Annalee

Annalee

@flowerhorne.com

Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor. Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.

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Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

My real problem with autocorrect these days isn't so much that it's sometimes wrong; it's that when I go back and manually undo it, it will STILL re-"correct" what I typed by hand, or turn it into a completely different typo.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: - sheet sets - fiestaware - video games

Wiredferret!@wiredferret.bsky.social

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: - partial allen key sets - sunscreen - pocket kites - whistles - hoodies

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

Here's a secret to a happy marriage: No law says you have to share blankets just because you share a bed You can curl up in your own lightweight summer blanket while your spouse is rocking a winter duvet You can each have your own favorite color and texture Go wild

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

Anyway I just got a heated blanket for myself and it will defend me valiantly from accidentally touching Spouse's weighted cooling blanket and I think that's beautiful

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Tobias S. Buckell
@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social

Replying to @flowerhorne.com

Thank you, yes, All Her Children Fought, it was so interesting, I got to write the script! www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D...

google.comALL HER CHILDREN FOUGHTBased on the short story by Tobias Buckell (http://www.TobiasBuckell.com). Script by Tobias S. Buckell, Cathal Feeney, and Patrick Ryan. Produced by Liam Grant (Snugboro Films: http://snugborofilms.com) and directed by Patrick Ryan, who has a number of award winning short films to his credit. The film was shortlisted for showing at the Belfast Film Festival in April 2013 and the Tokyo Short Shorts Festival May/June 2013. When every pound to orbit counts, who will fight for our future in deep space?

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Jordan Kurella De Vil
@jordankurella.com

"what is the point of living when death is standing on your shoulder?" winner of the Shirley Jackson Award finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the Nebula Award, the Indie Book Prize, and the World Fantasy Award (talking mountains! talking deaths! has a bird!)

bookshop.orgThe Death of MountainsWinner of the Shirley Jackson Award, this novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like T...
Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

I watched Babylon 5 at an impressionable age when it was in reruns. Walter Koenig's Alfred Bester has left an indelible mark on who I am as a writer and how I think about writing villains.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

Koenig taught me the difference between "everyone's the hero of their own story" and "villains should be sympathetic." Bester was an advanced class in how to portray evil with depth without losing moral clarity or portraying horrific behavior as justified or sympathetic.

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Bilhões and Billions
@omnicr.one

Replying to @omnicr.one

"just ignore them" is not a crazy idea anymore. it works. it works *too* well even. and I believe there is a situation room at every social media company right now trying to address this

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

I've donated to a few candidates before and so my name is on lists of folks who can be persuaded to open up their wallets for dems in close races. And it's true! I can! The magic words are "trans rights are human rights and I will not dignify weird creeps' obsession with teen girls' genitals."

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Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

If you don't want to "debate trans issues," then don't. Say "girls deserve to play sports with their friends without creeps trying to look in their pants. We protect women and girls by making sure they have equal pay, equal rights, and health care." This isn't hard unless you're a coward.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

You can also try "I'm not sure why the party that elected a rapist and dismantled Roe thinks we need their opinions on how to protect women, but I do know they've made the US a dangerous place to be pregnant and an expensive place to raise kids" and then talk about what you're going to do about it

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

I've donated to a few candidates before and so my name is on lists of folks who can be persuaded to open up their wallets for dems in close races. And it's true! I can! The magic words are "trans rights are human rights and I will not dignify weird creeps' obsession with teen girls' genitals."

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

I vote blue, but not "no matter who." The who actually matters a lot. I'm glad to live where I am spoiled for choice in Dem candidates who will be normal humans with more important concerns than frothing with rage about teen girls playing sports with their friends.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

this thread brought to you by a certain governor of California who's lining people up under a 2028 bus that's not even here yet, and the DCCC sending me screeds from James Carville as if I need to hear tough guy shit from a geriatric Josh Lyman who's too chicken to protect queer kids.

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Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau.com

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

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Patrick Wyman
@patrickwyman.bsky.social

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social

Ever notice "abusers can grow and change" uniformly comes from people who haven't actually checked if someone grew or changed? It's like a magic wand of sentiment they wave over harm.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

Okay so last night someone boosted a hide and seek comic where one of the first panels was something like "we broke the one rule" and now I can't find it in spite of a ton of scrolling and searching Anyone know what I'm talking about and if so can you give me the link?

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Sinboo [spooky He/spooky His]
@sinboy.bsky.social

Mime work, though often the butt of a lot of jokes in Looney Toons etc, is a serious art. Marcel Marceau was a master performer, but there are still people working in the field

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inkle
@inkle.co

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD
@cdelawalla.bsky.social

Replying to @cdelawalla.bsky.social

Lots of people citing this one: HIV went from a death sentence to…undetectable and people get to live a full and healthy normal life!!!! I mean that’s amazing.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

Fun tip: once you control for family income, absolutely nothing else—AT ALL—makes a statistically significant difference in academic outcomes Gifted and Talented programs are essentially just income-sorting

Ann Leckie@annleckie.com

Oh and ABOLISH GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAMS sweet bleeding mithras just get rid of that shit.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

And before someone slides in with "my family wasn't rich and I Was Gifted," 1. Welcome to the anecdote club where the first rule is we are not data, and 2. Not rich != poor or even working class.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

There are smart kids at all income brackets. But the less money your parents have, the less likely it is that your gifts will be noticed & nourished That's down to bias, and how much power your parents have to fight for you G&T != Smart, and smart extremely doesn't equal getting labeled "gifted."

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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social

SMUGGLE YOUR MATERIALS TO THE ARCHIVIST

Frank Cifaldi@frankcifaldi.bsky.social

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

My circadian rhythm and I really need to have a conversation about expectations for its role because I managed to stay roughly on east coast time for an entire ten day trip and now I'm back east and oversleeping

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

I also blame Big Candy for daylight savings time being extended past Halloween; it should not still be dark at 7am Some of us need to wake up and go places

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
@dytsras.bsky.social

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

goodmorningamerica.com27-year-old man credited for saving kids, driver in runaway school busA 27-year-old Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

One thing I've learned from a depressing number of experiences with creeps in professional spaces: we'd be better off if we all accepted that we are, by and large, terrible judges of character

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social

To put a fine point on it, I've socialized with hucksters and they sometimes let the mask slip but I only **knew** they were full of shit from facts I learned externally from interacting with them.

Annalee
@flowerhorne.com

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that marginalized people are a bit better at it because pattern recognition is a muscle you can develop when you're repeatedly the target of shitty behavior— but being able to tell if someone is honest is really not an innate skill we have as a species