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Annie Craton
@anniezard.bsky.social
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(she/her) My whole brand is getting loud and excited about the dumbest stuff while on mic. Like Mary Worth. Do you know about Wilbur Weston?

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Bread!!
A loaf of homemade bread sitting on a cooling rack. The side is a nice golden brown, and there is a dusting of flour on top. The loaf cut in two with both cut ends facing the camera. There’s a decent crumb, and the bread is off-white.
September 21, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Soon my son will come home from the videogame coma
A picture of a TV displaying an initial pre-download for Control:Resonance
September 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Making a sandwich loaf with the sourdough culture (named “Mr. Yeast’s Yeastables”) today. I think I’m getting better at kneading!
September 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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The cover of HORRORSTÖR, a novel by Grady Hendrix. It’s made up to look like a catalog page from IKEA, with weird pictures of the walls of ghosts.
September 19, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Finished my current knitting project! It’s a scarf/shawl; I picked up the pattern and the skeins from a trunk show for a local maker at the quilting shop in Snohomish.
A knot triangle shawl in alternating stripes of two different variegated yarns. One stripe is oranges and rusty browns and reds, and the other stripe is teal, light blue, and pale pink. The shawl is stretched out on blocking mats with pins around the sides. The mats are on the floor, and a fan is running, pointed at the shawl. A selfie of me wearing the shawl around my neck so that the largest point of the triangle is centered and lays on the middle of my chest, like a bandana. The two edges of the shawl are draped on either side of the center point, and one side is longer than the other. I’m a chubby white lady in a white tank and dark blue pants with a blue and purple undercut. A closeup of the shawl worn around my neck. You can see that the alternating color stripes have various alternating stripes in the same color with different stitches, including broken rib, stockinette, and bamboo stitches. The shawl draped over my shoulders so the triangle is against my back. A selfie so you can see how the stripes lay at a diagonal.
September 19, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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Finally got the knitting project finished and wove in the ends; just need to block it tomorrow! Now to knock out this weaving project to use up some old skeins from my stash, then I can warp the project I’m REALLY excited about
A 15-inch wide rigid heddle room warped in red and black stripes with a weft pattern of alternative black and red. The yarn is worsted weight.
September 18, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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Granular controls on specific gameplay aspects! This rules. Man, I can’t wait for this game.
Moving Beyond Blunt Instruments Historically, difficulty in action games is handled with blunt instruments. Global modifiers - usually labeled Easy, Normal, and Hard - often just tweak enemy health pools and damage output under the hood. While that technically works, it can completely undermine the meticulous tuning of a combat system. Nobody likes fighting a damage sponge unless they’re doing the dishes, and lowering enemy health across the board can make your progression feel unearned. Instead of a single difficulty toggle, we wanted to hand you a granular control panel. We recognize that players have vastly different needs and constraints. A player with motor control difficulties might find standard dodge timings impossible but have no problem managing the cognitive load of a complex resource economy. By exposing individual gameplay variables to you, we let you isolate the specific mechanic causing problems and adjust it without necessarily changing everything else. The Intended Experience We talk a lot internally about designer intent. We do have a meticulously crafted, intended experience for CONTROL Resonant . It's balanced to be tense, demanding, and rewarding. However, our philosophy is straightforward: if you run into a wall and the friction becomes too much, we would much rather you tweak the rules to overcome it than put the controller down and stop playing. Your time is valuable, and there’s no single right way to experience the game. Because of that, we absolutely do not gate any trophies or achievements behind these settings. Play the game exactly how you need to. We can’t wait for you to get your hands on the Aberrant when CONTROL Resonant launches on September 24.
September 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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The Shore Party to the Three Assholes:
Three screenshots from Rogue One: K-2SO, a tall black humanoid droid with beady white eyes: Congratulations! You are being rescued! Jynn Erso, a human woman, is prone on the ground and stares up at the droid. K-2SO: Please do not resist.
September 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Something Imperfect

These turned out DELICIOUS. The three closest ones have an ube glaze. Jon and I already ate one apiece.
A cooling rack on a kitchen counter. Ten salt bread rolls, which look like croissants, are lined up. The four at the back are light brown, the three in the middle are golden brown, and the three closest to the camera have a purple cast. Below the purple ones are a dark purple puddle of glaze.
September 13, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Finished making an Imperfect Thing
A selfie. I’m wearing a blue canvas cowl with a yellow lining. The lining has a honeycomb pattern. The cowl has yellow stitching. There are metal snaps and grommets. Another selfie. The cowl has a big hood, which is up on my head now. Close-up selfie of the front neckline of the cowl. The first snap up front has been undone and folded outwards so you can see the magnetic connectors on the inside. Close-up selfie showing a grommet on the neck of the cowl. You can see the yellow lining fabric peeling through on the other side.
September 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Anyway I’m doing Normal this morning, how are you
A discord screencap from me. Originally written in all caps: (Busts down the door) Samus monster powers Big Samus wife pew pew
September 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Gonna spend Labor Day making something imperfect, hell yeah baby
A table laid with a dark blue cloth with white lines drawn on it indicating where to cut. Above it is some yellow cloth with a honeycomb pattern already cut.
September 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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My husband, the light of the life
A discord screencap. Husband: this book just seems so bad. Like REAL bad. Me: You still think I should read it? Husband: oh yes.
September 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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BREAD BREAD BREAD BREAD
A 6-liter clear plastic bucket full of bread dough. The dough has risen above the 2-liter mark and has lots of bubbles bread dough, shaped into a round loaf, placed in a Dutch oven. A silicone sheet with handles has been placed below the loaf. A baked loaf of bread, fresh from the oven. It has been scored in an X shape and it’s golden and crusty. The bread, cut in two, with the insides facing the camera. There’s lots of bubbles and crumb in the visible slices
September 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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We’re gonna have SUCH bread in two days y’all
A 6-liter/6-quart clear plastic bucket with a flat lid. Inside is sourdough bread dough that has been folded and is currently near the 2-quart mark on the side of the bucket.
September 5, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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We are so fucking back
Picture of a glass crock from a Sourdough Sidekick from the top. The crock is about half full of a light brown sourdough culture full of bubbles pulling away slightly from the sides of the crock.
September 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Coming soon* to @binarybreak.bsky.social

*eventually, I don’t remember when this will air
A notebook page with a scratchy doodle. Billy and Kat, two teens from the podcast Binary Break, are standing next to each other. Billy is a tall, skinny, pale Latino with short bleached hair and is wearing a T-shirt with a biohazard symbol. Kat is a white girl a little shorter than Billy with short, brown hair, a tank top, and a plaid shirt tied around her waist. Billy, arms crossed, looking at something off-camera: Are you… also compartmentalizing this? Kat, hands spread out, eyes bugging and looking tired and frazzled: (originally written in a southern Indiana dialect) Oh I am compartmentalizing the SHIT out of this.
September 1, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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Hahaha yeah okay that’s more like it
A loaf of homemade bread with a coating of wheat germ. It’s sitting on a cooling rack on a countertop. The same loaf of bread, side by side with a second loaf made in the quoted post. It uses the same recipe. The new loaf, on the left, is noticeably taller than the loaf on the right, which was made with milk that was too warm, which killed some of the yeast.
August 31, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Funfetti funfetti funfetti funfetti funfetti funfetti funfetti funfetti
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and rainbow sprinkles on top. You can’t see it but there are sprinkles inside the cupcakes too
August 31, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Also hi have you see Brunhilde lately
August 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Some damn good breads though
A loaf of a chocolate cinnamon swirl bread. The end is sliced and you can see the swirl of chocolate on the inside of the loaf A round sourdough loaf sliced so you can see all the bubbles inside A different loaf of sourdough from above with a single crescent score across the top and a few smaller zigzags along the side.
August 30, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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So I’ve been making a lot of basic-ass sourdough in my Dutch oven like it’s 2020 and that’s delicious, but I’m trying some other basic white and wheat loafs and let me tell you

I learned some things about milk temperature with this one folks

I prematurely killed so, so many yeasts today
A rectangular loaf of bread on a cooling rack. The loaf is only a few inches tall. A hand, palm facing the camera, is placed next to the bread for reference like we’re measuring a very very short horse. The loaf is not much taller than the hand.
August 30, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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Typewriter with the words “Feelin’ fine.” In the center of the paper. It’s from The Simpsons’ parody of “The Shining.”
August 30, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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Wilbur Weston from Mary Worth
April 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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A screenshot from the Verge: “Nintendo’s making a mini Game Boy music player.Sure, you can just pull up digital versions of the Junichi Masuda’s music from Pokémon Red and Blue. Or you can pick up one of the new Game Boy-inspired music players Nintendo is releasing along with 45 different cartridges that seem to play one song each.” A picture of the Tiger electronics Hit Clips with a clip of N*SYNC Milhouse holding up pogs to Bart Simpson. Text has been altered to say “Remember Hit Clips? They’re back, in Pokemon form.”
February 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM