Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme
@michaelann.bsky.social
Online Communities, Social Tech, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Computer Science & Comm Studies @ Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, wife girl, femme lesbian, dork.
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Hi, I'm Michael Ann, and I'm a Computer Science professor and longtime shitposter! I work on improving social technology. The shitposting is below, the science I'm responsible for is on my site:
- Epistemic Justice: wp.me/P2O4Fr-hN
- Folk Theorization: wp.me/P2O4Fr-9m
- Queer HCI: wp.me/P2O4Fr-9s
- Epistemic Justice: wp.me/P2O4Fr-hN
- Folk Theorization: wp.me/P2O4Fr-9m
- Queer HCI: wp.me/P2O4Fr-9s
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Art goal of 2026 😘
In 2026 we need to demand more. It’s not enough that people draw more fat women - they need to draw us accurately. Make 2026 the year you learn to lovingly draw cellulite!
December 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Art goal of 2026 😘
In 2026 we need to demand more. It’s not enough that people draw more fat women - they need to draw us accurately. Make 2026 the year you learn to lovingly draw cellulite!
December 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In 2026 we need to demand more. It’s not enough that people draw more fat women - they need to draw us accurately. Make 2026 the year you learn to lovingly draw cellulite!
Concept: special alert system for lesbians tracking where waterproof blankets are currently on sale.
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Concept: special alert system for lesbians tracking where waterproof blankets are currently on sale.
Once again my decision to spend the holidays inside with my wife and cats has proved wise.
I don’t really recall how or why I ever did anything other than being a married lesbian, because all else is folly.
I don’t really recall how or why I ever did anything other than being a married lesbian, because all else is folly.
December 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Once again my decision to spend the holidays inside with my wife and cats has proved wise.
I don’t really recall how or why I ever did anything other than being a married lesbian, because all else is folly.
I don’t really recall how or why I ever did anything other than being a married lesbian, because all else is folly.
Every time I hear out detailed complaints about this place from folks still on Twitter, it comes down to “the security features make doing a righteous witch hunt a lot harder”
There are so many more things to legitimately hate about this place, but the bloodlust is strong apparently
There are so many more things to legitimately hate about this place, but the bloodlust is strong apparently
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Every time I hear out detailed complaints about this place from folks still on Twitter, it comes down to “the security features make doing a righteous witch hunt a lot harder”
There are so many more things to legitimately hate about this place, but the bloodlust is strong apparently
There are so many more things to legitimately hate about this place, but the bloodlust is strong apparently
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Phase II. It’ll never actually serve a customer but a particular subset of locals will nostalgically reflect on how good it would have been
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Phase II. It’ll never actually serve a customer but a particular subset of locals will nostalgically reflect on how good it would have been
I resolve that in 2026 I will get even meaner about attempts to paint trans women as inherently separate from or different than cis women.
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I resolve that in 2026 I will get even meaner about attempts to paint trans women as inherently separate from or different than cis women.
Either the article about transfem sexuality going around is a gross overgeneralization or I just don’t “get” online transfem sex culture and I think it might be both.
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Either the article about transfem sexuality going around is a gross overgeneralization or I just don’t “get” online transfem sex culture and I think it might be both.
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A common thread between Bari Weiss' career and the trans instructor purged by christofash is liberal gullibility. It was obvious what both were from the start, but instead of their bs just being crushed they were heard out, considered, pondered.
Grow up. This too precious bs gets people killed.
Grow up. This too precious bs gets people killed.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A common thread between Bari Weiss' career and the trans instructor purged by christofash is liberal gullibility. It was obvious what both were from the start, but instead of their bs just being crushed they were heard out, considered, pondered.
Grow up. This too precious bs gets people killed.
Grow up. This too precious bs gets people killed.
Tis the season to have a semi-public breakdown at the museum because you weren’t as healed from not being able to have a baby as you thought you were
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tis the season to have a semi-public breakdown at the museum because you weren’t as healed from not being able to have a baby as you thought you were
LOVE how I have to keep cutting small bits out of me again and again but I can’t seem to get the one gods damn surgery I actually want
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
LOVE how I have to keep cutting small bits out of me again and again but I can’t seem to get the one gods damn surgery I actually want
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This is what it is to be a trans professional.
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is what it is to be a trans professional.
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
At this point I hope we can all agree that the electric meat teaching the sand to also be electric was a huge mistake
December 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
At this point I hope we can all agree that the electric meat teaching the sand to also be electric was a huge mistake
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Sometimes I wonder what lessons COVID taught to the young conservatives we now see arguing for following in Hitler's footsteps and unleashing waves of terror and death upon America.
They saw that millions could die and society would just forget &stumble forward - so why not again, at their behest?
They saw that millions could die and society would just forget &stumble forward - so why not again, at their behest?
December 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sometimes I wonder what lessons COVID taught to the young conservatives we now see arguing for following in Hitler's footsteps and unleashing waves of terror and death upon America.
They saw that millions could die and society would just forget &stumble forward - so why not again, at their behest?
They saw that millions could die and society would just forget &stumble forward - so why not again, at their behest?
I don’t particularly like this platform, but I would love to do a simple study to see how many of the people that complain about the block features here ever really had to deal with mass-scale abuse on Twitter. Because speaking as a person who did have to deal with it - this is most certainly better
December 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I don’t particularly like this platform, but I would love to do a simple study to see how many of the people that complain about the block features here ever really had to deal with mass-scale abuse on Twitter. Because speaking as a person who did have to deal with it - this is most certainly better
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
"Craw" said the first crow, hopping around on the ground, looking for shiny bits. "Craw!"
"That bit isn't funny any more, Clarence," said the second crow, now deeply irritated. "You have a master's degree and a good job, you need to stop this and go home to your family. They're *scared*, Clarence."
"That bit isn't funny any more, Clarence," said the second crow, now deeply irritated. "You have a master's degree and a good job, you need to stop this and go home to your family. They're *scared*, Clarence."
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"Craw" said the first crow, hopping around on the ground, looking for shiny bits. "Craw!"
"That bit isn't funny any more, Clarence," said the second crow, now deeply irritated. "You have a master's degree and a good job, you need to stop this and go home to your family. They're *scared*, Clarence."
"That bit isn't funny any more, Clarence," said the second crow, now deeply irritated. "You have a master's degree and a good job, you need to stop this and go home to your family. They're *scared*, Clarence."
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every politician who attempts to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth is anti-science, transphobic, or some combination. prior to their votes, they should be forced onto cross-sex hormones so they can experience the horror they're inflicting on these kids
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
juliaserano.medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
every politician who attempts to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth is anti-science, transphobic, or some combination. prior to their votes, they should be forced onto cross-sex hormones so they can experience the horror they're inflicting on these kids
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
Yoshimi vs the Robots That Act In Materially Community-Harming Ways Regardless of Color
December 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yoshimi vs the Robots That Act In Materially Community-Harming Ways Regardless of Color
I have been in a *mood* since 1986 and I feel justified about this
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I have been in a *mood* since 1986 and I feel justified about this
I think it's entirely possible to talk about one's transition without going straight to the whole "gendered socialization is real" angle, but that would rob people of an opportunity to be shitty to trans women, sooooo.......
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think it's entirely possible to talk about one's transition without going straight to the whole "gendered socialization is real" angle, but that would rob people of an opportunity to be shitty to trans women, sooooo.......
FATPHOBIA IS A SOCIAL CONTAGION THAT CAN COST LIVES
Never going to stop screaming about this
Never going to stop screaming about this
But fatphobia and disordered eating are incredibly toxic and when we don't call people in/out about it they are issues that tend spread like a contagion
bc we start believing that maybe fatphobia and disordered eating aren't that bad, maybe there are good reasons to engage with them
It's not ok
bc we start believing that maybe fatphobia and disordered eating aren't that bad, maybe there are good reasons to engage with them
It's not ok
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
FATPHOBIA IS A SOCIAL CONTAGION THAT CAN COST LIVES
Never going to stop screaming about this
Never going to stop screaming about this
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An example of how this can move like a contagion
Person A: tries a weight loss drug and talks online about it but is careful to frame it as their personal choice bc of how deeply upset they are with their body
Friend B (a day or so later): maybe I should try this?
I see it over and over and over
Person A: tries a weight loss drug and talks online about it but is careful to frame it as their personal choice bc of how deeply upset they are with their body
Friend B (a day or so later): maybe I should try this?
I see it over and over and over
But fatphobia and disordered eating are incredibly toxic and when we don't call people in/out about it they are issues that tend spread like a contagion
bc we start believing that maybe fatphobia and disordered eating aren't that bad, maybe there are good reasons to engage with them
It's not ok
bc we start believing that maybe fatphobia and disordered eating aren't that bad, maybe there are good reasons to engage with them
It's not ok
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
An example of how this can move like a contagion
Person A: tries a weight loss drug and talks online about it but is careful to frame it as their personal choice bc of how deeply upset they are with their body
Friend B (a day or so later): maybe I should try this?
I see it over and over and over
Person A: tries a weight loss drug and talks online about it but is careful to frame it as their personal choice bc of how deeply upset they are with their body
Friend B (a day or so later): maybe I should try this?
I see it over and over and over
You want to talk social contagions? Let's start with fatphobia, how 'bout, because that shit spreads faster than measles
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You want to talk social contagions? Let's start with fatphobia, how 'bout, because that shit spreads faster than measles