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Ashe Dryden
@ashedryden.bsky.social
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Studying the impact of tech on the most marginalized people, particularly police surveillance in segregated US cities.

#STS #Sociology #PublicInterestTech #Tech

Critiques #Surveillance #TechnoDeterminism #TechnoSolutionism #AI #Police
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ashedryden.bsky.social
Unveiling this year’s Halloween costume! #LoFiGirl #halloween #costume
A photo of Ashe at her desk wearing a green sweater, red scarf, and a pair of white headphones with googly eyes on them. She is writing in an iPad in front of a keyboard and mouse. The far side of her desk has a stuffed orange striped cat.
October 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
This is the true story... of nine strangers... picked to live in a house... (and have their lives taped)... to find out what happens... when people stop being polite... and start getting real.

This is Real World: The Supreme Court

(from app.thestorygraph.com/books/bd8929...)
Screenshot of kindle highlights: “The nine members of the US Supreme Court lived in the same house until 1845.”
September 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Paying the #caturday tax
A tan and white cat sitting on a small gray couch. A textured gray pillow is behind him and his face and the front of his body are seemingly buried in a white pillow against the back of the couch that is covered in fabric petals,
June 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Ready to go
A protest sign on a wood table. It says: this is the point in 1984 where they tell you it’s “for your safety”
June 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Cheese you can rely on.

Cheese that will pick you up at the airport.
A large block of cheese in a deli case. “Everett Swiss Cheese: cheese with integrity”
June 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
nailed it lol
A screenshot from Fox News: the Weather Underground Strategy - destroy capitalism - the weapon of choice: systemic racism and police racism - identify the victim classes - organize the victim classes - engage in international solidarity with the global movement - attack and dethrone god
June 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Look at these beautiful earrings I just received!

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A pair of dangling earrings attached to a cardboard card being held in the palm of a hand. The earrings are each 4 threads of seed beads in hummingbird colors (green, white, red, teal, pink, brown).
May 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
My cats found a GIANT centipede this morning. I got it before they could eat it and gave them treats, but they’re still patrolling looking for it.
A tan cat sitting in loaf-mode under a dining room chair, staring into a corner intently. A pinkish purple cast is on the floor from an unseen light.
May 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Did a thing this weekend.
A black graduation cap with the words “this degree fights fascists” on the top with a fist holding a rolled up piece of paper aloft. The tassel is rainbow colored.
May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Which glasses? I’m probably gonna pick two pairs of regular glasses and then the last pair of sunglasses here. For reference, here is my face.
A grid of 5 pairs of glasses and one pair of sunglasses. 1. Clear purple and rounded 2. Clear olive green, rounded but the top and bottom are flattened 3. Navy blue metal with a kind of rounded, inverted trapezoid shape 4. Teal round lenses with metal accents at the top corners 5. Teal oval shape, but flattened at the top and bottom 6. Black sunglasses, the lenses are kind of shaped like pears with the big part to the outside A picture of Ashe’s face. She has blonde-brown hair, and an oval face with glasses. A little hand is reaching up to put stickers on her face.
January 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Finished The Left Hand of Darkness last night, really enjoyed it. Plan on reading more of her work in 2025 📚
Book Cover: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
December 29, 2024 at 3:50 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
I've been working on my Read the World, but mostly read books from repeat countries.

Countries where I have read the most books (sans US/CAN/UK/AUS/NZ):
- China 17
- India 27
- Iran 9
- Japan 19
- Malaysia 8
- Nigeria 16
- Pakistan 9
- Korea 14
- Turkey 6
- Vietnam 7
A circle chart with about 1/4 of the circle green, the rest gray. Text says "27%, 52/195 prompts done"
December 23, 2024 at 5:19 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Replacing the sisal on the cat’s towers. It’s not hard, but it is a little painful lol
The bottom of a gray cat tower. The pillar on the left has shredded sisal and the right has nice, new sisal. Ashe’s legs are in the middle of the frame, she is wearing slippers with gray cats on them.
November 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Finished my little mutual aid project for my unhoused neighbors.
-wool socks
-neck warmer
-hand warmers
-pads
-lotion
-lip balm
-body wipes
-hand sanitizer
-flossers
-hair ties
-snacks and drink mix
/cc @prisonculture.bsky.social 💕
A pile of mutual aid care packages in large ziploc bags. Can see socks, lotion, pads, crackers, hand warmers, and more
November 21, 2024 at 2:16 AM
ashedryden.bsky.social
What books are you hoping to finish by the end of the year? 📚

I’m on book 99 now and I’ve got a few non-fictions ones to get through:
- Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo
- Orientalism by Edward Said (finally!)
- The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
Book Cover: Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo Book Cover: Orientalism by Edward Said Book cover: The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
November 13, 2024 at 2:47 AM
ashedryden.bsky.social
Sociologists everywhere heavily sighing
Screenshot of a news article: COULD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BE THE CURE FOR LONELINESS? Rates of loneliness are increasing worldwide. But big tech companies think they have the solution…
November 13, 2024 at 12:35 AM