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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Can you actually sue for emotional distress? Decorated military veteran with a PTSD diagnosis living in downtown Chicago and these fucking blackhawks are not helping. I already leave town during air shows.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My skin has been so weird lately so this was a super huge relief to find NGL

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Like, seems sus that my face is just sorta okay? Makes sense that it doesn’t save well but damn I’ll enjoy it while it lasts & not stock up. Makes me feel 27, not 47.

A 47-year old white woman with pretty great makeup

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It makes me look kinda good so I have no intention to save

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I meant he’s at asshat not you, hope that was obvs 🩷🩷🩷

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I follow him to keep track of what he’s up to. I’ve known for years he’s a toxic fucker. I’ve yelled at friends when they went to work at Vercel. Asshat.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I tried Tirtir and holy fuck what is this magic.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

My building is planning to install Latch today. I asked to opt out, was told no. Anyone have any ideas here? Beyond the “no thank you to yet another app on my personal device”, any way to quarantine the app?

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Ok this. I don’t even like them anymore but I cannot in good conscience replace them. Like 15+ years now. 🤷‍♀️

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

And if you say “no I don’t want ads on this thing I paid for” they say “ok we’re still going to show you ads they are just going to be less useful to you” I mean, what’s even the point of having this “convenience” anymore. Going back to a paper wall calendar.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Same goes with the tricksy hobbitses who keep turning on AI features every update and I have to turn it off again or re-opt out. Also FU Amazon for constantly changing where these settings are in any UI.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I think it should be okay for apps to ask me about my user preferences like, once a year. I think it should be illegal for them to reset my ad or auto-play preferences every update. I am a paying customer who has explicitly gone into settings and changed them. Respect it.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It’s wild that someone else can just decide that you have to be on trial. Is that really a thing? 🥸

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I feel like our first cue that society was collapsing is the sneaky shit built into Candy Crush.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I mean, this Naperville joke writes itself 🤷‍♀️

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I barely play with the game music on at all (past a first play through), and I definitely don’t let the voice sound come on, like, ever. I definitely would never for any game I play for multiple years.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

“I started playing this game because of the voice over artists” is just such a wild claim to make IMO.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

TBQH I was yelling to not change things to be like other people because I saw other people coming around to what we had. I think it’s all swings and roundabouts and it’s all tradeoffs no matter what but sometimes folks can’t see that. 🤷‍♀️

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We still have ours from like 10 years ago. (So yes!)

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

All of her books changed my life & re-reading them on occasion when I feel stuck really helps

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

One thing Kimmel and I have in common. We’re both back Tuesday night. Live premiere 9pm eastern on YouTube

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

- How to talk so kids will listen (and listen so kids will talk) - Start where you are: a guide to compassionate living - Making work visible

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Customs was empty when I got back to Chicago today. It was eerie.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I wonder which tech lord didn’t kiss up _enough_, because they’ve all done it enough to make everyone 🤬🤮

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

BTW this is one of the coolest uses of Ember I’ve ever seen…used in displays for Museums. Read the whole thread it’s super interesting just in general.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Packing to head home from Brussels. Brief notes: - feels more chaotic here than other EU cities I’ve visited. - I purposefully tried to pack less. There were two things I didn’t bring that I wish I had, two things that I brought that I wish I didn’t. - my talk seemed to go over pretty well.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I have metrics and success stories but IDK if I can share them yet. If we’re still on that same Discord server feel free to DM me tho.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Thing is, I don’t feel guilty for not wearing button up shirts that are so buttoned up my cloth napkin can take advantage of the feature. I’m wondering who wears a button up on flights these days that are buttoned up to that extent that it’s useful. 🤔

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The buttonhole is still in the cloth napkins in first class

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

See mine are so old I don’t have to do the app thing but maybe that means they are too old. 🤔

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

And Buffalo Trace. Which, if I’m being honest, there must be a difference in the kind they put in the mini-bottles because they really just are not as good.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Yes I know it’s 3:16AM in Brussels and I should definitely be asleep but this is what happens when your flight is super delayed. I could have immediately gone to sleep and skipped dinner and drinks but no, I chose violence. 🤷‍♀️

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I did ask my favorite Irish man who is my friend that knows all the things. Or tings. Even he couldn’t tell me.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I just really need to know how do you pronounce the name Béibhionn

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’ve super never had this issue with my over the ear Bose. But they are kind of old now that I think about it. 🤔

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Can your noise-cancelling headphones deteriorate over time in a way where the noise cancelling doesn’t really work but you don’t notice it until you’re on an 8 hour flight with multiple screaming babies? Asking for a…me. Asking for me.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If your Halloween collection doesn’t include crows are you even trying?!

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If you liked Demon Slayer the show, the movie does not disappoint.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

How many days do I open any social media, read for less than two minutes then nope out?! The world these days. Can’t even doom scroll anymore.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Also if you are here for my professional accessibility advice and content, don’t worry, after I have sleep and coffee and don’t stay up past my bedtime I will be back to my regularly scheduled programming.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

And P.P.P.S. In the Angelina concert video if you stop being entranced by Angelina’s ridiculous gorgeousness you see the guy next to her and he’s clearly tripping balls and you can almost hear him thinking “omg I’m standing next to Angelina and am I tripping balls right now oh right I am but WTF”

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

P.S. there was one periscope in the crowd at the trance concert P.P.S. We also had a side tangent concert about Selena Gomez and celeb gossip and I yelled at him for thinking she was the baddie and there’s no way I refuse to believe it and she’s v.enjoyable in Only Murders in the Building

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

There was a bit more after that BUT it was a wild ride and there you have it folks, that’s what it’s like when you’re officially middle aged and it’s past your bedtime.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

And that makes me think about Fight Club and then my husband reminds me that he looked that way in Snatch kinda too (his hair was diff actually)

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Specifically the way they magically look at each other when this incredible song starts playing and I’m legit fascinated by this movie because OMG Shiloh (sp?) looks like her dad and also why does Angelina still look 3D printed?!! And also the lead singer totally looks like Brad in…movies.

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So I tell him, “all these people missing out and there’s NOTHING in the world like being there in the moment when that beat drops and you get goose bumps and it’s like MAGIC IS HAPPENING” Which makes me remember that video of Angelina and her daughter at a concert

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Melanie Sumner Temple @a11ymel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

And my husband is like WHAT So I start looking up Ariana Grande but I only make it to “ARIA” before YouTube search updates and it’s very cool OBVIOUSLY trance concert set so YOU KNOW I gotta look And there’s like all these people on their phones instead of living in the moment WTF

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