Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11hThere is beef in the cow tipping research community and the world should know it 161
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11hI need to draw y'all's attention to the "scientific study" section of the Wikipedia article on cow tippingen.wikipedia.orgCow tipping - Wikipedia 3215
Reposted by AnnaleeCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13hI do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 81260213
Reposted by AnnaleeRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13hhi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE) 141244221
Reposted by Annaleemaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14hYes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 134138603352
Reposted by Annaleelizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 14hi cannot think of anything more directly forbidden by the teachings of the roman catholic church than what the catholic supreme court justices did today 524925
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 16h...I know it's good form to read the article before forming an opinion but in this case I simply refuse 290
Reposted by AnnaleeJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22hOh we're doing Romance novel discourse again? 16579123
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026Oof, I'm sorry. I'm fortunately still ambulatory and can make do with a rollator, but it really limits my mobility budget 110
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026I'm five weeks from when I first got the Rx + referral and this has already happened TWICE. which I only know because I keep calling to ask when I'll be scheduled 120
Reposted by AnnaleeDanny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026JCO has too many bad takes for yall to constantly shoot her bail Your engagement of the “good” takes encourages her to make the bad ones 0183
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026And here is where I pause to point out that I'm a staff engineer at a giant company where I have the flexibility to work from home as needed and take time off for appointments This is what health care in this country looks like for folks BEST able to afford and navigate it. 0433
Reposted by Annaleejoeflower.bsky.social @joeflower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sounds very real. The US healthcare system is not merely in disarray, it is actively and purposely stacked against the actual user of healthcare. Seriously. I have been to these conferences, I've been in these boardrooms. They actively scheme how to better deny and delay providing care. 0179
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026And if you want anything but the most bargain-basement model, we cap the covered cost at $2000. Me: So $4k including my deduc-- Them: No. 150
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026US Media: HEARTWARMING: Local robotics team pulls together to build a miniature bicameral legislature that successfully passes legislation to protect the public from health insurance cartels! Team captain says they "felt a duty to step up since no one else is doing that work." 1445
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026Me: so if I need to, idk, go to work in the next 9mos, how am I supposed to do that? US healthcare system: sounds like a non-covered expense! But do let us know immediately if you lose your job due to your disability-- Me: --so you can help? USHCS: HAHAHA! No. So we can cancel your care. 4415
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026Me: cool so it will take nine months? US healthcare system: best case, no promises! We recommend following up every two weeks to make sure there are no blockers, because if there are we definitely will not tell you :). 2452
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026US healthcare system: iN oThER cOuNtRieS YoU'lL wAiT mOnTHs fOr aN aPpOiNtMeNt! Also US healthcare system: Wheelchair order will take 4mos. Me: cool so if I started the process on 8/24-- US HC system: --no that's 4 months AFTER your specialist appt. That takes 6 weeks to schedule for 3-4 mos out. 711735
Reposted by AnnaleeEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king 611723381
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026I don't really have a thesis here—it's just interesting to me how many things "everyone knows" you're supposed to do are not only not things "everyone knows," but are actually things other folks think "everyone knows" NOT to do 3180
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026This! And like yes now that's changed enough that I look around when I get inside the door and/or ask if it's a shoes-off house, but growing up: it would have struck me as super rude to presume to remove my shoes in someone else's home 140
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026But take death out of the equation and you still get "my son wished me happy mother's day but his wife didn't, how could she be so thoughtless?" Meanwhile the DIL reminded the son to call and didn't call herself because why would she undermine a grown man to his own mother by doing it for him? 1210
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026And with death specifically, this also runs up against people not knowing what to say/do and so they say/do nothing (Which is why standard cultural forms are helpful: a script takes the guesswork and anxiety out of expressing care in a difficult moment) 1170
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026Yeah I was thinking about how it's a way that literature is in conversation with film and television, because that "tracking shot" method is a common tool of visual storytelling that doesn't always follow clean "scene boundaries" (itself a concept taken from theater) 120
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026Ours is a world where "of course you show up if the neighbor is hosting a wake even if you never met the deceased" people live right next to "no you don't barge in on someone's grief" people and where both would feel certain that theirs was the respectful and appropriate choice 3242
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026But what's noteworthy to me is how easy it is for us to assume the norms of our microcultures are universal 1180
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026[Thing] varies but is often a standard around acknowledging deaths/funerals. And hey when people are grieving it's understandable that they're looking for somewhere to put their hurt and the person who didn't attend the funeral/send flowers/whatever is generally still alive to be mad at 1120
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026Today in "I read too many advice columns:" I've noticed a genre of letter that is basically "everyone knows it is common decency to do [thing] and I want to cut off people who did not do it" in cases where there is not actually a cultural consensus that [thing] is an obligation or even a good idea 2323
Reposted by AnnaleeJuliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 29/09/2026Any cognition you perceive in "AI" is your own. That's it. You built your concept of its intelligence, the same way you understand fictional characters as people. The same way you can see an octopus in a towel hook. They are using your mind to sell their product. The human is you. 27626
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026It's been a while since I've read any of them but I thought I recalled them being more traditional limited third with more structured POV shifts 100
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026Right, it's so antithetical to common writing advice about managing perspective! But it's also proof that the only inviolable rule is do what works 070
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026It has to be clear but also unassuming: the reader usually needs to know whose thoughts they're hearing or things get confusing, but if the handoff draws attention to itself, it pulls it from the flow of the scene and the next story beats 260
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026As far as I can tell there's a few things in the mix: -the author has to know who has the most interesting perspective on each portion of the scene -the reader has to care enough what the be viewpoint character thinks to go along for the ride -there's some artistry in the handoff itself as well 160
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026This is NOT the same as omniscient, and it's distinct from head-hopping in that the problem with head-hopping is it doesn't work and this does. 160
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026I might have mentioned this already wrt @sherwood.bsky.social's Sartorias-Deles books. I'm now in the middle of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within where Becky Chambers is doing a handoff in the middle of a greeting between two characters I just think it's neat 2150
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026I've read a few novels lately that are employing what I think of as "viewpoint chaos" to good effect and I keep wanting to stop and study it It's a multi-pov approach where pov can switch mid-scene instead of just at chapter/scene breaks. The moments of handoff are what fascinates me 7262
Reposted by AnnaleeStacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001) 6922354
Reposted by AnnaleeJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support. 592208403
Reposted by AnnaleeJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while. 2407109
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026Or misread the intent of a dialogue option because you thought it would be empathetic and instead it's accusatory, or whatever Games aren't real that's why we play them 190
Reposted by Annaleeouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS 3932042242
Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026None of those concerns apply to a single-player video game, where they actually ARE the main character, and the only time they're spending is their own 1270