2 (Upper Right Corner): Same speaker continues 'Or let disease spread almost unchecked or make an enemy of Canada or wreck social security or turn this country into a virtual dictatorship!' Panel 3 (Lower Left Corner): Same speaker continues 'I didn't vote for America to become the laughing stock of the god damned world!' Panel 4 (Lower Right Corner): White, gender neutral person in glasses with brown hair wearing a blue shirt that says EFF 47 says 'Yes. Yes, you did."
May 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
FFS

@nytimes.com just called trading and buying cryptocurrency "an industry."

I have lost my ability to even.
May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
But in-person collaboration!

www.productiveflourishing.com/p/back-to-ba...
Back-to-Back Meetings Harm You, Your Effectiveness, and Your Team
Even if you were a bit more efficient with back-to-back meetings, the cost still may be too high
www.productiveflourishing.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
On the left: Without a Content Strategist

On the right: With a Content Strategist

Words matter
Movie poster for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning features a picture of Tom Cruise's face looking beat up. Movie Poster for Mission Impossible 8. Features Tom Cruise's face looking beat-up. Has been altered to remove The from the subtitle changing the title of the movie to Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning
May 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
If we needed more proof that 45/47 isn't a "traditional Republican"

wamu.org/story/25/05/...
Trump's VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program
The VA Servicing Purchase program has helped about 20,000 veterans avoid foreclosure. But Republicans in Congress have been critical of the program, saying it puts too much taxpayer money at risk.
wamu.org
May 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Nothing says you work in an engineering driven organization more than a 60 minute webinar on code testing capabilities and strategy 🙄
April 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Maybe, just maybe, if anyone ever called the agency by it's full name people would understand why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are so important.

FFS people, words matter.
April 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
@erinbschroeder.bsky.social Looks like we might not be getting our hate-watch documentary

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fyre Festival 2 postponed, US media reports
The organisers of the failed 2017 Fyre Festival are reportedly looking for a new location for the reboot.
www.bbc.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
After the election, convos at home went like this: "When we have to..." [flee], [get a gun license], etc until I asked for "If we have to..." for anxiety reduction.

With 30 years' experience as an economist, she said to me, "When we have a recession in the next four years..." and I allowed it.
April 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Poor Des Moines. Little blue dot in a sea of red reaping what the rest of the state sowed.
April 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.
Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility
A statement from Whirlpool said the layoffs are the result of reduced consumer demand for products made in Amana, primarily refrigeration units.
www.desmoinesregister.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
annedougherty.bsky.social
Signal: If it's good enough to plan a war, it's good enough for your family chat about pizza night!

#SayNotoWhatsApp
March 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM