Anne Corwin
@feliscorvus.bsky.social
Engineer (EE)/facilities mgr, catlady, maker/crafter, #ActuallyAutistic, GenX. Likes prog rock/metal, pie, science, art, scifi, #BtVS, kindness, democracy. 🏳️🌈😸🖤 All opinions mine.
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Anne Corwin
@feliscorvus.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Hey, blue place folks! I’m Anne, and I’ve been on the internet a very long time. Don’t expect topical consistency in my posts, but a few things I’m interested in are:
- Cats (I have 3 feral colony rescues that I adore)
- Science/engineering (esp. biotech & electronics
- Electronics repair (1/3)
- Cats (I have 3 feral colony rescues that I adore)
- Science/engineering (esp. biotech & electronics
- Electronics repair (1/3)
Yes! Things are really hard and I know we are all weary and anxious for justice. But defeatism is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, and it’s a luxury we cannot afford.
I'm not really into the skeets saying "there will be no consequences just like there haven't been consequences" because firstly, that's defeatist. secondly, I don't see the use in predicting the future consequences or lack thereof. I do see the use in loudly telling the truth at all times
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yes! Things are really hard and I know we are all weary and anxious for justice. But defeatism is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, and it’s a luxury we cannot afford.
FINALLY!
"Congratulations, you're now a member of the United States Congress."
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, is sworn in today, Nov. 12.
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, is sworn in today, Nov. 12.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FINALLY!
When a little guy comes up to you on the couch and says mrew 🥺
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When a little guy comes up to you on the couch and says mrew 🥺
Well, in spite of all the nonsense, it was great waking up to the news that our civilization isn’t backsliding in *every* conceivable way!
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Well, in spite of all the nonsense, it was great waking up to the news that our civilization isn’t backsliding in *every* conceivable way!
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
“Don’t vote” is the wrong message to take from tonight’s senate debacle. Anyone who suggests this is grifting or ignorantly dooming. Keep voting, and vote for better candidates!
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
“Don’t vote” is the wrong message to take from tonight’s senate debacle. Anyone who suggests this is grifting or ignorantly dooming. Keep voting, and vote for better candidates!
Good, hopefully the non-cavers can stop this nonsense within the next half hour. A “promise” to hold an ACA subsidies vote next month is worse than worthless.
Dem Senator Ruben Gallego is a no on the CR:
“I have been clear on this from the beginning: I will not turn my back on the 24 million Americans who will see their premiums more than double if we don’t extend these tax credits.”
“I have been clear on this from the beginning: I will not turn my back on the 24 million Americans who will see their premiums more than double if we don’t extend these tax credits.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Good, hopefully the non-cavers can stop this nonsense within the next half hour. A “promise” to hold an ACA subsidies vote next month is worse than worthless.
A 1 year extension might be the best we can get right now but Dems absolutely should not pass ANYTHING based merely on Republicans claiming they will negotiate later after a reopen. They will not. And dems will look like fools.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A 1 year extension might be the best we can get right now but Dems absolutely should not pass ANYTHING based merely on Republicans claiming they will negotiate later after a reopen. They will not. And dems will look like fools.
There is a difference between being good at debates and being right, and I hope humans figure that out ASAP.
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There is a difference between being good at debates and being right, and I hope humans figure that out ASAP.
We still have free and fair elections despite all the tomfoolery Trump & his goons have enacted over the past year. And electing competent leaders will help keep it that way.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We still have free and fair elections despite all the tomfoolery Trump & his goons have enacted over the past year. And electing competent leaders will help keep it that way.
The WAY this is 100% me
“The cats kept multiplying and escaping their carriers. One peed on the controls of the spaceship, causing us to crash land on a planet entirely inhabited by giant pirate mice, which made me miss my algebra test.”
Read the full very silly article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
Read the full very silly article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The WAY this is 100% me
I love when lots of Democrats win by margins too big to be contested!
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I love when lots of Democrats win by margins too big to be contested!
Well! This Election Day is going a heck of a lot better than last year’s, that’s for sure.
Now if only folks can maintain this level of turnout & enthusiasm for the midterms next year…
Now if only folks can maintain this level of turnout & enthusiasm for the midterms next year…
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Well! This Election Day is going a heck of a lot better than last year’s, that’s for sure.
Now if only folks can maintain this level of turnout & enthusiasm for the midterms next year…
Now if only folks can maintain this level of turnout & enthusiasm for the midterms next year…
VOTE today if you haven’t already!
I voted by mail in California:
- YES on 50
- YES on measure A
It’s been a year (ish) now since the last dreadful election and I am hoping by this point a critical mass of folks realize we need to change course ASAP.
I voted by mail in California:
- YES on 50
- YES on measure A
It’s been a year (ish) now since the last dreadful election and I am hoping by this point a critical mass of folks realize we need to change course ASAP.
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
VOTE today if you haven’t already!
I voted by mail in California:
- YES on 50
- YES on measure A
It’s been a year (ish) now since the last dreadful election and I am hoping by this point a critical mass of folks realize we need to change course ASAP.
I voted by mail in California:
- YES on 50
- YES on measure A
It’s been a year (ish) now since the last dreadful election and I am hoping by this point a critical mass of folks realize we need to change course ASAP.
#HollowKnight #Silksong Halloween was a hit! Lots of kids recognized it (and one dad who was like “hey that’s from that game I’m always playing”!)
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#HollowKnight #Silksong Halloween was a hit! Lots of kids recognized it (and one dad who was like “hey that’s from that game I’m always playing”!)
Yes! I have so much Thriller nostalgia - I remember my whole kindergarten class in like 1983 being obsessed with it, it was the first compellingly scary (but not TOO scary) piece of media a lot of 80s kids got to engage with.
Something I love about Thriller is that Michael Jackson really threw everything in there, werecats, zombies, beasts, a thing with forty eyes, night creatures, aliens, demons, hounds of hell, ghouls, the funk of forty thousand years, it truly has it all
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yes! I have so much Thriller nostalgia - I remember my whole kindergarten class in like 1983 being obsessed with it, it was the first compellingly scary (but not TOO scary) piece of media a lot of 80s kids got to engage with.
Happy Halloween eve! We will be ready for all the Trick or Treaters in Pharloom tomorrow.
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Happy Halloween eve! We will be ready for all the Trick or Treaters in Pharloom tomorrow.
Ok you know he’s got “Italian Leather Sofa” by Cake playing in his head here.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ok you know he’s got “Italian Leather Sofa” by Cake playing in his head here.
Getting hit hard with the memories of this time last year, hoping the election would go differently than it did…
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Getting hit hard with the memories of this time last year, hoping the election would go differently than it did…
I kind of figured it was something like that, but never actually knew! And for the record I absolutely had a cool fake uncle growing up (one of my dad’s BFFs), plus a second cousin I just called “cousin”. Scandalous?
"Kith" is the word to describe people who you are close to (friends, neighbors) who are not necessarily related to you genetically. Thus the phrase, "kith and kin." And yeah, a lot of them you might call "aunt(ie)" or "uncle" or "cousin."
That's exactly what I grew up with. Kin and people not our kin but that were close to our family were always called "auntie" or "uncle" [name].
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I kind of figured it was something like that, but never actually knew! And for the record I absolutely had a cool fake uncle growing up (one of my dad’s BFFs), plus a second cousin I just called “cousin”. Scandalous?
Genuinely curious as to at which point some other countries will step in and try to get the USA to cut the crap? Is that even a thing? I mean we have to be violating multiple international laws at this point, right?
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Genuinely curious as to at which point some other countries will step in and try to get the USA to cut the crap? Is that even a thing? I mean we have to be violating multiple international laws at this point, right?
So adorable! 🥰
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
So adorable! 🥰
This is one of my favorite pieces of terrible art I’ve ever done (Grimm from #HollowKnight being faaabulous).
October 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is one of my favorite pieces of terrible art I’ve ever done (Grimm from #HollowKnight being faaabulous).
I love how Chewy is managing to call out one of my cats specifically, like, how do they KNOW she is constantly trying to eat hair ties?
October 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I love how Chewy is managing to call out one of my cats specifically, like, how do they KNOW she is constantly trying to eat hair ties?
I really want to know what voter would be like “well I wasn’t going to vote for Cuomo, but now I will since Eric Adams has endorsed him!” 🤷🏻♀️
October 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I really want to know what voter would be like “well I wasn’t going to vote for Cuomo, but now I will since Eric Adams has endorsed him!” 🤷🏻♀️