Ann Gelder ❌👑
@anngelder.bsky.social
Writer, occasional podcaster, childless cat lady (she/her)
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If you’d like a signed copy of ENDPAPERS for the holidays, DM me! If you want it to go in the mail today with this one, DM me soon :)
And look at the pretty mug made by @melostrom.bsky.social in the background! She also might have great holiday gifts 👀
And look at the pretty mug made by @melostrom.bsky.social in the background! She also might have great holiday gifts 👀
December 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you’d like a signed copy of ENDPAPERS for the holidays, DM me! If you want it to go in the mail today with this one, DM me soon :)
And look at the pretty mug made by @melostrom.bsky.social in the background! She also might have great holiday gifts 👀
And look at the pretty mug made by @melostrom.bsky.social in the background! She also might have great holiday gifts 👀
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Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
Trekkies, in a trashed theater, up to our ankles in drifts of popcorn, where the film didn’t fit on the screen. We loved every minute.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Trekkies, in a trashed theater, up to our ankles in drifts of popcorn, where the film didn’t fit on the screen. We loved every minute.
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The light is on for Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey! @foreverasheley.bsky.social💡
“I have to wash my pillowcase twice a week because I hate the smell of my tears” is a profoundly moving and urgent poem, leaping forward with a striking intention.
Check out her gorgeous writing over at the site!
“I have to wash my pillowcase twice a week because I hate the smell of my tears” is a profoundly moving and urgent poem, leaping forward with a striking intention.
Check out her gorgeous writing over at the site!
I have to wash my pillowcase twice a week because I hate the smell of my tears - Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey — Bulb Culture Collective
Mother, father, forgive me, for I have sinned.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The light is on for Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey! @foreverasheley.bsky.social💡
“I have to wash my pillowcase twice a week because I hate the smell of my tears” is a profoundly moving and urgent poem, leaping forward with a striking intention.
Check out her gorgeous writing over at the site!
“I have to wash my pillowcase twice a week because I hate the smell of my tears” is a profoundly moving and urgent poem, leaping forward with a striking intention.
Check out her gorgeous writing over at the site!
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Some notes on Trump's extraordinary day of rebukes, losses, and humiliations, and an inspiring Congressional moment from @ramirez.house.gov 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-r...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-r...
Trump Loses Big In Indiana - And Again And Again All Over Washington Today
Rep. Delia Ramirez was a hero today - watch her rip into Kristi Noem
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some notes on Trump's extraordinary day of rebukes, losses, and humiliations, and an inspiring Congressional moment from @ramirez.house.gov 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-r...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-r...
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Northwestern University alumni: if you hate the capitulation to Trump by NU's administration, please sign this letter. And share with your fellow alumni. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign-On Letter from Northwestern Alumni
On November 28, 2025, Northwestern bent the knee to Trump. People were very upset over the course of that day. We got the formal agreement along with some analysis. Kevin Brown then wrote an analysis ...
docs.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Northwestern University alumni: if you hate the capitulation to Trump by NU's administration, please sign this letter. And share with your fellow alumni. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
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People do not want shingles. People are gonna have to get shingles to realize they never wanted shingles.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
People do not want shingles. People are gonna have to get shingles to realize they never wanted shingles.
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jmww is looking for Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors! Applications open through January 31, 2026.
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Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors Wanted!
jmww is looking for Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors! Applications open through January 31, 2026.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
jmww is looking for Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors! Applications open through January 31, 2026.
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Tonight’s sunset in Half Moon Bay
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Tonight’s sunset in Half Moon Bay
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sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
This is beautiful!
I’m over the moon to have my new flash, “Cut Shapes Cut from Raindrops,” in the new issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social among so many incredible poems and stories. Feeling so lucky and grateful to have placed this piece here. #flashfiction
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is beautiful!
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Thank you, editors. I recommend this lit journal nonpareil! #writingcommunity #dirtyrealism #gritlit
ICYMI: "On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61," flash fiction by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social:
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar
You emerge from your apartment, wheatfield hair ablaze in the afternoon sun. My big sister, skinny in a form-fitting dress. Today you are 60. I smooth my Hawaiian shirt over my paunch. “Birth…
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December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thank you, editors. I recommend this lit journal nonpareil! #writingcommunity #dirtyrealism #gritlit
Precisely.
"How do I make my boss happy?" is the question that dominates the mind of every little authoritarian, and they instinctively assume it's on everyone else's mind as well.
Hassett: "The way to think about what AI & its agents can do is they can act as if they're the best coach you've ever had. And so while you're trying to figure out, how do I make my boss happy? It's like you've got a coach right there with you every step of the way."
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Precisely.
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This book is really fun and inspiring! Preorder below 👇
Brenda Barker's Next Chapter: "A delightful satire of writers’ conferences, packed with literary hopes, dashed dreams, writers behaving badly, and good pinot." — Michelle Richmond, Author of The Marriage Pact. Pre-order here: wendytokunaga.com
#novels #writingcommunity
#novels #writingcommunity
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This book is really fun and inspiring! Preorder below 👇
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Sean Hannity is a coward who sent a legion of right-wing trolls to our church, but we're not afraid of him or anyone else. If you're in Chicagoland, meet us for a prayer service next week at the nativity where we can name our grief, lament, and strengthen our resolve to fight ICE and fascism.
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sean Hannity is a coward who sent a legion of right-wing trolls to our church, but we're not afraid of him or anyone else. If you're in Chicagoland, meet us for a prayer service next week at the nativity where we can name our grief, lament, and strengthen our resolve to fight ICE and fascism.
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A fun look back on the year in music hits different when it’s paired with propaganda for Trump’s deportation machine. Remember: don't use Spotify while the platform runs recruitment ads for ICE. app.sosha.ai/s/h3KC1tmh
Spotify: Wrapped in complicity
app.sosha.ai
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A fun look back on the year in music hits different when it’s paired with propaganda for Trump’s deportation machine. Remember: don't use Spotify while the platform runs recruitment ads for ICE. app.sosha.ai/s/h3KC1tmh
Happy holidays from Half Moon Bay
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy holidays from Half Moon Bay
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
I have decided to bake a cake instead of working.
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I have decided to bake a cake instead of working.
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Made my first court appearance today to defend against the charges from November 14th. The state says that ostensibly what happens in Broadview is legal, but we know it is neither right nor legal. The state says that protesting a concentration camp is wrong, but we know better than that, too.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Made my first court appearance today to defend against the charges from November 14th. The state says that ostensibly what happens in Broadview is legal, but we know it is neither right nor legal. The state says that protesting a concentration camp is wrong, but we know better than that, too.
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tomorrow is the 1st -- all subs will be open tomorrow at 5am arizona time
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
tomorrow is the 1st -- all subs will be open tomorrow at 5am arizona time
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Weekend plans after Thanksgiving:
1. Use leftovers creatively.
2. Catch up on reading, or at least start.
3. Submit to Vestal Review before the submission window closes at midnight on Sunday.
www.vestalreview.net/guidelines
1. Use leftovers creatively.
2. Catch up on reading, or at least start.
3. Submit to Vestal Review before the submission window closes at midnight on Sunday.
www.vestalreview.net/guidelines
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Weekend plans after Thanksgiving:
1. Use leftovers creatively.
2. Catch up on reading, or at least start.
3. Submit to Vestal Review before the submission window closes at midnight on Sunday.
www.vestalreview.net/guidelines
1. Use leftovers creatively.
2. Catch up on reading, or at least start.
3. Submit to Vestal Review before the submission window closes at midnight on Sunday.
www.vestalreview.net/guidelines
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20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.