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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 27/01/2026

Vigil in Ann Arbor for Alex Pretti.

Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 23/07/2025

Did my second Spartan Race last weekend, my first in the age group category. Won the bronze! Had a ton of fun; love training for these with my kids.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 26/05/2025

Picked this book up on a whim at Vault of Midnight, and had so much fun with my 11-year-old making our first batch of dumplings together. I wish more kids cookbooks were written like graphic novels!

Photo of "Let's Make Dumplings" book alongside homemade dumplings.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 29/03/2025

Hundreds of people showed up for the #TeslaTakedown global day of action in Ann Arbor!

Protesters outside a Tesla dealership in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Signs read "You know a nazi when you see one" and "Fake Savings Data".

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 18/03/2025

Had an awesome time at the #TeslaTakedown at Somerset Mall yesterday! Couldn't get a great pic, but there were over a hundred people around the corner.

Protesters at tesla takedown, Somerset mall.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 08/03/2025

Two of the speakers were focused on pancreatic cancer, and I learned that 5 year survival rates have nearly doubled since it killed my father a decade ago. But like everyone else, they're facing funding cuts. I really hope we can find a way to protect federal funding for science research.

Picture of a protester holding up a sign saying "Cancer patient waiting for a cure"

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 08/03/2025

Took Friday off for #standupforscience2025 in Lansing, and I'm so glad I did! It was by far the most educational protest I have ever attended. Local scientists from diverse fields spoke about their work and how it helps people here in Michigan.

A photo taken at Stand Up for Science in Lansing, MI

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 06/03/2025

11-year-old and I are having so much fun with the Chibitronics Love to Code book. So neat to go back and forth between drawings and circuits and programs.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 28/02/2025

Hundreds of people came out to the Tesla Takedown protest in Ann Arbor today! I couldn't get a photo that captures how far this stretched.

Protesters in front of the Ann Arbor Tesla dealership.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 14/02/2025

I did heart cast iron cookies for the kids but used way too much dough!

Chocolate chip cookies cooked in cast iron pans they overflowed.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 12/02/2025

@sia.codes and I actually visited the KattenKabinet before perfnow a few years ago!

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 12/02/2025

Being a parent right now is so weird because it's just interspersed with stuff like "oh it's gonna be a snow day Thursday, gotta make valentine's with the kids!"

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 18/01/2025

Ugh, two more fake accounts impersonating me! Please block and report.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 13/01/2025

Second, I know there are tons of Uno Reverse cards on Makerworld, but he really wanted to design his own! He drew it in Illustrator, imported into Hueforge, exported STL and then printed in Bambu studio. Anyone know how to avoid the lines appearing wobbly like this?

Higher contrast image with some wobbly lines circled.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 13/01/2025

First off, the prime tower overlapped the print on the larger print. We didn't see this in the preview in Bambu Studio. Does anyone know of an easy way to prevent this? Sorry this image is super blurry; he sanded the print down before I could get a photo.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 13/01/2025

We got a #bambulabs 3D Printer with an AMS for Christmas and my kid is super excited about making his own 3D printed images! I got our filaments into #Hueforge and he got up and running fast! But we have some questions! Posting them here in case I know someone who's good with Hueforge.

A mountain he drew in the Geometry Dash editor, screenshotted, and opened in Hueforge. The GD editor is his favorite image creation tool.

An Uno Reverse card he drew in Illustrator and edited in Hueforge.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 13/01/2025

I have an impersonator! Please report.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 19/12/2024

My neighbor says it's this one:

North Campus research building 520 on Huron North of Baxter

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 16/12/2024

10-year-old says he designed the roof of his house to be "like a brainstorm."

Roof of a gingerbread house with a layer of assorted candy over a layer of cotton candy.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 16/12/2024

Many years ago I got a set of cookie cutters for gingerbread houses. Every few years I forget how hard it is to bake and assemble them and host a big gingerbread decorating party. This year's stats: planned for 6 kids, made dough for 9 houses, was able to cut 7 from the dough, successfully built 6.

Gingerbread houses baked but not yet decorated.

Gingerbread houses fully decorated by kids

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 23/11/2024

Anyone know of good YouTube channels for solving Rubik's cubes? My 10-year-old searched up videos and taught himself to solve the 3x3 and the pyraminx, but he's stuck on megaminx!

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 17/11/2024

I'm super new here, but so are most of us, so I figured I'd share this in case anyone else didn't know. I just searched for a tool that lets me write multiple posts into a thread, and it turns out it's built in to blue sky! Just press '+' to add a reply to your post!

Screenshot of the threads compose dialog, highlighting the + button on the lower right.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 08/11/2024

Nowadays our projects look more like this cake my son made for his birthday himself:

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 08/11/2024

I used to do a lot of etching making resists on the laser cutter, stuff like this. Now the kiddos are older and I mostly spend that time with them instead, but they're surprisingly not as interested in making things as I am!

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 01/11/2024

A friend snapped this photo of my kid goofing around at the park earlier today, and the accidental creepiness is so perfect for Halloween.

Kid standing on a play structure with an imposing silhouette.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 01/11/2024

Same here! "Yes on c/d" all no candy. "No on c/d" houses were best houses!

Council member Song handing out speed cubes, cool socks, and other amazing treats in a "blue wall" costume.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 01/11/2024

400 trick or treaters tonight!! Happy Halloween!

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 30/10/2024

Trying to put this in one image to see if it previews better...

Maps of Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which measures the time to load a web page, and Interaction to Next Paint (INP), which measures time to provide an initial response to the user. The maps show the 75th percentile value for the median origin in each country, 2 years ago vs last month. Green indicates "good" values.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 30/10/2024

The Chrome User Experience report has historical data for Core Web Vitals, so I wrote up a quick colab to put it on a map. Over the past 2 years, we've seen a lot of improvement to both LCP and INP. But the performance inequality gap is still pretty clear.

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Annie Sullivan @anniesullie.com · 28/10/2024

Early voting at AADL is awesome! We want to Traverwood. My 10-year-old stacked out the first 30 digits of pi on the duplo table while we voted.

The library duplo table. On the far right, three blocks are stacked, with a gap to the left, then one block, four blocks, one block, seven blocks, nine blocks, and so on.

He'd like you to know that if he'd had time, he would have been able to stack 114 digits from memory, but early voting went by too quickly.

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