Annette J. Hallie
@authoredbyhallie.bsky.social
✍🏾 Story crafter
📚 Book Lover
✨ Zero time award-winning author of zero books.
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📚 Book Lover
✨ Zero time award-winning author of zero books.
Check out my short stories on Reedsy 👇🏾
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/annette-hallie/
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🫶🏾 Welcome new friends 🫶🏾
I typically don’t do new follower posts (I always assume new people are 🤖), but I wanted to say hi 👋🏾
I’m Annette, lover of books, chronically blocked writer of short stories, and hater of climate- & society-destroying tech. ⚔️
I don’t post on weekends. 🌻
I typically don’t do new follower posts (I always assume new people are 🤖), but I wanted to say hi 👋🏾
I’m Annette, lover of books, chronically blocked writer of short stories, and hater of climate- & society-destroying tech. ⚔️
I don’t post on weekends. 🌻
My first Black Lawrence Press workshop, and it was wonderfully done. I have a bit of notes to digest and some new (to me) poets to check out.
I’ve turned to poetry to help me find my voice in my prose. Working through language stripped down is necessary for spotting the things that don’t matter.
I’ve turned to poetry to help me find my voice in my prose. Working through language stripped down is necessary for spotting the things that don’t matter.
Join us this Tuesday, 11/11, for a free writing workshop! The wonderful Jennifer Met will lead us via Zoom on an exploration of imagery. You'll walk away with generative new techniques and writing exercises! ✨
Click the link below to sign up and get the Zoom link.
buff.ly/pQdVjJK
Click the link below to sign up and get the Zoom link.
buff.ly/pQdVjJK
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My first Black Lawrence Press workshop, and it was wonderfully done. I have a bit of notes to digest and some new (to me) poets to check out.
I’ve turned to poetry to help me find my voice in my prose. Working through language stripped down is necessary for spotting the things that don’t matter.
I’ve turned to poetry to help me find my voice in my prose. Working through language stripped down is necessary for spotting the things that don’t matter.
Doing a writing workshop tonight (virtual). Excited and nervous. 😬
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Doing a writing workshop tonight (virtual). Excited and nervous. 😬
Apparently, it’s all in my head. Lol
Has anyone else noticed that the price of novels have gone up?
I’m consistently seeing paperbacks at $17 and $20. Paperbacks!!!
Wtf is going on?
#booksky
I’m consistently seeing paperbacks at $17 and $20. Paperbacks!!!
Wtf is going on?
#booksky
oh this magazine looks like a fun, light rea- *price of a hardback novel*
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Apparently, it’s all in my head. Lol
My Hobonichi says looking at pet photos improves focus. Happy to see my Discover page filled with cute fur babies.
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My Hobonichi says looking at pet photos improves focus. Happy to see my Discover page filled with cute fur babies.
I need to finish one of the million books I’m reading.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I need to finish one of the million books I’m reading.
I need this on a billboard and a tshirt.
That relates to what I was saying earlier about chess.
People have built these weird myths that having specific intelligence or prodigious skill translates as a general intelligence, or—even worse—genius.
Being a brilliant coder, for instance, gives you zero insight into social anthropology.
People have built these weird myths that having specific intelligence or prodigious skill translates as a general intelligence, or—even worse—genius.
Being a brilliant coder, for instance, gives you zero insight into social anthropology.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I need this on a billboard and a tshirt.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The whole point of fiction is to make shit up. If the machine is doing the make believe, you’re effectively an editor, and that’s already a thing you can be.
Make it up or go find something to edit, but release your reliance on the earth-destroying water guzzler.
Make it up or go find something to edit, but release your reliance on the earth-destroying water guzzler.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The whole point of fiction is to make shit up. If the machine is doing the make believe, you’re effectively an editor, and that’s already a thing you can be.
Make it up or go find something to edit, but release your reliance on the earth-destroying water guzzler.
Make it up or go find something to edit, but release your reliance on the earth-destroying water guzzler.
I started writing letters to my friends and family. Some have written me back.
I cannot explain the joy of opening a mailbox and seeing a surprise letter from someone you know. One even had a wax seal.
I cannot explain the joy of opening a mailbox and seeing a surprise letter from someone you know. One even had a wax seal.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I started writing letters to my friends and family. Some have written me back.
I cannot explain the joy of opening a mailbox and seeing a surprise letter from someone you know. One even had a wax seal.
I cannot explain the joy of opening a mailbox and seeing a surprise letter from someone you know. One even had a wax seal.
I find the opening to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven so beautiful.
I can’t explain why. It’s like getting lost in a painting. I hope she knows how beautiful her prose is.
I can’t explain why. It’s like getting lost in a painting. I hope she knows how beautiful her prose is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I find the opening to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven so beautiful.
I can’t explain why. It’s like getting lost in a painting. I hope she knows how beautiful her prose is.
I can’t explain why. It’s like getting lost in a painting. I hope she knows how beautiful her prose is.
Pagebound was what I needed in this season. A place to chill and read and connect with other readers. A small bubble in a crumbling tech world.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Pagebound was what I needed in this season. A place to chill and read and connect with other readers. A small bubble in a crumbling tech world.
I’m currently taking an IG hiatus through the end of the year. It’s been great even though I do miss my friends/people I would DM with.
I have had some chit chat here on Bluesky, but not much. Although I’ve never been one to attract much attention or reaction, so there’s that.
I have had some chit chat here on Bluesky, but not much. Although I’ve never been one to attract much attention or reaction, so there’s that.
I prefer bsky to insta because bsky incentivizes chatting with people and reading and interacting with posts.
Insta just feels like TV channel-surfing, a constant stream of videos that passively play at me whether I want them to or not.
Insta just feels like TV channel-surfing, a constant stream of videos that passively play at me whether I want them to or not.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I’m currently taking an IG hiatus through the end of the year. It’s been great even though I do miss my friends/people I would DM with.
I have had some chit chat here on Bluesky, but not much. Although I’ve never been one to attract much attention or reaction, so there’s that.
I have had some chit chat here on Bluesky, but not much. Although I’ve never been one to attract much attention or reaction, so there’s that.
Reposted by Annette J. Hallie
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
This shows how awful things have gotten. Although I’d turn to a book before Hallmark channel.
The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.
A Hallmark Christmas Movie Just Beat Almost Everything On CNN, MSNBC
The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.
www.forbes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This shows how awful things have gotten. Although I’d turn to a book before Hallmark channel.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
And when I say never, I mean never.
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
And when I say never, I mean never.
Has anyone else noticed that the price of novels have gone up?
I’m consistently seeing paperbacks at $17 and $20. Paperbacks!!!
Wtf is going on?
#booksky
I’m consistently seeing paperbacks at $17 and $20. Paperbacks!!!
Wtf is going on?
#booksky
oh this magazine looks like a fun, light rea- *price of a hardback novel*
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Has anyone else noticed that the price of novels have gone up?
I’m consistently seeing paperbacks at $17 and $20. Paperbacks!!!
Wtf is going on?
#booksky
I’m consistently seeing paperbacks at $17 and $20. Paperbacks!!!
Wtf is going on?
#booksky
Yesterday, I told every book girlie I ran into about @pagebound.bsky.social.
I’ve enjoyed connecting with all the amazing book peeps over there. The forum vibes and plethora of people who love to read makes it a special place in these hellish digital times.
#booksky
I’ve enjoyed connecting with all the amazing book peeps over there. The forum vibes and plethora of people who love to read makes it a special place in these hellish digital times.
#booksky
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Yesterday, I told every book girlie I ran into about @pagebound.bsky.social.
I’ve enjoyed connecting with all the amazing book peeps over there. The forum vibes and plethora of people who love to read makes it a special place in these hellish digital times.
#booksky
I’ve enjoyed connecting with all the amazing book peeps over there. The forum vibes and plethora of people who love to read makes it a special place in these hellish digital times.
#booksky
Went to Barnes & Noble to look around. Grabbed three books and several magazines. Let the cashier talk me into buying an extra two books.
An evening well spent.
#booksky
An evening well spent.
#booksky
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Went to Barnes & Noble to look around. Grabbed three books and several magazines. Let the cashier talk me into buying an extra two books.
An evening well spent.
#booksky
An evening well spent.
#booksky
I recently learned that Orwell was inspired by a Russian novel called We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (sometimes written as Eugene Zamiatin).
We is available for free through Project Gutenberg. There’s a very interesting foreword by the translator Gregory Zilboorg in it.
We is available for free through Project Gutenberg. There’s a very interesting foreword by the translator Gregory Zilboorg in it.
My sixteen year old is reading 1984 in English class and her initial assessment is that, while "the prose is very good," the book is "a little bit on the nose" and "kind of corny."
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I recently learned that Orwell was inspired by a Russian novel called We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (sometimes written as Eugene Zamiatin).
We is available for free through Project Gutenberg. There’s a very interesting foreword by the translator Gregory Zilboorg in it.
We is available for free through Project Gutenberg. There’s a very interesting foreword by the translator Gregory Zilboorg in it.
Reposted by Annette J. Hallie
"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Is this timeline even real?
What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Is this timeline even real?
Reposted by Annette J. Hallie
OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion deal to run OpenAI's systems on Amazon's cloud services.
OpenAI and Amazon sign $38 billion deal for AI computing power
OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion deal to run OpenAI's systems on Amazon's cloud services.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion deal to run OpenAI's systems on Amazon's cloud services.
😦 I know what I’m doing next year.
I always thought if I ever owned a house I’d make us “the book house” each Halloween.
Getting all the chapter books, MG reads, and YA (we had a lot of teens last year, and yes, teenagers are kids don’t be jerks to them on Halloween) sorted for tomorrow!
250 giveaway books! But also candy.
Getting all the chapter books, MG reads, and YA (we had a lot of teens last year, and yes, teenagers are kids don’t be jerks to them on Halloween) sorted for tomorrow!
250 giveaway books! But also candy.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
😦 I know what I’m doing next year.