Anna E. Cook

Award winning bog hag, platform and systems designer in tech (derogatory), accessibility advocate, happily neurodivergent 💙

Website: https://annaecook.com/
Newsletter: https://annaecook.com/newsletter
Pronouns: She/They

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2026-08-12 20:45:36 UTC

I’ve recently become less attached to social media, even though I only really use Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn.
Part of me worries being less active will be bad for me, make me ignorant, cause career problems.
But I am just so much happier. There’s so many more fun things to do other than this.

2026-08-10 21:15:19 UTC

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Tech companies and grifters like to make everyone else feel like they’re not “technical enough”
Thing is, you don’t have to know everything about technology to know if it’s harming or helping you.
What we do need is real tech advocates informing government to protect people from tech harms.

2026-08-10 21:15:18 UTC

The moment you talk with someone not working on tech, it becomes pretty clear how low tech fluency is.
Which is one of many many reasons we need more tech policy advisors to protect people from companies taking advantage of citizens lack of fluency

2026-08-06 18:15:25 UTC

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“…But a ramp is boring. You can't make investors have a hard on for a ramp that doesn't connect to the cloud. You can’t give a TED Talk about a ramp. You can’t get venture capital funding for a slightly wider doorframe. Concrete is not ‘disruptive.’”

2026-08-06 18:15:23 UTC

“I don’t need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and or a ramp…”
sightlessscribbles.com/disability-d...
https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/

2026-07-29 20:30:50 UTC

It’s happening isn’t it 🌝
www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/55-percent-of-leaders-regret-ai-layoffs-and-a-major-hiring-reversal-has-begun/91380901

2026-07-10 16:31:41 UTC

Every time fascism increases my hair is just gonna get more blue and I’m gonna talk more about my queer childless cat lady life and how much it rocks

2026-07-07 20:45:45 UTC

Layoffs will continue until morale ceases to exist

2026-06-25 00:30:20 UTC

“Guys I’m starting to think maybe AI costs a lot of money” says exec whose been ignoring all of us for years
www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...
https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

2026-06-19 16:30:24 UTC

I walked away from my work laptop yesterday evening and my cat (Onyx) sat on the keyboard.
Cue me checking back in an hour later to have sent
“33333333333333347”
And
“7777777777777777777777777.;/“
To 40 people.

2026-06-18 19:01:18 UTC

Amid the ongoing reporting on Starbucks leaving Seattle, video game studios shutting down despite their success, and countless similar stories, something keeps getting skimmed over: the workers who organized to fight back.
The unions at Starbucks roasters Seattle. The unions inside video game teams

2026-06-17 22:00:37 UTC

This list that got leaked was found in the HTML code of the website itself and could be seen by anyone.
That is genuinely the funniest part of this story.
“Tech” billionaires don’t know shit about tech.
www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

2026-06-09 21:00:42 UTC

After 10 years of therapy I do think sometimes you DO actually need to just take the system down instead of just internally working more.

2026-05-21 08:30:16 UTC

My partner and I have had different experiences of Paris, I speak decent enough French and my partner does not.
Parisians have smiled at me so widely when I speak in French.
My partner on the other hand has had some terse interactions lol.

2026-05-18 15:00:22 UTC

Woke 2 has overtaken the castle, the tides of battle are on our side. Onwards to victory!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/596/173/814/978/144/original/874f42b5844f893a.jpeg

2026-05-12 00:00:44 UTC

At this point, we should be designing/engineering with the lowest amount of tech or code possible to meet a goal.
Instead, it feels like we are forcing the highest tech solutions into problems that do not require them.
It's frankly embarrassing.
Sometimes the right solution is the low tech one.

2026-05-09 19:30:17 UTC

AI propaganda is so awful, idc who’s posting it.
Like damn, at least give me some good art if you’re gonna bombard me with this crap

2026-05-09 15:30:20 UTC

Someone asked me recently how to “turn off AI”
Which goes to show how much companies refuse to gain consent when adding AI to everything.
First thing, move to Linux.
Second thing, use a browser with no AI or an “off” option.
Third, find products to replace AI forcing ones.

2026-05-09 03:00:33 UTC

These are my children I did make them actually
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/542/382/242/612/415/original/0e12c4f8a5a9edbd.jpeg

2026-05-05 19:20:22 UTC

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there’s an illustrator I bought the vectors from and modified as needed! I cannot remember their handle but can check later!

2026-05-05 15:00:30 UTC

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The second article is a governance framework with a workbook for design system teams working to prevent large scale inaccessibility failures caused by using AI.
I poured a lot into these, so I hope they help and start moving us in a better direction again. 💙
annaecook.com/writing/2026...
2/2
https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/governing-accessible-design-systems-in-the-ai-era

2026-05-05 15:00:29 UTC

This month, I've published two articles and a workbook as a follow-up from my design keynote at axe-con 2026.
TLDR: AI doesn't "fix" accessibility. It reproduces the structural debt it was trained on, at the speed and scale that AI-assisted coding now operates.
annaecook.com/writing/2026...
1/2
https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/ai-doesnt-fix-accessible-systems-it-depends-on-them

2026-04-30 05:30:19 UTC

I now have to validate if the cute animal photos and videos on my feed are real not AI.
This alone means AI must be regulated asap

2026-04-23 20:00:53 UTC

Companies in 2019: we’ve got 16 weeks parental leave, great healthcare, 30 days PTO
Companies in 2026: we are working on a policy that makes you pay us to work here

2026-04-20 21:00:29 UTC

I’m so tired of the tech hype machine.
Idgaf how you’re optimizing with AI, what the hell are you doing for people?
How are you making the world actually better?
Idgaf what your job title is or what you’re selling.
I could give two fucks about your manifesto or your stocks.
Be a fucking human.

2026-04-13 17:00:27 UTC

Another wild fear tactic being pressed on tech workers right now is the “permanent underclass.”
Idk anyone who’s is worried about this myself.
But to those who are worried about this:
Class struggles will not be fixed by getting “in” on AI. It’ll be fixed by collective action and labor rights.

2026-04-07 19:30:22 UTC

Dear elected official
I am calling once again to say what the fuck make this fucking stop are you fucking serious this man is going to get us killed.
Thank you.

2026-04-07 01:00:31 UTC

Sometimes I’ll be going about my day and I’ll remember
Somehow we have a president whose acting like a dictator and we’re all just going about our days.
This man is in the Epstein files and has done so many illegal things openly we can’t even track them.
Like, once again, what the fuck

2026-03-29 16:30:18 UTC

As a neurodivergent person in tech let me make one point here:
Alex Karp is a fascist and misogynist who wants you to be comfortable with the same thinking Nazis had about neurodivergence.
He can fuck right off.
fortune.com/2026/03/24/p...
https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-two-people-successful-in-ai-era-vocational-skills-neurodivergence-gen-z-career-advice/

2026-03-24 05:00:20 UTC

Most of the time now I feel I have to be numb to the horrible things happening in my country.
Numb enough to see it and know it without falling apart.
Not so numb as to ignore it, to do everything in my power to stop it.
But then some days I feel it all, and it hollows me out, like today.

2026-03-23 04:00:25 UTC

Reject the pull of hype and rage cycles, protect your attention
Read a book, bake a tasty treat, go on a little walk, snuggle a cat or dog
I believe in you

2026-03-17 03:30:19 UTC

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I mean honestly I think Thiel would know about the antichrist.
Seeing as it’s him.

2026-03-17 03:30:18 UTC

Peter Thiel wanting to debate with the pope about the antichrist is pretty much typical for what I’d expect of a tech billionaire.

2026-03-12 19:00:20 UTC

It was the worst of times it was the worst of times

2026-03-11 01:00:18 UTC

The internet in 2026
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/207/833/420/671/603/original/ee6e936fb7ddaa0e.jpeg

2026-03-10 15:00:25 UTC

“Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
The online retail giant said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterised by a ‘high blast radius’ and "Gen-AI assisted changes"
We’ve been saying this for years, Gen AI is not a reliable engineering tool! 🥲
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/205/474/585/147/891/original/31320596a167d29b.jpeg

2026-03-10 01:30:21 UTC

Hey prediction markets are just insider trading for elected officials and you will always lose hope this helps

2026-03-10 00:30:23 UTC

All I’ll say is I’ve left MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
I’ll happily abandon any platform if you’re enshittifying it 👹

2026-03-03 03:00:18 UTC

disassociation is better than association anyways guys

2026-02-03 22:00:22 UTC

Today I read a headline about ICE tear-gassing children.
Then, almost instantly, I got a work ping that needed attention.
That’s the pattern: witnessing something so destabilizing it shakes my faith in humanity then being asked to continue on as if nothing happened.
Without pause. Indefinitely.

2026-01-31 01:00:22 UTC

I’m sorry so like, looking at the released files today seems to irrefutably prove Trump is a pedophile, not just like maybe, but is.
Am I actually reading this right? Like someone tell me I’m wrong here.
We for sure see this right? And he’s just gonna…stay president?

2026-01-30 16:30:26 UTC

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The average person thinks that people in tech are far right like Musk, or comfortable with oligarchy like Bezos.
But many of us are not, many got into this work to do good, on the PROMISE of good even.
And we know ICE is not good
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-ice-out-tech/

2026-01-30 16:30:26 UTC

There is a tension inside tech work right now between the fear of repercussions and the reality that we need to say “stop working with this fascist regime”

2026-01-21 02:00:36 UTC

Minnesota is not the only place that ICE is terrorizing communities in, today several schools in south Seattle had to go into shelter in place because of ICE
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/two-seattle-schools-shelter-in-place-due-to-reported-ice-activity/

2026-01-14 21:30:54 UTC

If anyone is waiting for me to respond to an email or send a thing right now please bear with me I am getting my ass kicked lately.
I'm doing my best 🥲

2026-01-13 01:00:46 UTC

I am in the process of getting a whimsical happy tiger tattooed on my back (yay)
My artist listen to me talk about how cool accessibility is for like an hour.
I just love this stuff…I can’t help it. I think it’s neat!

2026-01-09 03:00:53 UTC

My partner has helped me realize that yes, even in days like today, you can feel a little better with a little care.
Yes, fight back. But also nourish, replenish.
Look at a plant, pet an animal, drink a warm thing, read, love and be loved.
Also damn it why is my partner always right.