Anne Hjortshøj
@annesaurus.bsky.social
Fractional design exec & advisor
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
The lack of care is mind-blowing. Sure seems like the Times exploited her on a few levels. bsky.app/profile/lizb...
I had guessed that Sohla el-Waylly had left NYT Cooking, but “working conditions which endangered her health and pregnancy” wasn’t on my bingo card, holy shit sohla.substack.com/p/sorry-abou...
sorry about your cookies
this is probably TMI
sohla.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The lack of care is mind-blowing. Sure seems like the Times exploited her on a few levels. bsky.app/profile/lizb...
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HELL YEA
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
HELL YEA
Finally watched (against my will) Tron: Ares. The most positive review I can muster is that it‘s nice that someone finally did a Hackers sequel.
(Also, hiring Jared Leto was entirely optional, and yet…)
(Also, hiring Jared Leto was entirely optional, and yet…)
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Finally watched (against my will) Tron: Ares. The most positive review I can muster is that it‘s nice that someone finally did a Hackers sequel.
(Also, hiring Jared Leto was entirely optional, and yet…)
(Also, hiring Jared Leto was entirely optional, and yet…)
Good marketing: focus on an authentic message that resonates with the slice of the market most likely to yield a return.
Bad marketing: attempt to hit every market by averaging every possible message to create lowest-common-denominator slop.
Example: bsky.app/profile/nycs...
Bad marketing: attempt to hit every market by averaging every possible message to create lowest-common-denominator slop.
Example: bsky.app/profile/nycs...
The centrists’ new idea is summoning the imagery of a parking lot to win elections
Kiss of death
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Good marketing: focus on an authentic message that resonates with the slice of the market most likely to yield a return.
Bad marketing: attempt to hit every market by averaging every possible message to create lowest-common-denominator slop.
Example: bsky.app/profile/nycs...
Bad marketing: attempt to hit every market by averaging every possible message to create lowest-common-denominator slop.
Example: bsky.app/profile/nycs...
I’m glad that Team Minimize Trump’s Damage Minimally is being challenged.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I’m glad that Team Minimize Trump’s Damage Minimally is being challenged.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Tip for any ambitious capitalist out there. You know what there’s going to be an ENORMOUS market for in the near future? Authentic human expression. Most normal people fucking hate AI slop and there’s already emerging a significant backlash against it.
According to Hiatus Kaiyote bassist Paul Bender, this AI scam problem is “symbolic of how little these tech people give a fuck about actual music and the people who make it.”
Why Is It So Easy to Flood Streaming With AI Slop?
And what the hell is Operation Clown Dump?
www.hearingthings.co
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tip for any ambitious capitalist out there. You know what there’s going to be an ENORMOUS market for in the near future? Authentic human expression. Most normal people fucking hate AI slop and there’s already emerging a significant backlash against it.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Boston in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/keeg...
I’m at the prayer chapel. I’m at the Dunkin Donuts. I’m at the combination prayer chapel and Dunkin Donuts. #aarsbl25
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Boston in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/keeg...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
When I was a kid, there was a terrible reading instruction program called ECRI. It focused on vocabulary building: look at word, say a word, write a word, be tested on that word. The state of Maine required this in public schools. It was remedial and ineffective. bsky.app/profile/kiss...
I‘d read some of @ehanford.bsky.social’s reporting on disastrous reading instruction over the years but the Sold a Story podcast has been making me swear out loud while I do the laundry. At one point the hairs actually stood up on my arms.
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When I was a kid, there was a terrible reading instruction program called ECRI. It focused on vocabulary building: look at word, say a word, write a word, be tested on that word. The state of Maine required this in public schools. It was remedial and ineffective. bsky.app/profile/kiss...
As background, every US-based parent I know who has a neurodivergent child in public school has had to hire a lawyer to get their child the level of support to which they are entitled by law. The subterfuge in Lexington is enraging, but not surprising. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/m...
Lexington man exposes school district for intentionally overestimating costs of public records - The Boston Globe
“Hopefully, when I let them know the cost, they will not want to do it," an official wrote in an email.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
As background, every US-based parent I know who has a neurodivergent child in public school has had to hire a lawyer to get their child the level of support to which they are entitled by law. The subterfuge in Lexington is enraging, but not surprising. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/m...
Headlines should not troll. It's a grubby way to fan engagement ("Have women ruined the workplace?" is another one for the ages), and often contradicts the actual reporting. The "paper of record" shouldn't have this much contempt for its readers. bsky.app/profile/ohno...
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Headlines should not troll. It's a grubby way to fan engagement ("Have women ruined the workplace?" is another one for the ages), and often contradicts the actual reporting. The "paper of record" shouldn't have this much contempt for its readers. bsky.app/profile/ohno...
I realized years ago that many people above a certain level of celebrity or wealth value their network more than they do any sort of morality, because their network signals and reinforces their class membership.
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I realized years ago that many people above a certain level of celebrity or wealth value their network more than they do any sort of morality, because their network signals and reinforces their class membership.
FYI, Amazon wrested creative control away from the Broccoli family, so expect this to be written and directed by committee. It's not a creative endeavor, it's a financial instrument. bsky.app/profile/jwhi...
this kind of feels like freaking out over a problem that 95% of the audience is not going to have an issue with
Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
FYI, Amazon wrested creative control away from the Broccoli family, so expect this to be written and directed by committee. It's not a creative endeavor, it's a financial instrument. bsky.app/profile/jwhi...
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“Jascha’s leadership has set a foundation for continued improvement and service delivery, and we are so grateful for his lasting impact."- @mayorwu.boston.gov
First in the Dorchester Reporter— Jascha Franklin-Hodge, city’s Streets Chief, to exit Wu Cabinet as first-term ends #Boston
www.dotnews.com/2025/jascha-...
www.dotnews.com/2025/jascha-...
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Jascha’s leadership has set a foundation for continued improvement and service delivery, and we are so grateful for his lasting impact."- @mayorwu.boston.gov
Only 55. Awful.
Setti Warren, who served two terms as mayor of Newton, Mass., has died. Warren, a Navy veteran who was the first African-American to be popularly elected to a mayoral seat in the state, also ran for governor and the US Senate. He was 55. https://bit.ly/3JyIzqb
Former Newton Mayor Setti Warren has died
Warren was the first popularly elected African American mayor in Massachusetts history
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Only 55. Awful.
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BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Dems could make up a lot of ground by just going straight to TikTok newsfluencers. Gen Zers seem to focus mainly on socials for news, and it’s a better way to message test since many traditional outlets have been co-opted (sometimes actually purchased) by, let’s say, people with a certain interest.
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Dems could make up a lot of ground by just going straight to TikTok newsfluencers. Gen Zers seem to focus mainly on socials for news, and it’s a better way to message test since many traditional outlets have been co-opted (sometimes actually purchased) by, let’s say, people with a certain interest.
I don't think people comprehend how badly Jamaica is about to be hit, Kingston in particular.
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I don't think people comprehend how badly Jamaica is about to be hit, Kingston in particular.
I wrote about how the inflatable frogs (and unicorns, and etc.) we're seeing at protests are directly related to the art of Nick Cave (not the Bad Seeds guy), and how joy is necessary in this era of protest. elementsofdesign.substack.com/p/the-sounds...
The Soundsuit and the Inflatable Frog
Art is merging with our current reality
elementsofdesign.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I wrote about how the inflatable frogs (and unicorns, and etc.) we're seeing at protests are directly related to the art of Nick Cave (not the Bad Seeds guy), and how joy is necessary in this era of protest. elementsofdesign.substack.com/p/the-sounds...
Throw the entire candidate in the bait bucket, you guys. It's over.
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Throw the entire candidate in the bait bucket, you guys. It's over.
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for everyone very concerned about Maine elections, there's a ballot measure this November, funded by Leonard Leo, to make voting a lot harder in the state. Could have big impact in 2026 if it passes
@burness.bsky.social did a deep dive at @boltsmag.org
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
@burness.bsky.social did a deep dive at @boltsmag.org
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
boltsmag.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
for everyone very concerned about Maine elections, there's a ballot measure this November, funded by Leonard Leo, to make voting a lot harder in the state. Could have big impact in 2026 if it passes
@burness.bsky.social did a deep dive at @boltsmag.org
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
@burness.bsky.social did a deep dive at @boltsmag.org
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
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Gina Trapani on how she thinks about and uses AI as a former full-time software engineer. “It’s remarkable and so very bad at the same time.” [notetoself.studio]
Measured AI | Note to Self
The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing…
notetoself.studio
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gina Trapani on how she thinks about and uses AI as a former full-time software engineer. “It’s remarkable and so very bad at the same time.” [notetoself.studio]