Annelise
@mxannelise.bsky.social
Gender adventuress, hockey fan, aide-de-camp. Two-time winner of the Miss DomCon Pageant.
Jinkx Monsoon and Ben DeLaCreme are buying spots promoting their Christmas show on the Bay Area’s top-rated news radio station (which happens to be public radio, KQED-FM) and for some reason that charms me utterly
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jinkx Monsoon and Ben DeLaCreme are buying spots promoting their Christmas show on the Bay Area’s top-rated news radio station (which happens to be public radio, KQED-FM) and for some reason that charms me utterly
My goodness, I can feel this picture in my bones (being a valley kid)
A calm & quiescent Thanksgiving Day in CA, weather-wise, with warm & mostly sunny conditions outside of Central Valley & parts of North Bay--where widespread tule fog is keeping things chillier (as predicted). Temps into 70s SoCal & 60s NorCal above fog layer (50s beneath). #CAwx
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My goodness, I can feel this picture in my bones (being a valley kid)
That odd feeling, something like calm, when the last thing goes in the oven on Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
That odd feeling, something like calm, when the last thing goes in the oven on Thanksgiving
This story has some twists
Santa’s seat at the flagship Macy’s store in San Francisco’s Union Square will be empty this year, and not necessarily because the store has been mired in an uncertain future.
Macy’s in S.F.’s Union Square won’t have a Santa this year, for the first time in decades
Santa’s seat at the flagship Macy’s store in San Francisco’s Union Square will be empty this year, and not necessarily because the store has been mired in an uncertain future.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This story has some twists
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‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care | KQED
Multiple parents say Sutter Health caregivers told them the network will end gender-affirming care to youth in December, leaving them scrambling to find new physicians for their transgender children.
www.kqed.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
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One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
At 100 years old, the Grand Ole Opry is the keeper of country music's legacy
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
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@brookegladstone.bsky.social and @jessethorn.bsky.social: Two of my favorite podcasters/broadcasters/journalists, talking sincerely about the value of art and public media. A must-listen.
overcast.fm/+ABH_DZD-jNc
overcast.fm/+ABH_DZD-jNc
Bullseye’s Jesse Thorn on Surviving in the Podcasting Industry — On the Media
This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bullseye.
overcast.fm
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@brookegladstone.bsky.social and @jessethorn.bsky.social: Two of my favorite podcasters/broadcasters/journalists, talking sincerely about the value of art and public media. A must-listen.
overcast.fm/+ABH_DZD-jNc
overcast.fm/+ABH_DZD-jNc
ye gods what a thread
the kind of thing that in a generation people are going to read about and think “whoa, that really happened?”
the kind of thing that in a generation people are going to read about and think “whoa, that really happened?”
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
ye gods what a thread
the kind of thing that in a generation people are going to read about and think “whoa, that really happened?”
the kind of thing that in a generation people are going to read about and think “whoa, that really happened?”
ESPN+ has the only NHL game being played tonight (Stars at Oilers). Watching Sportsnet and seeing their video insert ad messages on the boards is a reminder that brands I don’t think of as Canadian (Safeway, Castrol) continue to wrap themselves in the Maple Leaf Flag thanks to inane 🇺🇸 foreign policy
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
ESPN+ has the only NHL game being played tonight (Stars at Oilers). Watching Sportsnet and seeing their video insert ad messages on the boards is a reminder that brands I don’t think of as Canadian (Safeway, Castrol) continue to wrap themselves in the Maple Leaf Flag thanks to inane 🇺🇸 foreign policy
This thread really resonates for me
I think certain organizing trainings did some of us real psychological damage in teaching us that YOU, ORGANIZER, PERSONALLY have responsibility for going out and making people leverage organized power and ultimately saving the world.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This thread really resonates for me
yikes this isn’t good
New @pnas.org
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
yikes this isn’t good
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Really really bad for cooks looking for new things to try, catastrophic for the people who publish
They’re going to have to pry my pre-2010 cookbooks out of my cold dead hands
They’re going to have to pry my pre-2010 cookbooks out of my cold dead hands
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Really really bad for cooks looking for new things to try, catastrophic for the people who publish
They’re going to have to pry my pre-2010 cookbooks out of my cold dead hands
They’re going to have to pry my pre-2010 cookbooks out of my cold dead hands
If you need to taper off tales of the American Revolution after Ken Burns’ series last week, may I recommend a trip to the library to check out Sarah Vowell’s Lafayette In The Somewhat United States? Well researched and with a well-deserved helping of snark Ken probably didn’t feel he should include
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If you need to taper off tales of the American Revolution after Ken Burns’ series last week, may I recommend a trip to the library to check out Sarah Vowell’s Lafayette In The Somewhat United States? Well researched and with a well-deserved helping of snark Ken probably didn’t feel he should include
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Direct hit
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Direct hit
It’s going to be a wild ride to LA28
if the 2028 Olympics go over budget — and every Olympics since 1984 has, often doubling or more in cost — L.A. will be on the hook for the first $270m in losses, the state of California for the next $270m, and the city again for anything over that.
LA Olympic organizers, facing billions in potential taxpayer costs, trade arena naming rights for free tax prep
Los Angeles, which won Olympic hosting rights after Boston withdrew its bid because it was too expensive, is continuing to prepare for the 2028 Summer Games, a little less than three years out from the planned opening ceremonies. This puts L.A.'s Olympic committee smack in the middle of fundraising season, and L.A. officials negotiated a...
www.fieldofschemes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It’s going to be a wild ride to LA28
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🎙️ON AIR:
Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the news a lot lately, but usually they’re not telling their own stories. We’ll hear from those who have lent their voices to the Love You for You series.
❓Tell us about the trans and gender nonconforming youth in your life.
📻 Listen:
Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the news a lot lately, but usually they’re not telling their own stories. We’ll hear from those who have lent their voices to the Love You for You series.
❓Tell us about the trans and gender nonconforming youth in your life.
📻 Listen:
Trans Kids Talk With Those Who Love and Support Them in ‘Love You for You’ Series | KQED
Airdate: Monday, November 24 at 9 AM Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the news a lot lately, but usually they’re not telling their own stories. The California Report Magazine has been…
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🎙️ON AIR:
Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the news a lot lately, but usually they’re not telling their own stories. We’ll hear from those who have lent their voices to the Love You for You series.
❓Tell us about the trans and gender nonconforming youth in your life.
📻 Listen:
Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the news a lot lately, but usually they’re not telling their own stories. We’ll hear from those who have lent their voices to the Love You for You series.
❓Tell us about the trans and gender nonconforming youth in your life.
📻 Listen:
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#SJSharks Yaroslav Askarov in November:
7-1 record
.958 sv pct
.982 PK Sv Pct
Wins are most in a calendar month by a Sharks rookie goalie since December 2000
>Evgeni Nabokov (7)
Askarov tied for NHL lead in wins in November (Lukas Dostal ANA)
7-1 record
.958 sv pct
.982 PK Sv Pct
Wins are most in a calendar month by a Sharks rookie goalie since December 2000
>Evgeni Nabokov (7)
Askarov tied for NHL lead in wins in November (Lukas Dostal ANA)
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
#SJSharks Yaroslav Askarov in November:
7-1 record
.958 sv pct
.982 PK Sv Pct
Wins are most in a calendar month by a Sharks rookie goalie since December 2000
>Evgeni Nabokov (7)
Askarov tied for NHL lead in wins in November (Lukas Dostal ANA)
7-1 record
.958 sv pct
.982 PK Sv Pct
Wins are most in a calendar month by a Sharks rookie goalie since December 2000
>Evgeni Nabokov (7)
Askarov tied for NHL lead in wins in November (Lukas Dostal ANA)
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you want fun and informative women’s sports coverage? 🤔
you want it with an intersectional lens? 😮
and you want to support an independent journalist without having feeding the alt-right substack machine? 😍
then subscribe to frankie’s work! 👇🏼
you want it with an intersectional lens? 😮
and you want to support an independent journalist without having feeding the alt-right substack machine? 😍
then subscribe to frankie’s work! 👇🏼
Full disclosure: I’ve lost nearly 40 paid subscribers since leaving Substack and this newsletter is 2/3 of my income. If you want to support an independent trans journalist, this is a great way to do so. bit.ly/ooylsagseaso...
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
you want fun and informative women’s sports coverage? 🤔
you want it with an intersectional lens? 😮
and you want to support an independent journalist without having feeding the alt-right substack machine? 😍
then subscribe to frankie’s work! 👇🏼
you want it with an intersectional lens? 😮
and you want to support an independent journalist without having feeding the alt-right substack machine? 😍
then subscribe to frankie’s work! 👇🏼
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For the uninitiated, Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey of the Montreal Victoire are married, have a habit of fighting on the ice for each other, and got penalties together at today's game. Hockey romance is not a fictional genre in the women's game, that's for sure.
JAIL JAIL JAIL LOL WIVES IN JAIL
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
For the uninitiated, Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey of the Montreal Victoire are married, have a habit of fighting on the ice for each other, and got penalties together at today's game. Hockey romance is not a fictional genre in the women's game, that's for sure.
This is the most NWSL video clip I think I’ve ever seen
❤️ Rose Lavelle
❤️ Rose Lavelle
Scoring the winning goal in the NWSL championship game only gets you so far, unfortunately. 😂
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is the most NWSL video clip I think I’ve ever seen
❤️ Rose Lavelle
❤️ Rose Lavelle
This is such a better reaction than I had when I got this same exact text a few hours ago
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is such a better reaction than I had when I got this same exact text a few hours ago
Great piece, updated just as Gotham FC beats Washington to win the title
Left unstated, not surprisingly, is the question of who would pay for a Bay FC-specific stadium. There’s a passing remark in the story about controlling revenue; that’s especially attractive when you don’t pay for the building
Left unstated, not surprisingly, is the question of who would pay for a Bay FC-specific stadium. There’s a passing remark in the story about controlling revenue; that’s especially attractive when you don’t pay for the building
“It's home right now. It's home for us. It's home for the foreseeable future."
PayPal Park, is the home of the 2025 championshup game, and for now, Bay FC. They still intend to have their own stadium eventually, but for now, San Jose is home | @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...
PayPal Park, is the home of the 2025 championshup game, and for now, Bay FC. They still intend to have their own stadium eventually, but for now, San Jose is home | @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...
NWSL championship descends on San Jose, where Bay FC’s future is uncertain
Bay FC’s home in San Jose hasn’t been considered permanent, and as the club heads into what it describes as “phase two” on the field and as a business, its long-term location is still a...
www.sfchronicle.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Great piece, updated just as Gotham FC beats Washington to win the title
Left unstated, not surprisingly, is the question of who would pay for a Bay FC-specific stadium. There’s a passing remark in the story about controlling revenue; that’s especially attractive when you don’t pay for the building
Left unstated, not surprisingly, is the question of who would pay for a Bay FC-specific stadium. There’s a passing remark in the story about controlling revenue; that’s especially attractive when you don’t pay for the building