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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26/09/2026

Get yourself a brother who will give you his primo place in line for a steam frame

A box for a steam frame sits open on a small desk (it takes up the whole desk) with the steam frame still packed inside. The two controllers are slotted vertically behind the frame itself, which is a black VR headset with a soft strap and a battery built into the piece that sits at the back of the head

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

Greyhounds being like this, flaturday edition

Top down view of a black Greyhound doing what she loves the most: lying flat on her side, near her bed but not on it (bed for legs only), with her head and back tucked under some furniture (In this case a human bed)

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 18/09/2026

Are all greyhounds like this or just mine

A fawn Greyhound lying on a bed with her head stuck under a sofa

A black Greyhound lying on a dog bed with her head shoved under a sofa

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 02/09/2026

"no dogpiling" isn't a rule. And it's not in Bsky's community standards. So a post saying "we'll ban you for dogpiling" without defining dogpiling confuses more than it clarifies, and surpresses rather than faciliting productive discussion. What IS in Bsky's community standards is this:

Accounts that engage in extreme or persistent toxic or disruptive behavior may face restrictions or removal. This includes accounts with a high number or proportion of:
A. Extreme or repeated personal attacks, such as insults or ad hominem attacks
B. Posts or responses made primarily to anger, provoke, or belittle instead of to contribute criticism or a genuine opinion
C. The use of hostile or inflammatory language clearly intended to create or contribute to an unwelcoming environment

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/08/2026

Shout out to @montgomeryparks.bsky.social for having wheelchairs available at Brookside. My whole soul needed to wander around in nature this morning, and being able to borrow a chair made that possible

Concentric rings of silvery water ripple out from beneath the steel fountain installation called "screen" under the shade of auburn-barked cypress trees in the center of the Brookside rose garden. In the background, dappled sunlight bathes the rose bushes and brick paths in yellow light.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 23/08/2026

The face of a Greyhound who DESERVED a second dental treat and resents the accusation that she in any way misrepresented the facts to acquire one Just because Spouse was moved by her pleas for Second Treat doesn't mean she lied about First Treat; how dare I make such unfounded accusations

A black Greyhound with a purple collar lies on a light colored dog bed. Her tag reads "Tali." She is looking away and refusing to participate in this mugshot because the allegations against her are clearly without merit and it is beneath her dignity to acknowledge them

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 17/08/2026

I mean most text editors will convert -- to — automatically on all platforms But even on my phone—

Screenshot of an android keyboard showing the long-press hover menu that pulls up the em dash with a giant red hand-drawn arrow pointing at it

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 10/08/2026

I know this sounds like a silly Internet joke but it is a real thing this delightful animal actually did; I love her

A chewed-on copy of an article titled "where wokeness went wrong" sits atop a stack of books. It's folded such that only "where wokene" is visible, over a large illustration of a red eye covered in white and blue stripes.

The chewed up portion is on the bottom below the illustration.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 08/08/2026

She's beauty She's grace Her tongue hang out her face

Portrait of a black greyhound sleeping with her head on the corner of a thick memory foam bed. Her tongue is hanging straight down from the side of her long pointy snoot.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 08/08/2026

Yeah so it turns out my great grandmother immigrated to Boston from Nova Scotia as a child so I'm eligible for Canadian citizenship 🇨🇦 Getting my paperwork together but I'm the meantime: Canadian pals, drop me subjects to learn about Canadian culture If I'm doing this I'm gonna learn some stuff

Middle aged Steve Buscemi in a red hoodie and backwards baseball cap with a skateboard stands in front of some school lockers, saying "how are you doing fellow Canadians" (a play on the original "fellow kids”)

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 06/08/2026

And if you've got a mobility aid you roll with advantage

A set of metal polyhedral dice with an iridescent anodized treatment that gives them a rainbow sheen.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 20/07/2026

And yes the #daggerheart compatible fear tracker on top also works. It will eventually have edge lit rods that it will light up.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 20/07/2026

Is the wiring a rat's nest? Yes. Does it light up and cycle slowly through the color wheel? Also yes.

A basswood mockup of a GM screen sits on a workbench in the middle of a tangle of parts and tools. Its frosted acrylic panels still have their protective paper (because this is a mockup), but through the paper, they're glowing purple. The center panel has its "frame" pieces, which hide the edges of the lights. The gaps between the screen panels and towers are very wide because I need to adjust the wiring so they'll close properly.

Another shot of the same basswood plywood mockup, but this time the panels are teal

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 16/07/2026

A lot of little changes to the tower design necessitated remaking it from scratch (well, "scratch" and as always, a lot of help from boxes .py) Still a few small changes to make but then it will be time to light this bad but up.

Two laser cut towers with removable fronts sit on a blue desk mat. The one on the left is a dice rolling tower with a drawer under the catch tray at the bottom. The one on the right is a straight column.

Two laser cut towers with removable fronts sit open on a blue desk mat, with their fronts standing up beside the main tower bodies. On the left, the dice tower's inner bumpers are visible with the front lid off. The drawer at the bottom has been removed and sits on the desk mat in front of everything. On the right, the electronics tower is a simple column with the front section removed. It will house the microcontroller for the finished project.

A top view of two towers. The dice tower is open on top with a bumper visible within. The electronics tower has a lid with vent slots open. The dice tower has an open top, and a bunker visible within.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 14/07/2026

Last night's progress was a test print of the electronics tower. I was planning to have it match the dice tower, but with the rail on the dice tower, that doesn't really work

Two ~12" tall round towers laser cut from birch plywood. They are shaped like boots with ~2" rounded feet at the bottom. The left one is a dice tower with a tray on top of its foot, surrounded by a 1" high rail. The right is the electronics tower, and the foot appears to be an inch shorter because it doesn't have a railing. The feet are meant to take drawers; the left tower has a draft of the drawer in place.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 13/07/2026

I could also use an abacus style, but because I don't know how to be normal I am instead wiring up a microcontroller to individually addressable LEDs in a custom made screen featuring edge lit acrylic. It totally counts as game prep.

Handwritten notes and diagrams for a GM screen build. Writing is largely chicken scratch, but it's three screens with edge lit acrylic panels. There's a dice tower on one side of the center screen and an electronics tower on the other, which will hold the microcontroller for the lights. The drawing at the bottom is a cross section of the frames that will hold the acrylic panels and lights. The fear tracker is at the top of the center panel

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 13/07/2026

< here's @matthewmercer.bsky.social's tracker, which is an abacus style (for the new season of Age of Umbra he's using skulls on pikes, but I can't find any clear pictures of it).

Matthew Mercer sitting behind an elaborate GM screen with an abacus style fear tracker on top. He's wearing blood red nail polish that matches the fear tokens and looking like he's about to fuck up your shit as he slides a fear token across the rail.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 13/07/2026

🎵 this was a triumph 🎵 🎵 I'm making a note here: 🎵 🎵 Success (with hope) 🎵 V2 of the tower for my #Daggerheart GM screen. The dice tower doesn't really need to open, but the electronics tower that will hold the microcontroller for the fear tracker will need to, so I tested the lid plan.

A laser cut dice tower sits on a blue desk mat. It's shaped a bit like a boot, with a twelve inch tall round tower over an oval rolling tray with a drawer underneath. The drawer is partially open, showing two sets of metal polyhedral dice in copper and black. The D12s have been rolled and are sitting in the rolling tray: 12 (copper) and 9 (black) for a total of 21 with hope.

The same laser cut dice tower with the same dice in the tray and drawer, but this time the front of the tower is canted open, showing the bumpers inside. The entire front of the tower above the rolling tray is removable.

A third look at the dice tower, this time with the front cover completely removed and sitting to one side. It attaches to the main tower using magnets, which are currently taped in place because this is a mockup and I want to reuse the magnets on the final tower.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 10/07/2026

Tonight was a night for soldering while babysitting the laser cutter. Got a header attached to a cool rotary dial button thing so it's ready to connect up to my raspberry pi. Also printed a rough draft of a dice tower. Next up: dice tower edits to connect it to GM screen panels

A prototype dice tower laser cut from 3mm plywood sits in a blue desk mat in front of some ink bottles. The raised base sticks out like a foot with room for a drawer underneath. Two twelve sided dice in the rolling tray are both on three, making it a critical success.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 25/06/2026

Showed this to spouse who investigated further and then a stick blender and some onion bullion and now

A bowl of shell pasta with creamy cheese and squash sauce

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 25/06/2026

🎵 Oscillating Multitool My name is oscillating multitool And I know you thought I wasn't cool But just you wait 🎵

A DeWalt v20 max oscillating multitool, sans battery, sits in a cardboard box with a bunch of its parts on the arm of a sofa

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 25/06/2026

I picked all but two of these today. The three big ones on the right are all too small to pick two days ago and then it rained and now they're gigantic

Seven straightneck squash on a dark engineered stone counter. The three on the right are chonkers.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 23/06/2026

Tabletop gaming pals, a tip: Jewelry findings are a great source of thematic game tokens.

Several small bags of jewelry findings arrayed on a wooden table. Clockwise from top left: cubes of semiprecious stones on a black bag, iridescent metal leaf shapes, a bag full of small skeleton keys, a box of small paper scrolls, a small box of small daggers, a box of glass stars wrapped in wire, a small bag of small stainless steel bars on top of a larger bag of metal feathers, a bag of silver and gold colored hexagons, and a bag of glass bottles about the size of a thumbnail with little cork stoppers

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/06/2026

My vegetables have had to get along without me for a month due to my jank spine, but gardens know how to grow. First meal out of the garden: tender summer squash sauteed with sliced cherry tomato and fresh basil. Garlic powder and salt. It tastes like this is a good planet full of good things.

A blue bowl holds slices of cherry tomato, tender yellow squash, and basil. Sauteed in olive oil with some garlic powder and salt.

It's fucking delicious.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 18/05/2026

Update: the white topstitching wasn't working for me. Picked it out and replaced it with black. I think it works better, and not just because my topstitching is dodgy.

A black pouch with a red brass zipper sits on a blue desk pad. Seven pens are slotted into pen loops made of a colorful print of quill pens. The pens include two Conklin duragraphs and five pilot vanishing points, one of which is a decimo. The pouch has black topstitching around the edge, which fades into the black fabric.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 17/05/2026

I couldn't find an A5 pen sleeve that had the features I wanted, so I'm prototyping my own version. I made the pouch removable separately from the sleeve (via magnetic snaps) to make it easier to remove and reattach when I'm using the notebook.

A black zipper pouch with pen slots on the front sits next to a blue A5 notebook with a 2" black sleeve on the front cover. The sleeve has magnetic snaps near the top and bottom. The pen slots are formed with a 4" strip of white fabric with a pattern of colorful quill pens sewn to the pouch in a series of loops.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/04/2026

I sure hope this one makes it through because while it's not destined for my hand, it's going to fill someone's gay heart with joy.

A sparkly rainbow of a ring holds court in a ring tray like a drag queen leading story hour. It's got flash. It's got pizzazz. It could grand Marshall your pride parade and then throw the first brick without chipping its manicure. A large central gem flashes with vibrant color like a Care Bear Stare amidst a mane of smaller colored gems.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 12/04/2026

Footage smuggled out from her confinement reveals heinous conditions in which no one is petting her She will not rule out a hunger strike if conditions don't improve

A black Greyhound with a purple collar rests atop a giant dog bed piled with fluffy blankets. She has her head tucked behind Spouse's slippered foot in protest of this heinous treatment

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/04/2026

Back in 2019 I took a DNA test and it turned out I'm 100% That Goose

Screen from Untitled Goose Game showing the game's quest log with "to do (finally): cross out everything on the to-do list," which is crossed out. Because I 100%ed the game, because I'm 100% that goose.

The Nameless Goose is out of focus in the background, with a crown, because she is a great and terrible queen.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26/03/2026

Happy Maryland Day to those who celebrate

A piece of chocolate cake with a dollop of white frosting on a blue plate. It has nothing to do with the state of Maryland, but when your flag goes as hard as ours does, your cake doesn't need to swank about

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/03/2026

My jacket is getting long in the tooth and it's time for an update. What do we think? Try to color match some red bias tape? Go for a darker red? Contrasting color like yellow or black? Find a coordinating plaid? (The buttons and belt buckle are a brown faux tortoiseshell)

Photo: a white hand ratty cuff of a red peacoat, resting on an orange backpack. The frayed edges of the red fabric curl back to reveal the white interlining.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 27/01/2026

Also @mishellbaker.bsky.social @invisibleinkie.bsky.social @themattmcd.bsky.social please enjoy this picture of the dinner Spouse prepared for my return

A bowl of Mac and Cheese with impossible hot dog pieces in it. A feast of kings and scholars.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 27/01/2026

I just got home from the airport and am warming up after traversing the tundra. I started my day today in Los Angeles.

A Far Side comic by Gary Larson shows a boy pushing on a door that says "pull." A sign nearby identifies the building as Midvale School for the Gifted.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/01/2026

Anyway here's my first sculpt of a stylized metahuman, using the painterly metahuman materials linked above. Still need to make her some hair and some clothes that actually work for the character. For clothes I'm going to go ahead and learn Marvelous Designer because it's extremely my thing anyway.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 15/01/2026

QR codes encode text. They are most often used to encode URLs, but they don't have to. They can just encode plain ol' fashioned text. And they're decoded locally on your device. There's no need for a server call to decode a QR code. Try it out: put your phone in airplane mode, then scan this.

A QR Code that encodes the plain text "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended: that you just scanned a QR code containing nothing but plain text."

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 03/01/2026

I was considering trolling the Internet with an unboxing video in which I pretended not to know what I had and unboxed it while pretending to have greasy fingers, but the internet doesn't need more meanness. Time to sleeve some cards.

A complete new in box set of the Batman: The Animated Series game Shadow of the Bat. This four-box set includes all the Kickstarter rewards and extras.

It's out of print and worth $$$ on the collector market.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 31/12/2025

It had better be; this short story still needs an ending and I'm out of things to clean

A fortune cookie fortune that reads "a creative breakthrough is coming close"

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 27/12/2025

Psst. Jewelry-making pals. I've got some market intel you might be able to use. This is a cane strap. It's a common functional attachment that allows a cane user to drop their cane without it falling to the ground, which is useful for temporary use of that hand, or if they don't have a great grip.

A hand holds up a lovely sparkling indigo cane that color-shifts between purple and blue. Its stylish derby handle and eye catching color attract regular compliments.

The cane has two attachments: one is a small wing-shaped pair of hooks for hanging the cane on chairs and tables. It's functional and unassuming.

Above that, a black plastic clip buckle attaches the cane to a wide black elastic strap to secure it to the bearer's wrist. The strap is not aesthetically pleasing.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 24/12/2025

@evilrooster.bsky.social hello we seem to have attracted some gnomes, any tips

Blue, green, and gold Christmas lights illuminate three long legged, soft-bodied gnomes sitting on top of a garland. They have long striped leggings and warm boots, bushy white beards and tall, slightly crooked caps. Their eyes are obscured by their hats, but they seem watchful.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 24/12/2025

Hey y'all there's a giant bat on my living room should I be worried

A black greyhound with her ears up in bat mode tucked into a fleece blanket. Her front legs are extended with her back feet tucked under them. She is half asleep and emerging from under the blanket like a snail from a fleece-lined shell.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 22/12/2025

I don't know EXACTLY who needs to hear this but I know it's at least some folks who do daily planners: your planner doesn't need to be fancy! It doesn't need fancy stencils, multicolor artwork, stickers, or washi tape. All your planner actually needs to do is work for you.

My dot grid journal open to this week's planner spread. Some items are partially blacked out for privacy.

The top of the left-hand page is the week section. It has a list of high-level todos for the week: things like "finish gift wrapping" and "draft short story." To the right of that is a plain habit tracker that's just the dates of the week across the top and 3 habits listed on the lines underneath, with Xs marked in the dot grid squares where the dates and habits intersect.

Underneath is a "goals" section with the item "log 5x," because I'm trying to regain consistency in my planner use. (It's totally different from the habit tracker because reasons).

Below the weekly section is a straight line drawn with the ruler I use as a bookmark, A section labeled "21st," then a list of tasks for yesterday, mostly checked off.

Another straight line appears above today's section, marked "22nd," followed by today's tasks. Tasks with an X next to them are done; tasks with a dot aren't done yet.

All of this is in my normal handwriting. There's no calligraphy, drawings, or stickers. The layout is neat, but plain.

The fancy ruler I got to do cool fancy notebook spreads but which I actually use only as a bookmark and straightedge is sitting across the bottom of the page. On the right-hand blank page is a notebook sleeve with 4 pens (pilot vanishing points) to help hold the notebook open. Each section is in its own color because I have four different pens and I feel like it but you can do the same thing with a single pen or pencil; the colors are the only decorative element.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 02/12/2025

A nice thing about strong moderation tooling is that if a bunch of folks are having fun with something you think is aggressively boring, you can just opt out of it

Bluesky's "muted words and tags" interface, in which I've added "Die Hard" and set it to 30 days

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 20/11/2025

Lol speaking of Christie, while I was complaining on here I got an ad for a version of a public domain Christie novel with an AI slop cover. The jacket copy was just the first few paragraphs of the Wikipedia page. Not today, Satan. I rebuke thee, for Project Gutenberg shall reward my faith

Screenshot of a book cover for Agatha Christie's THE SECRET ADVERSARY from "publisher" Seven Books. It has a boring layout, and features an AI slop image that has nothing to do with the book. It depicts a man in a 3-piece suit in front of a fancy magical library. He's looking pretty stern, which is fair, because he's got at least a dozen fingers on his clasped hands and they're all passing through each other. That's gotta hurt.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 07/11/2025

Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.

A version of the DC flag in which the two red bars make up the top and bottom bun of a footlong sub. The three stars hover above it like a baffoonish cartoon character who's just been beaned with a sandwich and is about to claim that the fully intact sandwich "exploded."

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26/10/2025

Now for my next trick: getting two more waistcoats off the workbench and into my closet. Todo: stitch down the sides of the pocket welts, line the buttonholes on the lining side, and assemble

Front panels for two waistcoats made of heathered charcoal wool with dove grey silk linings sit on a green cutting mat. Two strips of hair canvas interfacing that will reinforce the center front (and the buttonholes) are stacked on top of the front pieces, along with a pile of small rectangles of the lining fabric that will be used to line the button holes on the lining side.

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